Once again, my friend Michelle has honoured me with a drawing of one of my characters. And this time she coloured it in too!

Michelle described Trill as being ‘a little off her rocker’, but I disagree. I see Trill as being firmly on her rocker, with that rocker being how she divides and categorises everything in the world. Trill sees the world in a very clear way, in black and white without many shades of grey, and when situations swing from one side of her rocker to the other, she can seem a little bipolar.

But Trill’s ‘rocker’ of viewpoints doesn’t always align with the majority of society. It’s split rather like this:

• Good vs Evil
• Right vs Wrong
• Fire vs Not Fire
• Me vs Them

With her affinity for fire, Trilll also behaves a bit like her element. She hates being wet, hates being cold and doesn’t half-do anything. If she decided to take action, she goes all the way, if she doesn’t then she just doesn’t. She’s an all-or-nothing sort of character. Yet, for a persistent non-urgent thing she will smoulder along until breaking point.

And by breaking point, I mean ‘making the world better’ by increasing the amount of fire immediately present.