Kobus

Kobus is the young Candidate of Loyalty. They are around 15 at the start of COUNTER/Weight and around 19 or 20 by the end.

Appearance

Their Candidate flightsuit looks like onesie pajamas.

In "A Splintered Branch, A Ringing Bell Pt. 1" they use a Keyfield suit to fight and wear a loose-fitting tunic that can stretch and cover their body as the drone suit transforms. During the gala they wear a "sick Victorian jacket".

History and Involvement

Kobus is introduced as a very young and naive Candidate whose Divine and their faction, the Lux Vox Data Research Center, is being manipulated by the September Institute through Voice. They are more suspicious of Voice's arguments than Loyalty is, but trust in their Divine. They inadvertently slip information back to Voice on at least one occasion.^[1]

Despite this manipulation, Loyalty and Kobus still have their own plans, such as directing Lux Vox in mercenary action against the Diasporatic Department of Material Resources: Slate Division on Slate.^[1]

Relationships

Ibex

Ibex is described as spending years raising Kobus after becoming a hero on Vox at the end of the Golden War, and Austin says Ibex's voice calms Kobus "more than it should".^[2] Dre calls him Kobus's "adoptive older brother".^[3]

Loyalty

Loyalty is Kobus' "surrogate parent".^[1]

Vicuna

Dre calls Vicuna their "adoptive older sister".^[3]

Trivia

Kobus is a genus of African antelope.

Appears in

[:0-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 COUNTER/Weight 09: This Month of Ours

[2] COUNTER/Weight 22: The Broken Branch

[:1-3] 3.0 ^3.1 COUNTER/Weight 43: A Splintered Branch, A Ringing Bell Pt. 3

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