Slaughterhouse Nine

The Slaughterhouse Nine are a group of (usually) nine serial killers who roam from city to city in North America, commiting sensationalist and depraved acts of violence.<ref>[1]</ref><ref name = "10.6">[2] Parasite 10.6</ref>

The group lineup is not fixed and the turnover tends to be high. When they come to Brockton Bay after the Leviathan attack, they are only eight and are looking for a ninth member.

Not much details about them have been revealed in the story yet.

Current Members

Jack Slash

Male. The leader of the group. Has the ability to extend the effective cutting edge of held knives and blades to horrendous distance, while maintaining consistent cutting power. Using this ability, he can cut through crowds or slice an enemy’s throat at any range.

He have dark hair, beard and moustache. Acording to Taylor he is "good looking", "he had kind of a Johnny Depp look to him, though he had more of a widow’s peak, a longer face and lighter eyes"

Acording to Dinah Alcott he will set the end of the world in motion in the next two to eight years<ref name = "10.6" />. If he is killed before he leave Brockton Bay it will happen anyway, but in fifteen years.

Bonesaw

Female. If Jack Slash is the leader, Bonesaw is the figurehead of the group. A child tinker with a specialty that isn’t rooted in chemistry, mechanics or physics. She consider herself an artist.

Shatterbird

Female. Dark-haired and brown-skinned.

Shatterbird usually used her power as the Nine arrived in a city, to maximize panic and terror. Her power haven't been specify yet, but apparently are related to glass, so wear eyeglasses in her presence is not recommended.

Crawler

Male. An inhuman monster, Crawler is arguably the ‘brute’ of the group.

Mannequin

Described as either one of Bonesaw’s projects or a body modification aficionado with tinker abilities. Stands nine feet tall and has replaced all of his joints with either a doll’s ball joints or lengths of chains. His entire body is encased in a special ceramic shell, with no openings or perforations.

The Siberian

Female. A recurring nemesis of the Triumvirate, the Siberian’s skin is striped with black and white, leaving her nationality uncertain. Powers yet unstated.

Few people that have hear her talk have life after it.That why most people believe that she doesn't talk.

Try to recruit Bitch to be test as the possible ninth member of the team in Interlude 11a.

Burnscar

Female.Civilian name Mimi. An older teenager or a young-looking twenty-something. Dark hair. She is a Blaster and a Mover, a pyrokinetic able to teleport betwen flames.

She used to be interned in the same mental asylum as Labyrinth(Elle). Mimi though they were friend and the doctors used Elle as an enticement to get her to cooperate. They escape the asylum the same day, Elle go with Gregor and join Faultline’s Crew. Mimi found herself alone, with nowhere to go, and end up with a man that try to take advantage of her. She use her power to try to scare him, but when in use it adjusts the chemical balances and connections in her brain removing the empathy and impulse control, so once she start she couldn't stop and burn him to dead.<ref name ="I11c">Interlude 11c</ref>

Few weeks after Shatterbird recruited her for the Slaughterhouse Nine.<ref name ="I11c" />

Hatchet Face

Male. A new recruit, described as an ugly man that have been beaten, burned and just plain abused so often that his face was as much scar tissue than flesh. Powers unstated.

About Serial Killers And Parahumans

A serial killer is typically defined as an individual who has killed three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time (a "cooling off period") between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification. The motives of serial killers are generally placed into four categories: visionary (believing they are another person or are compelled to murder by entities such as the Devil or God), mission-oriented ( justifying their acts as "ridding the world" of a certain type of person perceived as undesirable), hedonistic (they feel pleasure from killing.This pleasure can come from lust, thrill and/or profit) and power or control (to gain and exert power over their victim).

The majority of reported and investigated serial killers in the USA are white males, from a lower-to-middle-class background, usually in their late twenties to early thirties. But according to the FBI, and based on percentages of the U.S. population, whites are not more likely than other races to be serial killers.

The reason behind someone becomig a serial killer (nature or nurture) is still open to debate. But empiric research show that most of them share some characteristic like been bullied as children or abused (emotionally, physically and/or sexually) by a family member. This two episodes in particular can lead to a trigger event wich explain why the percentage of serial killers is superior among parahumans than among the general population.

Appearances

• Sentinel 9.3 (Implied) (First known victims in Brockton Bay)
• Sentinel 9.4 (Only Mention)
• Parasite 10.6 (Only Mention)
• Interlude 11a (The Siberian Only)
• Interlude 11b (Anniversary Bonus) (Jack Slash Only)
• Interlude 11c (Anniversary Bonus) (Burnscar Only)

References

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