Pwn is the name given to multiple clones of Leet created by Echidna. They shared his powers and memories, but, like all Echidna clones, felt a driving desire to destroy everything their original cared about.
Appearance[]
Pwns are mutated and tougher than a regular person, able to shrug off jolts of electricity.[1] One Pwn had a forearm and hand as big as his torso.[2]
Abilities and Powers[]
Pwns presumably had powers similar to Leet, possibly with some variations. One Pwn's designs for a gun were described as crude, hodgepodge, similar to Squealer's work. It had an excess of openings and gaps and burned hot near the power source.[3] The gun was mounted on a tripod and included a scope.[4] The power source was explosive, violently detonating upon being dropped from a building.
History[]
Post-Slaughterhouse Nine[]
Über and Leet were captured by Echidna along with Circus during her search for independent capes. During the initial confrontation between Echidna and the heroes, Echidna employed multiple Pwns along with Unters, Scapes and Carnies.
Echidna used a Pwn to build a tinkertech gun in order to ambush Eidolon. The gun was sabotaged by Skitter, who used cockroaches to eat away at the wiring and cause it to backfire on the Pwn.[1] Though the Pwn managed to repair the gun, he was killed by Imp before he could use it.[5] As a final act of spite, the Pwn dragged the gun along with himself off of a building, the power source creating a violent explosion upon impacting the ground. Imp was caught in the explosion, injuring her and rupturing her eardrum.[6]
Another Pwn was created during the battle and attempted to run off into a mall to retrieve materials. Skitter's swarm detected him and was able to catch up to him after the Pwn stopped to loot clothes to cover himself.[7]
It is assumed that the remaining Pwns were all killed during or after the Battle against Echidna.
Chapter Appearances[]
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Trivia[]
- Pwn is only named in the tags of the chapters he appears in.
- The term "pwn" is a variation on "own," typically used in leetspeak. It means "to utterly defeat (an opponent or rival)."
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 I sneaked cockroaches in through the gaps in the weapon’s exterior and started them chewing through the wiring.
[...]
Leet pulled the trigger.
“There we go,” Eidolon said. The gun wasn’t firing. He pulled the trigger again, and an arc of electricity ripped out from a space by the power supply, toasting half of the bugs I’d positioned on Leet and sending him sprawling to the ground. He was back on his feet seconds later, tearing one panel away to get at the sparking power supply. Tougher than a normal person. - Excerpt from Queen 18.7 - ↑ One of the heads of Noelle’s lower body vomited up a slurry of flesh, with two naked bodies in the midst of it. A Vista covered in fingernail-like plates of hard flesh and a Leet with one forearm and hand as big as his torso. The two clones were on their feet in seconds. The Vista ran in Eidolon’s direction, while the Leet made a beeline for a nearby mall entrance. - Excerpt from Queen 18.7
- ↑ Leet was still setting up. He’d had to find a point where there was an open door, just so he had enough space behind him that the weapon could be positioned horizontally. The design was crude, hodgepodge. It resembled Squealer’s work, just going by what I was interpreting with my swarm-sense. That meant there was an excess of openings and gaps. The part that burned hottest had to be the power source. It was at the very back of the gun, at the point furthest from the mutant Leet. - Excerpt from Queen 18.7
- ↑ The words had only just left my mouth when Leet dropped to a position at the side of the gun, putting one eye to the scope. The entire weapon shifted on the tripod mount as he aimed. - Excerpt from Queen 18.7
- ↑ And Imp was there. She drew her knife across the psycho-Leet’s throat. Eidolon froze as Leet staggered and slumped against the windowsill, blood pouring from the open wound. - Excerpt from Queen 18.7
- ↑ We reached Imp’s side. She’d slumped against an intact wall. I worked with Grue to clear away the pieces of wood and concrete that had joined Imp in being thrown against the wall. - Excerpt from Queen 18.7
- ↑ The Leet had entered a mall. The place had been looted, but he stopped somewhere long enough to grab some basic clothes. He wrenched a piece off a clothing rack and used the ragged end to cut a sleeve off and open up the shoulder enough that he could fit his oversized left hand through it.
The activity bought my bugs enough time to catch up to him. As they attacked, he started thrashing. I was in the middle of changing my focus to other things when I noticed something curious. - Excerpt from Queen 18.7
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| Leader | Echidna † |
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| Clones | Abhorror † • Apocrypha † • Carnie † • Charlatan † • Chitter † • Gross † • Ignis Fatuus † • Pwn † • Scape † • Temblor † • Unter † • Vizier † • Witness ≠ |