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Due to the prevalence of Late Arrival Spoilers and First Episode Twists in both the Red Rising and Iron Gold series, spoilers from Red Rising, Golden Son, and Morning Star may be unmarked. Read at your own risk.
Sons of Ares
The most prominent resistance against Gold rule of the Solar System by the time the Red Rising series begins. open/close all folders
The Sons of Ares
The Sons of Ares in general
- La Résistance: The main resistance against Gold rule.
Original Members
Ares
See the House Barca page.
Ryanna
See the House Barca page.
Cylax si Nexiti
One of the original members of the Sons of Ares. He originally served as tech support for Fitchner at Triton's terraforming operations.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: Jumps off a building to his death in Sons of Ares: Volume 2'' rather than risk capture and interrogation by the Board of Quality Control.
- Cowardly Lion: His relucance to confront Golds in direct combat appears to be second only to Doran.
- The Faceless: Like all the other early Sons of Ares, he conceals his face with an ancient Greek theater mask. He finally appears without his mask in the third issue of Sons of Ares.
- Undying Loyalty: To Fitchner, who he used to work with on Triton.
Doran
One of the earliest members of the Sons of Ares.
- All Love Is Unrequited: The 5th issue of the comic mentions that he was in love with Ryanna, but she didn't love him back.
- The Faceless: Like all the other early Sons of Ares, he conceals his face with an ancient Greek theater mask until the end of the third issue.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Given his reluctance for violence and his slip ups forcing Ryanna to kill their hostage to avoid revealing their identities, it's a wonder how he ended up involved with the Sons.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: In contrast to Fitchner, Fenix, and Ryanna, Doran is naive about what it is they're getting into.
Fennix
One of the earliest members of the Sons of Ares.
- The Big Guy: serves as the original team's muscle.
- Flat Character: He's the team member with the least amount of backstory.
Former Members
Ballista
Roran of Nagasos
Corthus of Nagasos
Contemporary Members
Narol
See the Darrow's Family page.
Dancer
See the Solar Republic page.
Harmony
See the Criminals and Terrorists page.
Mickey
See the Solar Republic page.
Evey
Mickey's sex slave who serves as Darrow's nurse when he's recovering from being carved into a Gold. She later joins Haromny's splinter faction in Golden Son before becoming The Atoner in Morning Star.
- The Atoner: Becomes this in Morning Star over her involvement in Harmony's splinter faction
- Broken Bird: As Mickey's sex slave.
- Florence Nightingale Effect: It's implied she gets a bit sweet on Darrow after months of acting as his nurse. It helps that he was handsome even as a pockmarked Red with crooked teeth.
- Put on a Bus: After Darrow leaves for the Institute, she isn't seen again until the next book.
- Sex Slave: Comes with being part of the Pink caste.
- Took a Level in Badass: Becomes much more violent in between the first two books.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The last time she's mentioned is in Morning Star when she's sent to the Rim to make contact with Mustang. What happened to her after that including whether she survived Romulus' purge of the Sons of Ares in the Rim remains unclear.
Matteo
See the Solar Republic page.
Titus au Ladros
A psychotic Gold sorted into House Mars at the Institute. He spends the war games doing little more than raping and torturing his fellow students before the other factions within House Mars ally to take him down. At his execution, Darrow realizes that he's another Red Carved to infiltrate the Institute.
- Alas, Poor Villain: Darrow is very conflicted about his fate.Darrow: I hope his pain fades in death. I did not love him until he was dead; and he should be dead, but he is still my brother.
- He Who Fights Monsters: Debatable. When he is bored with tormenting his first slave, he leaves her where her house members unintentionally trample her when riding out to save her. However, Titus becomes this upon raping Golds, exactly like they did to the person he loved.
- Misplaced Retribution: At some point in his past, someone he loved was raped by Golds. He chooses to enact revenge on them by sexually violating slaves and house members alike, who had nothing to do with the incident other than the fact that they are also Golds.
- Paying Evil Unto Evil: That's how he fights Golds.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: He is a violent rapist, and doesn't see anything wrong with it. A mutual disgust of his actions is what drives the other factions within House Mars to form an uneasy alliance to oust him. Even the Proctors don't seem all that upset during his execution.
Cyther
An orange serving aboard the Vanguard when Darrow captures the ship in Golden Son, he goes on to become a mechanic for the Sons of Ares in Morning Star.
Trigg ti Nakamura
A Gray working as a spy for the Sons of Ares within the Society's infamous Thirteenth Legion. Trigg and his sister Holiday are responsible for rescuing Darrow from prison at the beginning of Morning Star.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Killed by Aja with a razor through the chest.
- The Mole: He and his sister are spies for the Sons of Ares within the ranks of the Thirteenth Legion.
- Parental Neglect: His sister describes their father as being the kind of man with "a different family in every port"
- Posthumous Character: Much of the information about his backstory and personality is delivered posthumously by his sister and husband.
- Rasputinian Death: Stabbed with a razor, then made to suffer as he's held in the air like a speared fish, then thrown off a bridge to smash into the jagged rocks below.
- Sacrificial Lamb: Gets killed off within a few chapters of his introduction.
- Straight Gay: He was married to a man named Ephriam.
Virany
A doctor serving with the Rising in Morning Star.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Mickey in their brief scenes together.
- Deadpan Snarker
- Ship Tease: she gets some with Mickey.
Quicksilver
See the Solar Republic page.
