Icepick

Book(s)	SLAY
Introduced	SLAY 3: EASY KILL
Gender	Male
Age	40
Occupation	Bounty hunter
Species	Human
Fan Name	Yes
Height	6-3
Weight	176
Hair	Black with gray
Eyes	Brown

Magical Abilities
Class	(Brawler)
Loom	None
Affinitas	Yes
Naturalis	No

Icepick is a character in the SLAY series.

Character Overview

Icepick is an enlightened bounty hunter and hitman. He is known for clean, efficient kills, mostly delivered with bo shurikens (throwing spikes).

He has some Japanese ancestry, although little is known about his past.

Attributes

Description

From SLAY 3: Easy Kill: A man stepped out. Unfolded out, was more accurate, like a praying mantis might unfold from a hiding spot. Polished cowboy boots, a gleaming, silver skull on the flat toes. Black jeans. Fingerless, black-leather driver’s gloves. Black leather trench coat. Dark gray turtleneck sweater. Thick-framed black glasses. Salt and pepper goatee. (description from unpublished rough draft).

Familiar

Iceipick's familiar is Herbie the Love Bug, a diamortuga with an overlay of a white VW Beetle.

Gear

Signature Weapons

• Bo shurkens: Icepick throws many kinds of bo shurkiens. His accuracy and power are incredible.
  • Hi no Hari: ("Needle of Fire"):
  • Itami no Hari: ("Needle of Pain"): A shard-shuriken woven with sympathetic meshwork and a dulling glyph that converts kinetic strike into concentrated neural agony rather than lethal trauma. It doesn’t seek to kill — it bends the nervous system into spasms and numbed paralysis for a finite window, leaving the target writhing and incapacitated long enough to be subdued or dragged away.
  • Kagiwari Hari (Lock-Splitting Needle): This enchanted bo shuriken is etched with ancient meshwork runes that resonate with the mechanical and magical structures of locks. When inserted into a keyhole or lock seam, the Kagiwari Hari emits a faint, harmonic vibration that ‘sings’ to the tumblers or enchantments within. To an outside observer, the lock appears untouched—but from within, the pins realign, the wards unravel, and the mechanism yields silently.
  • Kagemusha Rei: ("body double ghost"): When this spike hits an object, it creates a perfect illusion of another Icepick. The illusion pretends to attack the original target. The illusion is autonomous.
  • Rei-tetsu: ("Iron Spirit"): 8.5" (21cm) spikes that can penetrate many types meshwork armor.
  • Yumeikazuchi:("Dream Lightning Hammer"): Can go around corners as long as Icepick sees the target before the target is obscured.

• Jōko Sōken ("the Twin Blades of Joko": Forged in the ancient Jokotō period, a time when Japanese swords were evolving and blending influences from mainland Asia with local innovations, this pair of Wakizashis stands as a testament to early Japanese sword-making. While the curved katana would later become the iconic samurai sword, these blades represent an even older tradition, characterized by their straight, formidable blades.

Taglines

• Oh, bother.
• His meshwork is all of Japanese origin, which he activates by speaking Japanese.
• "To o saku wa hari no michi": The spell that activates Kagiwari Hari's lock picking ability. It roughly translates to "“The path of needles splits the door." (Pronounced: TOH oh SAH-koo wah HAH-ree no MEE-chee)

Fan Based Character

Icepick was the nickname of Junkie Bruce Press, who passed away in 2023.