The Culture · Character
Neeporlax
- Minor
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 7
Neeporlax shambles like a ghost in the crowd, his albino pallor stark against the grime, head twitching with involuntary shakes. Half-blind eyes wander, clutching a soft toy as if it's his only anchor, his diseased frailty pulling at your pity. There's a heartbreaking vulnerability in his incontinent shuffle.
- Gender
- male
- Age
- youth
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 7
- Books
- 1
Neeporlax appears briefly as a shambling, gaunt albino youth among Vavatch's wretched refugees, diseased, half-blind, incontinent, and head-shaking while clutching a soft toy, assisted by a young girl. His fleeting presence captures the human wreckage of the Culture's evacuation amid the Idiran advance. He vanishes into the masses, a symbol of war's innocent casualties.
Description
Shambling and gaunt, this albino youth has pallid skin stretched over frail bones, shoddily clothed. Diseased and half-blind, his head shakes constantly, incontinence adding to his pitiful air. He clutches a soft toy tightly, often assisted by others. His presence is fragile, spectral, and profoundly broken.
Story so far
BOOK 1Consider Phlebas
Appearances
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