Bonesaw

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Riley Grace Davis<ref>Interlude 10.y II</ref>, known publicly as Bonesaw, was a member of the Slaughterhouse Nine.

Personality

<tabber>As Bonesaw= Childish but largely amoral, Bonesaw lacks any aversion to killing, and even giggled and smiled in excitement when Panacea disabled her creations. As Bonesaw, Jack Slash encouraged her to view her creations as "art" and resist moralistic attempts to limit her.

She couldn't remember her parents' faces.<ref name="I25"/>

Her obsession of following her mother's last instructions effected her general aversion to swearing and the bright sunny demeanour that she affected when interacting with others.

She is just as liable to laugh and joke with someone one moment as to carve them up the second.

|-|As Riley= Riley was a little girl who dearly loved her parents.

Riley eventually concluded her passenger was influencing her personality, which led her to betray the Nine.

Following her mother's last instruction to her, Riley was obsessed with being a "good girl".<ref name="I25"/> This led to her adopting a 'cutesy' attitude speaking in a high voice and adopting overly girlish mannerism. In particular, she had an aversion to swearing bordering on a obsession. With a verbal tic constantly telling others not to swear.

In later years Riley is rather upfront about being unable to fully relate to other people.<ref>She held her hand off to the side, and let the scalpel fall. “I won’t know what I did wrong until you tell me. Some people can put those pieces together, but I can’t.” - Excerpt from Eclipse x.3</ref>

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Relationships

Has an obsession with rebuilding a family, this influences her choices when nominating people for membership in the nine.

Jack Slash

Bonesaw saw Jack as a "father" to the Slaughterhouse Nine's "family", but also feared him intensely. She thought of him as very intelligent and all knowing. She felt a sort of confusion and rebellion towards him..<ref name="I25" />

Siberian

Shares a borderline mother-daughter relationship with the beast woman. Siberian was often the one to sleep with her as she had nightmares. Though Bonesaw saw the Siberian more as a family pet the beast women felt quite protective and possessive of Bonesaw.<ref name="I12"/>

Panacea

Her longest relationship outside of the nine, with the similarities in their abilities being a major factor in Bonesaw's interest in the biokinetic.

Appearance and Equipment

Riley is described as a young girl with blond hair curled in ringlets, with her dress often stained by blood.

She also usually carries on her dress a full kit of surgical tools such as scalpels. As Bonesaw, she was primarily accompanied by biomechanical "spiders", about the size of a dog; these creations have wetware computers based around brain tissue she scavenges from her various victims.<ref name="I25" /> These spiders have innumerable modular functions, being used a distractions,^{[citation needed]} assistants,^{[citation needed]} and an impromptu exoskeleton.^{[citation needed]}

When she returned to her Riley persona with the restoration of her sanity, Riley wore gray sweats with her hair in a ponytail.<ref name="28.3">Cockroaches 28.3</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Riley is a powerful biological Tinker, whose abilities make her an unparalleled expert in biological, anatomical, and physiological sciences.<ref name="list">Wildbow's Parahuman List</ref> As Bonesaw she is capable of creating bio-mechanical constructs with their own powers, these are usually capes she had captured and modified into "zombies", and a variable load out of biochemical vials.

An expert in neuroanatomy, she enslaved and modified capes. She had a limited ability to raise the dead, which she used to produce her "zombies".<ref name="I11h">Interlude 11h</ref> Her understanding of the Corona Pollentia was unparalleled; allowing her to alter a parahuman's abilities to a limited degree, which she used to remove their control over their power and allow their powers to work together with other capes she had spliced to their body.<ref name="13.9">Snare 13.9</ref>

Her crowning achievement was the creation of the The Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand, using materials from Toybox.

She has several accouterments including a prehensile spine <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).

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). - Comment by Wildbow in Chrysalis 20.2</ref> and a extendable arm to stab others with.

One trick she frequently employed was a type of white smoke that automatically killed bacteria in her radius.<ref name="14.10" /> Useful against diseases Bonesaw does not have a cure to and effective against most insects, to the endless frustration of Skitter.

Has the ability to construct wetware computers that can record trigger events.<ref name="13.9" /> and could turn off the pain she felt through an internal 'switch'.<ref name="13.9" />

During the Timeskip, she noted her ability to deploy poisons from vents in her body.<ref name="I25" />

Panacea removed everything Bonesaw had implanted into her body though she did not turn off the pain while she was doing this to make sure she did not miss anything she was removing.<ref name="28.3" />

Equipment Features

Spider drones Turning a human being into a gun.<ref>Eclipse x.8</ref> Safeguards - Bonesaw modified the Nine with various "safeguards"; sheathing their vital organs and major arteries in a protective sub dermal mesh, further wire reinforcement was put into the skeleton to avoid broken bones,<ref name="13.7">Snare 13.7</ref> with special attention paid to the organs and spine to keep them functioning.<ref name="14.10">Prey 14.10</ref> She also rendered her teammates resistant to her pathogens,<ref name="14.10" /> and granting them artificial neurons which allowed them to make plans Cherish could not see, it is unknown if this could be adapted for other Master powers. Damsel's Limbs - created multiple versions as bonesaw and maintained them as riley. Clone army - given the systems involved, different tinker tech and multiple generations, it is likely the definition of a megaproject. Plagues - Given preparation, she was capable of creating custom diseases capable of sweeping an entire city in minutes. As well as poisons tailor made to kill people in the slowest most excruciating way possible.<ref name="I14.y">Interlude 14.y</ref>

History

Background

Riley triggered in 2005 when she was forced to repeatedly provide medical care for her family by the Slaughterhouse Nine, injuring them over and over so she would have to heal them again, over the course of several hours,<ref name="I25">Interlude 25</ref> if not longer.<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. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit </ref>

Post-Leviathan

The Slaughterhouse Nine came to Brockton Bay to recruit shortly after Leviathan attacked. Bonesaw nominated Panacea and showed up in the Dallon household to tell her as much.<ref name="I11h" /> She mentally tortured Amy, making the teen kill several of her creations to show her that she could be destructive with her power. Further, she had one of her spiders inject acid into Mark Dallon's brain after the discussion turned to Panacea's inability to affect brains. She was forced to flee when Panacea proved she was able to heal brains and restored Flashbang's fighting ability enough to force a retreat.

Bonesaw participates in the slaughter of the Merchants by releasing a short term plague among the participants and later stitching some surviving members together into an artistic creation.<ref name="I12">Interlude 12</ref>

She made Grue into one of her "art pieces" with the assistance of Mannequin.<ref name="13.8">Snare 13.8</ref> This, along with her torturing of his friends and Taylor, eventually caused his second trigger event.<ref name="13.9" /> The enraged teen villain killed Burnscar and mutillated burnscar, chopping off her hands, before helping the Undersiders to escape. She also modified the residents of Dolltown to resemble the Nine in order to provide cover for their escape.

With the intervention of Legend and his team Bonesaw unleashed a plague, an agnosia miasma, on the city as punishment for "cheating" in the Nine's recruitment games. She 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-Echidna

Fleeing Dragon and Defiant, the Nine recruited Skinslip, Night Hag, and Damsel of Distress, whom Bonesaw surgically modified 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 two year waiting period, before the Nine were revived from cryonic suspension Bonesaw crafted an army of clones - The Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand - but she began to have doubts about serving Jack Slash and about the distinction between her self and her passenger, prompted by Contessa. She allowed herself to grow up over the years, but reduced her apparent age 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

Bonesaw joined the heroes during Gold Morning, although they didn't trust her. She was paired with Panacea, one of the few that could check her work.

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. - Comment by Wildbow onVenom 29.3</ref><ref name="29.3c2">Sure, but that’s Blasto’s balliwick, not Bonesaw’s. - Comment by Wildbow onVenom 29.3</ref>

Post-Gold Morning

Valkyrie, 'the keeper of the dead', thought that with the help of Panacea/the Maker, 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 with advanced prosthetics and their maintenance.<ref name="Eclipse3">Eclipse x.3</ref>

Post-Fallen Fall

After the portal sabotage Riley was stranded alongside Jamie Rinke and Jessica Yamada near remote settlement.<ref>Interlude 9 II</ref>

Post-Time Bubble Pop

Still active, tending The Flock.

Trivia

• According to Valkyrie, she is the keeper of the "Chirurgeon" shard,<ref name="e.1">Teneral e.1</ref> a reflection of Valkyrie's use of outdated language.
• J.C. Mccrae had not read Franken Fran when Bonesaw was conceptualized, she went through several permutations before even being named Bonesaw, but after being told about the Manga he included it on his influences.<ref>Massive Franken-Fran fan here.<br
  Bonesaw’s original conception predates my discovery of the manga, though (just to head off the ‘that character’s stolen from ____’ guys.) - Comment by Wildbow in interlude 11h </ref>

Fanart Gallery

• Image by macabredanse on Tumblr.
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  Illustration by AstriSjursen on DeviantArt.
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  Bonesaw illustration by Evaexe
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  Bonesaw by Kingdaume
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  Chibi art by Scarfgirl
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  Illustration by CPericardium on deviantArt
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