#tris chandler

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Favorite Book Quartets

Round 2

Sandrilene fa Toren, Briar Moss, Daja Kisubo and Trisana Chandler (The Circle of Magic) VS Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Haymitch Abernathy and Lucy Gray Baird (The Hunger Games series)

Sandry, Briar, Daja and Tris

Katniss, Peeta, Haymitch, Lucy

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Voting ended onFeb 12

NO ANTIPROPAGANDA

Propaganda under the cut

Circle of Magic:

4 kids from very different backgrounds who get thrown together and become a family!

The Hunger Games:

The 4 Victors from 12, Lucy doesn't really interact with the other but the memory of her is there even when Katniss has no idea.

[tragedyposting]

As I often do when I’ve been in a reading slump, I’ve returned to the world of Circle of Magic lately. After rereading Shatterglass, I had to take a fresh crack at drawing Tris, my favorite weather witch!

[greatcometdeservedbetter]

Nothing makes me feel more like the Joker than knowing that Tamora Pierce has an entire novel about Tris at Lightbridge that will just… never be published? Apparently?

Anyway, as a poor substitute, here’s a list of things my brain has decided happens in that book:

Tris attends under a pseudonym, as planned, and no one knows about her connection to Niko or anything about her life at Winding Circle. She is one of many children of middling merchant families in her class.

Due to a mixup, she is assigned a roommate. For the first time in a long time, Tris has no access to power or connections and so she has to put up with it.

Most of her professors find her difficult to work with because she does not limit her study of their subjects to the traditional curriculum. Maybe one or two professors pay her special attention and praise, enough that her classmates are made aware of how talented she is.

Despite having no information about her except her milquetoast background, her classmates still find her strange and difficult. Her unexplained talent and advancement for a freshman leaves her isolated from her peers.

Gradually, Tris finds herself writing to her siblings less and less because she isn’t sure how to keep her unhappiness out of the message.

Making things worse is the roommate, who turns out to have a remarkably similar kind of backstory to Tris. Maybe she’s an orphan or a scholarship kid; her magic was definitely discovered later in life after a lot of hardship. Everyone in the school embraces her and finds her endlessly charming despite her social sort comings.

Poor Tris sits in the corner of their room while her roommate goes on about all the parties and dinners and whatnot their classmates have invited her to.

Only one student really tries to befriend her. He doesn’t have a name but he looks like a young Tom Hopper (Black Sails/Umbrella Academy). A super outgoing young mage from a working class family, he’s very adept at physical magical workings and is always outside doing like pushups and stuff where people can see him. He’s not used to an academic setting, though, and anytime he sees his pull ups catch Tris’ attention, he always calls out to her and sometimes asks for her help with classwork. She finds him annoying but still helps him when be asks because no one else talks to her.

She doesn’t know how he got into the university because he is. Shockingly bad at magic.

At one point, Nico visits. He tries to keep a low profile, but some of her classmates notice them spending time together. It immediately becomes the only thing anyone talks to her about, which is the opposite of what she wants so she starts being extra prickly and avoidant to make them stop.

This goes on for a while. Lonely Tris avoids her classmates and focuses on her studies. Presumably some kind of mystery is afoot and she can throw herself into that instead of wallowing in her misery.

At the midway point, she gets more visitors. Possibly all three of her siblings, but At minimum Briar.

For the sake of moving along, let’s say it’s just Briar. They connect mentally way before he arrives and any annoyance he has at her lack of communication dispels when he feels her frustration and sadness through the bond. He rolls up ready to be her social lubricant.

He introduces himself as her brother, never mind why they don’t look alike, and easily blends into the crowd at school for a few weeks. He makes friends effortlessly, gets invited to all kinds of parties and events, and even shows off a bit of his ambient magic during classes.

This infuriates Tris. They have a fight about it shortly before he leaves. Briar rightly points out that all the work she’s doing to lie about so many big parts of her life is preventing her from seeing the obvious - that many of her classmates have been trying really hard to make friends with her.

Her roommate only told her about things she was invited to in order to gauge if Tris would also be interested and to try and invite her along! And the boy constantly doing pushups in front of her actually has better grades than he lets on because he’s looking for excuses to spend time with her and all she seems to do is study. People only asked about Nico because he was the first concrete bit of information about her that anyone had!

It takes Tris a bit of time to process this, and she will have broken some bridges beyond repair already, but she does eventually see it and slowly starts to reach out.

Her circle (ha) stays small, but her life at Lightsbridge vastly improves once she starts seeing her classmates’ bids for connection for what they are.

As she gets comfortable with people, she gets key gossip and information about the school that she had previously been missing out on. Now the mystery becomes solvable.

It was probably whatever authority figure was nice to her in the beginning. Secret, asshole me too type behavior maybe.

She ends her first year better than she started it, with a good bunch of pals to help her out going forward, and a lot more confidence in her abilities.

Maybe she visits home over the summer or maybe we cut to after her graduation, but we see her return to Emelan at the end of the book

Whoever didn’t get to see her during the plot has a chance to hug and scold her for being standoffish. Then Briar’s like “and anyway, that guy who’s obviously in love with you asked if he could stay with us for a few weeks while he gets settled at his new job, and I told him sure”

And Tris is like “What guy? No one at school was in love with me.”

And then knock knock it’s the beefy-but-smart guy at the door and Tris is like “oh shit”

End book

[its-to-the-death]

Glasses Swag Sequel Round 3

Trisana Chandler (Circle of Magic by Tamora Pierce) vs Simon Petrikov (Adventure Time)

Who is the better glasses character?

Trisana Chandler

Simon Petrikov

Voting ended onJul 2, 2024

[whimsicallywiddershins]

Something I enjoy about Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic series is that the children have real, normal flaws, and are never blamed for having them, only gently corrected over time and with experience.

Sandry doesn't have that many, she's very open minded, but has some flaws in her teens. But the other three have flaws and prejudices when they arrive at Winding Circle.

Briar is slightly sexist. He protests at living with girls, and doesn't really believe they are much use in a fight until later. He complains about female stereotypes that don't really apply, such as the girls sticking their noses into his business, talking excessively, or being weepy and emotional.

Daja is xenophobic to anyone who isn't a Trader. She openly calls people a slur, even Sandry in the beginning. It takes some time to accept others not of her people as her family. She still carries that orginal xenophobia a long ways, though.

Tris is very prejudiced, she was raised that way. She is horrified to share a house with a Trader, a noble and a former street rat. Several times in the books she disparaged people she thought as lesser, such as the poor and Traders. In Briar's Book she calls street kids animals, and blames the poor for the pox.

None of these traits are super obvious, and they aren't called out right away. They are also perfectly normal prejudices and problems for children to have, especially those raised by prejudiced adults. The books doesn't encourage you to hate these children for it, nor do the kids change right away. It's a slow process fueled by their teachers and their experiences, as well as each other.

It's really great for children to read the book, recognize some flaws they have, and work through them as the characters do. And it's done mostly subconsciously too. It's a sensitive topic that is very well done.

[themysticaljellyfish]

Alright, the kids just got Little Bear, so let's rank them from most to least competent in pet training:

Tris. Canonically her only friends were animals until she came to Discipline. I think she would be very good at training animals.

Daja. There canonically were cats and dogs on Third Ship Kisubo, and I think it's possible she had to train some of them.

Sandry. From what I remember, there is no mention of Sandry having any pets when her parents will still alive. Servants likely handled most working animals on their travels, so I think Sandry has no experience with pets.

Last and in this case least, Briar! Canonically, in Street Magic he "couldn’t even teach our dog to walk on a leash". Not helpful in training Bear.

[dr-dendritic-trees]

Got trapped at a seminar full of computational lectures I didn't understand. Spent most of the sessions discreetly reading Cold Fire. Now entertaining myself with the image of what would happen if Tris ever went to Carthak.

[coppercrow]

Meet Tris, the SPCA rescue kitten who I adopted two weeks ago! She's named for Trisana Chandler from the Emelan book series by Tamora Pierce! The Emelan books hold such an important place in my heart. The day I adopted her Cyclone Dovi was passing over New Zealand so it seemed fitting that she's named after someone who can control the weather! She's also got the typical tortiseshell personality, so the name Tris is especially fitting!