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Princess Donut's manager, whose life was wrecked by the railgunning that came with Huanxin Jinx's ban.
Mordecai is Princess Donut's manager, and in Quasar's recap he is the human cost attached to a piece of industry gossip. When Huanxin Jinx — the sponsor who cloned herself — was banned years ago for cheating, the punishment did not fall only on her. It was Mordecai, Quasar says, "who got railgunned by it".
He mentions it as an aside, the way you mention a scandal everyone in the business already knows, and moves straight on to the ten teams of Faction Wars. It is a reminder that the crawl's punishments land sideways, and that Donut's own crew carries an old wound from the same affair that now dictates Katia Grim's only escape route.
Not described in this recap; his look carries forward from the previous books unchanged.
Donut's manager and the collateral casualty of the crawl's most famous cheating ban.
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