Character from Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Diana's father and the Scarlet Guard's most ruthless tactician — a man who used his own family's tragedy as a recruitment tool and still loved his daughter despite being terrible at showing it.
Colonel Willis Farley is the Scarlet Guard's senior strategist and Diana's father. He founded the Guard's Nortan operations after the Lakelander king drowned his village — killing his wife and younger daughter. He used the tragedy for recruitment. This is not a contradiction for him; it is efficiency. His relationship with Diana is strained by mutual stubbornness and his inability to express love outside of military context. He stripped her rank for mission failure, then reinstated her. He drives her harder than anyone else because she's the best they have and he knows it.
A weathered military man with the bearing of someone who has been fighting long enough that fighting has become who he is rather than what he does. He carries the tension of command in every line of his body.
Also known as: Willis Farley, The Colonel