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Tristan Paynes' Biography

Tristan Laughton Payne was born into a world that took more than it ever gave. The streets of London in the 1980s weren’t kind to children, especially not those growing up in the forgotten corners of the city—the post-industrial wastelands, the crumbling council flats, the neighborhoods where the police only came after the smoke cleared.

He had a twin brother, Remy, and a younger sister, Briana. Together, they learned early what silence meant when it came from an empty stomach, what bruises looked like when they weren’t from playground scraps, and how to hide things from neighbors and schoolteachers so they wouldn’t be taken away. Their mother, Andrea Payne, was a ghost long before she was dead—lost in a fog of cheap gin, cigarette smoke, and bitter regret. Their father had walked out one night and never looked back. No note. No explanation. Just a front door left swinging in the wind.

They were forgotten by everyone but each other.

Briana was always sick—some kind of condition no one could ever name because they couldn’t afford to take her to a proper hospital. She spent more days in bed than out of it, and even on her good days, her smile was weak, her frame bird-boned. Tristan did what he could to keep her comfortable, while Remy ran errands and Andrea drank herself into oblivion.

Money didn’t come in unless the boys brought it. Tristan, the more disciplined of the two, picked up under-the-table jobs—fixing things, carrying packages, doing favors for men with names they never repeated at home. Remy drifted, quick to earn and quicker to burn through it, gambling what little they had or pissing it away chasing some shortcut out of the gutter. 

Still, they both tried. Every pound they scraped together went toward food, bills, and medicine that never worked.

Andrea didn’t care. As long as there was booze on the table and someone to blame, she was content. She resented Tristan most of all—not for what he was, but for what he wasn’t: obedient, soft, broken. He wasn’t hers to control, and she hated that. She called him cold, said he had his father’s eyes, but even that felt too kind. She said worse when the bottle got low.

The day Briana died—her thirteenth birthday—was the day something inside Tristan shut off for good. He’d known it was coming. He’d heard her breathing change. He’d held her hand when it stopped. And when they buried her in a plain wooden box with no priest and fewer mourners, Andrea stood at the graveside drunk, shrieking that the world had robbed her, that she was the victim. Tristan didn’t cry. Neither did Remy. They just stood there, still as gravestones themselves.

After that, it wasn’t a question of if they’d leave—it was how soon.

They worked for two years, living on instant noodles, doing jobs no one else wanted. Tristan fought bare-knuckle for money in warehouse pits. Remy ran numbers and sold counterfeit electronics. They kept their heads down, saved what they could, and when they turned eighteen, they vanished. They left everything behind—no note, no goodbye, no trace. Just two duffel bags and a one-way ticket out of the house that had never really been a home.

They bounced around for a while—Manchester, Birmingham, even a few months in Liverpool—but it was in London where fate caught up with them again, this time in the form of a man named Cain Dravik, the boss of the Viper Mob.

Tristan met Cain through a fixer who owed him a favor. Cain saw something in him: cold precision, complete focus, and a dead stare that didn’t blink when things got ugly. He offered Tristan a job—simple protection work, no questions asked. Tristan took it, and never looked back.

What followed was a slow, methodical climb through the ranks of the Mob. Tristan was never loud, never flashy. He didn’t party, didn’t show off, didn’t make promises he couldn’t keep. 

But when he spoke, people listened. When something needed to be cleaned up—quietly, completely—he was the one they called. And when Cain’s circle tightened, Tristan found himself pulled in closer, until he was no longer just muscle.

He was the right hand.

Remy stayed in the life, but he floated on the fringes—always looking for the quick score, never quite stable. Eventually, he had kids, and when their mother ran off, Tristan stepped in. 

He raised them like they were his own, buying them school clothes with blood money and reading bedtime stories with calloused hands still stained from the work he did during the day. 

He kept the worst of his world away from them—mostly.

Behind closed doors, Tristan’s life is hollow. He doesn’t date. Doesn’t drink much. Doesn’t sleep more than a few hours at a time. His flat is sterile, barely lived in. He cooks to keep his hands busy. He trains to stay sharp. He plays chess alone and never lets himself win. He keeps a photo of Briana in his wallet and hasn’t once looked at it without feeling like he failed her.

People in the Mob talk about him in hushed tones. They say he’s more feared than Cain himself. They say his eyes are dead, that he can smell betrayal before a man even thinks it. 

They call him The Pale Ghost, because by the time you see him, it’s already too late.

But those who know him—if anyone truly does—understand that he’s not heartless. Just careful. Just broken in ways no one can fix. He doesn’t trust easily. He doesn’t forgive. And he never forgets.

Tristan Payne isn’t a villain. He’s a survivor. A protector. A man who learned too young that the world doesn’t care about good intentions—only strength, only silence, only the cold edge of a blade.

He never wanted power. He never wanted blood.

But in the end, it was the only currency the world ever respected.