Broken Trigger

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With Zion's death the network decays and the shards are unleashed.

Features

No two broken triggers are the same. Just as no power is the same.<ref>There are no copies of the same power, barring a circumstance where it’s powers recurring within a second/third generation cape. Even then, debatable. - Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 20.y</ref> Regardless commonalities abound.

Trigger Vision

Disjointed and coming in waves. Some will replay the last memories of Zion, while others are so quick that no one sees anything.

Manifestation

Has an almost shaker effect that lets the shard jump from person to person affecting multiple person. This is possibly due to the now unrestricted shards registering the person as a triggeree where before they would only connect to a person if another person was having a trigger event.

History

While odd triggers and strange powers were a fact of life for parahumans, they were generally following an internal logic.

===Post-Gold Morning===

With the death of Scion, his influence on the shard network caused it to decay.^{[citation needed]}

A broken trigger occurred in the nascent city, getting in the way of a domestic dispute that Bitch was resolving.<ref name="e.4 e1">She could see the capes fighting, down below. A man was at the center of it. He’d swelled in size until he was twice the height he should be, almost breaking apart, like a statue that had been dropped, only the biggest chunks preserved, hanging in mid-air in a vague human shape, high above the street. Black ooze gushed from foot-wide cracks and divides in his body. His flesh was dark brown, the edges of the cracks raw and bloody.

Even from her vantage point on the rooftop, she could hear his screams. It was muffled, despite the volume, as though he were screaming while underwater, the effect amplified.

[...]

- Excerpt from Teneral e.4</ref>

It was the fourth such trigger known, possibly twenty percent of the triggers since Gold Morning.<ref name="e.4 e7">“Shit happens,” Rachel said. “World makes a lot more sense when you accept that.”

"This is a little different from the everyday sh-tuff,” the man said.

Miss Militia nodded, her eyebrows knit together in concern. “This makes four. Almost a fifth of the regular triggers we’ve heard of. Two in three days. One’s still loose, the others died or destroyed themselves.” - Excerpt from Teneral e.4</ref>

Glow-Worm

Instances were recorded in other worlds.

Early Ward

Had become a common part of life in The City.

As a riot brewed another broken trigger ensued.<ref name="II2.4"> - Excerpt from Flare 2.4</ref>

Examples

• The Black Ooze<ref name="e.4">Teneral e.4</ref>: Created black ooze that morphed into tentacles and fronds
• Casey Folks: Mold maker, which he could use to puppet bodies and make machines work.<ref name="GW8 e1"> - Excerpt form Glow-worm P.8</ref> Like other Broken triggers he is implied to have died.
• Matter Origami<ref name="II2.4" />: could fold matter into various shapes to cause effects.
  • Blaster trigger

References

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