Tristan MacDonnel
From Changeling Venue
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"Still workin' the details..." Mal Reynolds, Firefly
Overview
Alias(es): Tristan "Two-Feathers"
Real Name: Tristan MacDonnel
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Age: 27
Apparent Age: 27
Seeming: Beast
Kith: Hunterheart
Court: Spring
Virtue: Hope
Vice: Lust
Concept: Traumatized bruiser
Physical description:
- Mortal Appearance
In his mortal appearance, Tristan appears as a healthy, well-muscled young man in his late twenties. His slate-blue eyes often appear haunted. His sandy blond-brown hair is long, and is frequently kept in a ponytail and covered with his favorite hat. He has a short-cropped beard covering his face, and Celtic knotwork tattoos running up his arms.
- Fae Mien:
Tristan's Fae Mien is a good deal more intimidating. Covered with fine grey-white hair, the tattoos on his arms look more like darkly colored hairs than ink beneath the skin. His powerful hands end with cat-like claws. His canine teeth are more pronounced, and his eyes have large dark-spots, like the tear-track markings on a cheetah, beneath them. His hair is loose and unkempt, and forms a slight mane on his neck and back, like the scruff of a wolf's neck. Two feathers are tied into his hair.
Relevant Mechanics:
Character Livejournal:
History
Basic Timeline:
- Taken 1995 by The Lord of Broken Twigs
- Escaped 2005 with Ashika and the The Crimson Bay Corsairs
Current Activities:
Currently, Tristan is spending time at Cavanaugh's Home for the Wayward, tending to the horses that live on the ranch and spending a lot of time getting counseling with Cavanaugh. When not on the Ranch, he's acting as a bouncer at Club Chandra in Harrisburg.
Merit Details:
Background:
Associations & Associates
- Richard Cavanaugh. Tristan both works and receives counseling at Cavanaugh's Home for the Wayward. While mostly there as a patient, Cavanaugh lets him help out by tending the horses and cattle at the ranch, as the work seems to moderate Tristan's behavior. Under no circumstances will Cavanaugh allow him near the children though, due to Tristan's often-violent reactions to seeing young girls in any sort of distress.
- Ashika. One of the other members of The Crimson Bay Corsairs, Ashika is largely responsible for bringing Tristan out of his fury-induced beast-haze during their time in Faerie. Ashika and Tristan met when Tristan was loaned to Ashika's keeper, The Marquis of Crimson Seas. They attempted escape once during the Red Nettle Revolt, and finally succeeded in 2005, stealing one of the Marquis' ships and escaping through the watery Hedge near the Susquehanna river in Harrisburg until they wrecked it.
Character Inspirations
- Himura Kenshin from "Rurouni Kenshin" and "Samurai X" (more the latter than the former)
- Tristan Ludlow from "Legends of the Fall"
Soundtrack
- "I am made of scars"-Stone Sour
- "Under the Wire"-Carbon Leaf
- "Hunter"-Dido
- "Not too late"-Three Day's Grace
- "The Old Ways"-Loreena McKennitt
Quotes
Rumors
- Tristan freaks out around children. It's nothing weird like that! It's just, he goes berserk, or all twitchy, around little girls, especially when they're not happy.
- While Tristan was in Arcadia, he killed a LOT of other Changelings. In the arenas, in the wars of the Gentry, wherever he was ordered. He didn't hold anything back. And, scuttlebutt is, not everyone's exactly happy he got out of there...
