Ratcatcher

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<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>

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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>Ratcatcher is another fantastic rodenta themed superhero!

Personality

Ratchatcher is an agreeable person who speaks with a lisp.<ref name="I3.II e3">Crystalclear was aware that Ratcatcher wasn’t alone. He turned his head a little, then pointed at the pocket of Ratcatcher’s top. It was a sleeveless top, tight-fitting in the way a costume was supposed to be, but it had a hoodie-like pouch in the front. There was a small life form in there, the thing’s perspective fuzzy in a way that suggested it was asleep, in whole or in part.

Ratcatcher made a pleased sound, then reached into the pouch. The disturbance woke the creature, but she didn’t act like it was upset as she held it in her two hands.

Crystalclear could guess what the thing was from its dimensions and Ratcatcher’s name. “Does it have a name?”

“Raththputin,” Ratcatcher said. She picked up a walkie-talkie, “The attractive older gentleman in the peacoat, hairy earth and eyelatheth to die for. Thomething thown into the coat. Naughty.”

“…I can see Ratcatcher has joined us…” the walkie talkie buzzed in response. The buzzing turned into crackling. “…nimize colorful commenta…” - Excerpt from Interlude 3 II</ref> She has a bit of a playful side and could get along with people.

She had not joined the Wardens.

Relationships

Burnish

Was friends with the Heroic Blaster.

Crystalclear

Warmed to the disfigured Thinker.<ref name="I2.II e5">“Ratcatcher seemed to take to you,” Relay commented.

“Did she?” Crystalclear asked.

“That’s the impression I got. You didn’t seem too bothered, either.”

“She seemed like a nice kid. Weird but good.”

Relay made a small sound. “Don’t, uh, say that around her. She’s older than you. Heh.” - Excerpt from Interlude 2 II</ref>

Appearance

Wears a wire and paper-mache rat mask which covers her face. The more elaborate version of her costume features a belt with various mousetraps on it, a denim jacket and shorts, and shirt and socks with a lively striped pattern. Dot appreciated it.<ref name="I3.II e2">“Not so fatht,” the woman said, as Dot skidded on the floor, stopping.

The woman was small, as humans went, and she wore a costume that covered most of her body. Her mask was roughly cone-shaped, but the paper or wire that kept the mask pointy had been dented or damaged at one point, and the nose drooped a bit. Rodent-like, with ears sticking out and back at the side, flat against the side of her head. The eyes behind the eye-holes were large, dark, and moist. If Dot unfocused her eyes a bit, it looked like there was nothing behind the eyeholes. Dark hair draped around in front of the ears and down the back of the woman’s head. As pointy as the mask was, she wore a hood or a hat with a point going the opposite direction.

She wore a jacket, denim, with a threadbare collar, a striped shirt beneath, and a thin chain belt with mousetraps dangling from it. Her socks were striped as well, extending high enough that they just barely met her denim cut-off shorts.

Dot was willing to admit that if she was going to die, at least it was at the hands of someone with a good aesthetic. - Excerpt from Interlude 3 II</ref> Also wore a simplified costume incorporating a sleeveless top in warm weather.<ref name="I3.II e3"/>

Is a bit on the short side. She has mentioned that people tend to find her face disturbing without the mask, but her exact appearance has not been described.<ref name="I2.II e4">He blinked a few times with his one eye, noticed that Ratcatcher had taken off her mask, gray furred and full-face, and decided to keep his gaze averted, for privacy’s sake, and because looking at her would let her see his face.

He concentrated, and he produced another chunk of glass, feeling it stab from the underside of his eye and out, sliding through everything in the way without doing real damage. He was careful to shape it in his mind so there wouldn’t be any sharp edges resting against his eyelid or brow.

He turned his face Ratcatcher’s way. “How do I look? Symmetrical?”

“Yeth.”

“Thank you,” he said.

“Thank you,” she said, with emphasis on the ‘you’.

“Why?”

“Not many people look me in the fathe when my mathk is off and keep from flinching,” she said.

Crystalclear’s response was cut short. - Excerpt from Interlude 2 II</ref> This combined with her unusual eyes and lisp may suggest a power-related deformity, but this remains ambiguous.<ref name="I3.II e2"/>

Abilities and Powers

Can see small detached objects.<ref name="I2.II e2">Ratcatcher joined Crystalclear in the booth, sitting on the counter by the phone.

“What do you do, Crythtalclear?” Ratcatcher asked.

“I see through walls. I can see contraband.”

“I can too,” Ratcatcher said. “I thee thmall thingth, wherever they are.” - Excerpt from Interlude 2 II</ref> She was not able to sense internal objects but she was able to see small things whether animate or inanimate.<ref name="I3.II e1"/>

On another note she keeps trained rats,<ref name="I3.II e2">Ratcatcher held out a hand. Dot was wary, but she ventured closer.

“Thay hello to Raththputin,” Ratcatcher said. “Thtay in my pocket for now.”
[...]
It was another minute until she realized two things.

Ratcatcher had friends.

The convenient openings in the vents and leading from vent to the inside of the walls of the station were there because of those friends.

Dot had dealt with rats before, but these rats were the sort that were very ugly and very large. In the right light, they might have been mistaken for very ugly, small dogs. Dot had always liked that story when the King read it from the scary children’s book. The children got the dog and the dog turned out to be a Mexican sewer rat.

These rats were that sort, apparently, and they smelled like Ratcatcher’s pocket had. - Excerpt from Interlude 3 II</ref> in the past she may have had them retrieve the objects that she found. She could probably maintain an awearness of them while they were out of reach.

History

Background

She's probably had a natural thinker trigger, and may have had powers from a very young age.<ref name="I2.II e4"/>

Ward Start

Worked at the Gimel Portal in The City there she met Crystalclear..<ref>Interlude 2 II</ref>

Tried to stop a stowaway.<ref name="I3.II e1">“You’ve got a thtowaway.”

Dot froze.

“A thtowaway?” was the response. There was a sound of an impact, light.

“Thomething thmall.” - Excerpt from Interlude 3 II</ref> The thing told her that her friend Burnish had died. While Ratcatcher was heart broken, she was still willing to give the creature water before sending it back through the portal. The thing betrayed her trust, fled, and killed three of her trained rats in her escape.

Post-Fallen fall

Survived sabotage and continued working near the portals.

Was present during terrorist attack on refugee intake center and was willing to help.

Fanart Gallery

• Art by Scarfgirl
  Art by Scarfgirl
• Art by Scarfgirl
  Art by Scarfgirl
• Illustration by Uberpigeon
  Illustration by Uberpigeon

References

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