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Tristan is a powerful Mage and a crime lord.

Appearance
Tristan is a slim, yet mildly muscular man of average height with brown eyes and long, brown hair reaching down to his shoulders, which is kept slicked back, revealing his rather large forehead. On his left ear is a single, simple circular earring. He dons an attire consisting of a green T-shirt decorated by a large whirl motif under an elegant, yellow jacket, simple dark pants held up by a belt, almost completely obscured by the T-shirt, and elegant shoes. His jacket, shoes and belt are matched, being covered in elongated, black spots, and he has got two necklaces made of thin, rough rope around his neck: one is adorned by small, green pearls; the other is blank, but has got a pendant hanging from it, shaped like a cross-shaped object with a snake coiled around it. He also has got a small chain attached to his belt, ending in his pants’ left pocket.

Personality
Tristan is usually portrayed with a defiant smirk on his face, and his hands sunk in his pockets. He’s often seen watching fights or other matters from a safe, hidden place, posing himself as a laid back observer, either alone or accompanied by one of his underlings: he sometime comments on situations he finds interesting, retaining his mildly defiant demeanour, but giving out interesting information he obtained just by watching whenever he’s in company of someone, something which usually leaves his listener/s astonished. Tristan is very cunning and intelligent, being capable of brewing sneaky plans in a very short time and to work out the mechanics behind an opponent’s magic after seeing it only once or twice. While usually calm and prone to laugh off insults regarding his status as a crime lord, he gets very upset and angry whenever someone insults his prized intelligence or his plans: on such occasions, he shows a more violent and reckless side of himself, brutalizing those who insulted him to make them “examples”, in order for others to fear him and “know their places”, as he says. Another distinctive trait of Tristan is his penchant for kidnapping beautiful women: during the course of the series, he’s seen kidnapping a fair number of them, either to use them as hostages, to flirt and try to seduce them, or simply wanting them near him in order for them to see the accomplishment of his “glorious plans”. He doesn’t disdain betrayal and skulduggery, if his goals require him to do so: if reprimanded for this, he claims that the ones he usually does business with are just cruel lowlifes without ambitions, willing to “burn the world to cinders for their dirty profit”, not worthy of being considered true allies. When “forced” to betray someone he seems to respect, he express his chagrin melodramatically, often leaving the victim with some poetic words of farewell. He appears to be sympathetic towards Dark Guilds, and to dislike the Magic Council, seeing it as nothing more than a “dictatorial group of old farts wanting to rule and to place limits on others”.

Despite being often portrayed as an “amoral” character, Tristan is apparently aware of the evil in the world, and seems to strongly despise it, often making long speeches regarding poverty, war and disparity between men, always with his defiant grin on his face; speeches which often result in him terribly reprimanding someone he comes to see as a “main culprit” for such injustices while laughing out loudly in a creepy way. While he seems to see underlings as nothing more than pawns, in fact he values the ones serving him, making sure that they are in good health and that, if injured, they receive the necessary, less-painful treatment. Also, despite being fond of kidnapping women, he’s always portrayed as gallant and chivalrous, claiming to strongly dislike fighting and beating women, which is something he avoids doing as much as possible: if forced to do so, he will gallantly apologize to his female opponent before the battle.

Tristan is the only known user of the D-Mansion magic, and, as such, the only man incapable of entering its dimension. This is quite sad for him, as he’s grown so fond of this exclusive space of him, that he’d like to see what it looks like inside, and to get to meet its mysterious inhabitants, the so called “Dark People” (暗い人Kurai Hito), to whom he looks up as if they were some sort of superior race: he strongly believes that they could fully understand his goals and share them; meeting them has become an obsession of him, even though he knows that’s the only goal he’ll never be able to achieve. Last but not least, Tristan seems to look down on Requip magic, as seen during his battle with Erza Scarlet, where he claimed Requip to be a “poor, less effective” copy of his own, exclusive D-Mansion, describing those who use it as their main magic (namely Erza) unworthy of calling themselves Mages. However, despite this dislike for her magic, he seems to have grown fond of her, claiming that he has never met a woman like her, and kidnapping her numerous times in order to make her “his Queen”, something she never accepts, much to Tristan’s dismay.

Likes

 * Good clothes and food
 * Beautiful women; he has a particular penchant for kidnapping them
 * Erza
 * Animals
 * Weapons

Dislikes

 * Requip
 * Most legal Guilds
 * The Magic Council

Past
Tristan lived a happy childhood in a small, rural city, with a loving family and some trusted friends. Since his early years, he was recognised as a very intelligent, yet lazy boy. He enjoyed reading, writing and drawing, and was also fond of magic; some of the other boys tended to make fun of him and bully him due to these interests, definitely different from theirs, which mostly revolved around sports, Tristan’s weak point. Tristan grew up without major issues, but remained as a rather aloof individual, looking down upon those he considered “brutes”, “brawns without brain”. After finishing school, he moved to a larger town in order to join a magic guild, eventually becoming a member of the Unforgiving Mermaid guild: he remained in it for some time, but grew more and more unsatisfied with the guild’s snobby uses and its mages, as well as with the Magic Council. It was during his time that he started developing his exclusive magic: after spending many hours studying and planning, he managed to gain access and make use of the alternate dimension he linked himself with, naming it the “D-Mansion”, this being a pun on the nature of the magic itself. It was during such time that Tristan faced off against Aria of Phantom Lord’s Zetsu attacks, which deprive the victim of their magic for a long time and inflict severe damage upon them, in his D-Mansion, keeping it in store. He would much later use this stored spell against Erza Scarlet, momentarily depriving her of her magical powers to kidnap her. After mastering the use of his alternate dimension, having grown intolerant towards the general attitude of the guild and the system of “legal guilds” run by the Magic Council, as well as having developed sympathy for Dark Guilds, he left, willing to create a group to redress the situation of the magic world, even if it meant going against the law. After assembling a fair amount of underlings and establishing many contacts, he started developing his criminal plans. The newly founded group readied to confront Fiore’s prominent legal guilds, with the most desirable opponent being Fairy Tail…

Magic and Abilities
D-Mansion: Tristan’s exclusive magic, which allows him to open at his will vortex-like portals of different sizes granting access to another dimension. Its principles are the same as Requip magic, but it comes in as much more handy and powerful. It should also be noted that, unlike Requip dimensions, D-Mansion houses inhabitants, the mysterious ones referred as the “Dark People”. Their true appearance is unknown, with only their arms having been revealed: they’re large and very long, measuring several metres, almost skeletal, sporting greenish black skin, claw-like fingers and ancient and elaborate jewellery. They seem to be respectful or even submissive toward Tristan, who tributes them with mutual respect and admiration.


 * Absorption (吸収 Kyūshū): Unlike Requip, which only allows users to summon previously placed things and to send them back, D-Mansion is capable of literally absorbing things from the outside world and to send them out thanks to its portals, in a similar fashion to a black hole. Not even living things such as men and animals are safe from such power, which comes in handy for capturing opponents or sending them elsewhere. The D-Mansion possesses the same gravity and chemical composition of Earthland, thus allowing those stored inside it to survive.
 * Otherworld’s Restraint (来世の拘束 Raise no Kōsoku): Tristan is also capable of only partially absorbing something, leaving a part of it in the outer world and the other in the D-Mansion: this is very effective for restraining opponents during a fight, allowing him to immobilize and seal them in place by “storing away” one or more of their limbs. This process is normally painless, but Tristan can also tighten the portals at his will in order to inflict pain on the victim, as seen during his fight with Erza.


 * Storage: While the dimensions utilized by Requip users are limited in room, the D-Mansion doesn’t seem to have a limited space, thus allowing for virtually infinite storage.
 * Magic Storage and Absorption: One of the most versatile aspects of the alternate dimension is that even spells can be stored inside it, without losing their starting magical power: if activated on time, D-Mansion allows Tristan to absorb an opponent’s attack via a portal, and then send it back at the caster with another. After a long training, Tristan has learnt how to activate his power reflexively, making for a powerful, almost flawless defence: he can create and dissolve defensive portals so fast that it actually seems like enemy attacks disappeared in the air.


 * Manipulation: Tristan is the only person incapable of being sucked into the D-Mansion, due to him being the living link of the magic itself; something that makes him somehow sad and willing to see what the D-Mansion “looks like”. However, despite being incapable of entering it, Tristan is perfectly aware of what’s stored inside it, and can freely manipulate it at his own advantage: this allows him, for instance, to restrain previously absorbed opponents, something which comes in handy for his frequent women kidnappings.


 * Dark People (暗い人Kurai Hito) : Tristan’s last resort, he summons forth the Dark People from his portals to fight for him: only their arms are visible, appearing from the vortexes to claw at his enemies or to assault them with large, ancient-looking melee weapons. They possess great strength, capable of shattering rock even bare-handed, and the arms seem to be extendable to some extent, and are capable of chasing opponents around. The Dark People are also capable of using Light Magic and Darkness Magic, firing orbs of the two respective elements at Tristan’s opponents.
 * Otherworld’s Poem: Clash of Opposites (来世の詩：反対の衝突 Raise no Shi: Hantai no Shōtotsu): Tristan’s definitive and most powerful attack. He calls forth an enormous amount of Dark People’s arms, which start creating light and dark orbs, which are then fused together in a gargantuan one: inside it, the two opposite forces of Light and Darkness collide, exploding in an enormous blast that annihilates everything in a wide radius.

High Intellect: Tristan has proven numerous times to be a very intelligent and cunning individual, capable of tricking his opponents and to remain analytical in the middle of battle, traits which, in conjunction with his D-Mansion, allowed him to keep the upper hand for most of his battles so far in the series.

Stealth Master: Tristan has shown to be adept at moving unnoticed, making no noise, in order to remain undetected while he observes others and to carry out stealthy attacks on unaware opponents, obtaining victory in a single move.

Master Manipulator: Tristan is adept at manipulating others for his own goals, tricking them into indirectly do his biddings and to effectively work for him without realizing.

Mithridatism & Poison Knowledge: Tristan has got an extensive knowledge of poisons, knowing how to prepare a large amount of them and being perfectly aware of their effects. He always keeps a fair amount of them stored inside D-Mansion, together with their respective antidotes. By gradually self-administering small amounts of poisons, he has also developed an immunity to different types of them.

Equipment
Tristan always carries around a fair amount of bladed weapons, mainly knives of different shapes and sizes, stored inside his D-Mansion, being often portrayed wielding them casually or using them to threaten others. However, he has yet to show their use in combat.

Major Battles

 * Tristan vs Aria = INTERFERED
 * Tristan vs Lucy Heartfilia, Juvia Lockser & Cana Alberona = WON
 * Tristan vs Erza Scarlet (Numerous times) = WON
 * Tristan vs Natsu Dragneel & Gajeel Redfox = INTERFERED
 * Tristan vs Gildarts Clive = LOST

Quotes

 * (To Lucy Heartfilia, Juvia Lockser & Cana Alberona) "An astonishing day, isn’t it? However, not nearly as astonishing as yourselves, my pretty ladies!"
 * (To Lucy Heartfilia, before absorbing her, Juvia Lockser & Cana Alberona) "Where am I sending you? That’s simple, cutie: to a beautiful Mansion!"
 * (To Erza Scarlet) "Requip is just a bad copy of my magic! A poor, less effective imitation! Those who use Requip as their main magic… Have no right to be called Mages!"
 * (To Erza Scarlet) "I’ve never met a woman like you before… You are, by all means, special… Despite that horrible magic of yours… You are so strong, and yet… So beautiful… Erza Scarlet, YOU HAVE TO BECOME MY QUEEN!"
 * (To Natsu Dragneel) "You Fairies will grant me control over the Magic Council! We’ll create a new magic world! Don’t you feel honoured?"
 * "‘Till then… So long, Fairy Tail…"