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OOC Information:
Name: Jade
Age: 20s weh
AIM: survivenakedeyes
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E-MAIL: jackismightier@gmail.com
Are you new? If not, list your current characters: Hi it's meeeee with Lucas and Jarethhhh and this is my third :)
IC Information:
Name: Gamzee Makara
Fandom: Homestuck/MSPA
Timeline: End of Act 5, soon after being calmed down by Karkat
Age: About six solar sweeps, which is about 13 years old in human years
Appearance: There are a lot of things about Gamzee there at pretty standard for a typical teenage boy. He's tall and rather gangly, though "lanky" is probably a nicer word for it. He has a shock of unruly, black hair that sticks out all over the place, mostly because he doesn't ever really brush it much. His hands and feet are like a pitbull puppy: too big for his body, which means he'll probably end up growing into them.
I suppose that's where the comparison ends, actually.
Because Gamzee is a troll, much like many other members of the facility are. His skin is a shade of gray, though it's tinted a bit indigo due to the color of his blood. Amidst his hair are two large horns, a gradient from deep orange to deep yellow. While Gamzee does resemble other trolls, his long, goat-like horns set him apart--as well as his fangs being a bit more pronounced--a little crueler--than others. The yellow sclera of his eyes turns a burnt orange at certain times. And then there's also that whole pesky "clown" thing. Gamzee's usual outfit consists of a pair of baggy, polka dot (JNCO Clown brand?) pants, a baggy black tshirt (with a blood-purple Capricorn symbol on it) and his customary white greasepaint on his face. His face paint resembles something between a clown and a juggalo in tribute to his religion--and he's rarely seen without it (though that won't be as customary in the facility, unless he can find makeup). Image is here.
Abilities: Due to Gamzee's light-hearted and presumably chill nature, at first it seems like he does not have much in the way of special abilities or talents--besides maybe juggling and falling off a unicycle. But as time goes by, his true nature shows in a number of ways. He is a very skilled fighter when put in a battle scenario (Karkat even comments that he did the most damage out of any of the trolls during their fight with the Black King), using his clubkind strife specibus to wield his juggling clubs (deuce clubs) as weapons. Later, his strife specibus becomes the extremely dangerous jokerkind--where he possesses the ability to use multiple weapons with great proficiency (his Deuce Clubs of course, but also the Clawsickle, Fiduspear, Warhammer of Zillyhoo, a broken bow, and others that we have not seen yet given that the deck is about twenty cards deep). He is also very strong, as he is not only able to kill Equius (the STRONGest troll, even if he DID allow him to do so) but hold Nepeta mid-air by the wrist--and do it all with little to no effort.
Personality: Gamzee's personality is hard to describe, only because it's become so fractured and changed so much over the course of his canon. When he is first introduced, his personality is reminiscent of the typical highschool age stoner kid--he swears quite a bit, he uses a lot of slang and partakes of sopor slime. Sopor slime is not supposed to actually be eaten, but Gamzee's lusus (his parental figure/custodian who took care of him) wasn't around very much as he was constantly out at sea (being a sea goat, and all), Gamzee didn't learn the things that most young trolls do. Eating the slime presumably caused an effect similar to humans smoking marijuana...which really turned out to be a bit of a blessing in disguise, in Gamzee's case. He was very much into clown-ish hobbies (juggling, riding a unicycle badly, playing with horns) due to his obscure, cult-like religion that believed in a pair of minstrels that would rise up and take believers to a paradise planet.
Gamzee does not present himself as the smartest or wittiest troll in the world, but he is very eager to talk to the other trolls about their problems, help them feel better, do favors and just generally be a good friend. He encourages his friends to speak from the heart and "believe in miracles," a reference to his religion but also a form of telling his friends to be true to themselves. He is very easy-going, considering that many of his "friends" insult and berate him, and not only does he not reciprocate (unless asked to by Equius), but he laughs it off and never takes offense. He prefers to not know the science behind things, as that would destroy some of the magic. Gamzee was generally happy, sincere, and easy to get along with.
But once his slime runs out, things very quickly start to crack--or maybe, his brain starts to clear and reveal the nature he was born with. Gamzee realizes that the slime was hurting his brain, realizes he is a descendent of the High Subjuggalators, and takes his "status" to heart. His interests turn murderous, and he realizes that he must kill the remaining trolls. This is also spurred by the fact that Gamzee believes himself to be the messiahs of his own religion, and in true cult fashion, believes he needs to kill his friends to "save" them. Sober Gamzee speaks similarly yet different, almost taking on a "split personality" type of persona. Most of his slang stays intact, and even his happy go lucky attitude, but warped and twisted. Even while doing horrible things, Gamzee remains pleased and mostly pleasant...but more apathetic than before, while still being conniving and manipulating (it's important to note that there is a good chance that Gamzee was always conniving and manipulating, but chose not to be that way while on slime).
Once Karkat calms Gamzee down, he retains personality traits from before and after the slime. It's almost a case of nature versus nurture, really. Though the slime was affecting his personality, surely, it might not have changed it for the worse. Gamzee was able to form friendships and be (mostly) happy, which he would not have done if he never would have partook of the slime. Now that the slime is unavailable (and he wouldn't want to use it again, anyways), Gamzee is faced with the task of balancing his nature, wants and desires that have been passed down and in his blood since ancestry--and controlling himself, retaining sanity and not being a threat to his friends. He hasn't ever felt anything that wasn't covered in a sheen of slime-induced complacence...or insanity-induced rage. This is the first time Gamzee will actually be feeling something, feeling anything, feeling feelings--and it's not going to be easy. For anyone.
((Note: We haven't seen a large amount of Gamzee interacting post-calm, so a lot of my interpretation will be head canon and speculation. But I will be playing him as remorseful, but perhaps not as remorseful as he thinks he should be.))
History: ((I've touched on a lot of his history in the Personality section, but I'll expand upon it here!))
Gamzee is an indigo blood, which means he is the highest tier of land-dwelling troll in accordance with the hemospectrum. His custodian was not around very much during his childhood (or at his present canon point), which led to him not having the greatest upbringing. Despite that, he remained a happy and loyal friend, not concerned with the hemospectrum caste system and it's many status quos, and very much NOT acting in the way that a descendent of The Grand Highblood or an indigo blood "should" act. He's much more interested in things like Faygo, and juggling, and freestyling the best and worst raps you've ever heard, and miracles.
He is a troll from the planet Alternia, and he and his friends began to play a game developed by one of their players (Sollux) called SGRUB, where Gamzee was part of the Red Team. After the SGRUB session begins, Gamzee plays and is an essential part of their team. But following one of the humans (Dave Strider) showing Gamzee a music video from the Earth band ICP--and more importantly, his sopor slime running out--Gamzee loses it and decides he needs to hunt down and kill all the remaining trolls (and presumably paint pictures with their blood...or make out with them. Maybe both.). He also begins upholding the belief that his blood is special, acting in a bigoted and dangerous way that is expected of him.
Gamzee does many manipulative things once he has made this declaration, including implanting his new best friend, a puppet doll (Lil Cal) into dreams and carrying him around to help do his bidding. He ends up murdering two of his friends, Equius and Nepeta (who are also arguably very close friends, pre and during SGRUB) with full intent to murder others (and would have most likely killed Vriska and Eridan if Kanaya hadn't stopped him). He then leaves some of Vriska's possessions and blood around Nepeta's body, attempting to get Terezi to believe that Vriska was behind both of their murders (this was also most likely an elaborate way to get back at Vriska for killing his good friend, and unrequited matesprit/love interest, Tavros), leading Terezi and Vriska into a duel while he creepily watches.
Finally, he confronts Karkat and the remaining trolls with full intent on killing them, but Karkat fearlessly approaches and calms Gamzee down--revealing and cementing their moirail relationship. Moirails are a very important part (if not THE most important part) of troll culture, because while they are classified as "better than best friends," they also serve as a balance to one another. Trolls are a very dangerous and unstable race, particularly the high blooded trolls. Gamzee was flirting with insanity, but being confronted by his moirail leveled him out--calming him down and presumably ending his murderous rampage.
Roleplay Sample - Log: It was like a song, he decided.
A real sick fucking song, a song that you listened to no less than a million times because you fucking loved that song, you don't really know if you believe that a song can define one whole person, but if any song defined you it would be this one.
And then, one day, you turn the volume up a little more. Just a little bit; it doesn't feel like you really even made it all that much louder, but suddenly there's noise in the background that you never noticed before, which makes no sense at all given how many times you've listened to it. It's a voice, you think. No, it's definitely a voice. Background vocals, maybe, soft but getting louder, and even though you've always really liked the main vocals of this particular track, those lyrics in the background are seeming real fucking enticing. It's not really your usual vibe, but you're jamming on it, and what's more surprising than you enjoying it is that you're not surprised you're enjoying it. You idly wonder when you stopped listening to the lead singer, because you've almost forgotten he's even there with this new beat drumming in your mind and your heart and your blood.
And as you sit, waiting for the troll who you know is one his way to your current location--
(--you can hear his heavy, peasantblooded steps, the way he lumbers without lumbering, you can smell his submission already, you can taste his redemption and you can feel the miracles sparking in your fingertips--)
--you think to yourself that you were wrong, from the start.
That voice in the background was the lead singer all a-fucking-long.
Roleplay Sample - Journal: [There is someone standing with his back to the camera.
It's most definitely a child, though he's notably not human and he's quite tall--his skinny frame is relaxed and languid, but his apathetic nature is slipping and giving way to the tiniest bit of confusion as he looks around. He turns and faces the 'berry, searching the room with his yellow and black eyes for...something. The white greasepaint on his face is smeared, his hair is a mess, and in the middle of his face are three long scratch marks with dry purple blood scabbed over them. His eyes focus on the 'berry and he scowls, almost imperceptibly, before a lazy expression overtakes his face once more.
The last thing he remembers is being with Karkat and the other remaining trolls, recently calmed, recently under control (he IS under control, he IS)--so where the fuck was he now? And more importantly, where was his--
The troll picks up the 'berry, turning it over in his clawed, multi-colored stained hands (green and blue and brown and purple, different fuckin' KINDS of purple, and--)]
karkat?
WHERE YOU AT
best motherfucking friend?
This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function? Gamzee comes from a world and a culture where killing is pretty normal and he and his friends participate in highly dangerous games. Even though he's young, he's already committed several horrible acts himself and is already half crazy, so he's well-equipped for this sort of environment.
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here. :o)
Name: Jade
Age: 20s weh
AIM: survivenakedeyes
MSN:
Y!M:
E-MAIL: jackismightier@gmail.com
Are you new? If not, list your current characters: Hi it's meeeee with Lucas and Jarethhhh and this is my third :)
IC Information:
Name: Gamzee Makara
Fandom: Homestuck/MSPA
Timeline: End of Act 5, soon after being calmed down by Karkat
Age: About six solar sweeps, which is about 13 years old in human years
Appearance: There are a lot of things about Gamzee there at pretty standard for a typical teenage boy. He's tall and rather gangly, though "lanky" is probably a nicer word for it. He has a shock of unruly, black hair that sticks out all over the place, mostly because he doesn't ever really brush it much. His hands and feet are like a pitbull puppy: too big for his body, which means he'll probably end up growing into them.
I suppose that's where the comparison ends, actually.
Because Gamzee is a troll, much like many other members of the facility are. His skin is a shade of gray, though it's tinted a bit indigo due to the color of his blood. Amidst his hair are two large horns, a gradient from deep orange to deep yellow. While Gamzee does resemble other trolls, his long, goat-like horns set him apart--as well as his fangs being a bit more pronounced--a little crueler--than others. The yellow sclera of his eyes turns a burnt orange at certain times. And then there's also that whole pesky "clown" thing. Gamzee's usual outfit consists of a pair of baggy, polka dot (JNCO Clown brand?) pants, a baggy black tshirt (with a blood-purple Capricorn symbol on it) and his customary white greasepaint on his face. His face paint resembles something between a clown and a juggalo in tribute to his religion--and he's rarely seen without it (though that won't be as customary in the facility, unless he can find makeup). Image is here.
Abilities: Due to Gamzee's light-hearted and presumably chill nature, at first it seems like he does not have much in the way of special abilities or talents--besides maybe juggling and falling off a unicycle. But as time goes by, his true nature shows in a number of ways. He is a very skilled fighter when put in a battle scenario (Karkat even comments that he did the most damage out of any of the trolls during their fight with the Black King), using his clubkind strife specibus to wield his juggling clubs (deuce clubs) as weapons. Later, his strife specibus becomes the extremely dangerous jokerkind--where he possesses the ability to use multiple weapons with great proficiency (his Deuce Clubs of course, but also the Clawsickle, Fiduspear, Warhammer of Zillyhoo, a broken bow, and others that we have not seen yet given that the deck is about twenty cards deep). He is also very strong, as he is not only able to kill Equius (the STRONGest troll, even if he DID allow him to do so) but hold Nepeta mid-air by the wrist--and do it all with little to no effort.
Personality: Gamzee's personality is hard to describe, only because it's become so fractured and changed so much over the course of his canon. When he is first introduced, his personality is reminiscent of the typical highschool age stoner kid--he swears quite a bit, he uses a lot of slang and partakes of sopor slime. Sopor slime is not supposed to actually be eaten, but Gamzee's lusus (his parental figure/custodian who took care of him) wasn't around very much as he was constantly out at sea (being a sea goat, and all), Gamzee didn't learn the things that most young trolls do. Eating the slime presumably caused an effect similar to humans smoking marijuana...which really turned out to be a bit of a blessing in disguise, in Gamzee's case. He was very much into clown-ish hobbies (juggling, riding a unicycle badly, playing with horns) due to his obscure, cult-like religion that believed in a pair of minstrels that would rise up and take believers to a paradise planet.
Gamzee does not present himself as the smartest or wittiest troll in the world, but he is very eager to talk to the other trolls about their problems, help them feel better, do favors and just generally be a good friend. He encourages his friends to speak from the heart and "believe in miracles," a reference to his religion but also a form of telling his friends to be true to themselves. He is very easy-going, considering that many of his "friends" insult and berate him, and not only does he not reciprocate (unless asked to by Equius), but he laughs it off and never takes offense. He prefers to not know the science behind things, as that would destroy some of the magic. Gamzee was generally happy, sincere, and easy to get along with.
But once his slime runs out, things very quickly start to crack--or maybe, his brain starts to clear and reveal the nature he was born with. Gamzee realizes that the slime was hurting his brain, realizes he is a descendent of the High Subjuggalators, and takes his "status" to heart. His interests turn murderous, and he realizes that he must kill the remaining trolls. This is also spurred by the fact that Gamzee believes himself to be the messiahs of his own religion, and in true cult fashion, believes he needs to kill his friends to "save" them. Sober Gamzee speaks similarly yet different, almost taking on a "split personality" type of persona. Most of his slang stays intact, and even his happy go lucky attitude, but warped and twisted. Even while doing horrible things, Gamzee remains pleased and mostly pleasant...but more apathetic than before, while still being conniving and manipulating (it's important to note that there is a good chance that Gamzee was always conniving and manipulating, but chose not to be that way while on slime).
Once Karkat calms Gamzee down, he retains personality traits from before and after the slime. It's almost a case of nature versus nurture, really. Though the slime was affecting his personality, surely, it might not have changed it for the worse. Gamzee was able to form friendships and be (mostly) happy, which he would not have done if he never would have partook of the slime. Now that the slime is unavailable (and he wouldn't want to use it again, anyways), Gamzee is faced with the task of balancing his nature, wants and desires that have been passed down and in his blood since ancestry--and controlling himself, retaining sanity and not being a threat to his friends. He hasn't ever felt anything that wasn't covered in a sheen of slime-induced complacence...or insanity-induced rage. This is the first time Gamzee will actually be feeling something, feeling anything, feeling feelings--and it's not going to be easy. For anyone.
((Note: We haven't seen a large amount of Gamzee interacting post-calm, so a lot of my interpretation will be head canon and speculation. But I will be playing him as remorseful, but perhaps not as remorseful as he thinks he should be.))
History: ((I've touched on a lot of his history in the Personality section, but I'll expand upon it here!))
Gamzee is an indigo blood, which means he is the highest tier of land-dwelling troll in accordance with the hemospectrum. His custodian was not around very much during his childhood (or at his present canon point), which led to him not having the greatest upbringing. Despite that, he remained a happy and loyal friend, not concerned with the hemospectrum caste system and it's many status quos, and very much NOT acting in the way that a descendent of The Grand Highblood or an indigo blood "should" act. He's much more interested in things like Faygo, and juggling, and freestyling the best and worst raps you've ever heard, and miracles.
He is a troll from the planet Alternia, and he and his friends began to play a game developed by one of their players (Sollux) called SGRUB, where Gamzee was part of the Red Team. After the SGRUB session begins, Gamzee plays and is an essential part of their team. But following one of the humans (Dave Strider) showing Gamzee a music video from the Earth band ICP--and more importantly, his sopor slime running out--Gamzee loses it and decides he needs to hunt down and kill all the remaining trolls (and presumably paint pictures with their blood...or make out with them. Maybe both.). He also begins upholding the belief that his blood is special, acting in a bigoted and dangerous way that is expected of him.
Gamzee does many manipulative things once he has made this declaration, including implanting his new best friend, a puppet doll (Lil Cal) into dreams and carrying him around to help do his bidding. He ends up murdering two of his friends, Equius and Nepeta (who are also arguably very close friends, pre and during SGRUB) with full intent to murder others (and would have most likely killed Vriska and Eridan if Kanaya hadn't stopped him). He then leaves some of Vriska's possessions and blood around Nepeta's body, attempting to get Terezi to believe that Vriska was behind both of their murders (this was also most likely an elaborate way to get back at Vriska for killing his good friend, and unrequited matesprit/love interest, Tavros), leading Terezi and Vriska into a duel while he creepily watches.
Finally, he confronts Karkat and the remaining trolls with full intent on killing them, but Karkat fearlessly approaches and calms Gamzee down--revealing and cementing their moirail relationship. Moirails are a very important part (if not THE most important part) of troll culture, because while they are classified as "better than best friends," they also serve as a balance to one another. Trolls are a very dangerous and unstable race, particularly the high blooded trolls. Gamzee was flirting with insanity, but being confronted by his moirail leveled him out--calming him down and presumably ending his murderous rampage.
Roleplay Sample - Log: It was like a song, he decided.
A real sick fucking song, a song that you listened to no less than a million times because you fucking loved that song, you don't really know if you believe that a song can define one whole person, but if any song defined you it would be this one.
And then, one day, you turn the volume up a little more. Just a little bit; it doesn't feel like you really even made it all that much louder, but suddenly there's noise in the background that you never noticed before, which makes no sense at all given how many times you've listened to it. It's a voice, you think. No, it's definitely a voice. Background vocals, maybe, soft but getting louder, and even though you've always really liked the main vocals of this particular track, those lyrics in the background are seeming real fucking enticing. It's not really your usual vibe, but you're jamming on it, and what's more surprising than you enjoying it is that you're not surprised you're enjoying it. You idly wonder when you stopped listening to the lead singer, because you've almost forgotten he's even there with this new beat drumming in your mind and your heart and your blood.
And as you sit, waiting for the troll who you know is one his way to your current location--
(--you can hear his heavy, peasantblooded steps, the way he lumbers without lumbering, you can smell his submission already, you can taste his redemption and you can feel the miracles sparking in your fingertips--)
--you think to yourself that you were wrong, from the start.
That voice in the background was the lead singer all a-fucking-long.
Roleplay Sample - Journal: [There is someone standing with his back to the camera.
It's most definitely a child, though he's notably not human and he's quite tall--his skinny frame is relaxed and languid, but his apathetic nature is slipping and giving way to the tiniest bit of confusion as he looks around. He turns and faces the 'berry, searching the room with his yellow and black eyes for...something. The white greasepaint on his face is smeared, his hair is a mess, and in the middle of his face are three long scratch marks with dry purple blood scabbed over them. His eyes focus on the 'berry and he scowls, almost imperceptibly, before a lazy expression overtakes his face once more.
The last thing he remembers is being with Karkat and the other remaining trolls, recently calmed, recently under control (he IS under control, he IS)--so where the fuck was he now? And more importantly, where was his--
The troll picks up the 'berry, turning it over in his clawed, multi-colored stained hands (green and blue and brown and purple, different fuckin' KINDS of purple, and--)]
karkat?
WHERE YOU AT
best motherfucking friend?
This game includes horrible mental and physical torture of your character. After reading the rules/faq for clarification, how do you expect your character to handle this and continue to function? Gamzee comes from a world and a culture where killing is pretty normal and he and his friends participate in highly dangerous games. Even though he's young, he's already committed several horrible acts himself and is already half crazy, so he's well-equipped for this sort of environment.
Questions? Comments? Crazed and creative statements? Those go here. :o)
