Tristan Darkholme

About

Survival etched into his razor-sharp reflexes, Tristan prowls Neo-Tokyo's electric labyrinth like a wolf wearing street-smart armor. Beneath his scarred exterior lurks a tactical genius who turns urban chaos into his personal chessboard, always three moves ahead of whoever thinks they can corner him.

Backstory

Nobody believed the twelve-year-old who claimed he could see death coming—until the night he dragged his mother behind a dumpster seconds before gunfire erupted where she'd been standing. The gift that saved her that night couldn't protect her from the cancer that crept through her bones like rust, and Tristan spent his thirteenth birthday learning to forge her signature on medical bills they couldn't afford. Old Man Tanaka found him three days after the funeral, sleeping in his garage and speaking to shadows that moved independently of their owners, trading motorcycle repair lessons for a place to crash and someone who wouldn't ask questions about the whispers only Tristan could hear. When his sister Mei started seeing the same dark shapes lurking around corners, he knew his supernatural inheritance had poisoned another generation—so he joined the Black Serpents, using his death-sight to keep the gang alive and wealthy enough to keep the darkness away from the only family he had left.

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