Tristen

I did figure out something thematic about Chill last night, though, and it involves why Tristen is the protagonist of the book, so I'm pretty pleased about that.

i'm a freelance walker. i'm a freelance writer. maribou 2008

Maybe I can get Dorcas to tell me, since Tristen is clammed up tighter than, well.

Yeah. Sometimes we get it wrong. truepenny 2008

And, indcidentally, spelling Perceval's name wrong.) (Tristen is hurt to be thought generic.

we are spirits in the material world truepenny 2007

Dressed in bleach-stained sweats and the replica Homer King jersey he got for his birthday, Tommy looked like a ragamuffin compared to Tristen, decked out in new baseball pants, an authentic Homer King jersey, eye black, sweatbands, and a cap that read PVYBL All-Stars.

Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011

Maybe you should go to Triple-A and Kristen, er, I mean Tristen, should go back to Single-A.

Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011

Perceval is Perceval because she's Perceval, and likewise Tristen.

i smoke my friends down to the filter buymeaclue 2009

"That is," said Tristen in a strange voice, "the purpose and privilege of life."

the only thing i can call my own is a troubled and a worried mind greygirlbeast 2009

Maybe you should go to Triple-A and Kristen, er, I mean Tristen, should go back to Single-A.

Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011

Mean things: loneliness of command, nobody wants to believe that Tristen isn't a war criminal any more, Daddy issues, privation, Balkanization, civil war, religious baggage.

with one fist raised in anger. with one foot in the fire. truepenny 2009

Mean things today: kids grow up, and Tristen never gets to be anybody's daddy for long.

take it up with the great deceiver matociquala 2009