Age: 16
Gender: Female
Sexuality: straight as a sharpened knife, she does have a slight bias against other sexualities but is usually able to see past it
Her hair is naturally big and wavy but she straitens it. It comes down to her waist and is usually loose but sometimes she puts it back in a high braid. Her hair is as black as night and her eyes are green in color that can look greyish blue in certain lights . Her face is soft and has never seen hardship. Trista is very tall for a girl (6ft 1") and lanky but not nessecarily skinny. She doesn't seem aware of her hight though and is constantly bumping into things so people often call her a klutz.
Trista unlike her name might suggest (it's Italian for sad) she is exceptionally happy go lucky. She almost always sees the bright side of things and loves her life (for the most part). She isn't necessarily naĂŻve and is at times is quite wise. However she is very prideful and tends to hold a grudge and is unafraid to defend herself or those she holds dear. She is one of those people who can get by on school work and training without giving it her all (unless it pertains to Fucuello), but when push comes to shove she will give her all no matter how impossible the task. Trista can be a bit of a flirt at times, but doesn't look for a relationship since she is so focused on Fucuello. (Think of Nelly Furtado's song "I'm Like A Bird")
Rainy days,
riding, cream filled pastries,
hiking,
talking,
sunrises,
Fucuello,
horror films,
stargazing,
reading, g
uys with muscles,
shoving her views in other's faces and proving herself right,
indie music, hugs
snow,
cold,
fairies and their ryders since she can't
fathom how something so small can be
of any use,
what she defines as a wimp,
loud noises,
emos
Dreams/Hopes: she only wants to ride and be with her companion and leave her home forever, she could care less about Diablo. Becoming a Ryder is only a means to accomplish these goals.
Trista grew up happily, in a regular house, with regular parents, in a regular neighborhood. She was a happy child who did what all happy children do. She played, she laughed, she cried for her selfish wants, and was treated like the princess of the world by her father who spoiled her quite a bit. Her father was a Ryder by the name of Marcus the EarthSmasher and was often away on adventures. When he did come home with his companion, a humongous un-winged Terra Dragon by the name of Bach he brought with him treasures and other odd things from far off lands. It was this way that Trista came by her companion at such a young age.
Her father had been in a fierce battle at the edge of Cree with Diablo's forces. He came out victorious but discovered that within the fray another casualty had been delt. A female black unicorn, a mother. Her foal, far to young to fend for himself, stood weeping over his mothers cold body moaning the most wretched and pitiful sounds. Trista's father had no clue what to do with the foal at first. On its own it would die, but he couldn't possibly take care of it, he was far to busy! Then an idea struck him. Perhaps he could give the foal to his daughter as a companion of her own. Yes! That would be splendid surely his little Trista would love to have her own companion. So he brought back the foal to his daughter. She was as he predicted, delighted, but the Ryder warned his daughter. "This foal is a living being, not a playmate. He has feelings and thoughts just like you do. Think of him as your twin or sibling, someone you must share your life and all it's experiences with. Remember this, Trista."
Trista nodded and though at first she failed miserably at taking responsibility of her new charge, she soon came to enjoy her companion's company. Especially when he taught her to ride him. It was then that she put all her strength and resolve into caring and loving him. He was her pride and joy and she loved him with all her heart. She named him Fucuello for the plumes in place of his hair.
It was when she was thirteen that life came knocking. It started, ironically enough, with a new life being born into this world. A little bundle of joy called Memmy. Trista was at first delighted to have a baby sister, now she would have two siblings. Things didn't go as planned, however. Her mother fully supported her husband in his work, but fretted over his safety. She was glad that Trista had never voiced any aspirations to be 'just like her daddy' or to 'become a Ryder and be the one to slay Diablo!'. So when her husband came home with Fuscuello, she was terrified. Now her baby would be taken away from her one day, forced to risk her life day in and day out. Exposed to such harsh cruelties and to death and destruction and hell! At first her rage was aimed at her love, for bringing the beast. Then at the beast for winning over her daughters laziness. And finally it passed to Trista herself, for giving in, for being weak, for wrecking the peace that she had worked so hard to conjure, to protect! In time, while the woman's scorn faded at her husband it only clenched harder around her daughter and companion.
When Trista's mother had her second child, she praised God and sang. She believed she had been given a second chance. Another chance to raise a child without sorrow. She vowed to protect Memmy from all the harshness of the world, including Trista and her beast.
Trista had not noticed her mother's rage, she was too to focused on her companion. Now though it was obvious. She wasn't allowed in her sister's room, or to hold her, or even to show her to Fucuello. Soon it wasn't just that her mother blocked Trista from her baby sister but from her own life completely. She ignored Trista's existence almost entirely, except for meals and when Trista's father was home and then Memmy did not leave her mother's sight or arms. Life at home now was unbearable for Trista. She practically lived in Fuscuello's stable. By the time that she was to go to Ryder academy both she and her mother hardly spoke and her baby sister, now three, didn't even know Trista's name or whether or not they were sisters. Trista left home after seeing her father for one last time, wishing that she would never have to see home again, and not even fully understanding the reason for her mothers hate.