Trinity's Links
Trinity sees Aegis as a particularly favored pawn. His blind loyalty to her, especially as something she's never had to actually put effort into cultivating, places him highly in her mind, and she even allows him to participate in some of her plans in non-thinking roles, acting as anything from a guardian to a dna donor.
Beloved leader, entirely devoted to her regardless of her lack of true reciprocation
Trinity's firstborn, and the child she grooms to be her successor. She views Nike as essentially a mini-me and spends the entirety of their lives together preparing her to be the next great tri-type leader (while also stubbornly keeping her subordinate until Trin's demise)
Mother, very complicated feelings. Though overbearing and with different ideals, Nike can't help the attachment she feels to Trinity- even after she witnesses her mother trying to abandon Emry's egg to the wilderness, Nike can never bring herself to fully sever their bond. This causes some self-loathing when she's older, seeing herself as being too weak to try and break from her mother's plan for her until after she was already dead and gone.