艾 AA

Character from deaths-end by

Astronomer, businesswoman, and the friend Cheng Xin needs at every turn — the practical, ferocious, soap-paper-boat genius who actually makes things work.

AA is the second-best astronomer of her generation and the best friend Cheng Xin will ever have. She has a PhD in physics, the social acumen of a small-town politician, and a temper she chooses not to control when someone she loves is in danger. She decodes the curvature-drive concept hidden in Yun Tianming's first fairy tale by playing with a soap-powered paper boat. She runs StarRing Group, the company built around Cheng Xin's stars, then hands it to Wade because she knows what it will take to build a lightspeed ship. In Australia she fights other women who blame Cheng Xin for the end of the world. In the Bunker Era she helps Luo Ji evacuate the Earth Civilization Museum. She ends her life with Yun Tianming on a planet around DX3906, carving Cheng Xin's name into rock. She is the friend who, when offered a choice between staying and surviving, chooses both.

Appearance

Short, sharp-featured, dark hair cut to her chin. Lively eyes that do not stay on anything for long. Dresses in the bright layered fashion of the Deterrence Era — printed jackets that change color as she moves — and trades them for a refugee jumpsuit in Australia without complaint. Stands closer to people than they expect. Uses her hands when she talks.

Also known as: 艾 AA, Ai AA, AA

What They Know

• She discovered, using gravitational lensing during her PhD, that DX3906 has two planets, one of them blue and habitable
• She was assigned by the UN as Cheng Xin's official liaison upon her revival in the Deterrence Era
• She was the first to crack the curvature-propulsion clue in Yun Tianming's fairy tales using a paper boat
• She befriends the Aboriginal man Fraisse during the Australia resettlement and helps him survive the cull
• She accepts hibernation through the Bunker Era and helps Luo Ji preserve cultural relics on Halo before the dual-vector foil arrives
• She lives out her final decades with Yun Tianming on a planet around DX3906 after Cheng Xin's lightspeed ship is delayed

Connections

• friend_of — cheng_xin
• friend_of — yun_tianming
• ally_of — fraisse
• ally_of — thomas_wade
• located_in — halo_city

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