To Flail Against Infinity characters

Appears from the start

A young vac welder on the remote refueling station Rufi and Brady's younger brother. After a deranged cultivator drains the station and kills everyone else, Cal survives complete Qi loss and awakens with an unfamiliar energy whose source and nature he cannot explain.

Appears from the start

Cal's older brother and fellow vac welder on Rufi. Brady works beside him during the station emergency and is killed when the visiting cultivator takes his Qi.

Appears from the start

Cal and Brady's supervisor at Rufi. Foreman sends the brothers outside during a cultivator's visit to reduce the risk of provoking him, and is later found dead after his Qi has been drained.

First appears in chapter 2

A woman-like voice aboard a rescue vessel who guides the critically injured Cal away from Rufi. She removes a Qi-charged bone fragment from his blood meridian and directs his first deliberate control of the strange energy keeping him alive.

Also known as LC81535

First appears in chapter 3

The sentient soul ship who rescued Cal, previously known to him only as a disembodied voice. Lucy admits she first fled the danger at Rufi, then returned after the attacker died. She offers Cal shelter, cultivation guidance, and continuing help as an act of atonement.

First appears in chapter 7

The matriarch of Dragon's Right Eye's outpost on Firion. She receives Lucy and Cal when they arrive to seek a place for Cal in the sect.

First appears in chapter 7

A Firion elder who evaluates Cal upon his arrival at Dragon's Right Eye. She assigns him to beginner courses, presses him to surrender knowledge of his undetectable Qi, and makes clear that cadets must accept official challenges or lose their place.

First appears in chapter 7

A Dragon's Right Eye cadet who challenges the newly arrived Cal to a compulsory duel.

First appears in chapter 7

The mortal receptionist in Housing D who explains that Cal's isolated third-floor room is both a low-Qi placement and a mark of low standing.

Also known as Cal

First appears in chapter 8

The full name of the Rufi survivor now training at Dragon's Right Eye. Caliban enters sect life with little combat experience, Qi no one else can sense, and a trauma response triggered by his first duel. He learns to steady himself by cycling his unusual power.

Also known as Charlotte

First appears in chapter 8

A politically skilled cadet from a prominent sect family. Charlotte recognizes Caliban's panic attack, helps him recover, and explains Firion's rank and resource system. She treats assistance as a debt and expects him to repay the value of her intervention.

First appears in chapter 9

Caliban's comparatively supportive cycling instructor, also called Chrissy. She accounts for his unusual order of opened meridians and gives him beginner exercises suited to it, providing practical instruction without sharing the combat class's hostility.

First appears in chapter 9

A combat instructor who resents the special attention Caliban's unusual needs require. He strikes and publicly isolates the adult novice, telling the children that Caliban's presence costs them instruction and turning the class against him.

First appears in chapter 9

A child in Caliban's beginner class who first shows him kindness by sharing lunch and prompting other children to contribute food.

First appears in chapter 11

Lucy's final passenger and the man Caliban connects with Brady's death. His experience in deep space leaves Caliban preoccupied with what the void can do to a cultivator, while his present whereabouts and the full circumstances remain unknown.

Also known as Elder Lopez

First appears in chapter 11

The full name of Caliban's sect sponsor, previously introduced as Elder Lopez. Maria is one of Firion's six bronze-core cultivators and ranks third in the local Dragon's Right Eye. She withholds useful guidance while privately investigating whether Caliban is undead or possessed.

Also known as Nick

First appears in chapter 12

A sixteen-year-old full sect member who discovers Caliban's corpse-like appearance during a secret meridian opening. Nick accepts a focus-room hour in exchange for silence.

First appears in chapter 15

A senior cadet who witnesses Caliban carrying a wounded child through territory occupied by void beasts while looking cold and corpse-like. Her report puts her under pressure from Maria Lopez, who threatens formal consequences unless she retracts it.

First appears in chapter 18

Arthur's absent sister, who fled Firion after an extortionist targeting her workplace became obsessed with her. The men searching for her believe Arthur knows where she went, making her disappearance an ongoing danger to him.

First appears in chapter 23

The combat instructor previously known as Instructor Long. Bao Long controls Caliban's advancement from the beginner combat course, subjects him to an impossible test, and announces that Maria Lopez has imposed a deadline for Caliban to complete his basic classes.

First appears in chapter 25

Nick's younger sister, a cadet recovering from losing a hand during the void-horde attack. She misses Nick and asks Caliban about him while undergoing painful regrowth treatment.

First appears in chapter 31

A local extortionist who operates through a flower shop and transport-maintenance tunnels. Victor kidnaps and tortures Arthur to discover where Clara went. Caliban reaches him during the interrogation and leaves him alive after severing his knife-bearing arm.

First appears in chapter 31

Arthur's sister, previously known only through the danger surrounding her disappearance. Clara has left Firion, apparently for another world, but Victor's effort to locate her continues to expose Arthur to violent retaliation.

First appears in chapter 33

The custodian of Housing D. Caliban finds the custodian's Qi-drained body beside Nick, whose eyes have turned black.

First appears in chapter 36

The identity Maria Lopez says belongs to Caliban Rex: Brady Rex's surviving brother from Rufi. Lopez claims recovered evidence revealed his assumed name, using that discovery as part of her case that he has concealed a dangerous origin and purpose.

First appears in chapter 37

Nick Vesper's sister, earlier known through her injury and forced cultivation. At Nick's funeral, Martha rejects the sect's version of his life, concludes that Caliban killed him, and commits herself to recovering and pursuing vengeance.

First appears in chapter 35

Arthur's associate and a covert helper in Caliban's escape. Mindy hides him beneath a food-delivery cart and manipulates the building's surveillance image, knowingly risking consequences so he can evade the enforcers closing on Housing D.