Editing Fraward (section)

==Formation==
When the Self gives way in a Hyde for whatever reason the Fraward will emerge, the original self might be damaged, or the original is poisoned or shot, perhaps even the alternate self is used so much that a [[Pattern]] emerges and that pushes the original personality out of prominence and the fraward.<ref>'''Background:''' Fraward come about when someone is alchemically changed in personality and body to something else, often related to the original individual.<br><br>The balancing act of the original person and the other self (sometimes called the Hyde, especially before the Other self becomes the dominant personality) often parallels drug use in mentality and the issues that arise: ‘I can stop/make [other self] go away at any time’, growing tolerances, a deterioration of the original self, and permanent changes to mind and body.  Typically, this is a course that ends with the transformations no longer being sustainable, because the tolerances have risen too high or because the other self was arrested.  The Fraward scenario, however, is when the balance becomes such that the human is put away for good, or becomes a negligible existence, while the alter-self becomes the form that sleeps, wakes, dines, and employs itself.<br><br>This tends to occur by one of several mechanisms.  Commonly, this happens because the human Self is damaged or destroyed.  Because the two sides exist in balance, one side losing out does help the other side grow (though the whole may be weaker).  A poisoning a bystander intends for the dangerous and successful Hyde may bring the practitioner low, or an arresting officer could open fire and hit the practitioner instead of the Hyde that entered the building.  The Hyde self may, out of self-preservation, seek out its own education or cocktails of drugs that help them to prolong their transformations.  This isn’t as uncommon a result as one might imagine, as the Hyde does have some access to the practitioner’s mind, awareness, and education, and even a Hyde that is strong and stupid as a contrast to the practitioner’s frail intelligence may retain some awareness that one thing or another is dangerous or added to the transformative drug with great caution.  Even in a failed case, this points back to the first example: it may poison the practitioner, weakening their Self.<br><br>The third (somewhat rarer) case requires more grounding in what Hydes are: they tend to bring about something the practitioner doesn’t have.  Grace, talent, strength, force of will, beauty, sexual prowess, intelligence- the list can go on.  They may walk a tightrope of being human enough to remain in the human world, but Other enough that they operate by other rules, including a tendency to embrace patterns.  A Hyde’s successes can strengthen them, as can their prominence in society and the public eye while the practitioner may be more secluded, doing their alchemy.  This grows the self, and a pattern of success may lead to a pattern employed against their human side.  Other patterns will attach themselves to the war of Selves, and the practitioner who regularly imbibes in the throes of jealousy may find they start to change when jealousy grips them.  The final loss of humanity tends to come about as a result of ultimate jealousy, in this case.  Anger, grief, lust, fear, loathing, and ambition can all form their own patterns.<br><br>Whichever path leads to this, it comes about by crossing the hurdle of the baseline ‘addiction’ pattern.  Following a final war of the Self, the human succumbs, and Hyde becomes Fraward.  The human, if they ever turn back to human, is typically broken, their worst traits magnified, left to fight to avoid even a hint of the things that might trigger their transformation back to their Other self - the wrong emotion, drugs in the wrong broad categories (such as painkillers of any sort, even some herbal teas), or harm to the body of any sort, even from a shove.  When a practitioner has more than one body they transform into, one must win out to become the Fraward- multifacted Fraward don’t really exist and fall into another, less stable category of Other. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uhp5lOUXVKyL-paCs_ApZydBYIAM6VuT0X541YsDQRc Bestiary: Fraward]</ref> The kind of Hyde they emerge from will also influence whether they become a Fraward or something else entirely.