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3[[folder:The First Hundred]]
4!!Frank Chalmers
5Head of the American contingent. Frank is cynical and ruthlessly pragmatic. His first act in the book is engineering a riot and the death of his old friend, John Boone, but there's more to him than that.
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7* BeAllMySinsRemembered: He is actually angered by the fact that Maya falls in love with him some time after the night in Nicosia, because in his opinion he doesn't deserve it.
8* BeneathTheMask: He is very, very rarely open about his true feelings, and behind the mask he has a lot of anger and contempt for people, even the ones he feels the most affection for.
9* CunningLinguist: Chalmers is the most polyglottal of all the First Hundred, speaking five languages. (Granted, Michel thinks his French is awful and Maya describes his Russian as "very bad".)
10* IDidWhatIHadToDo: In regards to John Boone.
11* ItsAllMyFault / MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Not a sudden realization, but a gradual one - After Nicosia he slowly comes to realize that he screwed everything up for everyone, and that he is the only one who knows it.
12* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: When we see his second POV section, he's a much more complicated person than the villain he seems to be in the prologue.
13* ManipulativeBastard: He's not as charismatic as Boone, but the first chapter makes it clear that he's been playing various groups (particularly the Arabs) like a fiddle.
14* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Based on a combination of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon
15* TheResenter: He grows to despise Boone for walking on Mars first, and then being in a relationship with Maya.
16* UsedToBeASweetKid: Maya speculates this when she finds a biography that describes his early career as a young, idealistic public servant working for a program that was shut down by a corrupt politician. Cross between this and MaddenedIntoMisanthropy.
17
18!! John Boone
19Famous for being the first person to set foot on the Red Planet. John Boone has an effortless charisma and charm that quickly makes him the ''de facto'' leader of the American contigent, and perhaps the First Hundred in gneral.
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21* TheAce: First Man on Mars. He's also really charismatic, likable, and friendly.
22* BerserkButton: Religion, specifically Christianity. He views it as a political construct based on the history of the Bible's writing and gets very heated after an Easter service is conducted aboard the ''Ares'', to the surprise of everyone who's used to easy-going friendly John.
23* BoldExplorer: He's so eager to be part of Mars exploration that he charms his way into the First Hundred expedition despite being over the lifetime acceptable exposure to radiation.
24* TheCharmer: One of his defining characteristics.
25* FunctionalAddict: He's addicted to the fictional drug omegendorph, but it doesn't seem to impair him too much.
26* TheLeader: Type IV, Charismatic. He can easily get others to follow him and defuses tensions and arguments through his charm.
27* MagneticHero: Given enough time, John Boone can get along with ''anyone'', provided they don't have a corporate agenda or are named Frank Chalmers. He can even get Ann, who admits she sympathizes with the Reds who tried to assassinate him, to like and trust him. Coyote says it's because John was so good at ''being'' convinced of other people's point of view (while putting his own spin on it) rather than the other way around.
28* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Based on John F. Kennedy.
29* ObfuscatingStupidity: Although he never seems ''stupid'', per se, people around him see him as much simpler than he actually is.
30* OddCouple: With Chalmers, but it eventually falls apart.
31* ShroudedInMyth: After his death. One of the inter-chapter sections transitions from Boone's biography to stories of him, Paul Bunyan, and Big Man. Political groups later invoke his name to back up their position.
32
33!!Maya Toitovna
34The leader of the Russian contingent. A complex individual who takes a great interest in the power dynamics of the First Hundred.
35
36* ApeShallNeverKillApe: She catches some heat from the other First Hundred for [[spoiler:killing Phyllis Boyle]], because that person was "one of them" in spite of everything. Maya, for her part, resents the resentment.
37* DeliberateValuesDissonance: She hates American attitudes towards sex, viewing them as Puritanical and insulting.
38* {{Determinator}}: She drives the First Hundred in their escape from the metanats in 2061. Later, multiple people credit her with their survival.
39* TheFogOfAges: In ''Blue Mars'' she experiences ''jamais vu'' (the opposite of deja vu) and ''presque vu'' (i.e. "it's on the tip of my tongue).
40* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Nadia, described as being like sisters--they don't get along and aren't much alike and yet are intimate.
41* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler:She kills Phyllis without remorse, even though she was one of the First Hundred.]]
42* ImportantHaircut: She shaves her head on her 130th birthday out of disgust for her age and appearance.
43* ManipulativeBastard: She considers sexual and romantic relationships as a means to an end, both in her early career as a cosmonaut and with John and Frank. Subverted, though, in that she also gets heavily emotionally involved in several of them, even while using them as a means of influence (thus sometimes leading to a very chaotic power situation...)
44* MasochismTango: All of her romantic relationships, more or less. Blatantly lampshaded by Nadia and Arkady.
45* TooMuchAlike: With Frank, both of them being manipulators with a constant eye on the power dynamics of the colonists.
46* {{Tsundere}}: With the justification that she has Bipolar Personality Disorder.
47
48!!Nadezhda "Nadia" Chernyshevski
49A Russian engineer who is responsible for the design and construction of the first settlement. She's largely apolitical and is more interested in the challenge of building on Mars than revolution or terraforming.
50
51* TheChainsOfCommanding: As the [[spoiler:President of the council]] she finds herself unable to participate in construction projects for fear it will create conflicts of interest, and she barely has time to ''anyway'' because of the demands on her time. Which is bad because she builds things to relax from all the stresses of the job.
52* {{Cincinnatus}}: She's pushed into politics against her will because she's the most moderate and trustworthy figure. [[spoiler:Later, she becomes the first President of Mars.]]
53* CloserToEarth: (Or perhaps we should say Mars.) In her relationships with people like Maya, but also with the lively revolutionary Arkady, she's usually the more stable person.
54* TheEngineer: Before going to Mars, she built nuclear reactors in Siberia. She's instrumental in design and construction of the Mars habitats. Later she applies this mindset to the design and construction of new ''government.''
55* HeroicSafeMode: After [[spoiler:finding Arkady's incinerated corpse]] in the first revolution, she's relieved at the necessity of frantic engineering and repairs because it allows her to not think about the horror going on.
56* [[MrFixit Ms Fixit]]: Everyone calls her when they need to fix something or figure out a solution to some problem in construction or design.
57* TheLeader: The levelheaded type. Come the constitutional conventions in ''Blue Mars'', she soon falls into the role of leader primarily because she immediately concerns herself with productive activities rather than posturing and ideology, and others begin to imitate.
58* OddFriendship: With Maya. She considers it a sisterly relationship in that they're not much alike, don't like each other too much, and yet are very close.
59* OnlySaneMan: While everyone else is running around with radical viewpoints, Nadia focuses on the job at hand and is rather exasperated at all the petty power struggles.
60* OppositesAttract: She's very sensible, exasperated with melodrama, and levelheaded, and she falls in love with the wildly revolutionary Arkady.
61
62!!Arkady Bogdanov
63Another Russian engineer. Arkady is a visionary or a revolutionary who sees Mars colonization as a way to reinvent human society.
64
65* BatmanGambit: He banked on using Phobos to set up the revolution. It was a safe bet that he would be the leader of the group that was left there, because nobody else wanted to stay on Phobos.
66* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: From the start he wanted to create a new society and encouraged revolution. [[spoiler:He dies horribly shortly after the 2061 rebellion begins, and that attempt is brutally crushed by the transnat-controlled UN.]]
67* CrazyPrepared: He and his team secretly turned Phobos into a ''rocket'' in case it was ever used as a weapons platform. [[spoiler:He's right, and Nadia brings it down in 2061.]]
68* FieryRedhead: The way his hair matches his vigorous personality is sometimes {{lampshaded}} by other characters.
69* FirstLove: He and Nadia become lovers soon after they land on Mars. (Given their ages they're probably not each other's ''first'' first love, but they are in terms of the story.)
70* HotBlooded: Arkady is very intense in expressing his opinions and advocating his ideas, with a quick temper and bombastic charisma.
71* MeaningfulName: He's a descendent of Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian science fiction author and revolutionary. His first name is possibly taken from Arkady Strugatsky, another Russian sci-fi writer.
72* RebelLeader: He becomes this near the end of ''Red Mars''. [[spoiler:He dies and that revolution fails horrifically, but...]] "Bogdanovists", their views, and even their architecture are one of the most significant factions throughout the series.
73* UnwinnableTrainingSimulation: He takes an inordinate amount of glee in creating these on the ''Ares''.
74
75!!Saxifrage "Sax" Russell
76A physicist who wants to terraform Mars from the get-go. He's not that interested in politics and his main motivation is pure scientific curiosity, but as the situation on Mars heats up his neutrality backfires on him.
77
78* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Understated, but he's always trying to get Ann Clayborne to like what he's doing, without success. [[spoiler:In ''Blue Mars'', both of them realize that they have this towards each other.]]
79* BedTrick: He lets Phyllis seduce him under his assumed identity of Stephen Lindholm (even though her personality disgusts him). He's not proud of himself.
80* ConstantlyCurious: His reason for being a scientist is very simple: he wants to ''know''. When Michel probes this by asking "what will you do with your knowledge?" Sax answers "find out more."
81* CrazyPrepared: Once the second revolution breaks out in ''Green Mars'', it turns out he had spent the preceding years preparing for a number of large-scale contingencies, including making possible the open-air evacuation of an entire city by having raised the oxygen levels in the atmosphere and making tens of thousands of carbon dioxide filter masks, and taking down Deimos because it ''might'' be used as a weapons platform like Phobos.
82* ForScience: He's accused of irresponsibly wanting to terraform Mars without considering the consequences, especially by Ann. After his misadventures in ''Green Mars'', he decides they have a point.
83* MadScientist: He gets nicknamed this during the second revolution.
84* MeaningfulName: He is named after a flower, saxifrage, and the name means "rock-breaker"; this is fitting, since he is the character most eager to destroy Mars's native rocky terrain and create one that can support plant life, and because he is the primary ideological opponent of the geologist, Ann Clayborne, who has the opposite desire. The name Russel is probably a homage to Bertrand Russel, a philosopher who prized logical scientific thought.
85* NoSocialSkills: Soft-spoken and single-minded about science.
86* NotAsYouKnowThem: In-universe after his mental torture and stroke in ''Green Mars''. He's still passionate about science, but his personality changes due to the brain damage and the experience in general; he's much more radical and prone to action, and starts sympathizing more with Reds.
87* PhraseCatcher: "Sax must love this" about the chaotic areological effects of 2061--aquifers bursting, nuclear explosions, etc--because they're probably adding heat and oxygen to the system. (He doesn't.)
88* SpeechImpediment: A tendency to stutter and some lingering aphasia.
89* TookALevelInBadass: He starts as an apolitical biologist who wants to terraform Mars basically just to see if it ''can'' be done. After being abducted and tortured by the SecretPolice in ''Green Mars'', he becomes a primary leader in the second revolution and is called "General Sax."
90
91!!Ann Clayborne
92Ann is a geologist/areologist who advocates for keeping Mars as free of human alteration as possible. She finds the planet beautiful as it is now and is disgusted by the idea of terraforming it. This viewpoint is the genesis of "the Reds," one of the political factions that come about.
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94* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her stepfather abused her, but she doesn't elaborate beyond "abuse is abuse." Others speculate that this is why she's so obsessed with rocks and the idea of Mars as a lifeless planet.
95* DemotedMemories: Forces herself to forget things while traveling on her own, finding it too painful.
96* DrivenToSuicide: At the end of ''Red Mars'' she tries to freeze herself to death, thinking that [[spoiler:her son is dead and she's to blame for Frank's death]]. Her husband Simon stops her.
97* DeathSeeker: After [[spoiler:Simon dies of cancer]] in ''Green Mars'' she's just waiting for something to kill her. She ''nearly'' gets her wish in a landslide, but what she thinks is a useless gesture of hiding to placate her dead friends turns out to actually work, and she's pissed. She also refuses the gerentological treatment [[spoiler:and is given to it while comatose by Sax and a few others]].
98* DefrostingIceQueen: Moderates her Red stance during Blue Mars.
99* {{Foil}}: To Sax.
100* TheFundamentalist: Often accused of this because of her staunch anti-terraforming stance. At one point she does tell John Boone that she wouldn't mourn his death if it meant no terraforming.
101* InsistentTerminology: With geological/areological terms. Don't call the fines "dust."
102* ItsAllMyFault: She blames herself for [[spoiler:Frank's death]]. She got distracted while driving, the car got stuck, and he was swept away in a flood trying to free it.
103* MeaningfulName: She is in love with earth and rocks more than anything else, and her name "clay born" reflects it. Part of a trio of rock-themed names with her husband and son, Simon and Peter.
104* SugarAndIcePersonality: She's usually depressed or fractious, but she ''really'' loves geology (or areology, as it is on Mars). "Depressed" as in actual clinical depression.
105
106!!Hiroko Ai
107The leader of the farmers. Nobody seems able to figure her out, but her belief in terraforming goes beyond scientific into a religious movement around the concept of ''viriditas'', or green strength.
108
109* CultColony: She creates one called "Zygote" in ''Red Mars'', where the First Hundred take refuge once the transnats turn on them. After that one is compromised, she builds a new one and names it Gamete.
110* InscrutableOriental: Part of the "the Japanese are the closest thing to aliens" attitude expressed by other characters. Apart from her devotees, nobody understands what the hell is going on in her mind.
111* [[EarthMother Mars Mother]]: Although she's not described with the physical characteristics, she is fertile (in the sense that she has a lot of genetic offspring, see below) and is the leader of the farm team. She also creates a religion around the worship of Mars itself and one person in ''Red Mars'' repeats a rumor that she's constantly pregnant.
112* MadScientist: Most of the others acknowledge her brilliance but consider her to be insane for her prophetical habits. It's certainly hard to have a conversation with her in which the words "areophany" or "viriditas" don't appear.
113* MeaningfulName: "Ai" means "love." Her movement is all about mutual love and respect for other people and the planet.
114* [[spoiler:NeverFoundTheBody: Her compound is attacked in ''Green Mars'', but nobody finds her body and many refuse to believe she died. Sax seems to be saved by her while lost in a blizzard, but he thinks later that it was probably a hallucination.]]
115* StalkerWithATestTube: She collects DNA from various people, including John Boone, and artificially reproduces with it.
116* WhatTheHellHero: She gets chewed out by the others for several things, like vanishing to a hidden colony when the rest of the First Hundred wanted her help with the deteriorating situation, or secretly creating dozens of children from their DNA without asking permission.
117
118!!Michel Duval
119The psychologist assigned to interact with and monitor the crew of the ''Ares'', which quickly proves to be an overwhelming task.
120
121* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Towards Maya in the Underhill years, but she eventually reciprocates.
122* BigDamnHeroes: In helping Nadia's group escape Cairo in 2061.
123* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Keenly aware of it. In fact, he references the fact that most therapists are in therapy, but his is back on Earth and can't effectively help him.
124* FourTemperamentEnsemble: He develops his own UsefulNotes/MyersBriggs-like metric based on this.
125* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Acts as one for Maya.
126* SanitySlippage: After landing on Mars. He loses huge chunks of time from his memory and considers himself to be losing his mind until Hiroko and the farm team spirit him away to Zygote.
127* YouCantGoHomeAgain: He longs to return to his hometown of Provence. When he gets there, it's so changed that he feels even worse.
128
129!!Vladimir "Vlad" Taneev
130A member of the Russian contingent who was recognized for brilliance in both medicine and economics. He continues to be very innovative in both areas after settling on Mars, and his work is a major catalyst for change on both Mars and Earth as the story progresses.
131
132* {{Polyamory}}: with Marina and Ursula. Probably. None of the other characters are ever really sure.
133* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gives one to Antar for wanting to bring traditional capitalism to Mars.
134
135!!Phyllis Boyle
136An American biologist. When the transnats start taking control of the U.N. and Mars, she allies herself with them, putting her at odds with the rest of the First Hundred.
137
138* CategoryTraitor: Considered such by the other First Hundred but for quite justified reasons. [[spoiler:Still, they're rather shocked when Maya kills her.]]
139* DistaffCounterpart: To Vlad. He's a biologist; she's a biologist. He designs a new economic system to replace capitalism; she is a capitalist. He is part of a threesome (maybe) with Marina and Ursula; she is part of a threesome (maybe) with Edvard and George. They're like funhouse mirror reflections of each other. Unfortunately, they barely, if ever, interact throughout the series.
140* [[spoiler:DeaderThanDead: She survives the destruction of the elevator and Clarke being shot to Jupiter. So when Maya's group rescues Sax, Maya kills her with a bomb.]]
141* FaceHeelTurn: She's one of only four members of the First Hundred who joins the metanats during the revolution of 2061, even while they're trying to ''kill'' all the First Hundred.
142* TheFundamentalist: Although it's not a major part of the conflict between her and the other characters, she's a devout Christian, and her bits are broadcast on Christian television.
143* OnlyInItForTheMoney: She sees Mars as a gold mine and allies herself with the metanats.
144* SmugSnake: Frank calls her a "tin god" who thinks that she's taken control of Mars and put herself above the rest of the First Hundred. Sax later has similar, unflattering views of her and flat-out calls her dumb in his internal monologue.
145
146!!Desmond "Coyote" Hawkins
147Coyote is Hiroko's ex-boyfriend whom she secretly brings on the voyage to Mars. He becomes more prominent in ''Green Mars'', helping to run the underground communities hiding from the metanats.
148
149* BigDamnHeroes: With Michel in helping Nadia's group to escape Cairo while the transnats are hunting them.
150* CrazyPrepared: He has hidden caches of supplies ''all'' over Mars. And once he learns where the metanats set up their prison city, the first thing he did was to devise a way to sabotage it in case they ever needed to stage a jailbreak.
151* DoNotCallMePaul: At one point on his road trip with Nirgal, he gets cynical and demands that Nirgal call him Desmond. A while later, his mood picks up and he basically says "Desmond? Who's Desmond?" Notably, Sax ''always'' refers to him as Desmond.
152* FirstLove: The fact that he was Hiroko's college boyfriend has a lot to do with why he's there.
153* ParentalSubstitute: He acts as a surrogate father to Nirgal since the children have been given a collective upbringing regardless of which ones are their parents. Later, they learn that Coyote is Nirgal's ''actual'' father.
154* RebelLeader: He's involved with the Red revolutionaries and "hidden" colonists and meets with John to talk about all the sabotage that's going on.
155* ReversePsychology: He brags about convincing Nirgal to leave Zygote and attend the university at Sabashii, which greatly broadens Nirgal's horizons. When Nirgal tries to remind him that Coyote said to stay away from Sabashii because it would ruin him, Coyote just says that's ''exactly'' how he convinced him.
156* ShroudedInMyth: "The Coyote" becomes one of the figures in the interstital folktales. It's also used as a catch-all term for mysterious individuals, according to one in-universe history book.
157* SoleSurvivor: He may be the only one who escaped [[spoiler:Hiroko's last refuge in ''Green Mars''.]]
158* SpannerInTheWorks: He was smuggled aboard the ''Ares'' by Hiroko. He aligns himself most with the radical Reds, who are by far the most unpredictable (and trouble-causing) of the various rebel factions.
159* WalkingTheEarth: Even after the rebellions are done and there's no reason to hide, he never settles down. Nirgal even finds him sleeping on a park bench once.
160[[/folder]]
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162[[folder:Descendants]]
163!!Peter Clayborne
164The natural-born son of Ann Clayborne and Simon Frazier. He's one of the first children born on Mars. He later joins the Mars First movement and holds Green philosophies, putting him at odds with his mother.
165
166* AcePilot: He takes to rocketry and piloting and does a lot of work for the rebels with it. He attributes this to his jump from the orbital elevator.
167* BigBrotherMentor: Towards the other descendants in Zygote.
168* MeaningfulName: Of course Anne would give her child a name that means "rock".
169* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: The odds of him surviving the jump from the elevator are astronomically against him; his mother assumes he's dead for a long time. But a shuttle piloted by rebels somehow manages to find him during the (admittedly very long) fall. Thoroughly lampshaded.
170* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Well actually he jumped, on purpose, as a last ditch attempt to survive because the thing he was in was going to crash out of orbit.
171%% * NomDeMom:
172
173!!Kasei
174Genetic son of Hiroko and John Boone, and natural father of Jackie. He becomes a revolutionary for the Reds.
175
176* AlwaysSecondBest: Despite being being a first-gen ectogene, he's stuck in the shadow of his own ''daughter''. Might be why he founds one of the most wildly radical factions on Mars.
177* LeeroyJenkins: Blows up the dam at Burroughs, which works for his goals, but if not for Sax's crazy-preparedness would have resulted in massive deaths. Soon after he decides to bring down the elevator even though the odds of it working the same way are terrible [[spoiler:and dies in the battle]].
178* RebelLeader: Of the Kakaze[[note]]"fire wind"[[/note]], a radical Red faction.
179* MeaningfulName: It's the Japanese name for Mars.
180* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: Kasei is even more radical about keeping Mars "red" than Ann and will commit any act of sabotage for that goal, no matter how harmful.
181
182!!Nirgal
183Hiroko and Coyote's son. Although he's generally a Green and a charismatic figure among the natives and a founder of Free Mars, he's not as concerned with politics as he is making sure everyone can have a good life.
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185* CallToAgriculture: Becomes an "ecopoet", essentially establishing and shepherding ecosystems on a small scale, after finding himself dissatisfied with Free Mars in the third book.
186* ConstantlyCurious: One of his defining traits. He's curious about people as much as natural and scientific phenomena.
187* FishOutOfWater: On Earth in a ''big'' way. He was born and raised in Mars's low gravity. When he tries running on Earth, he's gasping like a fish before long, and then he gets severely ill and has to return home.
188* InnocentInaccurate: His bone marrow is a match for [[spoiler:Simon's]], but he doesn't fully comprehend [[spoiler:why Simon dies in spite of the treatments]].
189* MagneticHero: His curiosity and openness makes him naturally charismatic and many of the natives gravitate to him as a leader.
190* MasochismTango: With Jackie--he loves her, she sees him as one of "hers" but has no compunctions about using people. He can't stop the tango even though he's aware of exactly how it goes.
191* MeaningfulName: "Nirgal" is the Babylonian name for Mars.
192* MissingMom: [[spoiler:After Hiroko vanishes, Nirgal chases every credible-sounding rumor of her whether it's on Earth or Mars. He never finds her.]]
193* NiceGuy: Nearly everyone he meets likes him because he's a good listener who is readily sympathetic, having a genuine desire to learn about their views.
194* NowWhat: In ''Blue Mars''. His life's work was the rebellion and helping devise the society they wanted. [[spoiler:It all happens and he's left at a loose end since he doesn't want to get involved in the ensuing political struggles.]]
195
196!!Jackie Boone
197Daughter of Kasei and another descendant named Esther. She is John Boone's granddaughter and uses his last name, which is significant because most of Zygote's children don't use last names at all.
198
199* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: She has a huge, unrequited crush on Peter. He has zero interest in her. (Partly because he had an affair with her mother.)
200* ItsAllAboutMe: Jackie will adopt or shift to any position that allows her to gain the most power, even if it's one she had opposed previously.
201* ManipulativeBastard: Even better at using seduction/relationships to get what she wants than Maya, and even more cynical and power-hungry than Frank.
202* OlderThanTheyLook: She starts getting the longevity treatment as soon as she reaches adulthood, giving her a permanently youthful look.
203* {{Polyamory}}: Builds up a coterie of male companions, some of which she has children with.
204* TooMuchAlike: Non-romantic version. She and Maya ''hate'' each other. Everyone around them is quick to say (out of earshot) that it's because they're basically the same.
205* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:She joins an expedition to interstellar space in ''Blue Mars'' following Zo's death.]]
206
207!!Zoya "Zo" Boone
208Jackie's daughter. She appears in ''Blue Mars''. Although she travels the solar system to run political errands for her mother, the two of them don't get along.
209
210* IcarusAllusion: She enjoys recreational gliding and gets into a friendly competition with another flyer. [[spoiler:When that flyer goes too far and plummets, Zo tries to save her and they both drown.]]
211* {{Jerkass}}: She's very dismissive and insulting towards just about everyone who doesn't share her opinions. Even when Ann sits down and explains to her exactly why she is interested in geology/areology, Zo dismisses it.
212* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite the above, she goes out of her way to save someone's life on Mercury and again when a fellow glider falls. [[spoiler:The second results in her own death.]]
213* ReallyGetsAround: She and many others in her generation have a lot of casual sex.
214* TooDumbToLive: She riles up the Mirandan preservationists while standing at the edge of a cliff. (Low-G and Ann save her.)
215[[/folder]]
216
217[[folder:Others]]
218!!Arthur "Art" Randolph
219An official from Praxis introduced in ''Green Mars''. His boss, William Fort, sends him to Mars to help society on a more honest path.
220
221* AmbiguouslyBrown: Usually described as dark or swarthy.
222* BigBeautifulMan: He's described as "bear-like", but quite attractive.
223* ConstantlyCurious: One of the things that makes him a good diplomat; he has an honest and eager curiosity, and he doesn't mind asking blunt questions.
224* TheHeart: He has a knack for diplomacy and mediation; in fact he was considering changing his career towards that before Fort sent him to Mars. Much of his time on the planet is trying to reconcile the various underground groups so they can put together a cohesive government and resistance.
225* HonestCorporateExecutive: He's an agent for the only ethical metanat in the series.
226* OddFriendship: He and Nirgal form a rapid affinity, but the fact that they're both intensely curious people makes it not so odd.
227* SecondLove: To Nadia.
228* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: After being vaguely creeped out by the sights during his first days on Mars, he gets an epiphany when the window catches him unexpectedly and he realizes the beauty and splendor through the view down Olympus Mons.
229
230!!Zeyk and Nazik Tuqa
231Two Bedouin settlers who emigrate to Mars early on. Both become important political figures in the Arab factions.
232----
233* HappilyMarried: Very much, and they have no problem trolling Frank after he goes on a rant about Arab misogyny.
234* OnlySaneMan: Zeyk is often the First Hundred's go-to guy with the Arabs because he acts as a levelheaded and world-weary elder.
235* PhotographicMemory: Zeyk has this, which becomes important when TheFogOfAges sets in for other characters.
236
237%% !!William Fort
238
239%% * HonestCorporateExecutive:
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