# Father — The Moon Maid character guide

> Father in The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0016-part-ii-the-moon-men

## Snapshot

The narrator's father, whose voice frames the Julian dynasty's saga and whose memories carry the reader into a world remade by war and first contact.

## Who they are

He sits alone at a small table in the Blue Room of the Transoceanic Liner Harding on Mars Day, 1967, and invites a stranger to share the only vacant chair. His face lights with a smile that compels liking, and his account of a world exhausted by half a century of war and suddenly electrified by communication with Mars becomes the doorway into everything that follows. He is less a character than a keeper of memory, the voice through which the Julian line's long entanglement with the Moon and with the Kalkars is transmitted to those who come after.

## Relationships

### [Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/characters/mother)

_family_

Father and Mother are a married couple, forming the central parental unit in the family dynamic.

### [Nah-ee-lah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/characters/nah_ee_lah)

_family_

Father and Nah-ee-lah share a familial bond, with Father acting as a protective or authoritative figure.

### [Julian 5th](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/characters/julian_5th)

_family_

Father and Julian 5th are related, likely as father and son, with a relationship of guidance and respect.

### [Peter Johansen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/characters/peter_johansen)

_family_

Father and Peter Johansen are family members, likely father and son, with a supportive relationship.

### [Juana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/characters/juana)

_family_

Father and Juana are family members, likely father and daughter, with a caring dynamic.

### [Nah-ee-lah](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/characters/nah_ee_lah)

_family_

Father and Nah-ee-lah share a familial bond, with Father acting as a protective or authoritative figure.

### [Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/characters/mother)

_family_

Father and Mother are a married couple, forming the central parental unit in the family dynamic.

### [Juana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/characters/juana)

_family_

Father and Juana are family members, likely father and daughter, with a caring dynamic.

### [Julian 5th](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/characters/julian_5th)

_family_

Father and Julian 5th are related, likely as father and son, with a relationship of guidance and respect.

## In the story

### [The Flag](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/chapters/i-the-flag)

Julian 8th, a member of the intellectual class who secretly preserves the American flag.

### [II: The Hellhounds](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/chapters/ii-the-hellhounds)

Julian's father; arrives at the scene and questions the rescued girl.

### [V: The Court-Martial](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/chapters/v-the-court-martial)

Julian's father, who laughs for the first time upon hearing Julian's story and expresses pride in his son.

### [VII: The Arrest of Julian 8th](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/chapters/vii-the-arrest-of-julian-8th)

Julian 8th; arrested by the Kash Guard for alleged nighttime trading, refuses to escape, hoping for acquittal.

### [IX: Revolution](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/chapters/ix-revolution)

Helps organize prisoners and leads the revolt alongside Julian.

### [X: The Butcher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_moon_maid_se/chapters/x-the-butcher)

Marches with Julian, kills Soor the tax collector, and is lost during the battle at the new bridge.

## Links

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