History Characters / TheExpanseTVTheBelt

* GutturalGrowler: He has a very gravelly voice.

* Troll: Done in spectacular fashion while on Eros, cheerfully pretending to offer safety for Filat Kothari during a shootout, only to shoot the man in the head once he was exposed.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: That or....EarthyBarefootCharacter. He breaks all the plant pots in his room and starts stomping on the soil barefoot. More reasonable explanation is.....he's lost his fucking mind.

* BadassBaritone: He has a deep voice, and is generally shown to be pretty handy in a firefight.

** Prax is perhaps the only character who never exhibits any kind of bigotry or event unintentional prejudice against Earthers, Martians, or Belters; he actually never even says those words, instead discussing the factions as governments rather than making blanket statements about entire peoples.

** Prax is perhaps the only character who never exhibits any kind of bigotry against Earthers, Martians, or Belters; he actually never even says those words, instead discussing the factions as governments rather than making blanket statements about entire peoples.

Most Belters at any one time actually live on their ships, mining resources in the asteroid belt. Several of the larger asteroids such as Ceres and Vesta are major hubs for shipping and commerce, as well as a few large artificial habitats such as Tycho Station. Full scale agricultural colonies also exist in the Jupiter and Saturn systems, though these outer planets get lumped in with the Belters as well due to their very low gravity. In the Jupiter system, Ganymede and Europa are major breadbaskets, while Callisto is the location of a major MCRN shipyard (the fourth major moon, Io, wasn't heavily colonized due to volcanic activity). In the Saturn system, Titan is a major settled colony as well. Numerous smaller mining and scientific outposts are scattered throughout the other smaller moons and into the Uranus and Neptune systems - but just "outposts", not big enough to be considered colonies.

In the first episode, Ceres and the rest of the belt are technically a United Nations protectorate governed by Earth, though everyone fears that Mars is imminently going to make a push to capture the belt from Earth - and Earth will launch a full scale war in retaliation to take it back. The winner of such a fight is uncertain, but the Belters will lose either way. Meanwhile, an underground resistance/terrorist movement has gained widespread popularity in the Belt, wanting to set themselves up as a third independent nation known as the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA).

** Asteroid mining can be quite dangerous and loss of limb accidents are not uncommon, resulting in a disproportionately large number of Belters using prosthetic limb replacements. Keep in mind, the technology to completely regrow a severed limb ''exists'' back on Earth, but it's too expensive for hardscrabble miners in the asteroid belt to afford - another reason why prosthetic limbs are disproportionately common.

* LibertariansInSpace: The Belters are a hard-hitting {{Deconstruction}} of this; the [[HadToBeSharp no-margin-for-error]] conditions of deep space has produced that bizarre combination of civic pride and steadfast independence prized by this philosophy; Belters instinctively look out for each other and don't go crying to the authorities when something breaks, they ''fix it'' - by any means necessary - as they happen. However, the nasty side of this is that they're prone to vigilantism; heroic actions like aiding in the assault on Thoth Station, grey actions such as the summary murder of administrators who won't keep the air filters clean, and villainous ones such the indiscriminate spacing of "Inner" refugees.

* GoodIsNotSoft: He's a good guy, but he has shit to get done. When he sees the distress call, he promptly orders his crew to ignore it and wipe it from their records. It's a reasonable move given that the area was rife with pirates, and he had ice to deliver to Ceres - a political powder keg.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Getting decapitated by a rail gun is probably ''not'' pleasant.]]

* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: He grows considerably morally ambiguous and pragmatic after the protomolecule breaks loose on Eros, though it's deba

* IllGirl: She has a disease that's apparently common to children being raised in the low-gravity environment on Ganymede.

* NiceHat: His signature fedora, which he eventually abandons before leaving Ceres for the first time.

* CoolHat: His fedora, although in-universe its considered pretentious by the Belters.

* AdultFear: His daughter is being held by a group of people with dubious morals that likely want to experiment on her with a dangerous virus.

* WorkingTheSameCase: Miller and the crew of the Rocinante become entangled in the same mystery (of what happened to the Scopuli and the Canterbury), but approach it from different angles.

Shed Garvey the med-tech aboard the Pur'N'Kleen ice hauler, the Canterbury (which supplies water for the Asteroid Belt's residents). Even though he's closer to an EMT than a doctor, Shed is all the crew has got as he's called upon for everything from social diseases to life-or-death surgeries. When the Canterbury was gutted to clear the way for cargo, the medical bay was removed, so Shed now has to operate at a dining table in the galley. In addition to his official medical duties aboard the ship, Shed also provides more 'recreational' supplies to the crew.

* CowardlyLion: Despite being the least brave of the Canterbury survivors by a wide mile, he still puts himself at risk to save Alex's life by sharing his oxygen supply.

* NervesOfSteel: Stares down a Hybrid and baits it for far longer than any other character would dare other than Bobbie.

* AffectionateNickname: "Plant Guy." The crew of the Roci originally used it disparagingly, but after Prax uses his knowledge of plants predict the collapse of Ganymede, save Holden from the Hybrid, and improve the Roci's survivability, it becomes a term of endearment.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: By the middle of Season 3, Prax has become increasingly callous; he eager jumps into combat and unceremoniously throws a dead Martian sailor to the ground. Amos is disturbed by the once-peaceful Prax's changes.

* TattooAsCharacterType: Cultural. Several Belters such as Naomi have a stylized tattoo around their necks that feature an off-center gap, symbolizing contact burns from the helmet connection collars of older space suits that Anderson Dawes sports.
** At least two other Belters have the stylized anarchy symbol of the OPA on them.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: When lifelong Belters speak English rather than Belter Creole, the resultant accent often sounds like a fusion of Afrikaaner and Chinese. It also varies, as some Belters like Miller speak English as their first language (though they are still at least conversant in Belter Creole) and therefore have more normal-sounding American/Canadian/British accents.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Belters have the lowest natural life expectancy in the system, roughly around 60 years, which means most Belters are actually a good deal younger than they look. Lack of decent medical care and a lifetime in low-G and thin air takes its toll.

** [[spoiler: He makes a cameo appearance in Season 6 risking his life to deliver information about a highly efficient yeast compound to Earth, which is suffering from nuclear-winter-like effects, while taking on the burden of feeding millions of Belters abandoned and robbed by Marco. Amos even notes that Prax had nothing to gain and everything to lose by sending the information, elevating Prax's NiceGuy status Amos' mind.]]

* BewaretheNiceOnes: He's perhaps tied with Anna as the kindest character in the entire series, but will not hesitate to put down anyone who stands in his way of getting his daughter back.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Played with. His kindness and dedication as a parent cause Amos to immediately respect Prax. However, as he spends more time with the Roci crew, he begins to adopt a ruthless streak, which begins to alarm Amos. [[spoiler:Amos ultimately gets Prax to stand down and kills Strickland for him.]]