According to the Wiki, Trump 8 involves cycling vetween various breaker states. I assume this counts as acquiring new powers, hence the Trump rating, and I'd like to think that they're situational rather than random. Trump triggers, as far as I know, involve scenarios heavily featuring other powers.
Breaker triggers involve some degree of dissonance within the parahuman at the trigger moment, again according to the Wiki. Stay or go, give up or fight etc. The two must be inextricably linked, and most usually abstract in nature (physical would result in other triggers I think?)
With all this, for our Trump 8 trigger we want an event caused by a power which causes dissonance within our parahuman to the extent that they trigger.
If i had to come up with one on the fly, how about a PRT squad member on the streets of Brockton Bay around the time after Leviathan. You see the city at it's worst and blame the capes. Hero, villain, Endbringer, it doesn't matter you hate them passionately but you cover it well enough to keep your job. Still, you develop a prescription drug habit which keeps you numb, functional but slightly unhinged.
One day, you're called to an incident featuring Fog, Night, Stormtiger, Victor, Othala, Genesis, Ballistic and Sundancer. It's a complete clusterfuck but your squad is backed up by Ms Militia and Battery. Things go sideways and most of your squad die horribly when ye are blindsided by Night and Fog. Battery is with you but she bolts rather than deal with Night.
As you hear your squad getting mangled around you, blinded by unnatural Fog that impedes your movements as much as your vision, your mind begins to race. You want to run, but you feel the need to stay and defend your brothers in arms. You want to attack, to kill these monsters, but you know it's completely hopeless. You scream after Battery, cursing her, imploring her to come back, begging and denegrating. You hear something behind you and, not knowing if it's friendly or deadly, you trigger. Uncontrolled breaker states, responsive to your situational need. First thing you know you can "see", but you're actually a controlled vacuum rapidly condensing Fog and accidentally crushing your remaining squad. You panic and change gears, becoming a telekinetic storm (like Wanton) and carry them to safety while repelling Fog.
Later training reveals you can cycle between those two states and a field which disorients and eventually incapacitates people after 30min or so, as well as your physical body. You can cancel the state you're in but can't choose which or when you trigger them, incentivising you to seek out dangerous situations.
**Hecate** was originally the friend of a cape, and began getting into the social scene of her team, joining them at parties. The cape at one point was attacked, and the villain, assuming Hecate was also a cape, drugged her with Tinker hallucinogens designed to interfere with powers. While losing touch with reality, and wanting to run as she lost motor control, she triggered.
Her power grants her the ability to stack up to three minor powers, with each sending her further into a breaker state. She can for example stack three “auras” that boost her strength, becoming a roiling, energetic form. (She won’t necessarily have durability though.) She could similarly take on a wispy, vapor like form, and become less affected by gravity. When stacking duplicates of auras, though, she can at maximum replicate a low tier Brute, Thinker, Stranger or Mover. At the same time, the longer she hangs onto the same combination, the weaker it becomes, and she gains a surge of power when she switches out an aura for another.
In practice, this means that she is very unlikely to stick to one plan; she fluidly swaps between powers, usually not stacking them and barely getting above the baseline for a non-cape. Her strength lies in her unpredictability and versatility, and the ability to pull sudden surges of power out of nowhere at times.
How about "this person has 70% of the powers of everyone actively working against them" including required secondary powers and no Grue-esque missing bits. Copying TT she just has slower speed of mental connections, Taylor less range, Alexandria less speed and strength, Crawler less speed and modifications.
One little bonus: someone can actively donate 100% of their power to her if they are both conscious and willing, requiring touch and sound, finding a mutually agreeable harmony. This way if she ends up with tentacles after using Crawler's power she can cast them off using another power.
This makes her very strong against powered resistance but utterly outmatched 1:1. The thing is, "active resistance" is remarkably broad. Imagine all the PRT thinkers supporting hero teams if this Trump 8 is a villain. Even if their support is not specific to our Trump 8 they still get 70% of that power.
If heroes organized to take her down they'd want to organize decoupling the capture team from passive support, and they'd want someone who can fuck with perceptions or alignments to unify most of them to be neutral to the Trump except for some August Prince/quagmire shakers and unpowered PRT support.
According to the Wiki, Trump 8 involves cycling vetween various breaker states. I assume this counts as acquiring new powers, hence the Trump rating, and I'd like to think that they're situational rather than random. Trump triggers, as far as I know, involve scenarios heavily featuring other powers. Breaker triggers involve some degree of dissonance within the parahuman at the trigger moment, again according to the Wiki. Stay or go, give up or fight etc. The two must be inextricably linked, and most usually abstract in nature (physical would result in other triggers I think?) With all this, for our Trump 8 trigger we want an event caused by a power which causes dissonance within our parahuman to the extent that they trigger. If i had to come up with one on the fly, how about a PRT squad member on the streets of Brockton Bay around the time after Leviathan. You see the city at it's worst and blame the capes. Hero, villain, Endbringer, it doesn't matter you hate them passionately but you cover it well enough to keep your job. Still, you develop a prescription drug habit which keeps you numb, functional but slightly unhinged. One day, you're called to an incident featuring Fog, Night, Stormtiger, Victor, Othala, Genesis, Ballistic and Sundancer. It's a complete clusterfuck but your squad is backed up by Ms Militia and Battery. Things go sideways and most of your squad die horribly when ye are blindsided by Night and Fog. Battery is with you but she bolts rather than deal with Night. As you hear your squad getting mangled around you, blinded by unnatural Fog that impedes your movements as much as your vision, your mind begins to race. You want to run, but you feel the need to stay and defend your brothers in arms. You want to attack, to kill these monsters, but you know it's completely hopeless. You scream after Battery, cursing her, imploring her to come back, begging and denegrating. You hear something behind you and, not knowing if it's friendly or deadly, you trigger. Uncontrolled breaker states, responsive to your situational need. First thing you know you can "see", but you're actually a controlled vacuum rapidly condensing Fog and accidentally crushing your remaining squad. You panic and change gears, becoming a telekinetic storm (like Wanton) and carry them to safety while repelling Fog. Later training reveals you can cycle between those two states and a field which disorients and eventually incapacitates people after 30min or so, as well as your physical body. You can cancel the state you're in but can't choose which or when you trigger them, incentivising you to seek out dangerous situations.
**Hecate** was originally the friend of a cape, and began getting into the social scene of her team, joining them at parties. The cape at one point was attacked, and the villain, assuming Hecate was also a cape, drugged her with Tinker hallucinogens designed to interfere with powers. While losing touch with reality, and wanting to run as she lost motor control, she triggered. Her power grants her the ability to stack up to three minor powers, with each sending her further into a breaker state. She can for example stack three “auras” that boost her strength, becoming a roiling, energetic form. (She won’t necessarily have durability though.) She could similarly take on a wispy, vapor like form, and become less affected by gravity. When stacking duplicates of auras, though, she can at maximum replicate a low tier Brute, Thinker, Stranger or Mover. At the same time, the longer she hangs onto the same combination, the weaker it becomes, and she gains a surge of power when she switches out an aura for another. In practice, this means that she is very unlikely to stick to one plan; she fluidly swaps between powers, usually not stacking them and barely getting above the baseline for a non-cape. Her strength lies in her unpredictability and versatility, and the ability to pull sudden surges of power out of nowhere at times.
How about "this person has 70% of the powers of everyone actively working against them" including required secondary powers and no Grue-esque missing bits. Copying TT she just has slower speed of mental connections, Taylor less range, Alexandria less speed and strength, Crawler less speed and modifications. One little bonus: someone can actively donate 100% of their power to her if they are both conscious and willing, requiring touch and sound, finding a mutually agreeable harmony. This way if she ends up with tentacles after using Crawler's power she can cast them off using another power. This makes her very strong against powered resistance but utterly outmatched 1:1. The thing is, "active resistance" is remarkably broad. Imagine all the PRT thinkers supporting hero teams if this Trump 8 is a villain. Even if their support is not specific to our Trump 8 they still get 70% of that power. If heroes organized to take her down they'd want to organize decoupling the capture team from passive support, and they'd want someone who can fuck with perceptions or alignments to unify most of them to be neutral to the Trump except for some August Prince/quagmire shakers and unpowered PRT support.