Characters in The Nexus Series who are primarily associated with the Chinese government:
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Su-Yong Shu
- And I Must Scream
- Brain Uploading: The first succesful instance actually, at least until her clone is killed and she's left alone in her computer with no contact with the outside world. For six months.
- Bullying a Dragon
- Cold-Blooded Torture
- Emergency Transformation: Shu's brain was uploaded to a computer bank as she was dying from an assassination attempt.
- Emperor Scientist: Carries a lot of influence in the east.
- Sanity Slippage: And she knows it's happening.
- Start of Darkness
- Tragic Monster: Shu was uploaded in a last ditch effort to save her life. After which her husband effectively rejected her and used her daughter as leverage to get her to work for the Chinese state.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist
- Wetware Body: She needs one to stay sane. First her clone body, then in an act of desperation, her daughter Ling at the end of "Crux".
- Year Inside, Hour Outside: Time passes painfully slow for her inside her quantum computer. She even has time to create entire worlds Inception style, at least until she starts going insane.
Feng
Shu's driver and clone Super-Soldier.
- The Big Guy
- Bio-Augmentation
- Clone Army: Uplifted by Shu. All the clones love her as a mother and Feng is no exception.
- The Driver
- Super-Reflexes
- Nice Guy: Is actually quite friendly.
- Super-Strength
- Cloning Blues: Averted, Feng loves being apart of a "Big Family" and laughs when Kade first calls him a robot, thinking it's a cool idea
Chen Pang
Shu's husband
- Abusive Parents
- Dirty Coward
- Evil Is Petty
- It's All About Me
- Stealing the Credit: Chen has been claiming his uploaded wife's accomplishments as his own. This comes to a head when he resorts to torturing her to get one last breakthrough before she's destroyed.
Ling
Shu's Daughter with Chen
- Bio-Augmentation
- Break the Cutie: While she may be crazy, she's positively heartbroken when her father hits her and scalds her with hot tea that she had prepared especially for him (this was after he figured out she had caused the Shanghai disaster.) It gets worse when she finally gets to talk with her mother again, and Shu uses that opportunity to (reluctantly) download herself into her daughter, while Ling screams in pain.
- Creepy Child
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Loves her mother dearly, and even her father too.
- Person of Mass Destruction: When she is thwarted in finding her mother in "Crux", she takes it out on Shanghai's power grid, effectively destroying the city.
- Ubermensch: Is brought up to think of herself as this by her mother.
