#trystan

[exilethegame]

i apologize in advance if this is too long and rambling lol. i just need to make you aware of the moral quandary i’ve found swimming around in my head all day. firstly, your book is amazing. i don’t think ive seen a writer capture my attention and also rip my heart into pieces so throughly (although, I, the Forgotten One is maybe tied with yours in my mind).

so, trystan and syfyn.

IRL i consider anyone who sits by as atrocities happen to be completely complicit and (sometimes) as equally as guilty as the perpetrator. your story makes my head spin as this is a stance i take very strongly and i struggle with hating syfyn and trystan. on one hand, my MC does hate them for things they’ve done (breaking his arm, holding him down while people essentially experiment on him, and even not really doing anything after finding out what happened to MC and learning that the queen is working with the “enemy”). other times, my MC can’t hate them for being a victim of circumstance, just as MC himself was (and is). my MC sees them for who they used to be, how their circumstances have shaped them, and how they may be punished for defying the crown but also can’t help but feel a personal and… maybe political betrayal? my MC, and me by extension, have been grappling with a couple questions: at what point does being a victim of circumstance no longer absolve someone of guilt? how many horrible things must someone do before their allies see that something must change? at what point does someone become just as guilty as the perpetrator because they refused to lift a finger either way? is it wrong to hate someone as a whole because of circumstances that, up to a certain point, were beyond their control? is it wrong to hate someone that follows a tyrant because they fear for their safety? what if it’s all they’ve ever known and they have no clear path forward without their leader?

i hope all of that made sense and don’t seem like the ramblings of a lunatic lol. i’m not very intellectual but these are just some things i’ve been thinking about as i gave your story another read last night and i was bursting at the seams to share my thoughts. like i said before, your story is beautiful. tragically beautiful, perhaps? i’m wishing you the best of luck in your work and personal life! and thank you so much for sharing this story with us; we don’t deserve it, but we will try to.

(also sorry if i misspelled trystan lol)

Ah no don't apologize!! I love discussions like this re. the characters, especially because pretty much all of them are morally questionable to one degree or another. It always makes me happy to hear when the game has made people start to think and worry about bigger moral questions like this :)

I think both Syfyn and Trystan definitely are intended to make that question be asked. And the game won't push a particular agenda either way re. if the Commander forgives/doesn't forgive, blames them/finds them to be victims, etc.

Of course, something I do think is fun that plenty of characters are wondering this very same question about MC, and the role they used to fulfill for Plaithus vs. what they are now, post-exile... 👀

Thank you so much for the kind words :)

[reallypheelingit]

drawing of my girl Trystan! who probably needs a new name tbh but i'm not sure what

[gawrkin]

(From Athletics and Manly Sport by John Boyle O'Reilly)

Words to live by: Fear Celtic Poets

[0155cm]

"Um, yes-- The blood's not great...but I was referring to the fact that you look like you were carved out marble, and I just think that as a rule of thumb, inherently evil people should be grotesque-looking." "You just can't kill people and be pretty. It's confusing." "You think I'm pretty?" "That's not a think scenario--that's objective. Look how symmetrical your cheekbones are."

[readyforbooks]

Shouldn't he smell like death? Not faintly of cinnamon, whiskey, and cloves.

—Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

[masked-alien-lesbian]

Mx. Wynter Rose-Thorne and Mrs. Trystan Rose-Thorne ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[fairy-peculiar]

She prayed to be swallowed into the earth and perhaps reborn as a tree, where the only thing she would be expected to do was grow.

Assistant to the Villain / Hannah Nicole Maehrer

[dire-vulture]

omg i just realized it's kind of funny i've drawn two dragons this week but have yet to actually post what they look like on site dsfdg

so here they are, Trystan and Yacón C: also Tangira who I apparently haven't posted either omggg

[thecounterfeit-redhead]

I just read Assistant To The Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer in literally a day here are my thoughts:

-evie: I appreciate so much that she just says what she’s thinking cause it was so refreshing wow

-the villain: I love that the name Trystan is from stardust cause I love that book and the movie is incredible

-the plot: wonderfully written with some twists that I didn’t see coming but they were pleasantly welcomed

-the swoon: the romantic tension literally made me squeal like a teenager again *chefs kiss*

-dual pov: I’ve come to not like dual pov as much recently but this was just so tastefully done and I loved it so so much

Overall: LOVED THIS BOOK!! It checks all my boxes: funny, witty, romantic, suspenseful, dramatic! It touched on some harder topics that were very well written and I appreciate the work the author put in to bringing these issues to light in ways that are healthy for coping! 10/10 would recommend!!

I usually HATE reading books in series that aren’t complete yet because I love binge reading series but I suppose I must wait for the second because I’ve heard it will be ~good~

Anyways thanks for coming to my ted talk

[high-quality-tiktoks]

Ambigram of Trystan Kathlene and Anthony - fun!

[exilethegame]

I legit thought baby trystan was like very small bcs they're a baby but they're 6'2??? but idc how tall they are. I will still carry them and kiss their forehead and sing them a lullaby

Baby baby Trystan, pre-exile, was small, but they had a big ole' growth spurt in the three years MC was gone 💪

And honestly both Trystan's would love to be coddled... just neither one is going to admit it.

[choices-addict]

Trystan: "At my age, do you know how I'm statistically most likely to die?"

COP MC: "At the hands of your partner?"

Trystan: "An accident."

COP MC: "That's how I'm going to make it look."

[trystanxthorne]

i literally never post these days but I literally cannot wait for CoP 2 to come out I need to see Trystan again

[shreyamistry]

y’all if I opened requests again would anyone be interested? im thinking of writing again 👀

[0155cm]

"The Villain came to an unbidden realization then, so completely tragic that his mind tried to reject the words. But they were there, so plainly it was almost comical. He was in love with her."

[catwif3]

repostober day 15: ttrpg characters!

may 2019 & jan 2020 !

trystan was for a game a coworker was running at lunch, and darcy was for a homebrew worldbuilding a friend was running based on,,,, i don't remember what the base system was.

trystan is a warlock whose parents were university wizards who wanted her to study (ugh) so she made a pact to be able to dupe them with her mAD MaGiC SkILlS, DAD. she /is/ in fact, just Like That. quickly became the baby of the party (as she was designed to be)

darcy is a gods-favored natural healer, which is the only way he was ever going to possibly survive to adulthood, as he has never encountered a cliff he did not want to jump off, a potentially trapped door he wants to facecheck, or an ominous dark cave he immediately simply MUST enter.