Line #33 Characters/RedRisingHouseBellona


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2	[[Characters/RedRisingSolarRepublic The Rising & Solar Republic]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingDarrowsFamily Darrow's Family ]]\| [[Characters/RedRisingHouseBarca House Barca]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingHouseTelemanus House Telemanus]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingHowlers The Howlers]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingSonsOfAres The Sons of Ares]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingRimDominion The Rim Dominon]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingHouseRaa House Raa]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingTheSociety The Society]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingHouseLune House Lune]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingHouseGrimmus House Grimmus]] \| '''House Bellona''' \| [[Characters/RedRisingHouseAugustus House Augustus]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingBoneriders The Boneriders]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingGorgons The Gorgons]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingTheInstitute The Institute]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingObsidians The Obsidians]] \| [[Characters/RedRisingCriminalsAndTerrorists Criminals and Terrorists]]-]]]
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4	!! Due to the prevalence of [[LateArrivalSpoiler Late Arrival Spoilers]] and [[FirstEpisodeTwist First Episode Twists]] in both the ''Literature/RedRising'' and ''Literature/IronGold'' series, spoilers from ''Literature/RedRising'', ''Golden Son'', and ''Morning Star'' may be unmarked. Read at your own risk.
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8	!!! House Bellona
9	One of the two most powerful Gold families on Mars and the political rivals of [[Characters/RedRisingHouseAugustus House Augustus]].
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11	!!! House Bellona
12	[[folder: House Bellona in general]]
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14	* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Tiberius and Julia have nine children and over fifty nieces and nephews.
15	* RegalRinglets: One of the things the family is known for is their curly hair.
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18	!!! First Generation
19	[[folder: Tiberius au Bellona]]
20	[[quoteright:181:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tiberiusaubellonasoav3.jpg]]
21	[[caption-width-right:181:Tiberius in ''ComicBook/SonsOfAres Volume 3'']]
22	Patriarch of House Bellona, father of Cassius, Karnus, and Julian. He serves as the Imperator of the Sixth fleet.
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24	* AscendedExtra: Has no lines in any of his handful of appearances in the novels, but in ''[[ComicBook/SonsOfAres Sons of Ares: Volume 3]]'', he gets a minor speaking role at the beginning of the graphic novel.
25	* DecapitationPresentation: [[spoiler: His head is mounted on a pike in Agea after the siege of Mars in ''Golden Son'']].
26	* HenPeckedHusband: He's submissive towards his wife after [[spoiler: Julian dies]].
27	* OnlySaneMan: Seems to be the only member of the Bellona family not obsessed with getting revenge for [[spoiler: Julian's death]].
28	* TheUnfought: Darrow never faces him in the series.
29	* WeHardlyKnewYe: He gets one cameo at the end of ''Red Rising'', one speaking appearance in the first half of ''Golden Son'', and the next time we see him [[spoiler: his head is mounted on a spike]].
30	[[/folder]]
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32	[[folder: Julia au Bellona]]
33	[[quoteright:383:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/juliaaubellona.jpg]]
34	[[caption-width-right:383:Julia au Bellona in ''ComicBook/SonsOfAres Volume 3'']]
35	Matriacrch of House Bellona, wife of Tiberius, and mother of Cassius, Julian, and Karnus.
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37	* AscendedExtra: Only gets two lines during the original trilogy, but plays a more prominent role in the SequelSeries.
38	* AssInAmbassador: Her appearance in ''Iron Gold'', on account of being a die-hard supporter of the oppressive regime that Republic replaced, and the fact that she still holds a grudge against Darrow for the death of Cassius' twin, Julian.
39	* RevengeBeforeReason: Refuses to eat until someone kills Darrow in revenge for [[spoiler: Julian's death]].
40	* RevengeMyopia: Blames Darrow for [[spoiler: Julian's death]], even though she's fully aware that Augustus rigged [[InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath The Passage]] to kill off a Bellona as part of the ongoing feud between the two families.
41	* SmallRoleBigImpact: Only has a handful of appearances in three novels, but manages to cause significant internal shifts in two different factions:
42	** Revealing that Darrow had kept the Society's emissaries a secret from the Senate destroys his credibility and gives the Vox Populi the momentum needed to strip him of his rank and order his arrest.
43	** Pledging her forces to House Lune in ''Dark Age'' exacerbates the tension between Lysander, Atalantia, and Ajax and pushes the Society Remnant to the brink of an EnemyCivilWar.
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46	[[folder: Kellan au Bellona]]
47	Tiberius' brother and Praetor in the Sixth fleet.
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51	[[folder: Iona au Bellona]]
52	The sister of Tiberius who married Nero au Augustus several decades before the series begins, only for him to murder her on their wedding night as revenge for her family's massacre of his own when he was a child.
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54	* PosthumousCharacter: She's been dead for decades by the time the series begins.
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57	!!! Second Generation
58	[[folder: Karnus au Bellona]]
59	Cassius and Julian's older brother and the oldest son of Tiberius and Julia. His family sends him to the Academy with the explicit goal of murdering Darrow as revenge for [[spoiler: Julian's death]].
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61	* AxCrazy: Referred to as the family killing machine
62	* BloodKnight: He proves it at the gala.
63	* TheBrute: House Bellona's attack dog.
64	* HiddenDepths: Imparts a surprisingly insightful worldview to Darrow at a banquet on Luna. Notably, this is not long after publicly brutalizing him and right before [[spoiler:springing the Sovereign's trap to wipe out House Augustus.]]
65	* JerkAss: Views Julian as a weakling.
66	* StrawNihilist: Karnus believes that life doesn't really matter since when they all die the universe will go on without them as if nothing happened.
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69	[[folder: Cassius au Bellona]]
70	->See the [[Characters/RedRisingSolarRepublic Solar Republic]] page.
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73	[[folder: Julian au Bellona]]
74	Member of House Mars and brother of Cassius. He's killed by Darrow in the passage at the beginning of their year at the Institute, and his death motivates the feud that erupts between Darrow and Cassius for the rest of the series.
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76	* GloveSlap: Challenges Sevro to duel the first time they meet.
77	* InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath: After befriending Darrow, he is forced to fight him for access to the Gold academy. [[spoiler: Darrow wins, breaking his own heart.]]
78	* SacrificialLamb: Introduced only to be [[spoiler: killed a few chapters later]].
79	* SiblingYinYang: With his twin Cassius and also his other brothers. While they want to bring glory and honour to the family name, Julian is more idealistic.
80	* WideEyedIdealist: [[spoiler: Spends the whole Passage in complete denial and is fully convinced that he can peacefully talk Darrow into surrendering, and they'll both be to leave alive.]]
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83	[[folder: Cagney au Bellona]]
84	Kellan's daughter and the cousin of Karnus, Cassius, and Julian.
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