I've only just started to get over my mother's death, and now this....
I refrained from posting until I could speak on the phone to Duel Christian, the long time friend (since 9th grade) that was with him until the end.
Tre succumbed to complete liver and kidney failure resulting from an undiagnosed problem that he successfully hid from everyone, including his doctors. Around the first of June weekend he was sent to the emergency room completely jaundiced. He was told to see his doctor as soon as the office was open to have gall bladder surgery scheduled and sent home. A few days after that, he was found by his mother in a state of confusion; he was rushed to the hospital where it was finally found that his liver and kidneys were completely shut down. An effort was made to restart them, which was unsuccessful. As he continued to crash, he was sent to a hospice, where he finally lapsed into a coma, and left us.
Tre and I were not close friends, but since the closing of CoH we were becoming so. I RP'd with him several times on live, and was so impressed with his arc writing that I wrote letters of recommendation for him to game companies (alas, nothing ever came of them).
He spent huge amounts of time with me in chat when my mother died, merely offering comfort, a chance to vent without making any judgments, and being unbelievably compassionate and kind. Regardless of everything else, there is no doubt that Tre was one of the kindest, most compassionate, and caring individuals I have ever met in this game. He also had a knack and a gift for comedic writing that was at a professional level.
So, after consulting with my fellow writers, and pending approval of his parents, Ascendant will be written into the Secret World Chronicles superhero series from Baen starting with Book 4, as a steady character in the bar called Normality, and we will be using his one-sided conversations with Saul verbatim as comic relief. We are also dedicating the book to him, so as long as those books are in print, Ascendant will be making people laugh.
It's not much, but it's what I can do.