She felt a momentary sadness.  She tapped her pinky with her thumb twice, and the embedded magnets noted the signal.  She’d recorded her own brain activity and movements when contemplating the Bonesaw clones, and it was this that she drew on, manipulating her own body much as she had manipulated Blasto’s. Her body language wasn’t her own.  Her smile, the way she walked, the gestures, all were fine tuned to match the Bonesaw of before.

Great tragedy of Riley that when she first came to comprehend that she's a bad person, or perhaps not even wholly in control of herself at all, when she found herself unable to act cheerfully the way she used to towards her atrocities, she didn't have anywhere to go or any idea of how to live in a way that isn't Bonesaw. She's been Bonesaw for so much of her life after all. So she reprogrammed her body to act that way for her and she halted her aging so she'd never be able to stop being Bonesaw, not in her actions, and not in the way she's viewed by others. Forever.

The Siberian trial cosplay

I couldn’t resist and did a test photo shoot of Siberian cosplay today. I expected to do a photos in another place, but it turned out to be a closed area. So I had to choose from what was available.

It's funny that I plan to replace literally all the things that are currently in the photo:

1. I like the look of the suit, but it is too small for me, and I will replace it with a larger one since the seams react with a menacing crackle to any careless movement.

And yes, this version of the pattern on the suit is also not the only one I’m considering. I like the look of this one, but I imagine Siberia with other patterns as well. For example, with an asymmetrical pattern or a pattern that does not follow anatomical lines, thus making the image less human.

2. Gloves and socks are purely a test version to see how it all together will look with a suit. This is not noticeable in the photographs, but they were taken very quickly and carelessly: the gloves are medical latex gloves, and the socks are regular white cotton socks painted with acrylic.

I put insoles inside the socks so that it would not be so cold to stand on concrete slabs, but in the future I will think about how best to solve the issue with the appearance of the feet.

I don't like the visible transition and folds between the suit and the socks/gloves. So maybe I'll sew socks and gloves onto the costume, making it one piece.

3. The wig was simply taken from the supplies that I had. This is an unwanted old wig that I dyed some of the strands black. For Siberian, I need a much longer wig (according to the descriptions, she has straight black and white hair down to her tailbone).

4. I didn't do any makeup for this photo shoot, so all the photos are from the back. It was too cold to do makeup outside, and doing it in advance would have been a bad idea since the photoshoot was done at the end of a five-hour walk.

Also, I don’t have a specific makeup concept for this cosplay yet. I'm trying different pattern options, but I have not yet found one that suits me 100%.

5. Lenses.

I didn't wear them for this photo shoot either, but they are really nice. I went through three different options for yellow lenses (not all lenses give the right shade for my eye color), and the one really looks great.

6. I'm debating whether to add small fangs and pointed nails. As far as I remember, Siberian had ordinary human-looking nails, and I don’t remember if she had fangs, most likely ordinary teeth.

under king, people saw the slaughterhouse nine as nightmares.

under jack slash, people saw the slaughterhouse nine as natural disasters.

he molded the public consciousness to the point where a group of serial killers were seen as an inevitable, unstoppable tragedy you can only weather and mitigate but never truly defeat. he made them into a fact of american life.

I want to sink my teeth into the concept like a feral sibby into flesh, because it's just so damn interesting. jack slash personally affected the collective trauma of a huge subset of earth bet's population. from the culture around small towns to the truce being extended beyond endbringers, he contributed to so many aspects of what makes bet's north america so unique and multifaceted.

jack slash left marks more like scars on people he never even met. he made history, and I suppose that means you could argue he won even in death.

what a monstrous, fascinating man.

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I like your funny words slasher man

Depending on how you think of it, Crawler is both one of the most and least tragic Worm characters. His motivation is inherently tragic, because what will he do with all that strength? When he's finally become the strongest fighter on Bet, he'll run into the Saitama problem: no worthwhile challenges remaining. Then there's the implicit tragedy of his trigger-power combination. It implies someone who was physically hurt, potentially motivating him to get stronger to avoid future harm, but in order to do so he must experience danger and injury and pain over and over again. Adaptability Brute is a new level of "the power pushes you back into your trigger situation". Adding in Bonesaw's comment including him in "did not have a good childhood", I tend to headcanon that he triggered from childhood abuse, which adds another layer w/r/t how mistreatment is sometimes excused as "it will make you stronger", and how survivors of abuse sometimes feel more at home in toxic relationships at first because it's what they're accustomed to.

But on the other hand, he wanted to Fight Stuff and Get Hurt, and he lived Fighting Stuff and Getting Hurt, and he died Fighting Stuff and Getting Hurt. There is no more self-actualised Worm character than Crawler.

Putting all these in one place so I stop losing them. Public Service Announcements and encouragement from your friendly neighborhood Slaughterhouse Nine! They're so thoughtful that way.

Originally posted on my dA in like... 2012.

your favourite vasil has a favour to ask of you :) i’m sure it’s something nice... !

Old story idea I never pursued. Alan Gramme turned himself into an arcade game a la "Cabinet Man". Riley is the only person who can communicate with him via scoreboard, three letters at a time, by getting the high score, then the high score minus one, then that score minus one, and so on until zero-zero-zero. She's augmented herself to be the world's best player just so she can talk to this one guy no one else believes is in there.

based on tolouse's musings about mannequin i present the Slaughterhouse Nine Transphobia Alignment Chart. as the world's foremost Slaughterhouse Nine Expert i will not be taking questions or criticism (yes i will but only if it's good)

Riley is on her redemption arc, leaving Bonesaw in the past!

She's going to undo her past surgical horrors, right?

Right?

I thought for a long time about how to approach the Mannequin cosplay. There are a number of difficulties there:

1. Height 8′ 10″

2. Inhuman proportions

3. Inhuman mobility both when moving and parts of the body relative to each other.

All this together led me to the conclusion that a person (even on stilts) will not be able to convincingly show a Mannequin. And then the idea of a rod puppet arose.

In the video, you can see a sample hastily assembled from cardboard and mops (the working puppet will be made of a different material).

Besides the fact that we had fun, I noted a few things for myself:

1. The pelvis should not be separate from the body, as it creates an unnecessary degree of freedom.

2. It is better to attach the puppet’s legs not to the legs of the person controlling the body but to make separate control rods for them (minus: this increases the number of puppeteers)

3. The head must be able to move not only in the horizontal plane but also in the vertical.

4. The prototype does not have hands and feet, but they are needed. It is worth trying to attach control rods of the upper extremities to the hands, which should make gestures with the hand possible. This hypothetically allows for more interesting and “live” hand movements.

There are other points that I introduced into my developments later.

a littol Bonesaw to help me through my exam

skitter after the first Mannequin fight

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Inktober 2023 - Day 27 - Beast