Four blades sprang from Mannequin’s left forearm.  The limb began to rotate, slowly at first, then faster, until the four blades were whirling like a helicopter propellor.

Ooh.

So what’s this whirling blade pitcher for? I doubt he intends to fly with it like a helicopter, considering his head is already touching the ceiling.

Colin tensed, preparing to jump the moment the limb shot towards him.  He’d never wanted his suit so badly.

Yeah, you probably don’t want to touch that out of costume.

Probably not in costume either.

The propeller-like whirl of the blades gave the arm some buoyancy, and it shifted enough to come into contact with Mannequin’s leg.  All at once, it ricocheted, shearing through the computer, bouncing violently off of Mannequin’s head, then his leg again, the desk, then his arm.

…whoops?

Y’know, when I said he might cut off the connection, I didn’t mean it literally.

The head was the last thing to join the tall, thin body.  The chain slowly reeled it in, dragging the head along the floor, lifting it off the ground.

Y’know, if I remember correctly, Mannequin was significantly taller than average. Maybe he’d have trouble getting through even a movie-sized vent in one piece.

It swung, bouncing off one leg, the stomach, then the shoulder before it finally connected to the neck, the very top of the head scraping the ceiling.

Ah, yeah, and I doubt the ceiling’s low in a PRT-made room like this.

I wonder if this reeling in of the head ever results in Mannequin getting dizzy.

Also, I’m curious to see what sort of personality he has. The power feels rather whimsical, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything for what he’ll be like. We know he’s into body modification and of course that he’s in the Fellowship, but that’s pretty much it.

Maybe he’ll be a bit… distractable and incoherent. Choppy and disjointed. A little all over the place.

There were no eyeholes, no earholes, nor any vents for air intake.  There was only a head as white and smooth as an eggshell, with shallow indents where the eyes and mouth should be and a small bump for the nose.

The color and lack of an actual face appearance makes me think of Doc Scratch from Homestuck, though the fact that his head actually has the shapes of a face, rather than being just a white orb, makes him more like Slenderman.

I suppose that last part fits with his tall stature and long limbs too. Does Mannequin ever kidnap children, and have a hatred of anyone who tries to collect pieces of paper?

Colin looked up from his computer.

Oh shit, now this is an interesting POV character to pick. Our disgraced, house arrested Vriska with the power to make MicroMachines happen and have awesome tabletop races against his girlfriend in Canada!

So if we’ve got Colin as the POV, which Slaughterhouse member are we most likely to run into? Mannequin, perhaps? They’re both tinkers, and Colin’s body armors are, uh, very vaguely related to body modification. Also, Mannequin might find Colin’s microtech useful.

That is, if Colin is the attempted recruit. It’s entirely possible that he just happens to get involved in a separate Protectorate encounter with a member of the Fellowship in spite of his house arrest.

Ears peeled, he turned his head to the left and waited.  Clink.  He turned his head the other way, in the hopes of pinpointing the source.

I don’t remember, did this room have windows? Maybe someone’s throwing pebbles at one.

Possibly while flying. Wasn’t this high up?