Character from The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
The Union's greatest survivor — a career soldier who's avoided promotion, responsibility, and death with equal skill for decades.
Tunny has survived more campaigns than anyone in the Union army by mastering the art of being somewhere else when the fighting starts. He's not a coward exactly — he fights when cornered — but he has an unerring instinct for the comfortable middle ground between heroism and desertion. In The Heroes, he's tasked with leading raw recruits, and his weary competence — the minimum effort required to keep himself and his charges alive — is one of the book's most entertaining and honest threads. He's the real Union soldier: not the heroes on the monuments, but the men who endure.
Average in every visible dimension — the kind of soldier who disappears into a formation. Slightly weathered, slightly soft, slightly amused by everything. His uniform is regulation but lived-in.
Also known as: Tunny, Corporal Tunny