Empire of the Ants/Characters

Ants

103683 later 103

• Asexual: litterally, in the two first book. Then she gets turned into a female.
• Badass
• Took a Level In Badass: more like several.
• Genius Bruiser: from the Ants' perspective; she is despicted as big and strong by Ants' standards, but it's also pretty clear she is one of the smartest in her colony (at least in the two later books; she was more average before).
• Only Sane Man: tends to be this amongst other ants. Ironically, the others ants often think she is insane.
• Overly Long Name: initially; after defeating a bird in Book 2, she is granted a nickname by her subordonnates and referred as 103.

327

• The Cassandra: The ants don't want to listen to him when he tries to warn them about the ant-slaughter he has witnessed, since he fails to bring proof. The ant Mibs didn't help.
• Decoy Protagonist: he is the first ant character introduced in the book, and the one followed for most of the beginning of the story, making you think he might be the hero... until he is killed right toward the middle of the book.
• Token Boy
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: strongly hinted with 56. It didn't end well, even by Ants' standards.

56 later Queen Chli-Pou-Ni

• God Save Us From the Queen: in the second book, at least from humans' perspective.
• Fantastic Racism: to her, humans are "puny parasites" that need to be exterminated. Not that she had no reason to think so...
• I Am a Humanitarian: she is forced to eat her own eggs to survive when she's starting to create her own colony.

Humans

Edmond Wells

• Big Good
• Genius Ditz
• Mad Scientist
• Posthumous Character: he is dead just before the first book starts. Yet his role is major in all books.
• Thanatos Gambit: what drives the plot of the three books.

Jonathan Wells

Jacque Melies

• Belligerent Sexual Tension: with Laetitia Wells.
  • They Do
• Great Detective: a rare case where the detective actually is part of the cops.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: much to Laetitia's surprise, he choosed to leave the Ramirez alone after finding out the motive behind their murders.

Laetitia Wells

• Belligerent Sexual Tension: with Melies.
• Deadpan Snarker
• Hot Scoop: and very hot, judging by the description given of her.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: she think so for most of Book 2; finally starts growing out of it later.
• Violet Eyes

Maximilien Linard

• Blondes Are Evil
• Jerkass
• Knight Templar: attempted to destroy the Ants when finding out they might one day become the dominant specie over humans, should they grow smart enough.
• Villainous Breakdown