Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Tran

A tired human Swashbuckler with a metal-detecting ability in Gwen's team, who drags a cable to the drain wheel, opens the valve part way, asks Vadim if he owns a red shirt, dives to the Akula, is carried across the ocean floor, and goes down with Katia's new party.

Segment appearances

Chapter 15 — The Lollipop: the crawlers' table
Chapter 17 — Bucket Boy at the wheel; Dr. Metcalf
Chapter 22 — Last place; the princess throne
Chapter 23 — Plenty of Plenty; Zev reads the script; a note from C&W&U
Chapter 47 — Secretions; the twist; One Fine Pig eliminated
Chapter 50 — The River of Sloth; ginger genocide; Lucienne on the hood
Chapter 51 — The Scavenger's Daughter blinks; Azra; heat four results
Chapter 52 — Interlude: Minus; the key, the upgrades, and Chachi
Chapter 54 — Grigori the Placid; Zhang's only way
Chapter 55 — The cleaner bot plan
Chapter 56 — Take on Me
Chapter 67 — Half a prayer, half a song; one flower
Chapter 69 — The stables: who may leave; the Scavenger myth
Chapter 71 — Hungry Eyes: the goodbye; Bautista's tea
Chapter 73 — The Garden of Deliverance; the ducts
Chapter 74 — Human shells; Ad Infinitum
Chapter 85 — The Wheel of Fortune; 'Nothing' in quotes

Arc

He drives a hearse with wrecked spider legs (ch. 15); 'If this is my last message, know that I tried to stop them from fighting Li Na' (ch. 51); of Li Na, 'She’s just sort of lost her humanity' (ch. 54). His parents' apartment in the L'Engle Building is 712, and his is the one photo without sewn-shut eyes (ch. 74). He wears a red shirt at the goodbye party and goes to the Cabaret (ch. 71).