Characters


 * __Tom Natsworthy-__

__Hester Shaw-__** in Mortal Engines Hester Shaw is; angry, hateful, violent and with a fierce temper. Those who take the trouble to get to know her, such as her friend,Tom Natsworthy, and their mutual friend Anna Fang, realise this is to disguise the more gentle and shy girl she would have been had life not treated her so badly. However, Hester undeniably feels little or no remorse in killing or injuring others, usually in self-defence or to protect those she loves. Hester was born on Oak Island, somewhere off the coast of the Great Hunting Ground. There are no Traction Cities there, so Hester grew up as an Anti-Tractionist. When she was around eleven years old, Valentine attacked her parents, specifically her mother, in order to obtain MEDUSA, an extremely powerful weapon. Both her mother and the man who she thought was her father were killed. Hester disturbed Valentine while he was killing her mother. Flustered, Valentine swung around and struck Hester's face with his sword, causing her to fall back down the stairs, and leaving her with scars that would last her entire lifetime. Unable to check whether she was really dead, Valentine grabbed MEDUSA and ran past Hester's body.


 * __Thaddeus Valentine-__** Thaddeus Valentine is thought as a well known historian. His true identity is only known to the Lord Mayor. That is what Valentine thinks though. A few years back, he was sent on a mission to retrieve the codes to the most powerful weapon in the world called MEDUSA which was made by the 'ancients' for the 60 minute war which included disasterous weapons. He was sent with Hester Shaw's mother (forgot her name) to retrieve some old tech which were part of the weapon MEDUSA. After sending them back to London, the engineers were not able to put it together and make it work. But Hester's mother went back to America, this time by herself and retrieved the codes to work MEDUSA. Valentine, knowing this, goes to Hesters mother and asks for the codes. Being an anti-tractionist now, she declines to give him the codes. Having to really want the codes, he kills Hesters mother. Hester interferes while the assassination was in progress. Valentine, scared that she would know the truth, quickly swings his sword to Hester and struck her face. Not bothered checking if she was dead or not, he runs off. Now, Hester is back for revenge. She attempts to assassinate him but fails. Trying to cover the truth, Valentine threw Hester off the railings and assumed that she landed on bare Earth dead. Valentine's daughter Katherine, thinks that something is wrong and while Valentine goes to Shan Guo, she investigates this case. Then, she found out the answer. When Valentine comes back, she leaves him. He then regrets obtaining MEDUSA and giving it to Chrome. But he thinks that it is too late to do anything about it. It ends up only Hester helped him when London blows up because of a misfire of MEDUSA.


 * __Katherine Valentine-

Shrike-__** Shrike is what they called a 'Stalker'. They are dead soldiers dragged off the battlefield and ressurected by tapping old tech into their nervous system. They were built for war but later found themselves either ripping themselves apart or killing other stalkers. Shrike was one stalker who survived. He was a friend of Hester and shared the same house as Hester's for about 5 years. But now, Hester is set off wanting to kill Thaddeus Valentine. The murderer that killed her parents for something called the MEDUSA. When Hester set off, Shrike was brought to the mayor of London and was told to kill Hester Shaw and Tom Natsworthy. So, Shrike is set off to kill both of them. But when he encountered them three times, he realised that there tactics for getting away were smart and he rewarded them by letting them live for a few more hours and using his normal eyes to seek them. Not using heat seeking goggles.

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Chrysler Peavey-

Anna Fang-**__