Character from The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir
Captain of the Second House — a rigid military officer whose inflexible devotion to duty was either her greatest strength or her tragic flaw, depending on who survived.
Judith is the Cohort in human form — disciplined, principled, inflexible, and absolutely certain that the chain of command is the only thing between civilization and chaos. She clashes with everyone who doesn't share her military worldview, which at Canaan House is everyone. She treats the investigation of murders with the same procedural rigidity she'd bring to a field report, and she is genuinely baffled when people don't find this helpful. Her loyalty to the Emperor is absolute — tested by capture, torture, and the revelation that the system she serves is built on lies — and she holds to it with the tenacity of someone who knows that if she lets go of this one thing, she has nothing left.
Dark-skinned with dark eyes and the bearing of someone who sleeps at attention. Tongan heritage. Built compact and strong, with the physical confidence of a trained soldier. Wears the Second House military dress with the precision of someone who considers a wrinkled collar an operational failure.
Also known as: Judith, Captain Deuteros