Main Character Pt. 1: Frankenstein, book two City of Night

Deucalion was Victor Frankenstein's first, failed attempt to create a perfect race of people some two hundred years ago. His flesh was the flesh of many criminals' bodies that have been plucked from a prison graveyard immediately following their burial. His two hearts, one from a mad arsonist who burned churches, and the other from a child molester. Deucalion's hands were harvested from a convicted strangler. His brain had once filled the cranium unknown, violent miscreant. His gray eyes had been taken from an executed ax murderer. Occasionally a soft luminous pulse flickered through them, reminiscent of his day of birth brought about by the lightning.

Immense and fearsome, Deucalion was of intimidatingly towering size with an exquisitely beautiful face. Half of that face was ruined by his maker over a hundred years ago. Deucalion had camouflaged the extent of the damage with an elaborate, geometric pattern tattoo given to him by a friend, and Tibetan monk in a monastery in which he stayed there for a very long period of time.

Deucalion was brought to life by lightning, one of Frankenstein's more primitive methods of creating life. All of Victor Frankenstein's creations have been programmed without free will, a proscription against suicide, killing their master and killing without their master's consent. Deucalion only has the second and third proscriptions within him He feels he needs to kill his maker because Frankenstein is trying, and beginning to succeed in killing and then replacing the human race (the Old Race) with his race (the New Race).

Deucalion is stoic, but everything he says is serious and has great meaning. He also has a gentler or softer side- if you could call it soft or gentle. A child of Mercy, Mercy born and Mercy raised, a New Race pastor was sent to blend in with the Old Race. (The Hands of Mercy was an old Catholic hospital that Frankenstein converted into his lab where he creates New Race people.) This New Race pastor was malfunctioning and was begging to Deucalion, saying he wants to kill or to be killed. Deucalion relieved him of his suffering, via an begged for mercy killing .Out of all of the New Race creations, Deucalion is really the only ally to the Old Race to help them stop Frankenstein.