The truculent and irascible Trixie was one of the more colorful characters on HBO's Deadwood, standing out from an already eccentric crowd with her unpredictable behavior and savage insults. Trixie was a survivor, and if she learned one thing from working for Al Swearengen in a camp like Deadwood, it was that only the stubborn and bull-headed thrive.

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Trixie learned to value herself as more than a prostitute, but her deeply ingrained trauma from a hard life and being treated like chattel took its toll on her psyche. Over three seasons Trixie's worst qualities continued to thrive; she never warmed to authority, continued to hurl insults whether castigated or not, and berated the people in her life who ever showed her kindness.

SHE NEVER RESOLVED HER ANGER ISSUES

To say that Trixie had "anger management issues" was an understatement. Like Sheriff Bullock, she could fly into a rage at any moment, but unlike Bullock she had a very low boiling point.

Trixie showed her concern through anger, but it often led to others not taking her concerns to heart. She blew up at Doc Cochran for not attending to Alma's addiction properly, and blew up at Seth Bullock for not abandoning duty in favor of love. Trixie's anger at Hearst nearly got her killed, and contributed to the death of a fellow prostitute at the Gem.

SHE HAD LOW SELF-ESTEEM

Despite standing up for herself in the first season against an unprovoked attack by a rabid John, Trixie suffered from a lack of self-worth. She went back to Al several times between Season 1 and 2 despite the fact that he had no qualms about slapping her around.

It took convincing on Al's part for her to stick with learning accounting from Sol when she was ready to give up after less than a week because she was just a "stupid wh***" anyway. Not even after another prostitute was blamed for the attempted murder of Hearst in Season 3 did Trixie feel she was worth the effort.

SHE KEPT GOING BACK TO AL

Like Joanie Stubbs to Cy Tolliver, Trixie kept going back to Al Swearengen despite the fact that her life at the Gem and his treatment of her never advanced her life or her opinion of herself.

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Even though Al berated her for purchasing a gun in Season 1 to take care of herself and expected sex on demand, she went back to him. In Season 2, even after learning her numbers from Sol, she went back to Al when her education got difficult.

SHE DIDN'T TAKE CRITICISM

Being vociferous and opinionated, Trixie didn't take kindly to receiving critiques from others. When Al, Dan, or Sol commented on her surly attitude in Season 1, she loudly and ferociously denounced them.

When Sol tried to explain how her ledgers didn't add up in Season 2, she threatened to end their relationship. When Alma attempted to mollify her relationship with Seth for the sake of their affair, Trixie refused.

SHE SQUANDERED OPPORTUNITIES

In Season 1, Alma Garrett offered Trixie a way out of her menial Deadwood existence. She was prepared to provide her with money, provisions, and transportation back East with a letter of recommendation to help her find a new life with Sophia. Trixie instead used the dope Al gave her to get Alma to try to commit suicide.

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When Al offered Trixie a way to cohabit with Sol as a way to provide her a better means of modality than the rest of his employees, she outright refused until she realized she was pregnant and would rather raise the child in a proper domicile.

SHE TREATED SOL LIKE GARBAGE

Despite the fact that Trixie showed a romantic inclination towards Sol, she also treated him like garbage. From Season 1 to Season 3, she continuously addressed him with slurs, especially when he sided with Seth Bullock over her.

Even when she lived with Sol, their rooms separated by a wall, she withheld friendly affections because she knew it would upset him and make him cave to whatever point she was trying to make.

SHE MADE JEWEL FEEL INFERIOR

Like many patrons of the Gem, Trixie made Jewel feel inferior for her birth defect. She criticized her food and the slowness of her perambulation when she might have empathized with her plight.

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Even when Jewel tried to make Alma and Sophia more comfortable after Sophia's horrific tragedy in Season 1, or Alma getting shot at in Season 3, it took Trixie slinging a barrage of insults at Jewel to finally think of one nice compliment to give her about her attempts at attentive hospitality.

SHE HATED SETH

Trixie never took to Seth Bullock because of his dislike for Al, and after they got in a knock-down, drag-out fight, her aggression towards Seth became even more pronounced and palpable.

In Trixie's world, her irascible and defiant attitude helped her gain status above prostitutes of a lowlier stature, but it put a wedge between Seth and Sol. She found the lawman sanctimonious, and in Season 2 when his family arrived, she resented his relationship with Alma.

SHE TOOK THE LAW INTO HER OWN HANDS

When viewers first met Trixie in Season 1, she had just killed a john for putting hands on her. She decided to be judge, jury, and executioner, not only taking the law into her own hands, but also flouting Al's rules of the Gem.

The law in Deadwood up until Seth Bullock's arrival was non-existent, but even with Bullock's support in Season 3, Trixie still decided she would rather execute George Hearst and hang for it than get him or the authorities involved.

SHE DIDN'T VALUE HER OWN LIFE

Trixie may have been able to shoot a john dead in Season 1, but she didn't value her own life, and certainly didn't think it was valued by anyone else. This was made clear when she tried to commit suicide by overdose despite having been instrumental in helping Alma Garret and being given opportunities from Sol at the hardware store.

Despite Al, Sol, and Alma trying to change her mind, the feeling came to an apex when Trixie knew she would hang for the murder of George Hearst and was committed to trying to kill him anyway.

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