Trench-59

**Trench-59** (born 21 March 2020) Trench-59 is a male premature infant, aborted during the third trimester. It has blue eyes and yellow hair. It was never named and has no legal date of birth, personage or inheritance. Only the identity of its mother is known; the late Iris Patel.

Trench-59 is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of citizens of Albion. It was sedated and detained by Evelyn S. Retherford as per the request of Albion Esoteric.

## Abilities

Trench-59 is host to a number of dangerous paranatural abilities, each of which reflects the traumatic circumstances of its birth and the pre-mortem condition of its mother. Had it not been for the intervention of other metahuman actors, it is likely that Trench-59 would have come to subsume the known world.

* **Noospheric schematic:** Trench-59 replaces its surroundings with its idealised world. Being a fetus, that would be the inside of a womb. Building materials adopt the consistency of uterine flesh. Fluids are converted into amniote, blood and breast milk. The air within Trench-59's area of effect become laden with antibodies and aerosolised blood plasma, rapidly becoming unbreathable.
* **Parenthood:** Nearby lifeforms' parental instincts completely subsume their other personality traits. Humans will engage in caretaking behaviour for the nearest babylike object until expiration. Computer systems will suffer severe degradation as their processors are clogged by blood and milk.
* **Birthing:** Nearby organisms will constantly emit small human foetuses until death, ranging in size considerably. Larger babies can also arise if they consume enough matter. These babies feed on nearby lifeforms, excluding one another. If attacked, they respond with superhuman strength and screams which paralyse and disorient listeners.
* **Hallucinations:** Trench-59 can flood the minds of hostile actors with illusions of being the victims of prolonged sexual violence.
* **Propagation:** Trench-59's area of effect expands at a rate of 10-12 metres per minute from all sources. Trench-59 itself is a source, alongside any medium containing information about the baby and the phenomenon which it gives rise to. This means that individuals who look at, watch footage of or see an illustration of Trench-59 and any affected individuals/materials become a source. The only exception is written communication.
* **Generalised reality warping:** Trench-59 can manifest canals of flesh and membranes in the environment around it, among other tropes of pregnancy and childbirth. Concentrated application of this ability allows it to destroy incoming aircraft, projectiles, et cetera.
* **Parasitic Resilience:** In spite of being a prematurely born foetus, Trench-59 is capable of surviving without incubation or constant nutrition. It achieves this by leeching off of the bloodstreams of nearby animals, extracting oxygen, glucose and antibodies for its own use.

The ingestion of emergency contraceptives by biological females can help to mitigate some of Trench-59's effects. However, the protection this affords is limited at best.

## Biography

Trench-59 was aborted from Iris Patel, aged 18 at the time of its birth, in the St. Foster Surgical Clinic, Manchester, Albion. Its mother was a sex worker employed by one Jacob Bunting, and became pregnant in the course of conducting their business. Subsequently, Bunting demanded that Patel receive an abortion. It was during this operation that Trench-59 became conscious of its environment and manifested its metahuman abilities, resulting in the destruction of the Manchester metropolitan borough and the deaths of some tens of thousands of Albionites.

Agents of Albion Esoteric quickly became aware of the Trench-59 phenomenon and converged on its position, hoping to contain the situation. These efforts met with failure. Four hours after the initial manifestation of Trench-59's powers, Evelyn S. Retherford was contracted by the government of Albion to either eliminate or detain Trench-59. She was accompanied by Rain Casey Florette and entered the area of effect at 2:37am. After several minutes, she succumbed to Trench-59's effects on her physiology, causing a foetus to manifest in her abdomen. Using a knife, she removed this organism from her body and killed it, exhibiting a sufficient degree of mental fortitude to overcome Trench-59's other effects.

Upon reaching Trench-59 in person, she sedated the infant and remanded it into the custody of Albion Esoteric. It is currently in captivity, pending adoption or study.

## Trivia

* During the first TotG Tournament, Trench-59 was entered into the mid-bracket and was defeated in Round 1 by Alexandria Ashwood.
* Trench-59 does not have a character application associated with it - it was invented for the sake of a post wherein Evelyn S. Retherford was the focal character.