Character · from book 2

Florin

The crocodilian crawler with the mag-fed shotgun that never runs out of shells — a Shotgun Messenger, fourth on the leaderboard, seen only on the recap show.

Race and class, since book 2: Crocodilian · Shotgun Messenger

First appears: Book 2

Series arc

As of book 8. The crocodilian whose girlfriend Lucia Mar killed, a general in book 7; in book 8 Lucia's driver in a tuk-tuk that keeps winning. He harasses Team Sparkles down a water park with Denial of Service missiles, makes a list of the names in Lucia's head, stays when the Cabaret opens — 'I ain’t going nowhere' — and is placed against Louis in the final heat. Uzi Jesus wants him dead; Eris wants him alive until he cracks the mystery. 'We really need to start making plan C the primary plan.' He ends the arena unconscious in Lucia's arms.

Open threads

Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.

Thread	Opened	Status
The children inside Lucia Mar	B5 ch. 71	open · B8 ch. 51 — Azra, Mehmet Or's daughter, speaks from Lucia's mouth: 'It’s so cold'; Chalchiuhtlicue is with them (ch. 52); a girl of five follows Lucia into the stairwell (ch. 98).
Lucia Mar cannot die: 120,000 children and the Eulogist's new ally	B7 ch. 72	open · B8 ch. 83 — Lucia refuses a deal and reaches the eleventh, and steps into the stairwell down with Florin and a child of about five (ch. 98): 'If Lucia died, the tens of thousands of children in her head would die. She had to be protected'
Carl's unspoken theory about Lucia, shared by Florin and Orren	B8 ch. 51	open — 'I was starting to form a theory, but I didn’t want to say it out loud'; 'we really need her to take a deal.' Lucia refuses (B8 ch. 79); a girl of five holds her leg into the stairwell (B8 ch. 98).
Katia's own party	B4 ch. 33	resolved · B5 ch. 21 — She leaves the party for Imani's guild, Safehome Yolanda, with Elle, Bautista, Florin, Gwen, Tran, Louis and Firas; the Royal Court of Princess Donut joins the guild too.
Lucia Mar's score with Donut	B6 ch. 63	resolved · B7 ch. 72 — She came for Donut and Mongo in the Nest with her last dog, killed Toyotomi and Bomo, was conscripted, and lost Gustavo 3 to Rend's Wrecking Ball; Mongo lived by a sliver.

All threads: Open threads.

Through book 2

Shotgun, crocodile head, fourth on the leaderboard (B2 ch. 26).

Through book 3

Florin is fourth on the leaderboard at the top of the floor and sixth by its middle, travelling with Ifechi the Physicker (B3 ch. 3, B3 ch. 25). Odette alludes to a 'hilarious but ultimately tragic' fight between the two of them and Lucia Mar (B3 ch. 35).

Through book 4

Ifechi's lover, who shot her through Lucia Mar's Rubber spell and wears a golden kill mark for it (B4 ch. 4); sits down in the wheel room and does not spin; emerges into a dead bubble, takes three castles alone, and is the last rescue of phase one (B4 ch. 20, B4 ch. 33). 'There is something left to fight for.' He joins Katia's party.

Through book 5

Brooding like Carl (B5 ch. 11); the queen wears his dead girlfriend's twin and he refuses the stairs (B5 ch. 65); he sees that something is wrong with Lucia and finds a child inside her (B5 ch. 67, B5 ch. 71); a shotgun beat, 'Heave!', and sobs when the queen dies (B5 ch. 75, B5 ch. 76, B5 ch. 77).

Through book 6

Gives away Uzi Jesus (B6 ch. 22); a tank on the recap (B6 ch. 27); goes down early to test a chamber (B6 ch. 57); asks Lucia to help the others (B6 ch. 63).

Through book 7

General with the rulebook (B7 ch. 5, B7 ch. 6); a minefield and an erupting mountain (B7 ch. 32, B7 ch. 60); 'I want to go down fighting' (B7 ch. 78); partied with Lucia, who says she will take a deal and is believed by nobody, so he takes none either (B7 ch. 86).

Through book 8

With Lucia, who took no deal, in a tuk-tuk that keeps winning (B8 ch. 15, B8 ch. 67). He harasses Team Sparkles down the water park with Denial of Service missiles and lands on his tires when Satan flattens the loop (B8 ch. 49, B8 ch. 50); makes a list of the names in Lucia's head (B8 ch. 51); stays when the Cabaret opens (B8 ch. 71); is placed against Louis in the final heat (B8 ch. 80). Uzi Jesus wants him dead; Eris wants him alive until he cracks the mystery (B8 ch. 35). 'We really need to start making plan C the primary plan' (B8 ch. 94). He ends the arena unconscious in Lucia's arms with a child at her leg (B8 ch. 96, B8 ch. 98).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario	2/26	Ch. 14, Ch. 26 · the book's own page
3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	4/35	Ch. 3, Ch. 8, Ch. 25, Ch. 35 · the book's own page
4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods	4/35	Ch. 4, Ch. 17, Ch. 20, Ch. 33 · the book's own page
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	18/78	11, 21, 36, 52, 60–62, 64–67, 70–73, 75–77 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	18/74	1, 3, 8, 10, 12–13, 22, 27, 29, 38, 46–48, 52, 57, 63–64, 69 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin	47/89	1, 4–7, 10–15, 18–22, 25, 27–35, 39, 45–46, 56, 59–63, 65–66, 72–73, 78–82, 85–87 · the book's own page
8 — A Parade of Horribles	40/99	1, 3, 15, 33, 35–38, 47–51, 56–58, 62, 67, 69–71, 73–74, 78–80, 82–83, 85–88, 90–92, 94–98 · the book's own page

By book

Florin in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario

The crocodilian with the endless shotgun (ch. 14); fourth on the leaderboard as a Shotgun Messenger (epilogue).

Florin in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Fourth, then sixth, travelling with Ifechi (ch. 3); Clarabelle's kind (ch. 8); part of 'that hilarious but ultimately tragic fight' with Lucia Mar Odette mentions and does not explain (epilogue).

Florin in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods

Ife

A 'private security' man with an Australian accent and a modified Mossberg who ate his lover's leeches for tripled buffs; the recap shows the reunion and the death — Ifechi's protection spell cast on him and a stranger and not herself, Lucia's Rubber on her head, his volleys into Lucia and the dogs reflected into her skull, his last into his own temple, a golden kill mark for it (ch. 4). He sits down in the wheel room with her staff across his lap and does not spin (ch. 4).

Out

He emerges to a bubble where everyone else is dead (ch. 20), takes three castles alone, and is the last rescue of the first phase, having got club access because he 'killed' Ifechi (ch. 33). He tells Carl the story Elle told him and why he is still alive — 'There is something left to fight for' — offers a backup gun, and walks straight down the stairs. He joins Katia's party. Off the board by the end.

Florin in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

Brooding, 'a good Carl impersonation' (ch. 11); a crocodilian face with blood on it after a raid (ch. 62). He claims Lucia Mar for himself on the planning notes (ch. 64), and then the queen arrives wearing his dead girlfriend's face, and he refuses the stairs: 'I don't see your cat going down the stairs' (ch. 65). He marches on Lucia and stops, seeing something wrong (ch. 67), and later holds a sobbing ten-year-old inside her and calls for her protection (ch. 71). He knows the twin from Ifechi (ch. 73), keeps a shotgun beat in the ballroom with Lucia behind him (ch. 75), calls 'Heave!' in the pit (ch. 76), and sobs when the queen dies as he did when Ifechi did (ch. 77).

Florin in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Six good'uns and a giant caiman named Roy; gives away Uzi Jesus because the card shot him (ch. 22); a tank against a river serpent on the recap (ch. 27); goes down early to test whether a stairwell chamber takes traps (ch. 57), and asks Lucia to help the others before he goes (ch. 63).

Florin in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

General, by Donut's touch and his own hierarchy (ch. 5); the man with the rulebook who reads the Ramp-Up as the thing to plan around (ch. 6); a caiman card that lifts wall sections (ch. 12); the commander who stalls an armoured column into a minefield (ch. 32) and bombs an orc mountain into eruption — 'Wicked, mate' (ch. 60). He laughs at Lucia's net trap, calls her the queen of the triple tap, and will not take a deal: 'I want to go down fighting' (ch. 78). He holds Kiwi's hand through labour (ch. 82), suggests drowning the twins (ch. 82), and parties with Lucia at the stairs so that someone is with her (ch. 86). His bullet-holed 1800s dictionary defines Atrocity (ch. 73).

Florin in book 8 — A Parade of Horribles

With Lucia, who took no deal, in a tuk-tuk that keeps winning (ch. 15, ch. 67). He harasses Team Sparkles down the water park with Denial of Service missiles and lands on his tires when Satan flattens the loop (ch. 49, ch. 50); makes a list of the names in Lucia's head (ch. 51); stays when the Cabaret opens (ch. 71); is placed against Louis in the final heat (ch. 80). Uzi Jesus wants him dead; Eris wants him alive until he cracks the mystery (ch. 35). 'We really need to start making plan C the primary plan' (ch. 94). He ends the arena unconscious in Lucia's arms with a child at her leg (ch. 96, ch. 98).