She nods - yeah, she's prone to tossing around these names. Everyone at home would know them, it's like referencing Santa Claus or George Washington.
"The Slaughterhouse Nine are a club of powerful capes whose mission is just destruction and destabilization. They come to places that are already strained - like Brockton Bay after Leviathan hit - and fuck it up worse. Jack Slash is the leader currently. Then there's also Shatterbird, who controls glass and silicates to a range of almost 10 miles. The Siberian, who is both immovable object and unstoppable force because she's only a mental projection. Crawler - his power was that anything he survives can't ever hurt him again. Mannequin was a Tinker who specializes in sealed environments. He turned himself into a ceramic giant, all his parts sealed away and protected. Burnscar, fire kinetic, made solid flames. Cherish, who can influence, sense, and control emotions. And Bonesaw, child Tinker who can do anything surgically and make it work, at least for a while." Her voice strains on the last - she's spoken of Bonesaw before.
"Together, they're just this juggernaut of destruction. Shatterbird and Siberian alone could probably level a city together, if they wanted to.
"And the Endbringers are Leviathan, Behemoth, and the Simurgh. They're- maybe aliens, maybe parahumans, no one really knows. Leviathan is a giant Godzilla-type with tsunami and water-generating powers. He sank Newfoundland and destroyed Japan. Behemoth is radioactive and causes earthquakes and magma eruptions. And the Simurgh is- she tore open reality and traded Madison, Wisconsin in Earth Bet for its parallel in Earth Aleph, just ripped them both out of the ground and swapped them, with a ton of destruction. And through the tear came so many monsters, no one knows where from. And anyone close enough to hear her singing eventually does something murderous. Maybe a week later, maybe years down the line, they do something. Kill their kid, try to start a war, something. These days, anyone in her range is kept in quarantine afterwards. Forever. Every time she comes down out of orbit, she fucks up a city, and the physical damage is always the least of the problem."
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"The Slaughterhouse Nine are a club of powerful capes whose mission is just destruction and destabilization. They come to places that are already strained - like Brockton Bay after Leviathan hit - and fuck it up worse. Jack Slash is the leader currently. Then there's also Shatterbird, who controls glass and silicates to a range of almost 10 miles. The Siberian, who is both immovable object and unstoppable force because she's only a mental projection. Crawler - his power was that anything he survives can't ever hurt him again. Mannequin was a Tinker who specializes in sealed environments. He turned himself into a ceramic giant, all his parts sealed away and protected. Burnscar, fire kinetic, made solid flames. Cherish, who can influence, sense, and control emotions. And Bonesaw, child Tinker who can do anything surgically and make it work, at least for a while." Her voice strains on the last - she's spoken of Bonesaw before.
"Together, they're just this juggernaut of destruction. Shatterbird and Siberian alone could probably level a city together, if they wanted to.
"And the Endbringers are Leviathan, Behemoth, and the Simurgh. They're- maybe aliens, maybe parahumans, no one really knows. Leviathan is a giant Godzilla-type with tsunami and water-generating powers. He sank Newfoundland and destroyed Japan. Behemoth is radioactive and causes earthquakes and magma eruptions. And the Simurgh is- she tore open reality and traded Madison, Wisconsin in Earth Bet for its parallel in Earth Aleph, just ripped them both out of the ground and swapped them, with a ton of destruction. And through the tear came so many monsters, no one knows where from. And anyone close enough to hear her singing eventually does something murderous. Maybe a week later, maybe years down the line, they do something. Kill their kid, try to start a war, something. These days, anyone in her range is kept in quarantine afterwards. Forever. Every time she comes down out of orbit, she fucks up a city, and the physical damage is always the least of the problem."