"Uh, trigger events happen during intensely stressful and traumatic moments which does have a significant selection effect - there's also some research indicating a tendency for powers that work better if used, or that need to be used, or similar things that push towards more power use."

"Does power use push towards chaos particularly?"

"It can depend on the power, but yeah? I think if most people had my power they'd be causing a lot of property damage just from normal use." Versus Lucien who has caused a tremendous amount of property damage from creative use. 

"But you're using it for... microchips? Right?"

"Some - though I lost my contacts to do that when Lorica died. Tattletale says she can get me more work doing that."

"There are a few other not very property damaging uses I've found for it. And also I used it to fight Leviathan, which involves a lot of property damage that was almost worth it until it wasn't."

"...because of Lorica or on a broader scale?"

"Broader scale. He took advantage of trenches I made to kill her and eight other capes."

"Dungeons don't kidnap espers. We don't know why. I guess it'd be weird if your not-dungeon problems were similar in that way."

"Capes are really a rounding error in who Leviathan kills but... it's still eight people. And those people could have saved a lot of other people, I think."

"Dungeons do kill espers, if the espers go in them and get in a fight with a monster they can't handle or something, but they never take espers. They also usually don't take kids. Not never, but it's much rarer than taking adults."

"... Wow that is oddly nice of them. Endbringers kill quite a lot of children."

"I don't think they're being nice, but it's hard to tell what they're being instead, they don't communicate."

"I wonder if Tattletale could figure out anything about them."

"Ooh, maybe, there's relatively safe dungeons she could get a look at if we figure out a way to get anyone to my world at all. ...I should name my world, hm."

"We've gone with Hebrew letters so far - this is Earth Bet,"

"What, do they have no distinguishing features? Mine has a distinguishing feature and I'm going to give it a real name."

"They do have distinguishing features but I think there was a lot of politics about naming them,"

"Wretched. I'm going to call it something good. But I'm getting stuck on weak French puns."

Lucien actually doesn't hate the existing system but May trying to find a better name is very good nonetheless.

"Everyone will be jealous of the French for getting a universe name - or thankful depending on how weak the pun is I suppose."

"Oh, it's just that 'esper' in French is cognate with 'hope'."

"Huh - it might be weird to liken capes to hope here."

"But they're, we're, not capes, we're cool law-abiding dungeon-slaying heroes."

"You're all law-abiding?"

"I mean, not every individual person, but that's the norm, there's not supervillain espers running around. I guess partnering dynamics might help there?"

"How so?"