Sharrol Janns is a Flatlander computer analyst. She works at Donovan's Brains Inc. as of 2646.[1][2]
Sharrol is described as having orange and silver hair set in an abstract pattern, space black eyebrows, silver eyes, faint and subtle green dyed skin around her face and possibly blue dyed skin below her neck.[2] Without Flatlander cosmetics, Sharrol is described as being pale skin and having straight black hair. She has a strong jaw.[3]
Despite Sharrol having a job as a computer analyst she is known to partake in pickpocketing. She has a sense of humor.[2] She spent the first thirty years of her life living underwater as her dad had a lobster ranch near Boston and she then went on to work for the Epcot Atlantis police.[4]
Sharrol is friends with Carlos Wu, Gregory Pelton, whom she calls Elephant, Dianna and possibly Larchmont Bellamy. It's through Gregory and Dianna that she becomes acquainted with Beowulf Shaeffer who she had previously only briefly met after pickpocketing him at the spaceport.[2][5]
She becomes romantically involved with Beowulf, but their relationship enters a pause after Sharrol enters a two-year marriage contract with friend, Carlos Wu, (with Beowulf's agreement) due to her desire to have children and the Fertility Board of Earth preventing albinos such as Beowulf from reproducing, along with Sharrol's phobia of space preventing her from moving to another planet with Beowulf.[2][5]
During the next two years she has two children with Carlos Wu, named Tanya Wu and Louis Wu.[6] After the contract ends and Beowulf returns she moves to Nome, Alaska. She and Beowulf remained good friends with Carlos.[4]
Eventually she and Beowulf become involved with Carlos and Feather Filip's plot to leave Earth for Home. As Sharrol is a flatphobe she is kept in Carlo's state of the art autodoc while in transit. On the stopover in Fafnir the plan goes terribly awry as Feather shoots Beowulf and almost kills him. Sharrol then kills Feather by cutting her throat and saves Beowulf's life by putting his disembodied head inside the autodoc. For the next months after this incident she lives by herself in Fafnir's Central Islands until she is reunited with Beowulf.[4] They settle on the planet for the next year and a half and have a child, named Jeena, and conceive another[3] while Sharrol's other children are with Carlos on Home (He managed to escape with them from Feather).[4]
The peace is ended by the arrival of ARM collaborator Ander Smittarasheed and Sharrol and Beowulf contrive to leave Fafnir and head to Home as was the original plan.[3]
Appears on[]
- Flatlander
- Grendel (Mentioned only)
- The Borderland of Sol (Mentioned only)
- Procrustes
- Ghost
- Fly-By-Night (Mentioned only)
- Juggler of Worlds
- Betrayer of Worlds (Mentioned only)