☓ Personality: Slick's default mode is angry. Rarely is he in a good mood for a genuine or not terrible reason -- sure, slitting throats of people he doesn't like makes him happy, but not really in the best way, given, you know.
The murder part.
But anyway, he exists in a state of constant irritation most of the time. Everything and anyone he will ever encounter are fated to leave a bad first impression on him in some way, because he's very, very short-tempered and really easy to offend. This anger at everyone extends to himself sometimes, but we'll learn more about that later. Slick is quick to judge and hard to convince otherwise, which becomes a problem because his views on many things are incredibly black and white. With people, for example, either they're kind of tolerable, or he hates them and will never not hate them. Ever. He would kill those people without hesitation, and he would feel good about it afterwards.
Unfortunately, wanting to stab first and judge later is his kneejerk response to most things (see: "stabbing is how he greets people," sorry Karkat). This is of course because Slick's morals are questionable at best. He is very of the mind that if someone does something to cross him, they deserve to die, and he won't stop himself from making it happen if given the chance. He's also really good at stabbing people and slitting throats and the like, because, well, he'd had a couple centuries to screw around in a desert building his mobster utopia. But we'll learn about that a bit later, too.
Slick is impatient, unsurprisingly, which leads to things like doing away with an original plan to, say, kill someone and make it look really cool and impressive because he messed up the clever one-liner and would rather just stab them in the throat and get it over with. The bit about the one-liners leads into the point that Slick is kind of a loser -- not, say, the kid picked last for gym, but he has a few really unfortunate habits that are just stupid. The first being, yes, awful one-liners. He tries incredibly, incredibly hard to make clever witticisms and slam excellent puns down at the perfect moment, and pretty much fails every single time. This frustrates him and just ups his anger points +10. Another ridiculous habit is his tendency to get distracted and do whatever occurs to him on a whim -- inevitably, leading to him getting caught playing around and pretending to joust and things like that. The last ridiculous habit is a little hit or miss, but Slick occasionally has moments, often in combat or other such conflict, of standing there and boggling vacantly at the worst times.
Like when Snowman is about to tear his limbs off. Or Scratch is about to take away his favorite toy and ruin it (jerk). These things tend to happen when he is too angry to even think rationally, which is not all the time despite what one may believe. Slick's anger is a constant, punctuated by little pockets of frothing rage and vacant boggling calm.
Despite going about cursing and shouting and stabbing people and generally carrying on, Slick is really conscious of what other people think of him. Granted, in most cases, he could not give less of a shit -- anyone who gives him trouble about something he does or did will just get stabbed in the face, after all! But there are those people he staunchly does not want to look like an idiot in front of, for various reasons.
Of course he makes a fool of himself in front of all of them somewhat regularly, but that's because he's only conscious of other people after he's done something stupid.
The people in question are pretty confined to the rest of the Midnight Crew, Snowman (huge bitch), and Karkat. The Crew and the kid are the only people Slick really doesn't hate entirely that much, so we'll look at Snowman first.
The murder part.
But anyway, he exists in a state of constant irritation most of the time. Everything and anyone he will ever encounter are fated to leave a bad first impression on him in some way, because he's very, very short-tempered and really easy to offend. This anger at everyone extends to himself sometimes, but we'll learn more about that later. Slick is quick to judge and hard to convince otherwise, which becomes a problem because his views on many things are incredibly black and white. With people, for example, either they're kind of tolerable, or he hates them and will never not hate them. Ever. He would kill those people without hesitation, and he would feel good about it afterwards.
Unfortunately, wanting to stab first and judge later is his kneejerk response to most things (see: "stabbing is how he greets people," sorry Karkat). This is of course because Slick's morals are questionable at best. He is very of the mind that if someone does something to cross him, they deserve to die, and he won't stop himself from making it happen if given the chance. He's also really good at stabbing people and slitting throats and the like, because, well, he'd had a couple centuries to screw around in a desert building his mobster utopia. But we'll learn about that a bit later, too.
Slick is impatient, unsurprisingly, which leads to things like doing away with an original plan to, say, kill someone and make it look really cool and impressive because he messed up the clever one-liner and would rather just stab them in the throat and get it over with. The bit about the one-liners leads into the point that Slick is kind of a loser -- not, say, the kid picked last for gym, but he has a few really unfortunate habits that are just stupid. The first being, yes, awful one-liners. He tries incredibly, incredibly hard to make clever witticisms and slam excellent puns down at the perfect moment, and pretty much fails every single time. This frustrates him and just ups his anger points +10. Another ridiculous habit is his tendency to get distracted and do whatever occurs to him on a whim -- inevitably, leading to him getting caught playing around and pretending to joust and things like that. The last ridiculous habit is a little hit or miss, but Slick occasionally has moments, often in combat or other such conflict, of standing there and boggling vacantly at the worst times.
Like when Snowman is about to tear his limbs off. Or Scratch is about to take away his favorite toy and ruin it (jerk). These things tend to happen when he is too angry to even think rationally, which is not all the time despite what one may believe. Slick's anger is a constant, punctuated by little pockets of frothing rage and vacant boggling calm.
Despite going about cursing and shouting and stabbing people and generally carrying on, Slick is really conscious of what other people think of him. Granted, in most cases, he could not give less of a shit -- anyone who gives him trouble about something he does or did will just get stabbed in the face, after all! But there are those people he staunchly does not want to look like an idiot in front of, for various reasons.
Of course he makes a fool of himself in front of all of them somewhat regularly, but that's because he's only conscious of other people after he's done something stupid.
The people in question are pretty confined to the rest of the Midnight Crew, Snowman (huge bitch), and Karkat. The Crew and the kid are the only people Slick really doesn't hate entirely that much, so we'll look at Snowman first.
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