Lip Trelane

Renaud Trelane (adopted father)

Philippe Trelane (older brother)

Giselle Trelane (only daughter)

> “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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> ― Charles Bukowski
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**Louis "Lip" Trelane** is the son of Constance Metrejon and her former husband Joseph, and is the younger brother to Philippe. He was raised by his mother and stepfather Renaud Trelane.

From his childhood sweetheart and first wife Opalia Fitzgerald, he has one child named Giselle.

## Equipment

* **Medical Pack** -
* **Wrist-Mounted Needle Launcher** - When on field missions where Lip knows he may have to be involved in combat or be a support beyond medical, he uses this device to launch metal needles coated in poison. When the strings are pulled. Wires on the back of these facilitate the launching of the weapons. It is usually kept concealed underneath the sleeve of his sleeve on his right arm.

## Powers & Abilities

**Expert Thaumaturge Arts User** - Thaumaturge Arts are associated with healing, as well as the manipulation of their own, or another's body. The use of Thaumaturge Arts requires very advanced mana control, as well as extensive knowledge on such things as herbs, medicines, the human body and even poisons. The knowledge of Thaumaturge Arts can be used for a variety of purposes apart from simply healing. It can be used to create poisonous gas, deranging the target's nervous system, or directly attacking a target with mana scalpels.

**Skilled scientist** - Lip is a highly intelligent chemical engineer and researcher. Lip is a highly trained as a doctor with extensive knowledge. However, he has little experience. Lip quite enjoys being a doctor, and hates it when people take his skills for granted or underestimate his medical abilities.

**Sensory Tracking** - Lip possessed the rare ability to sense mana-users and locate other people and objects by focusing on them, allowing them to find their location and sense their environment.

**Trilingualism** - Lip when a translator is not on him or with him, he can speak his native English and Cajun French. He in fact can also speak some alien languages such as (\*&\*), (\*&\*), (\*&\*), and (\*&\*).

## Weaknesses

* **Lack of Fighting Will** - Lip is more of a verbal fighter being able to "verbally spar someone to death" according to Alek but lack the will to develop an Arcane Power, despite having a large pool of mana. He makes up for it though for his talents as a healer being even praised by his former captain Rumina Ulenspegel for his healing arts.

## Etymology

* Louis is the French form of *Ludovicus*, the Latinized form of Ludwig which is from the Germanic name *Chlodovech* meaning "famous battle", composed of the elements *hlud* "famous" and *wig* "war, battle". This was the name of 18 kings of France, starting with Louis I the son of Charlemagne. Others include Louis IX (Saint Louis) who led two crusades and Louis XIV (called the Sun King) who was the ruler of France during the height of its power, the builder of the Palace of Versailles, and the longest reigning monarch in the history of Europe.
* Trelane meaning is of unknown. But in Greek Τρελανε (*Trélane*) meaning "They were crazy".

## Trivia

* His first name Louis is pronounced *LOO-ee*.
* Lip owns an English Bulldog named Colossus.