Tristan Ferrel

Tristan Ferrel, commonly referred to by the nickname "Boy", is a male adolescent who wishes to one day become a detective, and is the protagonist of *Whistler*. Orphaned until the age of 14, he was adopted by Morris Ferrel, who took him on as an apprentice.

### Aliases

Boy(by Morris Ferrel)Agent 73(assigned number)

### Relatives

Morris Ferrel(mentor and father)Ernestine Crowle(mother)

### Occupation

Wulfe Agent, detective/PI, liason between the Wulfe Agency and the North Hundsted Police Force

## Appearances

### Appears in

"Whistler""Truths of Bad Intent"(brief mention)"Memory"(cameo)

## Description:

Tristan is a scrawny, small 14 year old adolescent with brown hair, fair skin, and green eyes. It has been remarked that he shares a particularly strong resemblance to his father, Morris Ferrel, in regards to his overall facial shape and jawline, but that he has his mother's eyes and nose. He has a birthmark shaped similarly to an axe on his right arm.

## Personality:

Tristan is eager and enthusiastic about becoming a detective, and enjoys dime novels such as the *Sherlock Holmes* stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. He is empathetic, generally confident, and is passionate about things he is interested in. He can sometimes become worried over the little things, and struggles with patience. He is gullible and "easy to fool", according to Morris Ferrel, and has a tendency to theorize before knowing everything about a situation. He can be quite headstrong and stubborn, and has habit of judging others before he really gets to know them. Tristan has an immensely strong sense of justice, and likes being told the truth more than being lied to. He tries to be brave, but generally leans more towards being a coward, and prefers to flee rather than fight. Tristan does not often become violent, though he does have a temper, and will resort to violence on impulse if pushed far enough. He is oftentimes impulsive, and has a habit of jumping straight into things with both feet, regardless of who might be watching, or what the consequences might be. Tristan is idealistic, and cares deeply about his family and his friends.

## Biography:

#### Truths of Bad Intent

Tristan Ferrel was born the son of Morris Ferrel (then acting as an undercover agent for the Wulfe Agency) and Ernestine Crowle(a prostitute from North Hundsted's Lower City) in August of 1880 AKD. Shortly after Tristan's birth, Ernestine betrayed his father by selling him out as an undercover agent to the group he was infiltrating, and then, a few days later, purposefully set the brothel she was living in on fire in order to make Ferrel think that she and Tristan had died. In reality, she dropped Tristan off at the North Hundsted Orphanage, and left him with a note stating his name, but no other identifying information.

#### Whistler

Tristan spent the next fourteen years of his life in the orphanage, becoming friends with a girl named Elinor(later adopted by a couple surnamed Spencer), and frequently getting into fights with a boy named Griffen(nicknamed Griff by the other kids at the orphanage, and later adopted by a rich family with the surname Perry). When Tristan was first introduced in *Whistler*, he was seen picking the locks on Mrs. Morgan Erpingham(the orphanage director)'s filing cabinet in the attic in order to try and see his file. He learned that someone had written a letter mentioning him, his mother, and the birthmark that he had on his right arm, and decided to keep it for later.

He, Elinor, and Griff were all told that the orphanage was going to be kicking them out soon, as it had been determined that they could no longer house teenagers. A few days after, Tristan showed Elinor the letter that he'd kept, and told her his theory that it had been written by his father, who he'd never met. Elinor expressed mild confusion at the word choice used within the letter, and then left Tristan alone in order to meet with the Spencers, who went on to adopt her. Griff, meanwhile, was very upset about being adopted by the Perrys, a rich couple who mostly wanted to adopt as a way of looking better in pictures. Tristan went outside for a walk, nearly bowling over an older man who was sitting on the steps of the orphanage. When he came back, the man was still sitting there, and proceeded to yell at him about listening to his elders, then rather petulantly asked Tristan what he wanted to do for a career when he became an adult. Tristan eagerly replied that he wanted to become a detective, to which the man grunted his agreement that that was a good career choice, before asking whether or not his name was Tristan. Tristan replied in the affirmative, and the man scrambled up to his feet, nearly falling over before steadying himself, and proceeding to stare narrowly at Tristan for several moments in silence. Then he caught Tristan looking at him in an equally intense manner, and sourly asked him where he could find the director of the orphanage. Tristan asked the man who he was, but got no response, only the sight of the man disappearing indoors.

Tristan went back inside, and found that the stranger and Mrs. Erpingham were talking in the director's office. Deciding to listen in, he learned that the stranger's name was "Ferrel". Tristan hid in the supply closet until the two had left the room, then slipped into the room and snatched Ferrel's card off of the desk, finding that he was a member of the Wulfe Agency-an organization of undercover agents, detectives, and Private Investigators famous for stopping numerous gangs, criminal groups, and other such characters. The card looked like it had been "rolled around something, then flattened out", and was slightly crumpled. Turning the card over, Tristan found a set of coordinates, which, he would go on to find, would lead him to the *Hairy Gull Bar*, beneath which was the Wulfe Agency's headquarters.

Ferrel brought to the headquarters via a subway that was accessed by an elevator, and then introduced him to three of the other members of the Wulfe Agency-Theophilus Cranmer, the leader of the agency, Benjamin Elliot, and Anthony Rochester, who were Cranmer's protégés and also junior agents. While Ferrel and Cranmer were talking in private, Elliot asked Tristan what his first impressions of Ferrel were, to which he said that he found the man cranky and kind of creepy. Elliot nodded, and briefly told the story of how Ferrel had become the way he was: Ferrel used to be an undercover agent, but ended up falling in love with a woman he'd met during his infiltrating the gang, and wanted to marry her, even though Gavin Wulfe, the founder of the Agency, disagreed. Ferrel got into a gunfight that ended with his taking ten bullets before he went down, and having to go overseas for emergency surgery in order to save his life. He was gone for nearly a year, and when he returned, he sported a heavy limp, several scars, and a left hand that looked as though it had been mangled and trampled on. Ferrel said that the doctors had managed to save his hand, but that they were only able to return the use of three of his fingers, leading it to be nearly always stuck in a claw-like position. As a result of his injuries, and perhaps feeling that he wasn't useful to the Agency anymore, Ferrel turned the reigns of leadership of the Agency over over to Cranmer and quietly went into retirement.

Ferrel and Cranmer came back, and Ferrel announced that he had managed to get Tristan full access to the headquarters before stating that he wanted to leave, and pulling Tristan behind him as he went, while Cranmer sneered that he was "going back to beat [his] head against the walls with the other patients", referring to Ferrel living in an insane asylum. They took a ferry over to the island, climbed up a set of steps that was falling into mild disrepair, and then entered the asylum, where Ferrel led Tristan up another set of stairs to their shared room. Tristan was quite shocked to see the state of general disarray that the room was in, but Ferrel didn't seem to care, and slouched into his desk chair before throwing two pieces of bread from his last(unfinished) meal at Tristan's face and ordering him to come in. Ferrel asked him whether he liked the room or the Wulfe Agency's headquarters better, to which Tristan replied the latter. Ferrel flew into a fit of temper, snarling and knocking his dinner off of the desk before seizing Tristan's arms in a vice grip and hissing that the asylum they were in was the only honest place in the city, and that he would do well to remember that, before ordering him to clean up the mess that Ferrel had made.

Over the next few months, Tristan began searching for his father, eventually learning that his name was "Abe Thusscaint", but finding that there were apparently a lot of people in North Hundsted with that surname, and ending up with a list that was at least fifty-five names long. Ferrel proved himself to be largely unhelpful, and was often off doing his own thing, leading to Tristan having to handle himself. In the midst of Tristan searching for his father, the Wulfe Agency was growing concerned about the presence of a series of murders that kept popping up in seemingly random places, but it was noted that each of the victims were upper-class women, and that their throats had been slit with some sort of blade. And as if that wasn't enough, the killer had begun writing letters and was sending them to the newspaper offices. Tristan, meanwhile, tracked his father's address to one Maude Sargent, a lady who lived with hundreds of cats(some of which she killed out of "kindness"), where he learned that his father had lived in one of her apartments for a short while. Mrs. Sargent noted, with some trepidation, that Tristan looked quite similar face-wise to a particular tenant she'd had the displeasure of hosting, and recalled watching him shove a piano out of the building in a rage, and then smash it into pieces before stalking back inside with a dark look in his eyes. Mrs. Sargent also noted that the tenant later received a package, though his name wasn't on it, and that he had snatched it out of her hands, but not before she caught the name on it-Rhil West. She ended up writing it down in case the police came after the man.

Tristan, with Ferrel's begrudging assistance, later concluded that Abe Thusscaint and Rhil West were the same person, and decided to try tracing the latter name instead. Tracking Rhil West's address to No. 14 Dreyher Street, Tristan found that the building housed an apothecary's shop, though it was closed due to a blizzard that had blown in a few days before. After knocking on the shop's door and receiving a resounding "come back tomorrow", Tristan realized that he was being followed, and decided to try and circle around and catch his stalker. That plan didn't work as well as he'd intended, as his stalker, who, Tristan realized, he'd nearly run into several times before, was standing in the alley, waiting for him. After briefly threatening the man with a stun baton that Tristan had found in the Wulfe Agency's subway car, the man withdrew, and Tristan hurried toward a group of street workers, who were comprised of several of Tristan's former acquaintances from the orphanage, getting into a minor scuffle with them before being saved by Griff's adoptive mother, and hurrying off toward the Brinestone Prison, where he ran into Ferrel, who was also making his way there in order to take a look at a recent set of three murders, presumably committed by the same individual who had killed a socialite in a library a few months before.

Together, they walked to the prison, where there were several members of the police gathered, including the Commissioner. Cranmer was there as well, looking utterly miserable as he spoke to the Commissioner, and Ferrel dragged Tristan behind a carriage before they could be seen. They weren't entirely unseen, however, as Elinor Spencer caught sight of them, and called Tristan's name. Ferrel automatically snapped into a defensive stance, before asking, in irritation, if Tristan knew everyone who was at the scene. Tristan said that she was his friend from the orphanage, and Ferrel, seeming to understand, told him to stay and talk, see what he could find out, if anything, while he went and dealt with the chaos of the scene before them.

Tristan later travelled back to the Wulfe Agency's headquarters, where he crashed on one of their spare cots for the night, waking up the next morning to find the Agency almost entirely deserted, due to most everyone being at their undercover positions. While searching for food, Tristan stumbled upon an office with a locked cabinet, that held several guns, including at least eight mounted on oddly shaped stands. He also discovered a lockpick, and decided that it was even better than using his old set of nails, which he'd been carrying around since he left the orphanage. After nearly being shot several times by the mounted guns, Tristan decided to leave well enough alone, and left the headquarters in order to find breakfast. While he was trying to think of what to do afterwards, Tristan realized he was being followed, and turned around to find Elinor following him, namely in order to tell him that the killer had sent a note to the Commissioner of Police through the newspaper that she worked for.

Realizing that his father was the killer, Tristan decided to try and sneak into a gathering that the editor of the *North Hundsted Times* was hosting as an excuse to speak with the Commissioner informally. When he returned to the Wulfe Agency, however, he was accosted by Elliot and Rochester, who locked him in the same room that he'd spent the night in, as Cranmer had found out about his theft. Tristan spent the next several hours digging a hole into the ceiling as a method of escape, causing a mild flood in the process, and got out, though he reeked of sewer water. Managing to make it into the gathering, he was met by Elinor, who brought him to the editor's office. Unfortunately, Tristan's plan to pick the lock on the door went out the window the second he saw the lock-it was tiny, and none of Tristan's nails would fit. As they tried to figure out how to break in, they were interrupted by Griff, who, after attempting to fight Tristan, helped to break the lock by way of ramming his shoulder into the door several times.

Tristan was horrified to discover that his realization had been correct. This quickly turned to anger as he realized that Cranmer had lied to him. He stormed back into the gathering, confronting Cranmer in front of the guests. Cranmer steered him out, lying to the Commissioner that Tristan was his nephew, and attempted to speak with him calmly, explaining the situation as he saw it. But Tristan wasn't having it, and drew out the stun baton. Unfortunately, it didn't work, due to still being wet from the sewer water. Angry, Cranmer spat that he must've been more like his father than Cranmer had initially thought, judging by the fact that he was willing to steal from the Agency. But before he could say anything more substantial than that, Tristan punched him hard in the face, and then, horrified at himself for what he had just done, ran away from the scene. Two days later, Tristan met with Ferrel in their shared room in the asylum in order to discuss what Tristan had learned, and Ferrel mentioned that Tristan didn't *have* to be exactly like his father, but that he likely had some of his father's better traits, describing him as "cunning...brilliant, strong, dedicated...", and went on to state that those were all qualities to be "proud to possess".

That Saturday, Tristan traveled to Elenor's residence, where he snuck in through a window, only to find Elenor meeting with a girl he didn't recognize, incidentally the Commissioner's daughter, as he would find out a few embarrassing minutes later, when he insulted her father by scathingly describing him in the same tone his mentor would have used. Realizing that the Commissioner was in the house, Tristan decided to share what he knew about his father being the killer, but before he could, he was stopped by Cranmer, who asked him to take a walk with him outside. Once out of earshot, Cranmer asked him what he'd been thinking, coming there, and told him that after Tristan had punched him, he'd had to crawl into the street and pretend that he'd been hit by a cab. Tristan was then, once again, accosted by Elliot and Rochester, who gagged him, tied him up, and brought him back to the Wulfe Agency, where they shackled him and locked him in a room. For hours, he sat there, until Cranmer came back, demanding the address that Tristan had been investigating near the Prison. Before Tristan could tell him, he was interrupted by Ferrel arriving, in a fury, to find his apprentice tied up and shackled like some sort of common criminal. Cranmer tried to defend his actions, but Ferrel was having none of it, and made a scene until Cranmer gave up and released Tristan. In exchange, Ferrel gave Cranmer a false address, and they walked out together.

Ferrel and Tristan schemed together for the next few weeks, plotting out how to best go about undermining Cranmer's position with Commissioner MacReilly, and put their plan into action on an overcast Monday. Tristan walked into the Police Department, claiming that he had a delivery for one of the switchboard operators, and snuck in when the woman in question exited the room. Several minutes later, Cranmer no longer held the Commissioner's favor, and a few days later, Tristan learned that Cranmer had been thrown into jail. Tristan returned to the Wulfe Agency to find that Ferrel had taken charge of the Agency in the chaos left behind by Cranmer's absence, although Elliot was officially the one in charge, and decided to try and find the letter that had led him to try and find his father in the first place, as well as the scrap of paper with his father's signature(which Tristan had given to Cranmer earlier), but was unable to. He did, however, manage to find the lockpick, and kept it with Ferrel's permission.

Several hours later, Tristan was startled out of a restless sleep by the rumbling of the Agency's subway, and he snuck out in time to see Ferrel board it and pull away. He trailed his mentor all the way to No. 14 Dreyher Street, where he was horrified to find Ferrel on the floor, unconscious, in a pool of blood, and beside him, a dead woman. Unable to process what he was seeing, Tristan ran out into the street and simply began screaming, disturbing several tenants in the the process, and drawing the attention of the night shift policeman, who called an ambulance once he saw what had happened. Ferrel was taken to the hospital, and Elliot met Tristan at the scene, where they agreed to tell Commissioner MacReilly only part of the truth. Tristan sat vigil beside Ferrel's bed, shocked when he saw that he was finally awake. Ferrel proceeded to be his regular petulant and cantankerous self, ordering Tristan around like he hadn't nearly faced his own demise a few hours before.

While Tristan met with the senior detectives, who were questioning him as to what had occurred, Ferrel met with Griff's adoptive father, Jonah S. Perry, and agreed to work with him in an attempt to gain some money for Tristan's benefit. After meeting with the detectives, Tristan travelled back to the Wulfe Agency, where he took a nap, and was awoken several hours by Ferrel poking him heavily in the shoulder with his cane in order to tell him that Cranmer was dead, having been strangled to death during a prison riot. In order to find Tristan's father's letter, they would likely need to search Cranmer's body. The two of them traveled to the morgue, where Tristan snuck in, and after searching for a good while, found a facsimile of a letter written in his father's now familiar scrawl. He felt like fainting after he saw the name of the writer: the Whistler.

Ferrel ordered Tristan to get out as fast as he could, and then caught him as he near fell out of the doors. They walked across the street, Tristan in a shocked daze as Ferrel guided him through his panic. Ferrel left Tristan at the Wulfe Agency, with a suggestion to call Elenor, and left to meet with Mr. Perry. Tristan called Elenor, and together, they spent the next several hours trying to decipher the clues that connected the killings together-eventually discovering that "Abe Thusscaint" and "Rhil West" were anagrams; when unscrambled, they spelled out "Butcher's Assistant" and "Whistler", respectively. A few hours later, they had deciphered that the victims' names were clues in and of themselves-each of the Whistler's former victims were found in places that coincided with the current victims' last names, maiden names, or both. It was then that they figured out that Griff's adoptive mother was the Whistler's next intended victim, and rushed to the Perrys' house to try and stop it from happening.

After being briefly stopped by a group of militia members, Tristan and Elenor found their way to the Perrys' house, where Tristan and Griff worked together to stop the Whistler, who was on the roof. They climbed up a support pillar, and up onto the Whistler, where Tristan found Griff lying on the roof with what was likely a broken arm, and proceeded to try and fight his father with the stun baton, but was quickly disarmed and thrown onto a pile of loose bricks on the roof, badly spraining his shoulder. As the Whistler turned to go after Griff, Tristan smashed a brick into the side of his head, knocking his father off balance. After talking with several detectives, and a few reporters, none of whom really believed Tristan's, Griff's, or Elenor's story, they were left alone to recover from the ordeal after being briefly seen to by a doctor. The next day, Tristan was asked by Mr. Perry to try and phone Ferrel, but his mentor didn't pick up. Instead, the phone was answered by an Anykkisian woman by the name of Wilhelmine Delagnis, who stated that it was her first day on the job, then said that Mr. Ferrel wasn't currently there, but that he had left a message for Tristan, but wanted to make sure that it was really him, and asked him who should have been his favorite detective. Tristan answered with the name of Ferrel's favorite fictional detective-C.Auguste Dupin-and received his mentor's message: he was on his own. Frustrated and believing that his mentor had abandoned him, Tristan went back to work on the case.

A few minutes later, Tristan, Griff, and Elenor deduced that the Whistler would be going after Commissioner MacReilly's daughter Natasha, after having killed another woman as a substitute for Griff's adoptive mother, and decided to sneak into a party that was being hosted at City Hall in order to try and convince MacReilly to get his daughter out of the area before the Whistler could come after her. They snuck into the party, and while Tristan was attempting to convince Natasha that she wasn't safe, he was tapped on the shoulder by Elliot, who asked him to fill in on what he'd learned. Tristan explained, and Elliot took him to meet with MacReilly, who, at first, regarded him with suspicion, but gradually warmed up to him, and even offered him advice, before agreeing to try and get Natasha out of the area before the Whistler could get his hands on her. Several minutes later, MacReilly, Natasha, and Tristan had all somehow shoved themselves into a carriage. About half a block later, their ride was suddenly interrupted by the carriage picking up speed. MacReilly leaned out to yell at the driver, but then was swiftly kicked out of the way by the Whistler, who grabbed Natasha, and after a short tug-of-war battle between him and Tristan, Tristan was forcibly ejected from the carriage. While MacReilly commandeered a horse, Tristan found the Wulfe Agency's electric carriage, and drove it after the Whistler and Natasha. Tristan and MacReilly cornered the killer in an alleyway. After watching MacReilly and the Whistler fight for several minutes, with MacReilly losing the fight and being knocked to the ground, clearly at a disadvantage, Tristan threw his stun baton, hitting his father's blade and shocking him with it, before driving the electric carriage at full speed into the Whistler, wrecking the electric carriage and sending himself flying into the alley's brick wall, knocking himself unconscious.

Tristan woke up in Ferrel's hospital room to find out that he broken several ribs. After several weeks, with numerous visits from Elenor, Griff, and MacReilly, Tristan was finally visited by Ferrel, who came to tell him that he was leaving and that he wasn't coming back, implying that he was going to go after the Whistler, and drugged him to be sure that he wouldn't follow. Elenor and Griff showed up the next morning, and together, they travelled to the asylum, where they discovered that Ferrel was planning to take a train out of North Hundsted, They ran to catch the train, jumping onto the tops of the cars as the train began pulling out of the station. And then the Whistler appeared, sending the other passengers running from terror. Tristan, with Griff's help, threw himself into the car that his father was on, only to find that his father wasn't there, only his mentor.

But then Tristan slowly realized, with dawning horror as his mentor revealed himself, that his father and his mentor weren't separate people after all; they never had been. Unable to accept what he was seeing, Tristan listened as his father explained what he had done, why he had done it. After learning that his father had knocked out the engineer, and that no one was driving the train they were on, Tristan went to wake up the engineer, managed to get him out, then went back for his father, only to find that while he had been gone, his father had escaped. A few minutes later, realizing that the train was going to crash, Tristan leapt out himself, suffering several bruises and scrapes, but no major injuries. A week later, Tristan had invited Elenor, Griff, and MacReilly to visit the Wulfe Agency's headquarters. MacReilly gave Tristan a file on everything that the Wulfe Agency had had on his father, and asked him to be a liaison between the Agency and the commissioner. Elenor, seeing that Tristan was wearing one of Ferrel's old coats, noticed that it was falling apart at the seams, and began to protest his wearing it, but stopped when she saw that there was something in the coat's lining. Tristan ripped the seam open and withdrew a book-*Tales of Mystery and Imagination* by Edgar Allan Poe-which had been one of Ferrel's books, and that had three loose sheets of paper in it: one, the letter that Tristan had found in the orphanage filing cabinet, two, a facsimile of the letter that Tristan had found on Cranmer's body while searching it, and three, a recently written, crumpled letter that stated that Ferrel was going to be trying to track down Tristan's mother, as he had heard that she was still alive.

#### Memory

Tristan makes an appearance as a nineteen year old agent in the epilogue of *Memory,* in which he knocks on Mr. O'Leary's door in the height of winter in order to ask him about places to stay, as he's unfamiliar with the area. Mr. O'Leary herds him inside, stating that he's happy to house him while he's staying, and asks Tristan what he's in Faulkensund for. Tristan replies "business", and Mr. O'Leary decided not to press him on it. In actuality, he was there to try and map out the places that his father had traversed in an effort to understand why he had done what he had.

## Relationships:

#### Morris Ferrel

Tristan's biological father and mentor. Tristan disliked Ferrel at first, believing him to be crotchety and more than a little creepy, but over the course of his apprenticeship with the older man, grew to be fond of him. He was equal parts horrified and disgusted with the twisted monster that his father eventually revealed himself to be, but some part of him feels sorry that Ferrel became what he did, and wishes that they could've had longer together.

#### Ernestine Crowle

Tristan's mother, who he has never met, and who abandoned him on the front steps of the North Hundsted Orphanage as a baby. He would like to meet her one day, if she is still alive, but has accepted that it's probably unlikely that he ever will.

#### Theophilus Cranmer

Though Tristan initially believed Cranmer to an amicable, nice individual, his opinion of the man changed after learning that he had been lied to and manipulated. His relationship with the man was further soured by his punching Cranmer in the face, and by Cranmer ordering for him to be locked up after he stole the prototype stun baton that the Agency had lost, and after he had caused a minor flood in the headquarters by digging out the ceiling of the room he was in in an effort to escape, which was actually the floor of part of the city's sewer system. Tristan helped to get Cranmer arrested for lying to his boss(Commissioner MacReilly), about knowing more about the Whistler's murders than he let on, and felt regretful about having to later rifle through his corpse in order to find the Whistler's letter that he had hidden.

#### Benjamin Elliot

Tristan likes the junior agent, and looks up to him. His relationship with Eliot briefly soured due to Eliot participating in holding him prisoner on Cranmer's orders, but picked up again after he learned that Elliot was reporting on everything to Ferrel, and that Ferrel was aware of what was going on. Elliot later stayed on to help rebuild the Agency's ranks after Cranmer's death and Ferrel's disappearance, something that Tristan is grateful for.

#### Anthony Rochester

Tristan likes the junior agent, and finds him to be humorous, mainly because of the way that he speaks exclusively in Shakespearean English, which means that Elliot often has to act as a translator in order for Tristan to understand him. Though he was loyal to Cranmer, Rochester knew when to cut his losses, and stayed on to help rebuild the Agency's ranks after Cranmer's death and Ferrel's disappearance, which Tristan is grateful for.

#### Commissioner MacReilly

While initially unsure of how he felt, Tristan grew to like Commissioner MacReilly, bonding over difficult childhoods and a shared sense of justice. Commissioner MacReilly would go on to offer Tristan advice, and even allowed him to borrow a pair of his handcuffs, which Tristan put to use during his final fight against the Whistler.

#### Elinor Spencer

Tristan's first friend from the North Hundsted Orphanage, and someone that he has a mild crush on throughout the events of *Whistler*. Tristan is happy to have her support, and enjoys her company immensely. Along with Griff, Elinor later helped Tristan track down Morris Ferrel based off of the clues that Ferrel had left behind.

#### Griffen "Griff" Perry

Initially Tristan's enemy, Griff became a friend of sorts after Tristan helped to save both Griff's adoptive mother and Griff himself from the Whistler. Along with Elinor, Griff later helped Tristan track down Morris Ferrel based off of the clues that Ferrel had left behind.

#### Johnathan Breackly

Tristan finds the Wulfe Agency's librarian to be interesting, if a bit odd at times, and tries to be respectful-though that can be difficult when the man is rambling only semi-coherently about something that happened to him when he was younger.

#### James the Wall-Walker

Tristan finds James to be strange, and even a bit disturbing at times, not the least of which is because James is Ferrel's nearest neighbor, and happens to be an inmate in the asylum due to the fact that he believes that he can walk through walls if he slams his head into them hard enough. Tristan is uncertain as to why James is the way he is, and has sometimes, in moments of extreme frustration, been tempted to walk into James's cell and join him in slamming his head into the walls.

#### Maude Sargent

Tristan met Mrs. Sargent only once, but once was enough. He found her to be immensely strange, and even creepy, quite possibly due to the fact that she was surrounded by cats on all sides, and admitted that she killed them out of "kindness". Tristan came to the conclusion that Mrs. Sargent was likely not right in the head, and got out of her house as soon as he could.

## Trivia:

* Tristan has a tendency to furrow his eyebrows when he is curious, like his mother, Ernestine.
* Tristan was named by his father, who named him after "Triysteyn", the deity in charge of sandstorms and the originator of the word for "Free" in the language of *Ebrurth'Unin.*
* If Tristan had been born a girl, his parents likely would have named him "Johanna".
* Tristan has a fondness for gadgets and machines.