Major Characters Index

This page collects the major recurring characters in the Ahmieverse. Each name will eventually link to a dedicated character page with biography, relationships, timelines, and story appearances.

Core Family & Self-Reflective Characters

Eirene Sun – Disabled mother, community minister, and social theorist; a self-reflective version of the author in the JTTW road-trip novel.
Zofia Warren – “Alternative universe” version of the author shaped by a more emotionally mature family of origin; central figure in Uncle Lucius’ Letters.
Uncle Lucius – Zofia’s granduncle, whose letters and journals echo Seneca and aspects of Norvin and Chuck Pallas; his posthumous presence shapes Zofia’s adult life.

Elders, Mentors, and Community Pillars

Ted Wilford – Protagonist of Norvin Pallas’s classic mystery series, now imagined as an adult community elder within the Ahmieverse.
Community Elders To Be Named – Placeholders for additional mentors, clergy, teachers, and neighborhood anchors who recur across stories.

Zofia's Family (from Uncle Lucius' Letters)

Charles Pallas - Zofia's maternal-line great-grandfather, who bought the home that the story centers on when it was newly built in the early 1900s as a newly-tenured Professor of Classics.
Clara Pallas - Zofia's maternal-line great-grandmother, who died of birth complications in 1919 giving birth to Zofia's grandmother Valorie.
Lucius Pallas - elder child of Charles and Clara; brother to Valorie; Professor of Philosophy and Ethics and general pillar of the community.
Valorie Pallas Ellsworth - younger child of Charles and Clara; sister to Lucius; wife of Congressman William Ellsworth; mother of Cornelius "Neil" Ellsworth and Temperence Ellsworth Grabowski; grandmother of Zofia Grabowski Warren; great-grandmother of Justina, Lucas, and Marcus Warren.
William Ellsworth - marries Valorie Pallas after meeting her through being her father's student, then moves her to the DC area for his political career aspirations; father of Cornelius "Neil" Ellsworth and Temperance Ellsworth Grabowski; grandfather of Zofia Grabowski Warren; great-grandfather of Justina, Lucas, and Marcus Warren.
Cornelius Ellsworth - elder child of William and Valorie; brother of Temperance; uncle of Zofia; granduncle of Justina, Lucas, and Marcus Warren; husband and father to characters I've not had time or inclination to create because they probably won't show up in my novels.
Temperance Ellsworth Grabowski - younger child of William and Valorie; sister of Cornelius "Neil;" married to Polish immigrant-in-exile Marek Grabowski; mother of Zofia Grabowski Warren; grandmother of Justina, Lucas, and Marcus Warren. Professor of Sociology.
Marek Grabowski - Polish man who comes to Cleveland on a work visa, falls in love with Temperance, marries her and fathers Zofia, then gets pulled by family-of-origin responsibilities back to Poland just as martial law is declared thus missing out on his daughter's childhood.
Zofia Grabowski Warren - only child of Temperance; Alternative Universe version of the author hypothesizing what she'd be like if she'd been nurtured differently; married to high school sweetheart Javier Warren; mother of Justina, Lucas, and Marcus. Doctorate in Social Welfare but not using it in traditional employment due to prioritizing presence with her children. Eirene Sun's best friend.
Javier Warren - son of Marisol Vega and Daniel Warren; married to high school sweetheart Zofia; father of Justina, Lucas, and Marcus; 3rd grade teacher in Cleveland.
Justina Warren - eldest child of Zofia and Javier, in 3rd grade in Lakewood during ULL in the same class with Cato Sun.
Lucas Warren - middle child of Zofia and Javier, in Kindergarten in Lakewood during ULL in the same class with Rufus Sun.
Marcus Warren - youngest child of Zofia and Javier, four months younger than Eirene and Luke's son Marcus and the two of them are jokingly referred to by their families as "Marcus²" due to Lucas being perceived as calling them "M-2" when he tried to say "them two." Marcus is 22 months old at the start of ULL.
Marisol Vega - Javier's Puerto Rican mother, who was a high school student when Javier was born.
Daniel Warren - Javier's white father, who was a high school student when Javier was born and went on to be a student of Lucius Pallas. Daniel comes from a well-to-do family that was not pleased by his becoming a father, and social forces have pulled him away from being present in his son's life for decades.
Teresa Vega - Marisol's Afro-Puerto Rican mother.

The Sun Family

Eirene Sun – (See above) Mother, driver, reluctant pilgrim, and narrative anchor of the JTTW family road trip. Zofia Warren's best friend. Semi-ambulatory wheelchair user due to being extremely effected by hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Parahuman born with the ability to boost the powers of other parahumans and a magical form of emotional contagion that affects those around her. Grew up as an identified-disabled-at-birth foster kid in the Cuyahoga County system; no known living biological ancestors. The last foster mother was a dragon who exists in human form and, through experimentation, triggered the ability for Eirene to transform into a dragon.
Luke Sun - Eirene's Chinese-immigrant husband (inspired by the author's actual husband; they were college sweethearts and have been together since early 1996). Luke is directly descended of Sun Wukong aka The Monkey King and has an extensive family tree.
Sun Brothers – Five brothers inspired by Chinese folklore about superpowered siblings and by the author’s own sons. Each will receive an individual page:
- Zeno Sun – oldest brother, born around Memorial Day 2004 (Gemini Wood Monkey), has super hearing that can be disablingly painful.
- Cato Sun - second brother, born five days after summer solstice in 2007 (Cancer Fire Pig), has super sight that can cause disabling pain.
- Rufus Sun - third brother, born four days before Zeno's 6th birthday in 2010 (Gemini Metal Tiger), has super stretch abilities as well as the most noticeable inheritance of his mother's hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
- Marcus Sun - fourth brother, born around U.S. Thanksgiving in 2012 (Sagitarius Water Dragon), inherited the ability to turn into a dragon from his mother through an epigenetic confluence of variables, and his tears create flooding as an inheritance from his father's magical line.
- Seneca Sun - fifth brother, born at summer solstice in 2016 (Cancer Fire Monkey), has the power of perfect impersonation inherited from his father's magical line.
Helen Sun - Luke's mother, who has shared a home with Luke and Eirene since before most of the kids were born, inspired by the author's mother-in-law who has lived with her since 2006.
Also Luke's father, whose name I'm blanking on as I'm putting this wiki together, inspired by the author's father-in-law, but he's extremely introverted and doesn't get much screen time hence why I don't remember his name! And he has a younger brother in California who is widowed with no children.

(Names and details to be updated as the JTTW draft settles.)

Lakewood Neighborhood & Extended Community

Neighbors and Households Index – Entry point for families, housemates, and key neighbors in Lakewood and surrounding areas.
Congregation & Community Members – Characters connected through congregations, mutual-aid projects, school communities, and local organizations.

Mythic, Folkloric, and Retold Figures

Persephone (Six Seeds) – The central figure in Six Seeds, a retelling of the Persephone myth.
Hades (Six Seeds) – The partner of the central figure in Six Seeds, reimagined through a trauma-informed, non-romanticized lens.

How to Use This Index

Click a character’s name to go to their full page (once created).
Use Families and Households to see how characters are grouped in family and village units.
Use Timeline and Continuity Notes to see when in Ahmieverse history a given character’s major arcs occur.

If you are writing in the Ahmieverse and create an original character you’d like listed here, you’re welcome to suggest an entry once the work is public.