Murder Rat is a hybrid cape, created by Bonesaw to be a member of the Slaughterhouse Nine. She is a combination of Mouse Protector and Ravager.
Appearance[]
Murder Rat is a gruesome being, much like Bonesaw's other creations. Her skin is pale except for her face and patches all down her body, where patches of ebon black skin are stapled in place. Her eyes are small but appear surprisingly human,[1] and are nearly buried behind her altered face and brow.[2]
Her face is more rat-like than human, with a cone-like shape that ends in a squashed, black nose that's stapled on. Her mouth contains a second set of teeth consisting of only canines, meant to compensate for her stretched-forward jaw, from which she drooled constantly.[3]
Figure-wise, she is described as emaciated.[4] Her fingers and toes have been replaced by long machete blades, making conventional walking awkward.[5] She has long, dark hair that is unwashed and greasy.[6]
Physiology[]
Although Murder Rat was seemingly a single woman, Bonesaw had combined parts of Mouse Protector and Ravager, using transfusions of bone marrow and viruses with modified DNA until even Panacea couldn’t tell where one woman started and the other began. She had one and a half brains contained in a synthetic fluid in her skull.[7]
Murder Rat had a control frame consisting of a metal framework interwoven around her skeleton and needles in her brain and spine. This frame was used by Bonesaw to control Murder Rat, with needles surrounding her heart rigged to kill her if her control frame was ever disabled.[7]
Later, during the Slaughterhouse Nine's return, clones of Murder Rat were better made and had no staples holding her together.[8]
Abilities and Powers[]
Being a composite of Mouse Protector and Ravager, Murder Rat possesses both their powers blended into one. She has the ability to inflict gradually worsening wounds, the ability to teleport to anyone she wounds, and various minor powers that grant enhanced strength, reflexes, and agility, as well as enhanced senses, flexibility and toughened skin.[9][10]
When she cuts someone with her blades, the wounds begin fizzing and emitting smoke. Murder Rat can then teleport to these wounds, appearing within the smoke, which blooms outward like a smoke grenade prior to materializing.[5]
The wounds that Murder Rat inflicts widen over time, even after Murder Rat's death, and can be devastating if left untreated.[11] They take a long time to heal and almost guarantee a permanent scar.[5]
When Grue copied the powers of a trio of Murder Rats, he mentioned that he could sense what others sensed around him.[12]
History[]
Background[]
Murder Rat was fused together from the capes Ravager and Mouse Protector, created by Bonesaw after Ravager hired the Slaughterhouse Nine to take down Mouse Protector. Following her creation, Murder Rat became a full member of the Slaughterhouse Nine after passing the requisite tests. Over time, however, Murder Rat's physical and mental faculties degraded, leading to her eventual demotion to one of Bonesaw's minions.[8]
Post-Leviathan[]
Murder Rat accompanied Bonesaw to visit Panacea, Bonesaw's nominee for the Slaughterhouse Nine. During the visit, Murder Rat was disabled by Panacea and, after Bonesaw was driven off, was finally mercy killed by Flashbang.[13]
Post-Timeskip[]
Several clones of Murder Rat were created as part of the Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand.[14] Weaver's team engaged and killed three Murder Rats along with various other clones at an apartment building the clones were hiding in.[5][11] The team encountered three more Murder Rats in Redfield while Weaver was at Ellisburg.[15] During the battle in Los Angeles, Golem was assaulted by a Murder Rat before being saved by Weaver.[16]
Character Appearances[]
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Trivia[]
- An early draft of Worm, Circus vs. Elite, makes reference to a Murder Rat created by Mother, an early incarnation of Bonesaw.
Fanart Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Her mouth, conical, shaped by surgery into the vague shape of a rat's snout, riddled with canines, lowered towards his face. Her eyes are so human. I wouldn't have thought. - Interlude 26b
- ↑ I set my bugs on her. She persisted, simply enduring what they were doing to her. I tried to go for the tiny eyes that were nearly buried behind her altered face and brow, but she shut them, relying on touch and smell to move. I started to pack bugs around her nose and mouth, and found that slowed her just a fraction. - Excerpt from Sting 26.3
- ↑ 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. - Excerpt from Interlude 11h
- ↑ "Murder Rat, she's on the top-"
She pushed herself free of the vent, lunging, drawing her claws together as if she were diving into water from a height. Her narrow, emaciated body slipped right between the railings of the ascending and descending stairs. - Excerpt from Sting 26.3 - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sting 26.3
- ↑ I was aware of a Murder Rat popping in on the ground floor, crawling on hands and feet that each had excessively long blades on the ends. She moved faster than she should have been able to, considering her means of locomotion, but she had an exceedingly strong, flexible body. Enhanced senses, too, with her conical nose close to the ground, long greasy hair brushing against the surface. I almost turned back to deal with her, but she was already gone, moving faster than my bugs could. - Excerpt from Sting 26.3
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Murder Rat placed a blade against her cheek, scraped it down toward her chin, as if giving Amy a close shave.
She reached up and touched the woman’s chest. Without Hack Job touching her, her power was coming back quickly. She felt Murder Rat’s biology snap into her consciousness, until she could see every cell, every fluid, every part of the woman. The two women. She could see Bonesaw’s work, the integration of body parts, the transfusions of bone marrow from one woman to the other, the viruses with modified DNA inside them, skewing the balances and configurations until she couldn’t tell for sure where one woman started and the other began.
She could also see the metal frames inside the woman, interlacing with the largest bones of her skeletal system, the needles in her spine and brain. Bonesaw’s control system. There was something around the heart, too. Metal, with lots of needles pointing inward. She was rigged to die if the control frame was ever disabled. The woman, no, the women, were awake in there. One and a half brains contained in a synthetic fluid in her skull.
She targeted the ligaments at the woman’s shoulders and hips. Cutting them was easier than putting the things back together again. Dissolve the cells, break them down.
The woman collapsed onto a heap on top of her. - Excerpt from Interlude 11h - ↑ 8.0 8.1 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
- ↑ She was a composite of two ‘kitchen sink’ capes. Mouse Protector and Ravager. Two primary powers that had blended into the one, a dozen other minor powers. Flexibility, a bizarre kind of enhanced strength, reflexes and agility that had peaks and valleys, and skin as tough as leather. - Excerpt from Sting 26.3
- ↑ 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. - Parahuman List, bolded edits by Wildbow.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Three Mannequins, three Murder Rats, three Breeds, a Nyx and a Tyrant taken out of action. [...] Minimal casualties. A few injuries – Vista and Crucible would be out of commission as Murder Rat's venom continued to widen their wounds, and Golem was being treated for a burn. - Interlude 26 (Donation Bonus 1)
- ↑ “Murder Rat,” Grue said. “Three of her. I can… kind of sense what others are sensing around me, and there's a glimmer of something that might be a teleportation power. I don't trust myself to use it without any ability to sense where I'm going." - Excerpt from Sting 26.3
- ↑ “Okay.” Mark walked over to Murder Rat and adjusted her position against the wall until she was more horizontal, almost lying down. He crossed her claws over her chest, and then formed an orb of light the size of a tennis ball.
“Rest in peace, Mouse Protector,” he said. He placed the orb of light in the gap where two claws crossed one another, just over her heart, then stepped away.
There was a small explosion and a spray of blood. - Excerpt from Interlude 11h - ↑ Interlude 25
- ↑ Sting 26.5
- ↑ Interlude 26b
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| Leaders | King † • Jack Slash |
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| 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 ‡) |