Story so far
Mustang's loyalty holds true: rather than betray Darrow for her blood, she hunts down her twin the Jackal and delivers him bound, gagged, and naked at Darrow's feet, winning him the Institute. She tells him not to feel guilty for doubting her, and that she does not claim Adrius as her brother in spirit — her true, older brother was murdered by the Bellona brute Karnus, and the Augustus-Bellona blood feud runs deep in her. She stands at Darrow's side through the victory ceremony as his lieutenant, the living question at the heart of Eo's dream: is she her father's daughter, or the girl who hums the forbidden song?
Darrow believes she is what Golds should be — proof there is goodness in them even as her father and brother are proof of their worst. What her father's recruitment of Darrow will do to them remains unwritten.
Appearance
Small and delicate, heart-shaped face and fox-like golden eyes, wild golden hair; travel-worn and thinned but restored, an heiress's poise beneath the wolfcloak.
Role
Virginia au Augustus, Darrow's loyal beloved, who captures the Jackal and wins him the game.
Relationships
Darrow — The Reaper she stays loyal to, delivering the Jackal to win his victory.
the-jackal — Her twin, whom she captures and disowns in spirit, delivering him bound.
nero-au-augustus — Her father, whose blood and blood-feud she carries but whose ways she rejects.
Eo — The dead girl whose song she keeps, the living test of whether Golds can be good.
Sources — 7 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 26
- The brilliant, mocking golden-haired strategist of House Minerva, a mounted raider who reads her enemies like open books.
Chapter 31
- House Minerva's brilliant strategist, outfoxed by Darrow's Trojan-horse ambush and driven into a mud pit, whom the Reaper secretly spares.
Chapter 35
- The last of House Minerva, who nurses the dying Darrow, hums Eo's song, teaches him the philosophy of the hand — then falls gravely ill herself.
Chapter 36
- Recovered from her illness, Mustang partners with Darrow to recruit Oathbreakers and free slaves, her standard the tool that unmakes bondage.
Chapter 38
- Darrow's partner and tender field-medic, who learns he killed Cassius's brother and that the Proctors are cheating for the Jackal.
Chapter 44
- Revealed as Virginia au Augustus, the Jackal's twin and the ArchGovernor's daughter — kissed by Darrow, then sent with half his army to her own brother.
Chapter 45
- Virginia au Augustus, who never betrayed Darrow — she captures her own twin the Jackal and lays him at the Reaper's feet, winning him the game.