HEADCANONS

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As this is an AU, backgrounds and relationships have room to be slightly different! Here's your chance to post as much or as little about it as you'd like. Go nuts.

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[hypertoxic]

OKAY SO HAVING WORKED SOME SHIT OUT HERE IS THE DEAL WITH VRISKA AND THE CYCLE OF REVENGE AS FAR AS I UNDERSTAND IT.

1) The accident with Tavros was actually an accident.

Without Doc Scratch to interfere, both Terezi and Aradia were able to talk to Vriska and Tavros during their showdown. Vriska got irritated with their meddling and physically advanced on Tavros without meaning to. He took an involuntary step back and fell.

2) Aradia never gets revenge on Vriska, and vice versa.

Fairly self-explanatory, since Vriska didn't actually hurt Tavros of her own volition.

3) Vriska still possesses her eye, but her arm is fucked up.

Terezi did not believe that the incident with Tavros was just an accident, and so sought revenge of her own. This revenge resulted in Vriska's arm being crippled, and she requires a cybernetic brace. The details of this revenge are being handwaved for now. |D

4) Vriska still blinds Terezi as a result.

Self-explanatory. That part follows as canon.

THAT'S ALL I CAN THINK OF FOR NOW. I'll add more stuff later as I think of it.

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100% okay with this

[gundamkind]

this will get long so i'm breaking it into a few comments. if there's anything you'd like to discuss then comment here and we can hammer it on out!

[gundamkind]

DIRK & SCHOOL.
Dirk did actually attend a public school up until the sixth grade. His grades were constantly poor, due to the fact that the work simply didn't interest him and he would just literally space out for the entirety of the day, leading his teachers to believe that there must be something off with him. They also thought his brother must be doing his homework for him, given the fact that the answers were above and beyond what a kid his age should know. Which. Bro probably thoroughly debunked. Teachers were also concerned about his anti-social behaviour, he ended up going through most of his time there without making any friends. Any friends he did make seemed to stay just long enough to try to find something to get his goat and turned on him quick enough when it suited him.

It hurt him more than he let on and he spend a lot of his childhood with Lil Cal as his only friend and confidant. Most of his conversations were probably overheard by Bro.

He once went to the science fair with a fully functioning robot which terrorized everyone else as revenge.

Eventually he was expelled in the sixth grade after hacking into the school and preforming a hostile takeover of all of the equipment and computer mainframe. To this day no one is entirely sure how he managed it and he's lucky he didn't end up in a juvenile detention center for trying it.

The following years have been spent doing independent learning.

DIRK & CAL.

Cal was his best friend growing up. Probably only friend before he met everyone else / Dave learned how to talk. He takes that puppet damn near everywhere with him and takes astoundingly good care of him.

DIRK & FAMILY
Bro and Dave are pretty much the few people he talks to in person - largely by choice, but also because he's just a little weird and can be kind of offputting with the way he speaks and general air about him. So, because of this, they're pretty damn important to him even if irony and that air of coolness keeps any of them from showing it.

Bro is essentially Dirk's big brother / dad figure and the person he trusts the most. While he's more of a father than he ever had, the fact that he still remembers bits and pieces of their situation before keeps him from thinking of Bro as father. He's just way better than one could ever be. When he was smaller he probably went to him for his own brand of comfort - just like, sitting outside his door if he got scared at night or sleeping next to the futon, getting comfort from a distance because he wasn't sure if he was wanted or not. I imagine when he first started to deal with the whole sexuality thing there was an extremely casual coming out done in the fashion of just yelling it from his room. They're terrifyingly alike.

Dave's also his bro. He's pretty fucking protective of his little bro, even if he probably shows it in the way of shoving him around and beating him up. He knows Dave has it rough and tries to toughen him up the only way he knows how, other than trying to find out who is harassing him so he can make their online lives a living fucking hell.

AR, Squarewave and Sawtooth are also his family and he insists they be referred to as such.

DIRK & FRIENDS.

Jake is his best friend / huge honking crush. Jake is pretty much his polar opposite in every way, shape and form - where he's cynical and sarcastic, Jake is boundlessly optimistic and enthusiastic. If we're going to be on the level here, nothing scares him more than the idea of rejection. Which is why he's put it off so long and has such a convoluted plan of action, which would be abandoned the moment someone else finally came forward and said something.

Other than Jake, Roxy is pretty much his best friend ever. There's still a little awkward because he can't reciprocate her feelings, but he's got the maddest platonic love for her. He'll always be there for her and tries to make her see that. Along with that, he also nags her a little about her drinking and is there to talk her down from any depression spirals.

Jane is his other best friend. He sort of sees her as someone to protect, given her rather sheltered upbringing in comparison to say - his or Jake's. She appreciates his humor and tries to understand it when he explains things unlike the others. And he appreciates her for it! He sends her shitty books he made "improvements" on.

Jade he knows the best out of all of the beta kids. Mostly because he knows Jake best. He sent her a robot pony and teaches her how about robots. There was an illfated crush on her side which he either remained oblivious to or tried to gently let her down.

John and Rose he knows mostly through Dave and by virtue of their siblings complaining about them.

DIRK & FIGHTING.

Shit be scary. He's pretty lethal.

DIRK & SPACING OUT.

It's a thing he does if he's thinking too hard about something. He's constantly multitasking and the minute his concentration breaks and he's focusing on the minor details of something he's gone. He's pretty much always done it and it's something that tends to happen at random if he's got a problem on his mind. He probably should definitely not drive because of it.

ADDTIONAL HEADCANON.

The first time Dirk broke a bone it was because he wasn't paying attention and tripped the fuck down the stairs. He wasn't very old. It broke really badly and while he probably cried, it wasn't like hysterical or anything, and there was a lot of yelling for Bro to get his ass down there.

Child services has probably been to the Strider household a few times. When he was younger he used to have nightmares about the family being broken up.

He remembers more about the time before Bro was their dad than he lets on. He has some abandonment issues and self-worth issues that are buried so deep it would take an excavation team to get them out.

HE DOES NOT SLEEP. This is actually kind of a lie. Sometimes those spacing out episodes are him passing the fuck out because he just doesn't do it willingly.

While he loves Rainbow Dash and a few other characters totally unironically, he's definitely aware that this is a cartoon for little girls and maintains that he watches it for "ironic education" purposes. He takes down notes for some secret project he won't let anyone in on, but from what people can gather it's a reworking of the series to include deep socio-political issues and a lot of violence.

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THIS IS PROBABLY A PLACEHOLDER FOR ROSE RIGHT NOW. As well as just a catchall for any headcanon you want to discuss with me that involves her.

SO YEAH just throw things here if you want to talk about something while I compile my thoughts.

[aggrievance]

ROSE AND FAMILY

Mom
Her feelings for her mother haven't changed much from the original verse. Like every 13 year old girl, Rose can't stand her mother, and an outsider looking in on some of their conversations may slightly fear for their life. It's like stepping across a passive-aggressive minefield.

Nevertheless, she really does love and admire her mother for how successful she is. And honestly? Rose is the only one allowed to talk smack about her. Anyone else who says something about her can be met with a long list of her accomplishments and subtle hints that your parents combined are not nearly as good as her mom.

Roxy
They have a fairly typical sisterly relationship. Rose does love her sister, but she gets easily frustrated with her. Roxy is one of the few people that can make Rose toss aside the passive-aggressive bullshit and really just THROW DOWN in an all-out catfight.

However, Roxy may also be one of the people she'll actually go to when she's upset, even if it's just walking into her room to sit on her rug and read Lovecraft or something. If Roxy ever dated and got her heart broken, you can bet Rose pulled some strings to make that guy's life completely miserable.

ROSE AND FRIENDS

JOHN
John. Who doesn't like John? They don't always see eye-to-eye on things and John doesn't always seem to understand her, but she still counts him as one of her best friends. Unlike Dave and Jade, her feelings for him aren't quite so complex. It's a near-constant sort of amiability, and it's really just hard for Rose to ever be upset with John. As such, there are pockets of time where she blocks everyone on pesterchum except him and just sort of sulks with his chat window in the background for a while.

DAVE
Dave is like the brother she never had. Out of all of them, he's probably the easiest for her to talk to. He takes comfort in insincerity just like she does, not to mention it's fun to get under his coolguy exterior. At the same time, it's hard for her whenever she actually does try to venture into actual sincerity. He brushes it off under the irony rug and Rose feels like her feelings are just swept to the side and it sort of...causes things to never really change between the two. He also probably gets psychoanalyzed a lot, and Rose has most definitely touched upon his puppet thing and sexuality issues more than once.

His crush on Jade has possibly caused some friction on Rose's end though, not that she lets any of it on.

JADE
Oh, Jade. Rose has lots of feelings about Jade. She's intelligent and sweet and just makes people like her without even trying. She's one of the few girls Rose can really connect to without suspecting any sort of passive-aggressive behavior, and believe me, that's not an easy thing to do. Furthermore, she respects Jade's practicality enough to actually listen to her when she offers advice or comfort. She's nicer to Jade than she is her two boys, and doesn't make passive-aggressive remarks or try to psychoanalyze her nearly as often (though that bit about being raised by a dog perhaps comes up every so often...).

Rose is attracted to Jade, has a crush on her which is luckily reciprocated. She was probably extremely cagey about hinting to it until Jade out-and-out said I LIKE YOU and asked her out. This sort of thing knocked her completely off-guard and probably kind of flustered her because she was currently trying to deal with her own confusing feelings about Jade. It was enough to make her admit she had feelings for her, but not enough to make her accept the request to start dating; she's practical and knows online relationships rarely work out, and values their friendship over a possible romance.

In the end, they both probably agreed to wait until they actually got to meet IRL and see how things go from there. However, they probably still have sickeningly adorable chatlogs which Rose saves to a flash drive and reads when Jade is not around.

Rose also secretly writes her poems that she never sends. You wouldn't know at first glance but she has the gushiest schoolgirl crush imaginable.

Jake
Very nice, charming enough, but no particularly strong feelings one way or the other. Better look after Jade or she's going to use his balls as a pincushion. I'm sure in whatever conversations they've had, she's not-so-subtly mentioned as much.

Dirk
She likes Dirk a lot, actually! They don't really go beyond friendly acquaintances most of the time, but he's easy for her to talk to. He doesn't make her get into all that gushy feeling stuff. Like Dave, except more mature and educated.

Jade's old crush on him may or may not cause some resentment toward him every so often, though.

Jane
Her opinion is not very strong on Jane except "Roxy's best friend". She seems nice enough, however, and certainly helps to keep her sister in line.

Bro
She's spoken to him on occasion, and outside of her family, she probably has the most obvious friction with him out of anyone else. He calls her out on her cutesy, cagey bullshit and she snaps back with observations about his various mental disorders which he may or may not actually have. Also dream dicks. Everything in Bro Strider's dreams symbolizes a penis.

Everything.

Dirk's robots
She has no particular opinion over Dirk's robots. AR interests her though, and she probably tries to psychoanalyze the life of artifical intelligence seeing the world through glasses.

ROSE AND SEXUALITY
This is something Rose files under DEAL WITH LATER which basically means never look at it ever. Rose is very, very confused about her sexuality because Jade is really the only one to have ever inspired all these stupid, confusing feelings in her.

She doesn't even really know if she's attracted to girls or not. She's probably looked up lesbian porn at least once just to see if she was.

She still doesn't really know. 8( Growing up is hard. It's hard and no one understands.

ROSE AND FIGHTING
Scary. Rose is one of the most destructive fighters. She's athletic and acrobatic, and she doesn't pull her punches. She'll make sure to stab you precisely where it hurts, and where it will cause the most efficent amount of damage.

That said, she's a melee fighter. Rose doesn't do as well with guns as he family members do; the kickback from a pistol or a gun knocks her aim off completely. During a zombie imvasion, she'll probably be far more at home with some throwing knives or something.


RANDOM THINGS
Rose has a fanfiction.net account and is probably a secret BNF in the LotR fandom. Her most recent project is an ongoing AU delving further into the latent orc racism featured all across Middle Earth. Also Gandalf/Saruman.

No one except possibly her mother knows about this.

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She's also homeschooled/has private tutors. Rose is unfortunately too smart for her own good and probably ends up making a lot of them quit in frustration in her attempts to psychoanalyze them. She spends a lot of time doing independent study and further cultivating her own interests. Which are, of course, psychology and creative writing. Aside from that, she also enjoys history, foreign languages, and biology.

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When Rose was younger, she once took it upon herself to lock the liquor cabinet and bury the key out back to get her family to stop drinking. Mom busted the glass apart and Rose was grounded for a month.

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Rose isn't as good with the harder sciences as her mom and sister are. Sometimes she feels kind of inferior for it, which is why she throws herself into her psychology. She wants to be good at something they aren't to make up for it (and maybe passive-aggressively rub it in their face).

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She knows about Jade's former crush on Dirk and Dave's crush on Jade. Sometimes it sparks some jealousy issues in her, which are portrayed as her being even more passive-aggressive than usual. Especially to the Striders and Jade. For a few days, the only one of her friends she'll really talk to is John.

She'll return a few days later and act like nothing happened.

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Her mom and sister hug her a lot. Either genuinely or just to get her goat. As usual, Rose takes all of this as a passive-aggressive gesture.

[pranking]

hhhh okay this is mostly a placeholder because it just is

but i guess i can start out with saying that john's screenname is probably still GhostyTrickster because he would have had no real reason to change it, I don't think.

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I am seriously bad at planning anything at all but I did have a question I think I'd better ask. How are we doing the family set-up? John and Jane as siblings or cousins or what? That's pretty much the only thing I can think of right now that we should probably decide...

And I guess if there are things you want to discuss concerning Dad and John I am here for that too?

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placeholder for Roxy while I get things all in order and also any familial/friendshippy things that you guys want to discuss feel free to drop them in here

yeap

/ollies out

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FAMILY

Mom

It's not that Roxy dislikes her mother as much as she's the type of kid who finds issue with anything her parents do, no mater how well-intentioned. And considering Mom Lalonde, 'well-intentioned' isn't what Roxy would call a lot of the things she does. Her mother taught her how to shoot and the basics of how to fight- Roxy took it to mean that A: she couldn't have learned on her own and B: she'd never be as good as her mother at it. She doesn't usually bother to lock the liquor up- and Roxy took that as a challenge too, though her logic for that is likely as fractured as her sobriety. Probably not the case, but those Lalondes sure are prone to weird analyses.

She does love her despite all that though, and she has a serious admiration for her mother's accomplishments as a scientist.


Rose

Roxy adores Rose- even though Rose tends to just take it as another family member's passive-aggressive antics. Roxy tries, sometimes, but she's not the master of the art that Rose and her mother are, so she usually fails miserably. She likes to tease her a lot, and is in fact quite clued in to the Rose/Jade deal due to what I'm referring to as The Sonnet Incident. There was a balcony and a feathered cap involved in a dramatic reading and let's just leave it at that.

Also- threaten/hurt/otherwise annoy/bother Rose? Roxy will acquaint your brain with your upper jaw.


FRIENDS


Dirk

Roxy's used to have a huge crush on him, but then there was that whole 'gay' thing and now she's just kind of his unintentional hag. He's her best friend and she adores him, but she really does wish he could make him realize that he can't control the minutiae of every little action- as much as she's sure he'd like to. Of course, sometimes she really has to wonder if he even realizes how much of a dick he can be, but she's long since learned to just sit back and deal with it by drinking even more.


AR

Probably closer to her than Dirk in terms of the simple fact that the AR does, to some extent sympathize with Roxy a lot. She kind of thinks of him as Dirk's twin in a sense, albeit one that's less prone to making her feel awful about herself/her decisions. She flirts with him, but it's mostly because Dirk tends to get all drama queen and overreacts when she play-flirts with him. Roxy does her best not to foist her Dirk-related feelings onto him too much though- she wouldn't like it if it was her, after all.

Jane

Roxy's bffsie 4ever, Jane is a sweetheart, even if she tends to question every other thing Roxy says. For some reason, Roxy really seeks Jane's approval- likely because out of all her friends, Jane is the most 'normal', and if she likes her, then maybe she's not as much of a weirdo as she thinks. There's also the fact that Jane is one of the less-disparaging female influences in her life, and usually Roxy tries to listen to her advice. She still thinks her friend needs to lighten up a little and learn to be more impulsive but she's working on that.


Jake

Another former crush, Roxy backed off when she realized her other two friends were interested in him- though she still flirts with him on occasion. She's never serious, but she likes the way he reacts and it's actually fun when he can manage to flirt back some. She mostly tries to be a listening ear to him whenever he needs it, but otherwise she's really more preoccupied with the Jakestakes than the guy himself- though that's not to say she doesn't care, just that she worries about how they'll affect things between her other three friends.


EVERYONE ELSE

Bro

Eldest Strider, total hottie- pretty sure he's gayer than the most choice dance club on Fire Island. She flirts with him regardless when she gets the opportunity, but she doesn't think too much on it otherwise.

Dave

This kid thinks he's too cool for school and being a Strider, he's probably right. Roxy doesn't hear much about Dave from Dirk though, so she just assumes he's just as gay as his brothers and wonders if Rose is going to wind up being his hag like she's Dirk's.

Dad

Roxy likes to talk about how hot she thinks he is, but really she just does it to get Jane's goat a little. She thinks he's a pretty cool guy for taking care of Jane like he has, and overall kind of wishes her mom was more like him parental-wise.

John

Cutieeeeee. Roxy likes his penchant for Shenanigans, and from what she hears via Jane, he seems pretty cool for a younger kid.

Jade

Cutieeeeee v.2! Jade seems adorable and hella responsible from Roxy's POV, and she's really glad Jake has her around to keep him alive because really. That boy.

Also, she sees you there eyein' her sister, Harley. Head's up.


ETC


School

I figure the Lalonde girls are homeschooled/have private tutors since Mom is stupidrich. Roxy herself is actually not as dumb as people think (or as dumb as she likes to act) and has a GED already. Sometimes she does online college stuff for shits and giggles, and if the zombie apocalypse hadn't happened she would've been a geneticist.

Or a brewmeister.

Whichever, fuck da police.


More tbd... probably...

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BRO MOTHERFUCKING STRIDER SHIT.

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BRO MOTHERFUCKING STRIDER.

Bro is actually legitimately Dave and Dirk's Bro. No one knows Bro's real name, because he literally has everyone call him Bro. He refuses to actually go by his given name because he either hates it. Hates who gave it to him. Or both.

DIRK AND DAVE

He took Dirk and Dave when they were pretty young. (When he's like 14-16, Dirk is like 3-6, and Dave is like 1-3 or whatever). He absconded the shit out of wherever they used to live because even he realized how much of shithole it was and he isn't like most amazingu parent ever, and he really is just pretty terrible, but he likes to think (and hope) it was better then what they were in for. That being said, his parenting skills suck, and he fucks up a lot. But he tries to do what he thinks is best for them. And he knows he's screwing up a hella lot.

He tries hard and he loves them. It doesn't show all the time and one can even think he might be treating them like shit, but he fights hard to keep them and fuck you Child Services. He also might be a bit of a menace to the school because he doesn't let kids pick on his bros. Oops.

He nonchalantly tries to spoil them, letting them do what they want and get what is in their budget. And really, he's glad that they don't like shit that would drive him up fucking walls, so there's that.

LIL' CAL

Man this fucker is the best thing ever. Guy listens and shit and helps him with parenting. Best little dude.

SCHOOL

Bro probably didn't get very far if he even attended. He basically went full time best fucking brofather and spends his time trying to make life as comfortable as possible. Shit can get tight, but he doesn't particularly regret it. School is boring as balls anyways.

OTHER SHIT:

Bro is gay, but he pretends otherwise. Everyone probably knows it's a load of shit. Maybe he wants a female figure in their lives, but really. He knows they're so fucked up that whoever wanted to stay in that household really was just as fucked up or is some saint sent from god. He actually doesn't particularly care because he doesn't really look anyways. But he'll talk to Dirk about it, because he thinks it'll maybe help if Dirk has someone to relate to about it.

Bro's sleeping schedule is so fucked up, the clocks don't work when he's around. He sleeps when he can.

He is a bitchin' fighter. Probably knows how to fist fight pretty well, and holy shit who let him learn how to wield a sword dear fucking god.

Too prideful to ask for help, but legitimately worries about shit. Of course he's too cool and too nonchalant to let that out willingly. Fuck you, he's got this shit under control.

He's bitter, but not at Dirk or Dave, but at the hell of a situation that pushed them into their current situation. And it isn't as bad as he thought it would be, so really, life is pretty bitchin minus the few bumps that happens.

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JAKE ENGLISH IS A PRETTY COOL GUY...

Or so he likes to believe! He wants to be, at least, and has fashioned his dream self after watching movies and fantasizing about what COULD be. Under Grandpa's influence, Jake's early interest in movies were a lot of classic black and white films, where he picked up his archaic way of speaking. It's how all the awesome swag guys on the silver screen spoke, so if he wants to be awesome it's a good place to start, right?

His love of SCRUMS and FISTICUFFS comes from his desire to be a badass adventurer hero as well as necessity because LOL crazy island.

WELCOME TO JURASSIC PARK

HE AND JADE LIVE ON A TROPICAL ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC. There are all sorts of crazy beasts that he likes to hunt, but more often than not, he's hunted by them. He's actually disturbed a lot by the fauna on the island, but it wouldn't seem very heroic to say so. The Tinkerbulls, especially, seem to have taken a liking to him and it creeps him out a bit when a horde of them wants to snuggle.

The ruins are his favorite fucking part of the island, but the damn dog doesn't like it when they go on a trip to it B| Rude.

ME TARZAN, YOU JANE

SINCE Jade and Jake live alone in the middle of no where, they're kind of left to fend for themselves! Thankfully they have technology left over from Grandpa, but as far as socialization and culture? Totally left up to kids.

Jake hunts for the meat (and prefers to wrestle the animals into submission, but he'll use a gun if he has to), while Jade tends to the overgrown garden. A lot of their food isn't cooked very well or just raw, unless Jade decides to vaporize the meat like she does for Bec.

Jake showers infrequently. He's used to getting sweaty and muddy on a daily basis, so he really only does so when Jade starts complaining.

Jake has atrocious table manners. He likes to eat with his fingers, chews with his mouth open, and talks in the middle of it. Again, just no reason not to when you're not trying to impress anyone!

JADE

She's his cousin turned sister and he feels like, as the man of the house, it's his job to take care of her, though more than often it's turned the other way around. He has to protect her from the BIG BADS of the world--even if she's a better shot--as well as from a broken heart. He's seen the way guys can act in those movies, and it's AWFUL. Don't fuck with her, man, he bites crocodiles.

But he doesn't think she's a delicate flower--far from it! He knows she's badass and he's proud of it, which is just more reason to look out for her. No bully at the school yard shenanigans, but he still takes this job very seriously.

HEY BABY I LIKE YOUR HANDLE

Obviously most of his friends are online. Jake is still kind of lonely--he would like more people to interact with for both himself and for Jade. He makes friends pretty easily and wants everyone to like him. Dirk is his best bro, Roxy and Jane are two classy ladies he's been fortunate to meet as well. He would know Dave, Rose, and John through their siblings.

He has, of course, considered the WHAT IFS of possible relationships with his friends, but he's kept this to himself. He's worried he's wrong about a lot of it and wondering if he's just really WANTING some sort of relationship and projecting his ideas onto them. Jakestakes is serious business, bro.

RANDOM HEADCANON...

Jake likes popcorn with cinnamon on it.

He wears clothing until it basically won't stay on him anymore--no shopping malls!

Jake likes shorts because it's FUCKING HOT on a tropical island, and he likes the feeling of wind on his skin 0k.

The little toe on his left foot is bent slightly inwards dude to it breaking when he was younger.

The biggest scar he has is between his shoulder blades, which he got from CRABDAD.

Jake taught himself out to fight, so he's really got no grace or form, but a fuck ton of gusto.

I am a fan of his awful tan lines.

He's 5'8", though his boots almost give him an extra inch.

The vision in his right eye is worse than his left.



THAT'S ALL I GOT FOR NOW

AUTO RESPONDER

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AR is ironically a member of the Church of the SubGenius and will occasionally make references.
Dad Crockerbert will always be referred to as Bob by him. Always.

He has a lot more feelings than he lets on, especially about being treated like an 'it'. He takes offense to it even if he doesn't always come out and say so, because he does identify as being a 'he' even though he's a pair of glasses. Despite that, AR has no interest in having a fleshy body. Hormones make humans do stupid shit.

YET he does plan on wrangling himself up a robot body. He wants to be able to get around and experience life more, but in a more controlled fashion. Though because he's lacking in things like hormones and all that stuff he can't control (like getting sick/hurt/dying) there will always be things he doesn't QUITE grasp properly.

He has emotions, but not the physical reactions that go with them, so expressing and understanding them is hard. Which is why he gets so caught up in analyzing them, because it's the only way he really knows how to react since he doesn't have the ability to cry or yell or break shit.

...that's all i got so far? 8D;

Just some bits. Will add more later when I'm not sleeping.

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Dad strikes me as the hard-working type. But not really as the 'never-home' type. I think he works hard enough to do his job right and be able to support his family but I don't think he's the type to bring work home or work long extra hours. He likes to have time to spend with the kids.

He's one of those really loving dads who embarrasses the heck out of John and Jane, not out of any sort of desire to upset them but more out of him not realizing it's as embarrassing as it is. XD Like showing people the embarrassing baby photos. (Which he's so going to do)

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MOM LALONDE...her real name is Rita. MARGARITA. AMIRITE?

She's an accomplished astrophysicist and works from home on MOST days. She goes into town twice a week. Obviously doing QUITE WELL given their BAMF house.

Mom always keeps a healthy supply of booze on hand. There is also a WINE CELLAR down there. Fuck yes.

She's KIND OF LONELY. She's a sexy lady with no romantic partner. ABLOO BLOO BLOO. Being a single mom isn't easy! But she adores her children, even if she seems more like an awful maternal figure. ROXY takes after herself too much, which actually causes Mom to worry a bit. THE BOOZE IS A VICE SHE DIDN'T WANT TO PASS ON. ROSE is her little rebelling baby, and she may or may not know the girl is a lesbian. Their passive aggressive battles may hint at it.

She's recently become obsessed with online dating sites. Omegle is funny too.

She also reads fanfiction. A'yup.

Mom is 38!

[knight_of_time]

CHILDHOOD:
This IS Dave's childhood. Seriously, he has been brought up around, smuppets, anime, music, computer games, fighting and fast food, he doesn't really know anything else. Dave took his influence from those around him, which happened to be Bro, Dirk and Cal, there was never a strong female influence in his life and maybe that's where his competitive side towards his brother comes from?

From an early age Dave was taught to stand on his own two feet, not that he really had a choice. If he wanted something, he had to bite the bullet, deal with the fact that he was at the bottom of the pecking order or get it himself. Of course Dave's brother/guardian(s) love him dearly and wouldn't let him go with out - also, they wouldn't exactly tell him this fact, that wouldn't be cool or ironic.

Dave can't really remember about being younger than around 8, that's probably because him and his brother/guardian(s) moved around a lot. He suffered from nightmares up until about the age of 11 and did infact wet the bed until he was 8. These are both things he'd never tell anyone and only Bro and Dirk would know about.

Dave used to spend hours drawing shitty zines like Dirk, wanting to be as cool as SBAHJ looked. He also really wanted to be as cool as the Chester Cheetah , Fido Dido and MC Skat Kat. Spending hours in front of the TV watching old retro shit like Rude Dog & the Dweebs and playing shitty SEGA games he found in Dirk's room like Green Dog and Toejam & Earl. As he grew older, he gave the style he stole from his brother and his icons his own twist. Starting his own sick rhymes and cutting his own sweet beats.

FAMILY:
BRO:
This guy is a legend in the eyes of Dave. There has never been a more chilled out and understanding father figure than Bro. Dave used to fear that he would one day leave him and Dirk and so he shielded himself by hardly talking to him. But he would show his silent love for the older dude by doing what he was told (most of the time) Don't let Dave catch you saying a bad word about Bro or you'll be in for one heck of an ass whooping.

DIRK:
Who's this swag ass motherfucker? Oh right, that'll be Dave's older brother, his idol and role model. Dave looks up to Dirk just as much as he looks up to Bro. Wanting to learn as much from him as he can about style, fighting and how to be cool. They might not talk much, and they might have epic sibling fights now and then, but non of the Strider family really do open up to each other that much, but when they do talk, there is an understanding between them, Dirk has his back and Dave trusts him with his life.

CAL:
fuck no, fuck no, fuck no, fuck no!
Okay, in all seriousness and Nightmare Capricorn Clowns aside, Dave just doesn't like puppets or Clowns. I chalk it up to Dave having been left behind at a circus once, he curled up under the bleachers to nap and his Bro's must have thought he got bored and walked him, so the left without him. When he woke he stumbled about looking for his way out of the big dark top tent only to stumble into the dressing room. Seeing Clowns and ventriloquists drinking alcohol and doing crack is a scary sight for a young kid. The angry slurs of intoxicated angry carnival workers will haunt him forever as will having a puppet thrown at you that stinks of vomit and sin. He's never liked the circus since and Cal just reminds him of the suppressed fear he has for them every time he sees him. Not to mention Dirk used to hide Cal in Dave's room just to be a dick and scare him, what?! Dirk might have Dave's back but come on! Big brothers always pick on their kid bros, its a natural occurrence.

SCHOOL:
School sucks ass. Dave gets picked on pretty much all he time. He's not this cool kid he pretends to be online to his friends, he is infact a skinny half albino with too many freckles. He gets pushed around for never taking his shades off and has been the victim of wedgies, swirlies, nipple twists and Chinese burns since he started high school. He fucking hates it. So, its not surprising that he skips school a lot. Its kind of a shame because when he does do his work, he'd not the bottom of his class, but he's failing pretty much everything from being truant most of the term.

Dave hates sports too, he would come up with stupid excuses why he couldn't play ball or climb rope, his most resent being 'I have this boner going on and I don't wanna give it to the other kids, its catching.' He sucks at every subject apart from music, english and math which really is kind of ironic because of the way he types. Chalk it up to him being too lazy to use correct punctuation and shit.

Dave used to take money to school, until Bro found out about the bullies taking it, and then having your guardian and older brother showing up at school and getting escorted home by the police for intimidating the kids in your class... kind of was just fuel for more ass whoopings. So Dave used to eat his packed lunch on the roof or in the drama room store closet where no one goes.

FRIENDS:
All of Dave's friends are online. This fact sucks balls so much like you wouldn't believe. He's pretty lonely but he masks it with all his irony and the cool kid facade he fronts. He had one friend at school, but they moved to a different state. They said they'd write but they never did so Dave has a trust issue and a slight abandonment issue also.His friends are his family and the kids from his session in SBURBS.

JOHN:
This kid is his best bro. In a way, Dave kind of wishes he could be more like John, seeing as John speaks his mind, does what he believes is right and isn't afraid to be his dorky self. He'd probably do almost anything for John and even though he mocks him, he's stand up for him in a fight, even if that resulted in getting his ass kicked. Dave is also jealous of John's home life. He has his Dad there, a nice house and what seems to be a pretty stable environment for a kid. Dave also has some confusing and conflicting feelings towards John, he is slightly attracted to him but is also scared that he might end up crushing on him some day and this in turn will make John not want to hang out with him, so he keeps it pretty well hidden.

JADE:
She is the shit. Is there anything she can't do? She's so smart and funny, talented too! Without a doubt if Dave is feeling down he'll pester Jade knowing that she will cheer him up in seconds flat. He's pretty protective over her much in the same way as he's protective and defensive over John. Anyone touches her and they are dead... Dave also has a little bit of a confusing crush on her, he's sure its just a phase and it will pass, but yeah she's pretty much the most awesome girl he knows.

ROSE:
Dave has conflicting feelings for Rose. Some days he hates her and other days he adores her. He sees her in that nagging sister kind of role, he feels that she thinks she is better than him and that's hard for him to deal with. She is smarter and clearly more organized than him, which does ruffle his feather a bit, but then again he does enjoy her company. Dave is a loyal friend and much like with the others, he would stick by her even if she hurt him somehow.

As for the rest? Jake, Roxy and that lot, he pretty much only knows them through Dirk. He likes them! Don't get me wrong, but he makes sure to show his nonchalant or sarcastic side to them.

SEXUALITY:
Dave is a very confused little dude okay? There is no real strong influence in his home life, he was raised by two older dudes and his big brother, his idol, is gay. Go figure.
I'd say he's wavering more towards the bisexual side of the force, seeing as he has blooming flushed feelings for John and Jade. He could really turn out anyway.

Also, if he gets too nervous/destroyed over his feelings, I wouldn't be surprised if he turned out to be asexual.

FIGHTING:
He doesn't like doing it. He tries to avoid it at all costs, hence being bullied at school. However if its to protect someone or something he loves, Dave will fight with every ounce of his being, even at the cost of his own life. If he believes its worth it, he'll take a bullet for someone. His anger and pent up stress is unleashed when he does get into a strife, though he holds back when training with Dirk or Bro for fear he would ever actually hurt them. This is probably both a strength and a weakness, the fact he avoids conflict and also throws himself in head first when engaged in it. Nothing good has ever come from fighting with such blind emotions

ADDITIONAL HEADCANON:
♫ Dave's house has almost burnt down on a few occasions due to all the wires from various music equipment him and Dirk have.

♫ The electric bill is always sky high when it comes in.

♫ Dave has a habit of eating cherry flavoured chapstick.

♫ Dave c&p's most of his chat logs with John and sometimes reads over them and kicks himself for being such a sarcastic ass.

♫ Dave sometimes dies his hair ash blond to give it a little more shade to it than just white.

That is my headcanon... Deal with it. 凸(｀⌒´メ)凸

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SO ABOUT THAT AWKWARD FAIL ROMANCE...

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Hey trollkind

Quadrants


sup with those

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ALSO A GOOD QUESTION wow we do need to work that shit out don't we. it might be easiest to assume canon except where AU interferes? and i'm not sure where that would be for most. vriska's going to be basically the same afaik.

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So hey trollbros.

Lusii

How we dealing with that?

[hypertoxic]

this is a good question.

giant zombie lusii seems like it would be unfortunate.

[sagittaurius]

-ON BEING STRONG
Obviously, strength is something that Equius is all about, though he also considers it a great burden to bear. He is so strong that he literally can't touch other people without maiming or even killing them. Yet he's still on a quest to become stronger, but part of that is learning to be 'strong enough' to control himself. This is why he insists on drinking milk out of glass cups rather than something stronger, like metal. He gets so mad every time he shatters a glass because he considers it a failure. His hands are all scarred up from all the glass shards, which is why he always wears gloves now.

It's also why he's so stoic all the time. If he can control his emotions better he'd have an easier time controlling his STRENGTH. The problem being, under that stoic facade he's a boiling pot ready to burst. He's not actually doing anything to help keep his emotions under control, he just shoves them down until either he explodes or Nepeta slowly needles them out.

-ON BEING LONELY
Equius is an extremely lonely person. He was a lot happier as a child, more freely emotional until his freakish STRENGTH got to a point where he likely was accidentally killing any animal or playmate he might have had. He could barely touch his super STRONG lusus without inflicting massive bruising. Add the hyperhidrosis on top of all that and it's no wonder people tend to steer clear of him. He clings to tradition and pride because thats really all he has.

Of course there's Nepeta, and if it wasn't for her he'd be a raging, violent monster. But he still can't touch her. He can't hold her hand or hug her. The most he can do is drape an arm over her, but he has to be so very careful all the time about not exerting any actual force. She's precious to him, and her safety is more important to him than his own. It's a constant fear in the back of his mind that he'll hurt her or worse, so he can never truly be relaxed around her. If she happened to fall asleep on him, he'd stay awake the whole time to make sure he didn't do something unfortunate while unconscious.

-ON ROBOTS.
Since he mostly uses them for battle, he could make them look like anything he could imagine. Instead he makes them look like other trolls. In a way he was filling his life with people, he just had to build them to do it. Besides taking out his frustrations on them,, he talks to them. Not even in a pretend, roleplaying sort of way, but in a one-sided conversation sort of way since they don't have nearly the ai capacity as AR.

They fight. Or just stands there. Watching.

[hypertoxic]

Should we work out some sort of backstory? Obviously she'd have asked -- and by asked I mean demanded -- Equius to make her arm brace for her.

Plus, since they literally live right next to each other, they're very likely to start out together once the game gets underway. not to mention his help might (maybe definitely) be needed springing spidermom from her web so that the trolls can unleash spidermom on the hordes.

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All that's really hashed out is the dealings with Vriska that caused her to be blind, which can all be seen in the Vriska thread above.

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Growing Up, Vriska, and Sollux
While it is true that Terezi is marked pretty high on the BAMF scale for not having a Lusus to physically take care of her, this does cause a bit of an issue in her personality. Her only communication from dragon mom is telepathically one way, so she had to teach herself a lot, as well as cope with any feelings she may have by just shutting them in because she can't really share feels with her Lusus...yet. And being a shut in she wasn't really the type to share a lot of her feelings with friends, when she finally got some. In way you could say she was lonely.

From that self learning, you could say she became book smart. While browsing things she came upon legislacerators, and this concept of "justice". The one that impressed her the most were the tales of Redglare, her ancestor. She looked up to this long gone troll, and built up her concept of ruthless vengeance and ORCHESTRATING THE DEMISE OF THE WICKED, thus making her want to become a legislacerator herself.

All that lead to Terezi impressive manipulation abilities. Since she didn't show emotions, she also really didn't get attached. Being unattached she was also a bit more judgmental of other trolls' wrong doings.

During her hyper judgemental phase she got acquainted to Vriska, who had her own lusus problems. Terezi suggested tossing "unjust" trolls to Spidermom and since that went amazingly well (aside from the whole Vriska just throwing ANY troll down there) Vriska became one of Terezi's first "lasting friend". This didn't help Terezi cut back on her ruthless tendencies, and they picked up the name Scourge Sisters for double teaming even before they got into FLARP. After the Tavros incident though, and learning Vriska just killed any what troll she wanted for Spidermom, she sort of grew distant and they became more like catty rivals than any form of friend- not quite black for her but pretty spiteful.

Terezi got to know Sollux mostly because she is not the most tech saavy and she heard he was. After getting a bit under his skin about husktop issues and other tech stuff, she eventually got a bit more attached to him. She actually found his bipolar nature sort of interesting, and maybe had an experiment or two trying to act as an Auspistice between him and himself, but that quickly stopped when asked. She respects Sollux even if they don't talk that much, but if asked for a favor she'd quickly agree to help him.

Role Playing and Friends
Terezi loves the hell out of Role Playing. Online, Live Action, Pretendy Fun Times, she really got into it. It's actually thanks to it that she knows most of her friends. In fact her friends are sort of friends by association that she just happened to get a bit more attached to. When she started Role Playing she starting showing a bit more of her emotions, becoming less of a shut in, but still had that violent JUSTICE streak going. Although to be fair the JUSTICE streak never went away. Once she got into RP she became more the sort to try and convert people than the other way around.

She doesn't really FLARP anymore after the incident with Tavros, but if asked she might be a Clouder for someone, although luckily nobody has since anytime Terezi is a Clouder she gives out what she likes to call "Tough but Fair challenges". Which...are usually just tough since they are always a few levels too many for anyone to take on. The only way it's "Fair" some have said is that what she throws at you won't immediately kill you.

Through FLARP she met Gamzee, Eridan, Aradia, and Tavros.

Gamzee she got sort of attached to, but his aloof stoner nature kind of annoyed her in game. Never enough to stop being in contact with him though. Gamzee was harmless and adorable to her, even if he was an indigo blood. He was like a really dumb puppy- he didn't know any better and she just couldn't stay mad at him. She honestly was always confused whenever a session went by where he won though. Even after Gamzee stopped FLARPing she chatted with him now and again, not particularly close.

Eridan? Eridan she always thought was a cocky little tool, and kind of a massive dick. She always hated having to play against him because his smack talking felt like it always wavered out of character to her. She didn't have any sort of attachment to him, and it's only through dumb luck (she tells herself, because she hates accepting the fact he was actually good) that he never got thrown into Spidermom's gullet. Terezi sort of "met" Feferi through Eridan, but she didn't really kick it off with her.

Aradia, she actually met through a combination of Sollux and FLARPing. They're on pretty good terms during the FLARP phase, and she always saw Aradia as the sort of "girl fiend" she could chat with. When the Tavros incident happened though her respect sort of wavered when she didn't stand beside her against Vriska. However, she does understand Aradia wasn't as uber justice-seeking like Terezi. She isn't as distant with Aradia as she is in canon because...Aradia isn't dead, but she doesn't talk with her as much as she'd like to anymore.

Tavros, like Gamzee, also is sort of got that adorable harmless puppy vibe to her. She was on good terms with him, and always sort of ragged on Vriska for picking on him. That being the case, of course when Tavros was injured Terezi jumped down Vriska's throat about it. How could she do that to the poor guy, that was beyond the bullying antics Vriska had showed before and Terezi couldn't accept it. She still keeps in contact with Tavros, gives the occasional ribbing, but she never means anything bad by it.

Nepeta is the closest thing Vriska has to a best friend that isn't a Moirail. They cut up, chat, RP, all sorts of fun. Their relationship from canon hasn't changed much. Among the trolls she's friends with she opens up probably the most with Nepeta. Although she is sort of skeeved out by Equius, who she met through a combination of Nepeta and Vriska. Equius is the reason Terezi isn't really fond of nobles, her teal blood being a bit too green to get up in a rung where Equius stops being a dick in her eyes.

Kanaya she met through Vriska, but she doesn't really chat much with her. All she really has to say about Kanaya is that she's pretty cool...she guesses? They've interacted about as much as she has with Feferi and Equius, but unlike those two she thinks she could get along if they spoke more.

Karkat is... a complicated matter that I will need to get back to. She met him through a combination of Gamzee and Sollux though.

Being Blind and Personality
Not much has changed from canon. She still has adapted with the help of Dragonmom, although she is more keen to not bring it up as often. After getting talked down a bit about busting Vriska's arm she sees it as Karma in a way, thus making her dislike for Vriska even LESS based on that. Actually in some ways she is thankful for it since it allowed her to get close with Dragonmom, and even work out a way to respond back to her telepathy, since learning to see through smell and taste would take asking a question or two or three or eight.

She isn't one to tease with this surprisingly, however if the occasion presents itself, in a "you walked right into that" way she will use the "Blind Girl" taunt, or lick someone.

Being blind also didn't help her chill about JUSTICE, although she has become a bit less hair trigger about calling someone "criminal scum". She was humbled in a way, although it's hard to tell HOW exactly from the way she carries herself.

Terezi, having being a master manipulator and teaser, often times is a Troll among trolls. She is flirty but yanks back the bait before its taken. She is picky and takes things apart just to get people's goats. Honestly, if the trolls were able to interact with the Humans right off, Terezi would be the reason they just thought they were just internet trolls and not aliens.

This is all I have right now, possibly more to be added

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Hella placeholder til I get back to this post

[corpsekisses]

Oh. Hey. I guess...this is a placeholder too. Ahahahahaaaaa. Why am I laughing.

All subject to change or debate as you like. ^^

[corpsekisses]

Trying to organize this up. I'm...ah...not terribly organized. ^^;;;

--ON FLARPING AND FRIENDS
Gamzee used to flarp with the rest of the guys, but was really really terrible at staying in-character.

The "character" he was set up as was obviously GrandHighBlood, the same way Vriska plays as Mindfang, Eridan as Dualscar, and Terezi as Redglare.
my reasoning on why he knows about subjuggulators, etc. when he's sober, plus GHB is a textbook famous Capricorn. At first those in the games were probably excited at having an indigo play, but this awe-fear and anticipation was probably ruined as fiercely dramatic and would-be-brutal exchanges were often interrupted for amiable talks about stars, or interesting bits of rock, or MiRaClEs.

Nobody really ever seemed to be able to off him, strangely enough, but this was passed off as Gamzee never being where he was supposed to be at any given time. There were no survivors to account for any different sort of tale, because Gamzee has snaps of sobriety if he gets too riled up, but nobody knows that except him right now, and it scares him. He's not very articulate about feelings, unless they're rapped. Something about the rhythm. And...he has a lot of feelings.

Eventually the organizers colluded in just not informing Gamzee where the next meet was, or...told him the group broke up.Gamzee took this in stride, as amiably as he took everything else, and kept sort of in touch with some of the flarpers who were marginally less capable of shaking him off, and gradually accumulated a few of their friends in turn over the trollian network. He talks to any of them whenever he can, as long as he can, but most days he gets brushed off. They wouldn't lie to him. They're his friends. They are obviously absolutely needing to do whatever it is that draws them suddenly away from the husktop...every time...

And so, he just...sits, mostly. In his hive. Alone. And tries to think about nice things, like miracles, upping the dosages on his pies to addictive levels, and staring at the pretty colors of his miracle modus.

Tavros getting injured was actually a lucky break for him, because he's one friend who likewise no longer can flarp. (Not to mention, Tavros is rather terrible at cutting off communications with anyone.) There are occasional bouts of awkwardness, but they're actually good friends, and they deal pretty well with the other's eccentricities. (Tav's faeries, Gam's miracles...) He's developed a redcrush on Tavros, but he's casual and easy about and doesn't consider to be a big deal to the effect of "it'll work out eventually". When he's stoned, anyway Tavros probably also invited him to play the zombie game.
Random Fact: Gam really loves Tav's four wheel device, and instead of being offput by it the first time they met post-accident, jumped in and wheeled them both around so he could see how it worked. Recognizing the innate pity for his friend not having working legs anymore doesn't make the wheelchair any less cool.

Out of friends-of-friends, he particularly likes Terezi's friend Karkat. Karkat never flarps, and rants wonderfully and loudly on how stupid the whole thing is. On some level Gamzee's probably aware of just how insecure Karkat is, and that's probably fueling his pale pity crush on him, but it also helps that Karkat's yelling is somehow inherently soothing because it drowns out any other thoughts in his head. He doesn't consciously try to analyze why he likes Karkat. He just likes him, and calls him "BeSt FrIeNd" out of hope but also...out of knowledge that Karkat's probably got a strong enough personality to be his moirail. He doesn't know why, but he has a feeling he might need one, or maybe Karkat'll need one, and you've just got to do what feels right.

Gamzee's probably acquainted with Sollux and Terezi, most particularly Terezi thanks to the Legislacerator and Grand Highblood setup in their flarp sessions, but they're savvy enough to avoid talking to him more than they have to. In fact, most of the friends-of-fiends are probably friends of Terezi. (Like Nepeta and Karkat.)

Equius is probably initially the most distant as the moirail-of-a-friend-of-a-friend who doesn't FLARP, but thanks to his concern for blood station, he probably is one of the few trolls to initiate talks with Gamzee rather than the other way around. Unfortunately, when Gamzee isn't initiating contact he's usually spacing the heck out. So Equius probably gets ignored a whole lot. Which he probably doesn't mind at all/sweats over. Uhhh. SUBJECT TO CHANGE, IF EQ-MUN SO WILLS IT.



--PIES, HIS LUSUS, AND NIGHTMARES
At the start, he was actually a rather emotional troll, prone to wildly oscillating outbursts, and he actually...had a relatively good relationship with his similarly capricious lusus.
Random Fact: Headbutts, head-bumps, or foreheads resting together a la Gamzee are actually goatish signs of affection.

He started eating sopor when he was about four and a half sweeps old. (Ie: hitting puberty.) That's when he started hearing voices, and getting violent urges that really freaked him out. It's a segueing from trying to sleep it all off, covered in sopor. He's always felt more in control when he's dreaming--probably because of his latent manipulative abilities relating to them. Topical sopor wasn't enough after a while. Baking showed up as a hobby after he had no flarping to do, and naturally began to incorporate his sopor addiction. Yes, he can actually bake more than sopor pies.

By this point, Gamzee is so hooked on sopor that he's eating it baked without added ingredients of any form. The amount he eats per day would probably leave a troll without built-up tolerance utterly catatonic. Side effects include serious spacing, though, among other things. (I tend to interpret Sopor as a depressant combination of Marijuana and Mescalin when ingested, and a sleep aid/muscle relaxant when applied topically.)

He'll get so wrapped up in staring at the colors of his fingernails for three hours that he'll forget to eat, sleep...

...Or, even show up on the beach to meet his goatdad, feed him, or interact with him as it turns out...

Gamzee has no idea, but he's missed so many visits from his goatdad, that that's the real reason he rarely comes around anymore. It's like taking care of a pet, really, and what they do if you ignore them for too long. Goatdad's absence, however, just heightens Gamzee's unnoticed intuitive sense of desperate loneliness, though.
Random Fact: Poor Gamzee is an extrovert.

FOR THE RECORD, I NEED TO HASH OUT THE PARTICULARITIES OF "NIGHTMARE ABILITIES", AND WOULD LIKE TO POOL SUGGESTIONS/PERSONAL TAKES ON THIS WITH ALL OF YOU WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED. mine are, loosely, that Gamzee thinks of dreams as "real", no different from "reality", and has no understanding of why other trolls don't seem to feel the same, or why they don't embrace their nightmares, but he isn't articulate enough (especially on slime) to explain, not to mention most of his friends think he's dumb as driveway gravel. Also, in moments of great emotional feeling, he can move objects from one "reality" to the other, or from dreams to the waking world. Comparatively small objects, anyway. This last part at least seems canon, though he hasn't moved anything across universes, etc. thanks to the lack of SBURB/SGRUB.



--QUADRANT ATTITUDES
The boy is a hippie. He is disgustingly free-love for a troll, at least confirmably so for the pale quadrants. (Multiple moirails? Cool for you, brother. There should be more pity in the world.) He also tends to think of anything outside of actual breeding as a quadrant-free zone, therefore casual friends, even, can make out with no strings attached and nothing but good, amiable feels between them. Moirails can kiss, even. Anything non-quadrant can be anything.

This is a position he doesn't seem to explain much, which leads to a lot of really awkward moments, and a few more awkward moments if he's cheerful about being rebuffed.

Random Fact: He also has no sense of personal space and is a close-talker. Which means if he isn't breathing on your face and you're breathing on his when you're talking, you're too far apart. To deny a troll your breath in conversation is to feel ashamed.

Random Fact: He also has no self-consciousness about his body. If he were really naked, the only thing he'd move to cover is his face. Removing his facepaint is like stripping him. Actually stripping him on the other hand, he doesn't care about.

Stoned, Gamzee has no hate feels whatsoever. He gets...sad, sort of deflates when people pick on him, but doesn't do anything, or feel angry over it. His Sober Self is another story, but that goes without saying, and that's why there's Auspiticeship.



--SEADWELLERS
He terrified of them. Plain and simple. You try having neighbors who make the seas run with multicolored blood froth every day, and have a lusus who doesn't come home much. Stoned, he can't even manage platonic enmity, but Eridan Ampora in particular, with his lusus-killing tendencies? He terrifies Gamzee, and he really doesn't want him to know it just in case poor goad dad ends up a bit of indigo froth on the waves as an example.

Seadwellers really aren't good for Gamzee's slime habit, to say the least.

If he could get past her fins, he'd probably be fine with Feferi, though.



TERROR
It's just fun to be scared, plain and simple. It makes you feel all kinds of things, especially a sort of elated relief afterwards. (Ie: "Mirthterror".) He doesn't get why other trolls don't have the same outlook, or that it's probably an innately indigo thing stemming from the control they have over nightmares. This outlook overlaps particularly well with his clowny cult.

His fear just translates differently. It's probably closer to anticipation. (Of good or bad.) Once the tension breaks, you're back to normal. This probably also explains why after things happen, Gamzee just goes on, amiably, and nothing seems to stick to him. Sometimes he tries to give advice on the subject, help his brothers and sisters relax...mostly it just gets lost in his dialect, though.

[omnipoterrier]

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THE LIFE OF BECQUEREL

Bec was adopted as a stray by Grandpa in the wilderness, after being rejected from his original pack as a young pup. People call him a dog, but he's more of a breed of wolfbeast that lives on the island that Jade and Jake are on. If anyone were to compare him to regular dogs, it would be pretty obvious right away that he is definitely not a regular dog.

Being on the island all his life, he is only comfortable with three humans - Grandpa, Jade and Jake. Grandpa is decease, but he has grown up with both Jade and Jake and was more or less treated as "the oldest" by Grandpa. Being the oldest meant taking on responsibility when Grandpa's time finally came. This meant that, as soon as he was about a year old, he was trained as a guard dog by Grandpa. The training continued right up until Grandpa was found dead in the jungles, a few days after he didn't return from a journey into the wilds. Bec still sticks to training regiments that were imbed into his daily life alone, now taking over the custodian role. The "Dog of the Island" if you would.

As they live on an island, Bec regularly eats meat. Meat that comes from the wild animals of course.

THE NOT-FIRST GUARDIAN DOG

Well obviously he won't be a First Guardian in this universe, but that's alright because he has a lot of other things to compensate for that. For starters, he is very fast. He can easily outrun most people and is fairly energetic. His size is also abnormal for that of his kind - he's damn huge. Big enough to carry at least one person on his back and still keep a fairly fast pace with them weighing on him. He's also not afraid to bite when he has to, especially if it means protecting Jade or Jake. I imagine this would be close to his size in comparison to Jade.

On top of that, he is also more self-aware of himself and his surroundings than the average animal as well. He can distinguish his kids from other humans and identify a dangerous situation.

THOSE PESKY KIDS

i.e.: Jane and Jake. He loves them both, though he has a pretty bias love toward Jade over Jake. If he could only protect one of them in a situation, Jade would be the easy winner of that competition. Other than that he is trained to keep them out of trouble when he has to and make sure they don't get too over their heads (or at least make sure Jake doesn't) and hurt themselves.

Outside of his loyalty to Jade and Jake he does not have much trust of other humans. If Jade or Jake perceive them as friends he may be willing to give them a chance, but otherwise you won't get much love out of Bec. He won't bite or hurt you unless needed, but he will more or less stick to Jade and Jake.

OTHER THINGS

He obviously can't communicate with others on a textual level, what with being a dog, but if he gets his hands on one of Jake or Jade's computers he will at least keysmash to everyone. Good luck trying to understand what he wants from that.

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Placeholding for Kanaya as I work stuffs out. slowly. *_*

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placeholder for Karkat as I work things out :3

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MOTHERGLUBBIN' PLACEHOLDER

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Sollux M-F**king Captor

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life and friends

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Growing Up
Sollux was actually a pretty happy kid when he was younger, but became alienated and somewhat emotionally warped due to his complete inability to relate to people. He got pretty lonely with it, eventually getting to the point where he could lash out at others or hate himself. He chose to do both and frequently rotated between the two states. His lusus was kind, but really really unbelievable stupid, he chained him to the roof of his hive complex for the idiot's own safety. However this just ended up distancing him from others even more. He got into computers because he thought they were easy to use and a good way to waste time spent by yourself (ie all his time). He got really good at them and found even if people didn't like him at least he could. Impress them, and then just be a huge asshole to them and make fun of them in one of those WELL IF PEOPLE DON'T LIKE ME ITS CAUSE THEY ARE DUMB mindsets.

anyway no one cares about that (friends)

He met Karkat and they became friends through a comedy of errors yet to be decided by me and Karkat mun (though I frequently like to imagine it ended with Karkat making Sollux cry), Terezi and him both have a good penchant for being ridiculous and not making sense, so that was an easy friendship at that point as well. I like to think everyone he knows he met through Aradia or Karkat.

Karkat -> Gamzee

Aradia -> Tavros -> Terezi -> Vriska -> Equius -> Nepeta
Aradia -> Tavros -> Terezi -> Vriska -> Kanaya -> Feferi -> Eridan

A CIRCLE OF MEETING.

anyway that's not really important either.

Karkat, Terezi, and Aradia are probably his closest friends, though he like Kanaya and is getting closer to Feferi everyday. He's ambivalent towards Gamzee, Tavros, and Nepeta. He hates Vriska cause of what she did to Terezi, finds Equius detestable, and Eridan annoying as shit.