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* {{Motive Rant}}: While confronting Robin about [[spoiler: keeping Hermes a secret for three years,]] he vents that he hated England and the fact that he was betraying his home country by working for Babel. [[spoiler: This was why he joined Hermes.]]
-> [[spoiler: ‘’Everything I’ve worked for is this!’ Ramy exclaimed. ‘What, you think I came to Babel because I want to be a translator for the Queen? Birdie, I hate it in this country. I hate the way they look at me, I hate being passed around at their wine parties like an animal on display. I hate knowing that my very presence at Oxford is a betrayal of my race and religion, because I’m becoming just that class of person Macaulay hoped to create. I’ve been waiting for an opportunity like Hermes since I got here—‘’]]
-> [[spoiler: ‘’Everything I’ve worked for is this!’ Ramy exclaimed. ‘What, you think I came to Babel because I want to be a translator for the Queen? Birdie, I hate it in this country. I hate the way they look at me, I hate being passed around at their wine parties like an animal on display. I hate knowing that my very presence at Oxford is a betrayal of my race and religion, because I’m becoming just that class of person Macaulay hoped to create. I’ve been waiting for an opportunity like Hermes since I got here—‘’]]
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A Haitian student who was raised in France, and one of the only women at Babel.
*{{Broken Bird}}: [[spoiler: Victoire was raised in an abusive white household where she was forbidden from speaking Haitian Creole and treated as an exotic pet by her guardian’s daughters. She faced racism and misogyny at Babel, and partook in a violent revolution which involved covering up a murder. Finally, two out of three of her friends died, and the other ja now a mortal enemy.]]
*{{French Cuisine Is Haughty}}: The narration notes that after spending he summer in France, she “returned with insufferable opinions about food and fine dining.”
*{{Hiding Behind The Language Barrier}}: When Robin and Ramy make bad first impressions due to their [[InnocentlyInsensitive comments about them being women,]] Victoire and Letty insult them in French.
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* {{Calling The Old Man Out}}: Two notable times.
**Once during his first dinner with Lovell after enrolling at Oxford. He repeats Griffin’s points about how unjust the silver-trade system is, only to be shut down.
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**Once during his first dinner with Lovell after enrolling at Oxford. He repeats Griffin’s points about how unjust the silver-trade system is, only to be shut down.
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Robin’s first and closest friend, who bears a strong sense of wit and studies Urdu, Arabic, and Persian.
*{{The Ace}} Sir Horace Wilson noticed Ramy’s strength when it came to learning and absorbing languages early on, and was the one who proposed sending him to England.
*{{Affectionate Nickname}}: Is the one who nicknames Robin “Birdie”, after knowing him for less than a day.
*{{Deadpan Snarker}}: Especially towards Letty.
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‘Lovely,’ said Ramy as he slathered jam over his scone. ‘Could be he pointed a gun at my sisters once.”
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Robin’s first and closest friend, who bears a strong sense of wit and studies Urdu, Arabic, and Persian.
*{{The Ace}} Sir Horace Wilson noticed Ramy’s strength when it came to learning and absorbing languages early on, and was the one who proposed sending him to England.
*{{Affectionate Nickname}}: Is the one who nicknames Robin “Birdie”, after knowing him for less than a day.
*{{Deadpan Snarker}}: Especially towards Letty.
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‘Lovely,’ said Ramy as he slathered jam over his scone. ‘Could be he pointed a gun at my sisters once.”
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* {{Abusive Parents}} When a young Robin forgets to attend one of his classes, Professor Lovell [[DisproportionateRetribution violently beats him with a fire poker]]. Throughout the book, Robin notes that his guardian rarely showed him any affection. It all boils over in [[spoiler: Book II, when Robin realizes he was nothing but an asset, resulting in him killing Lovell]].
** What’s more, [[spoiler: Griffin notes that Lovell was even harsher to him than he was to Robin.]]
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*{{Heroic Bastard}}: [[spoiler: Professor Lovell was his father.]]
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* {{Missing Mom}} Robin’s mother died from cholera when he was 10.
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*{{But Not Too Foreign}}: Robin was born in China and lived there until he was 10, but can pass as white under certain lighting, doesn’t use his original name, and only speaks Chinese in an academic context or when activating a silver bar.
*{{Heroic Sacrifice}}: [[spoiler: After cutting off most of Britain’s resources, Robin resolves to destroy the tower and all of it’s silver.]]
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-> A Chinese orphan raised in England after the death of his family who struggles between the desire to help his motherland and live a comfortable life as a Babel Scholar.
*{{Ambiguously Bi}}: There is no explicit romance between the main characters, but Robin’s narration implies attraction to both Ramy and Victoire.
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-> A Chinese orphan raised in England after the death of his family who struggles between the desire to help his motherland and live a comfortable life as a Babel Scholar.
*{{Ambiguously Bi}}: There is no explicit romance between the main characters, but Robin’s narration implies attraction to both Ramy and Victoire.
** “Robin had the absurd impulse to place his hand against Ramy’s cheek; indeed, he’d half lifted up his arm before his mind caught up with his body.” / “She had, Robin noticed, enormous and very pretty doe-like eyes. He liked listening to her speak; every sentence felt like she was pulling laughter out from inside him.”
