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Reblogging a part 3 here now that I've had some time to think about Jack Slash.

The thing about Jack Slash is that his goal is very poorly defined (or maybe I'm stupid). In my reading of canon (and I'd very much appreciate messages or replies to this post discussing Jack's motives and goals) he seems to want to be at the forefront of the public discourse on capes. He wants to be the Boogeyman that everyone worries about and thinks about. He wants every Cape out there, villain or hero, to feel the threat of his hand on their shoulder. He wants to take the Slaughterhouse 9 from being King's personal goon squad, or harem of murderers, and turn them into a cultural impact that will last for generations. I struggled with this as a reading for a while, and I often thought I just didn't get it.

Except, what if the point is that he's already done it?

The Slaughterhouse 9 are collectively a S-Class threat. Automatic kill orders for any member who joins up, like Burnscar (who is actually a fairly standard cape, all things considered). The willing members, like Crawler, Mannequin, Shatterbird and Cherish, are all unable to engage with cape culture as it exists in the cops and robbers dynamic. Bonesaw was converted, we don't know enough about Hatchet Face, except a pathological hatred of capes (no wonder, considering his power) and The Siberian who was probably invited personally by Jack, no trials needed. All of them exist in defiance of the clean idea of cartoon violence that the parahuman community engages in to keep the status quo somewhat stable.

So long as the S9 exist, there's a very real sense that your peaceful American suburbia or quiet rural town could suddenly be painted in gore.

But here's the kick, if Jack Slash wanted the S9 to be infamous, it's already done. Jack will live in the North American consciousness and in the parahuman community long, long after he is dead. So why is he Slaanesh's champion?

Because he's getting older.

Because it's the same old thing over and over.

Once the mystery of the Siberian was resolved, she stopped being interesting. I suspect Broadcast kept Jack from looking too closely at Manton precisely because if Jack knew about Manton, he'd rank Manton's safety lower, and the Siberian would eventually be caught out, die, and Jack (and Broadcast) would lose access to her invulnerability. Subconsciously, even without Broadcast, Jack knows he personally can't swing with the heavy hitters. Deep down he knows he shouldn't be getting away with any of this. But he's getting older. Bonesaw can't keep him young forever. Eventually she's going to grow up too, and the fairy tale will eventually end.

But Jack doesn't want anything to end. He wants to stay on top forever. There's a clear comparison to be made between King and Jack. Jack eventually comes to mirror him in every aspect. I feel that, by becoming Slaanesh's unwitting champion (which is very true to his character, the idea that something much larger than him is going to be his sugar daddy) he starts to get anything and everything he's ever wanted.

He gets younger, spry, sexy. He starts to indulge. I'll avoid listing his specific crimes, because that would be less effective than the imagination and I'd really rather not discuss things that require content warnings, except that he starts to emulate King more and more. There suddenly becomes no limit to his depravity. People, and parahumans, stop being puzzles and riddles for Jack, and they simply become things he can enjoy himself with.

I'd say he starts losing control over the Nine. Shatterbird starts to see how little he cares for the 'traditions' they established, and soon enough she's splintering off to make her own brand of the S9 and probably drags Burnscar into her camp. They're never as successful as the S9 were, without Jack and Broadcast, but they're still considered S-Class material. Hatchet Face might see everything he hates in capes suddenly come to the front with Jack. Maybe he tries to kill him, and loses, and that becomes the first in a line of betrayals and abandonment that leads to the S9 splintering. Crawler and Mannequin could both leave once it becomes clear that Jack isn't going to pursue their own specific interests.

I can't see Bonesaw and the Siberian separating, but I can't see Jack letting Bonesaw go with his newfound appreciation for 'art'. It becomes like the initial days with Bonesaw. Her anxiety and fear ramping back up, because he's pushing her more and more for new and exciting things. He's refusing to use her pain blockers now. Her mood spirals downwards because she's no longer doing enough to keep him entertained. The Siberian and Jack are sharing meals now, but Manton is increasingly being forced forward as the horrors kick him back into his own mind. He needs to get Bonesaw out of there. And Cherish gets one whiff of this gang and decides she can go to Mexico and learn Spanish (her power makes that easier!) instead of trying to join up since it's brewing into a Heartbreaker situation on steroids.

Maybe they don't all get away before he starts going off the deep end, but eventually his new version of the S9 would be populated by OCs that fit the new theme. It becomes more like a meatgrinder, chewing up recruits. He starts to have daemons joining in. I imagine a lot of similarities between Jack and Sigvald, his new warband growing with all kinds of fans and villains. He becomes a combination of pop idol and serial killer. I might have to think about this a bit more, but I feel like you're all getting what I'm trying to put down here. He follows in King's ideological footsteps in canon, so with Slaanesh we just keep going along that track, only faster and harder than King ever could accomplish.

This analysis might be weaker than the others, but nobody else really springs to mind in Worm who could be Slaanesh's champion.

Stay tuned for part 4, Taylor and her wacky adventures with Tzeentch.

So, warhammer fantasy? Plus Worm. Lets brainstorm a bit. A non-exhaustive list of who would become champions of chaos, or be chosen by the chaos gods to become their heralds, in no particular chronological order.

Khorne: The Butcher XIV aka Quarrel.

I can see The Butcher turning rabid one awful night. Howling about an infinite ocean of blood. Slaughtering the unpowered members of the Teeth. Killing those who try to reason with her. Infecting others with her madness somehow. Most of the Teeth capes flee north to Boston and Spree's clique when they're told to run by those Teeth that were there for the slaughter. Of those that were present, maybe half maybe more, flee to the New York Protectorate, begging refuge, begging Legend to kill The Butcher before she breaks free, something like that. Incoherent babbling about how she's slathered herself in blood and is killing indiscriminately - Villains, Heroes and civilians alike - piling the skulls of those she beheads in one spot and sits upon it like a gory throne. The Teeth are reforged in The Butcher's charnel house, quenched in blood. The World Eaters. She aspires to wash the entire east coast in blood, a massive sacrifice that will bring daemons through in their millions, and she'll begin in the largest city in north america.

Nurgle: Nilbog aka The Goblin King aka James Rinke.

A particularly terrible winter's night, cold and frigid in Ellisburg, NY, James is holding one of his favourite creations, Polka III, as she dies from disease. He's trying to tell a bedtime story to the rest of the creatures, all sharing their body warmth as best they can, but the cold is making his puppet shiver and he's constantly interupted by a cough that rattles his ribs and won't go away no matter how much he clears his throat. He's in tears over the sorry state of his garden. A like-minded figure sympathizes with his plight. He begs the empty air for something to save them. Something comes. The acrid, infertile land around Ellisburg, stripped of nutrients to create his fantasy creatures suddenly begins to spring to life all around him. Strange and fantastic new fruits and berries curl out of the ground. Caramel-sweet rivers start to form. Everything is verdant and green and hot wherever he walks. His cough doesn't seem to go away, but it doesn't bother him much anymore. Polka III is alive and well. And he's suddenly struck by so many new and wonderful ideas. He goes to the carcass pits and begins to create and create and create. And his Grandfather looks on with paternal joy.

Slaanesh: Jack Slash aka Jacob Black, the Slaughterhouse 9.

This might not click for some people. Personally, I think a man for whom every new terrible torment needs to be more thrilling, more horrible, more impactful than the last fits perfectly here. I'm not entirely sure how to write his first moments though. Broadcast nudges him one way, Slaanesh nudges him another. He starts to indulge more and more. A little less careful. Broadcast's balancing act starts to slip as Slaanesh's prodding throws the relationships of the Slaughterhouse 9 into new dynamics. I might have to come back to this one, but it was one of the first I thought of.

Tzeentch: Taylor Hebert

Now who else would like to see Skitter but with birds? Fucked up mutated birds. Introducing the Raven God and his new magical apprentice. I feel myself running dry here, but I think as our nominated protagonist, Tzeentch is able to lend quite a bit of weight to Taylor's character, and her eagerness to grab onto an escape from her wretched life with both hands and take it to its extremes. Though one thing I will mention is that one of Tzeentch's aspects is as a God of Hope, and that'd be fun to play with I think. Though that's an aspect of his Fantasy version, and I tend to think of the Fantasy versions of the Chaos Gods as more interesting tbh.

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The Undersiders approach to leftovers

Because let's face it they're teenagers.

Brian: He CLAIMS "Any prepared food over 24 hours old is unsafe and should be discarded." In practice, the reason no leftovers last more than 24 hours in his apartment is that he's a teen boy with a bad gym habit. He will wake up at 3 AM and eat an entire pizza if one's available.

Lisa: Has too much knowledge of the risks of poorly prepared food. Will refuse to eat leftovers, and prefers her actual meals overcooked.

Rachel: More likely to eat everything than keep leftovers. If she does, or she encounters the others' leftovers, she will eat anything, even if it's obviously bad. The others assume this is because dog, it's actually because she starved too often as a child.

Alec: Is more likely to order in more food than eat leftovers or cook something himself, but in situations where that's impractical will absolutely snack on whatever's handy. Often doesn't bother packing up leftovers, though. Generally unaware of the risks of age, but will refuse anything that seems off.

Taylor: Very good at packing leftovers, dating them, and eating them before they go bad. Less punctual about it than Brian, she just cares that the food is still good. When she finds bad leftovers from the others, the food and the tupperware both go to her bugs(she understands the limits of cleaning plastic).

Aisha: Keeps all leftovers. Way more than she could eat. HATES throwing them out when they're old, but also often doesn't remember to eat them. (she's used to her growling stomach pushing her to eating leftovers and now that she can actually afford food she loses track of how many moldy tupperware containers are in the fridge.)

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