# We — Character guide

> Key figures in We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

- [D-503](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/we_se/characters/d-503.md): D-503 is a dutiful Number, mathematician, and Builder of the Integral, the glass spaceship meant to spread the One State's happiness across the universe. His orderly life frays when he begins keeping a secret diary, deve
- [I-330](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/we_se/characters/i-330.md): I-330 moves through the One State with a smile like a sharp triangle, mocking its rules and drawing D-503 into forbidden rooms, ancient houses, and the wild country beyond the Wall. She is seductive, testing, and unreada
- [O-90](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/we_se/characters/o-90.md): O-90 is the soft, obedient counterweight to I-330: a Number who follows the rules, loves simply, and longs for a child the State may not permit her to have. When D-503 uses her as a shield against the Guardians and then 
- [R-13](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/we_se/characters/r-13.md): R-13 is D-503's friend and a celebrated poet of the One State, a man whose lips splash words like a fountain and whose verses give mathematical beauty to the Machine of the Well-Doer. Yet when D-503 praises his death-sen
- [U-](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/we_se/characters/u-.md): U- is the matronly controller of D-503's building, all brown freckles and innocent gestures, who notices he looks abnormal and ill and tells him no one else would say so. Her kindness is genuine but her role is surveilla
- [The Benefactor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/we_se/characters/the-benefactor.md): The Benefactor presides over the One State as its distant, infallible sovereign, the figure behind the Machine, the Gas Chamber, and the Guardians who watch every Number. D-503 imagines confessing to him, then realizes h
- [S-4711](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/we_se/characters/s-4711.md): A cold, efficient doctor at the Medical Bureau who examines D-503.
- [The Second Builder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/we_se/characters/the-second-builder.md): A high-ranking official overseeing the construction of the Integral.

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