Character · from book 4
Juice Box
The Toe's one changeling prostitute in Hump Town — a Ratkin Brood Mother, a Mouser Dame, a bald eighteen-year-old, whatever is asked — who sells information for a gold coin, wrangles forty children through a bombing, and turns out to be Henrik's sister, the keeper of her people's story, and a woman who dreams she was once a schoolteacher, a dream Louis reads as a memory of an earlier crawl. The sixth floor is her people's ancient home.
Race and class, since book 7: Changeling
First appears: Book 4
Series arc
As of book 8. A changeling prostitute in book 4, Louis's wife in book 7, and at that book's end a woman who walked into the Nothing alone to be reborn a weapon. In book 8 she is a rumour: Carl wonders where she is; the AI says she was 'unceremoniously dumped in Sheol' and out of its view, reachable by the Reaper Spider Minions Carl keeps missing; the Unwashed she once turned into is the effigy on the Vengeance float, and the AI's reel of those vying for the throne names 'Juice Box the NPC' and ends on an image of the Unwashed. Open: what came out of the Nothing.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The changelings, and the promise to bring them down every floor | B4 ch. 34 | open · B8 ch. 86 — Mordecai: shadow mimics and changelings are mortal enemies, and mimics find them delicious (ch. 7); the AI: Juice Box herself was 'unceremoniously dumped in Sheol'. |
| Is Samantha the scavenger, and her child the daughter? | B7 ch. 83 | open · B8 ch. 97 — Eris: four of Apito's five pieces are in the arena and Taranis takes Samantha and Krakaren with him, and Carl thinks both have to do with Apito; Samantha says she bore 'A MONSTER THAT WILL DESTROY ALL OF CREATION' (ch. 99). |
| Louis lives on a naiad's heart that will not work outside | B7 ch. 84 | open · B8 ch. 99 — He could not go to the Cabaret because his gills need magic; he went into the casino's portal instead and woke in Sheol, where Forkith's leech keeps him alive 'As long as it’s on your skin'; whether the heart works outside the dungeon is untested. |
| Juice Box in the Nothing, to be reborn 'the ultimate weapon' | B7 ch. 87 | open · B8 ch. 86 — The AI says Juice Box was dumped in Sheol, out of its view; 'You should probably check on her' by Reaper Spider Minions; the Unwashed she once turned into leads the Vengeance float; the contenders' reel names 'Juice Box the NPC' and ends on an image of the Unwashed (ch. 99). |
| The Big Six, and who group six is | B8 ch. 86 | open — Crawlers, NPCs, Gods, sapient mobs, the demons of Sheol — and 'group six', to be met on the eleventh. The epilogue names Outside Intelligences, the abandoned macro AIs, among the Ascendency's players (B8 ch. 99). |
| The elf castle, the changelings and the Sledge on the ninth floor | B5 ch. 76 | resolved · B7 ch. 12 — The changelings and flesh golems started the FUPA; Bonnie, Kiwi, Tina, the cubs, Skarn and the Sledge are all on the plain; the children go to the twelfth floor with the city (ch. 85). |
| The Home Team: Juice Box and Sir Ferdinand as co-warlords | B6 ch. 72 | resolved · B7 ch. 85 — Team Retribution won the war for the Posse by losing it: Ferdinand went to the twelfth floor with the city and Juice Box into the Nothing; both left the realm and forfeited. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 4
A changeling prostitute who sells information for a coin, wrangles forty children through a bombing, and is Henrik's sister (B4 ch. 5, B4 ch. 10, B4 ch. 15): her people are not from here, one birth in four is sick and sterile, the sixth floor is their home, the Gate is real. She takes in Bonnie (B4 ch. 17), dreams she was once a schoolteacher, which Louis takes for a memory of an earlier crawl (B4 ch. 28), warns Carl he is like her brother (B4 ch. 33), carries a fake box for a promise, and is sent to Larracos as a bird to tell the survivors what they are (B4 ch. 34). She will marry Louis.
Through book 5
Carl's promise to her needs the Gate he no longer has (B5 ch. 1). Engaged to Louis; her people in the Liana district (B5 ch. 8). Her people send someone to the Desperado Club every day in case Carl shows up with the plan (B5 ch. 52); her village is in the brambles' path (B5 ch. 54); she told her people to be careful of Carl, and trusted him anyway (B5 ch. 58).
Through book 6
Through book 7
Co-warlord with a cat for a workaround (B7 ch. 9); a wife at level 120 (B7 ch. 10); spies in every court (B7 ch. 19); the Beautiful Place in a boardroom (B7 ch. 43, B7 ch. 44); changelings spent on gods (B7 ch. 56). A Hunter Wraith for her husband, and the Inevitable Ruin explained (B7 ch. 80, B7 ch. 82); 'Something very, very powerful' inside her (B7 ch. 82); a Fleshmancer (B7 ch. 84); the long way to the twelfth — into the Nothing, alone, to be reborn a weapon (B7 ch. 85, B7 ch. 87).
Through book 8
Gone somewhere with Justice Light, she had said, though Justice Light is dead (B8 ch. 1, B8 ch. 10). The AI says she was dumped in Sheol and is reachable by the Reaper Spider Minions Carl keeps missing (B8 ch. 86); the Unwashed she turned into is the effigy on the Vengeance float (B8 ch. 92); the AI's reel of the Ascendency's contenders names 'Juice Box the NPC' and ends on an image of the Unwashed (B8 ch. 99).
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods | 18/35 | 1, 5, 8, 10–15, 17, 20–21, 25, 27–28, 32–34 · the book's own page |
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 10/78 | 1, 8, 15, 23, 36, 50, 52, 57–58, 77 · the book's own page |
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 7/74 | Ch. 6, Ch. 19, Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 26, Ch. 35, Ch. 72 · the book's own page |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 45/89 | 1, 4–5, 7–11, 14, 19–20, 22, 25, 27, 35, 40, 42–44, 47, 55–56, 59, 61–64, 66–71, 73, 75, 78–87 · the book's own page |
| 8 — A Parade of Horribles | 6/99 | Ch. 10, Ch. 52, Ch. 86, Ch. 88, Ch. 92, Ch. 99 · the book's own page |
By book
Juice Box in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
The prostitute
The Toe's one changeling, pouting after the party declines her (ch. 1); a Ratkin Brood Mother Attendant, a Mouser Dame, Chuck E. Cheese in drag, whatever Louis describes, who catches a coin without turning her head and, Mordecai warns, could be a gorgon, a rocksling and a forge ogre 'before you could say “Ouch.”' (ch. 5). She sells Ruckus's story for a gold coin (ch. 8) and hands out Capri Suns to forty children in a shelter (ch. 10).
The sister
Henrik's sister, and not a Principal: her people are not from here, their bodies never finished adapting, one birth in four is sick and sterile, the Hunting Grounds are their ancient home (ch. 10), and the Gate is no myth (ch. 15). She takes Bonnie's hand as a gnome woman (ch. 17), warns Carl he is like her brother (ch. 33), and dreams of being a schoolteacher whose pupils were killed, which Louis takes for a memory of her last time in the dungeon (ch. 28). She agrees to carry the winding box through a gate for a promise that Carl will try to bring her people down every floor; she carries a fake, is sent to Larracos as a bird to tell the survivors what they are, kisses Carl's cheek, and says she will marry Louis (ch. 34).
Juice Box in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade
Carl's promise to her needs the Gate he no longer has (ch. 1). Engaged to Louis; her people in the Liana district (ch. 8). Her people send someone to the Desperado Club every day in case Carl shows up with the plan (ch. 52); her village is in the brambles' path (ch. 54); she told her people to be careful of Carl, and trusted him anyway (ch. 58).
Juice Box in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Juice Box in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin
Co-warlord of Team Retribution with a cat as her workaround, because a voice from nowhere forbids her menus (ch. 9). She lays out maps and puts some in a drawer, wanted everyone regenerating and got them killable instead, and marries Louis in a bar in her blank form at level 120 (ch. 9, ch. 10). Her spies in every court save Carl from the Lemig (ch. 19); her changelings — ungated, Justice Light suspects, since a fifth-floor quest — can copy anything they touch, and she is spending them on gods (ch. 56). At the warlord council she becomes an armless midnight thing with electric tentacles that Houston calls the Beautiful Place: 'It is coming for you all' (ch. 43, ch. 44). She grabs Carl by the shoulder as a human — 'Where's my husband?' — and tells Samantha she knows who she really is (ch. 70). As a Hunter Wraith she possesses Louis to carry him out (ch. 79, ch. 80), and pays: the Inevitable Ruin shows her that he is terrified of her and will never trust what she feels. 'He is to me like Donut is to you.' 'I have something inside me, Carl. Something very, very powerful' (ch. 82). A male Fleshmancer for the transplant (ch. 83, ch. 84); divorce papers (ch. 86); the long way to the twelfth floor with Justice Light, who lies to her and sends her into the Nothing alone, to be reborn 'as the ultimate weapon to end this madness. This war' (ch. 85, ch. 87).
Juice Box in book 8 — A Parade of Horribles
She had said she was going somewhere with Justice Light, Carl remembers, though Justice Light is dead (ch. 10). The AI says she was dumped in Sheol and is reachable by the Reaper Spider Minions Carl keeps missing (ch. 86); the Unwashed she turned into is the effigy on the Vengeance float (ch. 92); the AI's reel of the Ascendency's contenders names 'Juice Box the NPC' and ends on an image of the Unwashed (epilogue).