Story so far
When Bigs growls at the floating Li Na, Carl tries to defend her: she is not a bad guy, she is just going through some shit, and her brother died.
Bigs is unmoved, countering with what she did to Sneaky Tyler C. Li Jun's death remains the sole mitigating fact Carl can offer for the crawler now hovering silently over them with an unhealable condition and a mark still riding inside Louis.
Role
Li Na's dead brother and the grief driving her.
Relationships
Li Na — His sister, transformed by his death.
Carl — Cites his death in her defense.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 25 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 6
- A crawler whose descriptions regularly reference Chinese popular culture, confirming that dungeon text is audience-specific.
Chapter 7
- The crawler whose eye Carl ate and whose Walk on Air skill Carl now unwillingly possesses; he isn't answering messages.
Chapter 9
- Crawler who skipped the officer ceremony to hunt for a healer who can regrow his lost eye.
Chapter 24
- Crawler building Shanty Town's defenses who reports two splash towers up and Lucia Mar drinking at the Possum Envy.
Chapter 36
- Carl's construction lieutenant in Shanty Town, stretched thin watching for Madness saboteurs across too much land.
Chapter 37
- Commander expecting the mercenary convoys at the Shanty Town border alongside Li Na.
Chapter 40
- Crawler stationed in Shanty Town during the northern siege, away from the castle council.
Chapter 49
- Li Na's brother, who permanently lost an eye and a skill when Carl ate it under another's control.
Chapter 56
- Crawler working at the base of the new clocktower, and the man Carl permanently stripped of Walk on Air.
Chapter 59
- One-eyed crawler who trails aura wire into the Dagda temple and props its door open with a rock.
Chapter 60
- Acrobatic crawler who strings the capacitor wires across the Club Vanquisher lobby to extend Li Na's aura.
Chapter 61
- Li Na's brother, holding the club's inner door while spotting for his sister's dread rotation.
Chapter 62
- Mid crawler frozen at the edge of the temple battle, told by Carl to flee and hide when the freeze lifts.
Chapter 64
- Crawler stuck in the Club Vanquisher lobby after the temple lockdown who escapes with Katia's group.
Chapter 66
- Crawler awarded a celestial-tier robotic eye at Club Vanquisher, interviewed the day before Carl.
Chapter 67
- Li Jun's clockwork replacement eye gives him bullet-time reflexes, and he presses Carl about bottling up the raid's aftermath.
Chapter 68
- Coalition figure who accompanies Carl to the prisoner cell and waits outside during Rishi's interrogation.
Chapter 75
- Sheltered inside a Shanty Town structure with Li Na when the Witness ritual takes almost everyone else.
Chapter 78
- Crawler who lures Harpocrates away with a speaker cart and dies so Donut can finish her plan.
Chapter 80
- Li Na's brother, whose death has left her in a fit of hysterics amid the battle.
Chapter 81
- Dead crawler whose sacrifice bought Donut the time to cast, and whose eye his sister now wears.
Chapter 83
- Dead before this chapter, his celestial eye and duplication scroll become the tools his sister uses for vengeance.
Chapter 87
- Dead crawler whose loss haunts Donut, blamed on her by his sister Li Na and on Eris's driver by Carl.
Chapter 89
- Crawler killed in the battle, remembered as a man who feared he would never do anything important.
Chapter 94
- Li Na's dead brother, whose loss is Carl's explanation for everything she has become.