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Triana Orpheus is a supporting character on the Adult Swim television series The Venture Bros.. She is the daughter of Doctor Byron Orpheus and his ex-wife Tatyana. She is voiced by Lisa Hammer.

Personality

Triana is the teenage daughter of Dr. Orpheus. Triana is approximately the same age as the Venture twins, Hank and Dean, which makes her seventeen years old.[1] She has adopted a distinctly goth appearance, including heavy makeup, a goth/punk/retro-styled wardrobe and black hair with a purple sheen. She is generally unimpressed with the world around her, yet, she tends to be more grounded and rational than many of the characters on the series. In season four, she goes to live with her mother Tatyana and step-father the Outrider to train as a sorceress after she was convinced by Orpheus's mentor and teacher The Master that magic is her true calling.

Her relationship with her father is a pretty typical teenager relationship as far as rebellious but loving. She is embarrassed by her father's eccentric behaviors, often attempting to make him be dramatic. She is often shown to be uncomfortable with the various aspects of her father's profession, including resurrecting the dead and living adjacent to active spirits. Triana is not above losing patience with these problematic aspects, which have at least once prompted Orpheus to put her into a trance to stop her.

Character History

Very few details of Triana's early life were revealed. What is known is that not long after she was born and throughout her early childhood, she was neglected by her busy father who spent all of his time working on magic. This causes her mother, Tatyana, to split up with Orpheus. It's not known as the divorce may have influenced her cynical personality.

Triana moved into the Venture Compound along with her father some time shortly before the events of the episode Eeney, Meeney, Miney... Magic! Her first meeting with Dean left him nearly dumb-struck within infatuation. When Dean, Hank and Brock became trapped inside Dr. Venture's Joy Can, Triana inadvertently saved them as the sound of her voice aroused feelings of true love in Dean (which allowed him to open the gadget's door).

Triana had a relatively minor role in Tag Sale – You're It!, spending time with Dean and proudly displaying the "grandma thunderpants" she planned to buy, and then briefly worked at Hank's grinder stand, "Hank Co.'s Lemonade and Grinder World," before quitting in disgust.

In Escape to the House of Mummies Part II, Triana discovered that her father had set up a mystical gateway to the Necropolis in the closet of her room. She angrily told him that she had been afraid of her closet for her entire life, which is why she wears the same clothes every day. As the Orpheus family has only lived in the Venture compound for a short time, this may indicate that Triana's closet or closets had been the Doctor's favored location for such things at their previous places of residence as well. (Though Jackson Publick points out on his LiveJournal that it is unclear exactly how long the Orpheus's have been living at the compound, teenagers are prone to hyperbole, and Dr. Orpheus performing some sort of magic manipulation to duplicate Triana's previous room in the new residence is also not out of the question.) Dr. Orpheus defended himself by saying that the gate had to be on the south side of the apartment and since Triana had to have her own bathroom, there was no other option. Pressed for time, he eventually gives up arguing and magically erases Triana's memory of the event.

In Victor. Echo. November., Triana and her friend Kim went on a double date with Hank and Dean. Despite ending up at the same restaurant Phantom Limb and Doctor Girlfriend were on their own double date with The Monarch and a woman he had met on "The LiveJournal", the girls' evening was relatively uneventful.

In the episode, The Buddy System, Triana is harassed by Dermott Fictel in his first appearance on the show while flirting with Dean. When Dermott insults Dean while sexually insulting Triana, Dean becomes enraged and beats Dermott badly with his fists.

Left in the care of Dr. Venture while her father was busy screening villains for the position of his adventuring team's arch-nemesis in Fallen Arches, Triana was treated to a production of "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Dean, Hank and Brock. Later, a villain known as Torrid kidnapped her, thus winning the coveted Order of the Triad "arching" gig, but she was unharmed, as Torrid merely transported her to an island in the Great Barrier Reef owned by her father. In the second-season finale, Showdown at Cremation Creek (Part II), Triana appears to Dean as "Princess Tinglepants" during a stress-induced hallucination. During a panicked crowd scene in the Monarch's throne room in the same episode, "Princess Tinglepants" is briefly seen running for safety; Publick has been asked about this on his LiveJournal, and has admitted that this was, in fact, an animation mistake.

In the season four episode The Better Man, Triana finally meets The Master, the omnipotent being who mentors her father and lives in her closet. He explains that she has actually met him numerous times before, but her father erased her memories after each encounter. This time, he's taken the form of an older, uglier, more neurotic version of Dean, showing a glimpse of her possible future as Dean Venture's wife which horrifies her. The Master reveals that she has inherited the gift of magic from her father and mother and will one day be a great sorceress if she is willing to leave her father and the Venture Compound and go live with her mother and train. The Master also tells Triana that she must "set Dean free" by telling him that they will never be together. Triana takes his advice as Triana talks to her father and gains permission to go study magic with her mom. She also breaks things off with Dean, but in a positive way, giving him hope for the future and a good-bye kiss.

Triana appears for the last time in the series in Operation P.R.O.M., after agreeing to attend Hank and Dean's prom as a friend. Though she attempts to interact with the boys on good terms, Dean's mood sours upon learning of her current boyfriend Raven. Throughout the night, Dean's jealous attitude irritates Triana to the point she no longer wants to consider him a friend, causing her to leave the party early and ends her friendship with Dean forever. Dean, with the help of Dermott and Hank tries to win her back by going to her home and putting on a display of affection by burning her name in wooden sticks and wearing a ghost costume. It clumsily comes off as a Klu Klux Klan meeting which attracts the attention of the The Outrider who tries to convince Dean to move on and away from Triana. Dean cusses him out in a rage. Triana has been written out of the show and has never been seen since.