Character · from book 5
Quasar
A Null attorney in a hula-girl tie, hired after Carl says the magic words in Orren's office (he wants a lawyer), who sums up the job: 'I can't stop you from getting fucked. But I am the condom.' He calls a pending suit over private messages at fifty-fifty (it wins), secures an injunction against the hunters' outside help, licenses Sensation's Vengeance of the Daughter past the sixth floor, explains Zerzura and Remex the Grand's fall, and turns the Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels into a non-profit that buys a Faction Wars spot. 'You're a taxpaying stockholder now.'
Race and class, since book 5: Null · Attorney
First appears: Book 5
Series arc
As of book 8. Donut's agent since book 1; in book 8 the first to tell Carl the Nothing is 'broken', a target of Chandra's Taurins, and an interlude of his own at the start of the eleventh floor: gods popping up across the galaxy on the screens of the attorney bar, his niece killing two Taurins with an illegal blaster, and Kiki hired for 'Fucking both'.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Chandra's contract: the marriage, the money, the conservatorship, the hit on Quasar | B8 ch. 1 | open — Widow's Rights in Naga court; royalties, the Posse's accounts and the prize money rerouted; Donut under a conservatorship with Carl as guardian; two Taurins sent after Quasar. The Taurins reach his family and die by his niece's blaster; Quasar hires Kiki for 'Both,' 'Fucking both'; the marriage certificate goes to a hearing in a few days; Chandra tries to accept a deal for Donut until a notification scares her off (B8 ch. 88). |
| The Princess Posse in Faction Wars, and the safety-protocol vote | B5 ch. 77 | resolved · B7 ch. 85 — Won, by forfeit, with fifty thousand veterans and a record count through. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 5
A Null in a hula-girl tie who appears when Carl says the magic words: lawyers should not exist before the tenth floor, the naked Valtay are the worst, and from now on Carl says nothing to a liaison but 'I want to talk to my lawyer' (B5 ch. 3). A pending suit he called fifty-fifty succeeds (B5 ch. 8), bluffs Sensation (B5 ch. 13), delivers court-ordered messages (B5 ch. 15), gets the injunction (B5 ch. 21), explains Zerzura and Remex the Grand's fall and makes Carl a taxpaying stockholder (B5 ch. 56), and is summoned around a frozen court with a weeping chapter president (B5 ch. 59). He wanted Donut's name on the board, Carl guesses, because everyone else is expected to be dead (B5 ch. 63).
Through book 6
Through book 7
Through book 8
He tells Carl the Nothing is 'broken' and the twelfth and eighteenth floors are in chaos (B8 ch. 1). In the interlude that opens the eleventh floor he watches gods pop up across the galaxy with Kiki at the attorney bar, sees his niece Tempest kill two Taurins with an illegal blaster, and hires Kiki for 'Both,' 'Fucking both' (B8 ch. 88). Of the one deal offered Carl he says he 'wouldn’t trust it' (B8 ch. 88).
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade | 17/78 | 3, 8, 13–15, 20–21, 32, 42, 51, 56, 58–60, 63, 66, 77 · the book's own page |
| 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride | 8/74 | Ch. 12, Ch. 13, Ch. 19, Ch. 21, Ch. 35, Ch. 36, Ch. 37, Ch. 51 · the book's own page |
| 7 — This Inevitable Ruin | 4/89 | Ch. 1, Ch. 33, Ch. 36, Ch. 88 · the book's own page |
| 8 — A Parade of Horribles | 5/99 | Ch. 1, Ch. 10, Ch. 28, Ch. 79, Ch. 88 · the book's own page |
By book
Quasar in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade
A Null in a hula-girl tie who appears when Carl says the magic words: lawyers should not exist before the tenth floor, the naked Valtay are the worst, and from now on Carl says nothing to a liaison but 'I want to talk to my lawyer' (ch. 3). A pending suit he called fifty-fifty succeeds (ch. 8), bluffs Sensation (ch. 13), delivers court-ordered messages (ch. 15), gets the injunction (ch. 21), explains Zerzura and Remex the Grand's fall and makes Carl a taxpaying stockholder (ch. 56), and is summoned around a frozen court with a weeping chapter president (ch. 59). He wanted Donut's name on the board, Carl guesses, because everyone else is expected to be dead (ch. 63).
Quasar in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Quasar in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin
'that parking lot above the planet has devolved into a mini warzone' (ch. 1). In a freezing zero zone with a Mongo tie: the Bar Association's thanks, there being 'just about 20,000 crawlers making it to the 10th floor', deals that are all shit but one, the tenth floor's name, and Donut's lawyer, who is Carl's wife (epilogue).
Quasar in book 8 — A Parade of Horribles
He tells Carl the Nothing is 'broken' and the twelfth and eighteenth floors are in chaos (ch. 1). In the interlude that opens the eleventh floor he watches gods pop up across the galaxy with Kiki at the attorney bar, sees his niece Tempest kill two Taurins with an illegal blaster, and hires Kiki for 'Both,' 'Fucking both' (ch. 88). Of the one deal offered Carl he says he 'wouldn’t trust it' (ch. 88).