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** Seemingly ''Nat'' (i.e. non-powered) sons of Wild Card enabled people are called ''Suicide Kings''. Owing to the fact that stress or duress may force the Wild Card to "turn", that the offspring of two Wild Card carriers is always a carrier himself/herself, and the survival rate after a "turning" is roughly the 10% (and of that 10%, only the 10% becomes an Ace or a Deuce... the 90% becomes a grossly misshapen Joker), causing undue stress to a ''Suicide King'' is a firing offense for education workers, and presumably anyone else in a position of authority over them.

* [[Differently-Powered Individual]] - All based on card-playing terminologies:

** Aces - [[The Beautiful Elite]] who won the [[Superpower Lottery]]. Takisian psy-lords and warriors are technically Aces by breeding. There are telepaths among nats, so the Takisians have most probably developed from that potential, as {{spoiler|humans and Takisians are biologically the same species - they can mate and produce fertile offspring with partial psy-lord powers.}} <br /><br />The distinction between Ace and the following Deuce depends on circumstances and conditions to use the power, e.g. the ability to become a human puddle is a deuce - unless kidnapped or shot; the ability to change carpet ornaments is a deuce - unless you are a carpet seller.

** Aces - [[The Beautiful Elite]] who won the [[Superpower Lottery]]. Takisian psy-lords and warriors are technically Aces by breeding. There are telepaths among nats, so the Takisians have most probably developed from that potential, as {{spoiler|humans and Takisians are biologically the same species - they can mate and produce fertile offspring with partial psy-lord powers.}}

:The distinction between Ace and the following Deuce depends on circumstances and conditions to use the power, e.g. the ability to become a human puddle is a deuce - unless kidnapped or shot; the ability to change carpet ornaments is a deuce - unless you are a carpet seller.

** Deuces - those with [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|less useful abilities]]. Originally all those who kept their human shape were called aces. As a weak ace with the only ability to change his skin color is thus referred, he responds "If I'm an ace, I'd hate to see a deuce", coining the term. A classical example is the cook from "Aces High" - he can turn into a dolphin. [[Blessed with Suck|Only on a new moon and only for two hours]].

** Jokers - those who [[Grotesque Gallery|just get random mutations]]. There are so-called Joker-aces - those unlucky enough to be physically deformed, but who also got powers out of the deal. Those with useless powers are Joker-deuces instead, but that term gets used very rarely. Notable examples are Jokertown Clinic guard [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Troll]] - big, strong, armored, green and ugly, the Oddity - superstrength by [[Body Horror]], TV host Peregrine - she has [[But Your Wings Are Beautiful|wings]], hollow bones of a bird and can fly by subconscious levitation, and she is extremely beautiful by human standards.