Tristan Marwan Bakkali, advanced elemental witch who is doing his best.

• Curly dark hair, worn longer
• Big dark brown eyes
• Full mouth
• Light bronze complexion, of mixed Moroccan heritage
• Tall (6'1'')
• Pretty standard young adult wardrobe, jeans, hoodies, sneakers
• Pretty good at fading into the background
• Doesn't smile that often but uses his whole face to do it when he does
• Slight buckteeth

• Serious and quiet, very internal
• Sometimes quite literal
• Sort of a head in the clouds type, because his mind always seems to be somewhere else, vivid imagination
• Spends what free time he has reading; never knows pop culture references
• Terminally incapable of speaking up for himself with most people, the kind of person who will just eat the wrong food that was given to him
• Extremely shy
• Often anxious and prone to overthinking
• Chronically lonely; often has trouble connecting to people, especially his peers
• Once he does make a connection, however, he will hold on to it for dear life – perhaps past the point where he should, reasonably, let go
• Generally just incredibly stubborn once he's made his mind up about something, though he takes his time getting there
• Non-tactile for the most part
• Very sentimental, very loyal
• An overachiever – always wants to do well
• Tends to be self-effacing despite that
• Also mild-mannered to the point of occasionally being difficult to remember

• Elemental witch, achieved advanced status quite young
• Serval familiar named Quioxte, also settled quite early
• Generally magically precocious
• Casting style is efficient, almost abbreviated
• May eventually work his way to adept status, most likely with a second specialization in enchantment
• Memory retention off the charts

• Third generation American
• An only child
• Named after his maternal grandfather, thus goes by his middle name, Marwan, or nickname, Max
• Parents marriage was sort of semi-arranged between a hereditary witch family and a mundane family who'd known about/worked with them for generations
• His parents don't dislike each other but lead largely separate lives
• Dad is an insurance company man who lives for the job and brings his work home
• Mom is the leader of a coven, an adept witch with summoning and enchantment specializations
• She was always very attentive to his magical education but didn't give him much attention as a person
• Magically and academically precocious, always had his head in a book, didn't fit in well with his peers
• Spent a lot of time at a local library when his parents were too busy for him
• Often spent summers at Amber Hollow, with is paternal grandparents
• Once met a Fae as a child in Amber Hollow and vacillates between vehemently believing it happened and that he imagined it
• Was about 16 when the PWSA reveal happened
• Chose to attend UCAH for several reasons, including that it was one of the first and only schools to offer PWSA Studies
• A good student but less handy socially; it isn't that he doesn't want or try to make friends, he simply has difficulty communicating his own needs and wants and either gets trampled by bolder personalities or passed over completely

• Ibrahim Bakkali: Father, mundane, rather distant, but still a firm guiding hand. Does want to make him proud but doesn't really know how to do that
• Mariyam Bakkali: Mother, and the greatest single influence on Max. Never got much attention from her beyond magical matters, but became focused on becoming a top student both magically and academically to please her
• Bakkali Grandparents: Mundane. They dote on him as a firstborn son, but don't really understand much about magic. Treat his Fae story as childish fancy.
• Lachlan: Max's childhood best friend who lives in Amber Hollow. Only saw him during the summers and missed him terribly when he left for home.