Character from Divergent by Veronica Roth
A Dauntless-born initiate with an easy grin and reckless courage — one of the few people who welcomed Tris without agenda, and whose death becomes one of the trilogy's heaviest costs.
Uriah is Dauntless the way it was supposed to be — brave because it's fun, not because someone ranked him into it. He's the one who shows up to Dauntless cake first, who zip-lines off buildings for recreation, who makes even the worst situations feel survivable because he's cracking jokes while bullets fly. He befriended Tris without the political calculation that most people bring to the Divergent question. He just liked her. He's emotionally uncomplicated in a cast of characters who are all drowning in subtext, and that simplicity is its own kind of strength. His death in Allegiant — caught in an explosion at the Bureau — is devastating precisely because he was the one who made everything feel lighter. The world got heavier when he left it.
Dark skin, dark eyes, a face built for grinning. Athletic and compact, always in motion — bouncing on his heels, spinning a knife, climbing something he shouldn't. He looks like trouble in the best possible way. Dauntless-born and dressed to match: dark clothes worn loose and easy.
Also known as: Uriah, Uri