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Blackwell, Keith Alan
Enormously big Australian, shaved head, left ear missing, lots of scars
all over his body, moves very quick, uses a tomahawk weapon. He has been
Rez's bodyguard since a prison concert where Rez was taken hostage by
the prisoners and freed by Blackwell. ¶
Blix, Hans Rutger
43 years old, naturalized Costa Rican, looks like Rainer Fassbinder. He
is the courier which must deliver the 'Virtual Light' glasses with the
Sunflower rebuilding scheme. Chevette steals the glasses at a party because
she is annoyed by him. He is then killed by Loveless ¶
Boomzilla
San Francisco street kid who hangs around at the Bridge. ¶
Carson
Chevette's late boyfriend whom she is running away from. He is killed
in the no-name bar as he is attacking her. ¶
Creedmore, Buell
Singer of the country band 'Buell Creedmore and his Lower Companions'. ¶
DuPree, Sammy Sal
Very good-looking, black, gay, 6"2 tall, friend and colleague of Chevette.
She first met him at the tattoo shop 'Colored People'. He helped Chevette
get the job at Allied Messenger. He is shot at by Loveless as he helps
Chevette escape but survives. ¶
Eddie
Long-coated black suit, long face, pale eyes, lines on each cheek, dark
blond long hair swept back, gold rings and watch. Maryalice's girlfriend,
he came to Tokyo after the quake and got in the music and club business.
He is running a deal with the Russians from the Kombinat about a nanotech
assembler. ¶
Elliot, Danica
Old lady, sits next to Rydell on his flight to San Francisco, agent of
IntenSecure. ¶
Etruscan
Walled City denizen, represented by a glass with a centipede in it, his
voice sampled from all kinds of noises and sounds. ¶
Fontaine
Lives on the Bridge, takes care of technical stuff. After Chevette left
San Francisco with Rydell, he took care of Skinner until his death. He
opened a shop for used watches on the bridge, and he helps Chevette and
Rydell escape Harwood's men. ¶
God-eater
Hacker, member of the Republic of Desire, looks like a mountain-big statue
of a wide-faced man with dreadlocks. ¶
Harwood, Cody
Often depicted as a twenty-first-century synthesis of Bill Gates and Woody
Allen, PR Genius, heir to the most powerful PR firm in the world, richest
man in the world. ¶
Hernandez, Juanito
Rydell's boss at IntenSecure, gets him the driving job in San Francisco. ¶
Klaus
Representative of the Walled City. ¶
Konrad
Short gray hair, deep lines in his cheeks, coat, gold-rimmed round glasses.
He carries a black knife which is extremely carefully sharpened. His name
is only known to the idoru. He is associated with Cody Harwood but finally
kills him. ¶
Laney, Colin
During his youth at the Gainesville orphanage, he was a test subject and
repeatedly dosed with 5-SB. This made him sensitive to certain patterns
in huge amounts of data, and the perception of nodal points allows him
to predict certain aspects of the future. He was then employed by Slitscan
to find out certain information about celebrities. After his defection
to the counter-investigative show 'Out of Control' he is employed by the
Lo/Rez management to facilitate the marriage of Rez and the idoru. Shortly
before the idoru left, he decided not to go to work anymore, and ended
up in a cardbox in Shinjuku subway station, Tokyo. ¶
Loveless
Pale and wide-set eyes, golden smile, deep seems down each cheek. He was
observing Blix and killed him after he got the 'Virtual Light' glasses
stolen. He hunts Chevette and Rydell and plans to kill them as soon as
he gets back the glasses. ¶
Lowell
Black leather jacket, Chevette's ex-boyfriend, helps Rydell contact the
Republic of Desire. ¶
Maryalice
Eddie's girlfriend, she smuggled the nanotech assembler to Tokyo. ¶
McKenzie, Chia Pet
14 year-old red-haired girl from San Francisco. She is a member of the
world-wide Lo/Rez fan club and is sent to Tokyo by her chapter to investigate
rumours about Rez's marriage to the idoru. On the flight she unknowingly
smuggles a highly classified nanotech assembler for Maryalice. The Russians
which had a deal with Maryalice's boyfriend Eddie about the assembler
then try to get it back from her. With the help of Masahiko and the Walled
City denizens she escapes to the love hotel Di. As the Russians and Rez
show up at the hotel, they swap the assembler against Tokyo real estate.
After her return, Chia spends more time in the Walled City than with the
fan club. ¶
Mendelsohn, Karen
Producer at Cops in Trouble, went to bed with Rydell during the time he
was supposed to be produced, she threw him out when a more sensational
case came up. ¶
Mimura Masahiko
17-year old brother of Mitsuko, an otaku who spends most of his time in
Walled City. ¶
Mimura Mitsuko
13 year-old member of the Lo/Rez fan club who hosts Chia in Tokyo. ¶
Orlovsky
Russian San Francisco Homicide cop, gray coat, thin and dark, with a widow's
peak, glasses that look like they are sawn in half. He and Svobodov investigate
the murder of Hans Blix. ¶
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Pursley, Aaron
Rydell's lawyer at Cops in Trouble. ¶
Rez
Half Irish, Half Chinese, green eyes. Singer of the world-famous band
Lo/Rez which has been popular for a very long time. He intended to marry
the idoru Rei Toei. ¶
Rooster
Representative of the Walled City. ¶
Rydell, Stephen Berry
Looks like Tommy Lee Jones. Ex-policeman in Los Angeles who lost his job
after killing a man who held his family hostage. He was opted for by the
famous TV show 'Cops in Trouble' but was dropped when a more sensational
case turned up. He then worked as a driver for IntenSecure but was suspended
after some hackers of the Republic of Desire sent him on a fake operation.
His boss at IntenSecure got him a job as a driver in San Francisco where
he comes to know Chevette. He helps Chevette escape the killer Loveless
and is signed up for 'Cops in Trouble' again. They move to Los Angeles
and soon seperate. ¶
After working for the 'Lucky Dragon' convenience store on Sunset, he is
sent to San Francisco again by Laney. After picking up the idoru's holoprojector
he is hunted by Harwood's men. He also meets Chevette there, and they
come together again. ¶
Shapely, James Delmore
He was discovered by the AIDS industry when he had already been HIV-positive
for twelve years. His strain of HIV was notpathogenic but was able to
kill the lethal strain of HIV. By isolating his mutant strain of HIV it
was possible to develop an AIDS vacchine. Shapely was murdered by members
of a fundamentalist sect in Salt Lake City. ¶
Silencio
Mute streetkid who turns up at Fontaine's shop. Possesses the talent to
find all kinds of rare watches on the internet. ¶
Skinner
Old man who lives atop the bridge on the cable tower. He was among the
first homeless who took over the bridge after the earthquake. He found
Chevette almost dead and took care of her. She lives with him and takes
care of him because he has a bad hip. He dies after Chevette left with
Rydell. ¶
Sublett, Joel
Dry blond hair, wears mirrored contacts because of his light-sensitiveness,
looks like a Klan-assed Nazi robot, has bad allergies. He is Rydell's
colleague at IntenSecure. His family lives in a trailer camp in Texas
with a video-sect. ¶
Svobodov, Arkady
Russian San Francisco Homicide cop, gray coat, long pale hair combed straight
back, tight and shiny skin. He and Orlovsky investigate the murder of
Hans Blix. ¶
Tessa
Australian, media science student at USC, Chevette's friend from Malibu. ¶
Toei, Rei
The idoru, completely artificial media personality. ¶
Torrance, Kathy
Very pale, Laney's supervisor at Slitscan, blackmails Laney after his
defection with a fake porn video. ¶
Walker, Durius
Rydell's colleague in security at Lucky Dragon Sunset Boulevard branch
in Los Angeles. ¶
Warbaby, Lucius
Black, over six feet tall, olive silk overcoat, skinny black jeans, black
Texas dogger boots, black Stetson hat, glasses with heavy black frames,
deep voice with a sad tone. He hired Rydell as a driver because he broke
his leg. ¶
Washington, Chevette-Marie
She came into the Juvenile Center in Beavertown after her mother left
her but escaped one night. She then went to San Francisco where she nearly
died if not taken care of by Skinner. She had come to know Sammy Sal DuPree
who helped her get a job as a bike messenger. After the last delivery
she stumbles into a party and impulsively steals the sunglasses of a guy.
These 'Virtual Light' glasses turn out to contain a top-secret rebuilding
scheme of San Francisco. Subsequently Chevette is followed by the killer
Loveless, but she manages to escape with the help of Rydell. They both
get signed up by Cops in Trouble and leave for Los Angeles where they
soon separate. Chevette moves to Malibu and lives together with Tessa
until her ex-boyfriend Carson starts to threathen her. Tessa and Chevette
flee to San Francisco where Chevette meets Rydell again. ¶
Yamazaki, Shinja
Japanese student in existential sociology and freelance anthropologist,
he came to San Francisco to learn more American culture. He stays with
Skinner to learn more about the bridge people and helps him while Chevette
is away. Later he is employed by Paragon-Asia Data-Flow, the Lo/Rez shell
corporation, to explain the cultural background of the idoru. After Laney's
escape to Shinjuku, he occasionally looks after him. ¶
Zona Rosa
The persona of Mercedes Purissima Vargas-Gutierrez, represented by a blue
Aztec death-head. Daughter of a successful crime lawyer, she lives in
Mexico City and is a member of the Lo/Rez fan club. She is affected by
an environmental syndrom and thus severly deformed, which is why she has
been living in denial of her physical self for the past few years. She
pretends to be the leader of a street-gang and owns former corporate website
which she uses to launch the attack on the Tokyo chapter of the Lo/Rez
fan club. ¶
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