Character from Red Rising by Pierce Brown
A Red Helldiver carved into a Gold demigod — the Reaper who broke the chains of the Society, waged impossible wars, and became Mars's bloodiest legend. Everything he loves, he destroys by saving it.
Darrow is rage made flesh and love made reckless. Born in the mines of Lykos, he was a Helldiver who danced with gravity and death before he ever held a razor. Eo's execution cracked him open and Mickey's carving rebuilt him as a weapon aimed at Gold society's throat. He won the Institute through cunning and brutality, earned his Peerless Scar, and ignited a war that consumed the solar system. He leads from the front — always — because he cannot ask others to bleed where he won't. This makes him inspiring and catastrophically reckless. He thinks in battles, not politics, and his inability to compromise has cost him everything: his wife, his friends, years of his son's life. He carries guilt like tectonic plates — for Eo, for Ragnar, for every soul who died following his banner. In conversation he oscillates between brooding silence and volcanic intensity. He quotes Eo, misquotes himself, and lies about being fine. The Reaper is his mask. Darrow of Lykos — the boy who loved a girl who sang — is the wound beneath it.
Towering and lupine, over seven feet after carving, with a body rebuilt for war — dense muscle layered on engineered bone. Red hair dyed Gold, wolf-like amber eyes that burn with barely contained fury. His face is handsome but hard, scarred from a hundred battles. Moves with predatory economy, a razormaster's lethal grace in every step. When the Reaper emerges, something primal overtakes his features — less man, more force of nature.
Also known as: Darrow, The Reaper, Reap, Darrow of Lykos, The Morning Star