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• Shrike_(Philip_Reeve) abstract "Shrike (or Grike in the North American editions) is a recurring character in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet and Fever Crumb Series. He appears in all the books except Predator's Gold and A Web of Air.Shrike is a Stalker, a resurrected human body wired with bizarre electronic devices. In Mortal Engines Shrike is described as being "[s]even feet tall, and beneath its coat shone metal armour. The flesh of its long face was pale, glistening with a slug-like film of mucus, and here and there a blue-white jag of bone showed through the skin. Its mouth was a slot full of metal teeth. Its nose and the top of its head were covered by a long metal skull-piece with tubes and flexes trailing down like dreadlocks, their ends plugged into ports on its chest. Its round glass eyes gave it a startled look, as if it had never gotten over the horrible surprise of what had happened to it." Much of his character development revolves around his struggle to understand humanity and remember his past.Shrike is reportedly the last Stalker in existence, created more than 1000 years before the story begins during the time of the nomadic empires. The nomad empires took dead soldiers off the battlefield and reanimated them with ancient technology that made them into walking tanks. Stalkers were very effective killing machines not only because of their physical strength but because the Stalker-brain made use of the strengths of the original human brain. Shrike is the last ancient Stalker because all of the other ancient Stalkers were either destroyed in battle or went mad and tore themselves apart (hinting that their human memories returned and they committed suicide). Only Shrike remains: he is the last of his Stalker troop, the Lazarus Brigade, and as it states in the novel "he always survives". Chronologically speaking within the series, Shrike is first seen as the kind-hearted Kit Solent in Fever Crumb, a widower archaeologist with two children (Fern and Ruan) who is investigating the relics hidden beneath Ludgate Hill. However, he soon becomes embroiled in a battle between London and a group of Northern Nomads (both of whom want the technology) and is mortally wounded while helping Fever Crumb escape in a hot air balloon. However, his dead body is taken by Nicola Quercus and Wavey Godshawk and turned into a stalker named Shrike (after the bird). He then malfunctions, however, and begins randomly killing people, until he reaches Fever, who is standing with his two children, which causes him to pause and let them escape. This is implied to be the source of his softness towards children, as he can still vaguely remember what it was like to hold his before his death.He is next seen in Scrivener's Moon briefly, when he is assigned to protect Cluny Morvish, a Northern warrior princess. However, while defending her, he is indirectly struck by a tesla gun, which were designed to destroy the brains of Stalkers. His brain is forever altered by this experience, which is probably another factor that makes him so unique. The last sight of him in the Fever Crumb Series is wandering off alone into the wild, having saved the life of Cluny Morvish.What he did during the 1000 years between Scrivener's Moon and Mortal Engines is unclear, but it is mentioned that he once worked as a bounty hunter in the out country, killing and retaining the heads of criminals to take to nearby authorities. It is revealed in Mortal Engines that Shrike collected broken dolls, mostly of children, the reasons for which are made clear in Fever Crumb, and took Hester in with him as another broken child.Shrike is encountered for the first time in the Mortal Engines Quartet in the first book, Mortal Engines, when Magnus Crome, the Lord Mayor of London, sends him to find and kill Hester Shaw. Shrike raised Hester as a child after her parents were killed, and she is the only living thing he has ever loved. Crome promises him that if he returns her body to London, he will have his engineers turn her into a Stalker, so the two of them will be the same and she can be like his daughter.After almost catching Hester and Tom Natsworthy on Airhaven, he chases them across the Hunting Ground and eventually catches up with them on the Black Island. After killing Chrysler Peavey's pirates (whom Tom and Hester were travelling with), he tells Hester of his plans, and attempts to kill her. He is foiled, however, by Tom, who kills him with a sword. Just as he dies, he remembers who he was.Seventeen years later, at the beginning of Infernal Devices, Shrike is resurrected by Oenone Zero, the leader of the Green Storm's Stalker engineers. At the moment of resurrection, he again forgets what he was in his true life. Zero tells him that he will be working for the Green Storm as the Stalker Fang's bodyguard.Shrike is taken to Shan Guo and made to work as Fang's bodyguard, but he does not trust Zero, because she refuses to divulge why she resurrected him. One night he overhears her praying, and discovers that she is planning to assassinate the Stalker Fang. Shrike tries to kill her but realises he cannot for she implanted some kind of block when she resurrected him. He also finds that he cannot tell anyone about the plot.As Shrike continues to guard the Stalker Fang, unable to tell her of what is going on, he finally realises how Zero intends to kill Fang - by using him as a weapon, since only an ancient Stalker can defeat another ancient Stalker. The two of them fight atop Cloud 9 as Brighton is attacked, and eventually Shrike prevails. In the confusion of the battle he meets Hester Shaw, who has abandoned her family, and escapes into the Sahara Desert with her.The two of them travel the desert for many months, before encountering and rescuing Theo Ngoni in A Darkling Plain. Theo convinces them to help him rescue Oenone Zero, who has been captured by Traction Cities and is to be sold into slavery. Eventually they manage to rescue her and escape to the lands of the Green Storm, where they discover that the Stalker Fang has activated an orbital weapons platform and intends to destroy the world. As Shrike is the only thing that can defeat her, he attempts to find her along with Hester and Tom Natsworthy.They are attacked by Stalker birds before they reach Fang's hideout, however, and Shrike tumbles out of their airship and lands in a frozen lake. He arrives at Erdene Tezh after everything is over - the weapon has been stopped, but Fang, Hester and Tom are all dead. He implants Fang's memories into his brain then he takes Tom and Hester's bodies to a peaceful valley and lays them down, before shutting down in hibernation because he is no longer sure of his purpose in a world without Hester.He awakes hundreds of years later to find that the age of Traction Cities is over. A village of people ask what he is, and he tells them that he is a "Remembering Machine". They ask him to tell them about the age of the Traction Cities. He obliges, and begins with the first line of Mortal Engines, revealing that he is the narrator of the series.".
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