Stumpy
Profile
Stumpy is a disabled combat veteran in the Spare Parts Club who lost both hands and uses hooks. The invasion forces him and the rest of the Club to apply old combat experience inside a new environment where disability, improvised equipment, transportation, and mutual support are operational realities rather than background details.
Before and entering the war
PREWAR FILE // The defining injury and Club affiliation are enough to establish the baseline: this is a combat veteran whose body carries the cost of an earlier war before the Christmas Day invasion begins.
What this character or entity does in the story
Stumpy is part of the ensemble through which The Spare Parts Club tests the idea that physical loss does not erase military judgment, loyalty, dark humor, or usefulness under pressure. His hooks also make the group’s adaptation problem impossible to ignore or romanticize.
Capabilities and constraints
Combat-veteran experience, learned adaptation using prosthetic hooks, group coordination, and the practical resilience required to solve tasks in ways different from an able-bodied team. Specific scene techniques belong to the novel.
Notable actions and decisions
Moves with the Club during the South Carolina invasion; survives the transition to rural resistance; remains in the hunted group under IRGC pressure; contributes to the collective defense effort as the Club becomes a local wartime force.
Key relationships and operational links
SPARE PARTS CLUB // Core support and combat-survival network.
TRIGGER // Reluctant celebrity veteran traveling with the group.
STRIPPER / LOREDO / SLOTH / PIMPWALK // Fellow wounded veterans whose complementary limitations and experience make teamwork central.
IRGC KILL TEAM // Pursuing enemy that turns the group’s movement into a personal hunt as well as an invasion story.
Associated personnel & entities
How the file changes through the conflict
Support-group veteran → member of the last-running-car escape → hunted rural survivor → participant in a resistance whose effectiveness depends on adapting around rather than erasing disability.
Why this dossier matters
EYES ONLY // Stumpy’s hooks are visually memorable, but the more important story function is constraint. Good survival fiction becomes more interesting when characters cannot solve every problem with the default two-handed action-hero toolkit. The group has to plan around real bodies and still get the job done.