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Huanxin Jinx

Huanxin

Killed by an arrow tipped with Mordecai's mother's ashes — and, Donut fears, some cat poop.

Story so far

Reflecting on the day, Donut said she now felt really bad about having pooped in Mordecai's mother's ashes, and worried aloud whether any of it had gotten into the tip of the arrow. It was supposed to be a big, grand gesture, she said, but Huanxin was really killed by a cat-poop arrow — and she admitted she would never be able to stop thinking about that whenever she thinks of Huanxin.

Carl told her not to say that to Mordecai.

Appearance

Not seen in this chapter; recalled only as the target of the ash-tipped arrow.

Role

The defeated foe whose death Donut has retroactively made comic in her own head.

Relationships

Mordecai — Killed by an arrow tipped with his mother's ashes.
Donut — Her contamination of the ashes is now her private guilt about his death.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 12 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 1
  • Banned-for-cheating sponsor who cloned herself, and whose punishment killed Donut's manager.
Chapter 13
  • Figure whose warning that they would never let the crawlers be safe shapes Carl's answer to Juice Box.
Chapter 41
  • Grixist heiress currently on the twelfth floor driving the goddess Eileithyia, and the Posse's only hope of leaving the floor.
Chapter 52
  • Twelfth-floor power and Odette's mortal enemy, into whose court Katia is walking.
Chapter 56
  • Sponsor Katia expects to rage if the flower goes to Donut, but who she believes would still take Donut to the twelfth floor.
Chapter 64
  • Sponsored god from the previous floor who set the precedent of appearing in a sponsor's regular form.
Chapter 66
  • The alien whose deal is supposed to make Katia a celestial attendant on the twelfth floor.
Chapter 67
  • Huanxin Jinx drives Eileithyia and is Carl's alternate suspect for the sub-pantheon god killings.
Chapter 79
  • The figure at the center of an arrangement Katia fears will fail and push Daniel into doing something stupid.
Chapter 96
  • Goddess summoned by the orchid to claim Katia, arriving two minutes before the world burns.
Chapter 98
  • The grixist CEO who sponsored Eileithyia and is executed by Donut inside a magic-blocking circle.
Chapter 99
  • Killed by an arrow tipped with Mordecai's mother's ashes — and, Donut fears, some cat poop.
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