The Battery

The existence of the Battery is a phenomenon occurring across multiple Timelines. By default, one character per timeline is designated as the Battery, possessing great amounts of energy that manifests as "power" which "leaks" onto other subjects.
==Info==
One individual per timeline is designated as "the Battery", becoming a source of an unidentifiable and nebulous energy that maximizes the traits and abilities of the affected. This energy increases exponentially as time passes. Once the Battery dies, the exponential growth of their power ceases, and all subjects affected by their energy slowly revert to their original state over a period of thousands of years.
The effects of this energy are difficult to explain except from a meta perspective: the self-defined characteristics of anything affected by the energy become amplified to an exaggerated sense. To provide an example scenario:
*In one timeline, a singer lives a normal life, with the highlight of their career being a performance for an important governmental figure. The singer has a minor altercation with a rowdy fan, which is negligible. None of these events are considered outlandish.
*In a timeline where said singer is the Battery, the singer's life is vastly defined by their singing, is one of uncanny highs and lows, and the highlight of their career comes in the form of a performance for the gathered leaders of the world. The singer is assassinated by an individual who had developed a parasocial relationship with them. The presence of all world leaders, on top of the singer's fans and new sympathizers for their murderer, launches a multi-faction world war. The singer's songs are used as anthems, weaponized during the war, and anthologized after the victors emerge. The singer is remembered forever on their planet, and their influence on other worlds lasts many generations. None of these events are considered outlandish.
===Power Creep===
The energy from the Battery leaks out to people, locations, and the time periods that are most exposed to them in a process called Power Creep. The age of the Battery, alongside the exposure time to their energy, contributes to the amount of energy that applies itself onto a subject. It is important to note that considering points in spacetime are also affected by the Battery, energy tends to centralize heavily onto one fixed singularity: while there is still significant agency between the Battery and close power-crept actors, they tend to be affected by their own energies and remain close together at the same relative point.
===List of Known Batteries===
Not every timeline may have a character known to be the Battery. In this case, it can be assumed that the Battery of said timeline is simply too far away by distance, time, or relation to other characters to be relevant.
*🗛: Jast
*Φ: Shenanigans
==Trivia==
*The Battery was first introduced and mentioned in the Alpha-Archaic Timeline story Corruption 2: The Story Nobody Expected.
Category:Concepts