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□ Name: CD
□ Age: 31
□ Contact: sailorn1@aol.com
□ Journal: kissofdeath
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□ Name: Terezi Pyrope
□ Series: Homestuck
□ Canon point: Act 6, Intermission 3
□ History: http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Terezi_Pyrope
□ Personality: At first glance, Terezi Pyrope seems like your classic internet troll - flippant, clever, mocking, and mischievous, her normal outward demeanor can both infuriate and placate. She's friendly enough, for sure! Even when she's trolling her hardest, if she doesn't think you've done anything wrong, she's generally harmless. Still, she's the kind of girl that would tell you to delete sys32 if you have a computer virus, or give you instructions to unwittingly kill yourself, just because she doesn't actually expect you to be that stupid.
A little past that humorous outer shell, however, you will find that Terezi is actually fairly loyal and a pretty reliable friend (as much as a troll can really be, anyway). When a LARPing friend of hers is crippled, she starts a cycle of revenge which ultimately ends with her destroying the arm and eye of the culprit, Vriska, while simultaneously causing herself to be blinded. And when that same culprit was about to get their entire party killed in a misguided quest for glory, Terezi herself put an end to her.
But claiming that Terezi only did those things for her friends' sake might not be the whole truth. She has a deep commitment to her culture's sense of justice, and greatly enjoys punishing evildoers. A justice system that we would describe as draconian and barbaric is not only something that Terezi honors, she outright enjoys it. In fact, she enjoys it so much that when she's at home, she stages mock trials with her plush dragons, always ending the trial with some cruel and archaic death penalty. Her home, a treehouse, is surrounded by the colorful corpses of her stuffed victims, often swinging from their nooses. And, like a certain Batman villain, when it comes time to dispense justice, she sometimes flips a coin to determine exactly how harsh she's going to be.
When she's not pursuing justice, punishing wicked plush dragons, or trolling friends and enemies alike, Terezi can be found creating drawings on walls and floors with different colors of chalk (red is her favorite), smelling things, and licking her computer screen to tell what people are typing to her. This is how she 'sees' the world, because as mentioned previously, her eyes were blinded in an act of revenge. Far from being bitter about her handicap, however, Terezi is not only content with her lot in life, she revels in it. Through intense training from her dragon guardian, she has improved her other senses, such as taste and smell, to compensate for the loss of her sight. Terezi often refers to other people by nicknames referring to their text or blood colors (Mr Vanilla Milkshake and Mr Orange Creamsicle for example). She is also not above using her handicap to take a cheap shot at others, asking how they could pick on a blind girl.
Speaking of manipulation, Terezi is quite good at it. Unlike her rival, Vriska, she doesn't have to resort to psychic powers to play mind games. She has a tack for getting others to do what she wants, even if it's to their detriment. For example, all she did to get even with Vriska after she crippled their mutual friend, was to let someone else know that Vriska had stolen from him; that person doled out the punishment to Vriska for Terezi. And while she occasionally feels remorse for her manipulations, particularly if she hurts someone innocent, most of the time she keeps her feelings, as well as her motives, to herself.
After the recent timeskip of two years, Terezi has grown more quiet and serious. While we don't know exactly what has happened in those two missing years, we do know that her relationship with fellow troll Karkat went nowhere fast, she has begun dating the human Dave Strider, and she's grown a little more insecure. She mostly keeps to herself lately, and seems to be in a perpetual bad mood. She does still greet people with a smile, shortly before threatening to kill them, but it's heavily implied that she's grown somewhat despondent during her time on their traveling meteor. So while she might still have her cheerful (if bloodthirsty) outer shell still in place, expect Terezi to be a little bit less sunny on the inside.
□ Age: 7 Alternian Solar Sweeps or 15 years old
□ Gender: Female
□ Appearance: Like all trolls, Terezi is gray-skinned and yellow horned, with short, shaggy black hair and black lips. Her teeth are sharp and pointed, but unlike other trolls, her eyes are not yellow. Because they were exposed to the Alternian mid-day sun during Vriksa's revenge, they were burned out and are a solid red color. Because of this, she wears a bright red pair of sunglasses. Other than that, she is of average height and build.
□ Abilities/Powers: Upon being blinded, Terezi developed her other senses to compensate for the loss of her sight. Her senses of smell and taste in particular have been heightened through training and the teachings of her dragon mentor. In fact, she often refers to those senses as though she is able to see clearly through them, and more intensely than those who have their functional birth sight.
Upon entering the video game medium that Homestuck takes place within, Terezi is (somewhat ironically) granted the title and powers of the Seer of Mind. What these powers allow her to do is to envision the various multitude of alternate realities that will result from any given decision that any given person will make. Thus doing, she can determine the best possible path for anyone in her vicinity to take.
Here is where I will also mention that troll reproductive biology is infamously ambiguous (the author has outright stated that he will never address the question of what troll genitalia look or function like). What we do know is that females have 'seedflaps' and males have 'bone bulges' and 'shame globes', and that these are roughly analogous with human anatomy. Where they do differ from humans is that their genetic material is deposited outside their bodies into buckets, which are then taken to a mother grub that incubates the grubs of a multitude of trolls. Because of this, they do not incubate young in their own bodies, and without a mother grub, cannot reproduce. Because of this, I will be playing Terezi without a uterus or means of reproduction.
□ Personal Items: Terezi will arrive with her red glasses, her Dragoncane (a sectioned cane that looks like a regular blind person's cane with a dragon's head, but actually holds a blade inside), a yellow stuffed dragon name Senator Lemonsnout, and a red dragon hooded cosplay outfit.
□ First Person Sample: (Typed, with a translation to follow)
GR33T1NGS, HUM4N C1T1Z3NS
OR SHOULD 1 S4Y....
HUM4N SUSP3CTS?!
DON'T PL4Y DUMB NOW
4 GR31VOUS OFF3NS3 H4S B33N COMM1TT3D 4ND YOU 4R3 4LL GU1LTY UNT1L PROV3N SL1GHTLY-L3SS-GU1LTY 1N 4N 4LT3RN14N COURT OF L4W
YOU ST4ND 4CCUS3D OF TH3 K1DN4PP1NG 4ND 4BDUCT1ON OF ON3 T3R3Z1 PYROP3
- TH4T WOULD B3 M3 -
TH3S3 4R3 V3RY S3R1OUS CH4RG3S, 4ND ON 4LT3RN14 TH3Y WOULD C4RRY TH3 D34TH P3N4LTY
JUST L1K3 OTH3R S3R1OUS CR1M3S
SUCH 4S TR3SP4SS1NG, J4YW4LKING, 4ND M4K1NG B4D JOK3S
BUT 1F YOU COOP3R4T3
1 M1GHT B3 4BL3 TO CUT YOU 4 D34L
4 'PL34 B4RG41N', 1F YOU W1LL
4ND 1T C3RT41NLY 1S 4 B4RG41N >:]
1NST34D OF D34TH BY H4NG1NG
1 W1LL OFF3R YOU 4 CHO1C3 OF D34TH BY BLUDG3ON W1TH MY C4N3K1ND
OR
D34TH BY TH3 HUM4N 4L13N PR4CT1C3 OF 4N4L PROB1NG
W3LL L3T MY CO1N D3C1D3
>:]
(Translation, because Terezi's quick is terrible to read)
Greetings, human citizens
Or should I say... Human suspects?!
Don't play dumb now
A greivous offense has been committed and you are all guilty until proven slightly-less-guilty in an Alternian court of law
You all stand accused of the kidnapping and abduction of one Terezi Pyrope
- that would be me -
These are very serious charges indeed, and on Alternia they would carry the death penalty
Just like other serious crimes such as tresspassing, jaywalking, and making bad jokes
But if you cooperate I might be able to cut you a deal
A 'plea bargain', if you will
And it certainly is a bargain >:]
Instead of death by hanging
I will offer you a choice of death by bludgeon with my canekind
Or
Death by the human alien practice of anal probing
We'll let my coin decide
>:]
□ Third Person Sample: Terezi pulled her red dragon hood down over her sightless eyes. This city was scrambling her senses, and not in a nice way.
While she didn't mind humans, their peach sherbert and milk chocolate skin was drowning out everything around her. Even worse, a few of them smelled of something new and musky that she had only ever smelled when she'd found a pair of human underwear on the meteor she'd been kidnapped from. She wrinkled her nose in distaste and resisted the urge to shove the next one that passed her into an ablution trap to wash off (humans had those still, right?). But since she still had her canekind with her, she felt no qualms about knocking a couple of them in the back of the knee if they were particularly rank.
Of course, her first priority was to figure out how she'd gotten into this human city. While she couldn't see the person who'd been talking to her when she woke up in that chair, Terezi could smell lies - and his stunk. While normally she would've gone ahead and given him a good thrashing, she was still a bit disoriented, and had sadly let them put her out on the street before she could get any hits in. But if she smelled that rank nooksniffer again, she'd really let him have it.
In the meantime, she'd have to content herself with interrogating the locals... Alternian style.
□ Name: CD
□ Age: 31
□ Contact: sailorn1@aol.com
□ Journal: kissofdeath
→ IC
□ Name: Terezi Pyrope
□ Series: Homestuck
□ Canon point: Act 6, Intermission 3
□ History: http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Terezi_Pyrope
□ Personality: At first glance, Terezi Pyrope seems like your classic internet troll - flippant, clever, mocking, and mischievous, her normal outward demeanor can both infuriate and placate. She's friendly enough, for sure! Even when she's trolling her hardest, if she doesn't think you've done anything wrong, she's generally harmless. Still, she's the kind of girl that would tell you to delete sys32 if you have a computer virus, or give you instructions to unwittingly kill yourself, just because she doesn't actually expect you to be that stupid.
A little past that humorous outer shell, however, you will find that Terezi is actually fairly loyal and a pretty reliable friend (as much as a troll can really be, anyway). When a LARPing friend of hers is crippled, she starts a cycle of revenge which ultimately ends with her destroying the arm and eye of the culprit, Vriska, while simultaneously causing herself to be blinded. And when that same culprit was about to get their entire party killed in a misguided quest for glory, Terezi herself put an end to her.
But claiming that Terezi only did those things for her friends' sake might not be the whole truth. She has a deep commitment to her culture's sense of justice, and greatly enjoys punishing evildoers. A justice system that we would describe as draconian and barbaric is not only something that Terezi honors, she outright enjoys it. In fact, she enjoys it so much that when she's at home, she stages mock trials with her plush dragons, always ending the trial with some cruel and archaic death penalty. Her home, a treehouse, is surrounded by the colorful corpses of her stuffed victims, often swinging from their nooses. And, like a certain Batman villain, when it comes time to dispense justice, she sometimes flips a coin to determine exactly how harsh she's going to be.
When she's not pursuing justice, punishing wicked plush dragons, or trolling friends and enemies alike, Terezi can be found creating drawings on walls and floors with different colors of chalk (red is her favorite), smelling things, and licking her computer screen to tell what people are typing to her. This is how she 'sees' the world, because as mentioned previously, her eyes were blinded in an act of revenge. Far from being bitter about her handicap, however, Terezi is not only content with her lot in life, she revels in it. Through intense training from her dragon guardian, she has improved her other senses, such as taste and smell, to compensate for the loss of her sight. Terezi often refers to other people by nicknames referring to their text or blood colors (Mr Vanilla Milkshake and Mr Orange Creamsicle for example). She is also not above using her handicap to take a cheap shot at others, asking how they could pick on a blind girl.
Speaking of manipulation, Terezi is quite good at it. Unlike her rival, Vriska, she doesn't have to resort to psychic powers to play mind games. She has a tack for getting others to do what she wants, even if it's to their detriment. For example, all she did to get even with Vriska after she crippled their mutual friend, was to let someone else know that Vriska had stolen from him; that person doled out the punishment to Vriska for Terezi. And while she occasionally feels remorse for her manipulations, particularly if she hurts someone innocent, most of the time she keeps her feelings, as well as her motives, to herself.
After the recent timeskip of two years, Terezi has grown more quiet and serious. While we don't know exactly what has happened in those two missing years, we do know that her relationship with fellow troll Karkat went nowhere fast, she has begun dating the human Dave Strider, and she's grown a little more insecure. She mostly keeps to herself lately, and seems to be in a perpetual bad mood. She does still greet people with a smile, shortly before threatening to kill them, but it's heavily implied that she's grown somewhat despondent during her time on their traveling meteor. So while she might still have her cheerful (if bloodthirsty) outer shell still in place, expect Terezi to be a little bit less sunny on the inside.
□ Age: 7 Alternian Solar Sweeps or 15 years old
□ Gender: Female
□ Appearance: Like all trolls, Terezi is gray-skinned and yellow horned, with short, shaggy black hair and black lips. Her teeth are sharp and pointed, but unlike other trolls, her eyes are not yellow. Because they were exposed to the Alternian mid-day sun during Vriksa's revenge, they were burned out and are a solid red color. Because of this, she wears a bright red pair of sunglasses. Other than that, she is of average height and build.
□ Abilities/Powers: Upon being blinded, Terezi developed her other senses to compensate for the loss of her sight. Her senses of smell and taste in particular have been heightened through training and the teachings of her dragon mentor. In fact, she often refers to those senses as though she is able to see clearly through them, and more intensely than those who have their functional birth sight.
Upon entering the video game medium that Homestuck takes place within, Terezi is (somewhat ironically) granted the title and powers of the Seer of Mind. What these powers allow her to do is to envision the various multitude of alternate realities that will result from any given decision that any given person will make. Thus doing, she can determine the best possible path for anyone in her vicinity to take.
Here is where I will also mention that troll reproductive biology is infamously ambiguous (the author has outright stated that he will never address the question of what troll genitalia look or function like). What we do know is that females have 'seedflaps' and males have 'bone bulges' and 'shame globes', and that these are roughly analogous with human anatomy. Where they do differ from humans is that their genetic material is deposited outside their bodies into buckets, which are then taken to a mother grub that incubates the grubs of a multitude of trolls. Because of this, they do not incubate young in their own bodies, and without a mother grub, cannot reproduce. Because of this, I will be playing Terezi without a uterus or means of reproduction.
□ Personal Items: Terezi will arrive with her red glasses, her Dragoncane (a sectioned cane that looks like a regular blind person's cane with a dragon's head, but actually holds a blade inside), a yellow stuffed dragon name Senator Lemonsnout, and a red dragon hooded cosplay outfit.
□ First Person Sample: (Typed, with a translation to follow)
GR33T1NGS, HUM4N C1T1Z3NS
OR SHOULD 1 S4Y....
HUM4N SUSP3CTS?!
DON'T PL4Y DUMB NOW
4 GR31VOUS OFF3NS3 H4S B33N COMM1TT3D 4ND YOU 4R3 4LL GU1LTY UNT1L PROV3N SL1GHTLY-L3SS-GU1LTY 1N 4N 4LT3RN14N COURT OF L4W
YOU ST4ND 4CCUS3D OF TH3 K1DN4PP1NG 4ND 4BDUCT1ON OF ON3 T3R3Z1 PYROP3
- TH4T WOULD B3 M3 -
TH3S3 4R3 V3RY S3R1OUS CH4RG3S, 4ND ON 4LT3RN14 TH3Y WOULD C4RRY TH3 D34TH P3N4LTY
JUST L1K3 OTH3R S3R1OUS CR1M3S
SUCH 4S TR3SP4SS1NG, J4YW4LKING, 4ND M4K1NG B4D JOK3S
BUT 1F YOU COOP3R4T3
1 M1GHT B3 4BL3 TO CUT YOU 4 D34L
4 'PL34 B4RG41N', 1F YOU W1LL
4ND 1T C3RT41NLY 1S 4 B4RG41N >:]
1NST34D OF D34TH BY H4NG1NG
1 W1LL OFF3R YOU 4 CHO1C3 OF D34TH BY BLUDG3ON W1TH MY C4N3K1ND
OR
D34TH BY TH3 HUM4N 4L13N PR4CT1C3 OF 4N4L PROB1NG
W3LL L3T MY CO1N D3C1D3
>:]
(Translation, because Terezi's quick is terrible to read)
Greetings, human citizens
Or should I say... Human suspects?!
Don't play dumb now
A greivous offense has been committed and you are all guilty until proven slightly-less-guilty in an Alternian court of law
You all stand accused of the kidnapping and abduction of one Terezi Pyrope
- that would be me -
These are very serious charges indeed, and on Alternia they would carry the death penalty
Just like other serious crimes such as tresspassing, jaywalking, and making bad jokes
But if you cooperate I might be able to cut you a deal
A 'plea bargain', if you will
And it certainly is a bargain >:]
Instead of death by hanging
I will offer you a choice of death by bludgeon with my canekind
Or
Death by the human alien practice of anal probing
We'll let my coin decide
>:]
□ Third Person Sample: Terezi pulled her red dragon hood down over her sightless eyes. This city was scrambling her senses, and not in a nice way.
While she didn't mind humans, their peach sherbert and milk chocolate skin was drowning out everything around her. Even worse, a few of them smelled of something new and musky that she had only ever smelled when she'd found a pair of human underwear on the meteor she'd been kidnapped from. She wrinkled her nose in distaste and resisted the urge to shove the next one that passed her into an ablution trap to wash off (humans had those still, right?). But since she still had her canekind with her, she felt no qualms about knocking a couple of them in the back of the knee if they were particularly rank.
Of course, her first priority was to figure out how she'd gotten into this human city. While she couldn't see the person who'd been talking to her when she woke up in that chair, Terezi could smell lies - and his stunk. While normally she would've gone ahead and given him a good thrashing, she was still a bit disoriented, and had sadly let them put her out on the street before she could get any hits in. But if she smelled that rank nooksniffer again, she'd really let him have it.
In the meantime, she'd have to content herself with interrogating the locals... Alternian style.
