Editing Jack Slash (section)

===Background===
Jacob was a young [[trigger]]. Madness-inducing years of isolation contributed to this trigger.<ref>The blood still ran freely from Jacob’s nose.<br><br>He reached into a pocket, shook out a handkerchief, and held it out.<br><br>Jacob didn’t move.  He’d rather keep bleeding by his own choice than be pushed to stop it.  In more than one way, he stood on the edge, his eyes wild, madness inducing years of isolation mixed with pain having stripped away something essential. - [[Last 20.e3]]</ref>

At some point during or before 1987,<ref name="SV27">I have it written down somewhere, but I had it down that they were no older than twelve, IIRC. Might have been twelve. -
 [https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/4279862 Wildbow on SufficientVelocity]</ref> Jack encountered [[King]] and joined the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]]. He felt great displeasure at King's interest in grooming him as a pet project or new "[[Gray Boy]]", and conspired with [[Harbinger]] to kill him.

Jacobs reasons were ego-driven, feeling like King saw him as a personal pet project instead of a man in his own right.

Harbingers' reasons to revolt are unknown, though they were personally strong enough to warrant a violent coup.

Afterward, Jacob renamed himself "Jack Slash" with the specific intention of sounding harmlessly simple and absurd.

Under Jack's leadership, the Nine become synonymous with terror and death, caring nothing for political power or money.

They seemed unstoppable, hitting towns throughout the United States seemingly at random and killing as many as they could before leaving. They notably avoided using bombs or more traditional methods of mass destruction, opting to kill personally using their powers.

The recruitment process became a trial in which each existing member of the Nine would torture and attempt to kill recruits and survival meant being accepted as a new member.