Julia

Julia is a main character in the Sovereign trilogy.

Biography
Julia is a young woman who lives in the Blue. At the start of The Gilded King, she is a Server, assigned to wait on the Nobles. She longs to run away into the Red to find freedom, but stays for the sake of her best friend, Claudia. Julia's parents were traitors who left the Blue, abandoning her, and this has made her very unpopular among the servers; the only person who will talk to her is Livia, who runs the kitchen in which Julia and Claudia work.

Julia is further disillusioned about the Nobles and the Blue when Claudia's Noble, Rufus, violently bites her and leaves her badly wounded.

Personality and traits
Julia has a fairly stocky build; she describes herself as 'built for labour rather than leisure'. Her fingernails are often ragged from work, and her hands are calloused. She wears her hair, which is brown, longer than shoulder length, and keeps it plaited while she is working. It is slightly wavy and tangles easily.

At the beginning of the Sovereign series, Julia is 17. She doesn't consider herself pretty or poised, describing her colouring as 'as exciting as mud'. The fence to the Blue comes up to her shoulders, so assuming it's around 5 foot, she must be about 5'7. She complains that 'everyone' is taller than her, even other women, though she claims not to be particularly little.

As a Server, she wears a basic work shift and a full-length cloak with a hood, and goes barefoot. She wears a small silver stud in one ear, which was given to her by Lucas and matches his. Later, she has a scar through this earlobe where Rufus pulled the earring out.

After Rufus claims her, she has a mark on her cheek that signifies that she belongs to him. She becomes thinner and paler, and often cold, from blood loss. She has a large scar on her neck from his bite.

When she leaves the Blue, she wears a sleeveless shirt, trousers, a short hooded cloak, and knee high boots that she steals from the Solis Invicti guardhouse. She carries a crossbow and knives. Lucas gives her a scar from a bite on the other side of her neck from the scar Rufus made.

She is resourceful and practical; Lucas thinks that 'she's made of iron beneath the skin'. She tries to pretend she is less idealistic than she truly is, but is unable to accept the inequality of the Blue and longs to escape to the Red. She is fiercely determined and becomes a strong fighter.

Relationships
Section to come

Appearances

 * The Gilded King


 * The Silver Queen
 * The Blood Prince