Dungeon Crawler Carl · Character

York

Supporting
First seen · Book 7 · Ch. 7

York is a crawler watched carefully by Dante in Dungeon Crawler Carl (Book 7).

First appears: Book 7 · Ch. 7
Books: 1

York begins as a crawler watched carefully by Dante, and his history as someone from a hive who has always felt alone shadows the way others wonder whether he survived. Later he is a captain aboard the Homecoming Queen, where he stays behind rather than follow orders and turns toward poetry. By the end, he is identified as the ship’s sole living creature, writing in the stillness, a solitary figure whose inwardness has become his defining presence.

Description

York is a Saccathian and mantis-type crawler, distinguished by tentacles on his face; he cannot fly. His exact coloring, height, build, eyes, and facial structure beyond those tentacles are not specified. He is seen wearing a Squirties uniform shirt printed with a smiling face and streams of fuel, an incongruously jaunty garment against his thoughtful, solitary bearing.

Connections

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D
Danteobserver
Dante is watching York carefully as the crawler enters the dangerous new floor.
P
Porthuscaptain
York serves aboard Homecoming Queen, where Porthus had ordered enhancement-zone weapons installed. York helps prepare the ship’s equipment for the resistance campaign Porthus announces.
Rosetta Thagramission subordinate
Rosetta assigns York the covert mission to destroy the orc yacht and asks whether he has the fortitude to carry it out. York conceals that he is emotionally numb and eager to undertake it.
AC
Admiral Corinne Whimpleshinresistance officer
York’s epilogue identifies him as a captain in the newly formed Open Intellect Action Network, which is headed by Admiral Corinne Whimpleshin.
CB
Colonel Boomerfriend
Boomer and York share good-natured teasing about York’s poetry. Boomer returns to Homecoming Queen and coordinates the next military operation with him.
O
Orcskiller
York secretly vaporizes an orc yacht carrying children, including the new orc king, and struggles with the act and his inability to feel remorse.
TM
The mantistenodera adversary
York’s species, the tenodera, is hated by the larger mantids, who openly discuss exterminating them. York feels hollow satisfaction when a mantis colony is destroyed.