Trish Belloptrix is one of the many characters touring with Master Payne's Circus of Adventure. She's the one who [ welcomes] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]] Agatha Heterodyne to the Circus when she and Krosp show up with Trish's lost son Balthazar in tow. Apart from being a comfortably motherly figure, she actually doesn't have a huge role in subsequent events, with one small but important exception. Her official duties with the Circus include [ applying] [[Chronology - Volume #|✣ ]] the actors' makeup for Heterodyne shows.