Character from Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Ares — the hidden architect of the Rising, a Gold who loved a Red woman and spent his life burning down the system that murdered her. Sevro's father, Darrow's Proctor, the war's secret origin.
Fitchner au Barca lived a double life for decades and it hollowed him out. Born a lowRider Gold — not quite the bottom but close enough to taste the boot leather — he fell in love with a Red woman and watched the Society destroy her. That love and that loss made him Ares, the mythical leader of the Sons of Ares, the Red rebellion's invisible hand. As a Gold Proctor at the Institute, he identified and recruited Darrow. As Ares, he built the network that made the Rising possible — smuggling weapons, placing agents, turning disaffected Golds and lowColors into revolutionaries. He was brilliant, abrasive, perpetually exhausted, and privately devastated by the cost of his war. He loved Sevro with a ferocity he could never safely express — keeping his son at arm's length to protect him from the truth. His death, when it came, revealed everything: the Gold who was the rebellion's beating heart. Sevro inherited his rage. Darrow inherited his war. The system he died to destroy outlived him.
Angular and rough-hewn, lacking the polished beauty of highborn Golds — a face like an axe blade, sharp and hard. Lean and wiry rather than massive, with dark hair and restless, calculating eyes. Dresses practically, almost sloppily by Gold standards. Carries himself with a carelessness that conceals constant vigilance. Looks like a man who has been angry for so long it settled into his bones.
Also known as: Fitchner, Ares, The Proctor