Rabbit Killer

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</infobox> Rabbit Killer or Rabbit Eater is one of Abraham Musser's many stolen Familiars.

Personality

He is chaotic and brutal, it helps Musser's Familiar group break their patterns and prevents them from falling into predictable and xploitable routines, which makes him appear agitated and restless.<ref> “Agitated, restless.”
[...]
“Not investigative. I’m not trying to trick or pressure you, but to get you thinking about what the enemy might do before we know much else about them. The fact he has no clear role is important. The practitioner that heads that family and the Blue Heron is a commander with a firm grip over those under him. Yet he allows one to roam more free than the others.”
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“Chaos.  Being orderly means being predictable,” John said.  “He keeps one agent of chaos in his group.  Someone who pokes at bears, who peers behind curtains, and who upsets patterns, so they can’t fall into a routine with routine weaknesses.”- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.4</ref>

Relationships

Nova Aquila is put off by his repulsive aggression.<ref>Nova, the one with the nice top, had turned away, not watching the man eat.- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.4</ref>

Appearance

He is a slender man with a light complexion, wears fitted black clothing wicth matches his black hair and a wicked smile that doesn't match anything.<ref name=":2"/> This is sometimes accessorized with a spiked collar and belt.<ref name=":1">Within those shadows, Rabbit Eater lurked, lunging out to catch two of the Dog Tags that had circled around.  The way they’d hurdled the pews had suggested they’d hit the ground on the other side and stopped there while the flames roared above and past them, but they’d clearly been moving from the moment they hit ground, keeping low.

But Rabbit Eater was there, slender, dressed in black, wearing a spiked belt and spiked collar.  His shadow extended out, sweeping toward them, two sets of pews falling into it.

Flares were thrown at him from five different directions – they’d anticipated him.  It limited how deep the shadow was, but it didn’t stop it entirely, and it slowed how far it reached.  Still, it easily extended below the female Dog Tag that was dressed in black. - excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.z</ref>

When he feeds, his face distorts, mouth opening impossibly wide and then the flesh folding over and absorbing any blood.<ref>The head went straight into the man’s mouth, even though it was too large to rightly fit inside his mouth.  He beheaded it, tearing with a jerk of his head. [...] He took the head of the other, then stood there at the end of the lot, blood coating chin to throat to the neckline of his shirt, a beheaded adult raccoon in one hand, two beheaded pups between the fingers of his other. [...] The man dropped the headless bodies to the ground.  They fell through his shadow.  Fresh skin folded over the blood on his face, then smoothed out. - Excerpt from Summer Break 13.4</ref>

Abilities

He is able to split the shadow of his limbs and head into different pieces, sending them out to attack different targets. Each shadow is extremely strong and capable of flinging it's target with great force or grabbing it and pull it in, it can also manifest teeth capable of biting small animals in half or make it's targets disappear into it's own shadow.<ref name=":2">“A man in a tight black shirt and pants, smiling wickedly, looks like a musician…”
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The skinny young man with black hair, black shirt, and black jeans reached out a hand, and his shadow lunged out in four or five segments, diagonally across the lot, a section for the head, for the reaching arm and fingers, for the bend of his leg.

One of the larger, plump raccoons was tossed into the air as the shadow lanced beneath it.  Shadows rippled, arched off the pavement lot, and manifested teeth, reaching up.

The raccoon was bitten in half.  The raccoon’s upper half bounced once on ground before hitting shadow, falling into the darkness as if there was no ground there, only a hole.

Shadows withdrew like elastic bands snapping.  The second of the large raccoons was hauled to him with such speed and force that limbs bent the wrong way, back snapping audibly from where Lucy crouched, the length of a skating rink away.  The head went straight into the man’s mouth, even though it was too large to rightly fit inside his mouth.  He beheaded it, tearing with a jerk of his head.

The pups were already in hand, one dead, the other fighting.

Lucy itched to do something, because they were just animals trying to get by, but-

Before she could he killed the survivor, biting around head to the neck and tearing head from body.  He took the head of the other, then stood there at the end of the lot, blood coating chin to throat to the neckline of his shirt, a beheaded adult raccoon in one hand, two beheaded pups between the fingers of his other.

The second adult raccoon was gone, the only mark it had been there a single ‘splat’ of blood on the end of the parking lot.- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.4</ref> It can even swallow up entire church pews. Strong light weakens, but does not negate, the shadows.<ref name=":1" />

It's implied he has a way to beguile or distract innocents,<ref name=":0" /> as well as having some kind of tracking ability.<ref>

“Can you track them?”

“I can track where they went after, but not before.  You could ask Rabbit Killer.”

“Leave him be.” - excerpt from Summer Break 13.4</ref>

Chronology

Was present when Reid took Drowne was a familiar.<ref name=":0">His father addressed him, “Rabbit Killer is telling me there’s an enterprising young woman who can shrug off his influence.  I’m going to intervene to prevent any child services workers or officers from thinking too hard about the fact we were left in here alone with a girl they’re not sure we’re related to.”-Excerpt from False Moves 12.z</ref>

Came to Kennet when Abraham Musser was investigating Alexander's death.

Tested Freak and Squeak when they met but was unable to hurt them.<ref>Summer Break 13.9</ref>

During the fight outside Kennet Arena as the Carmine contest occurred Matthew set his hosted Doom on it, knocking him out of the fight.<ref>Matthew’s Doom smashed Rabbit Killer up against the wall, hard enough that Rabbit Killer didn’t get back to his feet after[...] Only Rabbit Killer and the woman with the ivory skin had been taken out.- Excerpt from Summer Break 13.13</ref>

Fought for Musser during his Lordship claim in Kennet. The Kennet Dog Tags managed to weaken his shadows with flares and evade them.<ref name=":1" />

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