Fan Casting Mickey in Red Rising

Mickey is a Violet Carver of Mars employed by the Sons of Ares to carve Darrow O'Lykos from a Red into a Gold. He is described as scalpel of a man with a crooked smile and black hair that hangs like a puddle of oil down one side of his head. A facial tattoo of the Violet sigil winds around his left eye, Other violet symbols stain his hands. Unlike most Violets, who have the standard five fingers per hand, Mickey has twelve unnaturally fast, thin, and long fingers, which were a modification that he added to himself. He has a particularly ornate and seductive way of speaking. Mickey is already an established, licensed Carver before 737 PCE, which implies years of training and practice. His reputation is well known among Violets and the Sons of Ares by the time Darrow meets him. Although his exact age is unknown, he has a long professional history: carving illegal Gold births, losing his license, and then running a black‑market shop in Yorkton.