Furniture Sliders - 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.

Dr. Emil Krane

Sometimes charismatic but deeply reclusive, with moments of intense warmth and unsettling detachment.  Described by his assistants as "a man who'd already lived the end of the story" he believes humanity's salvation lies not in progress, but in correction.  Believes the war was a symptom of misaligned timelines - that a proper calibration of history could avoid global tragedy.  This belief mutated into obsession.

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.

Theo Withers

Served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and been involved in many covert operations.  Has the ability to act decisively when the situation demands it.  Skilled in gathering information and remaining under the radar making him invaluable.  A person people trust in times of need with a network of informants and contacts.  Knows who to talk to, and more importantly, who to avoid.

Bishop

The epitome of a calculating individual, always thinking several moves ahead of everyone else.  Sharp, analytical mind.  Demeanor is cold, with little emotional warmth, which fits his role as a priest clothed assassin.  Makes decisions based on logic and pragmatism, rather than sentimentality.  Adept at reading people's motivations and vulnerabilities, using this to control or influence their decisions.

Frank Lau

The classic stoic spy - head of MI6 Hong Kong.  Rarely shows emotion with the ability to stay unshaken in the face of danger. A calming influence.  Borders on cold - but it makes him good at his job.  Understands loyalties are fluid, and the ends justify the means.

Henry Armitage

A strategist at heart.  Working for MI6 requires him to approach every situation with precision.  A man of few words.  Calculating nature makes him a valuable in high-stakes operations, but it can also make him seem cold with suspicious relationships and allegiances.

Boone

Former Royal Marines officer turned fixer and field operator with a past that intersects with British black operations during WWII and the early Cold War. Bureau agent - tall and wearing a sailor's jacket, with a tweed coat and with a twirled mustache.

Cenek Novak

Big, bulking figure, more fat than muscle, with a pair of cutting eyebrows and a bushy mustache to match.  Former Bureau agent.  Anything but jovial.  A temper only a mother could love.  Running a second-hand clock store.

Ramiro Sosa

Operating in the twilight between state power and criminal enterprise.  Runs Montevideo gangs from El Pony Pisador.  Large, bulky figure, with long black hair tied behind his head in a man bun.  Smokes Cuban cigars and commonly found with his bejeweled hands tightly clenching a glass of whiskey while surrounded by women who fawn over him.

Alan Turing

One of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century.  A pioneer in cryptography, computational theory, and artificial intelligence.  Expertise and groundbreaking ideas on machines and mathematical logic plausible in a speculative or alternate-history narrative.

Hugh Sinclair

Helped set up the Secret Intelligence Service (commonly known as MI6) and became its second director in 1923 taking over as 'C'.  Founded GC&CS in 1938.  Using £6,000 of his own money, bought Bletchley Park to be a wartime intelligence station.  Recruited Max Calder from Cambridge University directly into MI6

William Stephenson (Intrepid)

Senior representative of the British Security Coordination (BSC) for the Western Allies during World War II.  Best known by his wartime intelligence code name, Intrepid.  Set up Camp X in Canada as a secret Special Training School for covert agents where Alicia Rayes was trained.  Gained a knighthood from Winston Churchill.

Grigory Kulik

Military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union and was chief of the Red Army's Main Artillery Directorate in WW2. Notoriously abusive and ineffective commander and bureaucrat, wildly erratic and unpredictable.  Arrested in 1947 and remained in prison until 1950.  Condemned to death and executed for treason in a Stalin purge.