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⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Zorn
Contact: ZornSable
Age: 29
Current Characters: n/a


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Eridan Ampora
Age: 13
Canon: Homestuck
Canon Point: "Eridan: Abscond"

Background: Bampora

Personality:

To put Eridan simply, he’s a raging selfish, hipster, wanna-be wizard, douchebag, prince with a genocide complex. But to go a little more in depth, he’s basically still that just with a little more foundation as to why. Being part of the troll race—which is highly violent and destructive—it’s natural for him to be a bit of an asshole. That of course goes hand in hand with his blood. With him being the second richest hue in the hemospectrum (The system in which trolls use as a caste depending on blood color) he is considered royalty, and he grew up as such. Which by the way, he’ll remind you of repeatedly, because that’s what he is, royalty, and don’t you forget it.

Naturally his place in society only further affirms these allegations of superiority. Belonging to the sub-race of trolls called seadwellers, Eridan views himself and his kin as the biological superior type of troll—and he's not alone. In troll society he's the cream of the crop, the best of the best. Flawless by biological design, which means he's superior to everyone outside of his caste, sans the Empress and Heiress. So, a troll, a royal, a fishtroll. The odds are stacked against you, to say the least. Basically, chances are, in his eyes you are inferior to him, and he’ll tell you as such, because he can’t let you forget the facts, you know the ones about him being superior to you? Because that’s what he is. Superior. And the more he says it, the more likely someone's gonna believe him. Probably.

At first glance, he seems to be nothing more than a dramatic douchebag, which really is the groundwork for what he is, he's much more than that. However, seeing as through his love for Alternian history, wars, and the stories that follow such a genre, he’s crafted himself a dramatic and theatrical persona that follows suit to the epic stories of conquest, and heart wrenching defeat, and horrible betrayal, and sweeping romance, and, and, and... It goes on and on, truly. With those tales, he’s molded himself a prideful, overly dramatic, and obnoxious identity. That coupled with his already ‘Holier than thou’ attitude makes for quite the charmer. While this persona does reach deep to his core, it doesn't fully define who he is. That being said, we must peel the layers before we get to that core.

Along with those most charming personality traits comes his interests, which having already covered his love for the glorious military history of Alternia and their captivating tales, comes his genocide complex. Which, isn't helping his case, but one could easily imagine the idea spawned from these tales of glory and defeat, along with him being a vicious sea dweller. Trolls are violent as is, but as one climbs the rainbow ladder that makes up the hemospectrum, the higher you get, the more violent the troll. Eridan definitely reigns true on this fact, seeing as he’s sworn it as his destiny to kill all land dwellers! With such plans, he amassed a great deal of doomsday devices and weapons with the help of his then kismesis(Basically hategirlfriend) interest, Vriska Serket.

Of course, he amassed these by his FLARPing sessions with her. FLARP being Fatal Live Action Role-Play. This is a pretty common thing for Troll kids to take part in, but it often ends in death and revenge cycles. Eridan, miraculously, avoided both in his time, perhaps because he killed anyone before they could start a revenge cycle or kill him. Or maybe it was because he was in a partnership/rivalry with Vriska, so it never quite got to that point between them at least. Nevertheless, he was a very seasoned FLARPer and as notorious as Vriska, they defintiely swept the seas and divided the spoils among each other for a good while! Eridan killing lusii to keep Feferi’s own fed, while Vriska took the trolls for her own lusus. All the while Vriska giving him these dooms day devices to help him in his plot to KILL ALL LANDDWELLERS. Which always failed. Them the breaks.

While Eridan may dramatically boast about his intent on killing all land dwellers, it’s commented on by his then moirail(another quadrant in troll romance) Feferi, that she didn’t think he actually had the intent to kill them. He had made friends with a few of them, after all. This may be true to boot, evidence does point more towards her speculation being reality since at any moment he could have killed them all with minimal effort, considering he kept her lusus fed in order to keep its voice down. Had her lusus even began to whisper, trolls would have started dropping dead like flies. But one could presume that maybe he was trying to preserve what he had with Feferi as well, since she definitely wasn’t for his plans. A point he’s actually pretty sore about.

Which ever it is, it’s pretty apparent that Eridan is rather dubious with how he holds himself, which of course makes him come off as a huge douche, which he is, surely I failed to mention that before. He often times judges people by their worth to him, trying to use them to whatever extent he can to achieve his goals—scarcely valuing them as a person—he mainly does this, though, with those lower on the hemospectrum. He also holds very entitled views for things he does, and when he doesn’t get what he thinks he deserves, he bitches and moans and complains—mainly to Karkat. Much like he had done in the veil when Nepeta had rejected him after he saved her life by getting her into the game. Karkat, of course, calls him out on his shit after he refers to her as “the kitty cat shipper cave girl” instead of by name, which one could assume he might not even REMEMBER her name at all because of her lowblood status. Which, Eridan very maturely changes the subject instead of owning up to being a thoughtless ass. Avoiding responsibility like the champ he is.

He also hardly cares if he’s not being as gentle as he should be, because fuck your feelings they don’t mean shit compared to his. Which is probably why his flushed feelings for his moirail went very unrequited—he never once really thought about her feelings in their relationship, or really considered her feelings for much of anything. Not unless it directly effected him, like how he avoided letting her lusus get too hungry. He had wanted something more red with her, but ended up playing his cards wrong and getting into the pale quadrant with her. Which, instead of trying to define his feelings to her in a less dubious fashion, he continued their romance and hardly acted the part of a moirail should. This leaves no question as to why their relationship ended how it did. This devastated Eridan and the dramatics went everywhere, because woe is he, how could she leave him?! How could she indeed.

This is another important point about Eridan though, as much as he whines and complains and throws around dramatics like a toddler—there is a distinct difference between him dramatically whining and him being legitimately sad. He doesn’t so much like to show off his actual, genuine emotions, in fact a good deal of them need to be dragged out of him. Opposed to how he’s ready and willing to throw around his fake tears, wibble lips, scarf chewing, and running off in a dramatic fashion; just making a huge tool out of himself to everyone around him. However, most people just get tired of it and him, especially when he does this display when someone rejects him. Oh did I not mention how he throws himself at someone if they show the vaguest sense of interest at him? Yeah he does that too.

He wasn’t always such a desperate tool, really only getting to that apex of his personality through losing nearly everything. As the twelve of them entered the game, one could argue that this hipstery fool lost more than anyone. For most, they escaped the tyranny of their own homeworld, where as Eridan lost all footing his homeworld gave him. Not to mention, he lost two quadrants almost simultaneously! That’s a HUGE shot to anyone’s ego, and Eridan didn’t take it well. But, then again, what 13 year old child would? And things only got worse for him in the game. He basically exiled himself to his own planet, where he killed angels, and felt utterly victimized by everyone’s “negligence” towards him, and then when they went to claim their victory BAM, they get stuck on a meteor waiting to die. However, while everyone else was busy worrying about important things, Eridan’s flirting with humans, so he really doesn’t help himself at all. He's the master of self sabotage.

Eridan is definitely something of an acquired taste. Just acquire some taste, and you're good to go! More seriously, it takes a certain kind of person to deal with him on a day to day basis, especially when he really brings a lot of his own woes onto himself with his ridiculous attitude and bullheadedness. Further damning himself because he tries to play the victim when he fucks up. He’s very dramatic in every way possible, even when showing general gratitude he throws in his own flare of dramatics. An example of which is when Kanaya made him his science stick, he definitely pulled out his wibble lip in thanking her. Which by the way, this science stick is powered by science, not magic, cuz magic is fake and science isn’t. Science real, magic fake. Got it? Good.

Who cares if he is really into magic, despite him recognizing it’s fiction. He firmly believes his wand is powered by science, whatever that even means (except, chances are, it IS magic). His fascination with what he so eagerly writes off as fiction is painfully apparent, leading him to hassle Rose about her magic while all the trolls were stuck in the veil. Accusing her of such fraudulent acts, while in the same conversation he tries to solicit her for a black relationship while even demanding she shares with him her secrets of witchcraft. This of course ended in bitter rejection and Eridan losing his computer on account of her using her fakey fake fictional magic to explode it in his face. So in short, Eridan is a bit of a hypocrite. Okay, he’s a huge hypocrite, but fuck that noise! If it benefits him it hardly matters a damn bit, right? Right.

He relentlessly antagonizes people in hopes of getting a kismesis and then tries to swoon people into a matespritship, it hardly works—in fact it never does, but he’s trying. Trying to get people to like/hate him in the way that he wants. Trying to do what HE thinks is right, but he goes about it in all the wrong ways. It pushes everyone away from him, and makes himself miserable. He’s excessively difficult about near everything, and extremely stubborn. Even dedicating way too much time chasing a dead end while the trolls were in the game, despite everyone telling him not to. Eridan was so set on being right about needing to kill his in game world's angels, that he stayed there the whole time (Till he left to try and duel Sollux). However, later bitches that no one would visit him on his planet, despite how he made the place a war zone. He is such the victim in this, as you can see.

Eventually, through an instance of his stubbornness and thinking he’s right about a solution to their horrible situation in the veil (Of course not without some egging on by Sollux) he demonstrates how thoughtless and vicious he can be by throwing a tantrum. A tantrum that ended in him KINDA guaranteeing their species’ extinction via destroying the one thing they need to reproduce. Of course not before killing the girl he loved and one he regarded as a friend, right after blinding the troll who stole "his" girl from him. Yikes. All of this is because he thought he knew how to save Feferi and himself. What with them being trapped on a meteor with the other 10 trolls waiting for death, but his plan was pretty stupid and not so well thought out, so of course it ended disastrously.

As much as Eridan isn’t completely heartless, he’s too wrapped in his own emotions and ideals to really think and consider other people as much as he should, or really even think about his actions before he does them. He’s an extremely impulsive and entitled jerk, who is trying, but just doing it entirely wrong. He’s definitely misguided with his ideals and with troll society being what it was, but it hardly excuses him being the vicious dickbag he is.

Abilities:

Troll body: Trolls are stronger than the average human, and get progressively stronger as you go up the hemospectrum. With Eridan being as high as he is, he's pretty damn strong, physically speaking. Far above the average 13 year old, but even among trolls sea dwellers are feared for their strength and resilience. It's been stated in canon that sea dwellers are virtually unkillable. Exceptions being: getting cut in half (by a chainsaw), but side stepping bisection (unlike Eridan did), it's stated in canon that it takes something like an extremely strong and sharp blade, and a very potent poison to have a ghost of a chance in killing one.

Going further into this, there was an instance of a sea dweller being stabbed with knives, and 12 inch long thorns, and they pulled them out and used them against their assailant like nothing had happened at all. Trolls are tough stuff, but sea dwellers are on a whole other level. The sea level.

Violet Blood/Sea Troll: As mentioned, the higher up you go on the spectrum the tougher the troll. This also goes for mental defenses! Seeing as Eridan is the penultimate blood color, he is basically immune to psychic attacks, such as mind control, empathic readings of his emotional state, and, to some extent, psychic blasts that would cause most trolls to drop dead in a mere second or two (such as the vast glub). On top of this, being an aquatic troll gives Eridan the ability to breathe underwater. He has gills on the sides of his ribs, which is pretty rad for anything involving water and the like.

Hope Powers: This is an important one! Eridan is the Prince of Hope, and as such, he is a destroyer of hope. However, to explain this a bit more thoroughly: he can destroy things with the power of his own hope/belief. He commands a white sort of energy that is limited only by his own belief. So, if he believes he can puncture a hole through a solid titanium wall, he could! Though this will be nerfed in game as needed. He is also able to levitate with these powers, and make things explode in different universes (like Jade's laptop). There's no clear indication of what limitation these powers honestly have, but from what is explained in canon it seems like the limit of what it can do is based on the limit of the user's own hope. These powers are meant to be the key to kill the ultimate unkillable bad guy, so that's worth mentioning.

Alignment:

Peromei.

Seeing as Eridan as a person is a duality between hope and despair—either for others or himself—this is a perfect fit. However, he tends to lean more on the despair part of it, since his actions tend to sew despair more than it rallies hope. However, his aspect and powers are both based in hope (his hopes), which ends in him destroying the hopes of others and his own (thus leaving despair). In short: to his very core his relationship with hope and despair is intrinsic to his character, and there isn't a better alignment that defines him so precisely.

Other:

Eridan will be bringing with him his wand and sylladex if possible. The wand is honestly nothing special, even if Eridan uses it to control his hope powers, it literally has no actual control, he just believes it does.

The sylladex is a contraption almost all the characters in Homestuck has, it works as a hammerspace inventory that holds items in the captchalogue, and weapons in the strife deck. However if I can bring this, I'll only allow Eridan to have 5 cards to store items in, so that he's not hiding away half a city in there, since this item is silly enough as it is.

⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉


General Sample:

Sample

Emotion Sample:

Well, this wasn't expected.

Stepping foot on the transportalizer certainly meant he was teleporting to somewhere else, but the assumption was to somewhere on the meteor. Not... wherever this place is. His emotions were still high after that encounter, after what he had done. Two—maybe three—trolls were dead by his hand. The matriorb obliterated in the confrontation. Probably one of the more petty decisions he's made, but he'd reflect on that later, when his adrenaline wasn't coursing through his veins like a forceful current.

The air around him was unnaturally stiff—hollow, even. Not even metaphorically speaking, there was a stillness, a heaviness to it that felt quite literal. It was not to Eridan's knowledge that the tightness he was feeling internally was actually effecting the surrounding area for everyone else as well.

Onward he trudged, sharp eyes darting to anyone near by, his knuckles white with how tightly he held his wand. He knew not where he was, knew even less why he was here, or why it felt as though the emotions swirling inside of him was warping the world around him. Was this part of the game—part of paradox space? Or was this place somewhere else entirely.

It had to be, with how many humans there were, and how strange the architecture looked. Pretty low grade technology from the looks of it, not that he was even close to an expert in any of that. With heavy feet he explored, expecting at every turn for there to be one of the friends he betrayed. The heavy deeds made his feet falls that much heavier, and had he been paying more attention, he might have noticed the indents his gaudy shoes (and even gaudier emotions) were leaving in the stone street.

Questions:

Nada!