King

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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>Gabriel Maxberry,<ref name="SB1">King: Gabriel Maxberry - Private conversation with Wildbow, archived on Spacebattles</ref> known publicly as King, was the original leader of the Slaughterhouse Nine.

Appearance

King was described as a broad-shouldered blond man. He was half a foot taller than Jack Slash.<ref name=":0">King, tall and blond, unabashed in his nudity.  All nine Kings were broad-shouldered, each half a foot taller than Jack.

Their interaction would be an interesting one.  She'd wondered if she should program King with the knowledge that Jack had been the one to kill him, reconsidered. - Excerpt from Interlude 25</ref>

Personality

King would call his protege by his first name, Jacob, practically purring the word. He considered Jacob a "killer-in-training".<ref name=":1">Interlude 21.x</ref> Weaver believed that he was one of the few Nine members who would immediately report cheating to his superior, rather than seeing it as fun.<ref>They'd been okay with a little bit of involvement on our part.  Tattletale had speculated they would.  There were only a few who were so regimented they would report it to Jack at the first opportunity.  Winter was among them, but she was largely in the dark, here.  Screamer wouldn't fill her in if it meant spoiling the fun.

In truth, the only ones who wouldn't let us get away with this were Mannequin and King. - Sting 26.2</ref>

Bonesaw's clones of King, based on historical accounts, weren't embarrassed by nudity. They were unaware that Jack had been the one to kill them.<ref name=":0" />

Abilities and Powers

King's power took any physical harm he suffered and transferred it among people he'd touched within the last twenty-four hours.<ref name=":2">Untouchable.  King's power took any physical harm he suffered and transferred it among his pawns.  People he'd touched within the last twenty-four hours.[...]Tyrant here had the enhanced strength each of the two had possessed, the enhanced durability. - Sting 26.3</ref>

This power made him immune to the effects of Gray Boy's ability which is how he was able to get a hold of him.<ref name=":3">Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref> However, it was unable to protect him from Foil's charged shots,<ref>Sting 26.3</ref> whose effects he could also not displace.

He also possessed enhanced strength and durability.<ref name=":2" />

History

Background

It's possible that King was a star athlete who turned to drugs, resulting in his trigger event.<ref>Ramen Sensei</ref>

King was the initial leader of the Slaughterhouse Nine. He ran the Nine as a "brute squad" similar to the Teeth.<ref>Crimson was a mainstay of King's era, when he'd ruled the Nine as more of a brute squad, not dissimilar to the Teeth back in Brockton Bay.  - Sting 26.2</ref><ref>The first iteration formed twenty years ago. They were a very different group, led by King (mistakenly called Rex in a previous chapter). Jack was a junior member, as was Gray Boy. - Comment by Wildbow on Imago 22.1</ref> He was the one who gave Harbinger his name.<ref name=":1" /> King's immunity to Gray Boy allowed King to recruit him.<ref name=":3" /> He was killed at the hands of Jack Slash and Harbinger in 1987.<ref name=":1" />

Post-Timeskip

King was one of the many former Slaughterhouse Nine members cloned by Bonesaw, and served in the Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand under King's former pupil Jacob. Another instance of him was combined with Hatchet Face to create Tyrant.<ref name=":2" />

A clone of King who accompanied a squad of other Nine clones was captured by Dragon and Defiant using containment foam.<ref>Interlude 26.x</ref>

Golem encountered an apparent clone of King who was actually Jack Slash, disguised by Nyx's power.<ref>Interlude 26b </ref>

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