The Siberian

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<infobox> <title source="name"><default>The Siberian</default></title>

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Deceased

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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> The Siberian was a member of the Slaughterhouse Nine and one of the deadliest threats on Earth Bet.

Personality

A silent cannibal, though she does not need people for sustenance she enjoys the sensation of ripping, chewing, and swallowing flesh.

She obviously relishes the destruction she wreaks.

Relationships

She has maternal feelings for Bonesaw, going out of her way to protect the young tinker.<ref name="I12">Interlude 12</ref>

She had surprising insight into her nominee for the Nine, Rachel, correctly intuiting that her power would be more effective on a wolf cub, and tailoring her body language to Rachel's canine instincts.

Appearance

The Siberian is a black and white striped woman, and so the effect can be fully appreciated, she leaves her 5'8" frame completely bare. She has faintly glowing yellow eyes that may be reflecting the light they catch.<ref name="I11a e1">The crazy bitch was naked from head to toe, and her skin and hair were painted in alternating stripes of white and black, like a zebra… no. Paint would have washed off, and dye wouldn’t be so crisp around the edges. It was a natural coloring.

When the woman looked up at Bitch, her eyes were yellow and bright, reflecting the ambient light like the eyes of a dog or cat might. She smiled, and there wasn’t a trace of tension in her body, as though she’d just woken up in a safe place. - Excerpt from Interlude 11a</ref> This also leaves her nationality somewhat indeterminate.<ref name="Cast2"/> She has waist-length hair<ref name="12.3">Plague 12.3</ref> that also has patterns of white and black in it.<ref name="14.2 e1">Grue banished his darkness. I could see the six of us and the two dogs, lying on the road. Nobody dead.

And there was Siberian. Faintly glowing eyes, black and white striped skin, straight hair in similar variations of black and white, trailing to her tailbone.
[...]
I could see Siberian flex her fingers. Her nails were long, and they were sharp. There wasn’t anything special about them, on an aesthetic level, but they did have the benefit of her power. If she raked those across a surface, they would leave gouges. Didn’t matter how hard or dense the material was. - Excerpt from Prey 14.2</ref>

Although often covered in gore, it slicks off her like rain from windows.<ref name="26.5">One carried the cube, no doubt a container bearing the Mantons within. The other seven followed a pattern, lazy loops that brought them back to the cube every few minutes. They plunged through walls and into apartments and businesses, they returned with blood wicking off of their hands, feet and faces like water off a duck’s back. - Sting 26.5</ref> She keeps her nails long and sharp, these are turned into deadly weapons thanks to her power.

Abilities and Powers

The Siberian is both an unstoppable force and immovable object,<ref>Torrieltar: How fast can Path to Victory react to unforeseen changes?

Wildbow: All changes are foreseen, as a rule. Can't cite anything, but there's a line that sorta appears in the story, where you run into the perfects (perfect defense, perfect offense) and stuff gets fucky - and the rule of thumb is that 'unless your ability beats -everything-, it doesn't beat this'. For processing power Contessa's ability would be on this level (as with Flechette's Sting, Clockblocker's inviolability, Siberian's invulnerability). - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><ref name="Cast2">The Siberian (Deceased) – A recurring nemesis of the Triumvirate, the Siberian’s skin is striped with black and white, leaving her nationality uncertain. Her powers make her unstoppable and untouchable, with no armor protecting against her blows, no object barring her way, no weapon touching her, and no power affecting her. - Cast (spoilers)</ref> unaffected by physical forces or virtually any parahuman ability.<ref name="Cast2"/><ref name="I13"/> Further, she is capable of bestowing her invulnerability on anyone or anything she is in physical contact with; this sometimes bestows a similar monochrome effect on them.<ref name="29.8 e738">The cupped hand turned monochrome as the Siberian used her power on it, then turned back to normal. Alexandria lifted the hand, making room for others, for us to get underneath. - Excerpt from Venom 29.8</ref> This allows her to leap vast distances by transferring the effect to where she leaps from and then applying it to where she lands, allowing her to land on roofs despite dropping from thousands of feet above them.<ref name="I14.5">Interlude 14.y</ref> Her fight against Hero and the future Triumvirate Legend, Alexandria, and Eidolon is remarked to be "the first time a truly dangerous villain made an appearance",<ref name="I13">Interlude 13</ref> neither Hero's armor or Alexandria's own 'invulnerability' are able to stop her.<ref name="Cast2"/> She is immune to both Trickster's teleportation and Panacea's biological manipulation abilities.<ref name="14.2 c1">She’s immune to Trickster and Panacea both. - Comment by Wildbow on Prey 14.2</ref>

She actively allowed gravity to affect her so she could walk, and not be suddenly flung out into space, and could ignore it just as easily. She is seen gliding/minimizing inertia in a few cases to make huge leaps.<ref name="SB726">Nervaqus987: Siberian has shrugged off all forms of attack that were tried on her in the series, only being popped by Foil's Sting and Clockblocker's Time Stop. But when Legend blasted a crater under her feet and when Tecton opened a hole under her, she fell through, which seems to indicate that she's still affected by gravity. So if someone were to throw some kind of gravity manipulation power at her, would that do anything or would she ignore it like everything else?

Wildbow:

Nervaqus987 said:
Siberian & Gravity powers?

She actively allows gravity to affect her so she can walk. She's seen gliding/minimizing inertia in a few cases, fighting Legend and jumping off a roof with Jack/Bonesaw/Cherish.

She could ignore it. - Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref> She could decide what parts of her are affected by which forces, actively allowing her hair to sway in the breeze.<ref>Prey 14.2</ref>

Restrictions

According to the Number Man, she can only grant invulnerability to up to five individuals at once, less if they also intend to move afterward.<ref>“The Siberian,” I said. “Protection effect.”

“Can only protect a handful of us, less if you intend to move after things collapse. Two hands, perhaps two feet, one behind.”

Only five.

Five wasn’t enough. - Excerpt from Venom 29.8</ref>

Although the Siberian is immune to virtually any parahuman power used directly against her, she is not necessarily immune to external influences.<ref name="13.x eVista" /> To pin and slow down her movements,<ref>“Legend’s fighting Siberian here. It feels wrong. He’s working to pin her down, slow her movements as much as he can. I know he’s probably buying time, trying to wear her other self out, but why not a place with flatter terrain? Why not a place where there’ll be less cover for her and less collateral damage? - Prey 14.7</ref> Legend blasted the unprotected area around her so that she could only go straight down.<ref>Rather, his shots seemed to be strategically placed. He ripped apart the side of a building a moment before Siberian landed there, then tore through the five or six floors beneath her so she had nowhere to go except straight down. The instant she stepped free of the building’s ground floor, he tore into the ground with a series of laser blasts that expanded outward, thinning as they went. It created a bowl-shaped indent, with rubble covering the storm drains that had been exposed by the lasers.

Carrying the truck, Siberian headed for the storm drains anyways, tearing through the piles of debris. Legend unloaded on the entire street, collapsing them around her. - Prey 14.7</ref> While being held hostage, Tecton created a fissure by striking the ground; the Siberian was not immune to gravity at the time and so fell into it.<ref>He sprayed containment foam at both Jack and Siberian.

Nothing. It wouldn’t achieve a thing.

But Tecton took the moment of Jack’s blindness to duck, to strike the ground.

The Siberian wasn’t immune to gravity. She fell, and just for a moment, she broke contact with Jack.
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The Siberian leaped out of the fissure, then paced towards Jack. - Interlude 26b</ref> Piggot believed Vista could manipulate the space around the Siberian to help control her movements.<ref name="13.x eVista">“Vista, I’m counting on you to help control the movements of the Nine. Siberian is immune to powers, but not to external influences. The timing will be sensitive.” - Excerpt from Interlude 13</ref>

If the Siberian contacts an All-or-Nothing effect, they will nullify each other, causing her to flicker out of existence:<ref>Belial666: Harm is harm. Since there doesn’t seem to be a limit to what powers can actually do, think of an effect that could trump other effects. For example, a sword that cuts ANYthing is something that has occasionally appears in fantasy. Not the “absurdly sharp edge” version but the “name the object of objection and it’s cut” version.
Swing it at someone and you could cut off a limb. Or, you could cut off their will to fight. Or their strength. Or their ability to interact with the world. Or anything else of them you could name at all.

Wildbow: But if you’re talking in that respect, you might as well be asking what happens when the unstoppable force strikes the immovable object. You might be talking about exactly this if you’re referring to flechette’s arrows vs. Siberian. - Comment by Wildbow on Prey 14.2</ref><ref name="26.5 eConflict" />

• Charged objects from Foil can pop the Siberian.<ref>Up until the moment Foil, still screaming, using her augmented sense of timing to measure the length of each scream, stepped around the monochrome field he’d cast just in front of her. She threw a handful of darts through the Siberian and Gray Boy’s head as his back was turned.
  
  The Siberian flickered out of existence as Gray Boy collapsed.
  
  Neither reappeared, healthy or otherwise. - Interlude 26b</ref><ref name="26.x e1">A female, standing just outside another time distortion, walked around the effect, charging objects with energy. The entity could see as the small pieces of alloyed metal unfolded, taking shape in not just this world, but all realities, at the same space and time, bristling with an effect that would sever their attachment to most physical laws.
  
  They were thrown, and they disrupted connections to two shards at once. The projection disappeared, only to reappear a distance away. The boy who had created the time distortions fell as well.
  
  Sting, the entity thought. Once it had been a weapon for his kind, against his kind, back in the beginning, when they had dwelt in oceans of gray sludge. - Interlude 26</ref>
• Wildbow confirmed blasts from Damsel of Distress can pop the Siberian.<ref>Wildbow:

i really doubt ashley can pop sibby

Ashley could pop Siberian
It's why she came up as a possible thing in relation to Sleeper
Ashley was named in a WoG a while back talking about the 'anything but' powers and stuff like Alexandria Invulnerability. - Comment by Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles</ref>

• The Siberian popped after contacting Clockblocker's frozen object; the object unfroze upon contact.<ref name="26.5 eConflict">Clockblocker fired his threads from his gauntlet. They surrounded the cube-carrier, and he froze them.
  
  Unstoppable force against an immovable object.
  
  Which won?
  
  The Siberian made contact with the thread and flickered out of existence, and the thread went limp. The cube fell with a crash. - Sting 26.5</ref>

A tuned Stilling attack, such as one from Scion, can also pop her.<ref>Wildbow:

would a golden blast still erase her?

Yep. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref><ref name="29.7 e1">The Siberian appeared beside us in the same instant. Manton spoke, “He finally took action and struck my Siberian.” - Venom 29.7</ref> However, because of her origin, the Siberian effectively has the ability to teleport and reform when destroyed.<ref name="26.x e1" /><ref name="29.7 e1" />

History

Background

On September 15th, 2000, Siberian fought Hero, Alexandria, Eidolon, Legend, as well as eight other Protectorate capes and the PRT. They attacked her while she was pinned down. During this battle, she tore Hero to pieces and destroyed one of Alexandria's eyes before mysteriously escaping.<ref name="I13"/> She would later join the Slaughterhouse Nine, under the new leadership of Jack.

While she would be a recurring antagonist of the Protectorate she would lay low with the members of the nine, between the group’s rampages.

Post-Leviathan

The Siberian arrives in Brockton Bay along with the rest of the Slaughterhouse Nine in the aftermath of Leviathan's attack, occasionally killing civilians but otherwise laying low.

Marking Bitch as a potential recruit, she attacks her kennel and leaves a wolf pup there before finding the teenage villain outside patrolling her new territory. Arriving while Bitch was confronting members of New Wave her appearance caused the heroes to immediately retreat. When they were alone The Siberian verbally informs Bitch that the Nine are looking for recruits. Bitch tries and fails to attack her, and the Siberian, after stating her reasons for the nomination leaves her with two gifts - Bastard, and the fact that she is the only other living person to have heard the Siberian speak and live.<ref name="I11a">Interlude 11a</ref>

Siberian accompanies Jack Slash, Bonesaw, and Cherish while they have an impromptu meeting with the Undersiders and the Travelers, acting as security to keep the other members from being attacked. After Jack mutilates Tattletale, informs the teenage villains of the rules of the nines nominating process and that Shatterbird was almost ready to sing, the Siberian left with the trio of killers.

She later actively participates in the massacre of the Merchants, conveying Jack, Bonesaw, and Cherish to the ground from the position surveying the merchants and then mutilating several members of the drug gang by tearing through them.

Siberian is with the rest of the Nine when they are attacked on the way to Parian's territory. After the battle, she and the other members reach Dolltown and kill most of the residents, save those surgically altered by Bonesaw or evacuated by Parian. The area is then attacked by Fenrir's Chosen, and Siberian participates in the battle against them. During Grue's second trigger, she, the rest of the Nine, and the Chosen are engulfed in his darkness, and Grue uses a facsimile of Siberian's power to kill Burnscar.

Siberian later finds Panacea and begins chasing her as part of the recruitment cost, biting her fingers off one knuckle at a time for each of the four times she catches her. Siberian continues the chase even as Skitter uses her bugs to distract her and to search for her supposed master that Cherish told the Siberian's foes about. When the Undersiders and the Travelers meet Panacea, Siberian confronts them, but disappears when Tattletale tells her about the Protectorate's upcoming attack on the Nine in an attempt to get her to leave, summoned by her master.<ref name="14.2">Prey 14.2</ref> He drives toward the Nine's location but is soon discovered by Skitter, forcing him to summon the Siberian again to defend himself from the attacks mounted by the pursuing Undersiders and Travelers. When Sundancer destroys a large section of road in front of him, his truck is sent into the resulting crater just before Legend and several other Protectorate capes arrive. Siberian leaps out of the crater and engages Legend in combat.  While the rest of the Protectorate leaves to fight the Nine's other members, Legend and Siberian continue their battle, while her master reveals his existence to Jack and Bonesaw before hiding with them in an Endbringer shelter. Skitter finds them and attacks the trio with a swarm of insects, grievously injuring the Siberian's Master. 

She saves Jack and Bonesaw from the PRT's second bombing.<ref>Might as well share: Siberian’s real body was being kept in a specialized case created by Bonesaw with some Mannequin components. Left in there for an hour to regenerate/weather the venoms. Relatively easy process to get him out, put Cherish in, do the surgery on her corona aurora, change some settings and seal her inside. - Comment by Wildbow on Prey 14.11</ref>

When the Nine leave the city, the Siberian is still a member in good standing.

Post-Slaughterhouse Nine

Participated in recruiting of Damsel of Distress and raiding of Accord mansion in Boston.<ref>Eclipse x.8</ref>

However, sometime later in Boston, Defiant and Dragon were able to track and eliminate her master.<ref>Interlude 19.x</ref>

Post-Timeskip

Using blood samples of previous members of the nine Bonesaw was able to clone Siberian's master allowing six Siberians and three male Siberians to participate in the Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand<ref name="I25">Interlude 25</ref>.

Gold Morning

The Siberian briefly battled Zion in the Cauldron facility when the golden man appeared there looking for something. While able to damage him she was unable to kill him.

Origins

SPOILERS
The Siberian was a mental projection of William Manton, rather than a distinct individual. He created her in the image of his daughter, having taken the same vial as Genesis.

Trivia

• The Siberian is referred to as 'Case 01' within the PRT, marking her as the first of the PRT Case Files.<ref>She found a file listed as ‘Case 01’. She clicked it. - Excerpt from Interlude 13</ref>
• White tigers are an uncommon pigmentation variant most associated with Bengal tigers. Siberian tigers are predominantly orange as in all tiger populations.

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