An Awful lot of Slaughterhousealot

An Awful Lot of Slaughterhousealot is a series of shorts, told in an anachronistic order, moving between time periods and perspectives to tell various stories of various members of the Slaughterhouse 9 and lightly touching on a variety of Queer topics. The central frame is a road trip with the post Brockton Bay incarnation of the Slaughterhouse 9 sharing a Camper Van and talking to each other while stuck in traffic on the way to Boston.
An Awful Lot of Slaughterhousealot was written by frustratedFreeboota and can be read on Spacebattles or Archive of Our Own
Across the course of the fic,
* Hookwolf experiences and refuses to identify a level of discomfort with his appearance and gender, lashing out when confronted about the less masculine aspects of his presentation by Night Hag. He is depicted with different tattoos to canon Worm, the swastikas on his chest being a reference to Batman, the Dark Knight Returns.
* Night Hag is nonbinary, frequently reminding other members of the nine when they don't use their preffered pronouns, and preferring to present female in their breaker state. They refuse to let their guard down around Bonesaw. They are willing to stand up for Damsel of Distress, are uncomfortable with Hookwolf on the basis that he is a Nazi, and are unnerved by Skinslip.
* Damsel of Distress has been rended mute, all but unable to interact with the rest of the Slaughterhouse 9. She encounters considerable difficulty trying to eat using her new claws.
* Nyx is confronted by her sister about less feminine aspects of her presentation, but Nyx resists talking about it. An encounter with Night Hag and discussion of "Nighty Night", a fusion of the two of them, exposes Nyx to the concept of nonbinary gender.
* A cloned Murder Rat is a shared headspace, with Mouse Protector and Ravager doing well enough for enemies forced to live in one surgically altered body. The world begins to end.
* Screamer and Nice Guy pursue a relationship. The two flirt on the job during an A-Team esque scenario, a deadly interruption of the gangs of Brockton Bay, a pool party in Florida, and the post apocalyptic ruins of "Your-Ami"
* A Burnscar, a Night Hag, and a Shatterbird hide out in a library together after Gold Morning. Shatterbird and Burnscar are implied to be in a relationship.
* Skinslip is mute, armed with a stapler, dressed in human skin, and of ambiguous gender.
* Crawler, Psychosoma, and Jack Slash prepare to visit a Gay Bar. Crawler worries about being accepted as a man.
* Miasma is a shoulder to lean on for many in the Slaughterhouse 9, patient and willing to listen.
* Jack Slash has been raised by the various members of the Slaughterhouse 9 across its history. He has fond memories of Harbinger.
Category:Story