CG: HERE'S AN APPLICATION GODDAMN.
[OOC INFORMATION]
[NAME]
Hils
[AGE]
19
[AIM]
musicsdyslexkia
[E-MAIL]
deanpants at gmail dot com
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[IC INFORMATION]
[NAME]
Karkat Fuckin' Vantas; "carcinoGeneticist"
[FANDOM]
Hivebent Homestuck
[TIMELINE]
Karkat is going to be taken from the middle of this ultimate clown... mass-murdering fuckhead spree that happens to be going on in canon right now. GOOD LUCK, KARKAT. HAVE FUN.
[AGE]
Six Alternian solar sweeps; 13 in human years
[APPEARANCE]
[Sprite] [Realistic]
Trolls are humanoid enough in appearance, with the major differences being the gray skin, the different colored eyes, the horns, and shark-like teeth. Their fingers are more clawed than that of a humans, and speculated to have pointed ears, but it's difficult to tell, the ears generally being covered by their hair.
Karkat in particular has very bright eyes, yellow, with small dark pupils, as well as very dark bags under both of them - dude obviously doesn't get enough sleep. His horns are notoriously short and stubby, rounded unlike the generally long and pointed troll horns. He's self-conscious about them :(
Though trolls seem to work on a caste system, based on blood color, Karkat's blood color is, as of this time, unknownBRIGHT-ASS MOTHERFUCKING RED. He conceals it, and gets very agitated when it's mentioned.
His hair is generally spiked, messy and floofysticking up in all odd directions. He usually wears the same t-shirt (with the Cancer symbol [♋] on it) and slacks, as trolls do not seem to give two shits about fashion.
[ABILITIES]
Karkat has use of a "Sylladex", you know what this is, I'm not going to have four hundred words of explanation on something you know, I wanna make this shorter. Similarly, Karkat also has a "Strife Specibus", blah blah blah, you know this stuff, he wields a sickle-y sickle and is basically AWESOME OKAY. He has rather fast reflexes, as well as more than enough intent to act, between strongly pronounced military or more broadly martial ambitions and a VERY short attention span for bullshit.
Karkat is also a bad hacker. I mean a bad hacker. I mean, like, exploding computers, cursing himself with ninety thousand years bad luck BAD BAD BAD.
All of the trolls have Sburb powers that correlate directly with their Sburb title, though Karkat's is currently unknown. It's presumably something to do with blood and/or life, judging by his being a Knight of Blood, on an entire planet covered in the stuff.
[PERSONALITY]
Picture the most terrible, self-centered, narcissistic, AWFUL person you've met - you know who I mean, that asshole that doesn't really have friends, but he does have acquaintances, because you're kind of afraid that he'll snap one day and kill us all, so you stay on his good side so he doesn't shoot you? Yanno? Yanno? So you've got that person, right? Now kick them in the shins! Get him real loud and opinionated, break his caps lock button, and then throw a bucket of gray paint at 'im. Congratulations! You've gotten something in the neighborhood of a Karkat.
There's not much outwardly REDEEMING about Karkat's personality. He seemingly cares for a whole lot of the number one, and not much of anything else around him. Karkat revels in victory, he laughs in the face of those less fortunate, and would preferably roll around in a pool of destruction, had he the opportunity. Hoo boy, does he like destruction.
His very chat handle, carcinoGeneticist, has implications of genetic engineering and is a play on carcinogenesis, which is the development of cancer in the body. Vantas is a cancer treatment pill, and Karkat is a reference to Karkata, the Hindu astrological equivalent of Cancer. All of these factors, as well as a flair for world takeover, could point towards an interest in intentionally causing cancer.
Karkat also seems to show all the signs of a stereotypical internet troll, constantly typing in all capital letters (albeit with nearly perfect syntax), using rudimentary insults like 'your face', and swearing colorfully and often. He embodies the astrological sign he is named for, which is to say that he is an utter and complete crab. He has little to no patience for bullshittery, becomes visibly aggravated when things don't go his way, and even his most sound advice is often riddled with insults and general bitchiness.
Despite all this, Karkat seems to be very hard on himself. He harbors quite a lot of guilt for so many things throughout the story, cursing everyone around him, and seems to blame himself for a lot of the poor outcomes that happen throughout the game - the trolls' losing, Jade's sending John her present, and etc. It's been pointed out that there's nothing he hates more than himself (likely in jest, though there may be some truth to the matter), though he seems to cover up any insecurities with actions which are antagonistic in nature - defending himself by attacking, essentially.
Regardless, Karkat is ruthlessly ambitious, using any and all opportunities that cross his path to gain power, despite nearly all other advisory. Consequentially, he rarely ever shows remorse for any terrible things he's done, or even necessarily takes responsibility for anything that is 'bad', because clearly he would not have that kind of capacity. For bad things. Ever. Always amazing right here. Always.
ooooookay he is from a webcomic with MS PAINT in the title this is like four hundred times too long, um
TL;DR: He's temperamental, quick to bouts of anger, he's loud, he's got no regard for anything cute or cuddly or nice or-- in his way, in general. Dude is a doosh and a Mr. Grumpygills, plain and simple.
[HISTORY]
- Due to several time jumps and diddling around with chronology in general, there are going to be a few gaps missing here. I'm gonna try to make this as linear and understandable as possible.
- Any and all links included are totally optional - they're merely provided for those who may want to look up more information on the canon.
The troll biological process is less than glamorous. Imperial drones collect genetic material, gathered from adult trolls, in filial pails. The Mother Grub is then implanted with the material, deep underground in the brooding caverns. Vaguely echoing several insect colonies' life cycles, she combines all the genetic material into one diabolical incestuous slurry, and lays hundreds of thousands of eggs at once. The eggs hatch into young larval trolls.
But yeah, then there were these larvae.
Larvae which, from this point, spin a cocoon from a stalactite of choice. After they pupate and come into a more troll-like general shape, the young'n has to undergo a series of dangerous and potentially fatal trials, tests to gauge which of the young are worthy of survival.
Should a young troll pass these trials, they are then chosen by a-- fairly terrifying species of subterranean beast native to Alternia, known as a lusus naturae. Strangely, this relationship is symbiotic, and the two are bound for life. The troll tames the lusus, acting as a zookeeper for the creature. Simultaneously, the lusus acts as a bodyguard, caretaker, and custodian - a parental figure to the young troll in the absence of a legitimate, unobtainable parent due to adult trolls being mainly based of-planet, not to mention their breeding processes rendering any attempts to build a family tree entirely impossible.
Together, the two surface, build a hive with the help of carpenter drones, and live happily ever after. Yay! That simple, right?
No, of course not.
This particular troll had a plan, had a flair for world domination, had a name to make for himself, and that name sure as shit wasn't Bulgereek Nookstain. Karkat Vantas was ready to play a game, bitches. Sollux Captor, working alongside Aradia Megido, is the one to introduce Sburb to the Trolls' session and creates two teams of six with the twelve Trolls using the data Aradia salvaged from the ruins of a frog temple. After much whiningmanipulation and bitchingpowerplay, Karkat is designated the leader of one of the two teams - the Red to Sollux's Blue.
The trolls, you see, were intent on playing a game. They just didn't know what the fuck they were getting into.
Under the arrogant and rather idiotic impression that it wasn't going to actually do anything of consequence, Karkat accidentally activates the Mobius Double Reacharound Virus via a ~ATH code with which Sollux had stupidly provided him. The virus, somehow, makes Karkat's computer explode, as well as cursing him and anyone he happens to come across. In demonstration of this, Karkat's custodian dies in the computer explosion. Shortly after it's activated, Gamzee Makara's lusus passes as well.
Karkat starts his session not long after, a simulation game called 'Sburb' that lets one user manipulate the environment of the other, with one acting as the server and the other as the client. Terezi Pyrope was acting as Karkat's server. This proves to be disastrous, as Terezi seems to take a likening to torturing Karkat - she paints his Hive ridiculous colors (which could also be due to her being blind and unable to see what colors she was using), and even transports his toilet into the middle of a pool of blood.
He enters The Medium, a mysterious realm which forms part of The Incipisphere, the Incipisphere being the strange, alternate universe to which Sbrub transports people and things. Sburb designates Karkat as The Knight of Blood, and his planet in the Medium as the Land of Pulse and Haze. Karkat also crafts an updated version of his sickle, the Homes Smell Ya Later (presumably from combining a sickle with the videos of his favorite TV show, The Thresh Prince of Bel Air).
Throughout all this, a character called Spades Slick, the notorious leader of the mob group, the Midnight Crew, is communicating with Karkat via a computer in an underground hatch. Spades types commands to Karkat, and these manifest as a disembodied voice inside of his head. Karkat will feel compelled to do what Spades commands him to do, but should his requests be too ridiculous, he is more than allowed to refuse them.
So that was that.
But yeah, then there were these larvae, and--
Wait, what?
In addition to someone communicating with them via the computer, every player who plays Sburb will, without exception, be their own clone. Through the actions of one player, all players in that Sburb session will have been created as clones of themselves, with the originals being clones. Essentially, the matter used to create the clones comes from the clones themselves, creating 'paradox clones' of themselves. I know. I've said 'clone' so much that it's not even a word anymore.
Karkat was the trolls' player who created the trolls and their custodians. With six trolls on his team, and at least one guardian per troll, this means he had to take care of twelve clone babies. He doesn't seem to have been very happy about this.
Other than what's been given above, not much is known about the trolls' Sburb session, as time has skipped about. We know the troll have completed their Sburb session as two chains of six players each, and that they now reside in The Veil, where they use their equipment to talk to the kids at any point in the timeline, even months before the story began, so long as it was before The Rift (The Rift being a mysterious, catastrophic event that the kids somehow cause, that the trolls cannot see past and allude to on numerous occasions).
They appear to be trolling the kids out of anger. According to Karkat, the Homestuck kids have already lost, and they have 'fucked up' the game so badly that apparently all the trolls are going to die. There's speculation that this 'fuck-up', begins with Jack Noir's ascent into power, but the true story behind this hasn't yet been revealed. Aren't time shenanigans so conducive to a linear plot?
Speaking of linear, in his attempts to troll the Homestuck kids (and simultaneously attempt to fix the kids' game session in the process, it seems), Karkat has picked the dumbest fucking way to approach this that he ever could in his life, and is trolling the kids backwards. He starts from just before The Rift, takes a leap back, and seems to be moving in a chronologically reversed order.
Considering that this means that the further along Karkat trolls, the more conversations that he has with them, the less the kids remember, this proves to be an exceedingly frustrating process for him. He finds himself becoming visibly aggravated, often snapping at the kids and insulting them, even in events where he's attempting to help.
Oh, and somewhere along the way, everything went to shit, literally everyone went insane, Eridan murdered Feferi and Kanaya and knocked out Sollux and Gamzee is a homicidal clown troll who is trying to use Karkat's intestines as a scarf. ...So that's what he's dealing with here.
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