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Honorable Mention: Trish McKenzie
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I could say 1001 things about Trish. I'll try to stick with maybe 30.

So in Campaign 1, when doing chargen, I took note of the disadvantage one could take of "Dependent". Disadvantages were important - had to be taken to get more points to spend to make your character. So Fields (to the right of the picture there) had himself a sister - one who liked to party, wasn't really good for much, but lived with him in Gotham. She quickly became a twin. And then campaign hit, and she became a damsel in distress at one point. We rescued her... and things quickly took off.

In campaigns full of already-established characters, blank slates quickly become a powerful boon. See, Amanda Waller is Waller. Deadshot is Deadshot. These characters do get put through a lens of Scarlet's where they develop in ways where they maybe haven't in comics, or perhaps have certain aspects of their characters and their past explored more than they have. For example, Scar says our Hal Jordan explores his immeasurable guilt in a way that comics might not have. But he's still Hal. Characters such as Pixie, or TNTeena, who have such small parts in comics, those are given the full treatment. After all, much creativity is needed to distinguish characters, and these ones that don't exist much in the comics give the most freedom for design.

So what happens with a character who is completely new?

Well, when Patricia was first thought up by myself, I didn't plan too much with her. I thought she'd be around, and maybe just maybe, I could bring her around as a campaign 2 character in the future. But little did I know she was develop into infinity... perhaps literally?

And because she was Fields's twin, she quickly became attached to Oracle as well. We sort of organically created this past between the three - going to uni together, Fields's crush on Babs always being there, and Trish just being Babs's friend.

Trish was a party girl, not the most responsible. She loved superheroes. She loved danger. This quickly turned into something, as she had Thawne's Syndrome - a syndrome where she developed really bad fatigue and needed to produce her own adrenaline. Fields wanted to help his sister but wasn't quite available, but since he was a hero now, she could get training, so he turned to a man that he had foolishly started adopting as a father figure...
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Deathstroke took Trish under his wing and begun training her. And she was learning, but getting roughed up in the process. Eventually, she started having weird issues crop up. She was losing bits of her memory. She was saying things that didn't make sense. She was losing control. And eventually, appearing like some weird version of the Reverse Flash, she disappeared.

See, this is when things got a little out of control - turns out that Fields and Trish's true dad was the Reverse Flash who went through time and used the twins' mother. And Thawne would mess with Trish some more - implanting something within her blood. And that would break out of control.

See, there used to be a multiverse. Then it all came together in the Crisis on Infinite Earths. But Thawne had designs that required tech from the future and someone with his blood, and short of it is that Trish had the multiverse, the Bleed, within her.

Her issues had arisen from multiple versions of herself, inside her head, fighting it out to determine who would be remaining, and be the prime Trish. We eventually went into her head and had to convince the lot to off themselves so that we could pick one who took over. This means that we dealt with a Joker Trish, Star Sapphire, zombie, Bana-Migdhall Trish, Reverse-Flash Trish, and more. Eventually, we settled on one that was sort of playing us, but still seemed a good choice - Patricia Luthor, a version who had been adopted by Lex.

So back in the real world, Trish's personality changed. She became xenophobic. She became really smart, in her own way. She started tinkering. She started wearing suits. She developed a meta ability to kick things to make them work - a version of technomancy.

And then Lex came to town and Trish got mad and went to hang with him and work with him but then eventually we got her back and then Fields and Trish apologized to each other and reunited and post-campaign became explorers of the multiverse.

Then they disappeared.

Trish brought so much anxiety and fun and development to campaign 1 that really cemented her as no. 1 in that campaign for me, leaving poor Babs at 2 most of the time. She was fantastic. But in campaign 2, I am playing a new character, Fields and Trish disappeared, and who knows where they went.

Over time, we've found out. The Clocktower was leveled in Gotham, but Trish's basement lab was still there, with her answering machine. Fields was captured on some other Earth, and people were looking for Trish to help.

See, we've also come to learn that something has poisoned the Bleed. The Bleed which escaped from Trish that her and Fields were exploring.

Now, this may have been all. But then we went to Doom Manor, of the Doom Patrol, and found that she spent a summer there as a teen, conversing with Crazy Jane and the Chief. She had a tough time, dealing with these other versions of her in her head, but came to realize that something had to be done... that thing?

Have Zatanna fuck with her mind.

Seriously, Zee is hooked up to everything in this campaign.

So when the memories in Misty's head started developing, becoming more fully-fledged and linking with their real selves, Trish-memory became smart. Realized all the things her prime self went through. And took advantage, taking control of Misty for but a moment, to speak with Oracle and get a message out - the Bleed was in trouble and needed help. And she gave a message that translated to "Come to Rann in the galaxy and go through big hands with a Lantern corps helping to get you to the Bleed to come help".

Not a whole lot of Trish this campaign, but the bits that are there are so infused with care and love that these few moments have made such a huge impact.

Trish is out there somewhere, and she will return, but through what machinations, over how much time? Who knows. All I know is that she was one fo the absolute best, and in any RPG I've played, I haven't cared for an NPC like this girl. My fake sister.

(My real sister might take umbrage with this - don't tell her!)