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Character's Name: Nepeta Leijon
Series: MSPaint Adventures: Homestuck
Timeline: Current timeline! Meaning up-to-date with the adventure log.
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Homestuck Wikia! Nepeta is a troll. Yes, the kind on the internet that don’t have lives and way too much free time and enjoy making other’s lives miserable. But also not. And also something else. Where Nepeta comes from, Alternia, “troll” is a kind. Which she is. Grey-skinned, horned, and probably closest to an insect in biology, they are the dominant species on their planet, much like humans.
She and her other troll friends, 12 altogether, played a game called “Sgurb”, a crazy cosmic game of fate which is really complicated and I am not even going to try and make sense of it. HOWEVER, this game ended in failure, and also, the trolls creating the human universe.
That’s right. The trolls are our gods. Their constellations in space are proof of this, such as Nepeta’s Leo. They all live in an undetectable chunk of rock in a place called “The Veil”, where they use their time-traveling chat client called Trollian to troll the four human main characters as they play their own version of Sgrub, Sburb. All the trolls seem to have different agendas, but ultimately, I believe they want the humans to succeed where they did not, even though it was the humans fault that they didn’t win in the first place. You know. Time and space and reality travel and stuff.
(This is as good as I can do. You can’t really explain Homestuck. You have to read it.)
Personality: All of the trolls are kooks. This much is obvious. However, Nepeta is one of the kookiest.
While most of the trolls live in their own self-built hive, Nepeta lives in a cave, with her guardian Lusus Pounce de Leon. Her daily routine consists of going out on the hunt, maiming giant muscle beasts with her bare claws, eating them, and then maybe bringing their pelts back to her cave to use as decoration. Or to wear.
Because she’s a furry. True facts.
The most important thing that you need to know about Nepeta is that she likes to roleplay. A lot. Everywhere. All the roleplaying. All the time. But not Flarping, because that’s dangerous!
Her character is a two-mouthed cat beast much like her Lusus. When she greets you, nine times out of ten it will be in action asterisks. And she will do her absolute best to get you to play with her, no matter how ignorant or unwilling. Whatever is going on, she can make a game of it.
She also, like any roleplayer, loves to ship. In fact, she keeps a shipping wall in her cave, (painted with the blood of her kills, of course!) . It depicts all the current and possible red-romantic entanglements between her and her troll friends. She circles the ones that actually come to fruition Whenever there is a new shipping development, she goes and updates her wall with all speed, happily being the overseer of everyone’s relationships. She also write comics of her adventures and good times with her friends!
But despite being such a lunatic adorabloodthirsty carnivore furry rp nut, Nepeta is probably one of the most friendly and amiable of all her peers. She’s never really purposefully “trolled” anyone. She tried to talk to one of the humans once, but because she was trying to roleplay, the human thought she was making fun of her. She really doesn’t have any of the malice some of the other trolls do, and it shows.
She also doesn’t give two craps about the troll blood-color caste system (which she is firmly in the middle of as a green blood) and treats all of her friends with equal kindness, even the blood exile Karkat. When her Moirail (a troll term that a human would equate to “best friend”) Equius chastises her for interloping with the lower classes, she admonishes him, saying that they’re all good people and a heck of a lot more fun than he is.
Her happy and sweet demeanor may or may not have to do with her being titled the Rogue of Heart. We have yet to see the powers her title bestows upon her.
…Okay, so she’s only about as deep as a teaspoon, probably because she‘s one of the least examined trolls. But she’s friendly and crazy and fun, and really, what more do you need?
Powers & Abilities: Troll powers aren’t really firmly defined, but they are stronger than humans on a natural level. Plus, Nepeta has reached the highest rung of her Echeladder, basically meaning she has gained all the levels there are to gain. And she was ripping monsters to pieces before that, so we can probably hazard a guess at her being ridiculously strong. And she has some sort of special power from being the Rogue of Heart, but we don’t know what it is yet.
What items will they be bringing with them? Nepeta will be taking her sylladex with her. All it is is a bunch of blank “captchalog” cards (let’s say…10) which items can be put into and carried around in. Within reason and size, of course! Nothing bigger than you can carry yourself is the rule of thumb.
Oh, but she will have one card with her blue claws in it as her strife deck. They’re just really neat looking long claws, they don’t have any magic powers.
We don’t know anything about her fetch modus (how you get your items back out of your cards, having really silly and roundabout fetch modi is a running gag in Homestuck, such as a modi that forces you to play Memory with your cards to get the item you want), other than she finds it annoying. I’ll think of something equally funny and irritating for Nepeta.
Third-Person Sample: Your name is ARSENIC CATNIP.
You are a FEIRCE AND MIGHTY FELINE HUNTRESS regarded with awe from your friends and fear from your enemies. You step boldly forward, sensing adventure in the path that lies ahead.
You are in THE LAND OF CONCRETE AND SILENCE. You have been brought here by the pleading locale to exterminate several rowdy musclebeasts. In exchange, they promise to give you a map to the FOUNTAIN OF CUTE, which you have been questing after for many cycles. You are so close now you can practically taste it!
You climb up on a small outcrop and survey your surroundings, all of your feline senses keen and alert. The scent of many different kinds of monsters float in the air, and you are highly aware as you begin your trek forward.
Hark! The sound of footfalls echo through the massive stone spires. Your ears twitch and swivel towards the offending monster. No, they cannot escape your accute senses! In a matter of blinks you AGGRESS the wolf, slicing its neck open with your razor sharp claws. You hold it still as it slowly bleeds out, smiling with pleasure from the thrill of the hunt. One beast down!
But wait, what’s that? Nearby, a small green object shimmers in the sun. You don’t see any GRIST fall from the dead monster, so you guess this is your reward.
You obtain the MYSTIC ARTEFACT! It is adorned with the strange writing symbols of its people, and has a magical…
Wait, wait, wait.
No. That’s a bunch of bullcrap. Let’s try again.
Your name is NEPETA LEIJON.
You’re JUST A YOUNG TROLL, and are nothing like a cat. The only thing you can smell is rotting garbage. And you HAVE NO IDEA WHERE YOU ARE, and even less of an idea why. All of that stuff about a locale and a fountain are all things you made up, because you are an AVID ROLEPLAYER and you thought it sounded cooler for your character that way.
You really did maim that beast though, since you were kinda hungry and it’s just something you do.
The MYSTIC ARTEFACT is not a magical thing at all, but just a REGULAR OLD COMPUTER. Not a whole lot different from your drawing tablet computer back home, even if you have to type on this one. The touch screen part looks like it might be a lot of fun in the future though.
It doesn’t run Trollian or Pesterchum, but there seems to be some sort of messenger device that you can use.
What will you do?
First-Person Sample: -- arsenicCatnip [AC] begins trolling discedo --
AC: :33 < *ac pawnderously pads into the very quiet city*
AC: :33 < *she sniffs the wind with her cute wrinkled nose*
AC: :33 < *ew, it stinks! it stinks like monsters everywhere!! she is going to have to do something about it later.*
AC: :33 < *but look! there is a magic box! its gr33n and shiny and purretty!*
AC: :33 < *ac bats it around and it slides and is very fun! and it also opens up!*
AC: :33 < I-- I mean *ac thinks that the magic box will help her find out where she is!*
AC: :33 < hi everyone in the little magic box! :33
AC: :33 < you are in there, right? cuz this is a computer, right?
AC: :33 < its so cute and my favorite color!
AC: :33 < if anyone s33s this please answer okay? im so lost! we made a lot of worlds when we played but none of them were like this :((
AC: :33 < and if any of my furriends are they n33d to answer me too!
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