Basic Profile

Age : 35

Affiliation : Independent criminal group

Status : Alive; ultimate fate after the coffin incident is not established

Role : Grave robber, criminal organizer, leader of the coffin operation

Personality

Traits

• Greedy: Travis is heavily motivated by money and immediately prioritizes payment when dealing with the Black Templars.
• Confident: He behaves as though he is always in control, even when dealing with supernatural objects.
• Fearless: Travis shows remarkably little fear when confronted with the strange coffin.
• Pragmatic: He is primarily concerned with what can be gained from a situation.
• Boss-like: Travis naturally takes charge of the group and makes decisions for the others.
• Absurd: His behavior can become almost ridiculous, particularly when he treats a goat as his horse.
• Opportunistic: He sees valuable discoveries as opportunities to make money.
• Persistent: He continues with the coffin deal even after discovering that something is clearly wrong.
• Blunt: Travis speaks directly and does not spend much time worrying about appearances.
• Irreverent: He treats situations that should be terrifying with an almost inappropriate level of casualness.

Flaws

• Greedy: Money can override his better judgment.
• Overconfident: Travis underestimates how dangerous the coffin is.
• Reckless: He is willing to transport an unknown supernatural object for profit.
• Morally indifferent: Grave robbing, kidnapping, and criminal activity do not appear to trouble him.
• Dismissive of danger: He refuses to take the coffin's supernatural warning signs seriously at first.
• Impulsive: His decisions are often driven by immediate opportunities.
• Poor risk assessment: He continues negotiating around the coffin instead of treating it as a serious threat.
• Treats people as assets: Jason is kidnapped and pressured into helping because Travis needs another person for the operation.

Motivations

• Make money.
• Complete profitable criminal jobs.
• Obtain valuable objects.
• Sell or exchange supernatural or unusual discoveries.
• Maintain control over his crew.
• Take advantage of opportunities before someone else does.
• Become wealthy through criminal activity.

Hates

• Travis's specific personal dislikes are not established. His behavior suggests that he dislikes:
• Losing money.
• Wasting profitable opportunities.
• People interfering with his plans.
• Being forced to abandon valuable objects.
• Deals that do not benefit him.

Strengths

• Strong confidence.
• Natural ability to take charge.
• Willingness to enter dangerous situations.
• Decisive under pressure.
• Comfortable negotiating with criminals.
• Able to organize a group operation.
• Not easily intimidated by ordinary threats.
• Highly motivated when money is involved.

Fears

• Travis does not openly display much fear.
• His strongest implied fear is losing a profitable opportunity.
• Even when the coffin becomes visibly supernatural, his first concern remains the money involved in the deal.

Relationships

• Thomas — Thomas is one of Travis's closest associates in the coffin operation.
  
  He participates in the grave robbery and later nails the coffin shut after hearing knocking from inside it.
  
  Thomas appears to be one of the more cautious members of the group when the coffin begins behaving strangely.
• Fletcher — Fletcher participates in Travis's grave-robbing operation.
  
  He is part of the crew that travels into the mountains looking for the valuable grave near Mount Twin sanctuary.
  
  His exact relationship with Travis outside the operation is not established.
• Alan — Alan is another member of Travis's crew.
  
  He accompanies Travis during the coffin operation and later waits with him at the garage for the Black Templars.
  
  Alan develops a severe cough while they are waiting. Travis remains focused on the money and tells Alan that they will be rich.
• Jason — Jason becomes involved unwillingly.
  
  Travis's group kidnaps Jason after he refuses to help them dig up the grave. Jason eventually agrees to participate in exchange for a percentage of the money.
  
  This demonstrates Travis's willingness to use coercion when cooperation is not offered voluntarily.
• Jayden — Jayden arrives during the coffin operation and nearly crashes while trying to reach the group.
  
  He becomes involved in transporting the coffin.
  
  His relationship with Travis is primarily that of a crew member participating in the criminal operation.
• The Black Templars — The Black Templars are Travis's business contacts in the coffin deal.
  
  They arrive carrying large cases filled with crowns and intend to pay Travis's group for the coffin.
  
  Travis is more interested in receiving the payment than discussing the danger surrounding the object. When the Black Templars become frightened by the coffin, Travis still refuses to give it up without completing the deal.
• The Coffin — Although not a person, the coffin becomes one of Travis's most important relationships within the story.
  
  Travis sees it as a valuable object worth millions.
  
  The coffin, however, proves to be something much more dangerous than a simple treasure.

Hobbies

• Grave Robbing: Travis's most clearly established activity, and the reason he is in the mountains near Mount Twin sanctuary.
• Searching for Valuable Objects: He seeks out valuable objects and locations rumored to contain them.
• Criminal Deals: Travis is comfortable arranging deals and negotiating with buyers.
• Organizing Criminal Jobs: He puts together and leads group operations.
• Riding His Goat: Travis sits on a goat while waiting for the Black Templars and humorously calls it his horse.
• His personal hobbies outside criminal activity are not established.

Backstory

Travis Dell Deyvon is a thirty-five-year-old criminal operating with a small group of associates.

His background before the events of the story is not established, but his behavior shows that grave robbery and criminal dealing are not completely unfamiliar activities to him.

Travis travels into the mountains of western Ravenport with Thomas, Fletcher, and Alan after hearing about a grave near the Mount Twin sanctuary.

The grave is rumored to contain something worth five million crowns.

When they locate it, they dig up a coffin bearing strange carvings.

The discovery immediately becomes more complicated when Jason refuses to help them. Travis's group kidnaps him and forces him into the operation, eventually agreeing to give him a percentage of the money.

Jayden later arrives and nearly crashes while attempting to reach them.

The group manages to load the coffin and takes it away.

The coffin soon proves to be unusual.

Thomas hears knocking coming from inside it and becomes sufficiently frightened to nail the coffin shut.

Rather than abandoning it, Travis continues pursuing the potential profit.

He eventually arranges a meeting with the Black Templars.

While waiting for them, Travis sits on a goat and casually calls it his horse. He even tells an absurd story about horses and goats supposedly once being unicorns.

The scene demonstrates Travis's strange sense of humor and his ability to behave casually even when surrounded by increasingly bizarre circumstances.

When the Black Templars arrive, they bring enormous amounts of money, offering ten million crowns each.

Travis immediately focuses on the payment.

The Templars inspect the coffin and become increasingly concerned about the chains and nails covering it.

They order the nails to be removed.

Travis refuses.

His attitude is essentially that they can take the coffin or leave it, but he is not going to lose the deal.

The Templars attempt to move the coffin anyway.

It falls and cracks.

The temperature suddenly drops, and everyone's breath becomes visible.

The Templars recognize that the coffin is unholy.

They immediately order everyone into the car and abandon the coffin.

Travis's greed nearly causes him and his crew to remain in the area with something they clearly do not understand.

The Black Templars leave the payment behind, meaning Travis technically gets the money he wanted despite losing the coffin.

The coffin, however, is not finished.

The nails near the crack begin lifting themselves.

Whatever is inside has not been contained.

Travis therefore becomes one of the first characters in the story to accidentally interact with a supernatural threat through greed rather than curiosity.

He did not seek the coffin because he wanted to understand it.

He wanted to sell it.

Trivia

• Travis Dell Deyvon is 35 years old.
• He is involved in grave robbing.
• He leads a group consisting of Thomas, Fletcher, Alan, Jason, and Jayden during the coffin operation.
• The group searches for a grave rumored to contain something worth five million crowns.
• Jason is kidnapped after refusing to help.
• Travis agrees to give Jason a percentage of the eventual money.
• Travis treats the criminal operation as a business opportunity.
• He sits on a goat while waiting for the Black Templars.
• He calls the goat his horse.
• Travis tells an absurd story claiming that horses and goats were once unicorns.
• He becomes excited about the money the Black Templars bring.
• The Black Templars offer enormous payments for the coffin.
• Travis prioritizes the payment over discussing the coffin's strange properties.
• Thomas hears knocking from inside the coffin and nails it shut.
• Travis allows the coffin to remain part of the deal despite knowing something is wrong with it.
• When the coffin cracks, the temperature suddenly drops.
• The Black Templars recognize the coffin as unholy.
• Travis refuses to remove the nails when the Templars request it.
• The Templars eventually abandon the coffin.
• They leave the payment behind.
• The coffin's nails begin moving by themselves after everyone leaves.
• Travis's greatest weakness is arguably greed combined with overconfidence.
• His scenes provide some of the story's darkest comedy because he treats increasingly horrifying circumstances like an inconvenient business transaction.
• His exact criminal history before the grave-robbing operation is not established.
• His ultimate fate after the coffin incident is not established.
• Travis is a strong example of a character who encounters the supernatural without truly understanding what he has found.