Editing Murder Rat (section)

==Appearance==
Murder Rat is a gruesome being, much like Bonesaw's other creations. Her skin is pale except for her face and patches all down her body, where patches of ebon black skin are stapled in place. Her eyes are small but appear surprisingly human,<ref name="I26b e1">Her mouth, conical, shaped by surgery into the vague shape of a rat's snout, riddled with canines, lowered towards his face.

''Her eyes are so human.  I wouldn't have thought.'' - [[Interlude 26b]]</ref> and are nearly buried behind her altered face and brow.<ref name="26.3e4">I set my bugs on her.  She persisted, simply enduring what they were doing to her.  I tried to go for the tiny eyes that were nearly buried behind her altered face and brow, but she shut them, relying on touch and smell to move.  I started to pack bugs around her nose and mouth, and found that slowed her just a fraction. -  [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/sting-26-3/ Excerpt] from [[Sting 26.3]]</ref> 

Her face is more rat-like than human, with a cone-like shape that ends in a squashed, black nose that's stapled on. Her mouth contains a second set of teeth consisting of only canines, meant to compensate for her stretched-forward jaw, from which she drooled constantly.<ref>Others were entering the room now.  From the kitchen, a woman, the structure of her face altered into something that was more rat-like than human, conelike, ending in a squashed black nose that had staples around it.  Bonesaw had added a second set of teeth, all canines, so that the woman would have enough as her jaw was stretched forward.  Drool constantly leaked between her teeth in loops and tendrils.  She was pale, except for her face and patches all down her body, where patches of ebon black skin were stapled in place.  Her hair was long, dark, and unwashed, but most unnerving of all were her fingers, which had been replaced by what looked like machetes.  The clawtips dragged on the hardwood as she stumped forward on feet that had been modified in a similar way, no longer fit for conventional walking. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/interlude-11h/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11h]]</ref> 

Figure-wise, she is described as emaciated.<ref>"Murder Rat, she's on the top-"<br />She pushed herself free of the vent, lunging, drawing her claws together as if she were diving into water from a height.  Her narrow, emaciated body slipped right between the railings of the ascending and descending stairs. -  [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/sting-26-3/ Excerpt] from [[Sting 26.3]]</ref> Her fingers and toes have been replaced by long machete blades, making conventional walking awkward.<ref name="26.3">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/sting-26-3/ Sting 26.3]</ref> She has long, dark hair that is unwashed and greasy.<ref name="26.3 e3">I was aware of a Murder Rat popping in on the ground floor, crawling on hands and feet that each had excessively long blades on the ends.  She moved faster than she should have been able to, considering her means of locomotion, but she had an exceedingly strong, flexible body.  Enhanced senses, too, with her conical nose close to the ground, long greasy hair brushing against the surface.  I almost turned back to deal with her, but she was already gone, moving faster than my bugs could. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/sting-26-3/ Excerpt] from [[Sting 26.3]]</ref>

====Physiology====
Although Murder Rat was seemingly a single woman, Bonesaw had combined parts of [[Mouse Protector]] and [[Ravager]], using transfusions of bone marrow and viruses with modified DNA until even [[Panacea]] couldn’t tell where one woman started and the other began. She had one and a half brains contained in a synthetic fluid in her skull.<ref name=":0">Murder Rat placed a blade against her cheek, scraped it down toward her chin, as if giving Amy a close shave.<br />She reached up and touched the woman’s chest.  Without Hack Job touching her, her power was coming back quickly.  She felt Murder Rat’s biology snap into her consciousness, until she could see every cell, every fluid, every part of the woman.  The two women.  She could see Bonesaw’s work, the integration of body parts, the transfusions of bone marrow from one woman to the other, the viruses with modified DNA inside them, skewing the balances and configurations until she couldn’t tell for sure where one woman started and the other began.<br />She could also see the metal frames inside the woman, interlacing with the largest bones of her skeletal system, the needles in her spine and brain.  Bonesaw’s control system.  There was something around the heart, too.  Metal, with lots of needles pointing inward.  She was rigged to die if the control frame was ever disabled.  The woman, no, the women, were awake in there.  One and a half brains contained in a synthetic fluid in her skull.<br />She targeted the ligaments at the woman’s shoulders and hips.  Cutting them was easier than putting the things back together again.  Dissolve the cells, break them down.<br />The woman collapsed onto a heap on top of her. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/interlude-11h/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11h]]</ref>

Murder Rat had a control frame consisting of a metal framework interwoven around her skeleton and needles in her brain and spine. This frame was used by Bonesaw to control Murder Rat, with needles surrounding her heart rigged to kill her if her control frame was ever disabled.<ref name=":0" />

Later, during the Slaughterhouse Nine's return, clones of Murder Rat were better made and had no staples holding her together.<ref name="I25e1" />