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The character sheet for Agent G and The Cyber Dragons Trilogy books.
Letters
In General
A group of 26 cybernetically enhanced assassins in the employ of the International Refugee Society.
- Artificial Human: What all of them really are. They were grown in a lab as the perfect vessels for cybernetic enhancements.
- Assassin Outclassin': Frequently, they're called into deal with other assassins. Also, there's a Civil War with those who side with G versus the Loyalists.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: While the Letters are not this, memory wipe aside, their Assistants are.
- Cyborg: All of them are enhanced with cybernetics that their bodies are designed not to reject.
- Gilded Cage: All of them receive exceptionally large paychecks, mansions, and Morality Pet Assistants to help them carry out their duties.
- Killed Off for Real: Almost all of the Letters but A, S, G, and E are dead by the end of the second book. A is dead by the end of Assassin too.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: They're letters to emphasize they have no identities.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: All of the Letters have their memories erased but have been given the promise of having them restored. This is a lie as they're all bioroids with no pasts of their own.
- Morality Pet: All of the Assistants are designed to be this as well as their handlers.
- Professional Killer: All of the Letters are these by their very nature.
- Private Military Contractors: They tend to view themselves as this and sometimes do legitimate military work.
- Psycho for Hire: Played with as they're meant to be cold, soulless people who never hesitate to carry out their contracts. Only one of them seems to genuinely enjoy their work, though, in A.
- Punch-Clock Villains: The Letters mostly act like their profession of murder is perfectly normal.
- Wicked Cultured: Almost all of them act like Martini Spy Fiction Bond Girls and villains (or Bond himself) rather than thugs.
Agent G AKA Case Gordon AKA Director G
A Mind Wipe suffering secret agent working for the International Refugee Society. He has to work for them for ten years before he has his memories restored. He is actually an Artificial Human created as a Super-Soldier for the company behind the Society. Later, he becomes the head of Earth's Security Departments in the Space Academy series.
- Affably Evil: Despite being a professional killer for Murder, Inc. as well as willing to do whatever it takes to get his memories back, he's cheerful and pleasant to virtually everyone he meets. This includes enemies.
- Arranged Marriage: Had one with S that was meant to provide them a cover. He tried to make a Relationship Upgrade but failed.
- Artificial Human: He is a clone of Daniel Gordon, Special Forces operative.
- The Casanova: Is a ladies man both in and out of missions. He's even been able to get women to overlook the fact he killed their father—mind you, they had it coming.
- Consummate Liar: Is able to fool the Society despite the fact they have brainwashing techniques and the ability to read minds.
- Consummate Professional: Has this reputation among the Society's Letters. Is very good at stealthfully moving to his targets, eliminating them, and getting away without being scene. It also minimizes the body count the Society otherwise doesn't care about.
- Corporate Samurai: Is one of the few Letters who seems to actively enjoy his work (when it's against bad people) as well as have loyalty to the company. It doesn't last his Tomato in the Mirror moment.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Becomes one of these in Assassin when he's made the CSO of Atlas Corporation. He finds the experience boring and misses field work despite the fact that he knows that was mostly killing people.
- Crossover Ship: Has an in-universe one with Jane Doe the Weredeer in the Alternate Universe Tournament of Supervillainy.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Quite a bit more than the Society in general. Becomes a case of Noble Demon by Saboteur and eventually he makes a full Heel–Face Turn by Assassin.
- Friendly Sniper: Is the second best sniper in the Society. Also, gregarious and funny.
- The Ghost: How he prefers to do his missions. He prefers Fake Assisted Suicide and Make It Look Like an Accident plus avoiding any evidence he was ever there in the first place.
- Heel–Face Turn: Is a professional assassin and killer in Infiltrator but leaves the profession behind at the end of the book. He turns against the United States government in Saboteur he finds its not any better than the Society. Finishes his turn in Assassin when he decides to work for the downtrodden full time.
- Hitman with a Heart: Not that it gets away with his work very often. It is notably why he's such a Consummate Professional, though, as it keeps bodies down. Becomes fully realized by Saboteur and Assassin when he abandons his previous profession.
- Hollywood Cyborg: Is superhumanly strong, fast, durable, and has the ability to link up to computers via a direct neural implant. Is actually a bioroid and closer to an android.
- Manipulative Bastard: What he does best among the Letters. He is the most social and pleasant of the group, which makes his lies all the more believable. This trait remains with him even before his Heel–Face Turn and he lectures people on the finer points of blackmail in Assassin.
- Master of Disguise: It helps that the Society has technology that works as Magic Plastic Surgery but he's capable of doing this himself.
- Meaningful Name: G works as a G-man being a government agent. Case Gordon is an homage to Neuromancer but shows he had a family.
- Meaningful Rename: The adoption of his name given to him by Marissa is the beginning of his Heel–Face Turn.
- Mind Wipe: He had his memories wiped after volunteering to be an assassin for the Society. Which is just a cover story.
- Noble Demon: G is a murderer, manipulator, and occasional terrorist for hire. However, he's also a person who has deep feelings of guilt for the people he's murdered and a desire to actively fight against the powers that secretly control the world.
- Nice Guy: Easily the most pleasant and gregarious of the Society's killers.
- Professional Killer: The third best in the Secret Society and the one most talented at talking his way through events.
- Rank Up: Becomes the head of humanity's Security Division by Space Academy's era.
- Replacement Goldfish: Rebecca Gordon gave him some of the memories of her son, who he just happened to resemble. She also deliberately botched his brainwashing so he had slightly more free will than most Letters.
- Saved by Canon: Is alive by the Space Academy book series, which means he'll live over two hundred years.
- Self-Made Orphan: Kills Marcus Gordon, his creator, when he discovers he's an Artificial Human.
- Spanner in the Works: Becomes one of these for both the United States government and Society both by releasing all of the Black Technology's information onto the internet.
- The Spymaster: Becomes this by Space Academy as he's now the head of Earth's Security Departments.
- Tomato in the Mirror: The discovery he's just a clone of Daniel Gordon and he never had any previous life's memories whatsoever.
- Villain Protagonist: Makes a Heel–Face Turn at the end of Infiltrator to become an Antihero working for the United States.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Discovers he has only ten years to live and he's lived most of them at the end of Infiltrator. Manages to beat it and live centuries longer.
Agent S AKA Samantha Sanders
G's "wife" who is actually just a fellow agent using it as a cover identity. She is the second best agent of the Society.
- Action Girl: Is described as the second best assassin in the Society and takes a much more proactive role in killing than G.
- Arranged Marriage: Her cover identity was to be G's wife. G took it much more seriously than S.
- Better as Friends: S has this attitude toward G and her relationship. He has some difficulty with it.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: S becomes this by taking over the Atlas Corporation that provides most of the world's security.
- Cute Bruiser: Is fully willing and capable of smashing up targets with her bare hands.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Becomes one of the richest women on the planet as the head of Atlas.
- Easily Forgiven: Gives G a second chance despite the fact he captured her and turned her over to the United States government.
- False Flag Operation: Is the victim of one of these in order to frame Snake for her murder in End of the Cyber Dragons.
- Hollywood Cyborg: Has the same abilities as G and is more willing to use them.
- Killed Off for Real: Dies in End of the Cyber Dragons when Kei's brother assassinates her in order to get her daughter, the President of the United States, involved in their private war.
- Incompatible Orientation: Prefers women over men, which is part of the reason why her marriage to G didn't work out.
- Private Military Contractor: Founds a corporation that provides these that goes on to become a N.G.O. Superpower due to the damage from the Eruption.
- Rank Up:
- Takes over the Society during Persephone's absence, even though it's obviously a leaking ship.
- Becomes the Chairman and CEO of Atlas Corporation, which makes her one of the most powerful people in the world by Assassin.
- The Unfair Sex: Laments the fact she's more often required to have sex with targets than G.
- Undying Loyalty: Is boldly committed to being a Consummate Professional and remaining loyal to her bosses even when they're floundering.
- Unrequited Love: The recipient rather than sufferer as G wanted a closer relationship than her.
The International Refugee Society
In General
The International Refugee Society is a Murder, Inc. that provides cybernetic assassination services to the world's elite.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: The Society does not take no for an answer when they want to recruit someone.
- Corporate Warfare: The International Refugee Society often engages in this on behalf of the Big 20 ot ensure their dominance of the world's financial resources.
- The Dragon: Actually serves as this to the Big 20 as they are the reason those corporations are so rich and powerful. Played with as its board are also major stockholders in those very same companies. So who is behind who?
- I Have Your Wife: Is fully capable and willing to take hostages to get what it wants.
- The Man Behind the Man: Played with. Either the Society is behind the Big 20 or the Big 20 is behind the Society.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Their modus apparandi. If they've done their job right, you never know they were there.
- Murder, Inc.: The organization provides many services to the world's elite but primarily dispose of inconveinant people.
- N.G.O. Superpower: Has its own AI, army of assassins, technology no one else in the world possesses, and billions in resources.
- Nebulous Evil Organization: Serves as this in the setting as they are heavily involved in numerous criminal activities that generate billions of dollars but have access to technology far beyond what's available to the public.
- Private Military Contractors: It also provides this service but prefers to deal in singular murder.
- The Remnant: By Saboteur the organization has been largely dismantled and its leadership is on the run.
- Shout-Out: Their name is one to the cover of SPECTER in Thunderball.
- Starter Villain: The International Refugee Society only lasts for the first book and some of the second.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Despite its power and prestige, the organization quickly folds once the President of the United States comes down on them and declares them a terrorist organization. Its leaders are only able to hide and hope for her term to pass.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: Despite engaging in terrorist activities for hire, at least by the legal definition, they are very often contracting to the United States government itself. At least until President Douglas takes it down.
Persephone
The leader of the International Refugee Society and G's boss.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: The least evil and most personable of the Society's leadership.
- Bad Boss: The constant threats to G and others are a way of her maintaining control.
- Big Good: How she styles herself and argues that she is Necessarily Evil.
- Brain Upload: Is working on this in Saboteur. She succeeds but decides Who Wants to Live Forever?.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Is the head of the Society's day-to-day operations. Eventually becomes part of the Triumvirate.
- Expy: Dame Judi Dench's M from the James Bond movies.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Her relationship to G depends greatly on whether he's working for or against the Society.
- Iron Lady: Rules the Society with an iron fist. Subverted as it is later stated the other Letters felt she considered G to be like a son.
- Killed Off for Real: Daniel Gordon kills her with a drone strike in the middle of Tokyo.
- Immortality Seeker: Has been experimenting with this using Black Technology. She fails.
- Necessarily Evil: Believes the Society does more good than evil as well as preserves global order.
- Noble Demon: According to
Word of God, Persephone had a code of ethics and belief system that transcended just making more money for her investors. - Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Goes into hiding the moment she realizes President Douglas is onto the Society. It doesn't help in the end.
- Villainous Respect: Eventually comes to view G with this as well as to consider him a Worthy Opponent. Which is why she leaves him her entire fortune as well as all of her contacts and blackmail information.
- Vitrolic Best Buds: While G didn't realize it, she considered their relationship to be this.
Marissa Sanchez
Agent G's Assistant and Morality Pet who provides him with intelligence during missions as well as emotional support.
- Blackmail: How she takes the fight to the megacorporations.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Marissa had this done to her as part of her 'conditioning' to serve the Society. She had protection against it thanks to the NSA.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder:
- Infiltrator What she appears to have until it's revealed she's been working for the NSA and President the entire time.
- Saboteur Is revealed to be allied with G's insane clone template, Daniel Gordon. This is due to him kidnapping one of her sisters and murdering the other.
- Assassin Turns on G for a final time by creating the android Claire to seduce him while using him to find the Black File. Ends up finally Killed Off for Real as a result.
- Consummate Liar: Completely fooled both the Society and G into believing she was harmless.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Grew up in an abusive home where her mother was a member of a Los Angeles gang that intended to pimp her as well as her sisters out. She became a runaway and ended up hooking up with a hacker who taught her the ropes.
- Easily Forgiven: G shows her a lot more understanding than she probably deserves. Subverted when he kills her for killing Claire.
- Face–Heel Turn: Makes one of these in Saboteur when she's revealed to be under the control of Daniel Gordon. This is under duress, however. Cements it in Assassin when she's revealed to be the Big Bad that's been playing G for years.
- Girl Friday: All Assistants are deliberately designed to be this or Boy Fridays.
- Killed Off for Real: Finally meets her end in Assassin.
- Morality Pet: Serves as this to Agent G as he feels both protective as well as a little in love with her. Something she's cultivated.
- No Such Agency: Turns out to have been The Mole for the NSA the entire time as part of the President's plan to bring down the Society.
- Perky Goth: Is a happy go lucky cybergoth who dresses a bit like Lisbeth Salander visited the world of TRON.
- Playful Hacker: How she got in trouble with the Society in the first place. Apparently, she should have paid attention to who she was hacking into.
- Spicy Latina: A Downplayed Trope example even if she ticks a lot of the boxes, she's usually quite calm.
- Voice with an Internet Connection: Her primary role in G's life as she provides him with information about missions, individuals, and situations.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Marissa is willing to cross no end of ethical lines in the pursuit of her goals, which are serving the United States. This includes blackmailing corporations for enough money to help the public through the Eruption. It ends with manipulating Claire and G until they both turn on her.
- Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: How the world tends to view H.O.P.E. Marissa is their founder and a little bit of both.
The Carnivale
In General
An Italian assassination organization that is rivals to the Society.
- Boisterous Bruiser: They tend to be Implacable Man killers who favor direct confrontation over stealth. Their personalities are also exaggerated and fierce.
- Carnival of Killers: Pretty literally. They are colorful cyborg killers that have odd names like "The Zombie."
- Cold-Blooded Torture: They employ electric torture among other methods to get information.
- Enemy Civil War: G attempts to foster one between Lucita and Lucio. Lucio's faction manages to crush it quickly but is soon wiped out itself.
- Generic Ethnic Crime Gang: Averted as they have no ties to the Italian mafia or motifs related to them. They also have South American members.
- Foil: Whereas the Society is cool, professional, and detached. The Carnivale is brutal, emotional, and obsessive.
- Historical In-Joke: The Carnivale is directly related to the real life Operation: Gladio.
- Hollywood Cyborg: The higher ranked members are Shells, effectively human brains in android bodies.
- Hot-Blooded: Its members are noticeably more prone to emotional outbursts and decisions than the Society's agents.
- Psycho for Hire: Virtually all of its members are psychopaths that revel in their murders.
- Rambunctious Italian: The majority of Italian members tend to follow this stereotype, especially Lucio and his children.
Lucio Biondi
The head of the Carnivale and a retired assassin.
- Abusive Parents: Has his daughter, Lucita, raped as part of her training. This is in part because she's a transwoman.
- Asshole Victim: Absolutely no one in all of Italy mourns his death. Especially not his daughter.
- Big Bad: Is this for Infiltrator being the head of the Carnivale.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Subjects G to electric torture of his genitals. Yikes.
- Foil: Is a toxic masculine monster that is driven by family legacy as well as his emotions. This is a sharp contrast to the cool professionalism of Pesephone.
- Hate Sink: Possesses absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
- Psycho for Hire: Is utterly irredeemable and has no loyalty beyond money.
- Rambunctious Italian: A particularly dark and vicious example.
- Rape as Drama: Refers to having had his daughter sexually assaulted during her training.
- Retired Monster: While still the head of the Carnivale, Lucio Biondi has mostly retired from his previous activities as an assassin.
- Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child: The horrific acts he performed on Lucita due to her being a transwoman results in her everlasting hatred.
Lucita Biondi
A beautiful Italian actress and assassin. She later becomes a reluctant ally and lover of G.
- A Lighter Shade of Black: Despite being a ruthless assassin and, later, Private Military Contractor executive, she is generally on the side of the heroes. This doesn't take away from her ends justify the means personality as well as willingness to kill to get what she wants.
- Antivillain: Her horrific upbringing and circumstance help explain why she's on the side of devils.
- Cute Bruiser: Looks like a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition model, hits like a tank.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Leaves the business of being an assassin to become an executive in the Atlas Security Corporation.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Ends up becoming a billionaire board member of Atlas Security.
- Easily Forgiven: G takes part in a plan to eliminate her lover and turn her against her father. She and G later become regular lovers.
- Full-Conversion Cyborg: Lucita is a "Shell" that has completely replaced her old body with a voluptuous swimsuit model exterior over a metal skeleton and cybernetics that can throw a small car as well as resist anything short of a grenade or rocket launcher.
- Friends with Benefits: G and she don't have a relationship but regularly have sex.
- Heel–Face Turn: Becomes one of G's staunchest allies after starting as his enemy. This is actually more a change of circumstance than anything else as Lucita remains a ruthless cunning assassin and corrupt businesswoman. It's just that she's now working for global stability as an Atlas Executive instead of the Carnivale.
- Heroic Sociopath: In a cast of antivillains, she's one of the least concerned about collateral damage.
- Hidden Depths: Lucita devotes a large portion of her personal fortune to helping refugees and resettling people post-Eruption. This despite the fact she's perfectly willing to murder innocents in order to achieve her ends.
- Hollywood Cyborg: Is a Shell and only her brain remains from her original body. She's quite fine with that as her new body is fantastic.
- Rape as Drama: Was sexually assaulted at her father's orders while training for the Carnival.
- Trans Tribulations: Lucita was assigned male at birth and took advantage of the advanced cybernetic technology in the setting to become a famous actress as well as assassin. Her father, leader of the Carnivale, reacted poorly to it despite the fact he provides the technology to do so and they plotted against one another.
- You Killed My Father: Averted. Case/G doing this is a large reason why they're able to reconcile. It helps she was already plotting it herself.
Riders
In General
Riders are mercenary couriers carrying out jobs for the criminal Underworld of New Los Angeles.
- Badass Biker: The vast majority of them are bikers due to the difficulty of navigating the complexities of arcologies.
- Black Market: Riders are an essential part of this in the Post-Eruption World, carrying drugs, guns, stolen goods, and even prostitutes to their purchasers. Drones are too easily intercepted and Riders are expected to defend any attempt to remove them.
- Cyborg: Black market cybernetic enhancements are easy to acquire as Riders because their licenses cover a large amount of otherwise illegal upgrades as well as put them in touch with the Black Market. Many get upgrades both for defense and to make their jobs easier, which puts them in heavy debt.
- Expy: Of Edgerunners from Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk 2077.
- Loophole Abuse: Gun laws are quite a bit stricter in the future so being a Rider is an easy way to carry weaponry you wouldn't be able to carry otherwise. It's also illegal to search them without a warrant.
- No Honor Among Thieves: Riders are meant to never take contracts against one another but, of course, it happens anyway.
- Punch-Clock Villain: With the state of the world Post-Eruption, most of the Riders are just trying to get by.
- Street Samurai: Riders are technically couriers but end up doing all manner of illegal jobs as part of their business. These range from the obvious ones like smuggling to assassination and theft.
Keiko "Kei" Springs
A Rider and former Trikuza assassin that is running from her past.
- Amnesiac Hero: Kei doesn't remember a large chunk of her past due to her extensive abuse of the memory drug lethe.
- The Atoner: Kei immediately becomes this when she remembers the events of the DataSecure heist. It is implied to be the reason she adopts Becky as well, believing the original one was killed as a consequence of her actions.
- Badass Biker: Kei loves her Nina cybercycle and is able to fight on it, do stunts, and kick some serious ass while looking good. It's also essential to her job as a Rider. We see her use it several times to escape lethal situations including drone strikes, Trikuza assassins, and nomadic marauders.
- Functional Addict: Averted. Kei thinks she's one of these but Case points out that she is actually dying of her repeated lethe use and needs to have her body treated with highly expensive medical treatments to fix what's wrong with her.
- I Hate You Ninja Dad: Kei loathes Snake and simultaneously thinks of him as a second father. Much of her life is defined by rebelling against his teachings and plans for her.
- My Greatest Failure: Kei views the botched DataSecure heist as this as it resulted in not only the death of most of her fellow Riders but also dozens of innocent people.
- Ninja: Kei is an assassin, martial artist, hacker, and follower of an archaic honor code. She's attempting to get out of the latter's mindset, though.
- Sex for Solace: Is prone to this as a means of coping with her crushing guilt and the stress of her job. She begins the book with a one night stand and has another one with Case in the middle of a mission.
- Street Samurai: After successfully escaping from Snake and Fate's control, Kei found she didn't have much in the way of skills beyond killing people as well as spying. As such, she ended up working as a Rider for various criminal syndicates despite the fact that it put a big target on her back.
- Training from Hell: Kei was put through punishing training by Snake for a decade to turn her into the greatest warrior for the Trikuza she could be.
Paradise Principle
A younger Rider than Kei that has an irrepressible personality.
- Abusive Parents: Paradise had brain surgery multiple times as a child to give her the best cybernetic enhancements. Kei is less than pleased by this despite her mother being otherwise loving and supportive.
- Badass Biker: Subverted in that she is a Rider like Kei, which is a mercenary courier, but prefers to use a scooter.
- Daughter of a Whore: Paradise's mother, Evie Principle, is the brothel owner of This is Paradise. Somewhat played with as her mother is a High-Class Call Girl and professional spy. Paradise also has nothing but pride in her family business.
- Genki Girl: Paradise is eternally cheerful despite the violent dangerous circumstances around her and makes long-winded surreal digressions incorporating pop culture as well as strange observations.
- Hair Colors: Paradise's hair ranges from neon pink to purple and other colors in-between.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Paradise may or may not have been involved in sex work herself but was raised in the business and frequently uses it as a cover. Her age, 19, may be why her mother has kept her from it.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: It becomes increasingly clear to everyone that Paradise is highly observant, intelligent, and incisive. She just covers it up with a flamboyant cyberpunk Valley Girl-esque attitude as well as nonsense stream of conversation topics.
- Playful Hacker: Paradise is much better at the computer side of things than the murder, so she focuses her cybernetic abilities on this regard. She frequently leaves taunts and embarrassing situations in her wake like getting her enemies arrested for trafficking goats.
- Pop-Cultured Badass: Paradise claims to have been raised by the infonet and thus frequently references an eclectic mix of old television, movies, and concepts she learned about from educational videos. She's also a talented Street Samurai.
- Street Samurai: Paradise is a Rider, mercenary courier, and trained by her mother in various espionage-related activities.
