The thing with Trip is that no one knows what they're trying to do with him. You'll see what I mean down the line.
The only thing we really know about him is that, sometime between the point where he met Alder, and the beginning of BW, something happened to him that turned him into a scumbag.
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Well considering all of the 300 IQ geniuses with 9 inch dongs on PotD I'd expect someone owning twelve mansions here, at least. - Ashphantom