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| team = [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] | | team = [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] | ||
| classification =[[Shaker]], [[Mover]], [[Thinker]] | | classification =[[Shaker]], [[Mover]], [[Thinker]] | ||
| web serial =[[Interlude 11e]] | | web serial = [[Interlude 11e]] | ||
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She would gain a reputation as the recruiter for the Slaughterhouse Nine, directly recruiting [[Burnscar]] when the young pyrokinetic was on one of her sprees.<ref name="I11.c">[[Interlude 11c]]</ref> | She would gain a reputation as the recruiter for the Slaughterhouse Nine, directly recruiting [[Burnscar]] when the young pyrokinetic was on one of her sprees.<ref name="I11.c">[[Interlude 11c]]</ref> | ||
===Post-[[Battle against Leviathan|Leviathan]]=== | ===Post-[[Battle against Leviathan|Leviathan]]=== | ||
Shatterbird came to Brockton Bay with the rest of the Nine and devastated the city with her power. Her candidate for membership was [[Hookwolf]], whom she convinced to agree by threatening his [[Chosen]]. | Shatterbird came to Brockton Bay with the rest of the Nine and devastated the city with her power. Her candidate for membership was [[Hookwolf]], whom she convinced to agree by threatening his [[Chosen]]. | ||
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<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Shatterbird</default></title>
<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <group><header>Basic Information</header> <label>Civilian Name</label> <label>Aliases</label> <label>Gender</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Death</label> <label>Age</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Post-timeskip</label> <label>Ward start</label> <label>Relations</label> <label>Family</label></group> <group><header>Professional Status</header> <label>Occupation</label> <label>Classification</label> <label>Unique Features</label> <label>Alignment</label>
<label>Status</label><format></format><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> Shatterbird was a member of the Slaughterhouse Nine.
Personality
Shatterbird considers herself a scholar, and claimed to be "the Nine’s primary recruiter", and to "have an eye for people who can thrive among us".<ref name="11.e">Interlude 11e</ref> She get along with other monsters very well.<ref>Ridtom:
She and Damsel of Distress would be best friends if they didn't kill each other.
Wildbow:
Shatterbird touts herself as an intellectual, but she's closest with fellows who walk the path of ruin and madness.
Yes, I very much agree. She would get along with Damsel in much the way she got along with Burnscar. - Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref> Alec describes her as being a control freak having a great deal of pride.<ref name="15.2">Colony 15.2</ref>
Jack Slash described her as pretending to be civil but growing restless when things got quiet. He also noted that she was very prideful, with her driving motivation being validation from those around her, while the threat of physical harm or embarrassment held her back.<ref name="I12">Interlude 12</ref>
Shatterbird enjoyed the long-lasting psychological effects that her city-wide attacks had on her victims and their loved ones.<ref name="I19.n"/>
According to Witness's deductions, Shatterbird harbored romantic feelings toward Jack, but never acted on them and justified herself with excuses.<ref name="I19.n"/>
Appearance
Shatterbird was Middle Eastern in appearance. She wore a helmet of colored glass shards that covered the top part of her face, a flowing garment of colored shards on her body, and a beaked glass mask.<ref name="I19.n"/><ref name="Cast1">Shatterbird – A silicakinetic, capable of moving and manipulating glass, or affecting whole cities with a glass-shattering scream. Drapes herself in a costume of colored glass shards, complete with a beak-mask. A member of the Slaughterhouse Nine. - Cast (spoiler free)</ref>
Abilities and Powers
Shatterbird was a silicakinetic, having the ability to manipulate silicon through high-frequency sounds, giving her essentially perfect control over all glass, sand, and other siliceous compounds within multiple city blocks of her location. Often, she would use this ability to make every piece of glass in a city explode violently to announce the arrival of the Slaughterhouse Nine.<ref name="Cast1"/>
Shatterbird had finer control of glass that was closer to her. She leveraged this ability to create projectile weapons, fashion makeshift shields, and fly by controlling the glass in her costume. She could even use her power to shore up injuries with "constructs" made out of glass.<ref name="12.5 c1">It’s not regeneration, exactly. She can use glass to shore up her injuries and create detailed constructs that will, say, help her retain or redistribute blood in the event of massive blood loss, but the body parts won’t function. - Comment by Wildbow on Plague 12.5</ref> According to the Missing Interlude, she could hear sand, allowing her to detect people digging. She claimed that this was why she left Dubai.<ref name="I19.n">Worm FAQ</ref>
Her power was subject to the Manton Effect, and couldn't affect plants.<ref name="12.6c1">Manton effect isn’t necessarily limited to just people. - Comment by Wildbow on Plague 12.6</ref>
Bonesaw also modified members of 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 e1">“You’re not really in a position to be making demands,” Trickster said. “You’re bleeding to death, and we do have the ability to hurry the process along.”
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.”
I made a mental note of that. Chances were good that Jack, Bonesaw and the other more vulnerable members of the Nine had some similar protection. How differently would things have played out if Ballistic had used his power and blown them up?
“I could,” Trickster threatened. “Or we could wait and see which happens first: Either you agree to share the information we want or you slowly bleed out.”
“A game of chicken? I’m down.” Cherish prodded her injury with a fingertip. It was clear it hurt, but she still stuck a finger into the hole and investigated some. “The auto-injection pump is dosing me with painkillers and antibiotics now. First time feeling this stuff work.” - Excerpt from Snare 13.7</ref> with special attention was paid to the organs and spine to keep them functioning.<ref name="14.10 e1" /> She also rendered her teammates resistant to her pathogens,<ref name="14.10 e1">“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.”
“And the gunshot?”
“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.” - Excerpt from Prey 14.10</ref> 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.<ref name="12.4 e1">Jack paced back and forth, two or three steps at a time, gesticulating with his knife. “I was looking forward to Cherish’s attempt. Bonesaw and I even had a plan in mind. I wanted to see what she did, how she worked around Siberian’s immunity to her power… then the safeguards Bonesaw implanted in us would have kicked in and released us from her thrall, and oh, the look on her face. To have seen that would have been so very worth all the trouble. And that girl just spoiled it all.”
[...]
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.” - Excerpt from Plague 12.4</ref>
History
Background
Shatterbird was born in the United Arab Emirates and was unknowingly dosed with a Cauldron formula, prompting the manifestation of her powers and the deaths of thousands. She eventually made her way to London, then America, joining the Slaughterhouse Nine. According to the FAQ, this is probably "more or less accurate".<ref name="I19.n"/><ref name="Cast2">Shatterbird (Missing) – Typically the one that heralds the arrival of the Slaughterhouse Nine at a new city, Shatterbird is a silicakinetic with the ability to manipulate glass at will over a wide area. She was born in the Arab Emirates and dosed with a Cauldron formula, prompting the manifestation of her powers and the deaths of thousands. Eventually made her way to London, then America, joining the Slaughterhouse Nine. She was kidnapped by the Undersiders and controlled by Regent for some time, escaped in the Echidna Arc, and is expected to have died in the collapse of Coil’s base. - Cast (in depth)</ref>
Shatterbird's induction into the Slaughterhouse Nine was the last time more than one of its "candidates" survived the Nine's tests previously to their arrival in Brockton Bay, and she presumably won her place in the Nine by killing the other candidate(s).<ref name="I12"/>
She would gain a reputation as the recruiter for the Slaughterhouse Nine, directly recruiting Burnscar when the young pyrokinetic was on one of her sprees.<ref name="I11.c">Interlude 11c</ref>
Post-Leviathan
Shatterbird came to Brockton Bay with the rest of the Nine and devastated the city with her power. Her candidate for membership was Hookwolf, whom she convinced to agree by threatening his Chosen.
She was defeated and captured by an alliance of the The Undersiders the The Travelers. Regent then used his Master abilities to control her body and by extension her power.
Post-Slaughterhouse Nine
Shatterbird was killed during the Battle against Echidna. Originally freed by some of Echidna's clones when a Vizier tried to control her she killed it and turned her scream on he liberator.
Several clones of her were made and used as part of the The Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand, all are believed to be dead.
Trivia
- Information is incorporated into this article from a non-canon source; see the page in question for details.
- In an early draft of Worm, back when it was called Guts and Glory, Shatterbird was named "Breaker",<ref>The first iteration of the Nine, back when I was writing a story with Glory Girl and Panacea as protagonists, the members included many of the same people. Crawler (then named ‘Troll’), Shatterbird (‘Breaker’), Bonesaw (The Maiden) and some who aren’t in this iteration. - Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 13.5 (Donation Bonus)</ref> an ironic moniker given that Breaker is one of the few classifications her power does not fall under.
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