She is later mentioned when Ben and Poundcake are at P&D clearing away dead bodies of the infested: Ben asks Poundcake if " knew the name of the girl over at Squad 19's table," to which Poundcake responds the negative.Īfter Tank "goes Dorothy" and is pulled aside (later found as one of the dead bodies in P&D), Ringer is sent in as his replacement in Squad 53. Ringer was first seen as an unnamed recruit observing Private Zombie's humiliating struggle to complete a hundred knuckle push-ups whilst Major Reznik prevented him from doing just that.
She left him and searched houses for some and when she finally found some and returned, he had died to her shock and sorrow. When the waves hit, she was made to find alcohol for her father whose condition was worsening from withdrawal. It was also later revealed that she was three quarters Asian and a quarter Apache. Her father helped pass on his love of chess as well as life lessons relating to the game. It is later revealed that she lived with her alcoholic father, who was a painter, and her mother left her when she was three. She had a brother and a sister along with her parents, both of them died during an unspecified Wave.
She goes by the alias 'Ringer' though her name was originally Marika Kimura. Ringer serves as a narrator in The Infinite Sea and The Last Star. She ends up living on a farm with Ben Parish alongside Sam Sullivan, Megan and Evan Walker (for a time). Ringer ends up having a daughter with Razor as the father and names her in Cassie's honor. Ringer and Cassie Sullivan shared an adversarial type of relationship almost from the exact moment they meet until just before Cassie dies. She fell into an intimate relationship with a Camp Haven recruit called Razor before he helped her escape. However, Ringer ended up being captured by Vosch and his soldiers and was put through a special process that turned her into a Silencer giving her enhanced human abilities and skills. When it was discovered that Camp Haven was really a base for the Others to turn children into soldiers for the 5th Wave, she went AWOL with the rest of her squad. She develops a loose respect for Ben Parish that eventually evolves into him being one of the few people that she truly trusts. Marika Kimura, better known as Ringer, is a supporting character in The 5 th Wave by Rick Yancey, and a main character in The Infinite Seaand The Last Star. She is a survivor of the ' waves' and a soldier of Camp Haven.Īs a transfer from her own squad, she helped pull Squad 53's placement up from tenth to seventh within two weeks of her arrival there.
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