Editing Cherish (section)

===Background===
Cherie Vasil was born in Montreal, Canada to [[Nikos Vasil]] and one of his "wives". At some point, she triggered and took part in the wider family business of exploitation.<ref name="I26">It took thirty minutes before the first hit registered.  A traffic camera, a busload of young women.  A row of identical faces, looking out the window.  An unusual element, raising flags with the active programs.  The faces took center stage as they were checked against a database.  An image popped up: surveillance camera footage of a teenage girl in a shopping mall, followed by young men that each carried loads of packages.<br/><br/>Eyebrows, brow to hairline length, nose length, eye width…<br/><br/>The words popped up.  Cherie Vasil. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/interlude-26-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26.x|26.x (Donation Interlude; Saint)]]</ref> Eventually she grew tired of her father's short sightedness and decided to run away in order to escape her father. Her father sent two of her brothers after her who chased her,<ref name="I11g"/> until she decided to join the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]].

Nominating herself to fill a vacancy in the Slaughterhouse Nine's ranks, Cherish ambushed [[Hatchet Face]], killing him. After this, Cherish had to go through seven tests from the remaining members to join the Slaughterhouse Nine. [[Crawler]], not feeling Cherish was even worth his time, took the murder of Hatchet Face as his test completed in advance. [[Bonesaw]] infected her with a parasite which nullified her powers for forty-eight hours, the effects of which would become permanent unless she drank "lots of blood" - but Bonesaw didn't tell her how much blood was needed, nor if blood from animals would work.  [[Siberian]] did her usual test, and chased her for three days and three nights (starting on the second day of Bonesaw's parasite), biting off a finger joint each time she was caught until time was up. Five minutes after Siberian's test ended,  [[Shatterbird]] stuck Cherish in a blacked out room with a shard of glass pursuing her for an undisclosed period of time. [[Burnscar]]'s test is not known; Burnscar generally requires potential members to face their greatest fear, but what that meant for Cherish is unknown. Cherish failed that test, but it's also unknown what the penalty for failure was. [[Mannequin]] ordered her to get a massive, hideous tattoo that would degrade her in other's eyes.<ref name="12.4tats">Jack laughed, “Ah, adding to the challenge?  Fair.  She killed Hatchet Face.  Crawler took that as his test completed in advance, didn’t think of her as worth his time.  Little Bonesaw, for her test, designed a parasite that would stay in her system for forty-eight hours and strip her of her powers for as long as it remained.”<br/><br/>“Because it’s not ''fair'' that Hatchet Face didn’t get to give his test.  And I wanted to break her out of her rut, so I made it so the parasite’s effects would be permanent if she didn’t drink lots of blood.”<br/><br/>“Of course,” Jack tapped the heel of his hand against his forehead, “That was an interesting little twist.  Of course, you didn’t tell her how much she needed to drink, or if a certain species counted…  Well.  It broke her stride, didn’t it?  Siberian went after her, starting on day two of Bonesaw’s parasitic infection.  Three days and three nights of cat and mouse.  To her credit, she did very well.  It came down to a hair.  Another ten minutes and Siberian might have caught her a third time.”<br/><br/>A dark look passed over Cherish’s face.<br/><br/>“Shatterbird likes the psychological tests, and she was in a ''hell'' of a mood after Cherish nominated herself for the team.  Our Cherie didn’t have five minutes to rest before Shatterbird drove her into a room and sealed her in.  No food, no light, barely any water.  The room was empty, but for one glass shard.  Always edging towards her, ready to prick, cut, slice and stab the second she stopped, the moment she tried to rest.”<br/>[...]<br/>“Burnscar’s test, she failed.  Afraid I’m not spoiling that one.  Doesn’t have the same impact if you know it’s coming.  That left only two tests for her to pass. [...] Mannequin demands that a candidate changes themselves, and that it be hard.  Having just faced the punishment Burnscar gave for failing her test, Cherish wasn’t about to pay ''his''.”<br/>[...]<br/>“Oh, I knew it would be almost impossible to top Mannequin’s test.  He caught her at the exact right moment, struck the right nerve, and pushed her to her very limits.  Still, I think I managed to top it. [...] I made her do the other six tests all over again.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/07 Excerpt] from [[Plague 12.4]]</ref>

When she finally got to [[Jack Slash|Jack Slash's]] test, he was slightly upset that she was already broken, so his test was to go through the other tests all over again. Bonesaw even revived Hatchet Face for it, and Cherish was forced to kill him again, this time without the advantage of surprise.<ref>[[Plague 12.4]]</ref>