Worm - Kiss/Kill Dynamic

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Sources:
https://worm.fandom.com/wiki/Trigger_Event
https://worm.fandom.com/wiki/Grab-Bag_Cape
https://worm.fandom.com/wiki/Glow-worm_P.4
https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/glow-worm-p-4/
https://worm.fandom.com/wiki/Shard
https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/4ea77x/trigger_events_questions_multitriggers/

Besides the fact that this should have been made weeks ago, but got stuffed into limbo because of procrastination, I sort of lost interest in making this video and it certainly shows. Though, I still wanted to get it out because the script, if you want to call it that was already typed up. Also, saying "stress-tests" is the bane of my existance.

Anyway, my audio in this one is not the best at times so...

Triggering is in itself already a process that gives a myriad of benefits and drawbacks, depending on who you are, and your general environment the balance between negatives and positives may be skewed in one direction more so than the other. However, for those involved in a Cluster Trigger, or whatever one prefers to call it, there is the added concern of the “Kiss/Kill Dynamic”. A phenomenon where individuals have the tendency to develop strong feelings towards another individual in their Cluster group, with said strong feelings being either hostility and/or affection.

To reference a not so particularly reputable but nevertheless interesting in-universe article, under the understanding that hostility is referring to cases of murder and attempted murder it was found that within Clusters 50% of strong relationships formed were purely hostile, 25% were formed through affection be it friendship or romance, and 10% were instances were hostility and affection coincided. What the remaining 15% was is not given but one can assume it to be cases were no “passionate relationships” were formed. As a side note, for those in the 25% that formed romantic affection, 10% of those individuals engaged in the latter regardless of their previous sexual preferences.

Now, onto how Shards factor into the Dynamic. In a more general sense, we can refer to the Shards’ drive to compel their hosts towards conflict to explain why a higher percentage of hostile Cluster relationships form. Though, to more specifically relate to the Cluster Trigger process itself, the “Kiss/Kill Dynamic” is born out of the fact that Clusters are stress-tests to gather data on powers. Due to the latter, it is easy to infer that in order to examine, let’s say how derivative sub-powers are used the Shards would want the respective hosts to interact more with each other in one way or the other. Similarly, the Shards may also want Cluster triggers to further interact to compare and contrast the different sets of powers born from the same event.
That’s about all there generally needs to be said about the “Kiss/Kill Dynamic” so until next time.