“It’s exciting. I decided I needed to earn a place on the team, both to scare our brothers away and to add some spice to my routine. Took out Hatchet Face to do it.”
Ahh, so she’s what happened to him.
I feel like that says more about her than it would if this came before Hookwolf’s Interlude. Now we know that Hatchet Face was apparently the “bogeyman of capes”, whatever that means in practice, which seems to suggest it wouldn’t be easy to take him out through most means. But that’s the key, isn’t it? Cherish’s power means she doesn’t have to do that. She can just make them take themselves out.
But what was different between whatever she did to Hatchet Face and what she did to the guards? It’s been stated by Burnscar that Hatchet Face is “still around… kind of”, and I doubt she’d say that about a conventional corpse. Did she cut off all his emotions and bonds, perhaps, leaving him a husk of his former self? Or maybe something about his power means that he can’t die, no matter how beaten up and unusable his body becomes?
Hmm. I suppose it was implied earlier in this chapter that Hatchet Face did pick a recruit, even after whatever Cherish did, so he can’t be completely blank. Unless he just got them by process of elimination.
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