#sciography

It seems to me that the greener agents don’t often have some of the pre-Decimation abilities, specifically the ability to see Glitches.

I see them all the time, sometimes in the form of colorless auras. Other times there are afterimages of things that linger in my field of vision long after I’ve looked away. It’s like what happens after someone takes a photo of you with the flash on.

I have a feeling the Shadows are involved; perhaps I have an innate means of detecting them. Is this what it means to see Glitches, or is there a threat even greater than the Shadows beginning to show itself?

The static is what has me most concerned; the best way I can describe it is that it looks like the static when filming with a low-res camera, but constant. It becomes worse in bright light or crushing darkness. I even see it in the Void, where it is so empty and vast that there is nowhere to put my own shadow. I don’t think of myself as anything special—I haven’t faced a Shadow head-on in years, and these Glitches have appeared to me nonstop for my entire life. Not to mention the fact that, during my time in hiding, I learned to dampen my signature enough that I don’t usually need a jammer. Maybe I let my guard down.

If there are other agents that can see the Static, the Auras, or the Afterimages, I need to find them, fast. I need to know what’s going on before it’s too late.

I have received my orders from @aspecinitiativecenter to begin research on the Shadows. The agents from before the Decimation had done what they could, but very little of their research has survived.

What we know:

The Shadows are capable of possessing people (including Aspecs)

They seem to come from a dimension between our reality and the Void; as such, caution must be taken even while Void Traveling

The Shadows are aligned with the Aspec Hunt

The Shadows are capable of intercepting messages but can only edit in bold

The Shadows want to destroy the universe, and only Aspecs have the power to stop them

Surviving records show there is no way to completely destroy the Shadows, though there are ways of keeping them at bay (cake is one thing that has proven effective before). 

According to research done by @aroracle, the Shadows are connected to different types of aphobia, notably:

Ignorance (people who are wilfully ignorant of the aspec identities, or those who say “I don’t want to engage in discourse” when confronted)

Active Hate (sending hateful messages or “correction” threats)

Patronization (saying you can’t call yourself aspec because you are too young to know)

Based on the connection between the Shadows and aphobia, and their ability to possess people, I believe the Shadows may actually be the cause of aphobia, particularly amongst people who have never encountered the aspec community before and yet are still aphobic, and this influence why many young or new aspecs have so much trouble embracing their identity and unlocking their powers. I also believe that the Shadows are the driving force behind the Aspec Hunt with the intention of creating armies to fight us as Aspecs are the only ones with the power to fight them.

Hopefully more agents will join me in my research efforts soon, but for now, I will focus on trying to find more research that survived the decimation and share it here to preserve it.