Motif · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario
The Krakaren
A second-floor neighbourhood boss: a clone of a 'cosmic octopus collective' running a moonshine pyramid scheme, whose card says there are many of her and that a Prime births two for every one killed. Mordecai will not say her weakness.
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Arc
Two reminders of the second floor's boss: tentacles reaching out of a circus cage — 'less octopus-like and more, I don't know, worm-like' (ch. 6) — and Quint, sniffing a bottle: 'That Krakaren bitch said no more of the stuff was being made this season' (ch. 15).