Huanxin Jinx
Names: Huanxin JinxHuanxinHuaxin Jinx
First appears in Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, chapter 2 (PROLOGUE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 2Huanxin Jinx is a wealthy grixist heiress who sponsors the storm goddess Dodola every season, and tried to extort Odette for more.
- Ch 19Huanxin Jinx appears as Eileithyia without soul armor: a hairy, four-armed, six-eyed alien.
- Ch 21Huanxin had Katia get Carl to repair Yemaya's shrine, resurrecting Yemaya as Eileithyia's retainer for the Ascendency game.
- Ch 21Huanxin is a very rich, intelligent Grixist CEO who has long played the Ascendency without winning and was once suspended for bribery.
- Ch 39Huanxin killed Armita in revenge after Odette's betrayal, receiving only a token punishment and a ban from Dodola.
- Ch 40Huanxin, as Eileithyia, agrees to honour the deal despite Odette not becoming adjutant, but threatens everyone Carl loves if he warned Odette.
- Ch 74Huanxin Jinx promised to take Katia to the 12th floor via the Crown of the Sepsis Whore, but nobody now trusts that path.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 1Huanxin Jinx cloned herself and was banned years ago for cheating; Mordecai suffered the consequences of that ban.
- Ch 41Huanxin Jinx is an heiress on the 12th floor driving the goddess Eileithyia, whom Katia worships.
- Ch 98Huanxin Jinx, CEO of Icon Industries, had sponsored Eileithyia and planned to take Katia to the 12th floor court.
Connections
- related toDodolasponsors and drives the goddess
- related toEileithyiasponsors and drives the goddess
- leadsIcon Industries
- enemy ofMordecai
- enemy ofOdette
- inFloor 12
- enemy ofPrincess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk
Key moments
- Book 6 · Ch 2Storm gods summoned on the tenth floor
Mordecai's party summons storm gods Dodola and Adad to open the stairwell; Huanxin, driving Dodola, banishes Adad and demands half of Odette's bonus.
- Book 6 · Ch 21The lock box plan
Katia reveals her Lock Box of the Night Wyrm and Eileithyia's orchid, planning to escape the crown's trap via the Celestial Attendant boon; Mordecai explains Huanxin Jinx and the Ascendency.
- Book 6 · Ch 35Katia completes the orchid quest
Katia retrieves the orchid as the Night Wyrm's assassination job completes, putting their plan to escape the Sepsis Crown problem within reach.
- Book 6 · Ch 37Odette declines the adjutant role
Odette explains the adjutant role, then reveals she can't be one this season, threatening Carl's secret deal to save Katia.
- Book 6 · Ch 39Odette's confession
In a private window, Odette tells Carl of her crawl, her betrayal of Huanxin, the deaths of Uzzi and Armita, her guilt over Mordecai, and her plan to end the crawl.
- Book 6 · Ch 40Spider quest completes
Huanxin, via Eileithyia, confirms she will honour the deal to help Katia, completing the spider quest.
- Book 7 · Ch 98Donut kills Huanxin Jinx
When Eileithyia arrives for Katia, Donut traps and kills her sponsor Huanxin Jinx using Laundry Day, Katia's crossbow and Mordecai's ash-tipped bolt.