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[ Player Name ] : Laura
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[ Age ] : 19
[ Timezone ] : EST
[ Other Characters ] : nope
[ Character's Name ] : Spades Slick
[ Character's Age ] : Uh, old. There is no definite age but he has been sitting around playing gangsters in the desert for "centuries."
[ Series ] : Homestuck
[ Canon Point ] : Sitting in a vault text-yelling at Karkat.
[ History ] :
WIKI
INTERMISSION WIKI
[ 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 if necessary, 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. Sometimes he also manages to quell his anger long enough to be clever and pull of a sweet plan, but it is expressly stated in canon that his plans are incredibly convoluted, pretty much unnecessarily, and he likes them that way. This is Slick logic. Anyway.
Despite going about cursing 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.
Because she is a huge bitch, bluh bluh, and Slick hates her. His hate for her is eternal and constant. Slick has hated Snowman since Derse and will continue to hate her for the rest of time. They have issues, obviously, as each time they're in the same room Slick tends to wind up beaten and/or bloody. By canon decree, the relationship between each sessions Archagent/Jack Noir and the Black Queen is the perfect example of what the troll culture would call a black romance, defined as an incredibly potent bitter rivalry. Which explains why they want to kill each other so persistently. Slick himself doesn't know shit about troll romance and so probably would not be in agreement, but still. Slick's life is hard, of course, because Snowman joined the Felt (whom Slick hates and really enjoys killing over and over, lol felt sux crew4lyfe) and became the universe and now he spends all of his time brooding over the fact that he cannot kill the one person he hates more than anything else without destroying creation.
What a bitch.
Moving on, Slick is the leader of the Midnight Crew! The Crew have an interesting set of relationships, which involve a lot of calling each other idiots and Slick getting frustrated, but they are actually legitimately important to him. He will not say this outright, naturally, but fucking with his Crew in any way is the fastest way to get on his shit list. His position as leader is a little bit informal within the Crew itself, because they are all pretty capable of taking care of themselves, but to outsiders Slick will present himself as the leader. He argues with them and gets frustrated with them over stupid things, but they are the people he has been in cahoots with for, again, several centuries, and it isn't a bond he's looking to crack. Offend one member and you offend the whole Crew, and Slick will take any excuse to stab someone in the eye, so. Mobsters sure are weird.
And then there's Karkat. Slick actively sought out Karkat during the Sgrub session to rope him and his team into dethroning and exiling the Black Queen/Snowman. The details of the operation are incredibly glossed over, but there is a bit about the "troll disease called friendship," which hints at Slick actually tolerating Karkat despite calling him a moron and hitting him in the face and, oh, stabbing him a bit. Really, apparently stabbing someone is a good way to approach them and ask for their help. Slick, please. But anyway, the relationship with Karkat is an odd one, as Slick kind of sort of maybe doesn't hate him completely. He puts forth the effort to calm Karkat down when he's having weird Karkat breakdowns on two occasions (admittedly one of them is slapping him a lot, but the other is some weird blood brothers bonding moment), but at the same time is really impatient with him and thinks he's a bit of a moron. It's kind of volatile, and Slick isn't likely to go find Karkat and give him lots of pseudo-replacement-lusus-figure-thing hugs, but he'll stand in the background calling Karkat a fuckass until the kid shuts up! He's helping!
The conclusion we can draw here is that Slick is pretty bad with people.
A final thing to note as far as Slick goes is tied to the Sgrub game itself, and how it differs from the other game session played by the Homestuck human kids. Slick is Jack Noir, Archagent of Derse, and therefore comes built into the game as the Black Queen's fated enemy and all-around horrible hatemonger, basically destined to duke it out with BQ in some fashion because she just keeps pushing his buttons. This is pretty much constant in every game session. For some reason, though, the Jack in the humans' session is basically driven to the point of no return in his hatred, and once he comes into possession of some powerful weapons, utterly wastes BQ and proceeds to utterly waste everyone else. In the case of Slickjackspadesnoir, however, circumstances are just different enough to put him on the path of exiling his enemies with trollkid help, instead of going totally genocidal. After he himself gets exiled and... at some point takes the moniker Spades Slick, Slick evidently goes the opposite way of his counterpart, because there is really nothing else for him to to but build, rather than destroy. You could call him the good Jack, but he'd probably be weirded out. He's also had several centuries mucking about in a desert wasteland turned mobster utopia, in which he cannot actually kill Snowman because she'll ruin the universe (biiiitch), so he's made decent headway away from "one note angry guy" to "angry guy who also sometimes is bizarrely productive." It's subtle enough to be a thing.
He also loves licorice to the point of obsession and has questionable taste in magazines. And doesn't like clocks.
What a guy.
[ Strengths/Weaknesses ] :
Strengths -- He's resourceful enough to make it in a desert wasteland. He also has some ability to command through, well, threats of violence, and isn't half bad at making and carrying out complicated plans -- exiling his immediate superior took a certain amount of finesse, okok. Slick is a pretty smart fellow (with a creative vocabulary, even -- contemptuous she-witch, indeed), he just loses patience more often than he concentrates for long periods of time.
Weaknesses -- One-liners. Puns. Also is very impatient and prone to anger. And he's blind in one eye because it was stabbed out violently. He has a habit of standing totally still and not doing anything when dangerous people are about to do things like tear his limbs off, as well. Having one arm counts as a weakness I suppose!!
[ Other Important Facts ] :
He is an alien NPC with a shiny hard carapace. Oh uhh he also has a deck of cards that turns into other things. Mostly sharp things, and sometimes candy. And he keeps miscellaneous bullshit in there like laptops he doesn't know how to use.
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[ Questions? Comments? Concerns? ] : mmmm how limited will his fancy card deck be by magical coral? 8Ic
[ Personal LJ ] : tableflips
[ Age ] : 19
[ Timezone ] : EST
[ Other Characters ] : nope
[ Character's Name ] : Spades Slick
[ Character's Age ] : Uh, old. There is no definite age but he has been sitting around playing gangsters in the desert for "centuries."
[ Series ] : Homestuck
[ Canon Point ] : Sitting in a vault text-yelling at Karkat.
[ History ] :
WIKI
INTERMISSION WIKI
[ 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 if necessary, 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. Sometimes he also manages to quell his anger long enough to be clever and pull of a sweet plan, but it is expressly stated in canon that his plans are incredibly convoluted, pretty much unnecessarily, and he likes them that way. This is Slick logic. Anyway.
Despite going about cursing 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.
Because she is a huge bitch, bluh bluh, and Slick hates her. His hate for her is eternal and constant. Slick has hated Snowman since Derse and will continue to hate her for the rest of time. They have issues, obviously, as each time they're in the same room Slick tends to wind up beaten and/or bloody. By canon decree, the relationship between each sessions Archagent/Jack Noir and the Black Queen is the perfect example of what the troll culture would call a black romance, defined as an incredibly potent bitter rivalry. Which explains why they want to kill each other so persistently. Slick himself doesn't know shit about troll romance and so probably would not be in agreement, but still. Slick's life is hard, of course, because Snowman joined the Felt (whom Slick hates and really enjoys killing over and over, lol felt sux crew4lyfe) and became the universe and now he spends all of his time brooding over the fact that he cannot kill the one person he hates more than anything else without destroying creation.
What a bitch.
Moving on, Slick is the leader of the Midnight Crew! The Crew have an interesting set of relationships, which involve a lot of calling each other idiots and Slick getting frustrated, but they are actually legitimately important to him. He will not say this outright, naturally, but fucking with his Crew in any way is the fastest way to get on his shit list. His position as leader is a little bit informal within the Crew itself, because they are all pretty capable of taking care of themselves, but to outsiders Slick will present himself as the leader. He argues with them and gets frustrated with them over stupid things, but they are the people he has been in cahoots with for, again, several centuries, and it isn't a bond he's looking to crack. Offend one member and you offend the whole Crew, and Slick will take any excuse to stab someone in the eye, so. Mobsters sure are weird.
And then there's Karkat. Slick actively sought out Karkat during the Sgrub session to rope him and his team into dethroning and exiling the Black Queen/Snowman. The details of the operation are incredibly glossed over, but there is a bit about the "troll disease called friendship," which hints at Slick actually tolerating Karkat despite calling him a moron and hitting him in the face and, oh, stabbing him a bit. Really, apparently stabbing someone is a good way to approach them and ask for their help. Slick, please. But anyway, the relationship with Karkat is an odd one, as Slick kind of sort of maybe doesn't hate him completely. He puts forth the effort to calm Karkat down when he's having weird Karkat breakdowns on two occasions (admittedly one of them is slapping him a lot, but the other is some weird blood brothers bonding moment), but at the same time is really impatient with him and thinks he's a bit of a moron. It's kind of volatile, and Slick isn't likely to go find Karkat and give him lots of pseudo-replacement-lusus-figure-thing hugs, but he'll stand in the background calling Karkat a fuckass until the kid shuts up! He's helping!
The conclusion we can draw here is that Slick is pretty bad with people.
A final thing to note as far as Slick goes is tied to the Sgrub game itself, and how it differs from the other game session played by the Homestuck human kids. Slick is Jack Noir, Archagent of Derse, and therefore comes built into the game as the Black Queen's fated enemy and all-around horrible hatemonger, basically destined to duke it out with BQ in some fashion because she just keeps pushing his buttons. This is pretty much constant in every game session. For some reason, though, the Jack in the humans' session is basically driven to the point of no return in his hatred, and once he comes into possession of some powerful weapons, utterly wastes BQ and proceeds to utterly waste everyone else. In the case of Slickjackspadesnoir, however, circumstances are just different enough to put him on the path of exiling his enemies with trollkid help, instead of going totally genocidal. After he himself gets exiled and... at some point takes the moniker Spades Slick, Slick evidently goes the opposite way of his counterpart, because there is really nothing else for him to to but build, rather than destroy. You could call him the good Jack, but he'd probably be weirded out. He's also had several centuries mucking about in a desert wasteland turned mobster utopia, in which he cannot actually kill Snowman because she'll ruin the universe (biiiitch), so he's made decent headway away from "one note angry guy" to "angry guy who also sometimes is bizarrely productive." It's subtle enough to be a thing.
He also loves licorice to the point of obsession and has questionable taste in magazines. And doesn't like clocks.
What a guy.
[ Strengths/Weaknesses ] :
Strengths -- He's resourceful enough to make it in a desert wasteland. He also has some ability to command through, well, threats of violence, and isn't half bad at making and carrying out complicated plans -- exiling his immediate superior took a certain amount of finesse, okok. Slick is a pretty smart fellow (with a creative vocabulary, even -- contemptuous she-witch, indeed), he just loses patience more often than he concentrates for long periods of time.
Weaknesses -- One-liners. Puns. Also is very impatient and prone to anger. And he's blind in one eye because it was stabbed out violently. He has a habit of standing totally still and not doing anything when dangerous people are about to do things like tear his limbs off, as well. Having one arm counts as a weakness I suppose!!
[ Other Important Facts ] :
He is an alien NPC with a shiny hard carapace. Oh uhh he also has a deck of cards that turns into other things. Mostly sharp things, and sometimes candy. And he keeps miscellaneous bullshit in there like laptops he doesn't know how to use.
[ Sample ] :
quietly using a different account
dear_mun
another dear_mun
casual DR posts
[ Questions? Comments? Concerns? ] : mmmm how limited will his fancy card deck be by magical coral? 8Ic