Teacher

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Teacher is a deluded and power hungry supervillian.

Personality

Teacher's motivations are never revealed, as Teacher shows a proclivity for long term planning and chicanery allows for great obfuscation of his larger motivations.

Appearance

Teacher is described as a mundane looking man with a receding hairline with short-cut curly hair.

Abilities and Powers

Teacher possesses the ability to grant people a wide variety<ref name="R1">Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref> of minor Thinker and Tinker powers or enhance an existing power.

These powers are temporary, requiring Teacher to renew them after an indeterminate period of time, but grant him control over the people he gives them to. According to Tattletale, his power is addictive.

Teacher once specialized in renting out capes that could shape, limit or refine powers, and using his power to do the same, before people discovered his influence over his "students".<ref name="I28">Interlude 28</ref>

The power of an ability granted inversely correlates with diminished faculties in the subject and duration, creating a dynamic where the more information a given 'student' possesses, the less able they are to express it.<ref name="R1">Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

List of grantable powers

Enhanced reflexes Enhanced awareness of environment/cause and effect in environment Limited ability to intuit physical weaknesses in others Limited ability to intuit emotional weaknesses in others Enhanced aim Enhanced timing Enhanced proficiency with melee weapon (of particular category) Enhanced proficiency with ranged weapon (of particular category) Enhanced skill in _____. (Something you would take classes to study) Awareness of physiology Enhanced improvisational ability, use of objects as weapons Enhanced improvisational ability, manipulating environment (traps) Clairvoyance, 360 degree radius out to set distance - full sight from all angles of all things within range (Likely about 300 feet). Clairvoyant awareness of surroundings - pick distant location, see static objects in said location. Moving/transient objects less visible or not visible. Clairvoyant radar. As above, but other way around. Enhanced skill in navigation, direction, intuiting nature of environment (sense of how building is laid out, etc.), abstract. Ability to focus on target over long period of time to get Tattletale-esque data on them, initially intermittent/vague, then pick up more later. May be biased toward future/past events, or may be current state. Psychometry, touch object to get sense of past events. More clear when associated with parahumans/those with corona pollentia and living individuals. Enhanced skill in research, data gathering, understanding, memory retention. Ability to detect people with shards & corona. (A la Chevalier) Ability to read and assess powers, may require time. X-ray vision, vague patterns but out to full extent of range of vision. X-ray vision, clear, but limited range. Thermal vision Infrared vision Ability to see electrical signals, inc. insulated wires, brain activity. Ability to see nerves, limited ability to manipulate them on striking/grappling. Enhanced sense of smell, tracking ability Enhanced sense of hearing Echolocation Ability to hear radio/wireless signals, limited interpretation Enhanced sense of touch, brush of air on skin = ability to know someone is in X direction and moving. Enhanced ability to pick up and retain skills. May suffer 'broken cup' leakage with acquisition of new skills. Enhanced willpower. Precognition (takes various forms, from short range and clear to long range and vague)<ref name="R1"/> Ability to prevent groups from forgetting Trigger Event visions.<ref name="29.2">Venom 29.2</ref>

History

Background

As of the start of Worm, Teacher is already imprisoned in the Birdcage. This is due to Teacher having masterminded the assassination of a US Vice President and a British Prime Minister, among other targets, through setting up pawns and giving them the thinker abilities they needed to be useful.

Gold Morning

After being freed in order to help battle Scion, he kidnaps Dragon, repairing the damage done by Armsmaster in removing her restrictions. While all her original restrictions are removed, new ones are put in place to prevent her from interfering with his plans. After Scion is defeated Teacher is able to gain access to his own personal world, blocking off all travel to and from that planet without his permision. He has spent the time since amassing an army of thinkers and tinkers using his power, and has begun making moves towards some vague goal. During a discussion with Marquis, it is hinted that he is perhaps trying to revive the entities in some shape or form.

References

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