I need a new plotline. Badly.

Tristan, Jim, and Carly are all Insert Acronym Here agents, which means they help monitor the gates between realities. Naturally the angels and demons have a monopoly on the inter-reality travel, but there are other races that used to travel quite frequently before the Inferno. Since earth is populated mostly by clueless humans, it was decided that having flights of dragons looking for new hunting grounds would be a generally bad idea. Tyler and Opal set up an organization to monitor all movement between realities; individuals who have not obtained permits or who haven't registered with the organization are prosecuted.

Dei is in charge, because after the Lyra and Toby escapade (whee, things I haven't written or even conceptualized!) he decided he needed a real job that didn't involve getting attached to people. Since most of the people working for him are fairly immortal, he doesn't need to worry about them dying or getting hurt- until Tris, Jim, and Carly stumble through the door in the tradition of nosy kids the world over. Their backstory is something tragic, I'm sure- dead parents, living on the street, blah blah blah angst whine blah.

For the record, it wasn't Dei's idea to give them jobs, it was Shateiel's- and her judgement when it comes to kids really should not be trusted. At all. Ever. But their age and the fact that they're humans gives them an advantage when it comes to interlopers trying to blend in with the population, so they are fairly useful. It's just that Tristan is perpetually unlucky and Jim is incredibly accident prone while Carly just has bad judgement and keeps on falling in love with their targets.

They amuse me with their teenaged angst and hero-worship of my other characters. (Dei is good at inspiring awe; Opal and Tyler are all-powerful, mostly, but he's the one who ended the war, and that sword of his is one nasty bugger. He's also still too pretty for his own good, but that's neither here nor there.)

Tristan is almost painfully ordinary; he's the oldest of the three but has no outstanding traits. Jim is smarter, Carly is more articulate- about the only thing Tris has going for himself is his honesty and his persistence. He's not stupid, not exactly- he's just not brilliant, either. Jim and Carly are his family, and he does everything he can to keep them safe and happy. Of course, now that they've all been more or less adopted by IAH, Tristan doesn't have as much of a purpose anymore. He's the sort of person who needs someone to take care of- and now that Jim and Carly are independent, he's floundering.

Naturally, in his floundering, he decides that the person who most needs his mothering is Dei. *palmsmack* Granted, somebody needs to make sure he doesn't subsist entirely on coffee and danishes, but Tristan is generally the last person most people would pick for the job.
Carly: When Angst Muffins Collide, news at ten.
Not that Tristan's especially angsty, he's just a teenager, and incredibly resentful of most things.

This has gone on far too long. blah.