Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Juice Box

The Toe's one changeling prostitute in Hump Town — a Ratkin Brood Mother, a Mouser Dame, a bald eighteen-year-old, whatever is asked — who sells information for a gold coin, wrangles forty children through a bombing, and turns out to be Henrik's sister, the keeper of her people's story, and a woman who dreams she was once a schoolteacher, a dream Louis reads as a memory of an earlier crawl. The sixth floor is her people's ancient home.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Porthus; Welcome to Faction Wars
• Chapter 4 — Gloom Wraith Phase
• Chapter 5 — Dante; Sir Rendlegore
• Chapter 7 — Donut Holes; the Semeru dwarf
• Chapter 8 — Larracos, City of Dreams
• Chapter 9 — Juice Box's war room
• Chapter 10 — Hamed's club; the small wedding
• Chapter 11 — Tipid; fifty thousand
• Chapter 14 — The flag room and the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 19 — The ruling; the ceasefire ends
• Chapter 20 — Christmas Morning; the Ramp-Up
• Chapter 22 — Colonel Boomer
• Chapter 25 — Empress, you have visitors
• Chapter 27 — Gavrilo Princip
• Chapter 35 — Volteeg; the dwarves' tunnel
• Chapter 40 — Little Günter; a dragon chain
• Chapter 42 — The warlord council; Princess Vinata
• Chapter 43 — Odette hosts; 'It's coming'
• Chapter 44 — The Beautiful Place; Blood Hunter
• Chapter 47 — Tattoos, and a flower offered
• Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 59 — Operation Ruin
• Chapter 61 — The War Mage Rebellion
• Chapter 62 — A non-team entity
• Chapter 63 — Into the Madness
• Chapter 64 — The crystal shows itself
• Chapter 66 — Rolling Battle Formation
• Chapter 67 — Hey, Dickless
• Chapter 68 — The Grease Monkey
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
• Chapter 71 — Donkey Kong
• Chapter 73 — An act of fiendish cruelty
• Chapter 75 — Stayfast Ink
• Chapter 78 — The Scavenger's daughter is with us now
• Chapter 79 — Tart
• Chapter 80 — Inside the dragon
• Chapter 81 — Executive Order 11905
• Chapter 82 — Ursensus
• Chapter 83 — Psamathe confesses
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two
• Chapter 85 — Zerzura
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you
• Chapter 87 — The Nothing has been broken

Arc

Co-warlord of Team Retribution with a cat as her workaround, because a voice from nowhere forbids her menus (ch. 9). She lays out maps and puts some in a drawer, wanted everyone regenerating and got them killable instead, and marries Louis in a bar in her blank form at level 120 (ch. 9, ch. 10). Her spies in every court save Carl from the Lemig (ch. 19); her changelings — ungated, Justice Light suspects, since a fifth-floor quest — can copy anything they touch, and she is spending them on gods (ch. 56). At the warlord council she becomes an armless midnight thing with electric tentacles that Houston calls the Beautiful Place: 'It is coming for you all' (ch. 43, ch. 44). She grabs Carl by the shoulder as a human — 'Where's my husband?' — and tells Samantha she knows who she really is (ch. 70). As a Hunter Wraith she possesses Louis to carry him out (ch. 79, ch. 80), and pays: the Inevitable Ruin shows her that he is terrified of her and will never trust what she feels. 'He is to me like Donut is to you.' 'I have something inside me, Carl. Something very, very powerful' (ch. 82). A male Fleshmancer for the transplant (ch. 83, ch. 84); divorce papers (ch. 86); the long way to the twelfth floor with Justice Light, who lies to her and sends her into the Nothing alone, to be reborn 'as the ultimate weapon to end this madness. This war' (ch. 85, ch. 87).