Jack Slash
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Jacob, better known as Jack Slash, is the leader of the Slaughterhouse Nine.
Personality
A cruel and manipulative man with a love of theatrics.
Jacob had a playful demeanor even while he was committing smallscale personal pain or when coordinating wide scale atrocities with the backing of the Slaughterhouse Nine.
Every move and action he made was calculated to afflict change on the world around him for the worse.
He expressing a love for affecting "keystones" in his introductory chapter, that could change the world around themselves as well as though he was an individual butterfly effect which highlights his grandiose self perception.
Relationships
Shatterbird
On a personal level Jacob found Shatterbirds's tactics tediously repetitive, but kept this to himself as she acted as an unmistakable herald to the Nine.<ref name ="I12 e6">Shatterbird, who had deigned to observe for the moment, hovering over the scene, was an individual who craved validation. She would be insulted to hear it spoken aloud, but she needed to be powerful in the eyes of others, civilian or teammate. She could tolerate much, but an insult or a joke at her expense could push her over the edge. As carrots went, a simple word of praise could satisfy her for a week, and an opportunity to shine could sate her for a month. It was why he allowed her to ‘sing’ each time they arrived somewhere new, even as he found it repetitive and boring, brooking the same scenarios time after time. Her stick was easy enough: the threat of physical harm, or the embarrassment of being made to lose control. Were she to attack a member of the group, Siberian or Crawler would retaliate, and they would hurt or kill her. It would be inevitable, unequivocal. The idea of the shame she’d feel in that ignoble defeat held her back as much as anything. - Excerpt from Interlude 12</ref>
Bonesaw
Bonesaw and Jacob would "play" at the Slaughterhouse Nine being a happy family, with Bonesaw eager to play the part of a joyous and enthusiastic younger sibling or daughter figure.
During the Nine's long biological stasis Bonesaw is given time to reflect and grow as a person, later feeling conflicted about her role in the Nine
She no longer feels comfortable in Jacobs' presence as she feels like he knows that her loyalty has been shaken.
Harbinger
Jacob and Harbinger are not on speaking terms, Harbinger leaving the Slaughterhouse Nine shortly after Jacob took over due to a conflict in personal methods(as outlined in Number Mans' interlude)
Harbingers' current alias of "Number Man" remembers Jacob fondly, it is unknown if Jack Slash returns the feeling.
Appearance
Jacob is tall and slender, favoring civillian clothing that shows off his lean and muscular upper body.
He has an attractive face similar to Johnny Depp's though longer and with pale blue eyes. His hair is gelled back exposing a severe widow's peak.<ref name="10.6e1">“Jack Slash.” Jack looked like someone on the attractive side of average, his dark hair cut short and styled with gel. His beard and moustache were immaculately trimmed so that each had a serrated edge, and his shirt was wrinkled, only half buttoned so his hairless upper chest showed. He had kind of a Johnny Depp look to him, though he had more of a widow’s peak, a longer face and lighter eyes. Good looking, if you looked past the fact that he was a mass murderer. He held a small kitchen knife in the photo. - Excerpt from Parasite 10.6</ref>
He has a full beard and mustache that he keeps neatly trimmed in a goatee fashion.
He is noted by Bonesaw to have recently started showing signs of his age, with minor wrinkles around the eyes and straw white hairs.
Abilities and Powers
Jacobs' primary ability extends the cutting edge of any handheld cutting weapon far further than its' physical dimensions, no known upper limit to distance.
Effects on weapons such as Armsmaster's Nano-thorn would not function, only the blade itself was projected .<ref>Haha. Funny thought. But the blade isn’t what has the disintegration effect. It’s the cloud that grows around it. - Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 11d</ref>
What he can actually do with the weapon is limited by the physical capabilities blade itself; for example, he needed an actual butcher's cleaver to sever limbs instead of a dagger.<ref>It doesn’t, but there’s other factors at play. Recall Jack switching to a cleaver to sever Bonesaw’s hands at the wrist. - Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 26a</ref>
Jack's secondary power grants him enhanced intuition regarding parahumans, as well as an ability to influence the emotions of anyone connected to a shard. This makes him a tougher challenge in a fight than his more obvious ability suggests and causes him to instinctively avoid and situations that the Nine couldn't overcome.
This secondary ability is so subtle that Jack himself is unaware of it, but it is effective enough that the Nine have been perceived as a near invincible S class threat since he took control of them.
History
Background
Jacob was a young trigger. His mentally unbalanced parents shut him inside a bomb shelter with a radio link to his father, who gaslit him by convincing him that a war was underway. He triggered upon exiting the shelter and seeing that the world was fine, and having his entire reality challenged.<ref>Jacob was a young trigger. His parents were a little mentally unbalanced, and they shut him inside a bomb shelter with a radio link to his father, who wanted to use it to instill Jacob with sufficient fear of the threats of the outside world. A one-way communication, feeding into and playing off his fears, gaslighting, convincing him a war was underway, it broke the boy, but he wasn't released when he was broken. He stayed. His parents left him in there, mostly because it was easier. In a twisted way, having a boy in the shelter to hear dad's words, it made Jacob the exact son they wanted.
He triggered on exit, his entire reality challenged on seeing that the world was fine.
Feels awkward, written that way, rather than outlined in a proper interlude. Ah well. Jack's most likely not going to get any more spotlights, so it's fine. - Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref>
At some point during or before 1987, Jack encountered King and joined the Slaughterhouse Nine. He felt great displeasure at King's interest in grooming him as a pet project or new "Gray Boy", conspired with Harbinger to kill him
Jacobs reasons were ego-driven, feeling like King saw him as a personal pet project instead of a man in his own right.
Harbingers' reasons to revolt are unknown, though they were personally strong enough to warrant a violent coup.
Afterwards Jacob renamed himself "Jack Slash" with the specific intention of sounding harmlessly simple and absurd.
Under Jack's leadership, the Nine become synonymous with terror and death, caring nothing for political power or money.
They seemed unstoppable, hitting towns throughout the United States seemingly at random and killing as many as they could before leaving. They notably avoided using bombs or more traditional methods of mass destruction, opting to kill personally using their powers.
The recruitment process became a trial in which each existing member of the Nine would torture and attempt to kill recruits and survival meant being accepted as a new member.
Post-Leviathan
Jack and the rest of the Nine arrived in Brockton Bay in June 2011, a few weeks after Leviathan's attack, looking to recruit new members. Their candidates included Echidna, Regent, Armsmaster, Panacea, Oni Lee, and Bitch. During this time, they laid low, killing only a few civilians.
After being informed of the Nine's presence by Coil, Dinah Alcott made a prophecy that if Jack Slash was not killed before he left Brockton Bay he would set into motion the end of the world.
Jack tracks down Oni Lee and offers him a chance to join the Nine. After Jack determines that Lee is unworthy, the two fight, and Jack grievously injures Lee. He takes the wounded man to the Anders apartment and breaks in, dumping Lee in the bathtub and confronting Theo Anders. He tells Theo that he will kill him and Aster as soon as Purity returns home. During the subsequent conversation, Theo convinces Jack to spare them by promising that he will become a great hero and stop Jack. Purity then returns from grocery shopping and is about to attack Jack, but he tells her that her powers have been weakened by recent cloudy weather and overuse and that she has little chance of defeating him should they fight. She reluctantly allows him to leave with Oni Lee, whom he later gives to Bonesaw.
Post-Slaughterhouse Nine
Fully informed of his role in ending the world Jack went about making it happen.
Gold Morning
After convincing Zion to let loose Jack was presumably left where he was, buried in containment foam in a Gray Boy loop, fighting intense pain and having only momentary relief.<ref name="R2">Jack slash is caught in a Grey Boy loop, buried under containment foam, on a devastated Earth. I don't think he's really a contender. - partial comment on Reddit</ref>
Fanart Gallery
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Illustration by LinaLeeZ on deviantart
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Cosplay debuted at Washington D.C. AwesomeCon 2017
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Cosplay debuted at Washington D.C. AwesomeCon 2017
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