Murder Rat
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<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Murder Rat</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>
<label>Status</label><format><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> Murder Rat is an hybrid cape, created by Bonesaw to be a member of the Slaughterhouse Nine. She was a combination of Mouse Protector and Ravager.
Appearance and Physiology
Murder Rat had hands and feet with three-foot-long machete blades attached to them.<ref name="26.3"/> Her eyes were small and nearly buried behind her altered face and brow,<ref name="26.3"/> which had been 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.<ref name="11.h"/>
Although seemingly a single woman, Bonesaw had combined parts of Mouse Protector and Ravager, using transfusions of bone marrow and viruses with modified DNA inside them until even Panacea couldn’t tell for sure where one woman started and the other began. She had one and a half brains contained in a synthetic fluid in her skull.<ref name="11.h"/>
There was a metal framework throughout her body, controlling her, rigged to kill her with needles surrounding her heart if it was ever disabled.<ref name="11.h"/>
The clones of Murder Rat boasted enhanced senses.<ref name="26.3">Sting 26.3</ref> They were not held together with staples.<ref name="25.x"/>
Abilities and Powers
Murder Rat is a composite of Mouse Protector and Ravager and possesses both their powers, blended into one.<ref name="26.3"/><ref name="11.h"/> Weaver noted that she had "a dozen" minor powers.<ref name="26.3"/>
When she cut someone with her blades, the wounds would begin fizzing and emitting smoke that stung eyes; they took a long time to heal, and almost always left a scar. Left untreated, they would usually bleed out. The effect was more intense when she was close by.<ref name="26.3"/>
She was able to "tag" something or someone by scratching them<ref name="26.5">Sting 26.5</ref> using Ravager's ability to sense people they injured and Mouse Protector's power to teleport to those she had touched,<ref name="List">Ravager - Enhanced physique, all wounds inflicted would fester and scar horrifically if not tended to, scratches becoming eviscerations; maintained clairvoyant awareness of wounded.
Mouse Protector - Could teleport to tagged people or objects. Had lesser powers including increased coordination and agility
Murder Rat - Hybrid of Mouse Protector & Ravager. Agile, flexible, knife-fingers, wounds inflicted scar badly, smoke. Can teleport to side of any wounded. Slaughterhouse 9 - Parahuman List, bolded edits by Wildbow.</ref> although the blooming smoke made it more obvious who she was teleporting to.<ref name="26.3"/>
Her skin was "as tough as leather", and she had some kind of enhanced strength, flexibility, reflexes and agility.<ref name="26.3"/>
History
Background
Bonesaw made Murder Rat as a created addition to the Slaughterhouse Nine. She was a member in full having passed the requisite examinations. Yet over time the Horror would slowly fall apart and lose the brains and skills that had made her such a terrifying presence. In the end she was just a rapidly putrefying corpse being used as a lacky.<ref name="25.x">Murder Rat. Not stapled together as the original had been. She’d taken the time to do it well. When membership had been down, Bonesaw had made Murder Rat as a created addition to the Slaughterhouse Nine. She’d passed the tests, but degradation in mental and physical faculties over time had seen to her demotion. - Excerpt from Interlude 25.x</ref>
Post-Leviathan
Disabled by Panacea using her power, as a test by Bonesaw. Mercy-killed by Mark Dallon.<ref name="11.h">Interlude 11h</ref>
Post-Timeskip
Several clones of this character appeared as part of the Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand, despite being a Bonesaw creation. She is the only hybrid cape to be cloned multiple times.<ref name="25.x" />
Trivia
- Early drafts of what would be Worm make reference to a Murder Rat created by Mother, an early version of Bonesaw.
References
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