What are all the examples we have of powers getting stronger or weaker?

by that logic, taylor should have gotten a mover power since she was trapped and wanted to escape from her locker.

you have to look at the core emotions. his thing was wanting to protect aisha from a bad enviroment. he himself was never in any real danger, and he knew that. the trigger would have been from the source of the stress, aisha's abuse. which is extended enough from himself to be a shaker.

also do you have a link for that? i've seriously never heard of brian lying about his trigger.

Do you have WoG on this?

It's called Worm.

Read 4.4, where Brian talked about his trigger event. He doesn't say he did it with Aisha, but mentions the aftermath, talks about finding out about his powers when washing his bloody hands and says that his trigger is an example that some are quiet.

So even if I was only fifteen, I was tall for my age, I was fit, and I knew how to throw a punch. I didn’t say a word, didn’t make a sound. I put my sister down and beat my mother’s boyfriend within an inch of his life, my mother screaming and wailing the entire time. When I was done, I picked my sister up and returned to the cab. We went to my father’s that night, and we went to the police station in the morning.”

“When you throw a punch barehanded, it doesn’t leave your hands pristine. A few good swings, you connect solidly with someone’s face, someone’s teeth, and it tears the fuck out of your knuckles. It was at my father’s place that night, washing and cleaning my hands, when I saw it. It wasn’t just blood leaking out of my torn up knuckles, but there was the darkness too, like wisps of really black smoke. You hear about the trigger event, you might think it’s all about rage or fear. But I’m a testament that it can be just the opposite. I didn’t feel a fucking thing.”

Which is a serious contrast from his second trigger in 13.9, where he was about to witness an unconscious Aisha get killed before his very eyes.

“Trickster it is. Finish off the rest.”

[...]

“Yes! Then we’ll go from first to last. The girl with the horns.”

Imp?

The small circular saw started up with its high-pitched whine.

Then it stopped. I could hear a strangled noise.

“Aw. Look at his heart beating! So fast!”

[...]

“It did. But we should go. Burnscar? Torch the ones we’re not bringing.”

“I wanted to!”

“You had your chance, little b. You got distracted.”

I could feel the heat of nearby flame as Burnscar manifested a fireball in one hand.

Darkness rolled over Burnscar’s feet, a carpet. There was no direction to it, and very little volume. It pooled on the ground and spread.

“Yes! He’s doing it! Can I look? I just want to get the hard drive!”

“No.”

“But-”

I could feel my heart pounding, pounding, then stop. The pain was gone. I was gone too. I had no body, only perception.

The scene was familiar. At the same time, I couldn’t have said what happened next. It was like a book I’d read years ago and promptly forgotten, too strange to commit to memory.

The difference is that in 4.4 he wasn't actually close to the team. He had every reason to lie bout his trigger event, because his issue was Aisha. He was literally the stereotype of the overprotective older brother to a T.

tl;dr he did lie but everyone keeps thinking he told the truth in the first place.