| “ | Burnscar was more sensitive, in many respects. She had to be managed, provoked or set up to use her power so she remained in a more dangerous mindset. Too much one way, and she became depressed and scared, vulnerable. Too much the other way, and she became reckless, potentially attacking him or one of the others and sparking disaster. | ” |
Mimi, publicly known as Burnscar, is a member of the Slaughterhouse Nine.
Personality[]
Burnscar's mental state was influenced by her power; if she didn't use it, she would become depressed, but the more she used it the more reckless she became.[4] She felt guilty about the things she had done when she wasn't using her power and would use her power to escape that feeling.[5]
Her test for prospective members of the Nine was to force them to face their greatest fear, although that wasn't always possible.[6]
Mimi liked reading graphic novels.[7]
During her time with the Nine, she did a lot of drugs; however, she always went off on her own to do it.[8]
Relationships[]
Elle[]
One of Burnscar's treasured memories was talking with Labyrinth at the Parahuman Asylum during their "good days." She saw Elle as a friend. Burnscar didn't seem to notice when Elle was being sarcastic.[5]
Burnscar wanted to come to the Bay in order to meet her former friend Labyrinth, but didn't want her to actually join the Slaughterhouse Nine, as she was fond of Labyrinth. Her feelings were not reciprocated by Elle.
Shatterbird[]
Sat close together when they had time to themselves. They got along well.[9]
Appearance[]
Mimi is described as twenty-ish, with badly cut dark brown hair,[1] green eyes, and cigarette burns from the bottom of each eye to her jaw. Her skin was pale.[10][5]
Taylor described her voice as being "like an actor reading the lines from a script without actually emoting them."[10]
On one occasion, she wore a red t-shirt and black jeans.[10] On another, she wore a red dress and went barefoot.[5]
Abilities and Powers[]
Mimi is a pyrokinetic who can teleport herself freely through flames. She becomes increasingly psychopathic the more fire is nearby. She is also completely fireproof.[5]
Mimi's pyrokinesis is extremely versatile. She created concussive fire blasts capable of knocking over the Undersiders and Bitch's dogs,[11] shot twin flamethrower-like streams of fire from her hands,[5] and could send fire "snaking" across water.[11] She could put out her fires at will,[7] create walls of fire,[7] and leave burning footprints that widened into a trail of fire.[5] She could also throw fireballs[4] that could punch holes through walls[5] by summoning fire to her palms and hurling it. Out of battle, she shaped her fire into foot-high images of characters from her comic books[7] and from her memories while reading.[4]
Using her power adjusts the chemical balances and connections in her brain to reduce her empathy, impulse control, and emotion, so she "can’t help" using her power if there’s fire nearby. This creates a cycle where Mimi is increasingly unlikely to stop using her power the more she uses it.[5]
Mimi's eyes glowed[1] and would occasionally flash orange when her power was active.[5]
Bonesaw also modified members of the Nine with various "safeguards"; sheathing their vital organs and major arteries in a protective sub-dermal mesh, further wire reinforcement was put into the skeleton to avoid broken bones,[12] with special attention was paid to the organs and spine to keep them functioning.[13] She also rendered her teammates resistant to her pathogens,[13] and granting them artificial neurons which allowed them to make plans Cherish could not see, it is unknown if this could be adapted for other Master powers.[14]
History[]
Background[]
Mimi was a patient at the same asylum as Labyrinth. She looked back on their conversations as treasured moments and saw her as a friend, although in reality the guards used Elle as an enticement to make Mimi cooperate. When Labyrinth was freed by Faultline’s Crew[15], Mimi escaped as well, spending some time on the streets.[5]
When she used her power to scare off a pimp who was harassing her, she lost control of her emotions, killing him and trapping herself in a feedback loop. Shortly thereafter, the Slaughterhouse Nine found her during one of her psychotic episodes. With her conscience and empathy being suppressed, she found them good company, by the time Mimi cleared her head however she had a kill order.[5]
Post-Leviathan[]
Burnscar visited Brockton Bay as a member of the Slaughterhouse Nine. She didn't nominate anyone to join.[4] However, she was excited to come,[16] hoping to meet Labyrinth there.[5]
She rescued Mannequin when he was losing against the Undersiders and had him forfeit his turn, ending his testing phase and beginning hers.[17][11]
When Grue second triggered, Burnscar's head was crushed by Grue's manifestation of Siberian's power, killing her instantly.[18]
Post-Timeskip[]
Burnscar was cloned as part of the The Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand, although the clones were never shown in combat.[19]
Chapter Appearances[]
Fanart Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “Burnscar.” Younger, maybe an older teenager or a young-looking twenty-something. She looked almost normal, with her dark hair badly cut, but then I saw the vertical row of cigarette burns marking each of her cheeks, and a faint glow to her eyes. - Excerpt from Parasite 10.6
- ↑ stolas: On labyrinth in interlude 5. probably the most definitive you'll get - she's young, maybe prepubescent, but that's still a wide range of age, anywhere from like 9-15
Wildbow: She's twenty-ish, yeah.
stolas: oh, of worm or ward?
do you mind if i cite your message for the Word of God repository on space battles?
Wildbow: Should be ok. My concern with citing Worm WoG at this point is I've mostly offloaded it from my mental RAM, so I'm less on the ball with some things- so am just going to say I'm not 1000% sure.
But IIRC my intent was for her to be a middle-to-older teen or twenty something. I'm reasonably sure she's twenty-ish because Burnscar saw her as a peer & potential friend. - Conversation with Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles - ↑ Shaker.
All capes ‘break’ physics to some extent. Breakers break the rules as the rules pertain to them (and maybe their immediate surroundings/possessions).
Grue, Labyrinth, Shatterbird, Lady Photon/Laserdream/Shaker, Fog, Stormtiger, Cricket, Rune, Burnscar, Narwhal and Skidmark are shakers. You might be able to divine the common theme, there. - Comment by Wildbow on Queen 18.5 - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Burnscar was more sensitive, in many respects. She had to be managed, provoked or set up to use her power so she remained in a more dangerous mindset. Too much one way, and she became depressed and scared, vulnerable. Too much the other way, and she became reckless, potentially attacking him or one of the others and sparking disaster. - Excerpt from Interlude 12.x
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 Interlude 11c
- ↑ “Don’t really care. Bitch, the test is an old one, but it’s good. We don’t get to do it often enough, because it requires research. Got to do it with Cherish because she gave us the necessary info. Wasn’t very bright, but she did. Now that she’s on the team, she can give us all the info we need.”
“You talk too much,” Bitch snarled. “Get to the point or go the fuck away.”
“You’re going to have to face your greatest fear. Destroy any hold it has on you with violence, blood and death. I don’t want you to just conquer your fears. I want you to murder them, before anyone else can use your feelings for them against you.” She put a special inflection on the word ‘murder’, making it clear she was being quite literal.” - Excerpt from Snare 13.4 - ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Interlude 13.5 (Donation Bonus)
- ↑ He hadn’t engaged with her for the entire drive, and he was still tense. It was a bit disappointing. She wondered if she’d gotten her hopes up from watching movies with the wise old stoners and talkative stoners. She wasn’t sure she’d ever spent time around anyone who did a lot of drugs. Burnscar had, but she’d always gone on walks or went off on her own to do it. - Last 20.e4
- ↑ Ridtom:
She and Damsel of Distress would be best friends if they didn't kill each other.
Wildbow:
Shatterbird touts herself as an intellectual, but she's closest with fellows who walk the path of ruin and madness.
Yes, I very much agree. She would get along with Damsel in much the way she got along with Burnscar. - Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles - ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Burnscar stood with Mannequin just behind her, sporting a red shirt and black jeans, cigarette burns running down her cheeks, and a dead look in her eyes.
[...]
Burnscar’s voice was flat, without humor, like an actor reading the lines from a script without actually emoting them. “I am following the rules, now. Let’s see. Trying to remember how this is supposed to go. Test you, you pass or fail, and then I kill you.” - Excerpt from Snare 13.4 - ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Snare 13.3
- ↑ “You’re not really in a position to be making demands,” Trickster said. “You’re bleeding to death, and we do have the ability to hurry the process along.”
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.”
I made a mental note of that. Chances were good that Jack, Bonesaw and the other more vulnerable members of the Nine had some similar protection. How differently would things have played out if Ballistic had used his power and blown them up?
“I could,” Trickster threatened. “Or we could wait and see which happens first: Either you agree to share the information we want or you slowly bleed out.”
“A game of chicken? I’m down.” Cherish prodded her injury with a fingertip. It was clear it hurt, but she still stuck a finger into the hole and investigated some. “The auto-injection pump is dosing me with painkillers and antibiotics now. First time feeling this stuff work.” - Excerpt from Snare 13.7 - ↑ 13.0 13.1 “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 - ↑ Jack paced back and forth, two or three steps at a time, gesticulating with his knife. “I was looking forward to Cherish’s attempt. Bonesaw and I even had a plan in mind. I wanted to see what she did, how she worked around Siberian’s immunity to her power… then the safeguards Bonesaw implanted in us would have kicked in and released us from her thrall, and oh, the look on her face. To have seen that would have been so very worth all the trouble. And that girl just spoiled it all.”
[...]
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 - ↑ Interlude 5
- ↑ Interlude 11g
- ↑ “You can’t assist him. They’re your rules.”
“Jack’s rules, not mine. But fine,” Burnscar said. Something about the tone in her voice: it sounded casual, but there was something in it that reminded me of Shadow Stalker and Sophia. It wasn’t angry like Shadow Stalker was, but it had the same emptiness. I just hadn’t really picked up on it in the past.
Burnscar gave Mannequin a hand in getting to his feet. Cracks marred his lower body, and his left arm was a mess of cracked ceramic and pale gray organic pulp. I heard her murmur something.
Mannequin shook his head. Burnscar said something else.
He raised one hand, and Burnscar slapped it in a lazy high-five.
She turned towards us. “There. He just tagged me in. Forfeited his turn.”
She cracked her knuckles, and every flaming piece of debris on the street became a pillar of fire, stretching vertically for the sky. The fire snaked over the surface of the water to cut off our avenues of retreat.
“My go. I’m taking round two.” - Excerpt from Snare 13.3 - ↑ Snare 13.9
- ↑ Interlude 25
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| Leaders | King † • Jack Slash |
|---|---|
| Members | Bonesaw ‡ • Breed † • Burnscar † • Cherish ‡ • Chuckles † • Crawler † • Crimson † • Damsel of Distress † • Gray Boy † • Harbinger ‡ • Hatchet Face † • Hookwolf † • Mannequin † • Miasma † • Murder Rat † • Nice Guy † • Night Hag * • Nyx † • Psychosoma † • Screamer † • Shatterbird † • The Siberian † • Skinslip * • Winter † |
| Bonesaw's Hybrids | Hack Job † • Laughjob * • Murder Rat † • Nighty Night * • Pagoda † • Snowmann † • Spawner ‡ • Tyrant † |
| Clones | Damsel of Distress II ‡ • Damsel of Distress III ‡ • Harbinger Clones ‡ (Harbinger I ‡ • Harbinger II ‡ • Harbinger III ‡ • Harbinger IV ‡ • Harbinger V ‡) |