Trent Mallon

**Trent Mallon**is a main character in *War.*

In terms of the series narrative, Trent is a soldier of Leprolia and one of the first BioFreaks. Trent was a critical member of the expedition to flee Cartonia, using his supernatural affliction to aid the escape.

## Appearances

### *War*

Trent Mallon made his first appearance in "Infamy" after the Siege of Talonclaw Castle in 712. At the time, he was a lead soldier in the Leprolian trenches along the Felexan border. Following the Siege, he was surprised to find Madonna Jacquetta Lazoy, Princess Zamora Lazoy, and Prince Lionel Lazoy seeking refuge in his trench. He brought them to Azure Oldman, who organized the family's transport to the capital. Jacquetta, however, was worried that her family would meet the same fate as Alexander Petukinau and his family. She beseeched Trent to send a telegram to Bentley Connelly asking for personal exile in Canis. Trent agreed to send the telegram, and the Felexan royal family eventually ended up in the safety of Canis.

In "Something Wicked" in 718, Trent was fighting alongside fellow Leprolians on a battlefield against Cervidium. The deer suddenly launched a poisonous gas that killed all but two, Prince Azure Oldman and Trent. Both were left with supernatural abilities. While Azure could control snow, Trent was able to change his appearance. The power came with a price, and Trent was rendered colorblind. The two vowed to keep their conditions secret from the King and government out of fear of persecution or experimentation. Azure hired Trent into his personal service.

Fear of BioFreaks arose in 720 when Cervidium published an edict of their verified existence in "Requiem Aeternum." The newly-ascended Stag Barrow asserted that BioFreaks derived their mutations from interspecies sex and not experimentations. Trent and Azure Oldman fled Leprolia for Canis. There, they were granted refuge. Trent reunited with Madonna Jacquetta Lazoy, who noticed that his eye color had changed. He was later revealed as a BioFreak to King Bentley II.

Trent was a critical member of the expedition south to escape Cartonia in 725. In "The Good Must Associate," he was recruited to lead a team of cats disguised as foxes across Occupied Phantine to pick up passengers in Simeone. Hundreds of passengers from Eusuchia, Equine Isle, Ursus, Willie, Mallardia, and Simeone were brought back by Trent through the desolate wastelands of Phantine. Trent had mastered the ability to change his appearance to match a fox and was therefore named the leader of the second phase of the escape plan: the journey through enemy territory to the Vulpus Dam.

The passengers left Canis on November 3, 725, in "Bless My Homeland." Trent led the first truck of the convoy through enemy territory in constant disguise as a fox. His cunning and quick thinking helped the passengers pass into Cervidium and Vulpus, culminating in the group reaching the Vulpus Dam on November 11. During the escape, they were set upon by an army of foxes led by the Vixen Queen. The Dam was destroyed as the passengers fought back, and Trent escaped Cartonia on the ensuing flood.

Trent wandered the Expanse for a year in "Until I Die," eventually reaching the site that would become modern-day Toontown. Trent was elected as the third Mayor of Toontown ("Epilogue").

## Character

### Namesake

Trent's name was chosen because of its resemblance to "trench." His last name was randomly selected.

## Trivia

* Trent was meant to be a one-off character in "Infamy" but his role was later expanded because the author liked the character.