#and then freaked out and called it off and skipped town DBFJDJDJ

[rosykims]

4, 5, 6, and 8 for miss triss ?

thank u miss mollie !

4. Can they handle blood/gore?

yes she can ! nd thats on desensitization luv 🤦‍♀‍

basically she saw a very Grizzly supernatural occurrence in the woods once as a kid, it fucked her up for life, and ever since then (bc she processed it only the way a classic Weird Girl could) she became pretty obsessed with like. horror and true crime (NOT in the gross way, i swear) and basically wasn't squeamish abt any of that shit bc she'd already had the real thing burnt into her retinas dbfnddnndd

so after she goes away to college/uni/whatever the fuck u need to do to be a Big City detective, she did a few science units and whatnot so she's also seen dead bodies nd the like in an acedemic capacity. it's never effected her too badly except for like,,, very casual feelings of pity. she's actually IS very caring, i swear, she just also happens to be numb psychologically !!! xbxjdksmdnd

5. How are they with people?

ok so she's simultaneously very good w people and also...... quite bad. basically triss is VERY charismatic and charming and endearing and outwardly she's just permanently smiling so its hard not to like her. she is good aquaintances with almost everyone in town and people will always smile and say hello to her when they see her. but as for close friends . . . she basically only has tina and thats it ! and even then tina knows fuck all abt triss's personal life ! verda is on the cusp of becoming a Good Friend too, but triss is very good at keeping people who genuinely care about her an arms reach away. the ordeal of being known is Extra mortifying for her and she hates people understanding her bc it gives them power to reject her basically 😌 she's had people who got close in the past, but she usually ends up getting scared and like. ghosting them lol. she is unknowable ! she cannot be known !

6. What's their relationship to Bobby?

m!bobby is her ex...... L. even more unfortunately, triss still does like him (or, at least amicably tolerates him lmao) and is on pretty good terms with him, at least up until That One Scene in book 2. i like to think they were friends in highschool, when he was halfway decent, and then got together after triss returned from the city. like i said above, triss doesn't rly let anybody in, and so bobby........felt easy for her, because she knew pretty much right from the start that he didnt actually give a fuck about knowing her or understanding her. and that suited her just fine fbxndndnd much to her mother's dismay. basically he was just a convenient excuse to avoid real, genuine intimacy and emotional vulnerability, wig ! rebecca would give her a LOT of talks abt “knowing her worth" "doing better" and whatever but the thing is.... triss knew he was trash ! she was just chill w it bc it meant she didn't have to get too attached lmao. anyway obviously they broke up but their relationship following that is mostly just..... ironic. triss is never mean or cold to him bc shes never mean or cold to anyone, but i guess u could say she's very obviously with the fact that she finds him annoying af. but she also finds him funny so she doesnt mind him being around bc she can get a laugh out of it.

one more thing – triss got kissed by him in book 2 (i picked the 'too stunned' option uwu) but didnt want to go any further with it bc obviously she's hung up on ava. his betrayal after that was probably one of the few times triss's chill persona actually slipped and she could barely hold a smile, could barely keep the anger and disgust from her face, and so i think he rly knew he fucked up bc she NEVER let him get under her skin when they dated. she still cared abt him and was concerned abt him after he was attacked tho. shes a caring gal !

8. What's their relationship with their mom like? How did it change?

her relationship with her mum is very good, but thats because its VERY distant. she doesn't tell rebecca jack shit abt her life, and hasnt since she was a kid. she has a lot of unresolved issues with rebecca but locks them down deep bc.... well. she hates setting boundaries for other people and would rather just ignore it til it goes away. after the book 1 reveal shes....... not rly okay with her mum, but not for the reasons rebecca thinks. the supernatural, the agency, the secrecy, none of that is rly a big deal for triss - she already more or less knew that the supernatural was out there, and like. the government being shady is hardly a surprise dbfhdjdj. mostly the reveal just bought to the surface memories of what she saw as a kid, and how much it hurt her, and she cant stop thinking abt how if her mother – who had the tools to deal w it properly – had just noticed that smth was obviously wrong, she could have helped her. it makes pretending to be fine about things a lot harder for a while, and she comes across a lot more distant than usual. eventually, after processing it, she does find a way to repress it down again, but those feelings are by no means gone and i think theyll come out One day, at some point lmao