Wyobie Cotal
Names: Wyobie CotalCotalWyobie
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 4 (THREE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 4Wyobie, Tara's young first-life lover, was shot and had his memorycell erased when he arrived at her apartment.
- Ch 6Wyobie Cotal left Oaktier forty years ago at age 25 and vanished; the insurer re-lifed him after he missed his first rejuvenation.
- Ch 6Cotal's re-life clone is a frail, emotionally immature child-like body in an electromuscle suit; he remembers nothing of leaving and insists he would not have left.
- Ch 6Cotal had bought a ticket to Tampico and was seeing both Tara Jennifer Shaheef and Philipa Yoi before he vanished.
- Ch 10Wyobie was a young first-lifer who had an affair with Tara and was also seeing another girl; no body has been found.
- Ch 11Disappeared with Tara; his account shows no purchases after that day and became a sleeper account two years later.
- Ch 14Wyobie Cotal is named as a murder victim alongside Tara Jennifer Shaheef.
- Ch 14Wyobie Cotal was Tara's lover; both were shot with a high-powered nervejam weapon and buried in the foundations of a condo.
- Ch 14Wyobie Cotal lost decades without a body because of Morton's crime.
Connections
- partner ofTara Jennifer Shaheefcited as reason for divorce
- related toTara Jennifer Shaheefdisappeared together; both presumed murdered
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 4Murder of Tara Shaheef and Wyobie Cotal
Forty years before Bose's discovery, a disguised killer cuts the power, murders Tara and Wyobie, destroys their memorycells, and removes the bodies and Tara's belongings.
- Book 1 · Ch 6Paula interviews Wyobie Cotal
At the Clayden Clinic, Paula and Finn question the re-lifed Cotal, who recalls nothing of leaving Oaktier or Tampico and begs them to find his killers; he is sedated.
- Book 1 · Ch 10Morton's private reflections
After they leave, Morton reveals his predatory view of Mellanie, his ambitions for Gansu, and unease over Tara and Cotal, then prepares for a party on Resal's boat.
- Book 1 · Ch 11Paula and Hoshe review the financial trail
Aboard the lift to the Raiel dome, they conclude Shaheef and Cotal's accounts show no sign they were alive after disappearing, supporting murder and a faked alibi.