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The Slaughterhouse Nine are a group of (usually) nine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer serial killers] who roam from city to city in North America, commiting sensationalist and depraved acts of violence.<ref>[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-2/]</ref><ref name = "10.6">[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/parasite-10-6/] Parasite 10.6</ref>
 
The Slaughterhouse Nine are a group of (usually) nine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer serial killers] who roam from city to city in North America, commiting sensationalist and depraved acts of violence.<ref>[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-2/]</ref><ref name = "10.6">[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/parasite-10-6/] Parasite 10.6</ref>
   
The group lineup is not fixed and the turnover tends to be high. When they come to [[Brockton Bay]] after the [[Leviathan]] attack, they are only eight and are looking for a ninth member.
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The group lineup is not fixed and the turnover tends to be high. On their arrival in [[Brockton Bay]], following [[Leviathan]]'s attack, there were only eight in their group and they were seeking their ninth member.
   
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The Slaughterhouse Nine were the focus of Worm's one year anniversary bonus, a series of eight interludes released daily. Each update, for the most part, centered around the 'Nine' and their meetings with various candidates in Brockton Bay.
Not much details about them have been revealed in the story yet.
 
   
 
==Current Members==
 
==Current Members==
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===Jack Slash===
 
===Jack Slash===
   
Male. The leader of the group. Has the ability to extend the effective cutting edge of held knives and blades to horrendous distance, while maintaining consistent cutting power. Using this ability, he can cut through crowds or slice an enemy’s throat at any range.
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Male. The leader of the group. Has the ability to extend the effective cutting edge of held knives and blades to horrendous distance, while maintaining a consistent cutting power. Using this ability, he can cut through crowds or slice an enemy’s throat at any range.
   
He have dark hair, beard and moustache. Acording to [[Taylor]] he is "good looking", "he had kind of a Johnny Depp look to him, though he had more of a widow’s peak, a longer face and lighter eyes"
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He has dark hair, a styled beard and moustache. Acording to [[Taylor]] he is "good looking", "he had kind of a Johnny Depp look to him, though he had more of a widow’s peak, a longer face and lighter eyes"
   
Acording to [[Dinah Alcott]] he will set the end of the world in motion in the next two to eight years<ref name = "10.6" />. If he is killed before he leave [[Brockton Bay]] it will happen anyway, but in fifteen years.
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[[Dinah Alcott]] predicts that Jack Slash will set the end of the world into motion in the next two or eight years<ref name = "10.6" />. If he is killed before he leaves [[Brockton Bay]] this disaster will occur in fifteen years.
   
 
===Bonesaw===
 
===Bonesaw===
   
Female. If Jack Slash is the leader, Bonesaw is the figurehead of the group. A child tinker with a specialty that isn’t rooted in chemistry, mechanics or physics. She consider herself an artist.
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Female. If Jack Slash is the leader, Bonesaw is the figurehead of the group. A child tinker with a specialty in medicine and biology. She has used this ability to create monstrous minions, often combining two capes into one, maintaining a portion of each's powers. She views herself as an artist, her creations as art. In her dialogue with [[Panacea]] in [[Interlude 11.h]], Bonesaw professes to be rather knowledgeable about where powers come from and how they work.
   
 
===Shatterbird===
 
===Shatterbird===
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Female. Dark-haired and brown-skinned.
 
Female. Dark-haired and brown-skinned.
   
Shatterbird usually used her power as the Nine arrived in a city, to maximize panic and terror. Her power haven't been specify yet, but apparently are related to glass, so wear eyeglasses in her presence is not recommended.
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Shatterbird usually uses her power as the Nine arrive in a city to maximize panic, damage and terror. Shatterbird is a silicakinetic with the ability to manipulate glass and cause it to shatter explosively across a wide area. She describes herself as a scholar.
   
 
===Crawler===
 
===Crawler===
   
Male. [[Brute]]. Look like an inhuman monster.
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Male. [[Brute]]. An inhuman monster.
   
In Crawler case the phrase "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is literally true. Every time he is hurt and survive his body adapt himself rendering him more resistant to whatever hurt him or giving him other capabilities. He regenerate himself extremely quick and the adjustments are permanent. Every time he regenerate himself he look less and less human.<ref>[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/interlude-11f/ Interlude 11f]</ref>
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In Crawler's case the phrase "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is literally true. Every time he is hurt his body adapts, rendering him more resistant to whatever hurt him or giving him other capabilities or features. He regenerates very quickly and the advantages gleaned from any such regeneration are permanent, making him look less and less human.<ref>[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/interlude-11f/ Interlude 11f]</ref>
   
He throws himself into suicidal situations on pourpose so he can become even stronger. He have been doing it for sometime now.
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Crawler intentionally submits himself to suicidal situations so he can become even stronger. He has been doing it for sometime now.
   
 
===Mannequin===
 
===Mannequin===
   
Used to be a man named Alan Gramme, codename Sphere, a [[Tinker]] with a specialty in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomes biomes], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming terraforming] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystems ecosystems]. He was working in projects to build self sustaining biospheres on the moon, solve world hunger and build aquatic cities near cities plagued by overcrowding. Then [[The Simurgh]] attack his city killing his wife and children and destroying his life work. He went mad and modify his own body to isolate himself from the world.<ref>[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/interlude-11d/ Interlude 11d]</ref>
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Used to be a man named Alan Gramme, codename Sphere. As a [[Tinker]] with a specialty in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomes biomes], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming terraforming] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystems ecosystems], he was working in projects to build self sustaining biospheres on the moon, solve world hunger and build aquatic cities near cities plagued by overcrowding. These projects were interrupted when [[The Simurgh]] attacked one of the sites and killed his wife and children, simultaneously destroying his projects. He went mad and began modifying his own body to isolate himself from the world.<ref>[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/interlude-11d/ Interlude 11d]</ref>
   
 
Now he stands nine feet tall and has replaced all of his joints with either a doll’s ball joints or lengths of chains. His entire body is encased in a special ceramic shell, with no openings or perforations.
 
Now he stands nine feet tall and has replaced all of his joints with either a doll’s ball joints or lengths of chains. His entire body is encased in a special ceramic shell, with no openings or perforations.
   
After modify his body he become a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer serial killer], targeting mostly [[rogues]], those individuals seeking to make a profit from their abilities, especially those looking to better the world and [[Tinker|tinkers]].
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After modifying his body he become a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer serial killer], with an emphasis on targeting individuals, predominantly [[tinkers]] and [[rogues]] who seek to better the world with their powers.
   
 
===The Siberian===
 
===The Siberian===
   
Female. A recurring nemesis of the [[Triumvirate]], the Siberian’s skin is striped with black and white, leaving her nationality uncertain. Powers yet unstated.
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Female. A recurring nemesis of the [[Triumvirate]], the Siberian’s skin is striped with black and white, leaving her nationality uncertain. [[Hookwolf]] notes that she is untouchable, immovable, invincible in a way that even [[Alexandria]] isn't. She also displays greatly enhanced strength, agility and/or speed, with the ability to scale a building in a very short span of time.
   
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Rumor has it that the Siberian doesn't talk, but her dialogue with [[Bitch]] suggests differently. Her parting words to [[Bitch]] inform the girl that the rumor persists because everyone else who has heard the Siberian talk has died.
Few people that have hear her talk have life after it.That why most people believe that she doesn't talk.
 
   
Try to recruit [[Bitch]] to be test as the possible ninth member of the team in [[Interlude 11a]].
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Siberian attempts to recruit [[Bitch]] as a possible ninth member of the team in [[Interlude 11a]].
   
 
===Burnscar===
 
===Burnscar===
   
Female.Civilian name Mimi. An older teenager or a young-looking twenty-something. Dark hair. She is a [[Blaster]] and a [[Mover]], a pyrokinetic able to teleport betwen flames.
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Female.Civilian name Mimi. An older teenager or a young-looking twenty-something. Dark hair. She is a [[Blaster]] and a [[Mover]], a pyrokinetic with the ability to teleport betwen flames. Much like [[Labyrinth]], Burnscar has a psychological drawback to her power; the chemical balances in her brain are adjusted whenever her power is in use, and she effectively becomes a sociopath, with no ability to empathize with others and a dampened mental state.
   
She used to be interned in the same [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_hospital mental asylum] as [[Labyrinth]](Elle). Mimi though they were friend and the doctors used [[Labyrinth|Elle]] as an enticement to get her to cooperate. They escape the asylum the same day, [[Labyrinth|Elle]] go with [[Gregor]] and join [[Faultline’s Crew]]. Mimi found herself alone, with nowhere to go, and end up with a man that try to take advantage of her. She use her power to try to scare him, but when in use it adjusts the chemical balances and connections in her brain removing the empathy and impulse control, so once she start she couldn't stop and burn him to dead.<ref name ="I11c">[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/interlude-11c/ Interlude 11c]</ref>
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She used to be interred in the same [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_hospital mental asylum] as [[Labyrinth]]. Mimi thought they were friends, when the truth was that doctors used social time with [[Labyrinth|Elle]] as an enticement to get her to cooperate. They escaped the asylum on the same day, with [[Labyrinth|Elle]] escaping with [[Faultline’s Crew]] and Mimi presumably taking advantage of the chaos to slip away. Mimi found herself alone with nowhere to go, and ended up with a man that tried to take advantage of her and prostitute her. She tried to scare him off but the drawback of her power led to her getting carried away and burning him to death.<ref name ="I11c">[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/interlude-11c/ Interlude 11c]</ref>
   
Few weeks after Shatterbird recruited her for the Slaughterhouse Nine.<ref name ="I11c" />
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Several weeks after that, while she was still on a spree, Shatterbird recruited her for the Slaughterhouse Nine. <ref name ="I11c" />
   
 
===Hatchet Face===
 
===Hatchet Face===
   
Male. A new recruit, described as an ugly man that have been beaten, burned and just plain abused so often that his face was as much scar tissue than flesh. He has general brute capabilities and interferes with the powers of any capes within a certain range of him.
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Male. A new recruit, described as an ugly man that have been beaten, burned and just plain abused so often that his face was as much scar tissue than flesh. He has general [[brute]] capabilities and interferes with the powers of any capes within a certain range of him.
   
He was defeated by [[Cherish]] to get into the Nine. He is currently Hack Job, an abomination made by [[Bonesaw]] that combines him and [[Oni Lee]]. The monster has [[Oni Lee]]'s teleportation ability and a lesser version of Hatchet Face's ability to block powers. Both are still aware.
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He was defeated by [[Cherish]] to get into the Nine. He has been rechristened Hack Job, and is now an abomination made by [[Bonesaw]], physically melded with [[Oni Lee]] in a kind of artificial siamese twinship. The resulting monster has [[Oni Lee]]'s teleportation ability and a lesser version of Hatchet Face's ability to block powers. Both are still aware, but are fully in [[Bonesaw]]'s thrall.
   
 
===Cherish===
 
===Cherish===
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Female. The newest member of the Nine. She can sense emotions over a massive range and use them to find people. She can also alter people's emotions, but the effects are only short term and her victims build up a resistance after being exposed to her power.
 
Female. The newest member of the Nine. She can sense emotions over a massive range and use them to find people. She can also alter people's emotions, but the effects are only short term and her victims build up a resistance after being exposed to her power.
   
She is [[Heartbreaker]]'s daughter and [[Regent]]'s sister and she joined the Nine to force her other brothers to stop pursuing her.
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Cherish is [[Heartbreaker]]'s daughter and [[Regent]]'s sister and she joined the Nine to force her other brothers to stop pursuing her and to stave off her boredom. She has plans to use her power on the other members of the Slaughterhouse Nine and force an emotional dependency on her, to the point that she can control them.
   
 
==About Serial Killers And Parahumans==
 
==About Serial Killers And Parahumans==
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The majority of reported and investigated serial killers in the USA are white males, from a lower-to-middle-class background, usually in their late twenties to early thirties. But according to the FBI, and based on percentages of the U.S. population, whites are not more likely than other races to be serial killers.
 
The majority of reported and investigated serial killers in the USA are white males, from a lower-to-middle-class background, usually in their late twenties to early thirties. But according to the FBI, and based on percentages of the U.S. population, whites are not more likely than other races to be serial killers.
   
The reason behind someone becomig a serial killer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture nature or nurture]) is still open to debate. But empiric research show that most of them share some characteristic like been [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying bullied] as children or abused (emotionally, physically and/or sexually) by a family member. This two episodes in particular can lead to a [[trigger event]] wich explain why the percentage of serial killers is superior among parahumans than among the general population.
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The reason behind someone becoming a serial killer ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture nature or nurture]) is still open to debate. But empirical research shows that most of them share some characteristic like having been [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying bullied] as children or abused (emotionally, physically and/or sexually) by a family member. These two episodes in particular can lead to a [[trigger event]] which explains why there are so many [[parahuman]] serial killers.
   
 
==Appearances==
 
==Appearances==

Revision as of 15:19, 25 June 2012

The Slaughterhouse Nine are a group of (usually) nine serial killers who roam from city to city in North America, commiting sensationalist and depraved acts of violence.[1][2]

The group lineup is not fixed and the turnover tends to be high. On their arrival in Brockton Bay, following Leviathan's attack, there were only eight in their group and they were seeking their ninth member.

The Slaughterhouse Nine were the focus of Worm's one year anniversary bonus, a series of eight interludes released daily. Each update, for the most part, centered around the 'Nine' and their meetings with various candidates in Brockton Bay.

Current Members

Jack Slash

Male. The leader of the group. Has the ability to extend the effective cutting edge of held knives and blades to horrendous distance, while maintaining a consistent cutting power. Using this ability, he can cut through crowds or slice an enemy’s throat at any range.

He has dark hair, a styled beard and moustache. Acording to Taylor he is "good looking", "he had kind of a Johnny Depp look to him, though he had more of a widow’s peak, a longer face and lighter eyes"

Dinah Alcott predicts that Jack Slash will set the end of the world into motion in the next two or eight years[2]. If he is killed before he leaves Brockton Bay this disaster will occur in fifteen years.

Bonesaw

Female. If Jack Slash is the leader, Bonesaw is the figurehead of the group. A child tinker with a specialty in medicine and biology. She has used this ability to create monstrous minions, often combining two capes into one, maintaining a portion of each's powers. She views herself as an artist, her creations as art. In her dialogue with Panacea in Interlude 11.h, Bonesaw professes to be rather knowledgeable about where powers come from and how they work.

Shatterbird

Female. Dark-haired and brown-skinned.

Shatterbird usually uses her power as the Nine arrive in a city to maximize panic, damage and terror. Shatterbird is a silicakinetic with the ability to manipulate glass and cause it to shatter explosively across a wide area. She describes herself as a scholar.

Crawler

Male. Brute. An inhuman monster.

In Crawler's case the phrase "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is literally true. Every time he is hurt his body adapts, rendering him more resistant to whatever hurt him or giving him other capabilities or features. He regenerates very quickly and the advantages gleaned from any such regeneration are permanent, making him look less and less human.[3]

Crawler intentionally submits himself to suicidal situations so he can become even stronger. He has been doing it for sometime now.

Mannequin

Used to be a man named Alan Gramme, codename Sphere. As a Tinker with a specialty in biomes, terraforming and ecosystems, he was working in projects to build self sustaining biospheres on the moon, solve world hunger and build aquatic cities near cities plagued by overcrowding. These projects were interrupted when The Simurgh attacked one of the sites and killed his wife and children, simultaneously destroying his projects. He went mad and began modifying his own body to isolate himself from the world.[4]

Now he stands nine feet tall and has replaced all of his joints with either a doll’s ball joints or lengths of chains. His entire body is encased in a special ceramic shell, with no openings or perforations.

After modifying his body he become a serial killer, with an emphasis on targeting individuals, predominantly tinkers and rogues who seek to better the world with their powers.

The Siberian

Female. A recurring nemesis of the Triumvirate, the Siberian’s skin is striped with black and white, leaving her nationality uncertain. Hookwolf notes that she is untouchable, immovable, invincible in a way that even Alexandria isn't. She also displays greatly enhanced strength, agility and/or speed, with the ability to scale a building in a very short span of time.

Rumor has it that the Siberian doesn't talk, but her dialogue with Bitch suggests differently. Her parting words to Bitch inform the girl that the rumor persists because everyone else who has heard the Siberian talk has died.

Siberian attempts to recruit Bitch as a possible ninth member of the team in Interlude 11a.

Burnscar

Female.Civilian name Mimi. An older teenager or a young-looking twenty-something. Dark hair. She is a Blaster and a Mover, a pyrokinetic with the ability to teleport betwen flames. Much like Labyrinth, Burnscar has a psychological drawback to her power; the chemical balances in her brain are adjusted whenever her power is in use, and she effectively becomes a sociopath, with no ability to empathize with others and a dampened mental state.

She used to be interred in the same mental asylum as Labyrinth. Mimi thought they were friends, when the truth was that doctors used social time with Elle as an enticement to get her to cooperate. They escaped the asylum on the same day, with Elle escaping with Faultline’s Crew and Mimi presumably taking advantage of the chaos to slip away. Mimi found herself alone with nowhere to go, and ended up with a man that tried to take advantage of her and prostitute her. She tried to scare him off but the drawback of her power led to her getting carried away and burning him to death.[5]

Several weeks after that, while she was still on a spree, Shatterbird recruited her for the Slaughterhouse Nine. [5]

Hatchet Face

Male. A new recruit, described as an ugly man that have been beaten, burned and just plain abused so often that his face was as much scar tissue than flesh. He has general brute capabilities and interferes with the powers of any capes within a certain range of him.

He was defeated by Cherish to get into the Nine. He has been rechristened Hack Job, and is now an abomination made by Bonesaw, physically melded with Oni Lee in a kind of artificial siamese twinship. The resulting monster has Oni Lee's teleportation ability and a lesser version of Hatchet Face's ability to block powers. Both are still aware, but are fully in Bonesaw's thrall.

Cherish

Female. The newest member of the Nine. She can sense emotions over a massive range and use them to find people. She can also alter people's emotions, but the effects are only short term and her victims build up a resistance after being exposed to her power.

Cherish is Heartbreaker's daughter and Regent's sister and she joined the Nine to force her other brothers to stop pursuing her and to stave off her boredom. She has plans to use her power on the other members of the Slaughterhouse Nine and force an emotional dependency on her, to the point that she can control them.

About Serial Killers And Parahumans

A serial killer is typically defined as an individual who has killed three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time (a "cooling off period") between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification. The motives of serial killers are generally placed into four categories: visionary (believing they are another person or are compelled to murder by entities such as the Devil or God), mission-oriented ( justifying their acts as "ridding the world" of a certain type of person perceived as undesirable), hedonistic (they feel pleasure from killing.This pleasure can come from lust, thrill and/or profit) and power or control (to gain and exert power over their victim).

The majority of reported and investigated serial killers in the USA are white males, from a lower-to-middle-class background, usually in their late twenties to early thirties. But according to the FBI, and based on percentages of the U.S. population, whites are not more likely than other races to be serial killers.

The reason behind someone becoming a serial killer (nature or nurture) is still open to debate. But empirical research shows that most of them share some characteristic like having been bullied as children or abused (emotionally, physically and/or sexually) by a family member. These two episodes in particular can lead to a trigger event which explains why there are so many parahuman serial killers.

Appearances

  • Sentinel 9.3 (Implied) (First known victims in Brockton Bay)
  • Sentinel 9.4 (Only Mention)
  • Parasite 10.6 (Only Mention)
  • Interlude 11a (The Siberian Only)
  • Interlude 11b (Anniversary Bonus) (Jack Slash Only)
  • Interlude 11c (Anniversary Bonus) (Burnscar Only)
  • Interlude 11d (Mannequin Only)
  • Interlude 11e (Anniversary Bonus) (Shatterbird Only)
  • Interlude 11f (Anniversary Bonus) (Crawler Only)
  • Interlude 11g (Anniversary Bonus) (Cherish primarily, but all are mentioned)

References

References