APP: capeandcowl
[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Doc
AGE: The ripe age of twenty (it's close enough to my birthday, so what the heck!)
JOURNAL: scarebro
IM: doctornolicense (AIM)
E-MAIL: ornithophobic(at)gmail(dot)com
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Eridan Ampora, although he often roleplays under the name of his totally awesome forebear, Orphaner Dualscar.
FANDOM: Homestuck, that webcomic all the kids these days are reading.
CHRONOLOGY: After Rose blows up his computer because he was mackin' on her, but before he acquires his ludicrously overpowered magic science wand.
CLASS: Hard to gauge. Initially I'd say outwardly a "Hero," seeing how he was mostly cooperative with teammates throughout his campaign (up to the canon point I've selected, anyway) but he has a number of murderous tendencies common to his species and social class. Generally he'll champion no one's cause but his own -- and that cause would probably appear villainous to most of us. Think: killing all land dwellers, slaying their parent-guardian lusii to feed his crush's monstrous Lovecraftian leviathan, and hearing the lamentation of their women. It sounds downright vile, but it's perfectly natural for someone of his caste to indulge in wholesale slaughter!
Yet, at the canon point I've taken him from, he hasn't embarked on his major character-killing spree and the catalyst for his dive off the deep end (getting his wand) is but a pipe dream. 'Til then he hadn't really done anything except be a flirtatious creep at best and a difficult nuisance at worst. On a meta level he was more of a comic relief character, which made his turn for the worse that much more shocking to read. But most importantly, no matter how much of a joke he seems or seemed to be, his capacity for causing very real harm to someone was always there.
So basically, if "Murderous Dickhole" is a legitimate class, I'd probably just go with that. Or for simplicity's sake, maybe "Anti-hero" works just as well. You can just read that last sentence if you'd like to skip me waxing poetic.
SUPERHERO NAME: ORPHANER DUALSCAR. But only accidentally, seeing as when he was asked for an alias, he naturally assumed the computer was trying to roleplay with him. Sadly, there was no RP to be had.
ALTER EGO: He'll still be going under the name of Eridan Ampora, professional unemployed hipster trash (i.e. he's only the equivalent of thirteen years old, and I can't see him holding a job that doesn't involve genocide one way or another.)
BACKGROUND:
What is your character’s world like? What is their role in it? In what major canon events did your character play a part, how did your character affect these events, and vice versa? If applicable, what important relationships do they have with other characters in this series?
This doesn’t have to be terribly detailed, but we’d like a good picture of their canon to draw from, so please make sure you explain anything particularly series-specific or that we might not understand, and also that it’s in your own words.
PERSONALITY:
Well first off, often-times a troll is defined by his variety of interests (it's the majority of the information they're introduced with, for that matter) and Eridan is no exception. Sweeps of reading and hearing tales of the most illustrious troll conquerors and military leaders have given Eridan a flair for the dramatic and an ego to match his blood status. Modelling himself after these historical figures with their stories of victory and conquest, intrigue and romance, he's sort of cultivated an alter ego for himself -- and the fondness for extreme LARPing he shares with many trolls his age and a powerful genocide complex only fuel these theatrics. The Eridan that people see is aloof, self-superior, and... Kind of a massive tool. As a member of the sea-dwelling troll aristocracy, with some of the richest blood in the species, he has made it his mission to exterminate all the lower-caste land dwellers through any and all means possible. Needless to say, this doesn't really improve said land dwellers' opinions of him -- especially not when he starts using his perceived superiority to justify some of the crap he does.
All of this, however, is merely a meticulously crafted image and all of the conflict his inflammatory positions cause is just what he wants. His exaggerated emotional reactions, in his mind, are a fitting tribute to the romantic sagas he's so infatuated with. In truth, there isn't much substance beneath that outer veneer -- it's very likely that he doesn't actually aspire to kill all land dwellers (one possible reason why none of his villainous doomsday plots never work) and it's, uh, somewhat likely that he can actually be a pretty decent young troll when he's not ensconced in his histrionics. The fact of the matter is that this persona that he's spun for himself is holding him back in the social department more than anything: his over-enthusiastic approaches to courtship more alienate than seduce potential matesprits or kismeses. Moreover, he doesn't so much solicit people that show promising compatibility as fling himself at anyone that moves. Constant rejection has made him quite decidedly desperate and, emotional theatricality standing, only that much more flamboyant and obvious in his advances. It is really a vicious cycle.
So although sometimes you'll have this cocksure, foul-mouthed douchebag secret wizard-loving sea troll, during (increasingly) frequent moments of insecurity and bouts of sometimes-affected depression, that disguise may slip and you'll catch a glimpse of the dependent, needy, clingy Eridan that really only just wants some friends and probably a matesprit or kismesis to shack up with so that he doesn't get killed off for not being able to get any action. What salvageable relationships he does have, he holds on to for dear life (because, for most of his life, life really was what was at stake). What potential relationships he sees, he pursues with an off-putting aggression and hopefulness: incessantly alienating people trying to get them to hate him so that he may sway them into kismesissitude, or suavely gaining people' affecti-- nah nevermind he's pretty shitty awkward at matespritship. It's unlikely that even he, in the grip of crazy troll adolescent hormones, knows exactly what he sees in any given person -- Hate? Love? Bluh? At this stage he'll pretty much take anything he gets.
But then, usually inevitable rejection results in either despondency (and him eventually running off to his remaining friends for consolation) or anger (a romantacised "defeat" in the eyes of his persona). When he's hurting, physically or emotionally, everyone has to know. That is, when it suits him -- although he is very public about a lot of his superficial feelings and emotions, when they matter he tends to keep them guarded and tight under wraps. It's for this reason that it's so difficult to tell when he's being true to his feelings or putting on an act for the sake of whatever crazy drama he's spinning.
Dependency, both emotional and social is a consistent part of his character; even when engaged in extreme LARPing with Vriska, his actions (defeating other trolls and murdering their guardian lusii - hence the roleplay name taken from his ancestor Orphaner Dualscar - while Vriska got the freshly orphaned trolls to kill herself) bespoke a coexistence. His relationship with Feferi was entirely codependent as well -- the aforementioned lusii he murdered went to her in order to feed her own guardian. He (like pretty much every other troll) frequently solicits Karkat for romantic advice, relying on his guidance and support.
All this being said, it really is no wonder most people consider him a bit of an overemotional dickhead. But it's hard, being a kid and growing up. It's hard, and nobody understands. Regardless, we'll try.
like all trolls eridan types usin a color representativve of his blood color and caste wwhich in his case is a deep rich purple befittin his noble status
he wwrites usin his real life wweird wwavvy soundin sorta accent and doesnt capitalize or use punctuation
the doubled wws and vvs are supposed to look like wwavves like the ones on his shirt symbol and jewwelry
he nevver uses the words an or of instead replacin them wwith a
as in
a pile a shit
or a elephant
also he leavves out the g in present participles like runnin and killin and messin
wwhen talkin in real life he pronounces his vvs as wws wwhich may reference the romans pronouncin theirs the same wway since hes got the wwhole troll caligula thing goin on wwith his username caligulasaquarium
examples are like "wideo games," "wodka," and "we're looking for the nuclear wessels."
he kind a swwears a wwhole fuckin lot
and so thats about it as far as his typin quirks are concerned
POWER:
What is/are your character’s superpower(s)? If they have abilities in their canon source, please list them here. If they do not, please create some! Every character brought into the City must have at least one power, though this may be as useful or as useless as you wish. Please indicate which abilities are canon for your character and which are not.
Additionally, each character is permitted an upper limit of three separate powers. At our discretion, we may request that you reduce, readjust, or otherwise redefine your character’s powers in order to acclimate more readily to the game setting. Characters from more Eastern-style sources are to have their powers adapted to a Western setting - for example, characters from the series “Naruto” would turn their most prominent ninjutsu into the super-powers they receive upon arriving here.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: How your character will be addressing the game at large. This sample should follow the same rough format as Cape&Cowl proper - a first-person, text/audio/video-based, intentional post to an internet community. Preferably more than a paragraph in length, this sample is to show us your character's unique voice. If you can make us laugh or outright scare the pants off us, you’re doing a good job!
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE: The name of the game is introspection, folks. This sample will both showcase how you will play in the logs community, and how well you understand your character’s motivations, hopes, dreams, quirks, etc. This sample should be a bit longer than your first, and, again, make us cry, make us laugh, or make us never want to meet your character in a back alley and you’re doing a good job!
A note: In the cases of both first person and third person samples, we do NOT accept links to samples written at other games. If, however, you are a returning player applying for a character that you have played previously at Cape&Cowl, you are allowed to link to posts made by that character in this game.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
I'm not certain whether Eridan's grey-skinned, fin-faced, lightning-bolt horned visage classifies as "human-looking" enough to keep it and I actually don't know how the trolls already in-game were handled. I will just follow suit with what everyone else is doing, whatever that may be (although I suspect he'll be turned human so I just wrote the samples that way.)
NAME: Doc
AGE: The ripe age of twenty (it's close enough to my birthday, so what the heck!)
JOURNAL: scarebro
IM: doctornolicense (AIM)
E-MAIL: ornithophobic(at)gmail(dot)com
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Eridan Ampora, although he often roleplays under the name of his totally awesome forebear, Orphaner Dualscar.
FANDOM: Homestuck, that webcomic all the kids these days are reading.
CHRONOLOGY: After Rose blows up his computer because he was mackin' on her, but before he acquires his ludicrously overpowered magic science wand.
CLASS: Hard to gauge. Initially I'd say outwardly a "Hero," seeing how he was mostly cooperative with teammates throughout his campaign (up to the canon point I've selected, anyway) but he has a number of murderous tendencies common to his species and social class. Generally he'll champion no one's cause but his own -- and that cause would probably appear villainous to most of us. Think: killing all land dwellers, slaying their parent-guardian lusii to feed his crush's monstrous Lovecraftian leviathan, and hearing the lamentation of their women. It sounds downright vile, but it's perfectly natural for someone of his caste to indulge in wholesale slaughter!
Yet, at the canon point I've taken him from, he hasn't embarked on his major character-killing spree and the catalyst for his dive off the deep end (getting his wand) is but a pipe dream. 'Til then he hadn't really done anything except be a flirtatious creep at best and a difficult nuisance at worst. On a meta level he was more of a comic relief character, which made his turn for the worse that much more shocking to read. But most importantly, no matter how much of a joke he seems or seemed to be, his capacity for causing very real harm to someone was always there.
So basically, if "Murderous Dickhole" is a legitimate class, I'd probably just go with that. Or for simplicity's sake, maybe "Anti-hero" works just as well. You can just read that last sentence if you'd like to skip me waxing poetic.
SUPERHERO NAME: ORPHANER DUALSCAR. But only accidentally, seeing as when he was asked for an alias, he naturally assumed the computer was trying to roleplay with him. Sadly, there was no RP to be had.
ALTER EGO: He'll still be going under the name of Eridan Ampora, professional unemployed hipster trash (i.e. he's only the equivalent of thirteen years old, and I can't see him holding a job that doesn't involve genocide one way or another.)
BACKGROUND:
What is your character’s world like? What is their role in it? In what major canon events did your character play a part, how did your character affect these events, and vice versa? If applicable, what important relationships do they have with other characters in this series?
This doesn’t have to be terribly detailed, but we’d like a good picture of their canon to draw from, so please make sure you explain anything particularly series-specific or that we might not understand, and also that it’s in your own words.
PERSONALITY:
Well first off, often-times a troll is defined by his variety of interests (it's the majority of the information they're introduced with, for that matter) and Eridan is no exception. Sweeps of reading and hearing tales of the most illustrious troll conquerors and military leaders have given Eridan a flair for the dramatic and an ego to match his blood status. Modelling himself after these historical figures with their stories of victory and conquest, intrigue and romance, he's sort of cultivated an alter ego for himself -- and the fondness for extreme LARPing he shares with many trolls his age and a powerful genocide complex only fuel these theatrics. The Eridan that people see is aloof, self-superior, and... Kind of a massive tool. As a member of the sea-dwelling troll aristocracy, with some of the richest blood in the species, he has made it his mission to exterminate all the lower-caste land dwellers through any and all means possible. Needless to say, this doesn't really improve said land dwellers' opinions of him -- especially not when he starts using his perceived superiority to justify some of the crap he does.
All of this, however, is merely a meticulously crafted image and all of the conflict his inflammatory positions cause is just what he wants. His exaggerated emotional reactions, in his mind, are a fitting tribute to the romantic sagas he's so infatuated with. In truth, there isn't much substance beneath that outer veneer -- it's very likely that he doesn't actually aspire to kill all land dwellers (one possible reason why none of his villainous doomsday plots never work) and it's, uh, somewhat likely that he can actually be a pretty decent young troll when he's not ensconced in his histrionics. The fact of the matter is that this persona that he's spun for himself is holding him back in the social department more than anything: his over-enthusiastic approaches to courtship more alienate than seduce potential matesprits or kismeses. Moreover, he doesn't so much solicit people that show promising compatibility as fling himself at anyone that moves. Constant rejection has made him quite decidedly desperate and, emotional theatricality standing, only that much more flamboyant and obvious in his advances. It is really a vicious cycle.
So although sometimes you'll have this cocksure, foul-mouthed douchebag secret wizard-loving sea troll, during (increasingly) frequent moments of insecurity and bouts of sometimes-affected depression, that disguise may slip and you'll catch a glimpse of the dependent, needy, clingy Eridan that really only just wants some friends and probably a matesprit or kismesis to shack up with so that he doesn't get killed off for not being able to get any action. What salvageable relationships he does have, he holds on to for dear life (because, for most of his life, life really was what was at stake). What potential relationships he sees, he pursues with an off-putting aggression and hopefulness: incessantly alienating people trying to get them to hate him so that he may sway them into kismesissitude, or suavely gaining people' affecti-- nah nevermind he's pretty shitty awkward at matespritship. It's unlikely that even he, in the grip of crazy troll adolescent hormones, knows exactly what he sees in any given person -- Hate? Love? Bluh? At this stage he'll pretty much take anything he gets.
But then, usually inevitable rejection results in either despondency (and him eventually running off to his remaining friends for consolation) or anger (a romantacised "defeat" in the eyes of his persona). When he's hurting, physically or emotionally, everyone has to know. That is, when it suits him -- although he is very public about a lot of his superficial feelings and emotions, when they matter he tends to keep them guarded and tight under wraps. It's for this reason that it's so difficult to tell when he's being true to his feelings or putting on an act for the sake of whatever crazy drama he's spinning.
Dependency, both emotional and social is a consistent part of his character; even when engaged in extreme LARPing with Vriska, his actions (defeating other trolls and murdering their guardian lusii - hence the roleplay name taken from his ancestor Orphaner Dualscar - while Vriska got the freshly orphaned trolls to kill herself) bespoke a coexistence. His relationship with Feferi was entirely codependent as well -- the aforementioned lusii he murdered went to her in order to feed her own guardian. He (like pretty much every other troll) frequently solicits Karkat for romantic advice, relying on his guidance and support.
All this being said, it really is no wonder most people consider him a bit of an overemotional dickhead. But it's hard, being a kid and growing up. It's hard, and nobody understands. Regardless, we'll try.
like all trolls eridan types usin a color representativve of his blood color and caste wwhich in his case is a deep rich purple befittin his noble status
he wwrites usin his real life wweird wwavvy soundin sorta accent and doesnt capitalize or use punctuation
the doubled wws and vvs are supposed to look like wwavves like the ones on his shirt symbol and jewwelry
he nevver uses the words an or of instead replacin them wwith a
as in
a pile a shit
or a elephant
also he leavves out the g in present participles like runnin and killin and messin
wwhen talkin in real life he pronounces his vvs as wws wwhich may reference the romans pronouncin theirs the same wway since hes got the wwhole troll caligula thing goin on wwith his username caligulasaquarium
examples are like "wideo games," "wodka," and "we're looking for the nuclear wessels."
he kind a swwears a wwhole fuckin lot
and so thats about it as far as his typin quirks are concerned
POWER:
What is/are your character’s superpower(s)? If they have abilities in their canon source, please list them here. If they do not, please create some! Every character brought into the City must have at least one power, though this may be as useful or as useless as you wish. Please indicate which abilities are canon for your character and which are not.
Additionally, each character is permitted an upper limit of three separate powers. At our discretion, we may request that you reduce, readjust, or otherwise redefine your character’s powers in order to acclimate more readily to the game setting. Characters from more Eastern-style sources are to have their powers adapted to a Western setting - for example, characters from the series “Naruto” would turn their most prominent ninjutsu into the super-powers they receive upon arriving here.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: How your character will be addressing the game at large. This sample should follow the same rough format as Cape&Cowl proper - a first-person, text/audio/video-based, intentional post to an internet community. Preferably more than a paragraph in length, this sample is to show us your character's unique voice. If you can make us laugh or outright scare the pants off us, you’re doing a good job!
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE: The name of the game is introspection, folks. This sample will both showcase how you will play in the logs community, and how well you understand your character’s motivations, hopes, dreams, quirks, etc. This sample should be a bit longer than your first, and, again, make us cry, make us laugh, or make us never want to meet your character in a back alley and you’re doing a good job!
A note: In the cases of both first person and third person samples, we do NOT accept links to samples written at other games. If, however, you are a returning player applying for a character that you have played previously at Cape&Cowl, you are allowed to link to posts made by that character in this game.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
I'm not certain whether Eridan's grey-skinned, fin-faced, lightning-bolt horned visage classifies as "human-looking" enough to keep it and I actually don't know how the trolls already in-game were handled. I will just follow suit with what everyone else is doing, whatever that may be (although I suspect he'll be turned human so I just wrote the samples that way.)