Editing Bonesaw (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Bonesaw is a powerful [[Tinker]] whose abilities make her an unparalleled expert in biological, anatomical, and physiological sciences.<ref name="list">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pgn9rgYutpBqJg1lSBP3NHnq9WK4ToLq9K4ys_I4cRc/edit#gid=0 Wildbow's Parahuman List]</ref> She is capable of performing a wide array of surgical procedures, which she uses to modify her allies' bodies and her own to be tougher and stronger, and to modify her victims in order to subject them to horrific fates. Her sheer versatility makes her one of the most dangerous Tinkers on Earth Bet. 

Her status was achieved thanks to her long period of activity and the materials she's used in her research.<!--talks about victims triggering on her table--> Bonesaw is able to alter the [[Corona Pollentia]], allowing her to modify a parahuman's abilities to a limited degree and combine multiple coronas to fuse two powers into one. In one instance she altered [[Cherish]]'s power so that she senses negative emotions more powerfully and cannot filter them out,<ref>''Don’t worry about Cherish. She’s sleeping somewhere at the bottom of the bay. Bonesaw was kind enough to crank up her receptive range toward negative emotions and remove her filters. The girl will personally experience every awful feeling Brockton Bay’s inhabitants do- and with the benefit of Alan’s tech, she’ll get to do it for a very, very, very long time.'' - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/09 Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.11]]</ref> and combining the powers of [[Hatchet Face]] and [[Oni Lee]] to create [[Hack Job]].<ref name="I11h">[[Interlude 11h]]</ref>

Bonesaw is able to very effectively collaborate with and incorporate tech from other tinkers, likely due to her enhanced connection with her shard.<ref>'''mightbeaperson928:''' How much mechanical stuff do wet tinkers get? The big ones in canon are bonesaw and blasto, bonesaw can make her spiders and such but as a surgical tinker that makes sense. blasto however I'm not as familiar with but it was plants if I'm remembering correctly? But he used mechanical vats to grow them in. Are those included in his power?<br><br>'''Wildbow:'''  Wholly depends on the tinker. Also depends on the tinker's development. Bonesaw is an example of a tinker who's collected enough shard experience points, for one way of putting it, to get her passenger to say 'hey, let's knock down some walls and let you experiment more with less wet technology'. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit</ref><!-- https://redd.it/mza069 --><ref name="Tinkertypes1" /> However, although she can get into technologies that are not biotech, she finds working with it frustrating and way slower.<ref>Tinkers have a lot of requirements and things that play into how they operate on a day to day basis. Time, resources, upkeep of whatever they've built, general mental energy/focus, and research.<br><br>Breaking into a new category takes research. A lot of the time you'll end up trying to ground whatever field you're moving into in whatever you already know & have built, which produces a leapfrogging effect. [...] Research takes time and focus and part of that focus is that you really want to and need to commit to a course to gain momentum. For some tinker types, leapfrogging around like this might be slower the further you get from your core field. Going the complete other direction, Bonesaw can get into tech that isn't biotech but it's way slower and the upkeep is lower quality and over time that degrades... which is where it gets complicated with the pocket dimension she's in and she's less confident about messing with that or changing things up. She ''can'', it's just slow and frustrating.<br><br>That's building toward the future, but there's also the stuff you're leaving in the past: the stuff you've made that you don't use every day. It needs some upkeep and minor repair over time.<br><br>In both of these cases, you suffer if you're distracted and scattered.<br>[...]<br>The effect of being scattered gets compounded when you add in ''resources''.<br><br>Resources differ by specialty but if you're breaking into a new specialty you'll ''tend'' to require new kinds of material. [...] The move from tech to 'wet' tinkering is a pretty severe one. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref><!-- https://redd.it/movs7q -->

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* '''Chirurgical Creations''' - Her parahuman power is to perform surgeries beyond the reach of medical science, and has preformed many and complex surgeries for various tinker effects.
**'''Torture Room''' - Able to modify a human show all of their organs are outside their body with nerves covering the walls floor and ceiling, while keeping the human alive and in pain the entire time.<ref name=TR/>
** '''Imposter creations''' - surgically modify civilians into versions of the Nine.
* '''Control Frames''' - Bonesaw is capable of outfitting humans with mechanical, internal control frames, putting them under her complete control. In this way, she has a limited ability to raise the freshly dead, which she uses to produce her "zombies".<ref name=":0" /> Her control frames can even operate a body after its death, as they require no input from the victim to move.<ref>It didn’t help that Blasto had died a week ago. A stroke, no doubt from stress, in the midst of a refrain of the Love Bugs theme song. The only thing that let him move now were the control mechanisms she’d set up. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/interlude-25/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 25]]</ref> The frame itself consists of metal frames that interlace with the largest bones in the skeletal system, with needles connecting to the brain and spine. There were contingencies in case the control frames were ever disabled, usually involving stopping the heart. Examples included needles around the heart rigged to stab inward, and injectors that would trigger a reversal of the parahuman's regeneration, starting with the heart.<ref name="I11h" />
** A version of this tech to control her hybrid capes
** Was able to surgically install [[Nilbog]] into such a rack that made his power run on automatic.
* '''Insectile imposter''' - A later project she worked on{{cite}}<!--ward smiurgh interlude, important meeting -->
* '''Spider Box''' - Bonesaw is assisted during surgery and battle by her "spider boxes", her version of drone minions, metal boxes that range from half the size of a toaster to the size of a dog. They possess spindly, hydraulic legs that each end in syringes or scalpels, giving them their spider-like appearances.<ref name=":0">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.<br><br>The third was another Frankenstein hodgepodge of two individuals, emerging from the hallway where the amalgamation of Oni Lee and Hatchet Face -Hack Job- had exploded. The lower half was a man who must have been built like a gorilla in life, rippling with muscles, walking forward on his knuckles. His upper body grew up from the point the other body’s neck should have begun, an emaciated man with greasy brown hair and beard, grown long. He was not unlike a centaur, but the lower half was a brutish man.<br><br>Then there were the other things. They weren’t alive. Spidery contraptions of scrap metal, they lacked heads, only consisting of a box half the size of a toaster and spindly legs that moved on hydraulics, each ending in a syringe or scalpel. A dozen of them, climbing onto the walls and floor. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11h]]</ref><ref>My swarm could feel others approach from the heroine’s direction. They were the size of dogs, and they skipped forward on mechanical legs. The mechanical spiders. Dozens of them, coming straight for me. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/02 Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.9]]</ref> These mechanical spiders are mainly controlled by interconnected lumps of brain tissue, with embedded computer chips handling their more complex functions.<ref name=":1">It took only moments to rig. Her spider boxes ran on interconnected lumps of gray matter, basic impulses, motor control and storage, with some computer chips to handle functions that were more trouble than they were worth to implement. One of those chips managed rote movements. She removed a defunct spider box from the backpack she was keeping beneath her desk and attached it to Blasto’s spine, between his shoulder blades. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/interlude-25/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 25]]</ref> They can be guided by a remote control: Bonesaw was able to use a laser pointer to mark a target, which a spider box would leap onto and, in one instance, inject with a syringe.<ref>Bonesaw reached into her apron and retrieved a remote control. She pointed it at Mark, where he sat on the couch. A red dot appeared on his forehead.<br><br>“No!”<br><br>One of Bonesaw’s mechanical contraptions leaped across the room, its scalpel legs impaling the suede cushions on either side of Mark. One leg, tipped with a syringe, thrust into Mark’s right nostril. He hollered incoherently, tried to pull away, only for two mechanical legs to clutch his head and hold him firm. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11h]]</ref> Spider boxes can be taught complex actions via demonstration, and can perfect them with repetition. This is likely how Bonesaw taught them to subdue and inject victims with syringes, or harvest organic materials for her.<ref>Behind her, Blasto watched the video. She set it to repeat, and the bug box kicked in the second time around. Blasto’s reedy voice sang along. It was so pathetic and mournful that she laughed aloud.<br><br>''Better give him some exercise too.''<br><br>By the time the fourth repeat had finished, he was all set up. He started dancing along with the fifth, mimicking characters on the screen. Each repeat would be a little more precise, as the camera captured the necessary elements. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/16 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 25]]</ref>
** Back up drones.
* '''Hybrid Capes''' - Restricted to the number of parahuman bodies that she has access to, has created fusions such as [[Murder Rat]], [[Hack Job]], [[Pagoda]], [[Tyrant]], [[Spawner]], [[Snowmann]], [[Nighty Night]], and [[Laughjob]].<ref name="I11h" /><ref name="I25" />
*Megaprojects
** '''[[Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand]]''' - Her crowning achievement utilizes technology stolen from [[Toybox]]. Using Glace's cryogenic technology to freeze the original Nine,<ref>I stared at the laptop. It was still on the last page. Glace.<br><br>“Cryogenics,” I said.<br><br>“Stasis,” Miss Militia agreed. “The pressure grew too intense, with Defiant and Dragon’s pursuit, they weren’t recovering from losses fast enough. They’ve gone into hiding, and we think they plan to ''wait''.”<br><br>''Wait'', I thought.<br><br>“How long?” Clockblocker asked.<br><br>“We can’t know for sure,” Miss Militia replied. “But if they’ve put themselves in a cryogenic sleep, they could wake and resume their normal activities days, weeks, months or ''years'' from now. Depending on the resources they have available, they might well emerge with clones of their current members at their side.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.2]]</ref> adapted Cranial's memory technology to implant memories into the clones and construct their personalities,<ref>They’d come out blank. Wouldn’t do. She had access to some of the toys they’d liberated from the Toybox. She’d have to put the new Slaughterhouse’s memories together herself. Brains. Memories, or things close enough to memories. She had notes and records, all of the bedtime stories Jack had told her as she drifted off to sleep these past few years. There was information saved on the computer. She could hodgepodge it together.<br><br>This would be ''real'' art. How well could she rebuild them?<br><br>Cranial had been selling memories on the black market, selling skills. She’d kept bad memories too, took them from people, even gave them to some people. Silly, really. A lot of them had wanted trigger events, except the trigger events didn’t work like that.<br><br>This computer was only an access point. The other computers took up vast amounts of space, out of sight, out of mind. If something failed, she’d have to go fix it, but she would spend most of her time here, surrounded by her family, some she’d never met. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/16 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 25]] </ref> and collaborated with a bodily-controlled [[Blasto]] to create the clones themselves.<ref>“The Nine have access to all of their work?” I felt an inarticulate feeling of horror creep over me. I couldn’t imagine anything particular, but anything that enhanced the capabilities and options that Slaughterhouse Nine had at their disposal?<br><br>“And access to the work of Blasto, a ''cloning'' specialist they assaulted and kidnapped in Boston,” Miss Militia said. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.2]]</ref> She conducted all of this in secret, utilizing [[Toybox#Members|Dodge]]'s technology to sequester her work and the Nine in a hidden pocket dimension.<ref>“The Slaughterhouse Nine attacked Toybox, taking the group’s devices for themselves, and they disappeared. We suspect they used Dodge’s devices to exit into a pocket dimension, and by the time we’d found a way to follow, they’d exited elsewhere.”<br><br>“They’re dimension hopping?”<br><br>“Dodge’s devices only exit from Bet to pocket worlds he creates with his devices, back to Bet. We believe they exited somewhere on Bet, possibly in another state, then used another device to hide. Which would be where they are now. Without knowing where they entered that particular pocket, we can’t hope to find them,” Miss Militia said. “We know their patterns. They tend to cut a swathe of destruction across North America, and it’s rare for even a handful of days to pass without them taking any action at all. Between the PRT’s past experience with the group, our thinkers, and the fact that they haven’t made an appearance in nearly ten days, we believe we’ve worked out what they’re doing.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.2]]</ref> 
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She is very bad at giving names to her creations.<ref>“The other, I’m trying to figure out a name.  The one on the bottom was Carnal.  Healer, tough, and healed more by bathing himself in blood.  Thought he had a place on our team, failed the tests.  The one on the top was Prophet.  Convinced he was Jesus reborn.  What do you call a mix of people like that?  I’ve got a name in mind, but I can’t quite figure it out.”<br><br>“I don’t know.”<br><br>“So you’re bad at names too?” Bonesaw grinned.  “I’m thinking something like shrine, temple… but one with multiple floors.  Um.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11h]]</ref>
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Bonesaw
Specialty - Surgery/Cybernetics
* Chuckles’ accordion elbows - 26.b
* Damsel of Distress’ elongated finger apparatus granting her better control - 19.x
* Grue torture room - 13.8
* Pain switch - 25.x, 26.x (...)
* Organ sheathing 13.x (Aisha)
* Subcutaneous mesh armor - 14.10
* Prehensile fucking spine w/ neural hijacking needles - 19.x
* Blasto the amazing human boombox - 25.x
* Acid capsules in teeth - 13.9
* Bug/bacteria killing mist - 13.9, 14.10
* Smoking liquid that turns highly adhesive - 19.x
* tranquilizer darts in fingers - 25.x
* Anti-master protocols, including a berserker mode and an artificial brain chunk to prevent empath reading - 12.4, 25.x
* mechanical spiders - 11.h, 12.x, 13.8, 25.x (among others)
* Brain implants to control mechanical spiders - 25.x
* Gemma disrupting prions, applicable through powder or darts - 13.8, 13.9
* control frames for minions - 11.h, 25.x
** Nilbog enslavement and automation of his power - 26.6
* multiple world ending plagues released on her death. - 25.x
* infectious gory explosion virus - 12.x (Jack)
* Giving civilians plastic surgery to make them look like S9 members - 13.6 
* Inducing and recording triggers and second triggers - 11.h, 13.9
* Manipulating Cherish’s power to increase range and severity of emotion perception - 14.11
* Slaughterhouse 9 clone army (using stolen tech) - 25.x
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===Chemicals/Plagues===
Bonesaw enjoys using vials of chemicals to her advantage. One gas she frequently employed was a white smoke that automatically kills diseases in her radius, useful against plagues that Bonesaw or her teammates were not yet immunized against. It had the side effect of also killing bugs and small rodents, much to the frustration of [[Skitter]].<ref name=":2">“A benefit of little Bonesaw’s smoke,” Jack answered. “If I recall correctly, it’s something of a safeguard in case she accidentally deploys a concoction she hasn’t immunized herself or the rest of our team against. The fact that it works against bugs and small rodents is a side benefit, rather than the intent. Bonesaw’s work has made us members of the Nine more or less immune to disease anyways.”<br><br>“And the gunshot?”<br><br>“Subdermal mesh. There’s more protection around the spine and organs, and you landed that shot pretty close to my spine. It hurts quite a bit.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.10]]</ref> She can create specialized [[Wikipedia:Prion|prion]]s, available in liquid and powder form, which cripple the Corona Gemma, disabling the conscious use of powers while keeping the power itself intact.<ref>She tilted my head back and felt around the edges of my mask, trying to find the part where she could pull it off. “I’m ''really'' good at figuring out where the Corona and the Gemma are. I can even guess most of the time, if I know what powers the person has. And I can pry it wide open, make it so the powers can’t be turned off, or I can temporarily disable it, or modify it. The powder I blew into your face? It has the same prions I put in the darts I shot your friends with. Cripples the Gemma, but it leaves your powers intact. Can’t experiment with your abilities if I’ve fried your whole Corona Pollentia, right? Right.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/25 Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.9]]</ref> She has vials of white smoke that can congeal into strands of movement-impeding gunk, similar to containment foam.<ref name="I19.x" />

She has a number of horrifying plagues and poisons designed to inflict painful death. Her poisons had the ability to cause slow, agonizing death beyond that of any natural toxin or venom.<ref name="I14.y">Those doubts had become quiet conviction after he’d gone to see Battery in the hospital. One of Bonesaw’s mechanical spiders had cut her suit. He knew exactly the kind of disorientation, hallucination and waves of paranoia she would have experienced as the gas took hold. While she reeled and tried to get a grip on reality, she’d likely left herself open for further attacks. Whatever the case, one of the spiders had injected her with a poison Bonesaw had devised.<br><br>Her death had been slow, painful and inevitable. It had been engineered to strike those notes in a way that millions of years of evolution had yet to refine a plant’s toxin or an animal’s venom. Lying in the hospital bed, still delirious, Battery had used halting sentences to tell him about Cauldon, about buying her powers, and about Cauldron asking her to help Siberian and Shatterbird escape. She’d planned to pursue the Nine, to offer assistance and then kill one or both of the villains. Battery had begged him for affirmation that she’d tried to do the right thing, that he would find the answers she didn’t. He’d reassured her the best he could. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/13 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 14.y]]</ref> She is also able to create epidemic plagues, able to spread to and kill huge amounts of people. However, Jack preferred her not to do this, so the plagues she creates are limited in their spread, an example being a plague she created that caused victims' bodies to explode and spread via bloody shrapnel, which would diminish with every person infected and eventually wear off.<ref name="I12">The man stumbled five or six steps before his body began to swell. His right arm bloated up to three or four times the usual size, turning crimson, before it exploded violently, sending shards of bone and a spray of blood into the people nearest him. He screamed, only for his cries to grow shorter and more frantic, as the rest of him reached that critical mass. In another ten seconds, the remainder of his body detonated.<br>[...]<br>Behind the child tinker, those in the crowd who had been struck by the blood and flying bone of her first victim were starting to scream as their bodies swelled as well.<br>,br>Jack frowned. “Bonesaw. You know my rule about epidemics. You have to play fair with the rest of the group.”<br><br>“No epidemic! I promise!” She said, drawing a little ‘x’ over her heart, “Four or five cycles. No more. Each transition is going to have only about half the catalyst of the last, and eventually they’ll be able to fight it off.” - Excerpt from [[Interlude 12]]</ref>

During the Nine's second visit of Brockton Bay, Bonesaw engineered an [[Agnosia Plague]] that spread through the water supply and rapidly vaporized into a red, airborne miasma. When inhaled, it rendered people unable to recognize others, causing a spiral of paranoia among the capes of Brockton Bay as they were left unable to distinguish friend from foe.<ref>[[Prey 14.8]]</ref>

===Body Augmentation===
Bonesaw has modified herself and her teammates extensively. All members of the Slaughterhouse Nine possess a subdermal mesh, reinforced more around the spine, organs, and major arteries, causing them to be much tougher than regular humans.<ref name=":2" /><ref name="13.7" /> The added protection was powerful enough to even allow members of the Nine to take shots from a sniper rifle.<ref name="13.7">Cherish shrugged. “Bonesaw gave me the works. Mesh sheaths for every major artery and organ, wire reinforcement for my skeleton. It’s not going to kill me anytime soon.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/18 Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.7]]</ref> More recently, she installed artificial neurons into the Nine that were able to stay hidden from [[Cherish]]'s emotion senses.<ref>Jack was getting heated, talking mostly to himself. “That was the whole point! To see how long we could go without tipping her off. Bonesaw helped with some surgery, even some artificial neural connections that Cherish wouldn’t be able to see. So much work and preparation ruined.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/07 Excerpt] from [[Plague 12.4]]</ref> 

Bonesaw herself is considerably more augmented. Her body is reinforced like the rest of the Nine, and she has redundant organs, able to function even with her heart pierced. She has numerous contingencies in the event of grievous bodily damage, including a prehensile spine that effectively serves as a third arm when exposed.<ref name="20.2 c1">Fully? No. But generally speaking, I try to stay one step ahead. If I decide to describe or unveil more of a character (be it their powers or their background), I try to give it some extra thought beforehand and think things through enough that there’s other traits or qualities that aren’t explicitly outlined (but perhaps implicitly).<br><br>The benefit of this is that, generally speaking, I’m not coming up with ideas at the moment I’m putting words to the page, and I’ve let thoughts & possibilities stew in my head for some time before it happens (One example: Bonesaw’s prehensile spine & the other accouterments she has set up in the event of major limb damage – I had it in mind well before Blasto’s interlude, but it never came up during the Nine’s stay in Brockton Bay). - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/chrysalis-20-2/#comment-14485 Comment by Wildbow] in [[Chrysalis 20.2]]</ref> Her prehensile spine has the ability to extend needles, which can interface with another victim's spine through the mouth to pilot that person's body.<ref name="I19.x" /> She can turn off the pain she felt through an internal 'switch', and is immune to most diseases, venoms, and allergens.<ref>“Just so you know, I’ve rendered myself immune to all those pesky little venoms and allergens,” she said. “And I can turn pain off like I’m flicking a switch. Don’t want to do that on a permanent basis, but it does make this easier to deal with.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/ Excerpt] from [[Snare 13.9]]</ref> 

Among her various tricks is her ability to deploy poisons from vents in her body, alongside mechanical traps and needles that can spring out on command.<ref name=":3">Bonesaw laughed again, not for quite so long. Through the giggles, she said, “If you’re going to try to mind control me, I can tell you you’ve got another thing coming. I’ve got safeguards. You’ll only activate my berserker mode.”<br><br>[...]<br><br>Bonesaw bristled. Mechanical traps, spring-loaded needles and venom venting systems readied throughout her body. She let the bags drop to the ground. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/16 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 25]]</ref> She is also loaded with lethal, potentially epidemic-causing plagues that are set to release into the air upon her potential death.<ref>“You know I loaded myself with a mess of epidemics, Defiant,” Bonesaw said. “You kill me like that and I’ll explode into a cloud of a bajillion plagues. It can’t be ''easy''.”<br><br>“It is,” Defiant’s voice was distorted by his helmet, vaguely computerized. There was a processor at work somewhere there, Rey observed.<br><br>“What, you’ll unleash a thousand plagues on this world to finish me off? Me? A little girl?” Bonesaw smiled wide. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/12/13 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref> She has capsules in her teeth that she can break to release and spit acid from her mouth.<ref name="I19.x" /> In the case of [[Master]] influence on her mind, she has a berserker mode that will automatically activate.<ref name=":3" />

After Bonesaw reformed, [[Panacea]] removed everything Bonesaw had implanted into her body. Panacea did not turn off the pain while she was doing this,<ref>“I’ve had ''no'' sleep,” Bonesaw said.  “Big sis here took out all the good bits I’d stored inside myself, and she didn’t turn off the pain.  I feel too light.  I feel ''weird''.  Can’t sit still, not that they ever ''let'' me.”<br><br>“First tier parahuman problems,” Imp said.  Her tone wasn’t as humorous in nature as the words. - [[Cockroaches 28.3]]</ref> presumably to make sure she did not miss anything she was removing and because she was still wary of a potential relapse.<ref>“And they keep getting on my case,” Bonesaw said, apparently oblivious.  She directed her attention to Panacea and Lung.  “Trust me, I haven’t butchered you all yet, I’m not going to in the future.  You can stop ''testing'' me.”<br><br>“I remember when you were cuddly,” Tattletale said.  “You were so happy and fluffy and you had a good ''attitude''.  You were a complete and total monster, and nobody in their right mind would cuddle you, but you were adorable.  Now look at you.”<br><br>Bonesaw scowled, but I wasn’t paying attention to that.  Tattletale had used the past tense.  ''You were a complete monster''.  Referring to the past, or an observation on a deeper level? - [[Cockroaches 28.3]]</ref><ref>“''She'' is why I can’t leave,” Panacea said.  “I’m the only one that can double-check her work.  If we’re both here, you’ve got two stellar healers on the back lines.  If I leave, you’ve got a healer with minimal combat experience on the front line and a defused bomb with nobody that’s capable of knowing if it’s reactivated.”<br><br>I couldn’t really argue that.<br><br>Well, I ''could'', but not very well.<br><br>“There’s another way to deal with that sort of situation,” Imp said.  “Get rid of the fucking bomb.”<br><br>“We will,” Panacea said.  “''If'' she gives us an excuse.  Any excuse at all.  But she gets one chance.” - [[Cockroaches 28.3]]</ref>