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Jul 06, 2011 21:17

[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Mono
AGE: 21
JOURNAL: cursedpanda
IM: ERT KEY
E-MAIL: monopoly210@gmail.com
RETURNING: screwmeister rethinkstrategy abdocted

[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Terezi Pyrope
FANDOM: Homestuck
CHRONOLOGY: mid-sloppy makeouts
CLASS: hero
SUPERHERO NAME: Seer of Mind
ALTER EGO: Terezi Pyrope, aspiring legislacerator!!!!! Or maybe just weird alien kid.

BACKGROUND:
The story starts in a universe far far away, on a planet called Alternia. This planet is Terezi's home. She is a member of an alien race collectively called trolls, who are known for being incredibly violent and conquering lots and lots of other planets. And because all the troll adults are so busy being violent and conquering things, Alternia (the trolls' home planet) is left to the troll children. Trolls are pretty different from humans--all trolls are birthed by the same entity, the MOTHER GRUB, and start out as, well, grubs. From the time they're born, young trolls go through a series of strenuous survival trials, and only when they succeed are they able to metamorphose into actual trolls and build a place to live. Young trolls are generally adopted by one of the many ferocious creatures living on Alternia's surface, and those creatures act as their guardians and bodyguards.

Trolls adhere to a caste system that's based on blood color. Terezi has teal blood, which places her pretty well on the middle of the spectrum, which allows her to comfortably make friends (one should note that "friend" and "enemy" are the same word in troll vernacular) with trolls both above and below her in caste. Trolls also have a really complicated and bizarre system of romance in which relationships swing back and forth between the general descriptors of "pity" and "hate" and I'm not going to try to describe it beyond that. Trolls are weird!

Terezi happens to be one of twelve troll kids who would end up playing a game called SGRUB to try and save their world. They would fail at the saving part, because the entire point of SGRUB is to destroy one universe in order to create a new one. But I'm going to back up to a little while before their SGRUB session for a paragraph or two.

One of Terezi's many hobbies was FLARPing, a sort of live-action video game that she played with her friends. It was extremely dangerous (which was no doubt what made it fun for at least two thirds of the trolls involved) and ended in Terezi being permanently blinded after the following series of incidents occurred:

Vriska, one of Terezi's friends, distracted Terezi and her other friend Aradia so that she could throw Tavros, their mutual friend, off of a cliff. This maneuver ended in Tavros being paralyzed from the waist down. Aradia, intent on avenging Tavros, summoned the spirits of all the trolls Vriska had ever killed to torment her. Vriska retaliated by mind-controlling Sollux, Aradia's boyfriend, into killing Aradia. Terezi, thoroughly pissed off by Vriska's manipulation of three of her friends, alerted a certain deity-like figure to the fact that Vriska had stolen a magic eight ball from him, thus spurring him to make the ball in question explode in Vriska's face, causing her to lose an eye and an arm. And finally, to get Terezi back for that act of revenge, Vriska mind-controlled Tavros into use his own psychic ability (communing with animals) to mind-control Terezi's lusus into telling Terezi to walk outside and look up while Terezi was asleep--thus causing Terezi to look directly into the Alternian sun, an act that destroyed her sight. Wow, look at all those crazy troll shenanigans! All of these trolls involved were younger than six sweeps, which is roughly equivalent to thirteen human years, which should tell you something about troll culture and society.

At any rate, this turned out to be a good thing for Terezi in the long run, as it allowed her to wake up on the moon Prospit earlier than the other trolls and also led to her lusus teaching her how to "see" through taste and smell.

So, back to SGRUB. Sollux created the game from codes Aradia found during an archaeological dig, but realized too late that playing it wasn't the greatest idea. Basically, as soon as someone starts playing SGRUB a lot of meteors fall and wipe out their race. In this way all of Alternia--except for the twelve trolls playing the game, who managed to escape into the game medium before shit got real--was destroyed. If that wasn't bad enough, it also turned out that all of the kids' lusii had to die, which aside from being sad was also very bad because Feferi, the highest-blooded troll among them, pretty much had an elder god for a lusus, and said lusus emitted a sound upon its death that killed every living troll in the universe. Whoops.

The actual game part of SGRUB takes place in a universe called the Incipisphere, in which twelve planets--one for each of the kids--circle a center body called Skaia. SGRUB itself is kind of like a mixture between FLARP and chess--two opposing forces, Prospitans and Dersites, fight for control of Skaia, and the players must keep the forces of Derse from winning in order to win the game themselves. The trolls successfully play through their session, using political sabotage and plain old ass-kickery to win the game. But just as they try to claim their prize--entry into the newly created universe--a Dersite agent from a different game session named Jack Noir enters their session and tries to kill them all. Fortunately Aradia manages to help them all teleport away into hiding, but unfortunately they quickly realize that their days are numbered to the few hours it will take Jack to find them and kill them.

From their hiding place, the trolls soon realize that they can look down on the universe they've created through some conveniently-placed computers, and that universe is ours. The trolls observe four human kids on Earth who are destined to play their own version of SGRUB (this time called SBURB) and try to help them out in their own hateful and mostly useless way. At least, it's useless before the human kids actually enter their session. Once the human kids are in the game some of the trolls take a vested interest in helping them out, and Terezi is among them--she takes a shine to the human named Dave and guides him through much of the game (though admittedly while trolling the hell out of him, partly on their illustrious leader Karkat's orders but mostly for her own entertainment).

As their time runs out, though, several of the trolls go nuts and start killing each other. Vriska finally actually killed Tavros, another troll named Eridan (who had a somewhat genocidal complex to begin with) killed two other trolls, and Gamzee (a high-blooded troll who before that point had probably been the friendliest troll out of the twelve) started killing everyone else. Terezi stumbled across Tavros' body and began to investigate, finding most of the bodies of her other recently deceased friends in the process and mistakenly assuming that Vriska was responsible for all of the murders.

Terezi managed to track down Vriska and confronted her, flipping a coin to determine whether she would let Vriska go or kill her. The coin landed in favor of killing her, but Vriska, knowing Terezi well enough to know that she wouldn't be able to go through with killing someone she had been friends with, started to leave anyway. But Terezi is a seer, and she used her power of foresight to follow the timeline that would occur if she let Vriska go--and while it ended in Vriska ultimately killing Jack Noir, before that happened he would follow Vriska's trail back to their hiding place and kill the rest of the trolls, including Terezi and Karkat, who she shared a pretty complicated relationship with.

So Terezi sucked it up and actually killed Vriska, probably surprising both of them to an extent, at which point the other three surviving trolls (Karkat, Sollux, and Kanaya, who hasn't been mentioned by name in this app as of yet but is pretty decent as far as trolls go) showed up and Karkat and Terezi share a rather relieved hug that probably did not actually involve sloppy makeouts. That's where I'm pulling Terezi from.

PERSONALITY:
" your 2trength2 are beiing bliind and triickiing people about 2tuff.
and ii gue22 beiing generally 2avvy and pretty decent at other 2tuff,
but that2 why iim piickiing you and not 2ome other fuckiing 2chlub from retardatiion row."
-Sollux Captor

Terezi spends most of her time lusting after two things: justice and the color red.

She is seriously into the idea of justice as defined by troll society, which is a little different than how humans view it. In troll courts the very idea of a defense is offensive, victims are presumed guilty until proven innocent (which usually occurs after the execution) and prosecutors are referred to as legislacerators. Terezi's dream is to become a legislacerator as renowned as her troll ancestor, who was apparently famous for her skill in the courts. To this end she collects law books which she is able to read by smelling the words on the page.

Terezi collects stuffed dragons called scalemates that she roleplays with, making up elaborate courtroom scenarios that invariably end with the victim of the court being stabbed and hanged from the branches of the gigantic tree that Terezi lives in. She thinks these mock executions are hilarious. She also collects the scales of real dragons and decorates the walls of her hive with them--the root of her obsession with dragons is most likely the fact that her lusus is a dragon.

Once Terezi's lusus taught her how to see through smell and taste, she gained a whole new appreciation for color. Each color has a distinct taste and smell to her--for example, she loves to draw with red chalk because the taste and smell of it are so attractive to her. This tendency can lead her to come off as a little creepy, as she harasses both Dave and Karkat about letting her smell their delicious red blood.

Terezi has a healthy, if off-beat, sense of humor, and laughs (sometimes inappropriately) at most situations. She loves to draw (especially, as mentioned previously, with the color red) and her preferred drawing instrument is chalk. She doesn't really have any artistic ability, but that doesn't seem to bother her.

Terezi seems to be more willing to come to terms with her emotions than some trolls. She acknowledges when she's happy and when she's sad, and takes time to grieve when her friends are killed. She also seems to be torn on the issue of killing--she has no issue with killing people she doesn't know, but when it comes to people that she's familiar with she's much more hesitant. Twice she causes the death of alternate versions of the human kids, and both times she seems to feel guilt afterward. She also comes to the defense of her friends, a good example of this being the way she took revenge on Vriska for hurting Tavros and killing Aradia, and again for the way she went after Vriska after she killed Tavros. Terezi may struggle with some moral issues, but when push comes to shove she is able to find the courage to do what needs to be done.

Terezi types in a form of "leetspeak", replacing the letters "a", "i" and "e" with the numbers 4, 1, and 3 and using all caps at all times, in order to 3MUL4T3 TH3 BL1ND PROPH3TS. 413 is a significant number in the Homestuck universe, though Terezi doesn't know why and confesses at several points that she doesn't know why the prophets used those numbers. She also types in the color of her blood, as do most young trolls.

Terezi likes to flirt with guys for kicks. She often teases her male friends and seems to really enjoy getting them worked up. For that matter she enjoys trolling anyone over the internet, and can be a little sociopathic at times. She also enjoys RP, and while she doesn't participate in FLARP after the incident that blinds her she often RPs though text with her friend Nepeta.

POWER:
Terezi isn't completely blind (she sees the world as a giant messy blur, with shapes occasionally seeming somewhat clear if she's standing very close to something) but certainly isn't able see well enough to amount to anything. However, she can smell colors and words (the stronger the smell, the clearer her sight), and she is also capable of seeing things with some clarity by licking them as seen here. Since seeing through your nose and spit probably counts as a power, I'm gonna list it here.

I'd also like her to keep her sylladex, which is basically a card-based inventory system. Items can be captchalogued into a card, which then kind of holds them in hammerspace. All she's got in her inventory at this point is a box of (troll) Crayola chalk, her usual clothes, Pyralspite the scalemate plush and her strife specibi (weapon inventory) which is canekind. So in other words, she has some random junk and her walking cane, which doubles as a weapon.

[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[this post seems to be oscillating between video and audio--the camera picks up intermittent blurs of red and blue as Terezi turns the communicator over and randomly presses buttons, trying to figure out what it's for. through all of the cutting in and out, Terezi can be heard speaking:]

Hehehe, hero! You don't know the half of it, lady! Now what's this thing...it's too small to do anything with...Ugh!

[the video cuts on and stays on just in time to broadcast Terezi's tongue as she licks the communicator to get a better look.]

Leth havth a look...hehehe! [and you can just make out the top half of her face as she laughs.]

Wow! What a tiny keyboard!

[the video cuts off at that, and the rest of the post is in text.]

H3H3H3 WOW
OK4Y
1 WOULD R3ALLY R34LLY L1K3 TO KNOW WH4TS GO1NG ON!
1 C4NT SM3LL K4RK4T 4NYMOR3
1 KNOW H3 W4S JUST H3R3! >:/
PLUS 1 C4NT G3T TROLL14N TO CONN3CT
4ND MY T33TH F33L W31RD!!
TH1S 1S STUP1D
1S 4NYBODY 3V3N R34D1NG TH1S??
BL444444RRRRR >:[*

LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Terezi proceeded carefully through the lab, using her cane to navigate. After finding the corpses of two of her friends, she knew couldn't afford to be sloppy. It was Legislacerator Pyrope on the case, and her friends were damn lucky to have somebody like her to investigate! She felt quite confident that she would find and do away with the perpetrator, who would of course turn out to be Vriska. She had no doubt of it, but...thinking about her former friend brought a frown to Terezi's face. She and Vriska had been close, once, even if it was sweeps ago...they had FLARPed together, delivering justice with a vengeance, or so Terezi had thought at the time. Vriska's betrayal had more than stung back then, and it still bothered Terezi now.

So, maybe she wouldn't be able to take Vriska out after all. Maybe she could convince her to submit to a trial peacefully, or maybe kill herself like a respectable courtblock victim. The very thought prompted Terezi to cackle aloud--that would be the perfect scenario! The dread spidertroll Vriska willingly heading to her demise. A part of Terezi, the part that was a seer, knew that it wouldn't end that way. It couldn't.

But that wouldn't stop her from fantasizing. After all, no matter how difficult it might be to act on her trollish impulses in person...she always felt comfortable acting them out in her mind. And she intended to enjoy it while she could.

FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Terezi will be humanified to an extent, but I'd like her to keep her teal blood and horns. Other than that she'll be totally human.

*a translation of the text portion of the first-person sample in case you don't feel like reading trolltext:

HEHEHE WOW
OKAY
I WOULD REALLY REALLY LIKE TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON!
I CAN'T SMELL KARKAT ANYMORE
I KNOW HE WAS JUST HERE!
PLUS I CAN'T GET TROLLIAN TO CONNECT
AND MY TEETH FEEL WEIRD!!
THIS IS STUPID
IS ANYBODY EVEN READING THIS??
BLAAAARRRRR
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