- Amy Dallon, known to the world as the world's greatest healer Panacea, looked up at the mutilated woman standing above her with terror. Today had seemed so innocent at first. Do a round at the hospital, take a trip to the bank, get some shopping done, go back to the hospital... then the Undersiders decided to rob the bank while she was in it. Then, as if some cruel god had determined she was too happy and optimistic, the Slaughtered Nine showed up.Mannequin and a crossbow wielding cape she didn't recognize subdued the Undersiders. They had been about to do something to the unfortunate small time villains when she noticed Amy in the crowd of hostages. So little was known about her. Taylor Hebert. She triggered in the middle of a Slaughterhouse Nine attack, ripped apart everyone except for Mannequin, Bonesaw, and Burnscar, then somehow convinced the survivors to follow her and reform into the "Slaughtered Nine." Any publicly known history she might have had died with her sanity."H-hey-hey! Pamcea! Pammy! Can I call you Pammy?" she asked, tapping her black bayonet against the counter. She squatted down, smiling. Amy Dallon resisted the urge to vomit. This close, she could see "Slashed Jack's" exposed brain matter. A small, white, ethereal light hovered in place where her left eye would have been, if she still had the left side of her face. However her poorly understood powers worked, the fact that half of her god damn brain was missing didn't slow her down in the slightest. Nor did the fact that the remaining half of her brain and skull was totally exposed to open air. Amy could swear she saw Taylor's Corona.Amy couldn't muster a coherent response. Slashed Jack continued, unphased. "Right, Amecea. I've always-always!- liked Nude Way-""New Wave," corrected the crossbow cape. Slashed gave her a broad grin, then turned back to Panacea."Right, sorry, Newt Wane-" Crossbow groaned, but didn't try corrected her demented leader again. "-my mistake. Any-anywhos, I like you guys. This w-whole masky business is silly. If you're gonna go out and be a jerk, own up to it! D-d-doooon't be a little baby and hide under a mask. Or if you're gonna be a Heroic Hero, be proud! Be brave! That's why-why I decided not to wear a mask!"-The Establishing Series Moment opening the first chapter.
Right-Minded
is a Black Comedy Worm fanfiction about a madwoman with a compulsion to HALP others.
When Taylor Hebert is at Summer Camp, she is attacked and mutilated by the Slaughterhouse Nine, Triggers as a Power Copying Trump known as Slashed Jack, kills all but Bonesaw, Burnscar, and Mannequin, then takes over and indulges in a deranged standard of "altruism".
Cauldron desperately runs damage control for Taylor's HALPING sprees.
Right-Minded provides examples of:
- Accidental Misnaming: Constantly. Taylor's brain damage makes her unable to correctly pronounce proper names, causing her to say a different vaguely similar name every time. To make matters worse, she hears the name she meant to say, forcing her to rely on her teammates to tell her what is actually coming out of her mouth.
- All Your Powers Combined / Combo Platter Powers: Taylor's powerset as Slashed Jack gives her "the Bayonets", Projections (the Siberian) of knives (Jack Slash) that fly in large numbers (Shatterbird) and ignore Powers (Hatchet Face), and she also has some regeneration (Crawler) and eventually gains a Time Stands Still ability to move in paused time (Clockblocker).
- Berserk Button: Armsmaster is livid that Taylor is deliberately causing Second Triggers to gain more powers.
- Glory Girl is so angry at someone calling Panacea another Nilbog that she gets Temp-Banned from PHO for making a death threat.
- Black Comedy: The point of the fic.
- Body Horror: The left half of Taylor's head is missing, with a white orb instead of an eye, after fighting Crawler. Not even Bonesaw can fix it.Taylor: "I am missing half my brain, angry black woman with an arbalest! I can feel the air conditioning on the remaining half! I brought a knife to a Crawler fight and won! I am allowed to have trouble remembering names! Go make out with Emily you hormonal lesbian!"
- Break the Cutie: Taylor has no qualms about traumatizing Panacea with the latter's fear of her own power or getting Clockblocker to Second Trigger by making him watch his dad get operated on by Bonesaw.
- Butch Lesbian: Taylor claims Sophia is this.
- Came Back Strong: Some of the people Bonesaw treated at Anders Memorial subsequently qualified for Parahuman ratings.
- Came Back Wrong: Taylor hasn't had a whole head since her Trigger Event and isn't exactly sane.
- Character Tic: Taylor can't correctly say names and frequently stutters.
- Dead Fic: Not updated since the end of 2019.
- Death by Adaptation: Jack Slash, Crawler, the Siberian, Hatchet Face, and Shatterbird were killed in Taylor's Trigger Event.
- Cherish's joining of the Nine has her kill off Shadow Stalker. Bonesaw makes sure it doesn't stick.
- Establishing Character Moment: Slashed Jack crashes a bank robbery, has difficulty with names, is clearly insane, and makes Panacea produce a flower out of ground beef.
- Establishing Series Moment: The Slaughtered Nine crash the Undersiders' bank robbery, and Slashed Jack coerces Panacea into exploring her biokinesis by making a flower grow out of ground beef.
- Homosexual Reproduction: Taylor claims Bonesaw can allow Sophia and Emma to have babies with each other without needing sperm from a man.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Coil is pouring himself a victory drink when he receives news the Undersiders were captured by the Slaughtered Nine- he then fills the glass.
- Meatgrinder Surgery: Bonesaw performing one on Clockblocker's dad in front of Clockblocker causes him to Second-Trigger.
- Mythology Gag:
- Dragon states on PHO that "Amy Dallon and Paige Mc Abee will under no circumstances be interred in MY facility." Both of them went to the Birdcage in canon.
- Taylor stabs Alexandria in the leg with a projection- Alexandria lost an eye to a projection in canon.
- Contessa tried to shoot out Taylor's gemma. It didn't work.
- Cherish kills a member of the Nine to join them. It's Shadow Stalker.
- The Nicknamer: Part of Taylor's Body Horror involves an inability to correctly state Proper Nouns, resulting in nicknames.
- No-Sell: Slashed Jack and Contessa No-Sell each other.
- Oh, Crap!: Every time the Slaughtered Nine make a move. Notable ones include:
- From Emma and Alan upon finding out about Taylor taking over the nine.
- From Panacea, Lisa, and Coil after the Nine crash the bank robbery.
- On PHO when footage involving Slashed Jack and Cherish is posted.
- From Clockblocker after Bonesaw "volunteers" at the Anders Memorial Hospital, resulting in his Second Trigger.
- From Cauldron when she looks set on becoming an Entity.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Taylor gets angry, her speech text becomes bold and she loses her stutter and inability to remember names.
- Power Copying: Aside from the Bayonets and regeneration from her Trigger Event, Taylor can acquire the powers of any cape who Triggers or Second-Triggers in proximity to her.
- Rhetorical Question Blunder: Twice in succession in the PHO Interlude:
- One member made an Oh, Crap! post, asking "OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK WHY". Heartbreaker himself made a reply, but it was deleted by Tin Mother.
- Immediately after, another member asks how Taylor was able to Trigger a Heartbroken (their exact wording being "HOW THE FUCK DO YOU TRIGGER A HEARTBASTARD?! THEIR DADDY IS FUCKING HEARTBREAKER!"), Regent replies with "Seemed pretty obvious to me".
- Time Stands Still: Taylor and Clockblocker acquire a ZA WARUDO-esque ability to move in paused time.
