Novel Character Guide

Your guide to the appearances of characters as written in their respective novels. If you find any in books you're reading feel free to send them in (but please give the page number) as I can't read every book by myself. Also message me if you find anything wrong with the information provided here and I'll double check it. I created this blog as a way to help people who may be drawing fanart, cosplaying or writing fanfics.

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Leader Hungry

Male - Leader of the group of second generation hungries in London.

Weapon: Aluminum baseball bat

Face: Painted in lots of difference colours - a monster’s face painted over his own, the open mouth encompassing everything from his nose to his chin. Smudgy and wobby and done in marker pen

Lips: Red and full

Eyes: Bloodshot

Teeth: Slender and pointed

Hair: Lank, black hair hangs straight down over his eyes

Body: skinny enough to see ribs. Narrow, bony shoulders.

Skin: Pale

Page 392

Camouflage jacket (Gallagher’s)

Page 449

Flare pellet lodged in his eye socket, smoke pours out and straight upwards.

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Kady Grant - Illuminae

Kady Eleanore Grant “ByteMe” ex-student on Kerenza, mild computer genius and Byron Zhang’s successor. 

Height: 157cm

Eyes: blue

Hair: pink with six months of brown regrowth at the roots, straight, fringe

Watching Geeball

Face: frost-chapped lips

Kerenza

Clothing: mittens, army boots, shirt, jacket, t-shirts to bed

Items: black digiplayer with skulls

During the invasion of Kerenza

Face: covered in blood

Hair: crusted with snow

Clothing: covered in blood

Nails: blood under fingernails

Hypatia

Clothing: ship jumpsuit

Alexander

Items: large bag with infirmary markings, backpack, portable tablet, red glowstick

Hair: askew where she runs her hands through it, damp

Clothing: oversized neon green plastic biohazard suit, heavy boots, oversized envirosuit; visor on bulky helmet, helmet has lights, safety glass cracked, blastshield

Hands: bloodstained

Face: tears, bruised and bloodied, dark circles under her eyes

Eyes: bright with fever

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James McNulty - Illuminae

Sergeant James “Jimmy” McNulty a UTA Marine in Sigma Squad on the Alexander.

Eyes: blue

Bay 4.

Clothing: hazmat suit, ballistics weave underneath, tac vest, equipment belt, lanyard, blue plastic access key with ‘UTA MARINES - ALL AREAS ACCESS’ written in bold black letters, dog tags marked with name, rank and UTA ID number

After death

Face: jaw hanging loose

Eyes: black

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General David Torrence - Illuminae

Captain General David “Dozer” Torrence of the Alexander. 

Clothing: four golden stars on his epaulets, nine brass buttons down his chest

Immaculate appearance

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Ezra Mason - Illuminae

Geeball player and highschool student on Kerenza turned Second Lieutenant UTA Cyclone pilot on the Alexander.

Height: 6′5″

Strong and therefore somewhat muscular at least

Eyes: Brown

During the invasion of Kerenza

Bleeding everywhere

Planting the mem-chit on the Alexander

Clothing: envirosuit, blastspex visor, red glowsticks -> rucksack, urban gray camo cargoes, muscle tee damp with sweat

Face: green -> scarlet

After taking out the Lincoln

Clothing: clean UTA uniform with pips on sleeve, arm cast from wrist to elbow

Hair: regulation short

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Doherty - Illuminae

Part of Sigma Squad that transported Byron and Consuela to the Alexander, from Kerenza. 

Glasses: wire-rimmed spectacles

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Consuela Nestor - Illuminae

Co-worker of Byron Zhang on the Hypatia.

Hair: long dark, worn in a braid

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Charles Dorian - Illuminae

After becoming afflicted.

Clothing: UTA uniform, his name is embroidered above the UTA sigil located over his heart

Skin: pale, smeared with blood

Hands: covered in blood

Face: tears cutting through the blood spattered on his face

Eyes: rimmed with blood

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Ann Chau - Illuminae

Height: short

Hair: dark

Weapon: pistol

Clothing: belt

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Byron Zhang - Illuminae

Hair: thinning

Body: overweight, tubby

Overall: “Chinese extraction”

During transport to the Alexander

Face: blood nose, tear-filled eyes,

Clothing: under-arm stains

While destroying AIDAN

Weapon: fire ax

Clothing: filthy Hypatia uniform, sweating through

Hands: grubby with grease, blistered, black fingernails, red palms

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Bradley Carpenter - Illuminae

One of the afflicted, ex-geeball player from McCaffrey’s.

Arms: blood up to his elbows

Weapon: Two fire axes

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Copernicus insignia and exterior shown

Copernicus - The Illuminae Files - page 24

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Hypatia insignia and exterior shown

Hypatia - The Illuminae Files - page 23

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Alexander insignia and exterior shown

Alexander - The Illuminae Files - page 22

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BeiTech - The Illuminae Files

Compiled from all mentions of BeiTech

Insignia: shown on page 587

Invasion Troops: Amor-plated winter camo, carrying large and/or powerful guns.

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Assistant Jane - The Illuminae Files

Medical assistant on the Copernicus, working and presumably killed by Dr. Tobias Salinger

Eyes: green

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Afflicted - The Illuminae Files

This list is complied from all encounters of Afflicted.

Covered in blood: arms slicked with blood up to elbows, bloody faces

Eyes - wild-eyed, due to their insanity they often cry “tears cutting trails down bloodstained cheeks”, bloodshot, sunken, rimmed with red

Teeth: yellow (most likely only the ones from the Copernicus), 

Hands: red underneath their fingernails, bloodstained

Complexion: pale, hollow cheeks

Weapons: Iron bars, pipe wrenches, shivs, pinking shears, VK rifles, fire axes

Clothing: uniforms spattered in gore, envirosuits 

Dragging a heart

They don’t feel pain often, have bullet wounds