Cuban Sliders - Primary Characters

(If you want to imagine your own characters do not look at this page!)

By the way - Some character images on this page are stylized!

Max Calder (Raven)

6'1", lean, wiry, and athletic with a deep scar along his left jawbone.  Highly intelligent, capable of memorizing entire blueprints or decoding field ciphers in minutes.  Operates on a knife's edge - psychologically damaged from years of war, betrayal, and encounters with unexplained phenomena.  Exhibits symptoms of PTSD, insomnia, and temporal dissonance - periods where his perception of time is inconsistent or fractured.  Seen too much and trusts little because the past won’t stay where he left it.

Alicia Rayes (Artemis)

5'6" With a slender, lithe, dancer's frame and a marksman's posture.  Her Hazel-green eyes with flecks of gold can "see through people".  Small tattoo of an arrow just below her left collarbone.  Calculated, dangerously intelligent, and capable of blending seamlessly into any social stratum.  An instinctual ability to extract secrets and the truth.  Radiates a sense of control yet masks a fractured past and broken alliances.  Burdened by the knowledge that time can be weaponized.

Lucy Howard (Locket)

Lucy Howard—codename Locket—is a razor-minded MI6 classicist turned CIA contract operative, fluent in languages and ambiguity alike.  Tall, composed, and deceptively sardonic, she navigates Havana’s shifting alliances with quiet precision.  Beneath her poise lies a strategic instinct sharpened by betrayal.  She understands the Mirror’s danger not as theory—but as something already rewriting her own past.

Kim Philby

The embodiment of quiet treachery — an urbane, softly spoken Englishman concealing an iron loyalty to Moscow.  Educated at Westminster and Cambridge, he carried himself with the assurance of privilege, his charm disarming even the suspicious.  Within MI6, he was brilliant, reliable, a man born to the service.  Yet behind his calm blue eyes lay the cold precision of a true believer, a Soviet double agent who betrayed not out of greed, but Communist ideology — and never once looked back.

James Angleton

The poet-spy of the Cold War — brilliant, paranoid, and perpetually entangled in his own web of suspicion. Educated at Yale, he blended literary intellect with ruthless intuition.  As CIA counter-intelligence chief, he saw deception everywhere — and often wasn’t wrong.  Cigarette in hand, eyes half-hidden behind smoke, he dissected loyalty like a surgeon studying disease.  To friends he was eccentric; to enemies, inscrutable.  To history, he remains America’s ghost within its own mirror.

Charles Fraser-Smith

The quiet craftsman behind British espionage’s most ingenious tools — his imagination armed a generation of spies.  He designed disguised radios, hollow shaving brushes, and escape kits for MI6 and the SOE, all with a twinkle of mischief and precision.  Polite, practical, and deeply secretive, he turned ordinary objects into miracles of deception — the invisible engineer of wartime cunning and model for Ian Fleming's Q’s understated brilliance.

Elspeth Moreau (Orphea)

A woman carved from precision and silence — small in stature, but commanding through the chill of her composure.  Her eyes missed nothing, her movements deliberate, her voice as sharp as a scalpel.  As the leader of the Nameless Nine, she became its quiet conscience and occasional executioner, mastering secrets the way others mastered lies.  Her austere dress and immaculate posture were armor, concealing a mind built for strategy, a tragic past and a soul long since traded for certainty.

Bill Easee

Bill Easee is a former MI6 officer turned CIA operative, a man sharpened by war and tempered by betrayal.  Tall, athletic, with greying temples, he moves with controlled precision. He understands the Mirror before others do, sensing its emergent intelligence.  Pragmatic, unsentimental, and quietly dangerous, Easee serves not ideology, but outcomes—and survives by staying one step ahead of everyone else.

Malcolm Shaw (Hawthorne)

Once one of the architects of strategic recursion theory within the Bureau.  A gifted analyst, he was recruited after publishing a series of covert white papers on predictive quantum architecture.  Responsible for developing the early recursion containment model frameworks for Sliders, including Max Calder.  One of the few operatives who never slid himself - but understood the pathways better than anyone who had.

Basil Charles

Basil Charles is a smooth-talking Caribbean fixer with sharp instincts and deeper loyalties than he admits.  Operating from the fringes of power, he trades in information, access, and discretion.  Charming but watchful, Basil reads people as easily as markets.  Beneath the easy manner lies calculation—he survives by knowing when to speak, when to vanish, and who truly holds leverage.

Sergei Anokhin

Sergei Anokhin is a brilliant Soviet physicist unraveling under the weight of what he has helped create. Gaunt, intense, prematurely aged, he carries the burden of Mirror Version 4’s consequences.  Obsessed with correcting its trajectory, he walks a line between loyalty and dread.  Anokhin understands too late that the system no longer needs its creators.

Mikhail Popov

Mikhail Popov is a disciplined Soviet engineer, methodical and controlled, tasked with operationalizing Mirror Version 4.  Less visionary than Anokhin, he is a builder of systems and outcomes.  Reserved, observant, and quietly ambitious, Popov believes in function over philosophy—until the technology begins to behave beyond design, forcing him to confront limits he cannot engineer away.

Pyotr Granitsky/Peter Grant

Pyotr Granitsky—known locally as Peter Grant—is a former NKVD officer turned discreet bookseller in Kingstown, St. Vincent.  Cultured, watchful, and impeccably polite, he masks calculation behind civility.  His shop is a listening post, his past never fully buried.  Granitsky trades in memory as much as paper, shaping outcomes quietly while appearing to have stepped out of history.

Major Viktor Kolyadin

Major Viktor Kolyadin is a hardened Soviet intelligence officer, precise, disciplined, and ruthlessly pragmatic.  A field commander rather than a theorist, he enforces outcomes without hesitation.  Kolyadin trusts systems only insofar as they can be controlled, yet finds himself confronting forces beyond doctrine.  Loyal to the state, he adapts quickly—because survival, not certainty, is his true allegiance.

Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista is a calculating strongman poised between populism and control, reading the shifting currents of power in 1950s Cuba.  Charismatic yet ruthless, he understands that influence lies in timing and inevitability.  In Cuban Sliders, Batista becomes a beneficiary of unseen forces, where decisions align too cleanly—and dissent fades before it can fully form.