5/26/2023 0 Comments Havelock the expanse booksPaper-Thin Disguise: In Caliban's War, he attempts to grow a beard and poses as an ordinary crewman aboard an aid freighter.Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Between his broadcast of the destruction of the Canterbury and his broadcasts to the Donnager this trope should have his picture attached to it.Must Have Caffeine: He's really fond of his state of the art coffeemaker aboard the Rocinante.Holden's parentage situation is unusual, but not unheard of. This was mainly for tax reasons, as having fewer children per adult in a family earns the family certain credits, and having one child for eight biological parents gets them access to a (relative) lot of land. Mix-and-Match Man: Thanks to modern reproductive medical science, Holden has several parents who cohabited with one another, one of whom bore and birthed him, all of whom contributed to his genome.He tries to drive a wedge between Cortázar and Duarte in the hopes of getting Elvi Okoye in charge of the protomolecule research Manipulative Bastard: Tries his hand at this during Tiamat's Wrath.He still keeps protecting them, though, to the point of utter physical and mental exhaustion. Knight in Sour Armor: Slowly takes on shades of this over the course of the books, so that he for example keeps wondering "Why am I still trying to keep these people from shooting each other, if they are too stupid / stubborn to understand they need to work together to survive this catastrophe?" in Cibola Burn. ![]() Information Wants to Be Free: His primary method of messing things up for the bad guys (and sometimes everyone else).It's lampshaded, and Holden does feel kind of sorry for not understanding Miller's perspective back then. By the end of Caliban's War, after spending several years killing pirates for Ford (they're rarely willing to surrender), he shows exactly the kind of behavior for which he righteously kicked Miller off the Rocinante crew in Leviathan Wakes, which was a large part of what sent Miller over the edge into full-blown Death Seeker mode.Hypocrite: His "no secrets ever" policy doesn't seem to apply to himself - as in Nemesis Games when he gets annoyed with Monica Stuart for mentioning the theft of the final protomolecule sample on television during his interview.He's Back!: After spending most of Leviathan Falls as an exhausted wreck playing second fiddle to Naomi and Elvi, everyone gets a glimpse of the old James Holden after he injects himself with the protomolecule.At the end of the series, he dies when he interfaces with the ring station to permanently shut down the ring network. Heroic Sacrifice: He has a knack for attempting these and surviving.As soon as Elvi confirms that her treatment for the blindness plague is working, he collapses from exhaustion. Heroic Resolve: When everyone but him is going blind on Ilus, he spends four days awake, patrolling the tower to keep out the death-slugs.Invoked in Abaddon's Gate when the rest of the crew browbeats him into doing interviews with Monica Stuart so they can get work done. Famed in Story: Starts with the Canterbury broadcast, and continues as he serves as the public face of the Rocinante.Downplayed somewhat it exhausts him quickly, and the only way to permanently defeat them would be to assimilate all of humanity, which he refuses to do. Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: After merging with the ring station, he's able to hold off the dark gods and stop them from eating everything in the slow zone.Although sometimes he gets too full of himself and Naomi or Alex have to bring him back to reality. The Conscience: For the whole crew, but especially Amos. ![]() Other POV characters, such as Elvi, also find him magnetically attractive.
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