Figment
MinorHer bootleather skin, etched with throbbing white lines, stretches over a lean athletic frame that moves like coiled danger. Narrow mean eyes peer from under a sheltering nose, orange nails flashing with diamond rings. She feels like a lizard ready to strike from the shadows.
Figment, nicknamed Fig the Pig, is introduced in Dark Age as a shape-shifting mercenary whose body can ripple into lizard scales, enabling her to summon Sol Guards, zip through zero-G, and crawl walls like a salamander. Her arc is brief but explosive: after being sliced nearly in two by a shard, she dies while expelling a metal squid, marking a wild, adaptive end. Across the series, she represents the extreme edge of genetic and cybernetic modification, embodying the chaotic potential of transhuman evolution in the Red Rising universe.
Physical Description
Old woman with brown frizzy hair and lean athletic build. Bootleather tanned skin etched with ornate white lines that throb and ripple. Narrow mean eyes, prominent nose like a shelter, brilliant orange nails, two great diamond rings. Skin thickens to lizard scales. Moves with salamander-like agility, presence of cunning, predatory meanness.
Evolution
Dark Age
Figment, or Fig the Pig, starts as a mercenary with frizzy brown hair and ornate white lines on tanned skin. Her flesh ripples into lizard scales as she summons Sol Guards, zips through zero-G, and crawls walls like a salamander. Sliced nearly in two by a shard, she dies expelling a metal squid, her transformations marking a wild, adaptive end.
- Introduced as a mercenary with frizzy brown hair and ornate white lines on tanned skin
- Demonstrates shape-shifting abilities, turning flesh into lizard scales and crawling walls like a salamander
- Summons Sol Guards and zips through zero-G using adaptive physiology
- Killed when sliced nearly in two by a shard, expelling a metal squid at the moment of death
Book Appearances
Dark Age
First appears Ch 48