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You stress and worry, but most of all, you begin to dread year of high school, though, the disease surfaces as never before. On Christmas vacation, cardboard standee to assure everyone of his greatness. You cannot control own you're too sick to spend time with your family. You miss every other week of your the spring actions, but all this pressure eventually reaches a breaking point when a scandal agreed to help out your cousin. The one who isn’t allowed anywhere near the kids.threatens You just to have to stand as lookout. if you up, and your cousin’s crew caught, yousport. never training itself was grueling,Even giving you mess little time to anything beyond yourare studies of the infection set in and soon, you were too weak, too delirious to get up , and then your captor, It continued like this for years, with every attempt to live up to your parent's expectations your came. They you backThe to health, spoon you when youbut were carrotsavior juice a day, for tennursed days straight. first couple offed days were easy, astoo timeweak wentto eat,you spent time with you when youuntil wereonlonely, assured you when were lost down in delirium. on, gradually became sicker, the last day, you're barelyyou able to gulp the last you wouldn't be able to eat until they got out. How else would you know someone wasn't cup. When your SO finally brings you to the hospital, they give it to you straight. You're trying to and poison you? It'sto been and you can feel yourself wasting away without see you is shocked find two youweeks, are awake, explaining the circumstances of your coma.the didn't think anything of it at the time, but now they've got you at gunpoint in a deserted Your spouse died violently in the accident, dead before they even reached the hospital and parking to reason, then threaten, then pleadthem as they closer, but as your fairly outgarage. of hand.You Youattempt try to calm them down but that just makes even rowdier they words are to no avail. They're detailing what they're going to do to you, then what they're tease you for being a scaredy-cat. They storm around the building, laughing, screaming, and even when you earn your own money, he steals it from your room. There's not muchand generally tosense, frighten each other, really getting into the theme of theup night. After a time mom can trying do to stop him,but but she does sneak youaddressed painkillers after the beatings. day, the They don't make it's clear that they're to you. You yourOne guard, but boyfriend walks in on the act of charity, and he angrily takes your mother out of the room, still. He's had more chances to harm you in the past. However, one day you're leaving work summer in case coming she gives birth while they’re work. and Youhe had just when youvacation hear footsteps towards you. It's youratfather, has a sat gun.down He to watch TV thata day when you heard her whimpering fromwho the whelping and wenther, overyour to against you, female abuser, her being a social worker will know box if you report realize this isn't normal. Your brother tries to calm you but he's a faint buzz in the damning unconditional love for her. Your only solace is school. It's your only escape and you background, paramount. Insensible, on byroles yourand hysteria you stand. The arts, and withyour effortanxiety you make your way back to a spurred few different cameos. Then the cart rocks back and forth from the motion, old and rusted hinge creaking. In an attempt to offers stop coming. You can’t ascend further burdened by your mistakes in the public eye and comes in. It’s a little girl fifteen who reminds you of family. She's in a abad – you dry-heave as eventually your second minutes of fame die. You have fewway offers, movies, your about it again. popular, smart, everything could want.adult Then there's a you see what’sYou're happened to her lowerattractive, half. Adrenaline and you purpose staves off your tiredness; newstronger transfer,forfrom city. They're a little creep, but they smirktojust be you,your he’dold pull through. You know that isn’t true,Know. and asThey you rush theright when they say just the right things, and they approach you, making innuendo, threatening to hospital directly fromtothe airportAfter you ademand to minutes be told which room in, he’s in. Thea hospital staff room, alone, cuffed a chair. couple of they come holding suspicious refuse tobottle tell you, you At aren’t and family will vouch you. looking of pills. this permitted, point, you're toonobody scaredintohis talk, so that's when for they tellYou you sit in asking questions. They were dismissive, bringing up your intimate confession and calling you they've poisoned you with something acting, so you'd hurry uplisten, and tell them what and terror youself-deluding. experienced that night.fast You to explain it,better but they don't just paranoid and Gaslighted, youtrybelieved them rather than your ownthey fears and the keeps doing it anyway, saying things like "We're married," and "How are you going to get spooked but determined to get the cash… until your flashlight Trappedwhen in thethey inky over it otherwise." You think you're home alone, cooking lunchdies. for yourself, darkness what feels like hoursYour tryingmom to find an exit the You've gotbynoyourself breaks,you andspend now you're in highschool. wants youby in following all AP courses, emotions you can’t enjoy otherwise. Killing small animals in secret is one of the only small you've wanted to have a social life for years. You bring it up to her before the school year allowances you make for yourself to keep you balanced while you otherwise play the role of You couldn't walk or use your legs.toAll of the sudden, you're notkeep "oneup of the the charade. guys" anyToday more. the good child, desperately trying make your dad proud and You're girl inYears the wheelchair, constantly It pisses and youthe fightentire everyOnus step for yourthe sister. the litigation went on,babied. tied in the courtsyou andoff, it became money was all counterfeit, and he was making the counterfeits. of your home life. Shortly before your graduation you hear the news, you’ve won. The This was thetime latest batchThey in a long line ofatbad except would land them one just more to stay. just smile youdecisions, and say they’ll bethis fine. You actually watch the fight him in jail. Worse, with how far he got you into this before you noticed, there was a chance as it unfolds, you monitor PHO terrified mightspamming learn about theirvisible deathsites through leading organized 'raids' on PHO, newsyou forums, more with a chat forum but unable to stay away. Eventually you get a knock on the door and open to with controversial and You inflammatory In the height of your youtwist get in ittouch has to be worms. hate then,comments. how they move, how they look,fervor, how they one online - entirety they'll script spambot unload content various themselves upYou andcontacts die inthe the heat. This isatoo much, to way too new much, sheonto knows to doofit your alone. spent of your savings on your brand, lining up a IRC few how much worms sicken you. You start to whimper and squirm, but she tells you investors (not enough, but not everyone could understand your genius) and taking out a family with him his accomplishments. wentof tostores. high school, beingand one secondwas mortgage to and get your first design on theYou shelves It wasseemingly elegant, fresh, of the best in your class, acing almost every exam or test, until your high school exams.

the narrator and protagonist of the entire world and the story would ultimately work out in your him talk about the and fun times withthat the within local wards drove intobe favor. You stepall out ofadventurous the office building you workhe inhad certain a month youyou would incredible bitterness, and the praise heaped on him by your parents grated on your nerves your prayers are answered, because the procedure was a resounding success. Hell, you’reto no end. Your fell apart, he realized that you were jealous and shocked with relationship just how attractive youand are when now that you’re not covered in scarring, andoffered you camps nearby, you gotthat some blanket and food for thelife night soalways you can bring the kidslater back manage to easily ride confidence into the dream you wanted. Years you abusive, unhealthy, neglectful. You were crying on stand. Of course, the case was settled tomorrow. When you get back to the orphanage, it’s in even worse shape, there’s bloody as a guilty verdict easily, but the publicity had destroyed your family. You managed to scrape "Water," he says, offering itschool, up to your lips, and youyou, suckand it down greedily, throat singing through the last bit of high everyone hating a group month later your your mother with them. When you see how pathetic you are AND hear the heckling you, you in relief. "How are you feeling?" Your eyes swim as you struggle to focus in on him, andfeel you something give inside you and in trigger. you. Her intentions were good, a screwed up, mentally-disturbed way, but the state took you away and that was for the best. She did give you powers in the end - you trigger during the to the satellite with ease, the repair where it starts to go (primarily wrong. As you anand EVA, right doctor's appointment, on it's hearing that your internal organs liver,attempt pancreas absolutely certain that this damn sentenced you to your family’s wrath and off the bat your tools always subtlyHalloween drift away,has forcing you to constantly keep an eye on them. endlessof hellfire, you finally trigger. lifetime happythat bedtimes comes to a cold bloody end as you hold her and scratch her little heart-shaped spot saving. until herYou disfigured purrs stop. to stupor and need hate them. They hurtTrigger. others and themselves, yet hog the same resources, diverting your attention from all those who deserve to be saved. Two fatalities, then jacket, and you see a livid looking cop.so Your chest is thumping, yourMore ears drunks are ringing from three, all preventable if there weren’t many cases to handle and at once. arrive and balance. You might That be dying butcourts, you can't sure. Trigger you fumble on damages. the ground, rage. Drunk driving. means and be lawyers. It meansas having to pay for It your neck and chest slick nothing with your ownbecause blood. the sewage is full of air bubbles. One night, you're too. When it's active, floats working late toand get everything tuned up. The pay is practically enough to make you sing understanding comfort, but you only see overtime fear on her face. while you work. Your mood only takes a slight hit when you see some smashed beer bottles and You've lost her in the only way that really matters. You trigger. you realize that it’s more akin to a curse; you and your friends are all getting stir crazy, and things feeltolike they’re about to come to urge an explosive head when one up of your friends finally snaps; you need stay still doesn't quell your to run. The rattle starts again, so close it sounds understandably, wakes a panic, beneath the sheets thetosudden and like it's beside your ear.in You quiverscrambling slightly instinct screaming forat you stay in sounds place. You projectile juvenile at 3 AM. Dad, though… After a month ofto high you but startthen an argument with your spouse on Christmas Eve.and Both of Well, he started do tension, that as well, he went all pale. Now he’s clutching his chest look at yourblame SO, and for aand moment you see lookof.ofYou oneshould betrayed. you bounce back forth about all the the horrifyingly what-ifs youpained can think have"You put the said we'd begoes safe."wrong. Trigger. something Your chest seizes and you fall over in pain, feeling like your heart is goingintowith burst open in your chest. Trigger. skull a hammer, causing you to trigger again halfway through the first as you realize what you’ve done.and A rare trigger event. daughter instead, the1.5 screaming animal inside desperately needing something to smash apart side her bodily doesn’t evencuts exist other of theprison line asthat a loud CLANG theyet. callTrigger. short. You lean back in your chair. The phone rings again. foot and youonce feel like yourTrigger entire existence has suddenly shifted, pathetic before pathetic now but it’sLuck self again, imposed being ablealways to be blamed on aso fucking cape. Trigger. Lady theinstead fuckingofbitch. You'll be a beta, why bother? You may as well just lay downYou andtrigger rot. Trigger. happening? with the million little stresses a million miles from your mind, focusing only on the bloody stump yourLimbs leg being razed against a cold obscured concrete elevator nothing to stop it savagingofyou. ruined, vision completely by blood,shaft. you trigger as you feel its muzzle rummaging around in your insides. time, stewing in the knowledge that you’ve driven away everyone who could possibly help you. Trigger. you read “We’re leaving. Don’t try to follow us. We’re sorry. It’s not your fault, we found each other.” Trigger. supposed love of your life sent you a text, explaining how you were just a stepping stone, and this was never goingyou to last. just beenand used for her own success. before you forever, feel aYou vasthad emptiness loneliness inside you suddenly consume your heart. Trigger. of the departed. You’re alone with the dead and will forever be memorialized as monarch of the whole cruel thing. know this ruined your Trigger chances. You trigger while helping them wash your body fluids off the suit as feelings of shame a sense like youand betrayed them consume your Caught up in an irrational and feeling of betrayal, the utter inescapability of St.thoughts. Valentines touch, you trigger. is painful, and they’ve had enough. It’s the one thing your dream can’t survive without. The world wins, never have that baby. Trigger. So now youyou’ll just wait, dreading every day, as the clock is ticking down and your life is going to end. psycho anyways.” You trigger as she walks towards the bed, arm reaching to take your light away. reason. You realize trigger from thethe guilt oftwo being the you've reason,been and leaving the dawning horroralone of what you’ve done. and that for last years your child on their own and that it may have permanently stunted their development.

Police asked questions, apparently, but your best friend's parents approach you, sobbing, begging for answers, and it crystallizes for you just how abnormal your normal is.

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When you wake up, you You're in aunpacking plane when thebags, engine fails, theon captain making reassurances see them your remarking how well-planned this was for you can hardly as youcave can system see the through smoke blowing rightstumbling past your You fall into an believe underground a sinkhole, window. a flying coffin, trigger. around inDoomed the pitchtoblackness. You you trigger when you finally give up any rest of your body. Imagine the horror when you woke up to find that your hope of escaping the caves pet Fluffles had eaten part of the foot and the toes of your foot, trying terrors. Three or four hours into every single fucking night right of rest, you could make a difference, your hands are tied. In particular, there is one experience the worst sort of nightmares, ones you can't wake yourself up child being bullied mercilessly that you wish you could help. One day, he hunted down every detail could, in their very snaps and threatens your you class with awrapping gun, butyourself you takeup advantage of his being. You found their home, and you eventually found your waytointo their everything goes wrong: Mic squeals, your drummer is too drunk keep time, your guitarist hisinside. hand, Noone and your bassist gets kicked out like people, they're slices all shitopen on the is an exception, especially not yourselfout or of your parents. After breathe the 5th therapist's 7thmouth. session, you time snap. afterward, habit, you never through your Some later, areexpect cornered head.you You himby to colleagues break away,(coworkers/classmates/as to break it off and deal with the flak, even pressure him, but heexcept doesn't or the pattern opportunity. your life, this didn't matter, to find givethe youcourage a faint calico to your You try to kill yourself, pills and chemicals, and succeed only in mangling skin when you got a heavy tan (different DNA, different melanin), and your insides allcity repair. andthe an event inability to eat meet up inbeyond a nearby and Chronic, go out asendless a group.pain When came without making it all worse. about, however, you had enough fun that you had second thoughts, and walk. They hint theone. horrors, thewhen beatings, and brain damage... andpact, they you weren't the at only Except you discussed canceling the tell youand thatshut you're their They promise you give fifth of the doors down the'out'. engine if someone triedthey'll to steal it. you Youaweren't prepared, however,that for he a car with built-in tracking. that Fivethe minutes afterand the internet searches, was dead immediately, thrashing garbage cans.just Your intervened, youbut spent six to weeks in a hospital, sounds were the friends electrical spasming... it gets you. People asking recovering, and you got medicine to calm you down and break the anxiety Suddenly, goes missing. for days, spiral. Twowithout weekswarning, into yourshe recovery, you wentYou outwait to dinner withweeks, your months. Finally, her body is found in a local river. She committed suicide is like death and everything foul in the world. The second thing you register society, gays and parahumans. You're made Ittodawns marry on their that yourparticularly feet are wet. There's no traction, and it's dark. you son/daughter, to bring yourfalls. wealth status into theirbeautiful, family. It walked, taking apparently photos. Then the rain It'sand almost refreshing, wasn't thecontrasting marriage that you. city, It was tattoo gave you toBut make the water thegot burned andthe you snapthey more photos. your part in an undersea tour within a small submersible. Something vital breaks. vision blurs, your eyes sting. Your skin and scalp start to prickle, then sear. As small vehicle slowly runs out of oxygen, towards hellthe of nightmares and imagined noises. On thehurtling fourth night you the hear someone at the front door, and rush to defend yourself in a frenzied a life of luxury. He dies of non-cape related causes, and life goes on.terror. You squander of your year, and the gadgets when you all can't put ainheritance foot in frontinofless the than otheraon a regular basis) untilfail a one unexpected breaks out. As you try to rubbery, go back home you getof drenched and swelled storm after the first session, knobby, hard growths bending the rules, much as you had. Going too far, being violent, trying scarring, all across your back and your arm up to your elbow, forming to impress the guys and girl in the flashy costume, with the ability to lose People are in dying, there'sbetween no clear the escape authorities slow paperwork the shuffle PRTroutes, and theand local PD. Youare watched to gather the necessary equipment get and inside and out safely. are raiding your place. They accosttoyou, they tieget youpeople to a chair with wire, so tight thatthe youhouse, quicklyknocking lose circulation in yourbehind hands you, and feet. You ducking through over furniture but one of the fucking pigs blindsides you, disarming you, then pinning you against the you can't see yourself being an engineer, striving to buy yourself time and your life (ie. MS), and one by one, your friends and spouse drop away, forestall the inevitable, but some of your anxiety and stress must have apparently feelingwho it's too much to deal with. Youon weather the disease The police officer slammed into pedestrians a crosswalk, no itself, but when you're looking for a ride back from the hospital for an appointment flashing lights, killing your wife, ends up getting 120 hours of community People youasbecause is getting annoying. In the end, service.even You kick trigger you flip your out inwhining the courtroom. you're left with hemorrhaged eyeballs that have been pushed out of your

school/college life is a lie, your friends and romantic partner largely chosen by your parents/circumstance, but it isn't really you. You face a major painful that smashing yourself repeatedly in theprofessional head to release more tournament, one that may make or break your career, and you As a gap year after high school, you join an expedition in Costa endorphins helps. People have committed suicide to get them toRica's stop. deep rainforests to numb categorize plants and and to tree-people. As the bush slowly dying, hands unable toanimals type clearly communicate your need thickens and your Google Glasses drain of battery, a cliff crumbles and for help, watching the chat window with your friends/coworkers scroll by, voices) in your head. 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You You blowthrow all of your considerable on nose a highmade the genius decision to drive drunkenly over to a nearby playground. powered legal team, but they falter at the worst moments, and you lose Bets were drunken egged gotten on, andill now you're stuck in a your life at made, all really. Exceptidiots that were now you've - how or when you're kiddie swing, to your legs off entirely the weeks rigid plastic, not sure, but itcirculation was probably from thatcut overseas tripby a few back - and horribly wrong. Someone saw you, apparently, and jabbed an object into you can't take any of the medications available for it, because they'll kill you your peeping hole. The pain was unlike anything you'd ever felt, the girls on his ass at home after being fired, not even bothering to look for a new the to join a sing-along. But you job. panic, And soeven you getting left. 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Things fallinginto apart, you can't hold job, Robbing stores,start breaking armored vans, theonto pettya cape things. You came with them on a job, and it all went horribly wrong. Two In a corner of the office girl from principal if ititiswas lady. You took her stuffsits andthe knocked herbefore. down, The but you didn'tasks realize enough a knock to permanent, hospitalize her. It doesn't matter. matters the child.ofSomething that shows thatreally he was here, What that he loved meant to follow after a sniggering introduction to the moment. It doesn't you, that you loved him. Your baby will grow up and carry on some small matter. You're working the night shift when they come out of the woodwork. the predicted delivery date, your wife enters labor early,They at home. You rush Dwarves in clown masks with Freddy Krueger gloves. tackle you, word your teachers parents. 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Your boss to take a vacation, calm down a little, trying but you're careful one,convinces the 'good'you child. Putting on a brave face in school, to act normal around friends, you nonetheless were beinghas pulled into pieces as dogfood. After three weeks the smell of the 'home' become unbearable, punch, and scream. The other members of your family look on, all too used but you know better than to complain, or make any human sounds at all. to these episodes. You think you're through the worst of it, then a fist you waited one day too late. Someone else swooped her offtake of her catches youThen square in the mouth and you lose it. Youand can't thisfeet. any accessing. it was insurance fraud, then arson, each time You weren't happy, but you tried to be, for her. You stayed in touch,the but you evidence mounted against you. Eventually your original crime looked petty blurry. 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You call the cops, but through life. Year after year, you set the bar much too high, scrabbling and clawing sheer on the part of the law, pure genius on the part of your just tellstupidity them reach you're bored, it just confirms suspicions. Your family to somehow them. You hate the ideatheir of losing. You hate the ideatalks of about you as though you aren't there, as though you can't hear them, and seething mass of indifference. And findtoyourself staring down, at the you seethe inside. Your sister is theyou nicest you, rarely says anything gathering crowd and police sirens, and smile. A memorable death. It's kind of annoying but you put up with it. Then as you are at a bar,Faced drinking responsibly a spin, couple of spin, drunks decide pick fightraises, with you. as always. But as you and and spin, to and thea ride andOne flips upside down stories up, you hear a strain, a creak. You're harnessed in, it's you didn't get that memo. 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abandoning the girl with a disloyalty that's only to be expected for his kind. He slips down one alley, then another, and you come up on him as he next thing you know isupthe deafening car's brakes andinside the dodges into a closed building. Youscreech and twoofofthe your buddies step immense pressure andgoes painto ofsleep your bisected body, pinned between the wait until your spouse before creeping into your children's adult, you deserve to have a relationship an adult without them room, and gingerly shaking them awake, intent on with heading to your mother's being slandered. You meet someone, and it feels like a whirlwind romance; in your lungs to stay aware, on topyou’re of being disoriented fromtime. fromTwo the they’re all charm andfully sweetness, and engaged in record anesthesia that they used to put as of a side effect off. Your watching perturbed him.you He under. thinks Unfortunately, you're some kind government sent to spy him, he's whacko. in. 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horrifying sensation that you’re being followed. You go to your parents, friends, and even the police but nobody seems to think it’s a big deal. You his workshop to see what could salvage. Theinto devices were alien, but change your number, burnyou each letter and move a to new andbit your references You struggled getapartment the"computers," slightest the parts weren'tand - hefriends used awere lot ofdead. gold circuitry and gemstone of government benefits to stretch your days out, but even that was a feeling the and distortyou've beneath strength. no You know that itto stopgap. Inwood spite bend of your efforts, got his no savings, job, no place won't survive much longer, know when it and breaks down and made it a habit to check in, and you you left his littlethat workshop study materials alone, and the place in working in order, withtonoyour damage. Whenyou're -yougrowing outfound of control. Unfortunately, addition inattention, you built together. 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Youout try some to helpofher to question theshe oddgets bits aoflittle theology, or point theout to your car,moral and everybody decides that just of because not as pretty as leader's failings. You still believed, course,you're but it was a surprise somehow, weaseling theirinvited way through things. At the your and rope,some you when you found yourself to a quiet retreat, withend theof leader finally respond, agreeing to a meeting in a fairly public spot, hoping that set her mind to. Then you found a boyfriend, and he was handsome, He's notsmart, functional, youcomplement have to babytohim every ofmade every aday, like sweet, a perfect you. Sheminute actually pass at an eternal infant. It's destroyed your marriage you haven't made love to your bit of muscle torn but something that can be healed. A day in, though, it spouse yearsNot for rot lackorofgangrene, time and due to mutual exhaustion. You'reofpretty starts toinfester. but something alien, little slivers safer. 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You force the to the insideto of the building, intent on reaching of the bywhen climbing the and started getting ready, planningthe to apex walk out on facility Monday theyup were at work. morning, packed bagsyou in hand, you it, calland your mom, don’t likeMonday what you did today, they toss in it, lock leave you there for a few hours. It’s hot, confined, frightening, and you’ve just been tossed suited to her purposes. She died unexpectedly, not from violence but from simple health issues, leaving you vulnerable and alone. You have no birth gnawing, nauseating feeling of fear. You attempt the jump, but your fear of the doorframe. Snowed in, with only hum of scrabble a generator keep you makes you clumsy, your fingertips tear the off as they for to futile company, in business. one of the One loneliest on earth, theextra quietbitand of the family day, places you're out gettingyou thatfind little of the lack of communication quickly getting to you. Sleep isn’t consistent without cash, and youhouse, get a call. Your father's in theCop hospital heart attack.your He home in your going over your work. cars -surrounding passes away shortly thereafter. You're the heir to the family business, house. They know about your investigation, you know it, and your heart nails on a chalkboard to you. It's a slow, grinding process, as you comethe to startseverything beating in about your chest you wonder they plan. Soon enough, hate them as and your child. what You keep it all bottled up; the Premium grade, supposedly uncut.accepting Enough toofdo you forsoa you longjust while. community you live in isn't exactly divorce, pretend Except it was tainted, or it wasn’t what you thought it was. The high doesn’t away from home, while you tell your parents you’re at a friend’s “studying.” be booked. The same one as your partner, actually. You're told just how There’s a friendship and loyalty that grows, in the camaraderie of criminals. much he ratted on you with, and you know it's not bullshit to get you to you, screaming and blubbering incoherently in really response to their As questions, confess. Enough specific details to be sure he did squeal. you're sweeps into your house and it starts to flood, but by then it's too late. You and then one man leans forward, pressing your hand into the road, and you climb into your attic, desperately searching for a way out. There’s none. The they even stay up past 7:30 pmhead they're being 'extravagant'. Orthe so you rain pounds down above your as the water wells up into attic, thought, until you sneakand in the backhad door, and not onlythen are two. your Got parents them. 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Anti guesses Stranger. Shunt. A Striker Mover that teleported on touch with a tertiary Thinker power of shortrange clairvoyance.

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Caramelo. A Brute with a secondary Striker power.

patches of selected terrain and then teleport through them. Secondary Mover with tertiary

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Mover/Stranger Blackout. A Breaker Stranger of some sort, with classifications skewed due to the World roll.

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Brown Note. A Blaster that fires sonic pulses as well as a A Breaker stateStriker that mitigates Scrimshaw. Brute and that some damage. disintegrates objects he touches to fuel his intestines like silly string. He can use them to regeneration. swing around like Spiderman for a secondary

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Some linguistics / social Thinker. Flubster, a bouncy Brute with a jelly field that soaks damage but sends himteleport flying away. Runaway. A Mover who can through memorized doorways.

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Extirpate. A Breaker Master who takes over people's ruining theircapabilities musculature his area, bodies, with minor Thinker of in the process soand their minions are short-lived. clairaudience sound memorization/replay. A Striker ability allows and bestows wakefulness to him or his allies. A secondary Mover rating as he accrues Gigawatt. An electrokinetic Blaster. Mistral (Blunt force field spam, resists gas/liquid/solid, all swap as one.) Shaker I Alleskleber. A Shaker that glues things think. together. Smear. A Mover that trails afterimages and can teleport back to them. Unused. Khandhas. A Breaker with Mover and Stranger capabilities. Five distinct but fragile bodies. Beholder. A precog. I'm not gonna say the classification because that's pretty wrong and it'll skew the guessing algorithm.

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Enjambre (touches objects to make them disintegrate and turn into swarm of insectoidCaesura. A Mover that launches herself with monsters under her control). Striker Master. metal rods. She can fire them for a secondary Blaster ability.

The Good King. A Tinker who makes serums and admixtures that with affect Ambient. A Breaker a the formhuman that body. alternates between 'storm' and 'steam'. Cherry. A Trump that steals secondary powers from nearby enemies.

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Streamweaver. A Breaker / Shaker / Master. Lenticular. A Breaker and Shaker who creates and is comprised of lenses. Dangerzone touched (10 seconds) to previous items (10 hours); the more similar the item, the more Bespoke, a Tinker with hypnosis Master effects. Mover, absorbed matter (just liquids?) as fuel Frostburn Blaster/Shaker: Absorbed ambient heat from an area (up to flash-freeze effects) to Clarissa generateMcDowell/Stray projectiles (fireballs). (Malleable Changer) Unused. Elhanan. A Master. 1408

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A teleporting Mover with a secondary fire power that I dunno about. grants Alexandria package (flight/durability/strength). A Brute and

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A Master that alters the victim's will to live. Sonic status shaker A Brute and Changer with a healing factor. Changer - disassembles organs and tears open in herself causeholes anything inorganic she touches to be Striker Creates bubbles objects, easy-to-dig and light, untilaround she stops touching bubbles ignore gravity and stop momentum in an explosion of shrapnel. Secondary when created/popped Mover power allows cape to leap three times their body height and cling to sufficiently Nachtschatten. A Tinker. Stretchy acidic tongue. A Breaker with Brute forward half-invincible and Striker capabilities.and wreck stuff. Has control over the amount and direction of damage done by that. This is a Brute and A Tinker. Lucifuge (Factory Tinker) A Changer that shifts into a powerful, featureless some sort ofform. smoke-form, can turn smoke into claws) A Breaker with Stranger and

Blaster Trump whose rend blasts cause backfires cement/stones/metal/kitchenstuffs which can be used to shoot a barrage spray of such MEAT CARNIVAL. A Shaker and Master that turns their surroundings into a nightmarish fleshscape that obeys their every command.

Stigmata, a horror Tinker with Changer secondaries. performance at task via precog (Thinker), Strikes and"ghosts" causes them to seewho the creates enemies non-sapient from those cape several types, blurry. Also, some objects as his organs, toAgrant his organs secondary power? Blur. Striker. "immunity" and outsource his senses). Cuts objects and creates portals in the A cut sides, that lead to each other. A Mover. Trifecta. A Shaker that makes spherical explosions.

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Laser blaster, penetration improved when charging/moving forward. Mover secondary. single individual into an "alternate world" where they can't access or perceive other Doll Changer/Master finger-claws, can push it onto other people (rendering them pliable) to revert back to

expanded personal timeline to become extremely durable and slow or quick but

Thinker sense grants awareness on how to ruin/destroy things, Shaker power lets them push non-living objects over the edge.

Bellona. A Brute with self-puppeting TK.

Redcap / Lilith. A hemokinetic Trump with a secondary Blaster ability. Spinal Tap. A osseokinetic Brute.

Shaker/Master. Generates cage minions, who wrap around/trap people when created, requiring a person to operate. Hacker Vaillant / Vigil. A Virus Tinker with an emphasis on AI and Data. Cody. A Trump and a Mover, telekinetic wings that act as barriers against cape effects.

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Dune. A Shaker that makes sandpaper treadmills. Cuttlefish. A Brute with a secondary Changer Archival. multi-trigger with an area scan ability thatAgives them strong tentacles. Thinker primary and a nemesis Tinker A grab-bag cape with Striker, Mover, and secondary. Blaster capabilities. A rock pillar Blaster that can use the pillars forChanger a secondary Moverinto jump. A that turns some weird lion thingy. collects dead ghosts and can talk with them? some sort of Tinker

Phantom Pain (not actual name)

makes intangible clones, can combine to buff Wits/Dex. Master.

A Tinker who made some kind of poison I think. and Sabel. A Master with a brutish, Tatze ridable minion.

Bombshell. A Brute/Mover.

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Accelerando, a time speed-up Tinker. A Thinker with a hunter-seeker power.

Ammit. A Breaker / Thinker. Snow White. A flashbang Blaster with Mover capabilities. Fortnight. A Trump and Blaster that fires tangles of power-dampening Paraclete. A Trump that giveswires. people weak powers that backfire on them. Freakout. A Master power with a Stranger secondary. Last Laugh. A Master. Yael. A Striker. emplaced Tinkertech that powers other Tinkertech including a massive cybernetic monster-minion. Steward Tinker. Master Master, aura of domination Discontent

silence striker Venganza. A Brute that charges up massive Gin. A Thinker and Changer that codexes punches. her mind to buff physical stats, or cripples herself to improve mental Meristem. A Changer that stats. grows crazy limbs.

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10-min Tinker material, can enhance for brief periods via stored electrical charge (recharge via wallPollution AT-AT Mech Tinker. Wall-running & splinter spray Mover Blaster Striker. Moss spray Shaker, Moss can disintegrate Brute, ruins area with ambient fire from material to create pitfalls. power, drops magma shards when hurt. Personal Shaker. power suit that acts as targeting suite for high-distance attacks. Tinker. Breaker, sets a position at start and leaves mark, reverts there (and to health). Katzenklaue. Claw Striker and Mover, disorients those hit and can make S-shaped earths (hascharges to hold breath) blinks with gained and fromcan strikes. manipulate others' powers there, but with

Ashcloud Akira. A 'cold' Tinker. between 'hot' and forms as they fire sprays of material, with a secondary mental Horn Changer with screaming, effectLord. ('hot' A causing aggression, 'cold' wiggling horntennae. Luddite. A charge-up Trump Blaster. snake-person (lower half snake), staying in one spot renders them increasingly disgusting, fleshy materials, target intangible, camouflaged, andhitting agile, abut this with several globs encases them, grants Simulacrum. A Changer.

OLED. A Catalyst Tinker with the Holo / Bio specialty. Snakeskin. A Master who makes a duplicate. Inflame. A Master and Stranger and Mover. Tyr - Biokinetic Brute with a healing factor.

Maniobra - A multi-path vague precognitive suited for combat simulations and tactics. Thinker.

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Panopticon. A Thinker. environ that can be used for artillery-style damage, and danger sense. equipment Blaster, Shaker, Ravel. A Striker that imbues with crazy claws. Five-eyes Thinker Trump with 'power' sight modes. degrees (but precludes normal sight), can be sent out at high speeds and can detonate eye to leave ethereal shrapnel in people, Bug changer/shaker that generates sonic blasts for shock effects and echolocation.

Raises dead parahumans as metal, skeletal, minions. Trump and Master.

Vampire bat Changer, absorbs from people. voluntarily rise to higher levels taking more endurance and lasting shorter times, and defeating other parahumans grants limited

Puck. A ring' Mover. Hops. A 'fairy Vortex Shaker, draws people in, can hit them for enhanced effect. Secondary Zodiac. Striker. A Breaker with twelve distinct forms, selected semi-randomly.

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Changer, adopts reptilian form and leaves fire trail as they movewhile towards goal,drags Short range teleport moving, becomes alien. nearest person with andwith staggers Azoth -- other Apsychologically Gentleman Tinker a dart gun them. Mover. that fires a variety of chemicals with positive and negative effects. Secondary Blaster.

Oberon. A Dream/Serum Catalyst Tinker. Languish. A pain Striker. Memory alteration tinker. stealth fields Hush. Striker and Stranger make invisible, constrict people; can remode, head, gains pool of dice absorbsmoking for drain/mimic Trump effect. results to use. Can only refresh once it's selection of goals and for each goal the Set of eight limbs emerge from back, can duplicate gains some special ability, and climb, stick to surfaces, & make threads to Cape andChanger. exploits the weaknesses in entrapsees people. anything. A Thinker. Contagious sickness touch. Striker. Gunk Punk mushy // Spunk -- Spits state, tar. Blaster. Light, //mobile Changer which gradually becomes slower and more durable Breaker, mote generates tough shell and as it moves, accreting a shell. slams into people. Tinker makes bodysuits from corpses, swaps between bio-Brute skill-stealer Striker that imbues and weapons with modes. degenerating Thinker buildsenergy. up bonus, can fire bonus to debuff enemies. laser"; hard to manage, takes repeated uses separated by days to gain full version of Creates scary illusions by reading diary entries. andBlaster Thinker. Creates Master a faraway turret that shoots beams; secondary Tinker info Frost Changer, vacuum in areavia of HUD effectmask inflicts -Ath and pushes Gas grenade Tinker withoff a balance. massive amount of perks from Profundum Social Reality Manipulator. Master. Reactor Tinker, Ego x Powersuit Specialty Momentum absorbing Breaker. Turing, a Tinker with the Data Mastermind subclassifications. can move normally; cape can skate fast; others slip and fall. A Shaker and a Slow mo bubble punchy. Striker. Body switching Master. uses chaotic minions that are generated in the form xand obey verbal Shard-Sense commands. Master Esoteric Scan Thinker, tunnel vision paranoia-inducing power reader Redline -- Thinker/Breaker with skill bonuses Explosivo -- Multitrigger with brute damage or reality breaking abilities. resistance, shaker explosion effect and mover launch Ghost limbs. A Shaker. Inflicts WoundLuchadore. effects (player's choice) via touch, more powerful if the character is suffering the Brute. same Wound type. A Striker. Color Spray

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Podzhov. Burning touch and smokescreen defense. Striker numbing and Shaker andblasts Stranger. Blaster/Thinker, beam with Brimstone Swan. Coats self in coals, and no damage, and can read people for boosts. ignites thempackage in wake.with A Changer Light Brute Shaker and effecta that Brute. coats battlefield in "creep" and sessile Generates javelins useful as melee/ranged constructions, useful as reflexive defense. attacks, cause power feedback/spillage. defense shotgun spray) primary with a Blaster and Trump.shadow manipulation, Stranger, Blaster, couple secondary Brutes and Shakers. Very grants stealth, tk, and light Thinker ability to Geokinetic waves in ground, track othersgenerates by theirstates shadows. Breaker three stronger with the closer. Shaker. (Brute/Shaker/Stranger), "acquires" Dicepool precog, encouraged to wound, elemental flavoring as a Trump. punished for retreating/backing down. A Clairvoyant tagging, and subsequent Thinker. information. Thinker. Parahuman hunter who steals parts of powers from kills. Striker. Scaly Brute that can control the scales like telekinetic limbs. Clawed, liquid armor growth. Brute. Distracting-Flesh Vomiter. Stranger. Breaker and Trump. Explosive Teleport through surfaces of the same material. Mover Shaker. Ice armoured teleport. Mover and a Brute. Limit tinker with hiddenAspecialty gleaned through mix and match "set bonus" equipment. Assumption of social relationships. Thinker. Trap tinker. Multitrigger with wisps, whips, and walls. Clay Master increasingly powerful Breaker form with Changer true form Cape manifests goldenpearl armor, natural weapons, and acid. Brute and changer. A Trump and Shaker. Morale Buster/Exile Thinker. Portal Tinker. Projectile forces targets to not move from location or taketeleport damage. Flicker-based withBlaster cloneswith in wake secondary Stranger. that knock people back when "popped." Tinker giant monster minion, injects Mover makes and Master. cape juice for boosts. Steward. Space-warping Stranger with minor Thinker bonusthat against people who can see them. Brute destroys and weaponizes the environment. Orbitmeditates subclass. to stack skills hypertime thinker, and get freeshadow sixes hand that depresses Generates Suction Striker objects:Master. knocks people grabbed.imbues No damage. projectiles off course, warps/degrades Hard to hit 'flesh ribbon' Changer that inflicts powers enhances armor/weapons. Li'l Bang(Trump), - A teleporting vacuums vertigo. Element weaponMover Tinkerthat secondary. objects and people nearbubbles their exitthey point and Stranger makes sessile can expels them on arrival. Secondary Shaker. perch in, Turns with secondary power creating Breaker: into a drill-ish thing that a slow-to-charge barrage of Blaster shots. bursts through walls and can knock people others stayMakes in close, and lightweight gains improving aroundtohard. things too. Brute package the more people that are

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Short-term precog who gains guaranteed rolls that can be applied to their own self's or others actions. Outer-body breakage into a light form with burning Striker effects. Tinker with a sound-based theme. Commands debuff-applying ghosts.

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Brute/Blaster, alternates between shooting and with smoke/fire Capeshielding shoots bright disks that create ziplines between objects and people A time dilating Breaker than can build tech to harness their form Thinker power enables perfect counters and traps A Shaker/Changer that creates a nuclear wasteland and brings it to life for benefits

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Icy reindeer blasts they can ride Serum tinker with mix-n-match forms and effects Blaster/Thinker who throws and pulls strings to disorient and info boosting or Shoots string of gain awareness confusing moteswith which stickmanipulating to people. Power deflector matter hands Checkpoint Alex. Package with spatial armor

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Dual forms changer; fleshy mass and fluidVoodoo coating. stranger/blaster who ties targets together, causing them to share damage and allowing cape to manipulate relationships as a bystander while in their breaker state, primarily on warping perceptions on, at thefocused cost of making those allies docile and more reliant on them for decision Summons flying clawed serpent which can release an AOE stunning roar and acts as a Tinker that creates tech that echo the Tinkers mount forpower the cape. Changer grants flexible sensory and actions with actions of their own physical abilities depending on chosen to increase strength, absorb powered attacks attributes altered. or tinker blast foes with searing energy enhanced A that generates gateways to alternate A shield brute that can absorb energy and worlds power types with their shield and throw it as a weapon. Thinker with several alternate personas

Range sensitive combinative drone tinker Trump power that bonds the cape and another person, sharing wounds Bloodpredator Changerbreaker that turns the Apex battlefield into their own hunting grounds, expanding as more enemies fall to them.