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A crawler on mechanical spider legs, promoted 'general' of the 101st, who jokes about his red shirt as he escapes to the Cabaret.
Tran is a crawler who gets around on mechanical spider legs, one of the leaders of the crawler militia Carl dubs the '101st.' Among the two hundred-plus volunteers escaping to the Pineapple Cabaret, he joins the farewell in Hungry Eyes square, where Carl greets him and Zhang as 'Generals.' Ever game for gallows humor, Tran now wears a red shirt and holds out his arms asking how Carl likes it — leaning into the Star Trek joke that the guy in the red shirt is the one who dies. Princess Donut leaps to his shoulder to headbutt him goodbye before he departs with the rest of the Cabaret crew, his fate now unknowable until a plant in the Garden of Deliverance either blooms (escaped) or withers (dead).
A crawler mounted on articulated mechanical spider legs, wearing a pointed red shirt, wry and good-humored.
A spider-legged '101st' leader escaping to the Pineapple Cabaret with the volunteer crew.
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