Red Rising Saga · Character

Ulysses au Barca-Julii

  • Minor
  • First seen · Book 5 · Ch. 66

Ulysses au Barca-Julii is a minor character in Red Rising Saga (Book 5).

Gender
male
Age
newborn
First appears
Book 5 · Ch. 66
Books
1

Ulysses au Barca-Julii enters the world as the newborn son of Atlas au Raa and Aja au Grimmus, his tiny hands bearing the miraculous winged bone sigils of a haemanthus, swaddled and nursing in fleeting moments of peace amid war's shadow. His brief life ends in savage brutality, nailed upside down to a tree trunk with his skull smashed, a gruesome symbol of his parents' enemies' cruelty. Carried afterward in a coat by his grieving father, the cold, lifeless infant becomes a haunting emblem of innocence lost in the Society's merciless conflicts.

Description

This newborn boy has blotched, viscous skin still slick from birth, his eyes clamped tightly shut against the light. Delicate winged bone sigils adorn his tiny hands, pale and not yet coated in gold. Swaddled snugly in soft fabric, his thin newborn flesh carries a fragile vulnerability, his small face cold and lifeless in repose, mouth parted as if in a final, silent cry. His presence evokes a profound, heart-wrenching tenderness.

Story so far

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