Character · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Brandon

Brandon An — a maintenance man at Meadow Lark with a comically large lightning hammer, whose group spray-painted 'Stairs + People' on the walls, and who will not leave the surviving residents behind. He builds the redoubt with Carl and names it the Speedbump.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
• Chapter 14 — Maggie
• Chapter 19 — Orren
• Chapter 25 — The Akula
• Chapter 29 — Where the Red God Glows
• Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond

Arc

His last message lives in Carl's scratchpad and is read again on the way home from Ruckus (ch. 10). Carl says the words to a petrified rock body (ch. 14); once freed and healed, the man inside sits in a daze and then says his brother's name (ch. 34).