Case 70

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The case used by the PRT when dealing with powers that manifest in two or more people.They were so-called because their origin was the 70th anomalous case investigated by the PRT.<ref name="II.1.1 e1">Official files. Classification documents. Then there were the notes for case one, case fifteen, case thirty-two, case fifty-three, case ninety. The ‘cases’ were the events the PRT had deemed of interest. Riddles both solved and unsolved. My collection there was incomplete, but some were official enough to be confidential, and I’d never had that access. Others were closed, the mystery deemed nonexistent or something to be folded into popular knowledge. - Excerpt from Daybreak 1.1 </ref>

Details

Case seventies are all about blurred lines. Where does one person start and the other begin? When one identical sibling triggers and touches another, what can happen?

One example seen is Capricorn, where the twins are in constant communication and sharing their sensorium. In two hour shifts they will switch places physically. Clothes and all.

Examples

• Knot<ref>Prisoners 604 and 603, Knot, were happily gorging themselves on food in Cell Block Y. Despite their cognitive impairment, they had fallen into a role as enforcer and heavy hitter for Prisoner 390, leader of their cell block. Prisoner 390 had had a son – she could only hope that he would find some similar affection for Knot, with their childlike mentality. - Excerpt from Interlude 10.5 (Bonus)</ref>
• Tandem
• Zigzag<ref>cite comment about zigzag not getting an explanation until the sequel</ref>
• House of Three (possibly)

Origin

Useually happens when two people are with the Agent conglomeration the two people into one individual.<ref>“Case seventies in North America included Knot, Tandem, Zigzag was one, I think, there was House of Three in Quebec. And… you, it seems.”

“One or two of them might not be seventies, but they get called seventies because they’re close enough. Blurred lines, like you said. When twins trigger, the powers are identical or nearly identical. When twins trigger and they’re touching one another, like you said to Rain, things get blurry, the agent is too stupid or careless to tell where one starts and the other ends, or it wants to fuck with us, and it jams everything in together. Two minds, two similar powers, and one body to be shared.”- Excerpt from Flare 2.6</ref><ref>It's not about scale. It's about 'this is something we as an organization need to look into'. - Comment by Wildbow on reddit</ref> It may be due to the agents makeup.<ref>Lunatic Blue:
I have a question, what does the Butcher mean for shards/entities? Is it an aberration?

Wildbow:
keep in mind that the shards are pieces of the entities, they have residual effects & processes from being part of a larger organism, so where stuff isn't skewed intentionally, sometimes you just get quirks running through. - Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles</ref>

Trivia

• The twins Nix & Nyx are not an example of this case.<ref name="R1">sanctaphrax: What was the deal with Nix and Nyx, anyway?
  
  Wildbow: Twin sisters, took Cauldron vials, one went Case 53. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref> They may have been an attempt to replicate the phenomena.

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