Editing Bonesaw (section)

==History==
===Background===
Riley triggered in 2005, at the age of six,<ref name="II20.e4 eAge">“Breadth and depth,” Riley said.<br><br>“Hm?”<br><br>“The earlier you get powers, the more it spreads across your personality.  Growing up with it, there’s less room for you.  It’s where young triggers get more versatility, more natural instinct.”<br><br>Lookout nodded.  “I was eight.”<br><br>“Six.  Clones, like your friend in the cell over here… they start from zero.  It does have an impact.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/04/21 Excerpt] from [[Last 20.e4]]</ref> after she was forced to repeatedly provide medical care for her family by the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]]. Her mother, father, brother, and pet were spread throughout the house, each supervised by one or two members of the Nine, forcing her to rush between the rooms of the house to patch them up as they were injured over and over again.<ref name="I25" />

After triggering, she continued to stitch her family up using her enhanced knowledge of medicine, growing exhausted over the hours of work. Eventually, she gave up, watching as her mother slowly died in front of her. Dissociating her mother's body in her mind as a mere lump of flesh, Riley mentally broke. Taking the last words of her dying mother to heart, ''"Be a good girl"'', Riley faked a smile, resolving to take on the persona of what would eventually become Bonesaw.<ref name="I25">[[Interlude 25]]</ref><ref>Probably. You might be able to say that Jack had her family for weeks/months before finally running her into the ground, and that what we saw was only the final stage. - [https://redd.it/4g8d3f Comment by Wildbow on Reddit] </ref>

=== Post-[[Battle against Leviathan|Leviathan]]===
The [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] came to [[Brockton Bay]] to recruit a new member shortly after [[Leviathan]] attacked the city. Motivated by the prospect of an "older sister" with a power that complemented her own, Bonesaw chose [[Panacea]] as her nomination, visiting the Dallon household to tell her as much. Accompanied by [[Murder Rat]], [[Hack Job]], and [[Pagoda]], Bonesaw approached Amy and a brain-damaged [[Mark Dallon]], making her recruitment pitch. After Amy expressed reservations with using her power, Bonesaw decided to test Amy, forcing her to disable Murder Rat and kill Pagoda in an attempt to make Amy get over her aversion to killing. After further refusal, with Amy claiming she couldn't use her power on brains, Bonesaw decided to force her to take action by having one of her spiders inject acid into Mark's brain. After Amy gave in, removing the acid and restoring Mark to his full mental faculties, Mark used his powers as Flashbang to drive Murder Rat and Bonesaw away.<ref name="I11h" />

Bonesaw participated in the Slaughterhouse Nine's slaughter of the [[Merchants]], releasing a short term plague that caused victims to explode and spread the disease via shrapnel. After the carnage had concluded, Bonesaw began harvesting muscle and organs from the fallen and stitched them together into an artistic creation.<ref>[[Interlude 12]]</ref>

After the Slaughterhouse Nine captured [[Grue]], she worked together with [[Mannequin]] to turn Grue into one of her "art pieces".<ref name="13.8">[[Snare 13.8]]</ref> This, along with her torturing of his friends and Taylor, eventually caused Grue to experience a second trigger event.<ref name="13.9">[[Snare 13.9]]</ref> With his newfound trump ability, Grue copied [[Siberian]]'s power and used it to kill [[Burnscar]] and mutilate Bonesaw, chopping off her hands, before helping the [[Undersiders]] escape. She also modified the residents of [[Dolltown]] to resemble the Nine in order to provide cover for their escape.

She would later replace her lost hands with tech from Mannequin.<ref>Bonesaw’s hands were smooth as glass as she reached for her belt. She was cool and collected, even as the bugs slowly flayed her.<br><br>She was stopped short as the silk strands tangled her ceramic fingers. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/25 Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.7]]</ref>

With the intervention of [[Legend]] and his team, Bonesaw unleashed an [[agnosia plague]] on the city as punishment for "cheating" in the Nine's recruitment games. Bonesaw and Jack briefly fooled [[Skitter]] into thinking they were [[Tattletale]] and Grue, before Skitter realized who they were and ran away. Bonesaw and Jack had a final confrontation with Skitter and [[Panacea]] at the hospital before being repelled. She left another group of surgically modified people in the [[Boat Graveyard]]. as a final distraction while the Nine fled Brockton Bay, one of these people being [[Cherish]] as punishment for her attempted subversion and betrayal of the Nine.

===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
While evading the pursuit of [[Dragon]] and [[Defiant]], the Nine recruited [[Skinslip]], [[Night Hag]], and [[Damsel of Distress]]. Bonesaw surgically modified Damsel so she could control her power. Spearheading a raid on [[Accord]]'s lab the tinker was confronted by Defiant, who stabbed the child tinker in the heart before bisecting her. Nevertheless, Bonesaw survived and kidnapped [[Blasto]] along with retrieved samples from the database.<ref name="I19.x">[[Interlude 19.x]]</ref> A later raid on [[Toybox]] gave the Nine access to incredible technology and resources, allowing the group to retreat into a private world where they could wait in suspended animation.<ref name="I20">[[Interlude 20.x]]</ref>

===[[Timeskip]]===
During the [[Timeskip|two year waiting period]], before the Nine were revived from cryonic suspension, Bonesaw crafted an army of clones - [[The Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand]]. However, she began to have doubts about serving [[Jack Slash]] and about the distinction between herself and her passenger, prompted by [[Contessa]]. She allowed herself to grow up over the years, but reverted the changes and partially automated her nervous system before awakening the Slaughterhouse 9000 so as to hide the changes in her personality from Jack.<ref name="I25" />

===[[Gold Morning]]===
Riley joined the heroes during Gold Morning, although they didn't trust her. She was assigned to treat the wounded, paired with [[Panacea]], one of the few that could check her work to make sure she wasn't reverting back to Bonesaw.

With the lab destroyed, she couldn't contribute to the fighting any other way.<ref name="29.3c1">Bonesaw isn’t equipped to make clones. They take some time to grow, anyways. Years to fully develop. Months to reach adolescence. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/venom-29-3/#comment-43124 Comment by Wildbow] on[[Venom 29.3]]</ref><ref name="29.3c2">Sure, but that’s Blasto’s balliwick, not Bonesaw’s. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/venom-29-3/#comment-43131 Comment by Wildbow] on[[Venom 29.3]]</ref>

===Post-[[Gold Morning]]===
[[Valkyrie]], 'the keeper of the dead', thought that with the help of [[Panacea]], she and Riley would be able to bring back the dead to refill their ranks.

===Early [[Ward]]===
Two years later Riley is working for [[The Wardens]], still paired with [[Panacea]] and heavily restricted in autonomy.<ref name="Eclipse3" /> In this time, she developed some fondness for [[Nilbog]].<ref>[[Interlude 3 II]]</ref>

In the last year Riley provided [[Ashley Stillons II]] with advanced prosthetics and their maintenance.<ref name="Eclipse3">[[Eclipse x.3]]</ref>

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen Fall]]===
After the portal sabotage, Riley was stranded alongside [[Jamie Rinke]], [[Jessica Yamada]], and multiple other Wardens' personnel and ex-prisoners near a remote settlement.<ref>[[Sundown 17.6]]</ref>

Riley ostensibly was the reason that the most of the people survived. However, she backslided to her old habits,<ref>Riley seemed to have saved us, if anything, by analyzing the food and curing the sickest of us- people I deemed so at-risk that it was unlikely she could do too much. Riley and Jamie Rinke were, to all appearances, angelic, all considered. Some reining in needed, naturally, and it took everything I had to stay on top of it all, especially with my own bouts with illness, but it worked. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/19/sundown-17-6/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.6]]</ref> raising suspicions and tension in the camp.<ref name="II17.6 ePersona">Some parahumans, one couple, a jolly fellow who fancied himself a survivalist and who was taking an optimistic view of the situation. He would stop in every day or two, and he hadn’t stopped in for two days. We sent out people to get in touch with him after Valkyrie’s arrival, and they couldn’t find his camp. [...] Terrifying. Crushing. Riley adopted her ‘Bonesaw’ persona, acting younger than she appeared- and with the surgeries she subjected herself to, she’ll never appear older than twelve. Laughing off my questions, being furtive.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/19/sundown-17-6/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.6]]</ref> It eventually led to her fight with the similarly-stressed Jessica Yamada,<ref>This- a whirl of intensity, Jessica reaching out with a bleeding arm, grabbing a thin wrist, slamming it down into rocky ground until the attacker dropped the blade. Frantic, even though it meant losing traction, Jessica reached out and swiped the knife, sending it flying ten or fifteen feet.<br><br>The hands that grabbed her arms were small. Fingernails dug into forearm, and came away with fine white lines caught beneath small fingernails that had been painted pink.<br><br>Jessica knelt on the offending hand, pinning it down, and strangled-<br>Strangled Bonesaw. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/21/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.12]] </ref> shortly after they were found by Valkyrie.

There was no evidence found of other misbehavior on Bonesaw's part,<ref>Everyone accounted for. Everyone checked over. Nothing questionable. If I had to guess, she was protective of her work because it was all she had to show for the prior timeframe and as you say, it was fragile. I’ve gone over that conversation a thousand times in my head, since, and I think she might have misread my tone, or misread my impatience as my wanting her to leave it behind.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/19/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.6]]</ref> but Riley chose to stay in exile, with Valkyrie making visits as necessary.<ref>“And Bonesaw?” I asked, quiet. “Is she okay?”<br><br>“Riley is Riley, Victoria. Physically? Even with nearly every bit of her technology removed from her body, I don’t think there’s much someone could do to her with physical wounds that would last.”<br><br>I nodded. I wasn’t sure how to feel about that.<br><br>“Mentally? Emotionally?” Jessica asked. “She asked to stay. Valkyrie tried to convince her. They struck a deal that Valkyrie would visit now and then. She was ashamed she hurt me like she did.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/19/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.6]]</ref>

===Post-[[Time Bubble Pop]]===
She was still active, tending to [[The Flock]].

Riley heard about [[Contessa]] being captured by [[Teacher]] and leaned into her paranoia, making it borderline impossible to contact her without an assistance from the members of the Flock.<ref name="II19.z" />

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
She was visited by [[Photon]] and invited to the fight.<ref name="II19.z">[[Infrared 19.z]]</ref> Bonesaw accepted invitation, and it was decided that Riley was going to instruct [[Chris Elman]] on execution to stay on time.<ref name="II20.2">[[Last 20.2]]</ref>

She provided her opinion on severity of wounds of [[Victoria Dallon]] and [[Byron Vera]], forcing Chris to share his emergency supplies.<ref name="II20.3">[[Last 20.4]]</ref>

Following Chris' defection Riley agreed to proceed on her own, despite not having obvious means to deliver results at the moment. She was later recovered by [[Valkyrie]] Titan as a part of the deal between Victoria and [[Contessa]].<ref name="II20.a">[[Last 20.a]]</ref>

Her opinion was one of the reasons for the [[Wardens]] to attempt to capture [[Chris Elman]] during the [[Victoria]]'s plague deployment.<ref>“And Chris?”<br><br>“They’re going to hunt him down. [...] He was spreading half-truths and they asked Jessica, who asked Riley, who said he was a problem. They’ll imprison him and take away his stuff if they can. Jessica said to, I think, as a compromise.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/03/31/last-20-10/ Excerpt] from [[Last 20.10]]</ref>

===Ward Epilogue===
Riley passed the winter in her camp, but returned to [[The City]] and the Wardens' custody at the end of the winter. She met [[Cryptid]] and [[Lookout]] during her visit to the local Wardens' office.<ref name="II20.e4">[[Last 20.e4]]</ref>

She was provided with a monitored apartment by the Wardens.<ref name="II20.e4" />

Riley informed [[Dragon]] about her conversation with Lookout, prompting Dragon to investigate.<ref name="II20.e5">[[Last 20.e5]]</ref>