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* CombatPragmatist: Even more so than Darrow. He got his iconic wolf pelt by killing an alpha wolf barehanded with the implication he had to cut it with his fingernails at some point in the fight. He also attempts to land a low blow on Darrow during their fight in Morning Star.
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* InsatiableNewlyweds: In the 10 years since the original trilogy, they've had multiple kids. Victra starts off the sequel books pregnant with their son. Darrow and Mustang even make jokes that they'll repopulate a moon on their own and have an anecdote where what they thought was a dying animal was actually Victra and Sevro getting it on.
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* ShedTheFamilyName: While Gold tradition dictates that Sevro should take her last name because her bloodline can be traced back farther, Victra chooses to take the last name Barca due to her personal issues with the reputation of the Julii family name.
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* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: She spends the second and third books convinced that her sister's AxCrazy tendencies are [[ItRusnInTheFamily [[InTheBlood genetic]] and that she's as terrible as Antonia. Her Character Development involves realizing that she's not her family.
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!!! First generation
[[folder: Fitchner Barca]]
Proctor of House Mars at the Institute, [[spoiler:father of Sevro]], and [[spoiler:leader of the Sons of Ares]].
* CharacterDeath: Fitchner [[spoiler: doesn't make it out of ''Golden Son'', his head delivered to Darrow in Adrius's moment of triumph.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Fitchner initially seems like a fool, but he turns out to be not only an effective combatant and strategist, [[spoiler: he's been Ares the entire time, plotting the downfall of Gold society.]]
* CruelToBeKind: He and [[spoiler: Sevro]] don't have the best relationship, but it's likely because Fitchner needed to make [[spoiler: Sevro]] strong and smart enough to survive the Passage. [[spoiler: And then there's also the fact that he's Ares]].
* DecapitationPresentation: At the end of ''Golden Son'', Darrow [[spoiler: receives his head in a box, his mouth filled with grapes and his eyes slashed out.]]
* EyeScream: Apparently he was quite horribly tortured [[spoiler: before his head was presented to Darrow]], as [[spoiler: his eyes are slashed out.]]
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler: Sevro wasn't the only one who was supposed to die in the Passage]].
* MeaningfulName: Most of the Golds have Roman names and surnames. Curiously, Fitchner's surname originates from Carthage, Rome's most notorious rival, specifically it's famed general Hannibal Barca. [[spoiler: Fitting considering his role as leader of the resistance.]]
* MiseryBuildsCharacter:
** He teaches this to his students at The Institute.
** Later revealed that this applies to his own backstory as well: [[spoiler: being injured in an explosion on the job lead to him falling in love with a Red, and her execution for marrying a Gold drives him to start the Sons of Ares]].
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Hannibal Barca]].
* PraetorianGuard: Becomes one of the Sovereign's Olympic Knights in ''Golden Son''.
* RedBaron: He goes by [[spoiler: Ares, God of War]] when on his true job, but as the Sovereign's bodyguard he is known by the official title of the Rage Knight.
* SnarkKnight: Fitchner is not a kind man, being cynical and dry, but he's a [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass surprising badass]] and an effective soldier, not to mention [[spoiler: Ares himself.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: With his now deceased wife: [[spoiler: She was a Red, he was a Gold]].
* TricksterMentor: Plays this to House Mars and Darrow, often appearing deliberately unhelpful, but then offering guidance/hints when they ask the right questions. [[spoiler:It gets a further edge when in ''Golden Son'' it is revealed that he's Ares and has been "in charge" of Darrow the whole time]].
* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: The comic reveals him to be this in regards to his past]].
* UnscrupulousHero: Fitchner is more than willing to play politics, aim for power shifts, and put civilians in harm's way, but he's genuinely trying to help Darrow. [[spoiler: In fact, he's even more clearly this after the revelation he's Ares; he'll abandon and mistreat his pupils, induct people by force, and lie to his own forces, but he truly cares about every last one of them and did what he felt had to be done.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Aything relating to his role beyond the first book is a major spoiler.
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Fitchner's Red wife and Sevro's mother. Her execution by the Board of Quality Control for breeding with a Gold is what inspires her husband to start the Sons of Ares.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Even when she's captured, she doesn't let her fear show]].
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: To Fitchner au Barca]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Stays behind to be recaptured and executed so Fitchner can escape with their son]].
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler: To her husband, Fitchner, and her son, Sevro]].
* MalignedMixedMarriage: [[spoiler: With Fitchner, which gets her killed]].
* MamaBear: [[spoiler: Leads Arturius along in order to keep her son alive]].
* PosthumousCharacter: She's already dead by the time the series begins.
* SilkHidingSteel: Proven in the fifth issue of the comic, where she [[spoiler: stabs Arturius with his own razor]].
* WalkingSpoiler: Everything about her and her role in the story is a significant spoiler for ''Golden Son''.
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Bryn's younger sister and Sevro's aunt. After Bryn's death, she becomes Fitchner's second-in-command.
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* ActionGirl: If [[spoiler: how quickly she kills Varus in the second issue]] is any indication, she definitely qualifies.
* TheFaceless: Like all the other early Sons of Ares, she conceals her face with an ancient Greek theater mask. [[spoiler: Averted when she appears without her mask at Fitchner and Bryn's wedding.]]
* TheLancer: She appears to fill this role to Fitchner in ''Sons of Ares''.
* SmurfettePrinciple: The only major female character among the original Sons of Ares.
* UndyingLoyalty: Displays this toward [[spoiler: her sister, Bryn, and her brother-in-law, Fitchner]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Volume 3 ends with her quitting the Sons of Ares and returning to Triton about a decade before the beginning of the first novel, but it's unclear what happened to her since then or if she's still alive at the time of the sequel series]].
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A shorter than average Gold drafted into House Mars at the Institute. Revealed to be the son of Fitchner, the House Mars Proctor, at the end of the first book. After discovering Darrow's status as a Red, he remains loyal to the Reaper and becomes one of his most devoted supporters. ''Golden Son'' reveals that his mother was a Red, whose death inspired his father to start a resistance against the Gold regime to avenge her. Following his father's death at the end of the second novel, Sevro takes over the mantle of Ares and serves as Darrow's right-hand-man throughout the remainder of the saga. During the 10 year timeskip between ''Morning Star'' and ''Iron Gold'', he becomes an Imperator in the republic fleet.
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* ActionDad: By the beginning of ''Iron Gold'', he and Victra have three daughters.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Harbors a one-sided crush on Quinn, who is Roque's girlfriend/lover.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Has an unrequited crush on Quinn and ultimately ends up marrying Victra, but has enough moments of HoYay towards Darrow to make one question whether she's not the only one he was in love with.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Victra. Their insults and squabbling is underlaid with many [[HeldGaze held gazes]], flirtations, and rare moments of genuine worry. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Morning Star'' they're HappilyMarried.]]
* BloodKnight: He loves fighting. Scratch that, he's ''crazy'' about fighting.
* ChildOfTwoWorlds: [[spoiler:Sevro was born to a Gold and a Red.]]
* CrazySurvivalist: Spends most of his time in the woods, filthy and eating whatever he killed.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Appears to be killed by Cassius in ''Morning Star''. But it was all part of the plan and he was faking it.]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Lost an eye to Lilath sometime after Darrow and Cassius' schism.]]
* FourStarBadass: He's an Imperator, which is the ''Red Rising''-verse equivalent of an admiral.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: To Victra in ''Morning Star''.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Losing [[spoiler: his father and Darrow in ''Golden Sun'', combined with the stress of leading the Sons of Ares,]] leads to him becoming increasingly brutal. [[spoiler:Darrow manages to call him on this and bring him back from the brink, though.]]
* HugeGirlTinyGuy: Not ''that'' huge, but Sevro's noticeably short for a Gold, putting him below most of the Gold women. [[spoiler:Including his eventual wife; Darrow teases him at his wedding for needing to stand on tiptoes to kiss Victra.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Tries using this as defense for some of his [[HeWhoFightsMonsters actions]] in ''Morning Star''. It's implied he knows it doesn't hold water.
* InHarmsWay: In ''Golden Son'', tells Darrow that he and the other Howlers live for this.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He swears like a sailor and constantly insults everyone around him. He's also unflinchingly loyal to Darrow, even after [[spoiler:learning that Darrow is a Red.]]
* TheLancer: Eventually becomes this in relation to Darrow.
** FightingTheLancer: In ''Morning Star'', [[spoiler: he and Darrow [[FightingYourFriend butt heads]] over their differing strategies for the Rising.]]
* LegacyCharacter: Assumes the identity of [[spoiler: Ares in ''Morning Star'', replacing his now dead father.]]
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Hannibal Barca]]
* NatureHero: He spends a good chunk of his time in the Institute with wolves to avoid the unrest inherent to House Mars. Ultimately, he kills a pack leader and is respected as their new alpha.
* NemeanSkinning: He wears his wolf cloak in this fashion, and eventually so does his team.
* NightmareFetishist: Sevro enjoys ''odd'' things, like keeping an enemy's [[EyeScream eyeball]] or eating roaches.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Is head and shoulders smaller than any of the other (Gold) cast members--and hands down the best killer.
* PungeonMaster: Apparently spent his time on Pluto sending Darrow, Roque and Tactus videos of him reading puns.
* PrimalStance: Spends as much time on two legs as on four.
* RealMenWearPink: ...Is weirdly obsessed with unicorns.
* SirSwearsALot: Has an extremely foul mouth. Ninety percent of his screen time will involve him swearing.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Has a vendetta against Cassius in ''Morning Star'' because the latter was the one to kill Fitchner]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Victra Barca, née Julii]]
One of Darrow's classmates at the Academy in the beginning of ''Golden Son'' who remains loyal to him even when her family sides against his patron. She and Sevro fall in love and eventually marry in ''Morning Star'' and have three children together. In ''Iron Gold'', she and Quicksilver are the two most promiment business-people in the Republic after she took control of her family's shipping business from her sister Antonia in ''Morning Star''.
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* ActionGirl: As good in a fight as she is in command of a spaceship.
* ActionMom: By the time of ''Iron Gold'', she's had three kids with Sevro and is pregnant with her fourth.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Heavily implied to have a crush on Darrow throughout ''Golden Son.''
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Sevro. Their insults and squabbling is underlaid with many [[HeldGaze held gazes]], flirtations, and rare moments of genuine worry. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Morning Star'' they're HappilyMarried.]]
* BloodKnight: She and Sefi actually bond over how much they love a good fight, and likely she does the same with Sevro.
* BoyishShortHair: [[spoiler: Before ''Morning Star''.]]
* BrokenBird: In ''Morning Star'', she claims she has nothing to live for but revenge, believes she's poison to everyone, and Darrow notices an odd emptiness in her eyes. [[spoiler:A year of torture will do that to you.]]
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Antonia's Cain.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Antonia shoots her InTheBack at the end of ''Golden Son'', only for her to still be alive at the beginning of ''Morning Star''.]]
* FireForgedFriends: With Darrow in the original trilogy.
** In ''Dark Age'', [[spoiler: she, Lyria, and Volga bond while fleeing the Red Hand through the Martian wilderness]].
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: To Sevro in ''Morning Star''.]]
* HonestCorporateExecutive: In ''Iron Gold''. Despite frequent complaints about the Vox Populi's demands, she still believes that unions are key to fair labor.
* TheHeart: Is genuinely kind and caring... for a Peerless Scarred Gold.
* HugeGirlTinyGuy: [[spoiler:She's taller than Sevro, though not so much as the trope implies.]]
* LadyOfWar: One of the only things she and her sister have in common.
* MamaBear: [[spoiler: If you kidnap or are in any way involved with allowing harm to befall one of her children, she will do everything in her power to hunt you down, pregnancy be damned]].
* MaternityCrisis: Goes into labor after [[spoiler: her flagship is captured and she's being hunted by the Red Hand through the Martian wilderness]].
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Her family name is derived from the Julii Caesares, the Roman family that produced UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar.
* PregnantBadass: Being eight months pregnant with her fourth child does not slow her down when [[spoiler: hunting those she believes responsible for abducting Electra]].
* RetiredBadass: In ''Iron Gold'', where unlike her husband, she stepped back from the war to focus on her family's shipping company. [[spoiler: Her daughter's abduction brings her back guns blazing, and in ''Light Bringer'' she's in command of the Martian defense fleet while Darrow is MIA and her husband is capture on Luna]].
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: She spends the second and third books convinced that her sister's AxCrazy tendencies are [[ItRusnInTheFamily genetic]] and that she's as terrible as Antonia. Her Character Development involves realizing that she's not her family.
[[/folder]]
!!! Third generation
[[folder: Electra Barca]]
The oldest of Sevro and Victra's three daughters
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* GenerationXerox: Less then ten years old at the start of ''Literature/IronGold'' and she's already on course to grow up every bit as badass as her parents.
* LittleMissBadass: She has't had a chance to be in a fight yet in outside of sparring matches, but judging by her commentary during [[spoiler: Ephraim's rescue of her and Pax]], she will definitely be this is she's ever in a fight.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: When [[spoiler: Ephraim needs her help to take down the guards holding her and Pax prisoner]], she asks whether she should use an incapacitating strike or limit herself to flesh wounds.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Calypso Barca]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Ulysses Barca]]
[[/folder]]
[[center:[-''Literature/RedRising'' '''[[Characters/RedRising Main Character Index]]'''\\
[[Characters/RedRisingSolarRepublic The Solar Republic]] | [[Characters/RedRisingDarrowOfLykos Darrow of Lykos]] | [[Characters/RedRisingDarrowsFamily Darrow's Family ]]| '''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/RedRisingPraetorianGuard The Praetorian Guard]] | [[Characters/RedRisingHouseGrimmus House Grimmus]] | [[Characters/RedRisingHouseBellona House Bellona]] | [[Characters/RedRisingHouseAugustus House Augustus]] | [[Characters/RedRisingBoneriders The Boneriders]] | [[Characters/RedRisingGorgons The Gorgons]] | [[Characters/RedRisingProctors Institute Proctors]] | [[Characters/RedRisingVolk The Volk]] | [[Characters/RedRisingCriminalsAndTerrorists Criminals and Terrorists]]-]]]
!!! First generation
[[folder: Fitchner Barca]]
Proctor of House Mars at the Institute, [[spoiler:father of Sevro]], and [[spoiler:leader of the Sons of Ares]].
* CharacterDeath: Fitchner [[spoiler: doesn't make it out of ''Golden Son'', his head delivered to Darrow in Adrius's moment of triumph.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Fitchner initially seems like a fool, but he turns out to be not only an effective combatant and strategist, [[spoiler: he's been Ares the entire time, plotting the downfall of Gold society.]]
* CruelToBeKind: He and [[spoiler: Sevro]] don't have the best relationship, but it's likely because Fitchner needed to make [[spoiler: Sevro]] strong and smart enough to survive the Passage. [[spoiler: And then there's also the fact that he's Ares]].
* DecapitationPresentation: At the end of ''Golden Son'', Darrow [[spoiler: receives his head in a box, his mouth filled with grapes and his eyes slashed out.]]
* EyeScream: Apparently he was quite horribly tortured [[spoiler: before his head was presented to Darrow]], as [[spoiler: his eyes are slashed out.]]
* GenerationXerox: [[spoiler: Sevro wasn't the only one who was supposed to die in the Passage]].
* MeaningfulName: Most of the Golds have Roman names and surnames. Curiously, Fitchner's surname originates from Carthage, Rome's most notorious rival, specifically it's famed general Hannibal Barca. [[spoiler: Fitting considering his role as leader of the resistance.]]
* MiseryBuildsCharacter:
** He teaches this to his students at The Institute.
** Later revealed that this applies to his own backstory as well: [[spoiler: being injured in an explosion on the job lead to him falling in love with a Red, and her execution for marrying a Gold drives him to start the Sons of Ares]].
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Hannibal Barca]].
* PraetorianGuard: Becomes one of the Sovereign's Olympic Knights in ''Golden Son''.
* RedBaron: He goes by [[spoiler: Ares, God of War]] when on his true job, but as the Sovereign's bodyguard he is known by the official title of the Rage Knight.
* SnarkKnight: Fitchner is not a kind man, being cynical and dry, but he's a [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass surprising badass]] and an effective soldier, not to mention [[spoiler: Ares himself.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: With his now deceased wife: [[spoiler: She was a Red, he was a Gold]].
* TricksterMentor: Plays this to House Mars and Darrow, often appearing deliberately unhelpful, but then offering guidance/hints when they ask the right questions. [[spoiler:It gets a further edge when in ''Golden Son'' it is revealed that he's Ares and has been "in charge" of Darrow the whole time]].
* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: The comic reveals him to be this in regards to his past]].
* UnscrupulousHero: Fitchner is more than willing to play politics, aim for power shifts, and put civilians in harm's way, but he's genuinely trying to help Darrow. [[spoiler: In fact, he's even more clearly this after the revelation he's Ares; he'll abandon and mistreat his pupils, induct people by force, and lie to his own forces, but he truly cares about every last one of them and did what he felt had to be done.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Aything relating to his role beyond the first book is a major spoiler.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Bryn]]
Fitchner's Red wife and Sevro's mother. Her execution by the Board of Quality Control for breeding with a Gold is what inspires her husband to start the Sons of Ares.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Even when she's captured, she doesn't let her fear show]].
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: To Fitchner au Barca]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Stays behind to be recaptured and executed so Fitchner can escape with their son]].
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler: To her husband, Fitchner, and her son, Sevro]].
* MalignedMixedMarriage: [[spoiler: With Fitchner, which gets her killed]].
* MamaBear: [[spoiler: Leads Arturius along in order to keep her son alive]].
* PosthumousCharacter: She's already dead by the time the series begins.
* SilkHidingSteel: Proven in the fifth issue of the comic, where she [[spoiler: stabs Arturius with his own razor]].
* WalkingSpoiler: Everything about her and her role in the story is a significant spoiler for ''Golden Son''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Ryanna]]
Bryn's younger sister and Sevro's aunt. After Bryn's death, she becomes Fitchner's second-in-command.
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* ActionGirl: If [[spoiler: how quickly she kills Varus in the second issue]] is any indication, she definitely qualifies.
* TheFaceless: Like all the other early Sons of Ares, she conceals her face with an ancient Greek theater mask. [[spoiler: Averted when she appears without her mask at Fitchner and Bryn's wedding.]]
* TheLancer: She appears to fill this role to Fitchner in ''Sons of Ares''.
* SmurfettePrinciple: The only major female character among the original Sons of Ares.
* UndyingLoyalty: Displays this toward [[spoiler: her sister, Bryn, and her brother-in-law, Fitchner]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Volume 3 ends with her quitting the Sons of Ares and returning to Triton about a decade before the beginning of the first novel, but it's unclear what happened to her since then or if she's still alive at the time of the sequel series]].
!!! Second generation
[[folder: Sevro Barca]]
A shorter than average Gold drafted into House Mars at the Institute. Revealed to be the son of Fitchner, the House Mars Proctor, at the end of the first book. After discovering Darrow's status as a Red, he remains loyal to the Reaper and becomes one of his most devoted supporters. ''Golden Son'' reveals that his mother was a Red, whose death inspired his father to start a resistance against the Gold regime to avenge her. Following his father's death at the end of the second novel, Sevro takes over the mantle of Ares and serves as Darrow's right-hand-man throughout the remainder of the saga. During the 10 year timeskip between ''Morning Star'' and ''Iron Gold'', he becomes an Imperator in the republic fleet.
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* ActionDad: By the beginning of ''Iron Gold'', he and Victra have three daughters.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Harbors a one-sided crush on Quinn, who is Roque's girlfriend/lover.
* AmbiguouslyBi: Has an unrequited crush on Quinn and ultimately ends up marrying Victra, but has enough moments of HoYay towards Darrow to make one question whether she's not the only one he was in love with.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Victra. Their insults and squabbling is underlaid with many [[HeldGaze held gazes]], flirtations, and rare moments of genuine worry. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Morning Star'' they're HappilyMarried.]]
* BloodKnight: He loves fighting. Scratch that, he's ''crazy'' about fighting.
* ChildOfTwoWorlds: [[spoiler:Sevro was born to a Gold and a Red.]]
* CrazySurvivalist: Spends most of his time in the woods, filthy and eating whatever he killed.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Appears to be killed by Cassius in ''Morning Star''. But it was all part of the plan and he was faking it.]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Lost an eye to Lilath sometime after Darrow and Cassius' schism.]]
* FourStarBadass: He's an Imperator, which is the ''Red Rising''-verse equivalent of an admiral.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: To Victra in ''Morning Star''.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Losing [[spoiler: his father and Darrow in ''Golden Sun'', combined with the stress of leading the Sons of Ares,]] leads to him becoming increasingly brutal. [[spoiler:Darrow manages to call him on this and bring him back from the brink, though.]]
* HugeGirlTinyGuy: Not ''that'' huge, but Sevro's noticeably short for a Gold, putting him below most of the Gold women. [[spoiler:Including his eventual wife; Darrow teases him at his wedding for needing to stand on tiptoes to kiss Victra.]]
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Tries using this as defense for some of his [[HeWhoFightsMonsters actions]] in ''Morning Star''. It's implied he knows it doesn't hold water.
* InHarmsWay: In ''Golden Son'', tells Darrow that he and the other Howlers live for this.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He swears like a sailor and constantly insults everyone around him. He's also unflinchingly loyal to Darrow, even after [[spoiler:learning that Darrow is a Red.]]
* TheLancer: Eventually becomes this in relation to Darrow.
** FightingTheLancer: In ''Morning Star'', [[spoiler: he and Darrow [[FightingYourFriend butt heads]] over their differing strategies for the Rising.]]
* LegacyCharacter: Assumes the identity of [[spoiler: Ares in ''Morning Star'', replacing his now dead father.]]
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Hannibal Barca]]
* NatureHero: He spends a good chunk of his time in the Institute with wolves to avoid the unrest inherent to House Mars. Ultimately, he kills a pack leader and is respected as their new alpha.
* NemeanSkinning: He wears his wolf cloak in this fashion, and eventually so does his team.
* NightmareFetishist: Sevro enjoys ''odd'' things, like keeping an enemy's [[EyeScream eyeball]] or eating roaches.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Is head and shoulders smaller than any of the other (Gold) cast members--and hands down the best killer.
* PungeonMaster: Apparently spent his time on Pluto sending Darrow, Roque and Tactus videos of him reading puns.
* PrimalStance: Spends as much time on two legs as on four.
* RealMenWearPink: ...Is weirdly obsessed with unicorns.
* SirSwearsALot: Has an extremely foul mouth. Ninety percent of his screen time will involve him swearing.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Has a vendetta against Cassius in ''Morning Star'' because the latter was the one to kill Fitchner]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Victra Barca, née Julii]]
One of Darrow's classmates at the Academy in the beginning of ''Golden Son'' who remains loyal to him even when her family sides against his patron. She and Sevro fall in love and eventually marry in ''Morning Star'' and have three children together. In ''Iron Gold'', she and Quicksilver are the two most promiment business-people in the Republic after she took control of her family's shipping business from her sister Antonia in ''Morning Star''.
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* ActionGirl: As good in a fight as she is in command of a spaceship.
* ActionMom: By the time of ''Iron Gold'', she's had three kids with Sevro and is pregnant with her fourth.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Heavily implied to have a crush on Darrow throughout ''Golden Son.''
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Sevro. Their insults and squabbling is underlaid with many [[HeldGaze held gazes]], flirtations, and rare moments of genuine worry. [[spoiler:By the end of ''Morning Star'' they're HappilyMarried.]]
* BloodKnight: She and Sefi actually bond over how much they love a good fight, and likely she does the same with Sevro.
* BoyishShortHair: [[spoiler: Before ''Morning Star''.]]
* BrokenBird: In ''Morning Star'', she claims she has nothing to live for but revenge, believes she's poison to everyone, and Darrow notices an odd emptiness in her eyes. [[spoiler:A year of torture will do that to you.]]
* CainAndAbel: The Abel to Antonia's Cain.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Antonia shoots her InTheBack at the end of ''Golden Son'', only for her to still be alive at the beginning of ''Morning Star''.]]
* FireForgedFriends: With Darrow in the original trilogy.
** In ''Dark Age'', [[spoiler: she, Lyria, and Volga bond while fleeing the Red Hand through the Martian wilderness]].
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: To Sevro in ''Morning Star''.]]
* HonestCorporateExecutive: In ''Iron Gold''. Despite frequent complaints about the Vox Populi's demands, she still believes that unions are key to fair labor.
* TheHeart: Is genuinely kind and caring... for a Peerless Scarred Gold.
* HugeGirlTinyGuy: [[spoiler:She's taller than Sevro, though not so much as the trope implies.]]
* LadyOfWar: One of the only things she and her sister have in common.
* MamaBear: [[spoiler: If you kidnap or are in any way involved with allowing harm to befall one of her children, she will do everything in her power to hunt you down, pregnancy be damned]].
* MaternityCrisis: Goes into labor after [[spoiler: her flagship is captured and she's being hunted by the Red Hand through the Martian wilderness]].
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Her family name is derived from the Julii Caesares, the Roman family that produced UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar.
* PregnantBadass: Being eight months pregnant with her fourth child does not slow her down when [[spoiler: hunting those she believes responsible for abducting Electra]].
* RetiredBadass: In ''Iron Gold'', where unlike her husband, she stepped back from the war to focus on her family's shipping company. [[spoiler: Her daughter's abduction brings her back guns blazing, and in ''Light Bringer'' she's in command of the Martian defense fleet while Darrow is MIA and her husband is capture on Luna]].
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: She spends the second and third books convinced that her sister's AxCrazy tendencies are [[ItRusnInTheFamily genetic]] and that she's as terrible as Antonia. Her Character Development involves realizing that she's not her family.
[[/folder]]
!!! Third generation
[[folder: Electra Barca]]
The oldest of Sevro and Victra's three daughters
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* GenerationXerox: Less then ten years old at the start of ''Literature/IronGold'' and she's already on course to grow up every bit as badass as her parents.
* LittleMissBadass: She has't had a chance to be in a fight yet in outside of sparring matches, but judging by her commentary during [[spoiler: Ephraim's rescue of her and Pax]], she will definitely be this is she's ever in a fight.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: When [[spoiler: Ephraim needs her help to take down the guards holding her and Pax prisoner]], she asks whether she should use an incapacitating strike or limit herself to flesh wounds.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Calypso Barca]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Ulysses Barca]]
[[/folder]]
