Benjamin Trover

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Benjamin Trover is a practitioner in an unusual relationship.

Personality

Ben is easy going and accommodating for those he loves. His mind has a distinct academic bent to it, helping him see patterns others haven't.

He has a self confessed appreciation of "trashy girls" which explains his attraction to his previous girlfriends.<ref>“Look.  I don’t know… Some guys out there, they really like… I’m trying to think here.  They really like Golden Retrievers.  Common, conventional, friendly, happy, beautiful dogs.  Family-friendly.  Right? [...] And some guys like pugs, [...] I… kind of like trashy girls,” Ben said.

“Can’t get much more trashy than this!” Deedee exclaimed, wiggling, hugging him. - Excerpt from Poke 3</ref>

Relationships

Deedee

His girlfriend who he is in genuine love with.

Gisela Warzenberg

His former fiancée who he had moved in with before she broke it off with him. Later died.

Appearance

Ben is conventionally handsome,<ref name=":0">“I’m not really interested. He’s like, thirty,” Mags said.

“Twenty-eight,” Ben said.
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“What the fuck, why aren’t you fucking interested?  Look at this face, it’s all boringly good looking and shit. [...] He’s got muscles that are all in the right place and a three-hander of a cock big enough you could bludgeon someone to death with it! [...] And he’s nice and shit!  And he’s so smart it’s fucking stupid, and you’re not interested?  You’re insulting him?” - Excerpt from Poke 3</ref> being a tall brunette<ref name=":1" /> in good shape<ref name=":0" /> and with a cleft chin<ref name=":1" /> and a well-endowed.<ref name=":0" /><ref>“Didn’t you hear me before?  Three-hander of a dick, like coke cans stacked on top of each other,” Deedee said, moving her hand to demonstrate. - excerpt from Poke 3</ref> He is normally clean-shaven and crisply attired.<ref name=":1">Dropping from a crouch to lying on her stomach, most of her body hidden between the wall and the couch, she watched as he stepped into view, lower face heavy with stubble, black hair slicked back, dark circles under his eyes, clothes wrinkled.  He was what humans would say was about twenty-eight.
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Her uncharacteristically unshaven, wrinkled, sloppy human.  He was normally so tidy, clean-shaven, so crisp, inviting her to mess it all up in the most perverse ways possible.  She looked at his butt-chin and impulsively kissed it, tongue slipping out to briefly tongue the butt, on principle. - Excerpt from Poke 1</ref><ref>He was cleanly shaven after his stop in their hotel room, and looked more at home here than he did at his apartment, his features sharp in the orange flame. - excerpt from Poke 4</ref> He is visibly his age however.<ref name=":1"/><ref name="P3e1" />

Abilities and Art

Benjamin's skills lie in research as he commonly deals with Heroic practice, though applied to Oddfather methodology specifically to inbred royalty, this may be a unique case. Possibly intending to summon the heroic spirits of deceased Warzenberg clan members as opposed to working with visceral forms. Is able to make many research strides in Oddfolk histories who are known to have very dense family trees.

Interestingly he is also very social given that he is able to deal with several dangerous others and not die horribly.

• Multilingual: Can speak English, German and passable French.
• Competence: Knows basic practitioner fundamentals such as Runes and diagrams.

Tools

• DeeDee gave him a "murder stick"
• Has materials for marks and similar.

Chronology

Before the Story

Seemed not to want for anything given that he backpacked through Europe, and was able to have an apartment and frequent plane trips. He met a woman named Gisela, they were happy and were about to get married before Gisela broke it off.

Sometime later he was harassed by a female goblin, possibly some goblin form of showcasing interest, they eventually started a relationship.

After Pact

Came home from an international flight to a girlfriend making herself at home.

Convinced his girlfriend that Stray Baby's were not a thing.

He met Mags Holt and got several research questions answered, he also invited Deedee to meet his mother.

He was last seen going to a party where there was a distinct possibility that he'd be eaten by his research subject.

Around Pale Timeline

Has apparently asked his girlfriend to be his wife.<ref>“Connections and shit!  Oh, and this one time, he was like, what would you think about gettin’ married sometime down the line?  And obviously when a practitioner asks a question that wild, it’s just trickery, right?  But he really got me.  The look on his face, and how nervous he was actin’, I thought he was for real for like, three fuckin’ seconds.  Then he was all, ‘I’m serious’ and I was like, yeah, that wouldn’t work if you didn’t say it all serious-like.”

“Wouldn’t work at all,” Biscuit agreed.

Verona’s ear twitched.  “Maybe talk to Toadswallow about that?  He’s good with humans.”

“It’s one of those things, you had to be there for the line to land.”

“This really isn’t my area of specialty, but if he’s asking he might actually mean it or be hinting at it?”

Deedee chuckled, settling in closer to the ground, a momentary wistful look in her eyes.  “You’re funny too, you know?  What would he want with me?  I’m just a trashy goblin girl.  Like his sidepiece, when he hasn’t gotten around to having a main piece, because he’s so busy with me and borin’ incest magic.”

“I think that’s just you being his main piece.  Talk to Toadswallow?”

“Maybe.  He’s busy.  Anyway!  Speaking of bein’ busy, you guys…” - Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.9</ref>

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