User blog comment:Smash The Echidna/A guide to Fan Characters and Roleplaying/@comment-32712012-20180123071054/@comment-32712012-20180123134736

Well, yes, it looks like they would be included in this general pattern.

By the way, I find it somewhat ironic that Sledgehammer saves Tidal's life, only for Tidal to kill Sledgehammer. (Before Tidal dies—if he dies—he must find out that Sledgehammer is responsible for saving his life so that he can understand the bitter irony of all this...)