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Children of Angels characters

By J.N. Chaney, Jonathan P. Brazee

Every entry below is hidden until you open it, and each names the chapter the character first appears in.

Rev (Protagonist)

Also known as Hansel Minnick

Appears from the start

A Perseus Union Marine corporal who enters occupied Tenerife with Tomiko under a civilian identity. He is responsible for helping San Cristobal's population escape before the coming assault, with Punch providing implanted tactical support.

Tomiko Reiser (Supporting)

Also known as Tomiko, Leona Galdos

Appears from the start

Rev's Marine partner on the covert Tenerife mission. Working under the identity Leona Galdos, she shares responsibility for organizing civilians while keeping the impending Perseus Union assault secret.

Punch (Supporting)

Appears from the start

Rev's implanted battle buddy AI, able to monitor him and supply tactical information during the infiltration of Tenerife.

Lieutenant Omastori (Supporting)

Appears from the start

The officer directing the Marine teams covertly inserted on Tenerife.

Bundy (Supporting)

Appears from the start

A returning Marine from Rev's raider circle and a comrade from the earlier campaign.

Nix (Supporting)

Appears from the start

A returning raider who belongs to Rev's established Marine circle.

Sergeant Mason (Supporting)

Appears from the start

A returning Marine known to Rev from the prior campaign.

Lima (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 2

A San Cristobal civilian who prevents collaborator Kyle from exposing Rev and Tomiko, then guides the infiltrators into the city's tunnel network.

Kyle (Minor)

First appears in chapter 2

A Children of Angels collaborator who challenges Rev and Tomiko's assumed identities and attempts to alert others before Lima intervenes.

Fidor Lemaire (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 4

Captain of the 31st cordon and one of the San Cristobal civilians recruited into the small group planning the evacuation.

Amicia Lynn (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 4

A distribution manager who joins the civilian evacuation planners while voicing concern about the approaching assault.

Elizabeth Rith's Lorraine (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 4

A city ballet dancer who joins the evacuation group and argues that San Cristobal's civilians must begin organizing before the attack.

Nick (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 4

A restaurant owner brought into the small circle of civilians helping the Marines prepare San Cristobal's evacuation.

Tanton McCough (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 6

A retired Perseus Union staff sergeant who joins Rev at the forced-labor site. Armed with a Moray launcher, he helps destroy the guards and free the workers.

Vivian (Minor)

First appears in chapter 6

A civilian evacuee who supports the injured Craig after a Centaur courser attacks the column at Silver Bridge.

Craig (Minor)

First appears in chapter 6

An injured civilian in the evacuation column, aided by Vivian after the attack at Silver Bridge.

Fint (Minor)

First appears in chapter 6

A civilian evacuee who suffers fatal cardiac distress while the column tries to escape the fighting.

Staff sergeant (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 13

A staff sergeant who trains Rev's team for combat against the Children of Angels. His former personnel assignment required him to draft many death notifications, one concerning his own brother, and that experience drove him to seek combat duty.

Ting Ling (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 17

A Frisian Host commando attached to the raiders. The Marines use this nickname because they find the Host's names difficult to pronounce.

Kat (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 21

A frightened child whom Rev finds holding the dead-man switch for a backpack bomb. She says Mr. Mark ordered her to wait for Marines and detonate, although she does not want to die.

Mr. Mark (Antagonist)

First appears in chapter 21

The Children of Angels adult whom Kat identifies as the person who left her with a bomb and instructed her to kill Marines.

Bionics research lead (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 23

The civilian leader of an experimental prosthesis project. She offers Rev a weapon-integrated arm as an alternative to years of regeneration and makes clear that the procedure carries unknown risks.

Prosthetics technician (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 24

A project technician who conducts Rev's painful neural-interface baseline test and explains that no previous human has received this degree of biosynthetic connection.

Tomiko's team leader (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 26

The staff sergeant leading Tomiko's team when it returns from patrol and cleanup duty on Alafia.

Poshu (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 28

Rev's experimental weapon prosthesis, built around a short-range energy cannon and supplemented by a heavy projectile weapon, missiles, sensors, and a functional hand.

Omega Division agent (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 29

An unnamed Omega Division investigator who disables Punch, extracts information from Rev's implant, clears him of leaking a classified secret, and declines to report an unrelated false statement revealed by the extraction.

Colonel Destefny (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 32

A senior commander who is introduced to Poshu when the secret project is disclosed to 1st Raider Platoon ahead of a planned combat trial.

Yazzie (Supporting)

First appears in chapter 35

A raider deployed with Rev's platoon on TRT-36 for Poshu's proof-of-concept mission against an isolated Centaur group.

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