Linus
First appears in Book 8: A Parade of Horribles, chapter 17 ([ 15 ])
Appearances
What you know
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 17Linus, Elle's soother superfan, wins extra access to her by default and runs the center-system chapter of Elle's Snow Cones fan club.
- Ch 54Linus, Minus's brother, was a lonely fan of the fairy crawler who posted on the Snow Cones message board; Syndicate security killed him.
- Ch 54Linus made his fortune in biological license engineering and his apartment was covered in posters of Elle McGib.
- Ch 59Linus, a half-corporeal soother alien tourist, behaves lewdly toward Donut, so Elle takes him with her.
- Ch 72A goodbye party for Linus is held in Hungry Eyes, where volunteers gather for the Cabaret escape.
- Ch 75The crawler posing as Linus is revealed as an impostor, the real Linus's brother, brought in after the real Linus was already dead.
- Ch 75The impostor Linus tried to poison the guild's tea, but everyone who drank it had immunity from the healers.
- Ch 75The impostor Linus says his main target was Imani and his secondary target was Louis; Carl and Donut were deliberately spared.
- Ch 75Upon leaving the dungeon, the impostor will return to his spaceship trapped in orbit over Earth, where allies of Carl await him.
Connections
- leadsElle's Snow Conescenter system chapter
- related toElle McGibbonssuperfan
- family ofMinusbrothers
- member ofElle's Snow Cones
- related toForsoothedis a soother alien
- related toDaniel Bautista 2babysitting Linus for Elle
- family ofLinus's brotherthe impostor is the real Linus's brother
- enemy ofImani Cshe was his primary target
- enemy ofLouis Santiago 2secondary target
Key moments
- Book 8 · Ch 17Meeting Linus
Elle's superfan Linus hides under the table as her daily tourist companion, wearing unflattering fan merch of her.
- Book 8 · Ch 54Minus is sent into the dungeon
After Syndicate security kills Linus, Captain Fresh orders his brother Minus to impersonate him as a tourist and assassinate crawlers to destabilize the game.
- Book 8 · Ch 74Farewell gathering in Hungry Eyes
About five hundred crawlers gather in Hungry Eyes as two hundred, including Bautista, Tran, Zhang and Archie, prepare to leave for the Pineapple Cabaret.
- Book 8 · Ch 74Bautista's farewell tea
Bautista thanks his friends, speaks of having found peace, and serves them his breakfast tea one last time.
- Book 8 · Ch 75Linus unmasked
Elle's tribute to her husband turns into exposing Linus as an impostor assassin; he admits Imani and Louis were his targets and faces expulsion from the dungeon.