app for The Posthumans
WARNING: THIS APP CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE FIC SERIES VIOLETESENCE because uh I haven't finished it yet...? DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT EVERYTHING RUINED FOREVER.
I am looking at you Bucketmouse also possibly Zuki and anyone else who wanders by here. Go away. Do not read.
I WARNED YOU BRO. I TOLD YOU ABOUT SPOILERS. I TOLD YOU DOG.
Player Name: Teal
Personal LJ: teal_deer
E-mail: ryuutenshi@gmail.com
AIM: failscream
Other characters currently in-game: none
Who referred you to the game?: uHH tricks?
Character Name: David Lalonde
Canon source: Homestuck
PB: using fanart icons
Personality: David is... complicated.
On the surface, he's snarky, sarcastic, arrogant, withdrawn, and condescending. He often puts an edge of irony in his words meant to cut; he thinks he's right all the time, and he can seem downright cruel. If he thinks you're stupid, he'll talk circles around you and essentially troll the shit out of you. Though stern and serious, he has a very, very sharp sense of dark humor. He can be polite to those who are polite to him, and even decorous; but for the most part he is scathing.
But this hides a side to him which is undyingly loyal to his friends, as well as a few deep-seated insecurities about himself. He's never sure if he's good enough, and constantly pushes himself to be better; at the same time, he worries constantly for the people he loves. He's not sure how much he's worth, and greatly values the lives of his friends above his own.
David also feels quite strongly that the ends justify the means. It doesn't matter how something is completed so much that it is completed. As such, he's willing to put his own life in danger - and sometimes the lives of others - to accomplish his goals. In the end, he doesn't matter. Completion matters.
Finally, David is fiercely independent and values his freedom above all else. In his home universe he constantly rails against the predestined nature of the game he's trapped in, and plans on breaking it if it will not bend to his will. And David's will is nigh unshakeable.
History: Once upon a time, four friends decided to play a game.
The game was, it seemed, a simple Sims/Minecraft/Worldbuilding/Whatever game that let you interact with the environment of another person. This was true. But the game was also many other things. It was a bildungsroman in a box. It was an apocalypse. It was a rebirth. It was a world-generation device.
It was a trap.
The four friends broke the game beyond repair. They accidentally prototyped a First Guardian - that is to say, they accidentally gave the powers of an indestructible entity from the birth of the world to every enemy in the game. Including to an omnicidal psychopath.
They had some options. They could fight on fruitlessly and die trying. They could reset the game from stage 1, a temporal shockwave that would undo the universe and start the game anew from entirely different initial conditions, thereby erasing their current selves from existence, hopefully ensuring that the next iteration of the game would go better. Or they could seek a third option.
In this world, the four original kids - Dave Strider, Rose Lalonde, Jade Harley, and John Egbert - chose to create the Scratch, said universe-resetting temporal shockwave. Due to shenanigans, the resulting wave actually reset two universes - both the kids and the Troll's (to which their session was inextricably tied), and furthermore only changed certain conditions. Some characters remained the same - the kid's four caretakers, their Guardians, for instance, were the same people - but the kids themselves were very different. Namely, each were raised by a different Guardian - John by Bequerel, the aforementioned First Guardian; Jade by Bro Strider; Rose by Dad Egbert; and finally Dave (or David, as he now preferred to be called) by Mom Lalonde.
Thus, David grew up as the son of Ms. Lalonde. This meant that he gained certain traits Rose had been known for, but by virtue of being make (and thus treated a bit differently) and still holding some resonance with his previous incarnation, kept some of the original Dave. He was still ironic, he still composed his own music, but his irony was literary and geared towards books; his music more dark industrial, trance, and ambient instead of rap. Like the original Rose, he enjoyed darker literature; unlike Rose, he preferred dark postmodernist books, particularly a little book from 2000 called House of Leaves. Like that Rose, his interest would prove somewhat prophetic. Also like Rose he had an interest in other sorts of literature; instead of wizards, however, David had a fondness for Knights; and again, like Rose, his mother indulged this interest to the point of absurdity, causing David to resent her. This resentment only grew as his mother kept him locked in the house like he was some sort of princess, and also because of her rampant alcoholism.
This meant that when David started having strange dreams of a pale girl as a boy, he fixated on them. The girl became, in a way, his imaginary friend, even after in his dreams she slowly became a monster. As he grew older, she grew older faster, until in a way he had replaced his mother in his mind. Around this time, he made a few online friends at last. He had previously communicated online quite a bit, posting ironic postmodernist deconstructions of terrible children's TV shows, but met a few people through this that he genuinely came to care for - John Harley, Rose Egbert, and Jade Strider.
Later, when Rose got a new videogame called Sburb, she convinced them all to play it with her, and so they did.
And then shit got complicated.
Sburb - as mentioned earlier - first ends the world, calling down meteors to smite the earth. Second, while its purpose is to create a new universe, a thousand things can go horrifyingly, terribly wrong. According to the trolls the kids met online (who claimed to be aliens from a previous session that created their universe), their session was in fact already doomed. And third, even when things go wrong, there is no way to fix them, as the game is predestined.
Dave wanted none of this motherfucking bullshit. He watched as his friend Jade died again and again thanks to her time powers, thousands of iterations of her dropping like flies; his dreamself watched in an alternate future as both Rose and John died horrifying deaths, leaving him and and Jade to face a dead timeline before looping back and giving that dark knowledge to his true self.
It was after that last vision - of what it's like to wait in a dead world, to watch your friends die - that Dave... snapped. He decided to make a deal with the being he'd dreamed of all his life, which he now recognized as a Horrorterror. She would give him power. He'd let her see through his eyes. Use him as she wished. As long as he had the power to keep that from ever happening again... fair trade right?
…
Right?
How does your AU differ from canon? The kids basically switched places with each other: Dave s raised by Ms. Lalonde, Rose by Mr. Egbert, John by Becquerel, and Jade by Bro. In addition, the Trolls all switched blood colors, giving them all very different social standings: Kanaya is Candy Red, Terezi is Dark Red, Vriska is Brown, Equius is Yellow, Gamzee is Green, Eridan is Jade, Feferi is Teal, Karkat is Cerulean, Aradia is Blue, Tavros is Indigo, Sollux is Violet, and Nepeta is Purple.
This means that essentially, Dave has taken Rose's place. There are a number of significant differences, namely in how Dave reacts to his world and to his relationship with the Horrorterrors, and finally what happens to him when he goes “grimdark” (which hasn't happened yet in his canon)
In the canon universe, players who lose all their lives (most get two-ish) go to Dreambubbles in the Furthest Ring, places that they can relive their memories and interact with others. This is still true, but when a universe is reset or when the game is beaten, these dead players are transformed into Horrorterrors, vast, horrifying tentacled entities which reside outside time and who have a vested interest in ending the game.
Horrorterrors generally do not think of themselves as being their previous players. They remember some details, but those details are inconsequential, they involve somebody else's life. Generally they retain one strong personality aspect that ties them to their previous life, but other than that are totally different. For instance, Dave Strider's horrorterrors sing in horrible, horrible rap songs. Or something like rap. It's more like burbling.
Rose Lalonde's horrorterror, Yggdrasil, though totally warped and extremely different from her original self, has three main things: first, it has a plant-ish theme (the world-tree rather than the flower) and second, while Horrorterrors are ostensibly part of the game and just meant to be primary antagonists, hers wants to completely rip the game apart at the seams (much like Jack Noir in canon went from “generic mook antagonist bossfight” to “END THE FUCKING WORLD”). Finally, she is drawn in her own way very specifically to the Lalonde family.
FINALLY. Yggdrasil is more or less an EXPLICIT reference to the book House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewsk, just as Canon Rose's Horrorterrors are explicit references to Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. In the same way that Rose gets lots of allusions to the Mythos thrown into her sections of the story, so Dave gets a LOT of parallels to House of Leaves this is me showing off like a pretentious douche. In some ways, the 'verse Dave is from can be considered a crossover with House of Leaves for this very reason.
Strengths:
- Intelligence: David is REALLY smart for a thirteen year old. We are talking a kid who reads Beowulf and The Inferno for the lulz; who has the literary chops to understand complex postmodernist works.
- Determination: Dave does not fucking give up, and woe betide the guy who gets in his way
- Light powers: As the Knight of Light, Dave has powers over fortune, luck, and light itself. He can briefly move at up to the speed of light (but no faster, and only for a fraction of a second. Of course, a fraction of a second is all he needs. Basically he can cover about fifty feet of distance at light speed and no more.) He is oddly lucky - bullets don't hit home, they just graze him, blades miss, money falls into his lap. Like all fortune, it's fickle, and doesn't always work the way he needs or wants it to, but for the most part it's on his side. Finally, David can manipulate light to make basic mirages and illusions (nothing terribly complex; he can't perfectly replicate a person or even a tree but he can bend stuff around corners and make things shimmer or otherwise difficult to see) and focus light into freakin laz0r beams.
- Horrorterror powers: David sold his soul to a horrorterror named Yggdrasil (not that he had much choice, since it was predestined and she kind of stalked him from birth). This gives him terrifying powers comparable to Rose Lalonde in canon. Observe. His are focused around his sword, the Spiral Stairmitar, and generally take the form of getting up close and personal and cutting shit like buildings and meteors in half, but still! They also make him look goddamn terrifying when he's using them. further examples. That last one isn't something he can do as he's more melee based, just an example of the kind of power we're dealing with here. That is. A lot.
- Sylladex: It's magical hammerspace.
- Items: Dave has a bunch of weird crap made using weird magical handwavey tools from his own universe. List is here - he won't have Ultravioletence or the Smoking Mirror since he hasn't created those yet. He'll be equipped with the Spiral Stairmitar and Lensing Aegis and wearing the Blackest Knight and Midknight Cape. IN ADDITION, he has:
-- Hubtop Cans - a self-powered hands-free computing device and kicking sound system ALL IN ONE.
-- One copy of House of Leaves, heavily annotated and scribbled in. Specifically, the word MEOW is written over and over again in it in bright purple ink.
-- A plushie of Falcor from the Neverending Story.
A teenage mutant ninja turtles action figure.
-- Brightlight Vodka - Glow in the dark vodka that may or may not be safe to drink.
Weaknesses:
- Thirteen: Dave is still just a thirteen year old kid. He's painfully naiive about some things in life, and inside he really is just a scared kid.
- Arrogance: Dave always thinks he's fucking right. He is not always fucking right. He is actually wrong most of the time. Oops. It is hard to convince him that he's wrong, and he will often barrel ahead straight into getting his dumb ass killed.
- Yggdrasil: So those horrorterror powers! They come from having an ELDRITCH ABOMINATION FROM BEYOND SPACE wrapped around his soul. Specifically: imagine if the house from House of Leaves was a sentient being (wiki it. You can do it. Come on). Now imagine that oh wait actually because of the nature of this AU, this is actually the original Rose Lalonde, who died in the Scratch, became a Horrorterror, and is now completely batshit insane and wants revenge against Sburb itself for completely fucking up her life (this... doesn't come up in 'canon' until quite late, and Yggdrasil barely acknowledges it save for comments to to a few characters VERY later on; honestly she's more like a physical incarnation of the house). Yggdrasil's goal is to take over Dave's body and use that as a way to actually destroy Sburb completely, and in turn the entire universe, thereby (in her eyes) freeing everyone from the torment of predestination.
For purposes of this game, Yggdrasil will start out VERY distant and unable to actually speak to David. He can still draw on her power, and he can feel what she wants from him in a distant way, but she'll have no control. However, it's possible that game events in the future may let her take more control, or allow her to take over entirely. As she gets closer to Dave, she will slowly drive him insane. Yggdrasil's powers include complete control over spacial dimensions and the ability to drop people into vast extradimensional labyrinths.
Yggdrasil herself has some major weaknesses, the biggest being love (this is canon for House of Leaves I swear, one of the characters escapes the house because another who truly loves him comes to save him). Dave's love for his friends keeps her power at bay; should he ever cut himself off from them, it's possible he'll lose himself completely, and equally possible that his friends can bring him back from that brink.
Preferred drop-in point: Seattle.
What are some of your plans for this character in their new environment?
Kick reason to the motherfucking curb. Dave resents being chained down and caged; he will fight the system as hard as he possibly can. Which for a guy whose soul is tied to Lovecraftian monstrosities and who can split entire mountains in half with a sword, is pretty dang hard. Granted, Dave tends to try a more subtle touch most of the time, preferring to save the showy fireworks for when he needs them - subversion and a clever tongue serve him better.
Be very confused and upset by the (to him) alternate universe versions of his friends. The Homestuck cast will confuse and sadden him, as they will be uncannily not-quite-people-he-knows.
Meet new people, get into interesting kinds of trouble. Especially if they are horrible people who will take him under their wing.
Do the anti-hero thing.
First Person Journal Sample:
while i admit that being saved from a doomed and dying universe is rather fortuitous the welcome ive been given leaves much to be desired
let it be known that i do not take kindly to being chipped and caged like some sort of animal
nor to having my every move watched from on high
given that whatever force has brought me here seems to have left me with both my powers and my accoutrements i think i should get started
with
how would strider put it
wrecking their shit
Third Person Sample:
He stood by an unfamiliar waterfront and looked out over the sea and wonders if Rose had ever come here. If she had ever walked on the dock with her hand held tightly in her father's, if she had ever stared wide-eyed across the sea and wondered what might be on the other side.
His Rose, that was. Not the one here. She was nice enough, to be certain, but she was... she was him, damn it. To look at her was to look in a mirror, to see himself reflected back at him. Or his dreamself, he supposed. And their Dave, Dave... he could only see Jade, somehow wearing his face. In John he saw Rose as she should be and in Jade he saw only his John.
None of it was right. Everything was twisted. Unheimliche, one might even say. No, exactly that word, “not-being-at-home”, the familiar made twisted. Uncanny.
Worse was the damn chip. Step outside the city and die. Blast and damn. What use was it, to be saved from that infernal deathtrap, if he was to be here alone? Separated from the people he'd been trying to save all along? Useless. Utterly useless. And trapped, besides.
Fine then. He'd break this world if he had to. Find how they were bringing people in. Bring his own people in. Set the rest free. He didn't know how he'd do it, but it would be done. At any cost.
Behind him, his shadow writhed.
I am looking at you Bucketmouse also possibly Zuki and anyone else who wanders by here. Go away. Do not read.
I WARNED YOU BRO. I TOLD YOU ABOUT SPOILERS. I TOLD YOU DOG.
Player Name: Teal
Personal LJ: teal_deer
E-mail: ryuutenshi@gmail.com
AIM: failscream
Other characters currently in-game: none
Who referred you to the game?: uHH tricks?
Character Name: David Lalonde
Canon source: Homestuck
PB: using fanart icons
Personality: David is... complicated.
On the surface, he's snarky, sarcastic, arrogant, withdrawn, and condescending. He often puts an edge of irony in his words meant to cut; he thinks he's right all the time, and he can seem downright cruel. If he thinks you're stupid, he'll talk circles around you and essentially troll the shit out of you. Though stern and serious, he has a very, very sharp sense of dark humor. He can be polite to those who are polite to him, and even decorous; but for the most part he is scathing.
But this hides a side to him which is undyingly loyal to his friends, as well as a few deep-seated insecurities about himself. He's never sure if he's good enough, and constantly pushes himself to be better; at the same time, he worries constantly for the people he loves. He's not sure how much he's worth, and greatly values the lives of his friends above his own.
David also feels quite strongly that the ends justify the means. It doesn't matter how something is completed so much that it is completed. As such, he's willing to put his own life in danger - and sometimes the lives of others - to accomplish his goals. In the end, he doesn't matter. Completion matters.
Finally, David is fiercely independent and values his freedom above all else. In his home universe he constantly rails against the predestined nature of the game he's trapped in, and plans on breaking it if it will not bend to his will. And David's will is nigh unshakeable.
History: Once upon a time, four friends decided to play a game.
The game was, it seemed, a simple Sims/Minecraft/Worldbuilding/Whatever game that let you interact with the environment of another person. This was true. But the game was also many other things. It was a bildungsroman in a box. It was an apocalypse. It was a rebirth. It was a world-generation device.
It was a trap.
The four friends broke the game beyond repair. They accidentally prototyped a First Guardian - that is to say, they accidentally gave the powers of an indestructible entity from the birth of the world to every enemy in the game. Including to an omnicidal psychopath.
They had some options. They could fight on fruitlessly and die trying. They could reset the game from stage 1, a temporal shockwave that would undo the universe and start the game anew from entirely different initial conditions, thereby erasing their current selves from existence, hopefully ensuring that the next iteration of the game would go better. Or they could seek a third option.
In this world, the four original kids - Dave Strider, Rose Lalonde, Jade Harley, and John Egbert - chose to create the Scratch, said universe-resetting temporal shockwave. Due to shenanigans, the resulting wave actually reset two universes - both the kids and the Troll's (to which their session was inextricably tied), and furthermore only changed certain conditions. Some characters remained the same - the kid's four caretakers, their Guardians, for instance, were the same people - but the kids themselves were very different. Namely, each were raised by a different Guardian - John by Bequerel, the aforementioned First Guardian; Jade by Bro Strider; Rose by Dad Egbert; and finally Dave (or David, as he now preferred to be called) by Mom Lalonde.
Thus, David grew up as the son of Ms. Lalonde. This meant that he gained certain traits Rose had been known for, but by virtue of being make (and thus treated a bit differently) and still holding some resonance with his previous incarnation, kept some of the original Dave. He was still ironic, he still composed his own music, but his irony was literary and geared towards books; his music more dark industrial, trance, and ambient instead of rap. Like the original Rose, he enjoyed darker literature; unlike Rose, he preferred dark postmodernist books, particularly a little book from 2000 called House of Leaves. Like that Rose, his interest would prove somewhat prophetic. Also like Rose he had an interest in other sorts of literature; instead of wizards, however, David had a fondness for Knights; and again, like Rose, his mother indulged this interest to the point of absurdity, causing David to resent her. This resentment only grew as his mother kept him locked in the house like he was some sort of princess, and also because of her rampant alcoholism.
This meant that when David started having strange dreams of a pale girl as a boy, he fixated on them. The girl became, in a way, his imaginary friend, even after in his dreams she slowly became a monster. As he grew older, she grew older faster, until in a way he had replaced his mother in his mind. Around this time, he made a few online friends at last. He had previously communicated online quite a bit, posting ironic postmodernist deconstructions of terrible children's TV shows, but met a few people through this that he genuinely came to care for - John Harley, Rose Egbert, and Jade Strider.
Later, when Rose got a new videogame called Sburb, she convinced them all to play it with her, and so they did.
And then shit got complicated.
Sburb - as mentioned earlier - first ends the world, calling down meteors to smite the earth. Second, while its purpose is to create a new universe, a thousand things can go horrifyingly, terribly wrong. According to the trolls the kids met online (who claimed to be aliens from a previous session that created their universe), their session was in fact already doomed. And third, even when things go wrong, there is no way to fix them, as the game is predestined.
Dave wanted none of this motherfucking bullshit. He watched as his friend Jade died again and again thanks to her time powers, thousands of iterations of her dropping like flies; his dreamself watched in an alternate future as both Rose and John died horrifying deaths, leaving him and and Jade to face a dead timeline before looping back and giving that dark knowledge to his true self.
It was after that last vision - of what it's like to wait in a dead world, to watch your friends die - that Dave... snapped. He decided to make a deal with the being he'd dreamed of all his life, which he now recognized as a Horrorterror. She would give him power. He'd let her see through his eyes. Use him as she wished. As long as he had the power to keep that from ever happening again... fair trade right?
…
Right?
How does your AU differ from canon? The kids basically switched places with each other: Dave s raised by Ms. Lalonde, Rose by Mr. Egbert, John by Becquerel, and Jade by Bro. In addition, the Trolls all switched blood colors, giving them all very different social standings: Kanaya is Candy Red, Terezi is Dark Red, Vriska is Brown, Equius is Yellow, Gamzee is Green, Eridan is Jade, Feferi is Teal, Karkat is Cerulean, Aradia is Blue, Tavros is Indigo, Sollux is Violet, and Nepeta is Purple.
This means that essentially, Dave has taken Rose's place. There are a number of significant differences, namely in how Dave reacts to his world and to his relationship with the Horrorterrors, and finally what happens to him when he goes “grimdark” (which hasn't happened yet in his canon)
In the canon universe, players who lose all their lives (most get two-ish) go to Dreambubbles in the Furthest Ring, places that they can relive their memories and interact with others. This is still true, but when a universe is reset or when the game is beaten, these dead players are transformed into Horrorterrors, vast, horrifying tentacled entities which reside outside time and who have a vested interest in ending the game.
Horrorterrors generally do not think of themselves as being their previous players. They remember some details, but those details are inconsequential, they involve somebody else's life. Generally they retain one strong personality aspect that ties them to their previous life, but other than that are totally different. For instance, Dave Strider's horrorterrors sing in horrible, horrible rap songs. Or something like rap. It's more like burbling.
Rose Lalonde's horrorterror, Yggdrasil, though totally warped and extremely different from her original self, has three main things: first, it has a plant-ish theme (the world-tree rather than the flower) and second, while Horrorterrors are ostensibly part of the game and just meant to be primary antagonists, hers wants to completely rip the game apart at the seams (much like Jack Noir in canon went from “generic mook antagonist bossfight” to “END THE FUCKING WORLD”). Finally, she is drawn in her own way very specifically to the Lalonde family.
FINALLY. Yggdrasil is more or less an EXPLICIT reference to the book House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewsk, just as Canon Rose's Horrorterrors are explicit references to Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. In the same way that Rose gets lots of allusions to the Mythos thrown into her sections of the story, so Dave gets a LOT of parallels to House of Leaves this is me showing off like a pretentious douche. In some ways, the 'verse Dave is from can be considered a crossover with House of Leaves for this very reason.
Strengths:
- Intelligence: David is REALLY smart for a thirteen year old. We are talking a kid who reads Beowulf and The Inferno for the lulz; who has the literary chops to understand complex postmodernist works.
- Determination: Dave does not fucking give up, and woe betide the guy who gets in his way
- Light powers: As the Knight of Light, Dave has powers over fortune, luck, and light itself. He can briefly move at up to the speed of light (but no faster, and only for a fraction of a second. Of course, a fraction of a second is all he needs. Basically he can cover about fifty feet of distance at light speed and no more.) He is oddly lucky - bullets don't hit home, they just graze him, blades miss, money falls into his lap. Like all fortune, it's fickle, and doesn't always work the way he needs or wants it to, but for the most part it's on his side. Finally, David can manipulate light to make basic mirages and illusions (nothing terribly complex; he can't perfectly replicate a person or even a tree but he can bend stuff around corners and make things shimmer or otherwise difficult to see) and focus light into freakin laz0r beams.
- Horrorterror powers: David sold his soul to a horrorterror named Yggdrasil (not that he had much choice, since it was predestined and she kind of stalked him from birth). This gives him terrifying powers comparable to Rose Lalonde in canon. Observe. His are focused around his sword, the Spiral Stairmitar, and generally take the form of getting up close and personal and cutting shit like buildings and meteors in half, but still! They also make him look goddamn terrifying when he's using them. further examples. That last one isn't something he can do as he's more melee based, just an example of the kind of power we're dealing with here. That is. A lot.
- Sylladex: It's magical hammerspace.
- Items: Dave has a bunch of weird crap made using weird magical handwavey tools from his own universe. List is here - he won't have Ultravioletence or the Smoking Mirror since he hasn't created those yet. He'll be equipped with the Spiral Stairmitar and Lensing Aegis and wearing the Blackest Knight and Midknight Cape. IN ADDITION, he has:
-- Hubtop Cans - a self-powered hands-free computing device and kicking sound system ALL IN ONE.
-- One copy of House of Leaves, heavily annotated and scribbled in. Specifically, the word MEOW is written over and over again in it in bright purple ink.
-- A plushie of Falcor from the Neverending Story.
A teenage mutant ninja turtles action figure.
-- Brightlight Vodka - Glow in the dark vodka that may or may not be safe to drink.
Weaknesses:
- Thirteen: Dave is still just a thirteen year old kid. He's painfully naiive about some things in life, and inside he really is just a scared kid.
- Arrogance: Dave always thinks he's fucking right. He is not always fucking right. He is actually wrong most of the time. Oops. It is hard to convince him that he's wrong, and he will often barrel ahead straight into getting his dumb ass killed.
- Yggdrasil: So those horrorterror powers! They come from having an ELDRITCH ABOMINATION FROM BEYOND SPACE wrapped around his soul. Specifically: imagine if the house from House of Leaves was a sentient being (wiki it. You can do it. Come on). Now imagine that oh wait actually because of the nature of this AU, this is actually the original Rose Lalonde, who died in the Scratch, became a Horrorterror, and is now completely batshit insane and wants revenge against Sburb itself for completely fucking up her life (this... doesn't come up in 'canon' until quite late, and Yggdrasil barely acknowledges it save for comments to to a few characters VERY later on; honestly she's more like a physical incarnation of the house). Yggdrasil's goal is to take over Dave's body and use that as a way to actually destroy Sburb completely, and in turn the entire universe, thereby (in her eyes) freeing everyone from the torment of predestination.
For purposes of this game, Yggdrasil will start out VERY distant and unable to actually speak to David. He can still draw on her power, and he can feel what she wants from him in a distant way, but she'll have no control. However, it's possible that game events in the future may let her take more control, or allow her to take over entirely. As she gets closer to Dave, she will slowly drive him insane. Yggdrasil's powers include complete control over spacial dimensions and the ability to drop people into vast extradimensional labyrinths.
Yggdrasil herself has some major weaknesses, the biggest being love (this is canon for House of Leaves I swear, one of the characters escapes the house because another who truly loves him comes to save him). Dave's love for his friends keeps her power at bay; should he ever cut himself off from them, it's possible he'll lose himself completely, and equally possible that his friends can bring him back from that brink.
Preferred drop-in point: Seattle.
What are some of your plans for this character in their new environment?
Kick reason to the motherfucking curb. Dave resents being chained down and caged; he will fight the system as hard as he possibly can. Which for a guy whose soul is tied to Lovecraftian monstrosities and who can split entire mountains in half with a sword, is pretty dang hard. Granted, Dave tends to try a more subtle touch most of the time, preferring to save the showy fireworks for when he needs them - subversion and a clever tongue serve him better.
Be very confused and upset by the (to him) alternate universe versions of his friends. The Homestuck cast will confuse and sadden him, as they will be uncannily not-quite-people-he-knows.
Meet new people, get into interesting kinds of trouble. Especially if they are horrible people who will take him under their wing.
Do the anti-hero thing.
First Person Journal Sample:
while i admit that being saved from a doomed and dying universe is rather fortuitous the welcome ive been given leaves much to be desired
let it be known that i do not take kindly to being chipped and caged like some sort of animal
nor to having my every move watched from on high
given that whatever force has brought me here seems to have left me with both my powers and my accoutrements i think i should get started
with
how would strider put it
wrecking their shit
Third Person Sample:
He stood by an unfamiliar waterfront and looked out over the sea and wonders if Rose had ever come here. If she had ever walked on the dock with her hand held tightly in her father's, if she had ever stared wide-eyed across the sea and wondered what might be on the other side.
His Rose, that was. Not the one here. She was nice enough, to be certain, but she was... she was him, damn it. To look at her was to look in a mirror, to see himself reflected back at him. Or his dreamself, he supposed. And their Dave, Dave... he could only see Jade, somehow wearing his face. In John he saw Rose as she should be and in Jade he saw only his John.
None of it was right. Everything was twisted. Unheimliche, one might even say. No, exactly that word, “not-being-at-home”, the familiar made twisted. Uncanny.
Worse was the damn chip. Step outside the city and die. Blast and damn. What use was it, to be saved from that infernal deathtrap, if he was to be here alone? Separated from the people he'd been trying to save all along? Useless. Utterly useless. And trapped, besides.
Fine then. He'd break this world if he had to. Find how they were bringing people in. Bring his own people in. Set the rest free. He didn't know how he'd do it, but it would be done. At any cost.
Behind him, his shadow writhed.