> OOC: Paradisa Application
NAME: Jean
JOURNAL: tsunderefish
EMAIL: theluminoleffect@aim.com
AIM: vendingmachinedd
WIKI NAME: …N/A?
CHARACTERS: N/A
CHARACTER NAME: Sollux Captor
FANDOM: Homestuck
CANON: Right before ROUND TWO vs. Eridan.
WHAT THEY LOST: His computer hacking abilities. Whenever he tries to show off, his brain will be full of derp, because if there's one thing that he's even vaguely confident in, it's those skills.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER: (WOW THIS GOT REALLY LONG I AM SO SORRY)
You know that one guy who seems to knows way too much about computers, who you always go to if you're having computer problems, because he seems to have a way with technology that makes it entirely his bitch, and that knowledge extends to the point where it doesn't seem like he has much of a life away from one? That is Sollux Captor. He's that guy. If it seems like he doesn't have much of a life, it's because he doesn't.
Well sure, okay, I take that back a little. He's got a bit life, but if had the choice, he probably would spend 99% of his time in his COMMUNAL HIVESTEM, which is basically like a human APARTMENT BUILDING. Sollux isn't completely antisocial, but he does tend toward reclusive behavior. He'd probably prefer to call himself exclusive. But what does he do in his hive all day anyway? Play computer games of course. Or hack them, pirate them, program them, or grow them (because naturally Alternian computer games take the form of bug-shaped worm-things). Point is, dude is obsessed. I'm talking "hard to walk around his room without stepping on a game, and then there's this really disgusting squish sound" kind of obsession. Because like most computer geeks, he seems to lack the ability to clean his shit up and leaves everything all over the place but that's beside the point.
Basically everything in his room is dedicated to gaming, from the red and blue wires also sprawled all over the floor to the multiple giant silicombs of beehouse mainframes in the corner. Yes, beehouse. Sollux runs his computer on bee power, and it somehow functions perfectly. But that's because he's the master of Apiculture Networking. And also because no one else probably thought to themself, "hmm, beehives and computers, THE PERFECT COMBINATION!"
The bees also happen to produce MIND HONEY which is both a good thing, and a bad thing. The mind honey is a powerful substance, that if eaten, it has strange effects on the consumer. If Sollux's lusus (a large white two-headed creature with one red eye, and another blue eye), for example, eats the honey, it temporarily raises the Bicyclops' intelligence. But that's merely because it is "a complete idiot all of the time," and the mind honey serves to make it so it is only a complete idiot most of the time, or at the very least, enough to pacify it and prevent it from going on a stupidity-fueled rampage. There's a reason he keeps it chained to his roof, after all. But if Sollux himself consumes it, well. He temporarily loses his conscious control of his psionic powers and shoots eyebeams powerful enough to destroy a building. The mind honey is basically a major graphics card update. Don't use it unless you have the right drivers that work with your operating-system.
Now, what was that about psionic powers? Welp, to start, Sollux is a psionic, and most of his abilities derive from that. A few examples would be telekinesis and the ability to redirect his psionic powers into extremely powerful blasts of energy from his eyes, which he can control. He can also hear the voices of the imminently deceased as well as predict the destruction of Alternia and all of the trolls, and he has vision twofold as a form of extrasensory perception (which then provides him with killer migranes. Owch). And by twofold, I mean he uses his 3-D glasses to see background radiation from the Void on a person who has crossed parallel universes, whoops no, that's Doctor Who is able to see the future and the present. It's very limited sight, honestly. More like an irritating feeling that something bad is going to happen, but he is still more or less a PROPHET OF DOOM. Rather, not a fully fledged one, considering that would mean he'd have to go blind first. Because all Prophets are blind, of course. Most of the previously listed powers are tied to his sight: he stops hearing the voices and seeing the future once he is blinded. It's unknown if he still has his psionic-based powers though.
Probably because of his stupidly mutant brain, he's also an expert hacker. He's that douchebag kid who is like half your age but he knows more about computers than you will ever will and likes to throw it in your face. The only difference is that in about ten seconds of saying that, he'll probably tell himself he's not good enough and that he could be better. Using a type of format/language called ~ATH based on infinite loops, with purposes of doing things like importing finite constructs (preferably constructs with extremely short lifespans) and binding those to other lifespans (most likely those of the author of that code), and the creation of certain routines when those lifespan subloops are terminated. But unless you know the import of something that's about to die relatively soon, you're going to wind up waiting a long time for the code to take effect. Aside from ~ATH codes, he's also kind of bamf at coding and making viruses and programs, to the point where if you can't figure something out that's mathematically ambiguous, you're going to get called an idiot here. What you don't know how to undo a complex reversal of object codes to figure something out? He's going to ask you if you have your computer plugged in. Much like making the Mobius Double Reacharound Virus that potentially winds up cursing anyone who executes it as well as affecting everyone the executer every knew and will know, as well as basically creating the entire game of SGRUB adapted from technology found in some ancient ruins is kind of bamf. But only kind of. I mean, he could be better.
Yeah, seriously, what a godmode this douchebag is with his abilities and powers.
But now, getting more into personality, one of the fundamental things to know about Sollux: his occasional debilitating mood swings. One moment he's fine, and a pretty cool guy I might add, but his depressive episodes can be sparked by a hair-trigger, usually putting him in either a state of loneliness, self-deprecation, and guilt. Or maybe more on the anger side, where he completely flies off the handle with rage. His mood swings (the ones that aren't made of anger) usually only last a few minutes at most. Originally they were thought to be contributed to the idea that he probably had some trollish form of (unironic) bipolar II disorder, to further push the whole Gemini concept. As it turns out, it was mostly a side effect of constantly having psychic screams in his head. That usually would make someone irritable. After becoming blind, and he is no longer plagued the voices of the imminently deceased, he balances out a lot more. But even in a relatively good mood, he still has some low self-esteem issues. The fact that his blood, which is mustard yellow, is classified as one of the lowest kinds in the hemospectrum hierarchy of trolls probably really doesn't help there.
Sollux (before being blinded) had a tendency to fly off the handle when it came to talking to others, especially those he actually liked. While he might be condescending at first (mostly as a cover for his more sensitive side), once he's said something too far, he realizes it almost immediately and apologizes. When he gets stressed, he doesn't like to talk to anyone and kind of shuts himself away, although Feferi later convinces him into talking about his feelings when he's depressed. She even berates him when he starts to get too depressing, convincing him to cheer up a little. Which he does. And then starts to get embarrassed and freak out again. Emotional roller coaster, this guy. Even then, he attempts to be one of the more mature trolls in the group, seeing the rest of the trolls as being juvenile for talking to the humans. He's also embarrassed when he has immature conversations with others, even agreeing to delete logs off his computer for the really awkward ones, particularly with Karkat, who is his best friend.
Sollux has a "thing" for the bifurcated. Or basically anything that's double. Looking at his appearance alone, one could tell, considering how he has two pairs of horns, two different shoes, and a pair of red and blue lens glasses to cover his red and blue eyes. Even his recuperation has two different entrances, separated by red and blue sopor slime. When he types, he has a quirk of doubling all of his 'i's, replacing 's' with 2, and changing both "to" and "too" to "two," once again reflecting his love for doubles and the fact that he has a lisp. His trollian handle is twinArmageddons. After being blinded, he drops the bifurcation obsession, and picks up Aradia's old quirk of using 0 (zero) to replace all O's.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
There was one chain of thought, repeating over and over in his mind, increasing with velocity like some sort of wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine on a set of tracks that would consistently pick up speed with every time Sollux thought "what the fuck" to himself. This wheeled vehicle is probably going really goddamn fast at this point. Because yeah, okay, he's been through a lot in his short life so far. He had died and come back to life on a purple moon before arriving in a land filled with floating brains, and whatever, who cares. Old news compared to where he was on the timeline now. Even waking up in a castle where you can just wish for anything you want and it'll be there, is a little out there, but you know what? He was willing to buy this too. That was how he was on his computer to begin with, after all. All the files still in place, somehow. He can even accept that suddenly they have no connection to that stupid little lab on a meteor. Maybe he just doesn't have a long enough wifi range, maybe he's in another universe again. Who knows.
But the fact that he has been trying to crack this locked off file on this computer is just absolutely blowing his mind.
"What the fuck."
He's exceptionally calm about this-- for the time being. Because maybe he's just misspelling something. No, no he always uses 2, he can't be misspelling something. For god's sake (and he isn't even religious), he WROTE the lock he put on this so no one else can access it, he's gone through it a million times before. He's on his sixth try when he swears outloud again, this time louder. And again. Slamming his fist on the desk doesn't help, nor make him feel better, but the reaction is too automatic.
As is punching his keyboard.
Finally he just lets out a rather primal sounding screech of frustration, red and blue crackling and flickering around him .
Sollux Captor will take many things in stride because cool kids just do that.
But he cannot comprehend how he suddenly forgot how to hack a simple computer system.
FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: DICTATED:
…
what.
[And that's all Sollux has to say about that. He was directly in the midst of a fight, and this is unexpected to say the least. After a brief pause, he speaks again:]
diid ii … 2tep on a tran2portaliizer?
great.
yeah thii2 ii2 perfect tiimiing.
way two go 2ollux, iit'2 not liike you were about two do a miinii-bo22 fiight or anythiing.
who the fuck would anyone rewiire a tran2portaliizer two thii2 random ca2tle.
that doe2n't even make 2en2e two do that.
whatever.
…2hiit where are my gla22e2.
[The lisping voice begins to grow distant, as Sollux is moving away from the journal.
…ff?
are you here?
[ooc: The "2s" represent a lisp. There is so much lisping going on here guys, mad spittle everywhere.]
INTENT: I would be lying if I didn't say the already present and magnificent Homestuck cast here wasn't a big part of the reason. I'd love to be a part of said cast, and hopefully I won't fail too much. That aside, the setting is another thing that intrigues me. Giant magic castle that grants wishes is pretty dang awesome.
JOURNAL: tsunderefish
EMAIL: theluminoleffect@aim.com
AIM: vendingmachinedd
WIKI NAME: …N/A?
CHARACTERS: N/A
CHARACTER NAME: Sollux Captor
FANDOM: Homestuck
CANON: Right before ROUND TWO vs. Eridan.
WHAT THEY LOST: His computer hacking abilities. Whenever he tries to show off, his brain will be full of derp, because if there's one thing that he's even vaguely confident in, it's those skills.
ABOUT THE CHARACTER: (WOW THIS GOT REALLY LONG I AM SO SORRY)
You know that one guy who seems to knows way too much about computers, who you always go to if you're having computer problems, because he seems to have a way with technology that makes it entirely his bitch, and that knowledge extends to the point where it doesn't seem like he has much of a life away from one? That is Sollux Captor. He's that guy. If it seems like he doesn't have much of a life, it's because he doesn't.
Well sure, okay, I take that back a little. He's got a bit life, but if had the choice, he probably would spend 99% of his time in his COMMUNAL HIVESTEM, which is basically like a human APARTMENT BUILDING. Sollux isn't completely antisocial, but he does tend toward reclusive behavior. He'd probably prefer to call himself exclusive. But what does he do in his hive all day anyway? Play computer games of course. Or hack them, pirate them, program them, or grow them (because naturally Alternian computer games take the form of bug-shaped worm-things). Point is, dude is obsessed. I'm talking "hard to walk around his room without stepping on a game, and then there's this really disgusting squish sound" kind of obsession. Because like most computer geeks, he seems to lack the ability to clean his shit up and leaves everything all over the place but that's beside the point.
Basically everything in his room is dedicated to gaming, from the red and blue wires also sprawled all over the floor to the multiple giant silicombs of beehouse mainframes in the corner. Yes, beehouse. Sollux runs his computer on bee power, and it somehow functions perfectly. But that's because he's the master of Apiculture Networking. And also because no one else probably thought to themself, "hmm, beehives and computers, THE PERFECT COMBINATION!"
The bees also happen to produce MIND HONEY which is both a good thing, and a bad thing. The mind honey is a powerful substance, that if eaten, it has strange effects on the consumer. If Sollux's lusus (a large white two-headed creature with one red eye, and another blue eye), for example, eats the honey, it temporarily raises the Bicyclops' intelligence. But that's merely because it is "a complete idiot all of the time," and the mind honey serves to make it so it is only a complete idiot most of the time, or at the very least, enough to pacify it and prevent it from going on a stupidity-fueled rampage. There's a reason he keeps it chained to his roof, after all. But if Sollux himself consumes it, well. He temporarily loses his conscious control of his psionic powers and shoots eyebeams powerful enough to destroy a building. The mind honey is basically a major graphics card update. Don't use it unless you have the right drivers that work with your operating-system.
Now, what was that about psionic powers? Welp, to start, Sollux is a psionic, and most of his abilities derive from that. A few examples would be telekinesis and the ability to redirect his psionic powers into extremely powerful blasts of energy from his eyes, which he can control. He can also hear the voices of the imminently deceased as well as predict the destruction of Alternia and all of the trolls, and he has vision twofold as a form of extrasensory perception (which then provides him with killer migranes. Owch). And by twofold, I mean he uses his 3-D glasses to see background radiation from the Void on a person who has crossed parallel universes, whoops no, that's Doctor Who is able to see the future and the present. It's very limited sight, honestly. More like an irritating feeling that something bad is going to happen, but he is still more or less a PROPHET OF DOOM. Rather, not a fully fledged one, considering that would mean he'd have to go blind first. Because all Prophets are blind, of course. Most of the previously listed powers are tied to his sight: he stops hearing the voices and seeing the future once he is blinded. It's unknown if he still has his psionic-based powers though.
Probably because of his stupidly mutant brain, he's also an expert hacker. He's that douchebag kid who is like half your age but he knows more about computers than you will ever will and likes to throw it in your face. The only difference is that in about ten seconds of saying that, he'll probably tell himself he's not good enough and that he could be better. Using a type of format/language called ~ATH based on infinite loops, with purposes of doing things like importing finite constructs (preferably constructs with extremely short lifespans) and binding those to other lifespans (most likely those of the author of that code), and the creation of certain routines when those lifespan subloops are terminated. But unless you know the import of something that's about to die relatively soon, you're going to wind up waiting a long time for the code to take effect. Aside from ~ATH codes, he's also kind of bamf at coding and making viruses and programs, to the point where if you can't figure something out that's mathematically ambiguous, you're going to get called an idiot here. What you don't know how to undo a complex reversal of object codes to figure something out? He's going to ask you if you have your computer plugged in. Much like making the Mobius Double Reacharound Virus that potentially winds up cursing anyone who executes it as well as affecting everyone the executer every knew and will know, as well as basically creating the entire game of SGRUB adapted from technology found in some ancient ruins is kind of bamf. But only kind of. I mean, he could be better.
Yeah, seriously, what a godmode this douchebag is with his abilities and powers.
But now, getting more into personality, one of the fundamental things to know about Sollux: his occasional debilitating mood swings. One moment he's fine, and a pretty cool guy I might add, but his depressive episodes can be sparked by a hair-trigger, usually putting him in either a state of loneliness, self-deprecation, and guilt. Or maybe more on the anger side, where he completely flies off the handle with rage. His mood swings (the ones that aren't made of anger) usually only last a few minutes at most. Originally they were thought to be contributed to the idea that he probably had some trollish form of (unironic) bipolar II disorder, to further push the whole Gemini concept. As it turns out, it was mostly a side effect of constantly having psychic screams in his head. That usually would make someone irritable. After becoming blind, and he is no longer plagued the voices of the imminently deceased, he balances out a lot more. But even in a relatively good mood, he still has some low self-esteem issues. The fact that his blood, which is mustard yellow, is classified as one of the lowest kinds in the hemospectrum hierarchy of trolls probably really doesn't help there.
Sollux (before being blinded) had a tendency to fly off the handle when it came to talking to others, especially those he actually liked. While he might be condescending at first (mostly as a cover for his more sensitive side), once he's said something too far, he realizes it almost immediately and apologizes. When he gets stressed, he doesn't like to talk to anyone and kind of shuts himself away, although Feferi later convinces him into talking about his feelings when he's depressed. She even berates him when he starts to get too depressing, convincing him to cheer up a little. Which he does. And then starts to get embarrassed and freak out again. Emotional roller coaster, this guy. Even then, he attempts to be one of the more mature trolls in the group, seeing the rest of the trolls as being juvenile for talking to the humans. He's also embarrassed when he has immature conversations with others, even agreeing to delete logs off his computer for the really awkward ones, particularly with Karkat, who is his best friend.
Sollux has a "thing" for the bifurcated. Or basically anything that's double. Looking at his appearance alone, one could tell, considering how he has two pairs of horns, two different shoes, and a pair of red and blue lens glasses to cover his red and blue eyes. Even his recuperation has two different entrances, separated by red and blue sopor slime. When he types, he has a quirk of doubling all of his 'i's, replacing 's' with 2, and changing both "to" and "too" to "two," once again reflecting his love for doubles and the fact that he has a lisp. His trollian handle is twinArmageddons. After being blinded, he drops the bifurcation obsession, and picks up Aradia's old quirk of using 0 (zero) to replace all O's.
THIRD-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE:
There was one chain of thought, repeating over and over in his mind, increasing with velocity like some sort of wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine on a set of tracks that would consistently pick up speed with every time Sollux thought "what the fuck" to himself. This wheeled vehicle is probably going really goddamn fast at this point. Because yeah, okay, he's been through a lot in his short life so far. He had died and come back to life on a purple moon before arriving in a land filled with floating brains, and whatever, who cares. Old news compared to where he was on the timeline now. Even waking up in a castle where you can just wish for anything you want and it'll be there, is a little out there, but you know what? He was willing to buy this too. That was how he was on his computer to begin with, after all. All the files still in place, somehow. He can even accept that suddenly they have no connection to that stupid little lab on a meteor. Maybe he just doesn't have a long enough wifi range, maybe he's in another universe again. Who knows.
But the fact that he has been trying to crack this locked off file on this computer is just absolutely blowing his mind.
"What the fuck."
He's exceptionally calm about this-- for the time being. Because maybe he's just misspelling something. No, no he always uses 2, he can't be misspelling something. For god's sake (and he isn't even religious), he WROTE the lock he put on this so no one else can access it, he's gone through it a million times before. He's on his sixth try when he swears outloud again, this time louder. And again. Slamming his fist on the desk doesn't help, nor make him feel better, but the reaction is too automatic.
As is punching his keyboard.
Finally he just lets out a rather primal sounding screech of frustration, red and blue crackling and flickering around him .
Sollux Captor will take many things in stride because cool kids just do that.
But he cannot comprehend how he suddenly forgot how to hack a simple computer system.
FIRST-PERSON WRITING SAMPLE: DICTATED:
…
what.
[And that's all Sollux has to say about that. He was directly in the midst of a fight, and this is unexpected to say the least. After a brief pause, he speaks again:]
diid ii … 2tep on a tran2portaliizer?
great.
yeah thii2 ii2 perfect tiimiing.
way two go 2ollux, iit'2 not liike you were about two do a miinii-bo22 fiight or anythiing.
who the fuck would anyone rewiire a tran2portaliizer two thii2 random ca2tle.
that doe2n't even make 2en2e two do that.
whatever.
…2hiit where are my gla22e2.
[The lisping voice begins to grow distant, as Sollux is moving away from the journal.
…ff?
are you here?
[ooc: The "2s" represent a lisp. There is so much lisping going on here guys, mad spittle everywhere.]
INTENT: I would be lying if I didn't say the already present and magnificent Homestuck cast here wasn't a big part of the reason. I'd love to be a part of said cast, and hopefully I won't fail too much. That aside, the setting is another thing that intrigues me. Giant magic castle that grants wishes is pretty dang awesome.