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Scion, being the world's first Parahuman, is almost godlike in his abilities. In addition to flight, telekinesis, and super speed, Scion can produce a vast array of elemental lasers. These can freeze, burn, or disintegrate matter with ease. His powers may be unlimited, but he mainly sticks with using these. | Scion, being the world's first Parahuman, is almost godlike in his abilities. In addition to flight, telekinesis, and super speed, Scion can produce a vast array of elemental lasers. These can freeze, burn, or disintegrate matter with ease. His powers may be unlimited, but he mainly sticks with using these. | ||
All powers that parahumans have are originally from Scion or Eden. While some of Eden's core powers have been removed - for example, the 'win' power that [[Contessa|Contessa ]] uses - Scion still has the strongest powers possible, including the strongest precognition power and his own copy of the 'win' power. | |||
==The Truth== | ==The Truth== | ||
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WARNING! THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS HUGELY HUGELY MASSIVE SPOILERS. DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE FINISHED THE ENTIRETY OF WORM.
Scion was the first parahuman to make themselves known to the world canonically. He is a mostly expressionless man with glowing golden skin, long hair, and a white bodysuit.
History
On May 20th, 1982, a golden man was first spotted hovering above the ocean by a passenger on a cruise liner crossing from Plymouth to Boston. He approached the ship and interacted with the passengers. He cured a man of cancer simply through touch, and inspired a new era of hope and optimism.
For years afterward, the man restlessly traveled around the world, assisting and preventing countless crises around the world, ranging from car accidents to quelling an active volcano. It's also implied his actions prevented 9/11 and the levee failure caused by Hurricane Katrina.
After extinguishing a fire in Alexandrovsk, he was asked by a reporter who or what he was. He responded by shocking the world with the first and only word he has spoken in the past thirty years.
"Scion."
A word that meant descendant became the name for the first Parahuman to appear on earth.
Only five years after Scion's first appearance, in 1987, the first superheroes began to emerge from rumor and secrecy, followed soon after by villains. The illusions of them being divine figures was shattered fairly early on when the superhero Vikare attempted to quell a riot over a basketball game in Michigan. He was clubbed over the head and died hours later of a brain embolism. He was latere found to be Andrew Hawke, one of the passengers who originally met Scion.
The golden age of heroes was thus short lived, but regardless, Scion continued to travel restlessly around the world.
He is the only one capable of turning the tide in a battle against an Endbringer, but he isn't always guaranteed to show up. This is especially devastating in the case of Behemoth, who is effectively impossible to get close to. While he can fight them off, Scion appears either unable or unwilling to actually destroy them.
Powers
Scion, being the world's first Parahuman, is almost godlike in his abilities. In addition to flight, telekinesis, and super speed, Scion can produce a vast array of elemental lasers. These can freeze, burn, or disintegrate matter with ease. His powers may be unlimited, but he mainly sticks with using these.
All powers that parahumans have are originally from Scion or Eden. While some of Eden's core powers have been removed - for example, the 'win' power that Contessa uses - Scion still has the strongest powers possible, including the strongest precognition power and his own copy of the 'win' power.
The Truth
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Scion, or Zion as he is actually called, is not human at all.
He is the avatar of an interdimensional alien creature. He and his mate were the last of their kind. Long ago, they outcompeted each other for energy and eventually all died out. The two of them were the last, and survived by inducing conflict on worlds they landed on, increasing the energy output of the planet's life, then destroyed the planet and absorbed all the finite energy to sustain themselves.
The effect ends up destroying all copies of the planet across reality in the process.
Zion and his mate, Eden , repeated this process across countless realities and worlds until they arrived on Earth Bet. However, Eden was killed by Contessa and Doctor Mother before the process began, leaving Scion as the last of his kind. He hovered above the Atlantic for days, depressed, until the cruise ship came upon him.
Though positive energy proved much less potent, he decided to sustain himself on what little energy it could provide him.
Eventually, in 2013, Slaughterhouse Nine leader Jack Slash convinces him to recommence his planned exterimination of the human race. Scion takes the opportunity to experiment with his power by destroying the British isles.
Feeling a sensation equal to some form of pleasure, relief, or satisfaction, he decides to follow through.