App for Singularity
Player Information ;
Your Nickname: Von
OOC Journal: http://levonsong.livejournal.com/
Under 18? No
Email/IM: sinoxa@gmail.com / theotokage @ AIM
Characters Played at Singularity: None
Character Information ;
Name: Eridan Ampora
Name of Canon: Homestuck (MS Paint Adventure)
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: AU
Reference: MSPA Wiki for the original and this forum post for the basic information of the AU
Canon Point:
Setting:
Alternia is a nightmarish world you would expect from the mind of a man like Tim Burton, but without any of the happiness and karma. Its people live only during the night as all but, a select few cannot stand the blistering Alternia sun and if the sun did not get you the zombified corpses of the dominant species, Trolls, would bring about your end. It has two moons orbiting it; one green and one purple. There is a legend of a man who lives on the green moon, but no one has ever been able to prove it despite the trolls having spread beyond their home planet.
There are two major groups of life forms, although it could be argued there are three or only one. These, arguably, two groups are the Trolls and the Lusus.
Trolls are a classic bipedal creature; one head, two arms, two legs, two eyes, etc. However unlike humans they have grey skin, only have naturally black hair, and candy corn colored horns. Trolls must be much tougher than an average human just to survive since they seem to believe in an almost militant Darwinian philosophy which involves killing the weak, crippled, and many other factors that would make a troll sub par. The Trolls are birthed by a vast mother grub as grubs themselves. They are then chosen by a Lusus who will raise them after they pupate and until they become adults. A Troll's place in society is decided by their blood color, Troll blood running along the color spectrum with red being the lowest and purple being the highest. Those of purple blood are generally aquatic and are considered the aristocracy while those with bright red blood are considered mutants and sentenced to death once found out. This generally doesn't take long as trolls tend to advertise their blood color int heir clothing and the text color they use in their apparently standard chat client Trollian. Besides social rank there is one other connection between a Troll's blood and how they act. Trolls of the lower colors are more likely to manifest psychic powers while those higher on the spectrum are more resistant to physic abilities. The homeplanet is generally inhabited only by the trolls who aren't yet adults, the twelve trolls of the main plot like being 6 solar sweeps which are comparable to a 13 year old human.
The Lusus, or Lusus Naturae, are the animals of Alternia and raise the young trolls till adulthood. They come in a wide variety, from monstrous crabs to bull like fairies, from eldritch abominations to large cats, from cow centaurs to dragons. The list goes on. Besides blood color, as a Lusus will share its Troll's blood color, it is unknown what makes a Lusus choose their Troll. However a Troll and Lusus will generally share some physical characteristics. There are no seen cases of a Troll having multiple Lusii or a single Lusus raising more than one Troll.
The most important Lusus however is the Mother Grub as it is the machine through which Troll species continues. It takes genetic samples from troll couples which are delivered by a drone whose sole purpose is to carry around buckets to be filled with genetic samples from the couples. If the buckets are not filled then the drone kills the trolls. It is important to tell that trolls have two partners, one that they deeply hate and one that they deeply love. The mother grub takes all the samples and mixes them into an incestuous slurry, then giving birth to the next generation of grubs who will have traits taken randomly from the many samples.
Despite the brutal nature of the trolls seeming to conflict with the fact they are a space faring race they have quite the infrastructure to the point that a chat client used by young trolls can communicate across time. Young trolls are also given, at some point before their 13th sweep, drones and the materials to build a complex home or hive for themselves and their Lusii. They also appear to be a very intelligent race, two of the twelve trolls from canon showing the ability to build complex robots and make complex programs tied into the very lifespan of their universe without assistance. Yet oddly, their computers are organic as are their games, FLARP being a good example as it uses what appear to be bats to project holograms of monster to fight. There are apparently examples of magic in their history, but most Trolls think is fake.
Personality:
Eridan Ampora is a brown blooded troll who, like all trolls, have gone through much trial. Unlike most Trolls, he hasn't come out unscathed. He grew up with plans of conquest and a strong urge to rule which was just helped by being the sole wizard he knows of. To amass the resources for his plans he began playing FLARP which is a kind of Live Action Roleplay in Alternia, but its threats are very real. Through this he met his 11 friends, being closest with his FLARP partners Gamzee, Vriska, and Kanaya. However during a game of FLARP he was attacked and crippled by a fellow troll. He got out lucky, she killed all others she attacked, but apparently had a crush on him so she only mutilated his horns, took his wand arm, and scarred his right eye closed. Needless to say this crushed his hopes of conquest and made it so he could no longer do the magic he loved. To make matters worse his friend Gamzee had recently been killed, presumably by the very troll that attacked him, and his other friend Vriska moved out into the country and away from them all. As a sick apology the universe returned his friend Gamzee to him, still dead and as a ghost who can seemingly no longer feel.
All of this put together has driven him to view his actions as doomed to fail and effectively killed his plans of conquest. You'd think him being friends with the heir of the Alternian throne would have killed that plan earlier, but trolls are weird.
Also thanks to the attack upon him Eridan has grown fearful of red romance, the kind we humans are familiar with. One would expect the attack would put him off on black romance, but when attacked the Troll drew hearts on him, the troll sign of red romance, instead of spades which are the sign of black romance. It also made him just plain fearful to make more friends or to strengthen the few bonds he had, the death of his best friend Gamzee and then emotionless return causing him to become withdrawn.
All of this has added up, causing Eridan to fall into a deep depression that he is unwilling to escape from in fear of bringing more sadness into his life. He stopped leaving his home as the Alternian government would have him killed due to his loss of arm, ability to defend himself, and limited vision.
Abilities and Weaknesses:
Eridan may have lost his wand arm, but is not completely helpless. For years he was planning a battle of conquest so anytime he didn't spend amass resources he spent studying tactics, strategy, and warfare in general. He also has his amassed resources although it isn't as much as he would like it to be, but would love to spend it all if he could just find a prosthetic arm that would allow him to use magic again.
As started above he has lost his main way of defending himself as well as half of his vision. Also, due to having been focused on magics, he is physically quite weak. He also has poor social skills thanks to cutting himself off from others and is prone to snapping at people.
Inventory:
One powerful magic wand
One ancient spell book
One red and yellow scarf
Several spare shirts and pants, none any different from the ones he is wearing
Appearance:
This is his sprite
Eridan is an alien teen, appearing human at a glance. However upon further examination his grey skin, candy corn patterned horns, pointed teeth, and yellow eyes cause one to see the differences between his kind and humans.
Unlike most trolls however his mop of hair has a brown potion of it, all trolls having naturally black hair. His right eye is also scarred shut, leaving three slash shaped scarred tissue. He also has two broken horns, formerly shaped like lightning bolts but now the right is broken in half and the left horn only keeping the base.
He has a shirt bearing his symbol and blood color, in this case being a brown version of the astrological symbol Aquarius.Around his neck is a red and yellow scarf, possibly hiding more scares. He also wears brown pants which are long enough to cover some of the top of his bright red shoes.
Age: 6 Solar Sweeps which equates about 13 years
OC/AU Justification ;
This version of Eridan is an AU of the one from the classic Homestuck plot. The normal Eridan is a member of the aquatic aristocracy with a desire to kill all land dwellers while this Eridan is a brown blood, the second lowest position on the spectrum, and simply wants world conquest rather than genocide. Also while the prime Eridan uses a legendary energy rifle as his weapon this Eridan formerly used a wand, something Eridan prime would kill for.
Samples ;
Log Sample:
Eridan stared at his computer screen, amazed at what Kanya's messaged promised. A way to finally leave Alternia, to get what had been taken from him and the others back, and, best of all, revenge against that Troll who'd caused all this. At first he'd been weary, after all Kanaya lived in a tree, but as he read the history of how she made this game it showed true hope. The basis found by Aradia in some of the oldest ruins on Alternia, somehow connected to that other world Sollux saw, and finally coded by Feferi to actually work.
He felt something wet run from his left eye, a brown tear from the pure joy he was feeling at this moment. It was one of those miracles Gamzee loved to speak of before he was killed. His lips pulled back to reveal his sharp teeth, his remaining hand curling into a fist as he began to laugh. It would finally all be alright, things would finally be fixed. The young Troll jumped to his feet and rushed through his room, grabbing everything he felt he might need: a few pairs of shirt, pants, and shoes; his most powerful wand; and his spell book.
Sadly it wasn't to be. With all of his necessary possessions gathered he rushed back to his computer, about to message Kanaya and tell her to take him from this place. However he tripped and the ground rushed up to meet him. In reflex his eyes closed, but opened a moment later when he didn't feel the floor. Instead he felt himself free falling and saw nothing but the void. This was it, his pathetic life must have ended as he tripped and this is what happened to a troll when he died. Once more he was proven wrong as he felt his back hit the ground and saw an alien sky for but a moment until he blacked out.
Network Sample:
good gog
i havvent felt like this since that attack from nepeta
im just sending this out since im still not too sure wwhere i am yet
are you out there kanaya
is this wwhere you wwanted to send us because that fall nearly killed me
the sky is so beautiful though and maybe wwe can find me a neww arm here
if kanaya or anyone else wwho got sent here or anyone wwho is native gets this find me soon
Your Nickname: Von
OOC Journal: http://levonsong.livejournal.com/
Under 18? No
Email/IM: sinoxa@gmail.com / theotokage @ AIM
Characters Played at Singularity: None
Character Information ;
Name: Eridan Ampora
Name of Canon: Homestuck (MS Paint Adventure)
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: AU
Reference: MSPA Wiki for the original and this forum post for the basic information of the AU
Canon Point:
Setting:
Alternia is a nightmarish world you would expect from the mind of a man like Tim Burton, but without any of the happiness and karma. Its people live only during the night as all but, a select few cannot stand the blistering Alternia sun and if the sun did not get you the zombified corpses of the dominant species, Trolls, would bring about your end. It has two moons orbiting it; one green and one purple. There is a legend of a man who lives on the green moon, but no one has ever been able to prove it despite the trolls having spread beyond their home planet.
There are two major groups of life forms, although it could be argued there are three or only one. These, arguably, two groups are the Trolls and the Lusus.
Trolls are a classic bipedal creature; one head, two arms, two legs, two eyes, etc. However unlike humans they have grey skin, only have naturally black hair, and candy corn colored horns. Trolls must be much tougher than an average human just to survive since they seem to believe in an almost militant Darwinian philosophy which involves killing the weak, crippled, and many other factors that would make a troll sub par. The Trolls are birthed by a vast mother grub as grubs themselves. They are then chosen by a Lusus who will raise them after they pupate and until they become adults. A Troll's place in society is decided by their blood color, Troll blood running along the color spectrum with red being the lowest and purple being the highest. Those of purple blood are generally aquatic and are considered the aristocracy while those with bright red blood are considered mutants and sentenced to death once found out. This generally doesn't take long as trolls tend to advertise their blood color int heir clothing and the text color they use in their apparently standard chat client Trollian. Besides social rank there is one other connection between a Troll's blood and how they act. Trolls of the lower colors are more likely to manifest psychic powers while those higher on the spectrum are more resistant to physic abilities. The homeplanet is generally inhabited only by the trolls who aren't yet adults, the twelve trolls of the main plot like being 6 solar sweeps which are comparable to a 13 year old human.
The Lusus, or Lusus Naturae, are the animals of Alternia and raise the young trolls till adulthood. They come in a wide variety, from monstrous crabs to bull like fairies, from eldritch abominations to large cats, from cow centaurs to dragons. The list goes on. Besides blood color, as a Lusus will share its Troll's blood color, it is unknown what makes a Lusus choose their Troll. However a Troll and Lusus will generally share some physical characteristics. There are no seen cases of a Troll having multiple Lusii or a single Lusus raising more than one Troll.
The most important Lusus however is the Mother Grub as it is the machine through which Troll species continues. It takes genetic samples from troll couples which are delivered by a drone whose sole purpose is to carry around buckets to be filled with genetic samples from the couples. If the buckets are not filled then the drone kills the trolls. It is important to tell that trolls have two partners, one that they deeply hate and one that they deeply love. The mother grub takes all the samples and mixes them into an incestuous slurry, then giving birth to the next generation of grubs who will have traits taken randomly from the many samples.
Despite the brutal nature of the trolls seeming to conflict with the fact they are a space faring race they have quite the infrastructure to the point that a chat client used by young trolls can communicate across time. Young trolls are also given, at some point before their 13th sweep, drones and the materials to build a complex home or hive for themselves and their Lusii. They also appear to be a very intelligent race, two of the twelve trolls from canon showing the ability to build complex robots and make complex programs tied into the very lifespan of their universe without assistance. Yet oddly, their computers are organic as are their games, FLARP being a good example as it uses what appear to be bats to project holograms of monster to fight. There are apparently examples of magic in their history, but most Trolls think is fake.
Personality:
Eridan Ampora is a brown blooded troll who, like all trolls, have gone through much trial. Unlike most Trolls, he hasn't come out unscathed. He grew up with plans of conquest and a strong urge to rule which was just helped by being the sole wizard he knows of. To amass the resources for his plans he began playing FLARP which is a kind of Live Action Roleplay in Alternia, but its threats are very real. Through this he met his 11 friends, being closest with his FLARP partners Gamzee, Vriska, and Kanaya. However during a game of FLARP he was attacked and crippled by a fellow troll. He got out lucky, she killed all others she attacked, but apparently had a crush on him so she only mutilated his horns, took his wand arm, and scarred his right eye closed. Needless to say this crushed his hopes of conquest and made it so he could no longer do the magic he loved. To make matters worse his friend Gamzee had recently been killed, presumably by the very troll that attacked him, and his other friend Vriska moved out into the country and away from them all. As a sick apology the universe returned his friend Gamzee to him, still dead and as a ghost who can seemingly no longer feel.
All of this put together has driven him to view his actions as doomed to fail and effectively killed his plans of conquest. You'd think him being friends with the heir of the Alternian throne would have killed that plan earlier, but trolls are weird.
Also thanks to the attack upon him Eridan has grown fearful of red romance, the kind we humans are familiar with. One would expect the attack would put him off on black romance, but when attacked the Troll drew hearts on him, the troll sign of red romance, instead of spades which are the sign of black romance. It also made him just plain fearful to make more friends or to strengthen the few bonds he had, the death of his best friend Gamzee and then emotionless return causing him to become withdrawn.
All of this has added up, causing Eridan to fall into a deep depression that he is unwilling to escape from in fear of bringing more sadness into his life. He stopped leaving his home as the Alternian government would have him killed due to his loss of arm, ability to defend himself, and limited vision.
Abilities and Weaknesses:
Eridan may have lost his wand arm, but is not completely helpless. For years he was planning a battle of conquest so anytime he didn't spend amass resources he spent studying tactics, strategy, and warfare in general. He also has his amassed resources although it isn't as much as he would like it to be, but would love to spend it all if he could just find a prosthetic arm that would allow him to use magic again.
As started above he has lost his main way of defending himself as well as half of his vision. Also, due to having been focused on magics, he is physically quite weak. He also has poor social skills thanks to cutting himself off from others and is prone to snapping at people.
Inventory:
One powerful magic wand
One ancient spell book
One red and yellow scarf
Several spare shirts and pants, none any different from the ones he is wearing
Appearance:
This is his sprite
Eridan is an alien teen, appearing human at a glance. However upon further examination his grey skin, candy corn patterned horns, pointed teeth, and yellow eyes cause one to see the differences between his kind and humans.
Unlike most trolls however his mop of hair has a brown potion of it, all trolls having naturally black hair. His right eye is also scarred shut, leaving three slash shaped scarred tissue. He also has two broken horns, formerly shaped like lightning bolts but now the right is broken in half and the left horn only keeping the base.
He has a shirt bearing his symbol and blood color, in this case being a brown version of the astrological symbol Aquarius.Around his neck is a red and yellow scarf, possibly hiding more scares. He also wears brown pants which are long enough to cover some of the top of his bright red shoes.
Age: 6 Solar Sweeps which equates about 13 years
OC/AU Justification ;
This version of Eridan is an AU of the one from the classic Homestuck plot. The normal Eridan is a member of the aquatic aristocracy with a desire to kill all land dwellers while this Eridan is a brown blood, the second lowest position on the spectrum, and simply wants world conquest rather than genocide. Also while the prime Eridan uses a legendary energy rifle as his weapon this Eridan formerly used a wand, something Eridan prime would kill for.
Samples ;
Log Sample:
Eridan stared at his computer screen, amazed at what Kanya's messaged promised. A way to finally leave Alternia, to get what had been taken from him and the others back, and, best of all, revenge against that Troll who'd caused all this. At first he'd been weary, after all Kanaya lived in a tree, but as he read the history of how she made this game it showed true hope. The basis found by Aradia in some of the oldest ruins on Alternia, somehow connected to that other world Sollux saw, and finally coded by Feferi to actually work.
He felt something wet run from his left eye, a brown tear from the pure joy he was feeling at this moment. It was one of those miracles Gamzee loved to speak of before he was killed. His lips pulled back to reveal his sharp teeth, his remaining hand curling into a fist as he began to laugh. It would finally all be alright, things would finally be fixed. The young Troll jumped to his feet and rushed through his room, grabbing everything he felt he might need: a few pairs of shirt, pants, and shoes; his most powerful wand; and his spell book.
Sadly it wasn't to be. With all of his necessary possessions gathered he rushed back to his computer, about to message Kanaya and tell her to take him from this place. However he tripped and the ground rushed up to meet him. In reflex his eyes closed, but opened a moment later when he didn't feel the floor. Instead he felt himself free falling and saw nothing but the void. This was it, his pathetic life must have ended as he tripped and this is what happened to a troll when he died. Once more he was proven wrong as he felt his back hit the ground and saw an alien sky for but a moment until he blacked out.
Network Sample:
good gog
i havvent felt like this since that attack from nepeta
im just sending this out since im still not too sure wwhere i am yet
are you out there kanaya
is this wwhere you wwanted to send us because that fall nearly killed me
the sky is so beautiful though and maybe wwe can find me a neww arm here
if kanaya or anyone else wwho got sent here or anyone wwho is native gets this find me soon