Clockblocker glanced at Weld. The boy was digging through his canvas backpack for something. Was he one of them?
Yeah, unless Wildbow is deliberately misleading us.
I figure the only reason we don’t know of an Upsilon tattoo is that his skin is too metallic to put ink in.
“Weeks five and six, assuming we’re on schedule, we’ll pull all earlier material together and discuss the beginnings of the parahuman phenomenon. Not for the individual, as with trigger events, but as a whole. Where do capes come from? There is the patient zero theory, typically working under the assumption that Scion is the source of these abilities.
But under that theory, where did his power come from? Is he an alien or something? He does have a highly alien vibe to him.
This, however, raises questions about where Scion came from.
Sometimes I should read one more sentence. 😛
The theory is corroborated by the case of Andrew Hawke, who came into contact with Scion on the very first sighting of the hero, only to manifest powers of his own…
Oh yeah, that’s that guy who got killed and showed the world that parahumans were flawed, wasn’t it?
*rereads a bit from Interlude 1*
Yep, Andrew Hawke, a.k.a. Vikare, clubbed down at a basketball riot in 1989. Also the last person on the boat to make physical contact with Scion during his debut in 1982.
but there are others who manifested powers without ever coming into contact with Scion or entering a location where Scion had visited.”
Yeah, that’s kind of an issue with this theory. You could still make a case for it spreading further from other parahumans, I suppose. Hell, Taylor’s trigger event was directly caused by, among others, a fellow parahuman.
I don’t think I’m going to subscribe to this theory myself, but there are ways to make it work.
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