#cluster triggers

[anendangeredspecies]

Wildbow was a coward for making the powers and dynamics in cluster triggers roughly balanced between members.

Where are the grab bags with powers that depend on other members. Two person clusters where one member's powers aren't useful alone, but can massively boost their already powerful partners abilities. Large groups with fucked up hierarchies or one member having all the power and authority over the others.

And obviously the imbalanced kiss/kill dynamics. Parahumans ending up dependant on cluster members who feel very little empathy for them in return. Giving minor kill feelings to two parahumans whose powers depend on each other to function or even survive. A love triangle of three members obsessed with their target and despising the other member that loves them.

If shards were really looking to experiment they'd be getting imbalanced as hell with this shit.

[evil-jennifer-hamilton-wb]

Cluster trigger sheet. Original pre-cluster powers are in the left column, the rows are for post-cluster power bleed. People who have read ward or know more about clusters please lmk if this makes sense.

[featheredthreat]

WAs theorizing on what a cluster trigger with taylor, Amy, and Vicky could look like in terms of powers soo i started theorizing

Lmk what you think

First the powers/shards of each

Taylor- queen administrator= fine control

Vicky- fragile one= strong but temp shield

Amy- shaper= Biological control

So ignoring that any trigger even with these 3 most likely wouldnt result in bug powers, i theorized this to mean:

Taylor

(With bug powers) usual powers, probably a slightly smaller range

From vicky- can give a one use shield to bugs she is touching

From amy- can use her bugs as biomass to heal herself, or heal and strengthen other bugs

Vicky

almost standard powers, shield is separated into many small hexagons that break individually rather than one large fragile shield, brute rating is much lower

From taylor- as a trade off from lacking super strength she can separate her shield from herself and control it however she likes in a limited range (like, 15-20 ft), still fragile like normal and parts separated will not protect her until they reform on her body

From Amy- can regenerate herself (maybe others? Idk yet) using biomass she is touching

Amy

standard shaper, with a minor automatic regeneration aspect (she can recover from a gunshot wound in like 2-3 days, and is unlikely to ever die of blood loss)

From taylor- can implant commands into living things that activate on a specific trigger (ie damage, a change in environment, high heat, etc), can only place 3 commands like this at a time and cannot do herself

From vicky- she gains a manually activated force field, that takes 20 seconds to regen but is good enough to take multiple gunshots

My main worry is that i made the side powers too strong? Like some of these are entire cape powers on their own so i tried to limit them somewhat, and encourage some synergy with the girls like i assume the shards would