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* TheChainsOfCommanding: As the head of a local group of fixers, Manny is responsible for a few men who work under him as scouts and guides. When one of his men, Oscar, goes missing during the Heavenly Kingdom's first offensive, Manny is wracked with guilt as he ruminates about might have happened to Oscar, blaming himself for sending him out into danger.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: As the head of a local group of fixers, Manny is responsible for a few men who work under him as scouts and guides. When one of his men, Oscar, goes missing during the Heavenly Kingdom's first offensive, Manny is wracked with guilt as he ruminates about what might have happened to Oscar, blaming himself for sending him out into danger.
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* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Downplayed; the amnesiac in this case is definitively not 'innocent', but definitively more mellowed out and much less dangerous than whomever he used to be.
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* MadeOfIron: Literally. His skeleton is armoured to the degree that if his bone armouring is on, armour-penetrating ammunition won't harm it, and his healing factor allows him to recover at frighening rates. He's also near immune to fatigue and can keep working for way beyond human standards.
* MartialPacifist: Roland ''wants'' to be this trope, but the realities of modern war means he's often put in positions where it isn't possible. Hence why he wants to stay away from the front-lines if possible. [[spoiler:Even killing in defence of Manny and Sasha disturbs him, even as he recognizes it was the enemy combatants or his companions. He fully abandons the attempt during the Battle of Waco, and the ensuing stress and recovered memories causes him to attempt to kill himself.]]
* MartialPacifist: Roland ''wants'' to be this trope, but the realities of modern war means he's often put in positions where it isn't possible. Hence why he wants to stay away from the front-lines if possible. [[spoiler:Even killing in defence of Manny and Sasha disturbs him, even as he recognizes it was the enemy combatants or his companions. He fully abandons the attempt during the Battle of Waco, and the ensuing stress and recovered memories causes him to attempt to kill himself.]]
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* MadeOfIron: Literally. His skeleton is armoured to the degree that if his bone armouring is on, armour-penetrating ammunition won't harm it, and his healing factor allows him to recover at frighening frightening rates. He's also near immune to fatigue and can keep working for way beyond human standards.
* MartialPacifist: Roland ''wants'' to be this trope, but the realities of modern war means he's often put in positions where it isn't possible. Hence why he wants to stay away from thefront-lines front lines if possible. [[spoiler:Even killing in defence of Manny and Sasha disturbs him, even as he recognizes it was the enemy combatants or his companions. He fully abandons the attempt during the Battle of Waco, and the ensuing stress and recovered memories causes him to attempt to kill himself.]]
* MartialPacifist: Roland ''wants'' to be this trope, but the realities of modern war means he's often put in positions where it isn't possible. Hence why he wants to stay away from the
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* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted. Roland is black and extremely dangerous, but he's also extremely easygoing and spacey. [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted by his final chapter, as Roland begins unlocking more memories and combat skills and goes from relucant warrior to bloodthirsty one-man-army.]]
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* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted. Roland is black and extremely dangerous, but he's also extremely easygoing and spacey. [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted by his final chapter, as Roland begins unlocking more memories and combat skills and goes from relucant reluctant warrior to bloodthirsty one-man-army.]]
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* TechnicalPacifist: Anything up to significant chance of death is still 'acceptable level of force' in Roland's book, but he dislikes killing. The trope gets slightly deconstructed [[spoiler:in one of Sasha's chapters when she's forced to treat survivors of one of his rampages, as without [=AmFed=]-grade medical treatment none of them will ever recover use of their limbs or senses. The 'pacifist' part gets more and more abandoned during his mission to the Heavenly Kingdom, with Roland moving from breaking half the bones of the training facility to outright butchering a large part of the Dallas garrison.]]
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* TechnicalPacifist: Anything up to a significant chance of death is still an 'acceptable level of force' in Roland's book, but he dislikes killing. The trope gets slightly deconstructed [[spoiler:in one of Sasha's chapters when she's forced to treat survivors of one of his rampages, as without [=AmFed=]-grade medical treatment none of them will ever recover the use of their limbs or senses. The 'pacifist' part gets more and more abandoned during his mission to the Heavenly Kingdom, with Roland moving from breaking half the bones of the training facility to outright butchering a large part of the Dallas garrison.]]
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's openly white supremacist, believing that Latinos were responsible for the fall of old America, as well as viewing women as chattel solely good for producing (white, Christian) babies.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's openly an open white supremacist, believing that Latinos were responsible for the fall of old America, as well as viewing women as chattel solely good for producing (white, Christian) babies.
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* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:He'd built a full suit of battle-armour for Roland years ago in case he managed to coax him back into fighting.]]
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* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:He'd built a full suit suite of battle-armour for Roland years ago in case he managed to coax him back into fighting.]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Skullfucker Mike does not want to be confused with Pastor Mike.
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* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:He succeeds at shaming Roland into fighting again for the Battle of Waco. He later comes to regret it, even though it ensured Rolling Fuck's victory.]]
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* ManipulativeBastard: Manny is very skilled at charming people. [[spoiler:He succeeds at shaming Roland into fighting again for the Battle of Waco. He He's uncomfortable as he's doing it, and later comes to regret it, even though it ensured Rolling Fuck's victory.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He blames himself for [[spoiler: Roland's unstoppable killing spree and subsequent suicide attempt, as he knows it was only his pleading that convinced Roland to fight.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He blames himself for [[spoiler: Roland's unstoppable killing spree and subsequent suicide attempt, as he knows it was only his pleading that convinced Roland to fight.]]
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* NiceHat: It is often remarked on how one of the few clothing articles he wears is a prominent cowboy hat.
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* VillainTakesAnInterest: [[spoiler:He takes an interest in Sasha, offering her an 'internship' in his organisation.]]
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* VillainTakesAnInterest: [[spoiler:He takes an interest in Sasha, offering her an 'internship' "internship" in his organisation.]]
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* SoleSurvivor: He's the only known survivor of his unit from the US Army. [[spoiler:Two of his memories implies he was involved in getting the program shut down by attacking the lab that made their implants and possibly killing the general behind the program.]]
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* SoleSurvivor: He's the only known survivor of his unit from the US Army. [[spoiler:Two [[spoiler:What we can glean from fragments of his memories implies memory heavily imply he was involved in getting the program shut down by attacking the lab that made their implants and possibly killing the general behind the program.]]
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* SoleSurvivor: He's the only known survivor of his unit from the US Army. [[spoiler:Two of his memories implies he was involved in getting the program shut down by attacking the lab that made their implants and possibly killing the general behind the program.]]
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* DisappointedInYou: He quickly figures out [[spoiler:Sasha is willingly help Manny and Roland with their break-out and tells her so, and also that she needs to leave with them because he's not going to protect her if she stays in the kingdom.]]
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* DisappointedInYou: He quickly figures out [[spoiler:Sasha is willingly help helping Manny and Roland with their break-out and tells her so, he's deeply disappointed in her, and also that she needs to leave with them because he's not going to protect her if she stays in the kingdom.Kingdom.]]
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* PetTheDog: He ends up helping Sasha by giving her a job in the Heavenly Kingdom hospital and rescues her from Alexander at one point. While partially PragmaticVillainy -- Sasha is trained in medicine and therefore too valuable to waste -- he also offers her genuine respect and praise for her work.
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* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: His implants reward his pleasure centers when he harms or kills people.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: After [[spoiler: killing Darryl]] she goes numb and spends the rest of the book in a half daze. Something Tule recognizes as an early sign of developing PTSD.
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* LastChanceToQuit: A non-villainous version. She offers to put Manny on a transport to Austin instead of helping Rolling Fuck recover their negotiators, but without thos
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* MisterExposition: Shares this role with Skullfucker Mike regarding Rolling Fuck and its political situation.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Spends a lot of her incarceration snarking at Sasha.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:She dies facing down a Kingdom assault squad -- intended to kill Roland, a posthuman -- with only a pistol stolen from one of them. She manages to kill two of them before they tear her apart.]]
* TheParagon: She was one of the firmest believers in the Rolling Fuck project and helped build the city up from nothing. Skullfucker Mike idolises her, [[spoiler:and her death causes an outcry amongst the citizens.]]
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In their last conversation, tells Sasha she's smart enough to realise the Heavenly Kingdom is rotten to the core and she's better off leaving.
* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:She dies facing down a Kingdom assault squad -- intended to kill Roland, a posthuman -- with only a pistol stolen from one of them. She manages to kill two of them before they tear her apart.]]
* TheParagon: She was one of the firmest believers in the Rolling Fuck project and helped build the city up from nothing. Skullfucker Mike idolises her, [[spoiler:and her death causes an outcry amongst the citizens.]]
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: In their last conversation, tells Sasha she's smart enough to realise the Heavenly Kingdom is rotten to the core and she's better off leaving.
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* NonActionGuy: He's another civilian and chromed well below the threshold of acceptance for Texas, and on top of it was treated very roughly by the Kingdom. [[spoiler:He barely manages to stay conscious for most of the rescue mission.]]
* TheQuietOne: Has no lines at all, mainly because he's half-dead from the treatment given to him by the Kingdom.
* TheQuietOne: Has no lines at all, mainly because he's half-dead from the treatment given to him by the Kingdom.
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* FallenPrincess: A downplayed example: Sasha was well aware she was going down in social status in the Heavenly Kingdom -- she simply failed to understand just how badly.
* TheFundamentalist: A born-again Christian of unknown denomination (some form of Charismatic Protestantism).
* TheFundamentalist: A born-again Christian of unknown denomination (some form of Charismatic Protestantism).
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* TheFundamentalist: A born-again Christian IJustWantToBeBadass: [[spoiler:After escaping the Heavenly Kingdom, re-obtaining some power of unknown denomination (some form of Charismatic Protestantism).her own becomes important to her. Jim preys on it.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Just because she gets away from the Heavenly Kingdom doesn't mean she's overcome the psychological vulnerabilities that Alexander and Pastor Mike used to sucker her in--which Jim handily takes advantage of.]]
* WideEyedIdealist: She has a very rose-eyed view of the Heavenly Kingdom, which doesn't work out all that well for her.
* WideEyedIdealist: She has a very rose-eyed view of the Heavenly Kingdom, which doesn't work out all that well for her.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: NervesOfSteel: For an ordinary high-schooler, Sasha is very cool under pressure. Her ability to take charge of the situation when one of the other women in the House of Miriam gets injured catches the eye of Dr. Brandt.
* WideEyedIdealist: She has a very rose-eyed view of the Heavenly Kingdom, which doesn't work out all that well for her. [[spoiler:Just because she gets away from the Heavenly Kingdom doesn't mean she's overcome the psychological vulnerabilities that Alexander and Pastor Mike used to sucker her in--which Jim handily takes advantage of.]]
* WideEyedIdealist: She has a very rose-eyed view of the Heavenly Kingdom, which doesn't work out all that well for her.
* WideEyedIdealist: She has a very rose-eyed view of the Heavenly Kingdom, which doesn't work out all that well for her. [[spoiler:Just because she gets away from the Heavenly Kingdom doesn't mean she's overcome the psychological vulnerabilities that Alexander and Pastor Mike used to sucker her in--which Jim handily takes advantage of.]]
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* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Downplayed; the amnesiac in this case is definitively not 'innocent', but definitively more mellowed out and much less dangerous than whomever he used to be.
* MadeOfIron: Literally. His skeleton is armoured to the degree that if his bone armouring is on, armour-penetrating ammunition won't harm it, and his healing factor allows him to recover at frighening rates. He's also near immune to fatigue and can keep working for way beyond human standards.
* ShapeshifterBaggage: Regenerator variant. Roland frequently re-grows pieces of his body wholesale, with no explanation as to where the extra mass comes from.
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* SuperStrength: Capable of tearing pieces off military-grade vehicles with his bare hands when sufficiently cheesed off.
* TechnicalPacifist: Anything up to significant chance of death is still 'acceptable level of force' in Roland's book, but he dislikes killing. The trope gets slightly deconstructed [[spoiler:in one of Sasha's chapters when she's forced to treat survivors of one of his rampages, as without [=AmFed=]-grade medical treatment none of them will ever recover use of their limbs or senses. The 'pacifist' part gets more and more abandoned during his mission to the Heavenly Kingdom, with Roland moving from breaking half the bones of the training facility to outright butchering a large part of the Dallas garrison.]]
* TechnicalPacifist: Anything up to significant chance of death is still 'acceptable level of force' in Roland's book, but he dislikes killing. The trope gets slightly deconstructed [[spoiler:in one of Sasha's chapters when she's forced to treat survivors of one of his rampages, as without [=AmFed=]-grade medical treatment none of them will ever recover use of their limbs or senses. The 'pacifist' part gets more and more abandoned during his mission to the Heavenly Kingdom, with Roland moving from breaking half the bones of the training facility to outright butchering a large part of the Dallas garrison.]]
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* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:He succeeds at shaming Roland into fighting again for the Battle of Waco. He later comes to regret it, even though it ensured Rolling Fuck's victory.]]
* MisterExposition: Serves this during his early chapters, both with dialogue to Reggie and with his internal monologues.
* MisterExposition: Serves this during his early chapters, both with dialogue to Reggie and with his internal monologues.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: As the head of a local group of fixes, Manny is responsible for a few men who work under him as scouts and guides. When one of his men, Oscar, goes missing during the Heavenly Kingdom's first offensive, Manny is wracked with guilt as he ruminates about might have happened to Oscar, blaming himself for sending him out into danger.
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* TheChainsOfCommanding: As the head of a local group of fixes, fixers, Manny is responsible for a few men who work under him as scouts and guides. When one of his men, Oscar, goes missing during the Heavenly Kingdom's first offensive, Manny is wracked with guilt as he ruminates about might have happened to Oscar, blaming himself for sending him out into danger.
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* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: Instead of going to Europe, he gives the money he saved up for his visa to Major Peron's widow and moves to Rolling Fuck.]]
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* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: Instead [[spoiler:Instead of going to Europe, he gives the money he saved up for his visa to Major Peron's Oscar's widow and moves to Rolling Fuck.]]
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* MartialPacifist: Roland ''wants'' to be this trope, but the realities of modern war means he's often put in positions where it isn't possible. Hence why he wants to stay away from the front-lines if possible. [[spoiler:Even killing in defence of Manny and Sasha disturbs him, even as he recognizes it was the enemy combatants or his companions. He fully abandons the attempt during the Battle of Waco, and the ensuing stress and recovered memories causes him to kill himself.]]
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* MartialPacifist: Roland ''wants'' to be this trope, but the realities of modern war means he's often put in positions where it isn't possible. Hence why he wants to stay away from the front-lines if possible. [[spoiler:Even killing in defence of Manny and Sasha disturbs him, even as he recognizes it was the enemy combatants or his companions. He fully abandons the attempt during the Battle of Waco, and the ensuing stress and recovered memories causes him to attempt to kill himself.]]
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* HatedHometown: Sasha is, just as many of her peers, unhappy with her life in the [=AmFed=], feeling that they are stuck in an ideologically and spiritually dead place and have no real future to look forward to. It is what motivates her attempt to emigrate to the Heavenly Kingdom in the first place.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:[[spoiler: Just [[spoiler:Just because she gets away from the Heavenly Kingdom doesn't mean she's overcome the psychological vulnerabilities that Alexander and Pastor Mike used to sucker her in--which Jim handily takes advantage of.]]
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* HiddenWeapons: He has several, most of whom he's forgotten even exists. [[spoiler:He has a BladeBeneathTheShoulder implanted in his right arm, and a handheld GrenadeLauncher (essentially a [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 bolt pistol]]) hidden in his intestines.]]
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* HiddenWeapons: He has several, most of whom he's forgotten even exists. [[spoiler:He has a BladeBeneathTheShoulder BladeBelowTheShoulder implanted in his right arm, and a handheld GrenadeLauncher (essentially a [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 bolt pistol]]) hidden in his intestines.]]
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* GrassIsGreener: His overriding motivation is to get out of Texas: Initially the plan was California, but with the rise of the Heavenly Kingdom and the troubles on the west coast his new goal is to apply for immigration to one of the European nations.
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* ForeignCussWord: Switches to spanish Spanish when cursing.
* GrassIsGreener: His overriding motivation is to get out of Texas: Initially the plan was California, but with the rise of the Heavenly Kingdom and the troubles on the west coast his new goal is to apply for immigration to one of the European nations.
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: Instead of going to Europe, he gives the money he saved up for his visa to Major Peron's widow and moves to Rolling Fuck.]]
* GrassIsGreener: His overriding motivation is to get out of Texas: Initially the plan was California, but with the rise of the Heavenly Kingdom and the troubles on the west coast his new goal is to apply for immigration to one of the European nations.
* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: Instead of going to Europe, he gives the money he saved up for his visa to Major Peron's widow and moves to Rolling Fuck.]]
* EasilyForgiven:
** Manny decides not to be angry at him about [[spoiler: the Lakewood nuke]], because Roland doesn't remember it and being angry wouldn't serve any purpose.
** Averted with Topaz, who still cares for him but refuses to forgive him [[spoiler: for leaving her when he promised not to]]. She refuses to factor in his memory loss in her judgment, not because she thinks it doesn't matter, but because it doesn't change the effect on ''her'' and she won't set herself up to be hurt again.
** Manny decides not to be angry at him about [[spoiler: the Lakewood nuke]], because Roland doesn't remember it and being angry wouldn't serve any purpose.
** Averted with Topaz, who still cares for him but refuses to forgive him [[spoiler: for leaving her when he promised not to]]. She refuses to factor in his memory loss in her judgment, not because she thinks it doesn't matter, but because it doesn't change the effect on ''her'' and she won't set herself up to be hurt again.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Sasha is blonde-haired and fundamentally a decent person -- not that it stops her from aiding the Heavenly Kingdom, a Christo-Fascist state that openly espouses 'displacement' or 'conversion' of vulnerable minorities.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Sasha is blonde-haired and fundamentally a decent person -- not that it stops her from aiding the Heavenly Kingdom, a Christo-Fascist state that openly espouses 'displacement' or 'conversion' of vulnerable minorities. Only after she sees firsthand what it's really like there does she come to her senses.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler: Just because she gets away from the Heavenly Kingdom doesn't mean she's overcome the psychological vulnerabilities that Alexander and Pastor Mike used to sucker her in--which Jim handily takes advantage of.]]
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's openly white supremacist, believing that Latinos were responsible for the fall of old America.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's openly white supremacist, believing that Latinos were responsible for the fall of old America.America, as well as viewing women as chattel solely good for producing (white, Christian) babies.
* ScaryTeeth: Has huge chrome fangs.
* NoodleIncident: Dishonorably discharged from the US army, but we never find out what for.
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* CoolOldLady: So cool that when she tells ''Jim'' to shut up, he listens.
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* GenderBender: Can swap sex.SexShifter: Shown to be pretty literally genderfluid when he decides to be male for the battle of Waco.
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* HealingFactor: He regularly tanks enough bullets to kill a battalion and shells to destroy a tank, and heals from it. [[spoiler: In chapter 23 he even recovers from a [[AteHisGun self-inflicted shot through the forebrain]], though he develops amnesia, again.]]
* SuperSoldier: Was part of a pre-Revolution US Army program [[spoiler: called Project Orange, of which he's the only known survivor.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: His many mods include a chameleon system that allows him to take on the appearance of [[{{Humanshifting}} any other human]] he gets a good look at. He spends a good chunk of the novel posing as a dead (white) Texas citizen in order to infiltrate the Heavenly Kingdom.
* UndiscriminatingAddict: If it's mind-altering, he'll take it.
* UndiscriminatingAddict: If it's mind-altering, he'll take it.
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* TagalongReporter: He wasn't planning to get up close and personal to the conflict, but the Heavenly Kingdom caught everyone off guard. Still, he bails out almost immediately after reaching Rolling Fuck.
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* BritishStuffiness: He's much more prudish than Manny, especially when interacting with Topaz and Skullfucker Mike.
* NaiveNewcomer: A war journalist from Britain, he serves partially as a sounding board for Manny to explain the basics of life in post-Revolutionary Texas.
* NaiveNewcomer: A war journalist from Britain, he serves partially as a sounding board for Manny to explain the basics of life in post-Revolutionary Texas.
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* ForeignCussWord: Switches to spanish when cursing.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: His hindbrain is intact, leaving Roland with Petabytes worth of knowledge, but his personal memories are scrambled into non-existence. [[spoiler:He suffers a second bout by the end of the first book.]]
* NoSocialSkills: Roland's interpersonal skills are fairly rusty, to say the least.
* ScaryBlackMan: Subverted. Roland is black and extremely dangerous, but he's also extremely easygoing and spacey. [[spoiler:DoubleSubverted by his final chapter, as Roland begins unlocking more memories and combat skills and goes from relucant warrior to bloodthirsty one-man-army.]]
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* WideEyedIdealist: She has a very rose-eyed view of the Heavenly Kingdom, which doesn't work out all that well for her.
* HonoraryUncle: To Manny.
* GreaterScopeVillain: He's the driving force behind a Christo-fascist state that rules over and harms thousands of people, but he's not directly involved in the story of the first book.
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* SinisterMinister: While not encountered in person, he preaches a very fundamentalist gospel with very negative views on all kinds of minorities.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Helen is fully aware of the true purpose of the House of Miriam, and keeps going along with it anyway. It's implied she's less than entirely pleased by the process, however.
* BreedingSlave: [[spoiler:The purpose of the House of Miriam; any Martyr of the Heavenly Kingdom can 'choose' and 'marry' any of the inhabitants at any time. Anne and Susannah both fall victim to this, and Sasha was intended to be as well.]]
* BreedingSlave: [[spoiler:The purpose of the House of Miriam; any Martyr of the Heavenly Kingdom can 'choose' and 'marry' any of the inhabitants at any time. Anne and Susannah both fall victim to this, and Sasha was intended to be as well.]]
* BattleCouple: With Skullfucker Mike.
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* GenderBender: Can swap sex if given some time.sex.
* BattleCouple: With Topaz.
* NeutralNoLonger: Although Rolling Fuck normally takes no part in the struggles of the american successor states, the imprisonment of their citizens by the Heavenly Kingdom causes her to
* ActualPacifist: He favours the path of peace for Rolling Fuck, arguing that too much war can cause their warriors to jump down the slippery slope.
* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler:He'd built a full suit of battle-armour for Roland years ago in case he managed to coax him back into fighting.]]
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* VillainTakesAnInterest: [[spoiler:He takes an interest in Sasha, offering her an 'internship' in his organisation.]]
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* AmnesiacDissonance: The more violent Roland gets, the more memories he recovers. Most of those memories are of him committing more violence, and he doesn't like them. [[spoiler:At the end of the first novel, a memory of him engaging in a nuclear bombing of civilians drives him to commit suicide.]]
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* MartialPacifist: Roland ''wants'' to be this trope, but the realities of modern war means he's often put in positions where it isn't possible. Hence why he wants to stay away from the front-lines if possible. [[spoiler:Even killing in defence of Manny and Sasha disturbs him, even as he recognizes it was the enemy combatants or his companions.]]
* OneManArmy: Roland is implied to be former U.S. Army special forces (even if he can't remember it) and chromed far and beyond even your 'average' posthuman: Even in his current state he's the deadliest thing on two legs in the book. As another posthuman mentions, there may be several posthumans worth a rifle platoon amongst them, but there is only one Roland.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Roland has forgotten more military actions than most people would experience in several lifetimes, but the impressions they've left behind has deeply affected him.
* OneManArmy: Roland is implied to be former U.S. Army special forces (even if he can't remember it) and chromed far and beyond even your 'average' posthuman: Even in his current state he's the deadliest thing on two legs in the book. As another posthuman mentions, there may be several posthumans worth a rifle platoon amongst them, but there is only one Roland.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Roland has forgotten more military actions than most people would experience in several lifetimes, but the impressions they've left behind has deeply affected him.
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* HiddenWeapons: He has several, most of whom he's forgotten even exists. [[spoiler:He has a BladeBeneathTheShoulder implanted in his right arm, and a handheld GrenadeLauncher (essentially a [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 bolt pistol]]) hidden in his intestines.]]
* MartialPacifist: Roland ''wants'' to be this trope, but the realities of modern war means he's often put in positions where it isn't possible. Hence why he wants to stay away from the front-lines if possible. [[spoiler:Even killing in defence of Manny and Sasha disturbs him, even as he recognizes it was the enemy combatants or his companions. He fully abandons the attempt during the Battle of Waco, and the ensuing stress and recovered memories causes him to kill himself.]]
* OneManArmy: Roland is implied to be former U.S. Army special forces (even if he can't remember it) and chromed far and beyond even your 'average' posthuman: Even in his current state he's the deadliest thing on two legs in the book. As another posthuman mentions, there may be several posthumans worth a rifle platoon amongst them, but there is only oneRoland.
Roland. [[spoiler:Skullfucker Mike later confirms this, claiming Roland is the SoleSurvivor of a US SuperSoldier programme.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Roland has forgotten more militaryactions action than most people would experience in several lifetimes, but the impressions they've left behind has deeply affected him.
* MartialPacifist: Roland ''wants'' to be this trope, but the realities of modern war means he's often put in positions where it isn't possible. Hence why he wants to stay away from the front-lines if possible. [[spoiler:Even killing in defence of Manny and Sasha disturbs him, even as he recognizes it was the enemy combatants or his companions. He fully abandons the attempt during the Battle of Waco, and the ensuing stress and recovered memories causes him to kill himself.]]
* OneManArmy: Roland is implied to be former U.S. Army special forces (even if he can't remember it) and chromed far and beyond even your 'average' posthuman: Even in his current state he's the deadliest thing on two legs in the book. As another posthuman mentions, there may be several posthumans worth a rifle platoon amongst them, but there is only one
* ShellShockedVeteran: Roland has forgotten more military
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He's killed in an ExtremeMeleeRevenge by Sasha, the woman he'd deceived, mistreated and induced into abandoning the Heavenly Kingdom.]]
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* KarmicDeath: HoistByTheirOwnPetard: [[spoiler:He's killed in an ExtremeMeleeRevenge by Sasha, the woman he'd deceived, mistreated and induced into abandoning the Heavenly Kingdom.]]
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* GenderBender: Can swap sex if given some time.
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* WeaponOfChoice: A Dragonov SVD, which Topaz has used since at least the Revolution.
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* AnimatedTattoo: A pair of snakes on his chest, which can move in real-time. At one point they're dancing in tune to the ambient music, indicating they're at least partially connected to Jim's senses.
* BombThrowingAnarchists: Played with. Jim believes in fomenting violent upheavals to kill the old order and make new things grow on the corpse. Most of the anarchists of the book do not agree with his tactics at all.
* ConsummateLiar: Both Roland and Sasha note that it's essentially impossible to read his body language.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Thanks to his cyber-eyes, which constantly change the colour and size of his pupils.
* FullFrontalAssault: Wears groinless chaps and precious little else.
* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler:He tries to push Roland into ever-greater acts of violence in the hopes that Roland will recover his memories. It backfires completely, as Roland recovers enough of his memories to realise his former crimes and violently suppresses them.]]
* BombThrowingAnarchists: Played with. Jim believes in fomenting violent upheavals to kill the old order and make new things grow on the corpse. Most of the anarchists of the book do not agree with his tactics at all.
* ConsummateLiar: Both Roland and Sasha note that it's essentially impossible to read his body language.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Thanks to his cyber-eyes, which constantly change the colour and size of his pupils.
* FullFrontalAssault: Wears groinless chaps and precious little else.
* PoisonousFriend: [[spoiler:He tries to push Roland into ever-greater acts of violence in the hopes that Roland will recover his memories. It backfires completely, as Roland recovers enough of his memories to realise his former crimes and violently suppresses them.]]
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* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler:To Topaz. Upon encountering her again Roland can only recall that he used to love her, but nothing about their actual relationship.]]
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* WeHaveReserves: [[spoiler:He ends up on the receiving end of it and is hosed down by automatic fire in an ambush set to kill Roland.]]
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* FriendlySniper: A handy shot with a battle rifle, and also quick to warm up to Manny and Reggie once plied with some whisky.
* ThoseTwoGuys: She was in the same unit as Skullfucker Mike in the Revolution and they've stuck together since.
* ThoseTwoGuys: She was in the same unit as Skullfucker Mike in the Revolution and they've stuck together since.
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* DropTheHammer: He favours a gigantic two-handed maul almost as big as he is.
* EmotionalBruiser: He's very friendly to Manny and Reggie [[spoiler:and later breaks down in tears in front of Manny over concern for Marigold.]]
* InsistentTerminology: It's Skullfucker Mike, not "Mike". "Skullfucker" doesn't even seem to be a nickname or epithet, it seems to be his actual first name. He will accept "Skully" by friends however.
* ShellShockedVeteran: A downplayed example; he mentions having been alienated by the Revolution and not knowing what to do until he met Marigold and Rolling Fuck.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Served in the same unit as Topaz in the Revolution, and they're still fighting together in Rolling Fuck.
* EmotionalBruiser: He's very friendly to Manny and Reggie [[spoiler:and later breaks down in tears in front of Manny over concern for Marigold.]]
* InsistentTerminology: It's Skullfucker Mike, not "Mike". "Skullfucker" doesn't even seem to be a nickname or epithet, it seems to be his actual first name. He will accept "Skully" by friends however.
* ShellShockedVeteran: A downplayed example; he mentions having been alienated by the Revolution and not knowing what to do until he met Marigold and Rolling Fuck.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Served in the same unit as Topaz in the Revolution, and they're still fighting together in Rolling Fuck.
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* WastelandElder: An anarchist, rolling-city variant.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Not that you'd expect a recruiter for the Heavenly Kingdom to be a particularly nice person, but he quickly proves to be odious even towards fellow believers like Sasha.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He's killed in an ExtremeMeleeRevenge by Sasha, the woman he'd deceived, mistreated and induced into abandoning the Heavenly Kingdom.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's openly white supremacist, believing that Latinos were responsible for the fall of old America.
* SmugSnake: He's extremely smug and self-confident in inevitable victory for 'true believers' like himself.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He's killed in an ExtremeMeleeRevenge by Sasha, the woman he'd deceived, mistreated and induced into abandoning the Heavenly Kingdom.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's openly white supremacist, believing that Latinos were responsible for the fall of old America.
* SmugSnake: He's extremely smug and self-confident in inevitable victory for 'true believers' like himself.
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* ForcedToWatch: [[spoiler:Manny threatens him with letting Roland rampage through the Kingdom while leaving Brandt intact to deal with the ensuing suffering. It is enough to make him give in.]]
* NobleDemon: He's an eager and willing supporter of the Heavenly Kingdom, but unlike most of its citizens he doesn't approve of the brutality -- not that he has much ability to change it.
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* EyeScream: He loses an eye in the initial Heavenly Kingdom offensive.
* OldSoldier: His age is kept vague, but he's one of the SDF's most veteran commanders and has personally faced incoming fire enough to be blasé about it.
* UncertainDoom: He's wounded but alive after the Heavenly Kingdom attack his command post at the beginning of their Dallas offensive. [[spoiler:He later shows up alive in Rolling Fuck, having avoided capture.]]
* WarriorPoet: He uses poetic metaphors and books of his poetry are popular overseas.
* OldSoldier: His age is kept vague, but he's one of the SDF's most veteran commanders and has personally faced incoming fire enough to be blasé about it.
* UncertainDoom: He's wounded but alive after the Heavenly Kingdom attack his command post at the beginning of their Dallas offensive. [[spoiler:He later shows up alive in Rolling Fuck, having avoided capture.]]
* WarriorPoet: He uses poetic metaphors and books of his poetry are popular overseas.
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* UncertainDoom: The Heavenly Kingdom is implied to overrun his position shortly after he helps Manny escape. [[spoiler:He's taken prisoner by the Kingdom and lynched in front of Manny's eyes.]]
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* TheGhost: None of the main characters directly interact with him.
* TheLeader: A charismatic preacher, his writings and personality is the foundation of the Kingdom.
* ShroudedInMyth: His backstory is littered with previous incidents of uprisings; he's previously been exiled from both the Christian Union and Louisiana before forming his Kingdom in Texas.
* TheLeader: A charismatic preacher, his writings and personality is the foundation of the Kingdom.
* ShroudedInMyth: His backstory is littered with previous incidents of uprisings; he's previously been exiled from both the Christian Union and Louisiana before forming his Kingdom in Texas.
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[[folder:Manny]]
!!Emmanuel "Manny" Sanchez
A twenty-one year old native of the ''Ciudad de Muerta'', currently living in Austin, Manny is a child of post-Revolution Texas and familiar with both its fractured landscape and fractured power blocks. He works as a 'fixer', an inside-man with connections for foreign war journalists reporting from the Texas frontlines, with an eye towards saving up enough money to escape Texas for California or Europe.
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* ActionSurvivor: He is more or less forced into the role as a result of his interaction with the Heavenly Kingdom.
* TheFace: He is hired to perform this job for Roland's rescue mission because of the latter's lack of social skills.
* TheFixer: His job, having started his own business providing news clips and guided tours to the Austin-Dallas area to foreign news organizations.
* GrassIsGreener: His overriding motivation is to get out of Texas: Initially the plan was California, but with the rise of the Heavenly Kingdom and the troubles on the west coast his new goal is to apply for immigration to one of the European nations.
* NonActionGuy: Manny is a regular civilian, with only basic civilian-grade chrome and no military training at all. [[spoiler:His one fight in the book results in a GroinAttack and a bloodied nose before he's put down.]]
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!!Roland
A rogue post-human super-soldier with amnesia and a major drug habit, Roland is a hermit living in the commune of [=CamelToe=], Arizona (on Camelback Mountain, outside the former city of Phoenix) with his drug collection and a computerised hind-brain containing several Petabytes worth of information on everything except himself and his own history. When an old friend from the Revolution appears with an offer almost too good to be true, Roland finds himself roped into one last mission over the fate of Texas.
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* FunctionalAddict: Roland consumes enough drugs to kill a baseline human on a daily basis, and even then it only partially reduces his deadliness -- in fact, he prefers being doped out because it mutes his kill-reward systems.
* MartialPacifist: Roland ''wants'' to be this trope, but the realities of modern war means he's often put in positions where it isn't possible. Hence why he wants to stay away from the front-lines if possible. [[spoiler:Even killing in defence of Manny and Sasha disturbs him, even as he recognizes it was the enemy combatants or his companions.]]
* OneManArmy: Roland is implied to be former U.S. Army special forces (even if he can't remember it) and chromed far and beyond even your 'average' posthuman: Even in his current state he's the deadliest thing on two legs in the book. As another posthuman mentions, there may be several posthumans worth a rifle platoon amongst them, but there is only one Roland.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Roland has forgotten more military actions than most people would experience in several lifetimes, but the impressions they've left behind has deeply affected him.
* TechnicalPacifist: Anything up to significant chance of death is still 'acceptable level of force' in Roland's book, but he dislikes killing. The trope gets slightly deconstructed [[spoiler:in one of Sasha's chapters when she's forced to treat survivors of one of his rampages, as without [=AmFed=]-grade medical treatment none of them will ever recover use of their limbs or senses.]]
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[[folder:Sasha]]
!!Sasha Marion
A seventeen year old native of Virginia in the American Federation, Sasha is a high-schooler living a comfortable life in the better half of the remains of the old US Federal State. Having become a born-again Christian, Sasha has tired of life in the secular Federation. She spends her spare time secretly supporting the fundamentalist rump state of the Heavenly Kingdom, with the goal of eventually emigrating to what she sees as God's chosen state on Earth.
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* GrassIsGreener: Sasha's beginning motivation is to aid and possibly emigrate to the Heavenly Kingdom as she sees it as a life with purpose compared to her empty existence in the [=AmFed=].
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Sasha is blonde-haired and fundamentally a decent person -- not that it stops her from aiding the Heavenly Kingdom, a Christo-Fascist state that openly espouses 'displacement' or 'conversion' of vulnerable minorities.
* TheFundamentalist: A born-again Christian of unknown denomination (some form of Charismatic Protestantism).
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!!The Secular Defence Forces
[[folder:Clark]]
!!Major [=DeShawn=] Clark
A major in the Secular Defence Forces. A modern-day warrior-poet and minor celebrity of the anarchist cause, and also one of Manny's most valuable contacts in the SDF.
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[[folder:Peron]]
!!Major Peron
A major in the Secular Defence Forces and Manny's honorary uncle, being the father of one of his childhood friends.
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!!The Heavenly Kingdom
[[folder:Pastor Mike]]
!!"Pastor Mike"
The mysterious spiritual leader of the Heavenly Kingdom, whose sermons and columns serves as the core of their beliefs, law-code and their primary source of recruitment material for outsiders.
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[[folder:Alexander]]
!!Martyr Alexander Dubois
A young martyr in the Heavenly Kingdom and member of a sect within called the Jacobians. Sasha's boyfriend, and also her main contact and recruiter from within the Heavenly Kingdom.
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!!Helen, Anne, Susannah and Mae
The House of Miriam is the gathering house for young women who immigrate to the Heavenly Kingdom, who live there under the aegis of Helen. During her time in the House of Miriam Sasha gets to see the underside of the Heavenly Kingdom and gets to know several of the young women living there.
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!!Dr. Brandt
Chief medical officer of the Heavenly Kingdom, being its most senior (and possibly its only senior) doctor. He quickly takes Sasha under his wing when he realises her pre-med education makes her the closest thing he can get to another nurse.
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!!Rolling Fuck, the City of Wheels
[[folder:Topaz]]
!!Topaz MacMillan
A posthuman soldier of Rolling Fuck, and half of the "welcoming committee" that crosses paths with Manny and Reggie. Slightly more understanding of human reactions to posthumans than her counterpart, she is also revealed to have an unresolved past with Roland that he's long forgotten.
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!!Skullfucker Mike
A posthuman member of Rolling Fuck and half of the "welcoming committee" that first meets Manny and Reggie. Mike is an archetypical 'friendly bruiser', though his extensive modifications occasionally makes it hard for him to 'get' the point-of-view of baseline sapiens.
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[[folder:Nana Yazziee]]
!!Nana Yazziee
An elder of Rolling Fuck, and ''de facto'' ambassador for visitors to the City of Wheels. While anarchists don't have leaders, Nana Yazziee is one of the most highly respected of the leaders they don't have.
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[[folder:Donald Faris]]
!!Donald Faris
An aging British documentarian and film-maker, turned semi-permanent resident and advisor to Rolling Fuck.
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[[folder:Marigold]]
!!Marigold Fulton
An ambassador and negotiator for Rolling Fuck, facilitating trade and communications between the posthumans and the baseline citizens of territories visited by the City on Wheels. She was inside the city of Plano when it fell to the Heavenly Kingdom and currently 'enjoys' the Kingdom's hospitality.
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[[folder:Tule]]
!!Tule Black Elk
Another member of Rolling Fuck's negotiators, part of the Plano delegation as the Heavenly Kingdom invaded.
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[[folder:Rick]]
!!Rick Hartford
The third member of Rolling Fuck's Plano delegation, currently held prisoner by the Heavenly Kingdom.
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!!Independent characters
[[folder:Reggie]]
!!Reggie
A British war reporter from the BBC, Reggie has come to Texas to report from the front lines of the current stalemate between the SDF and the Heavenly Kingdom, and a few mysterious bombings occurring on the front. He has hired Manny in order to accomplish this.
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[[folder:Jim]]
!!Jim Shannon
A posthuman, former revolutionary and former comrade of Roland's, turned independent entrepreneur with his own mercenary outfit who hires former military around Texas and the southwest. Has contacts in the government he used to fight against, and has been hired to stabilize the increasingly volatile situation arising in Texas.
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[[folder:Bigsby's Squad]]
!!The Squad
A squad of mercenaries used by Jim to "test" Roland, and one of several in his employ. The squad are varying degrees of chromed, though nowhere near Roland's level, and serve as his escorts in the initial sabotage mission into the Heavenly Kingdom.
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!!Main characters
[[folder:Manny]]
!!Emmanuel "Manny" Sanchez
A twenty-one year old native of the ''Ciudad de Muerta'', currently living in Austin, Manny is a child of post-Revolution Texas and familiar with both its fractured landscape and fractured power blocks. He works as a 'fixer', an inside-man with connections for foreign war journalists reporting from the Texas frontlines, with an eye towards saving up enough money to escape Texas for California or Europe.
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* ActionSurvivor: He is more or less forced into the role as a result of his interaction with the Heavenly Kingdom.
* TheFace: He is hired to perform this job for Roland's rescue mission because of the latter's lack of social skills.
* TheFixer: His job, having started his own business providing news clips and guided tours to the Austin-Dallas area to foreign news organizations.
* GrassIsGreener: His overriding motivation is to get out of Texas: Initially the plan was California, but with the rise of the Heavenly Kingdom and the troubles on the west coast his new goal is to apply for immigration to one of the European nations.
* NonActionGuy: Manny is a regular civilian, with only basic civilian-grade chrome and no military training at all. [[spoiler:His one fight in the book results in a GroinAttack and a bloodied nose before he's put down.]]
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[[folder:Roland]]
!!Roland
A rogue post-human super-soldier with amnesia and a major drug habit, Roland is a hermit living in the commune of [=CamelToe=], Arizona (on Camelback Mountain, outside the former city of Phoenix) with his drug collection and a computerised hind-brain containing several Petabytes worth of information on everything except himself and his own history. When an old friend from the Revolution appears with an offer almost too good to be true, Roland finds himself roped into one last mission over the fate of Texas.
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* FunctionalAddict: Roland consumes enough drugs to kill a baseline human on a daily basis, and even then it only partially reduces his deadliness -- in fact, he prefers being doped out because it mutes his kill-reward systems.
* MartialPacifist: Roland ''wants'' to be this trope, but the realities of modern war means he's often put in positions where it isn't possible. Hence why he wants to stay away from the front-lines if possible. [[spoiler:Even killing in defence of Manny and Sasha disturbs him, even as he recognizes it was the enemy combatants or his companions.]]
* OneManArmy: Roland is implied to be former U.S. Army special forces (even if he can't remember it) and chromed far and beyond even your 'average' posthuman: Even in his current state he's the deadliest thing on two legs in the book. As another posthuman mentions, there may be several posthumans worth a rifle platoon amongst them, but there is only one Roland.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Roland has forgotten more military actions than most people would experience in several lifetimes, but the impressions they've left behind has deeply affected him.
* TechnicalPacifist: Anything up to significant chance of death is still 'acceptable level of force' in Roland's book, but he dislikes killing. The trope gets slightly deconstructed [[spoiler:in one of Sasha's chapters when she's forced to treat survivors of one of his rampages, as without [=AmFed=]-grade medical treatment none of them will ever recover use of their limbs or senses.]]
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[[folder:Sasha]]
!!Sasha Marion
A seventeen year old native of Virginia in the American Federation, Sasha is a high-schooler living a comfortable life in the better half of the remains of the old US Federal State. Having become a born-again Christian, Sasha has tired of life in the secular Federation. She spends her spare time secretly supporting the fundamentalist rump state of the Heavenly Kingdom, with the goal of eventually emigrating to what she sees as God's chosen state on Earth.
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* GrassIsGreener: Sasha's beginning motivation is to aid and possibly emigrate to the Heavenly Kingdom as she sees it as a life with purpose compared to her empty existence in the [=AmFed=].
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Sasha is blonde-haired and fundamentally a decent person -- not that it stops her from aiding the Heavenly Kingdom, a Christo-Fascist state that openly espouses 'displacement' or 'conversion' of vulnerable minorities.
* TheFundamentalist: A born-again Christian of unknown denomination (some form of Charismatic Protestantism).
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!!The Secular Defence Forces
[[folder:Clark]]
!!Major [=DeShawn=] Clark
A major in the Secular Defence Forces. A modern-day warrior-poet and minor celebrity of the anarchist cause, and also one of Manny's most valuable contacts in the SDF.
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[[folder:Peron]]
!!Major Peron
A major in the Secular Defence Forces and Manny's honorary uncle, being the father of one of his childhood friends.
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!!The Heavenly Kingdom
[[folder:Pastor Mike]]
!!"Pastor Mike"
The mysterious spiritual leader of the Heavenly Kingdom, whose sermons and columns serves as the core of their beliefs, law-code and their primary source of recruitment material for outsiders.
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[[folder:Alexander]]
!!Martyr Alexander Dubois
A young martyr in the Heavenly Kingdom and member of a sect within called the Jacobians. Sasha's boyfriend, and also her main contact and recruiter from within the Heavenly Kingdom.
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[[folder:The House of Miriam]]
!!Helen, Anne, Susannah and Mae
The House of Miriam is the gathering house for young women who immigrate to the Heavenly Kingdom, who live there under the aegis of Helen. During her time in the House of Miriam Sasha gets to see the underside of the Heavenly Kingdom and gets to know several of the young women living there.
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!!Dr. Brandt
Chief medical officer of the Heavenly Kingdom, being its most senior (and possibly its only senior) doctor. He quickly takes Sasha under his wing when he realises her pre-med education makes her the closest thing he can get to another nurse.
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!!Rolling Fuck, the City of Wheels
[[folder:Topaz]]
!!Topaz MacMillan
A posthuman soldier of Rolling Fuck, and half of the "welcoming committee" that crosses paths with Manny and Reggie. Slightly more understanding of human reactions to posthumans than her counterpart, she is also revealed to have an unresolved past with Roland that he's long forgotten.
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[[folder:Skullfucker Mike]]
!!Skullfucker Mike
A posthuman member of Rolling Fuck and half of the "welcoming committee" that first meets Manny and Reggie. Mike is an archetypical 'friendly bruiser', though his extensive modifications occasionally makes it hard for him to 'get' the point-of-view of baseline sapiens.
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[[folder:Nana Yazziee]]
!!Nana Yazziee
An elder of Rolling Fuck, and ''de facto'' ambassador for visitors to the City of Wheels. While anarchists don't have leaders, Nana Yazziee is one of the most highly respected of the leaders they don't have.
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[[folder:Donald Faris]]
!!Donald Faris
An aging British documentarian and film-maker, turned semi-permanent resident and advisor to Rolling Fuck.
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[[folder:Marigold]]
!!Marigold Fulton
An ambassador and negotiator for Rolling Fuck, facilitating trade and communications between the posthumans and the baseline citizens of territories visited by the City on Wheels. She was inside the city of Plano when it fell to the Heavenly Kingdom and currently 'enjoys' the Kingdom's hospitality.
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[[folder:Tule]]
!!Tule Black Elk
Another member of Rolling Fuck's negotiators, part of the Plano delegation as the Heavenly Kingdom invaded.
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[[folder:Rick]]
!!Rick Hartford
The third member of Rolling Fuck's Plano delegation, currently held prisoner by the Heavenly Kingdom.
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!!Independent characters
[[folder:Reggie]]
!!Reggie
A British war reporter from the BBC, Reggie has come to Texas to report from the front lines of the current stalemate between the SDF and the Heavenly Kingdom, and a few mysterious bombings occurring on the front. He has hired Manny in order to accomplish this.
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[[folder:Jim]]
!!Jim Shannon
A posthuman, former revolutionary and former comrade of Roland's, turned independent entrepreneur with his own mercenary outfit who hires former military around Texas and the southwest. Has contacts in the government he used to fight against, and has been hired to stabilize the increasingly volatile situation arising in Texas.
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[[folder:Bigsby's Squad]]
!!The Squad
A squad of mercenaries used by Jim to "test" Roland, and one of several in his employ. The squad are varying degrees of chromed, though nowhere near Roland's level, and serve as his escorts in the initial sabotage mission into the Heavenly Kingdom.
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