Bonesaw

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Bonesaw</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>

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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 and carefree, Bonesaw lacks any aversion to murder and gruesome torture, taking delight in her victims' suffering. She is fixated on the idea of being a "good girl", constantly affecting a cheerful, happy-go-lucky demeanor even while torturing her victims. She has an aversion to swearing, never cursing herself and chastising others for doing so.

Bonesaw constantly craves validation, and is obsessed with gaining the approval of the Nine, who she considers her "family". Disapproval is anathema to her, and she has nightmares when she sleeps if she isn't held by one of her older teammates, usually the Siberian. Bonesaw most especially seeks to please Jack Slash, who is her mentor of sorts, teaching her to see her gruesome creations and torture methods as a sort of "art". She tirelessly pursues innovation in her art, looking for inspiration and new, creative ways to make others suffer.

Underlying Bonesaw's cheerful persona is a sadistic edge, prickly and easy to anger. She enjoys hurting and tormenting others, and is liable to laugh and joke with someone one moment and carve them up immediately afterward. When in a bad mood, she is one of the most dangerous of the Nine.

|-|As Riley= Riley once was a little girl who dearly loved her family. When Jack and the Nine came, killed her family, and caused her to trigger, Riley was stuffed away, masked under the persona of Bonesaw. Riley's return came about after Contessa approached her, telling her a few crucial words that allowed her to begin puzzling out her situation. Her conscience slowly and painfully returned in the lack of distractions to occupy herself with, and she began to realize that her passenger had subsumed her personality from the day she had triggered. With the revelation, she resolved to become Riley once more.

As Riley, she is no longer as happy-go-lucky, as she no longer can embroil herself into a carefree façade. She is unable to fully regret the things she's done as Bonesaw, but recognizes that she should, and knows something is wrong since she doesn't. She no longer has an aversion to swearing, and swears herself at times. While not fully divorced from her life as Bonesaw, sometimes acting borderline sociopathic, she is aware of her faults, and works hard to develop herself as an individual separate from her passenger.

In later years, Riley is rather upfront about being unable to fully relate to other people. Her social skills have been severely stunted from her time in the Nine and her passenger's influence.<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> </tabber>

Relationships

Bonesaw has an obsession with building a "family" in the Nine to replace the one she lost. This influences her choices when nominating people for membership.

Jack Slash

Saw Jack as a mentor and a father figure of sorts, but also feared him intensely. She thought of him as very intelligent and all knowing, and constantly tried to gain his approval. She felt a sort of confusion and rebellion towards him when she began reverting into Riley once more.<ref name="I25" />

Siberian

Saw Siberian as the older sister or family pet, while Siberian saw Bonesaw as a daughter. Siberian was often the one to sleep with Bonesaw, as she had nightmares, and often accompanied Bonesaw when going out to protect her from threats. Siberian hated the idea of losing Bonesaw, and retaliated violently against threats to the girl.<ref name="I12" />

Panacea

Was highly interested in Panacea due to their similar powers over biology. She saw an opportunity for Panacea to become her older sister, collaborating together to create amazing projects of flesh and bone. Panacea did not reciprocate this feeling, disgusted by the idea.

Appearance

Bonesaw is described as a young girl in a dress with blond hair curled in ringlets. Over her dress, she wears a stained, oversized apron, with a pocket that carries her vials and surgical tools.<ref>His teammate Bonesaw, was standing in the corner of the room just to my right. I could see the edge of a dress, an apron with tools and vials in the pocket, long blond hair curled into ringlets, and that same shroud of smoke around her, moving out to fill the room. - Excerpt from Prey 14.10</ref> Aside from her hair, which is kept immaculate, her body and clothes are unkempt, covered in dirt and blood.<ref>A girl stood in the living room, five or so years younger than Amy. Her blond hair had been curled into ringlets with painstaking care, but the rest of her was unkempt, filthy. She stared at Mark, who was struggling and failing to stand from the couch.

The girl turned to look at Amy, and Amy saw that some of the dirt that covered the girl wasn’t dirt, but crusted blood. The girl wore a stained apron that was too large for her, and the scalpels and tools in the pocket gleamed, catching the light from the lamps in the corner of the room. - Excerpt from Interlude 11h</ref> She is almost always accompanied by her biomechanical "spiders", which are small metal boxes with needles and scalpels at the end of their hydraulic legs.<ref name=":1" />

When Bonesaw returned to her Riley persona with the restoration of her sanity, Riley switched to a more unassuming look.<ref name="28.3">Cockroaches 28.3</ref> She temporarily turned herself taller and began maturing her body while the Nine were in stasis, but reverted her appearance before she let the Nine out from suspension to avoid suspicion. She retained her young appearance for the following years due to the technical difficulty of undoing her frozen aging.<ref>Some of those structures were the same ones that kept her apparent age at twelve. She had never gotten around to undoing that, in part because it required her to overhaul so many systems that were hooked into it. She wasn’t sure she wouldn’t end up over a hundred years old and still postponing the change to her appearance. - [1] from Last 20.e4</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Bonesaw is a powerful Tinker whose abilities make her an unparalleled expert in biological, anatomical, and physiological sciences.<ref name="list">Wildbow's Parahuman List</ref> She is capable of a wide array of surgical procedures, modifying the bodies of herself and her allies to be tougher and stronger, and modifying her victims in order to subject them to horrific fates. Her sheer versatility makes her one of the most dangerous Tinkers on Earth Bet.

Spider Boxes

Bonesaw is assisted during surgery and battle by her "spider boxes", metal boxes half the size of a toaster with spindly, hydraulic legs that each end in syringes or scalpels. These mechanical spiders are mainly controlled by interconnected lumps of brain tissue, with embedded computer chips handling their more complex functions.<ref name=":0">Others were entering the room now. From the kitchen, a woman, the structure of her face altered into something that was more rat-like than human, conelike, ending in a squashed black nose that had staples around it. Bonesaw had added a second set of teeth, all canines, so that the woman would have enough as her jaw was stretched forward. Drool constantly leaked between her teeth in loops and tendrils. She was pale, except for her face and patches all down her body, where patches of ebon black skin were stapled in place. Her hair was long, dark, and unwashed, but most unnerving of all were her fingers, which had been replaced by what looked like machetes. The clawtips dragged on the hardwood as she stumped forward on feet that had been modified in a similar way, no longer fit for conventional walking.

The third was another Frankenstein hodgepodge of two individuals, emerging from the hallway where the amalgamation of Oni Lee and Hatchet Face -Hack Job- had exploded. The lower half was a man who must have been built like a gorilla in life, rippling with muscles, walking forward on his knuckles. His upper body grew up from the point the other body’s neck should have begun, an emaciated man with greasy brown hair and beard, grown long. He was not unlike a centaur, but the lower half was a brutish man.

Then there were the other things. They weren’t alive. Spidery contraptions of scrap metal, they lacked heads, only consisting of a box half the size of a toaster and spindly legs that moved on hydraulics, each ending in a syringe or scalpel. A dozen of them, climbing onto the walls and floor. - Excerpt from Interlude 11h</ref><ref name=":1">It took only moments to rig. Her spider boxes ran on interconnected lumps of gray matter, basic impulses, motor control and storage, with some computer chips to handle functions that were more trouble than they were worth to implement. One of those chips managed rote movements. She removed a defunct spider box from the backpack she was keeping beneath her desk and attached it to Blasto’s spine, between his shoulder blades. - Excerpt from Interlude 25</ref>

Spider boxes can be guided by a remote control. Bonesaw was able to use a laser pointer to mark a target, which a spider box would leap onto and inject with a syringe. Spider boxes can be taught complex actions via demonstration, and can perfect them with repetition. This is likely how Bonesaw taught them to subdue and inject victims with syringes, or harvest organic materials for her.

Control Frames

Bonesaw is capable of outfitting humans with mechanical, internal control frames, putting them under her complete control. In this way, she has a limited ability to raise the freshly dead, which she uses to produce her "zombies".<ref name=":0" /> Her control frames can even operate a body after its death, as they require no input from the victim to move.<ref name="I25" />

The control frame consists of metal frames that interlace with the largest bones in the skeletal system, with needles connecting to the brain and spine. There were contingencies in case the control frames were ever disabled, usually involving stopping the heart. Examples included needles around the heart rigged to stab inward, and injectors that would trigger a reversal of the parahuman's regeneration, starting with the heart.<ref name="I11h" />

Power Tinkering

With experimentation, Bonesaw is able to alter the Corona Pollentia, allowing her to modify a parahuman's abilities to a limited degree and combine multiple coronas to fuse two powers into one. Examples of her power modifications include altering Cherish's power so that she senses negative emotions more powerfully and cannot filter them out,<ref>Don’t worry about Cherish. She’s sleeping somewhere at the bottom of the bay. Bonesaw was kind enough to crank up her receptive range toward negative emotions and remove her filters. The girl will personally experience every awful feeling Brockton Bay’s inhabitants do- and with the benefit of Alan’s tech, she’ll get to do it for a very, very, very long time. - Excerpt from Prey 14.11</ref> and combining the powers of Hatchet Face and Oni Lee to create Hack Job.<ref name="I11h">Interlude 11h</ref>

Examples of her parahuman fusions include Murder Rat, Hack Job, Pagoda, Tyrant, Spawner, Snowmann, Nighty Night, and Laughjob.

Chemicals/Plagues

Bonesaw enjoys using vials of chemicals to her advantage. One gas she frequently employed was a white smoke that automatically kills diseases in her radius, useful against plagues that Bonesaw or her teammates were not yet immunized against. It had the side effect of also killing bugs and small rodents, much to the frustration of Skitter.<ref name=":2">“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> She also utilizes prions, available in liquid and powder form, which cripple the Corona Gemma, disabling the conscious use of powers while keeping the power itself intact.<ref>She tilted my head back and felt around the edges of my mask, trying to find the part where she could pull it off. “I’m really good at figuring out where the Corona and the Gemma are. I can even guess most of the time, if I know what powers the person has. And I can pry it wide open, make it so the powers can’t be turned off, or I can temporarily disable it, or modify it. The powder I blew into your face? It has the same prions I put in the darts I shot your friends with. Cripples the Gemma, but it leaves your powers intact. Can’t experiment with your abilities if I’ve fried your whole Corona Pollentia, right? Right.” - Excerpt from Snare 13.9</ref> She has vials of white smoke that can congeal into strands of movement-impeding gunk, similar to containment foam.<ref name="I19.x" />

She has a number of horrifying plagues and poisons designed to inflict painful death. Her poisons had the ability to cause slow, agonizing death beyond that of any natural toxin or venom.<ref name="I14.y">Those doubts had become quiet conviction after he’d gone to see Battery in the hospital. One of Bonesaw’s mechanical spiders had cut her suit. He knew exactly the kind of disorientation, hallucination and waves of paranoia she would have experienced as the gas took hold. While she reeled and tried to get a grip on reality, she’d likely left herself open for further attacks. Whatever the case, one of the spiders had injected her with a poison Bonesaw had devised.

Her death had been slow, painful and inevitable. It had been engineered to strike those notes in a way that millions of years of evolution had yet to refine a plant’s toxin or an animal’s venom. Lying in the hospital bed, still delirious, Battery had used halting sentences to tell him about Cauldon, about buying her powers, and about Cauldron asking her to help Siberian and Shatterbird escape. She’d planned to pursue the Nine, to offer assistance and then kill one or both of the villains. Battery had begged him for affirmation that she’d tried to do the right thing, that he would find the answers she didn’t. He’d reassured her the best he could. - Excerpt from Interlude 14.y</ref> She is also able to create epidemic plagues, able to spread to and kill huge amounts of people. However, Jack preferred her not to do this, so the plagues she creates are limited in their spread, an example being a plague she created that caused victims' bodies to explode and spread via bloody shrapnel, which would diminish with every person infected and eventually wear off.<ref name="I12" />

During the Nine's second visit of Brockton Bay, Bonesaw engineered an agnosia plague that spread through the water supply and rapidly vaporized into a red, airborne miasma. When inhaled, it rendered people unable to recognize others, causing a spiral of paranoia among the capes of Brockton Bay as they were left unable to distinguish friend from foe.<ref>Prey 14.8</ref>

Body Augmentation

Bonesaw has modified herself and her teammates extensively. All members of the Slaughterhouse Nine possess a subdermal mesh, reinforced more around the spine, organs, and major arteries, causing them to be much tougher than regular humans.<ref name=":2" /><ref name="13.7">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.” - Excerpt from Snare 13.7</ref> In addition, she was able to install artificial neurons into the Nine that were able to stay hidden from Cherish's emotion senses.<ref>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>

Bonesaw herself is considerably more augmented. Her body is reinforced like the rest of the Nine, and she has redundant organs, able to function even with her heart pierced. She has numerous contingencies in the event of grievous bodily damage, including a prehensile spine that effectively serves as a third arm when exposed.<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> Her prehensile spine has the ability to extend needles, which can interface with another victim's spine through the mouth to pilot that person's body.<ref name="I19.x" /> She can turn off the pain she felt through an internal 'switch', and is immune to most diseases, venoms, and allergens.<ref>“Just so you know, I’ve rendered myself immune to all those pesky little venoms and allergens,” she said. “And I can turn pain off like I’m flicking a switch. Don’t want to do that on a permanent basis, but it does make this easier to deal with.” - Excerpt from Snare 13.9</ref>

Among her various tricks is her ability to deploy poisons from vents in her body, alongside mechanical traps and needles that can spring out on command.<ref name=":3">Bonesaw laughed again, not for quite so long. Through the giggles, she said, “If you’re going to try to mind control me, I can tell you you’ve got another thing coming. I’ve got safeguards. You’ll only activate my berserker mode.”

[...]

Bonesaw bristled. Mechanical traps, spring-loaded needles and venom venting systems readied throughout her body. She let the bags drop to the ground. - Excerpt from Interlude 25</ref> She is also loaded with lethal, potentially epidemic causing plagues that are set to release into the air upon her potential death.<ref>“You know I loaded myself with a mess of epidemics, Defiant,” Bonesaw said. “You kill me like that and I’ll explode into a cloud of a bajillion plagues. It can’t be easy.”

“It is,” Defiant’s voice was distorted by his helmet, vaguely computerized. There was a processor at work somewhere there, Rey observed.

“What, you’ll unleash a thousand plagues on this world to finish me off? Me? A little girl?” Bonesaw smiled wide. - Excerpt from Interlude 19.x</ref> She has capsules in her teeth that she can break to release and spit acid from her mouth.<ref name="I19.x" /> In the case of Master influence on her mind, she has a berserker mode that will automatically activate.<ref name=":3" />

After Bonesaw reformed, Panacea removed everything Bonesaw had implanted into her body. Panacea 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" />

Tinker Collaboration

Bonesaw is able to very effectively collaborate with and incorporate tech from other tinkers, likely due to her enhanced connection with her shard. She often collaborated with Mannequin, such as when they disassembled Grue and hooked up his organs to an entire room, sustaining his body through Mannequin's life-preserving technology. She also used Mannequin's technology to preserve Cherish under the waters of Brockton Bay, which would keep her alive for thousands of years to come.<ref name="20.3 c2">She’s hooked up to the same systems that keep Mannequin going. Chances are strong she’ll live for a few thousand years. Maybe ten or twenty thousand, depending on the degree of wear from tides. - Comment by Wildbow on Chrysalis 20.3</ref>

Her crowning achievement is the creation of the Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand, using technology stolen from Toybox. She utilized Glace's cryogenic technology to freeze the Nine and Cranial's memory technology to implant memories into the clones, and collaborated with a bodily-controlled Blasto to create the clones themselves.

History

Background

Riley triggered in 2005, at the age of six,<ref name="II20.e4">Last 20.e4</ref> after she was forced to repeatedly provide medical care for her family by the Slaughterhouse Nine. Her mother, father, brother, and pet were spread throughout the house, each supervised by one or two members of the Nine, forcing her to rush between the rooms of the house to patch them up as they were injured over and over again.<ref name="I25" />

After triggering, she continued to stitch her family up using her enhanced knowledge of medicine, growing exhausted over the hours of work. Eventually, she gave up, watching as her mother slowly died in front of her. Dissociating her mother's body in her mind as a mere lump of flesh, Riley mentally broke. Taking the last words of her dying mother to heart, "Be a good girl", Riley faked a smile, resolving to take on the persona of what would eventually become Bonesaw.<ref name="I25">Interlude 25</ref><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 a new member shortly after Leviathan attacked the city. Motivated by the prospect of an "older sister" with a power that complemented her own, Bonesaw chose Panacea as her nomination, visiting the Dallon household to tell her as much. Accompanied by Murder Rat, Hack Job, and Pagoda, Bonesaw approached Amy and a brain-damaged Mark Dallon, making her recruitment pitch. After Amy expressed reservations with using her power, Bonesaw decided to test Amy, forcing her to disable Murder Rat and kill Pagoda in an attempt to make Amy get over her aversion to killing. After further refusal, with Amy claiming she couldn't use her power on brains, Bonesaw decided to force her to take action by having one of her spiders inject acid into Mark's brain. After Amy gave in, removing the acid and restoring Mark to his full mental faculties, Mark used his powers as Flashbang to drive Murder Rat and Bonesaw away.<ref name="I11h" />

Bonesaw participated in the Slaughterhouse Nine's slaughter of the Merchants, releasing a short term plague that caused victims to explode and spread the disease via shrapnel. After the carnage had concluded, Bonesaw began harvesting muscle and organs from the fallen and stitched them together into an artistic creation.<ref name="I12">Interlude 12</ref>

After the Slaughterhouse Nine captured Grue, she worked together with Mannequin to turn Grue into one of her "art pieces".<ref name="13.8">Snare 13.8</ref> This, along with her torturing of his friends and Taylor, eventually caused Grue to experience a second trigger event.<ref name="13.9">Snare 13.9</ref> With his newfound trump ability, Grue copied Siberian's power and used it to kill Burnscar and mutilate Bonesaw, chopping off her hands, before helping the Undersiders escape. She also modified the residents of Dolltown to resemble the Nine in order to provide cover for their escape.

She would replace her hands with tech from mannequin.

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

While evading the pursuit of Dragon and Defiant, the Nine recruited Skinslip, Night Hag, and Damsel of Distress. Bonesaw surgically modified Damsel 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 herself 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, 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, Jessica Yamada, and multiple other Wardens' personnel and ex-prisoners near a remote settlement.<ref>Sundown 17.6</ref>

Riley ostensibly was the reason that the most of the people survived. However, she backslided to her old habits,<ref>Riley seemed to have saved us, if anything, by analyzing the food and curing the sickest of us- people I deemed so at-risk that it was unlikely she could do too much. Riley and Jamie Rinke were, to all appearances, angelic, all considered. Some reining in needed, naturally, and it took everything I had to stay on top of it all, especially with my own bouts with illness, but it worked. - Excerpt from Sundown 17.6</ref> raising suspicions and tension in the camp.<ref>Some parahumans, one couple, a jolly fellow who fancied himself a survivalist and who was taking an optimistic view of the situation. He would stop in every day or two, and he hadn’t stopped in for two days. We sent out people to get in touch with him after Valkyrie’s arrival, and they couldn’t find his camp. [...] Terrifying. Crushing. Riley adopted her ‘Bonesaw’ persona, acting younger than she appeared- and with the surgeries she subjected herself to, she’ll never appear older than twelve. Laughing off my questions, being furtive.” - Excerpt from Sundown 17.6</ref> It eventually led to her fight with similarly extremely stressed Jessica Yamada,<ref>This- a whirl of intensity, Jessica reaching out with a bleeding arm, grabbing a thin wrist, slamming it down into rocky ground until the attacker dropped the blade. Frantic, even though it meant losing traction, Jessica reached out and swiped the knife, sending it flying ten or fifteen feet.

The hands that grabbed her arms were small. Fingernails dug into forearm, and came away with fine white lines caught beneath small fingernails that had been painted pink.

Jessica knelt on the offending hand, pinning it down, and strangled-
Strangled Bonesaw. - Excerpt from From Within 16.12 </ref> shortly after they were found by Valkyrie.

There was no evidence found of other misbehavior on Bonesaw's part,<ref>Everyone accounted for. Everyone checked over. Nothing questionable. If I had to guess, she was protective of her work because it was all she had to show for the prior timeframe and as you say, it was fragile. I’ve gone over that conversation a thousand times in my head, since, and I think she might have misread my tone, or misread my impatience as my wanting her to leave it behind.” - Excerpt from Sundown 17.6</ref> and Riley chose to stay in exile, with Valkyrie making visits as necessary.<ref>“And Bonesaw?” I asked, quiet. “Is she okay?”

“Riley is Riley, Victoria. Physically? Even with nearly every bit of her technology removed from her body, I don’t think there’s much someone could do to her with physical wounds that would last.”

I nodded. I wasn’t sure how to feel about that.

“Mentally? Emotionally?” Jessica asked. “She asked to stay. Valkyrie tried to convince her. They struck a deal that Valkyrie would visit now and then. She was ashamed she hurt me like she did.” - Excerpt from Sundown 17.6</ref>

Post-Time Bubble Pop

She was still active, tending to The Flock.

Riley heard about Contessa being captured by Teacher and leaned into her paranoia, making it borderline impossible to contact her without an assistance from the members of the Flock.<ref name="II19.z" />

The Ice Breaks

She was visited by Photon and invited to the fight.<ref name="II19.z">Infrared 19.z</ref> Bonesaw accepted invitation, and it was decided that Riley was going to instruct Chris Elman on execution to stay on time.<ref name="II20.2">Last 20.2</ref>

She provided her opinion on severity of wounds of Victoria Dallon and Byron Vera, forcing Chris to share his emergency supplies.<ref name="II20.3">Last 20.4</ref>

Following Chris' defection Riley agreed to proceed on her own, despite not having obvious means to deliver results at the moment. She was later recovered by Valkyrie Titan as a part of the deal between Victoria and Contessa.<ref name="II20.a">Last 20.a</ref>

Her opinion was one of the reasons for the Wardens to attempt to capture Chris Elman during the Victoria's plague deployment.<ref>“And Chris?”

“They’re going to hunt him down. [...] He was spreading half-truths and they asked Jessica, who asked Riley, who said he was a problem. They’ll imprison him and take away his stuff if they can. Jessica said to, I think, as a compromise.” - Excerpt from Last 20.10</ref>

Ward Epilogue

Riley passed the winter in her camp, but returned to The City and the Wardens' custody at the end of the winter. She met Cryptid and Lookout during her visit to the local Wardens' office.<ref name="II20.e4" />

She was provided with a monitored apartment by the Wardens.<ref name="II20.e4" />

Riley informed Dragon about her conversation with Lookout, prompting Dragon to investigate.<ref name="II20.e5">Last 20.e5</ref>

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.
• Wildbow 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.
  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 on interlude 11h </ref>

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