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psych0p0mps) wrote2013-06-06 02:09 pm
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Player NAME: Kae
Current AGE: 25
Player TIME ZONE: US/Mountain
Personal JOURNAL:tafkae
IM & SERVICE: AIM – Sennen Tafkae
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Character NAME: Aradia Megido
Canon & MEDIUM: Homestuck (Webcomic)
Canon PULL-POINT: About here, so just after John disappears.
Character AGE: About 16, most likely. It’s sort of ambiguous.
Character ABILITIES: Aradia bears the in-game title of "Maid of Time," and since she’s achieved the level of God Tier, her control over the flow of time is theoretically limited only by her class (Maid, that is) and her creativity. The Maid’s exact relationship to her aspect (Time, in this case) is still ambiguous in canon, but so far it appears to be a spellcaster class. Aradia has been shown hopping backward and forward through time, as well as freezing an extremely powerful enemy in time for as long as she can concentrate, but they’re not the only things she can do with it.
She also has wicked powerful telekinesis, capable of lifting multiple tons. Despite its strength, though, it’s also possible for her to use it for delicate movements like flipping a switch, and she doesn’t need to have line-of-sight with what she’s manipulating.
Ever since she was little, she’s been able to see, hear, and (to an extent) command the spirits of the dead. Apparently, this sort of commanding can also make them visible to people who wouldn’t ordinarily be able to see them, as when she got a bunch of troll ghosts to haunt Vriska, their killer. (Since, really, it wouldn’t be much of a haunting if she didn’t know she was being haunted.)
Then, of course, there’s the standard array of God Tier abilities, including flight – in her case, with bright red sparkly fairy wings – and conditional immortality. Basically, she can be killed, but will auto-resurrect within a few minutes unless her death is either Heroic or Just. There’s no hard-and-fast measure of what counts as Heroic or Just, so it’s open to interpretation and depends on the circumstances.
Character HISTORY: (wiki link!)
Aradia was created through ectobiology in the Medium. She is most likely a paradox clone of herself, because time shenanigans. She grew up on Alternia with her lusus, where she enjoyed archaeology and extreme role-playing.
She often played a live-action game called Flarp with Tavros, Terezi, and Vriska. But one day, she got distracted by Doc Scratch at a crucial moment, and the next thing she knew, Vriska had thrown her teammate Tavros off a cliff. Against Terezi’s advice, she summoned the ghosts of Vriska’s previous victims to haunt her, in hopes she would learn to feel remorse. In retaliation, Vriska used her mind control to make Sollux eat a bunch of mind honey and go to Aradia’s hive, where his uncontrolled optic blast killed both her and her lusus.
However, Aradia stuck around for quite some time afterwards as a ghost. She continued to work with Sollux on deciphering the hieroglyphs she found in the frog temple, and he created Sgrub from them.
Eventually, twelve friends started playing the game together. Aradia prototyped her sprite with a frog head, effectively removing the Black Queen from the final battle. After she entered the Medium, she also prototyped herself, gaining all the sprite’s insider knowledge about the game. Next she brought Equius into the Medium, as his server player. She’d originally had an agreement with Vriska to do that for her, but always knew Equius would have to come first to deliver her robot body. He did, but upon inhabiting the robot body, she realized he had programmed it to have romantic feelings for him. So she did the only logical thing: ripped out her robot heart, pounded it to a pulp, beat the crap out of Equius, then kissed him.
(Why she did all that, and why she was so violent as a robot, is kind of up for debate. It could be natural viciousness inherent to the blue blood in her body, or that she could suddenly feel emotions again and was overwhelmed by their intensity, or a combination of the two. At any rate, she currently regrets kissing him.)
After that, despite previously not caring that Vriska had killed her, Aradia went to make her pay. She viciously beat her up and left her to bleed to death. (This was necessary for Vriska to become God Tier, but Aradia was definitely more brutal about it than absolutely necessary.)
She skipped ahead to the final battle between all her friends and the Black King… and so did all her robot duplicates, coming from doomed timelines that they had come back in time to prevent. It took all 1000+ of them to suppress the Black King’s Vast Glub, which if unrestrained would have killed everyone instantly.
Immediately after the battle, though, before they could claim the Ultimate Reward (spoiler alert: it was the universe they created, including Earth), Bec Noir showed up with the near-unstoppable powers of a First Guardian and a hankering to kill everything that moved. The legion of Aradiabots held him off just long enough to get everyone to (relative) safety, but was completely destroyed in the process.
After this all twelve trolls (including the single remaining Aradiabot) spent something like six hours languishing on the meteor where they’d originally been ectobiologically created. During this time, they started trolling the Earth kids. Aradia didn’t participate in that, and instead wrote a memo to send to her past and alternate selves, which of course she had already read and been following the entire game session.
Then she hugged Sollux goodbye and exploded. Why she blew herself up isn’t entirely clear, as it seems she didn’t know what would happen when she did. But in any case, at the exact moment she exploded, she was revived in the body of her dream self, lying on her Quest Slab in the center of Derse’s moon. However, since Bec Noir was annihilating Derse at the time, she instantly died. Fortunately this just meant she revived immediately, now God Tier and with a new lease on life. She used her newfound mastery over Time to freeze Noir in place, preventing him from killing her again, then used his own powers against him to escape to the Green Sun.
While waiting for everybody else to show up, she took a couple of side trips into dream bubbles and acquired some useful exposition, as well as reuniting with some dead or sleeping friends. But gradually people began to arrive at the Green Sun with her. Sollux got there first, half-blind and half-dead. Then Rose and Dave, newly resurrected themselves from dying to create the Green Sun. Then the meteor Sollux had died to propel there, and everybody aboard it. Though everyone else was headed for the humans’ scratched session, Sollux opted to stay with her in the Furthest Ring, and they gave the meteor a grand send-off together.
Ever since then, Aradia has been meandering around the dream bubbles to help the dead come to terms with their own deaths, partly for their own peace and partly so that they can ultimately help in the defeat of Lord English. Most recently, she joined the deceased Vriska’s expedition to find a secret treasure that would be key to defeating LE. At her pull point, John had just disappeared himself by fucking around with it like an idiot. Oh well!
Character PERSONALITY: Aradia’s personality is tough to sum up in a few words, as she’s had no fewer than four different ones over the course of her canon. Before she died for the first time, she was a friendly, fun-loving girl who, although plagued by the dead and their whispers of impending doom, still cared deeply about her friends and life in general. As a lingering ghost, she lost interest in basically everything except bursts of wanton destruction. Once she got her robot body, her pent-up frustration and anger were (for whichever reason) amplified to the point where Karkat started calling her a “tin can psychopath.” Now that she’s reached God Tier, though, she has a new lease on life, and is much more like the friendly, optimistic young girl she originally was.
Aradia is extraordinarily sunny and cheerful – often to the point of being a little creepy, especially when it comes to the subject of death. Partly because she’s experienced so much of it, she views death rather differently than everyone else does, seeing it as a natural part of life (the last part) or even something to be celebrated. But at the same time, she feels she’s died enough times for one existence and refuses to do it again. As a result, she’s adopted a philosophy of pacifism as a way to protect her own life, and is quite open about her decision not to do any fighting.
This is not to say that she’ll stand idly by while her friends are being hurt, or that she delights in anyone’s destruction. She loves all her friends and is still willing to go out of her way to help them take down the Big Bad, in a non-combat capacity. Her old feuds are long forgiven and forgotten, now that she always keeps one eye trained on the big picture. Vriska’s suicide mission, which involved using millions of innocent ghosts as bait while knowing they would be obliterated, evoked unsavory reactions in a number of other characters, but Aradia agreed it was necessary given the circumstances. Sometimes, the end justifies the means; sometimes, people have simply lived past their time; and all time loops must be tidied up eventually.
In general, much like the first time she was alive, Aradia is outgoing, friendly, warm, and open-minded toward others. It’s extremely hard to offend her or make her angry, although she won’t tolerate people who are out to harm her or her friends. It’s also hard to make her follow orders. She’s a free spirit who does what she thinks is best, regardless of chain of command or even her sense of loyalty. If she thinks something is a bad idea, she’ll say so, and/or decline to take part in it. She’s got a healthy and slightly teasing sense of humor, and doesn’t put much stock in what others think of her – although that may be partly because she doesn’t always realize that she’s doing something creepy, or that some people don’t eat bugs.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Aradia’s weapon of choice, brought with her from canon, will begin as an ordinary black leather whip. However, she has always been more of a caster class, relying on her powerful telekinesis and time powers rather than her weapon. The only time she’s actually used her whip in canon was to swing from a stalactite with it, Troll Indiana Jones style. As such, her whip will evolve in ways that support her powers and/or increase its usefulness as a tool, e.g.:
Character INVENTORY: Aradia’s sylladex operates via the Ouija fetch modus, meaning that whether she gets what she wants out of it is technically up to nearby ghosts, not her. Usually it’s just handwaved that the spirits are cooperative, but it can still be played for laughs if necessary. It contains:
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First PERSON:
[Hey Exsilium, have another troll on your video feed! She’s rather amused at her new tablet having this feature, as her other computer doesn’t, and wanted to try it out. Aradia waves at the screen, smiling brightly.]
Hello, everyone! My name is Aradia Megido and apparently I am joining your Initiative as of about twenty minutes ago. Although I won’t be doing any fighting, this is still a very interesting project you have going on, and I would be happy to lend my particular expertise – which happens to be in the field of time travel, so that works out nicely. However, I will need to return to my own universe sooner or later in order to help counter a grave threat to existence itself! I’m sure you understand.
In the meantime, though, it’s very nice to meet you all, and I hope we can be friends!
Third PERSON: Test Drive Meme
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HARGLEBARGLE
Player NAME: Kae
Current AGE: 25
Player TIME ZONE: US/Mountain
Personal JOURNAL:
tafkaeIM & SERVICE: AIM – Sennen Tafkae
Player PLURK:
Current CHARACTERS: N/A
» CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character NAME: Aradia Megido
Canon & MEDIUM: Homestuck (Webcomic)
Canon PULL-POINT: About here, so just after John disappears.
Character AGE: About 16, most likely. It’s sort of ambiguous.
Character ABILITIES: Aradia bears the in-game title of "Maid of Time," and since she’s achieved the level of God Tier, her control over the flow of time is theoretically limited only by her class (Maid, that is) and her creativity. The Maid’s exact relationship to her aspect (Time, in this case) is still ambiguous in canon, but so far it appears to be a spellcaster class. Aradia has been shown hopping backward and forward through time, as well as freezing an extremely powerful enemy in time for as long as she can concentrate, but they’re not the only things she can do with it.
She also has wicked powerful telekinesis, capable of lifting multiple tons. Despite its strength, though, it’s also possible for her to use it for delicate movements like flipping a switch, and she doesn’t need to have line-of-sight with what she’s manipulating.
Ever since she was little, she’s been able to see, hear, and (to an extent) command the spirits of the dead. Apparently, this sort of commanding can also make them visible to people who wouldn’t ordinarily be able to see them, as when she got a bunch of troll ghosts to haunt Vriska, their killer. (Since, really, it wouldn’t be much of a haunting if she didn’t know she was being haunted.)
Then, of course, there’s the standard array of God Tier abilities, including flight – in her case, with bright red sparkly fairy wings – and conditional immortality. Basically, she can be killed, but will auto-resurrect within a few minutes unless her death is either Heroic or Just. There’s no hard-and-fast measure of what counts as Heroic or Just, so it’s open to interpretation and depends on the circumstances.
Character HISTORY: (wiki link!)
Aradia was created through ectobiology in the Medium. She is most likely a paradox clone of herself, because time shenanigans. She grew up on Alternia with her lusus, where she enjoyed archaeology and extreme role-playing.
She often played a live-action game called Flarp with Tavros, Terezi, and Vriska. But one day, she got distracted by Doc Scratch at a crucial moment, and the next thing she knew, Vriska had thrown her teammate Tavros off a cliff. Against Terezi’s advice, she summoned the ghosts of Vriska’s previous victims to haunt her, in hopes she would learn to feel remorse. In retaliation, Vriska used her mind control to make Sollux eat a bunch of mind honey and go to Aradia’s hive, where his uncontrolled optic blast killed both her and her lusus.
However, Aradia stuck around for quite some time afterwards as a ghost. She continued to work with Sollux on deciphering the hieroglyphs she found in the frog temple, and he created Sgrub from them.
Eventually, twelve friends started playing the game together. Aradia prototyped her sprite with a frog head, effectively removing the Black Queen from the final battle. After she entered the Medium, she also prototyped herself, gaining all the sprite’s insider knowledge about the game. Next she brought Equius into the Medium, as his server player. She’d originally had an agreement with Vriska to do that for her, but always knew Equius would have to come first to deliver her robot body. He did, but upon inhabiting the robot body, she realized he had programmed it to have romantic feelings for him. So she did the only logical thing: ripped out her robot heart, pounded it to a pulp, beat the crap out of Equius, then kissed him.
(Why she did all that, and why she was so violent as a robot, is kind of up for debate. It could be natural viciousness inherent to the blue blood in her body, or that she could suddenly feel emotions again and was overwhelmed by their intensity, or a combination of the two. At any rate, she currently regrets kissing him.)
After that, despite previously not caring that Vriska had killed her, Aradia went to make her pay. She viciously beat her up and left her to bleed to death. (This was necessary for Vriska to become God Tier, but Aradia was definitely more brutal about it than absolutely necessary.)
She skipped ahead to the final battle between all her friends and the Black King… and so did all her robot duplicates, coming from doomed timelines that they had come back in time to prevent. It took all 1000+ of them to suppress the Black King’s Vast Glub, which if unrestrained would have killed everyone instantly.
Immediately after the battle, though, before they could claim the Ultimate Reward (spoiler alert: it was the universe they created, including Earth), Bec Noir showed up with the near-unstoppable powers of a First Guardian and a hankering to kill everything that moved. The legion of Aradiabots held him off just long enough to get everyone to (relative) safety, but was completely destroyed in the process.
After this all twelve trolls (including the single remaining Aradiabot) spent something like six hours languishing on the meteor where they’d originally been ectobiologically created. During this time, they started trolling the Earth kids. Aradia didn’t participate in that, and instead wrote a memo to send to her past and alternate selves, which of course she had already read and been following the entire game session.
Then she hugged Sollux goodbye and exploded. Why she blew herself up isn’t entirely clear, as it seems she didn’t know what would happen when she did. But in any case, at the exact moment she exploded, she was revived in the body of her dream self, lying on her Quest Slab in the center of Derse’s moon. However, since Bec Noir was annihilating Derse at the time, she instantly died. Fortunately this just meant she revived immediately, now God Tier and with a new lease on life. She used her newfound mastery over Time to freeze Noir in place, preventing him from killing her again, then used his own powers against him to escape to the Green Sun.
While waiting for everybody else to show up, she took a couple of side trips into dream bubbles and acquired some useful exposition, as well as reuniting with some dead or sleeping friends. But gradually people began to arrive at the Green Sun with her. Sollux got there first, half-blind and half-dead. Then Rose and Dave, newly resurrected themselves from dying to create the Green Sun. Then the meteor Sollux had died to propel there, and everybody aboard it. Though everyone else was headed for the humans’ scratched session, Sollux opted to stay with her in the Furthest Ring, and they gave the meteor a grand send-off together.
Ever since then, Aradia has been meandering around the dream bubbles to help the dead come to terms with their own deaths, partly for their own peace and partly so that they can ultimately help in the defeat of Lord English. Most recently, she joined the deceased Vriska’s expedition to find a secret treasure that would be key to defeating LE. At her pull point, John had just disappeared himself by fucking around with it like an idiot. Oh well!
Character PERSONALITY: Aradia’s personality is tough to sum up in a few words, as she’s had no fewer than four different ones over the course of her canon. Before she died for the first time, she was a friendly, fun-loving girl who, although plagued by the dead and their whispers of impending doom, still cared deeply about her friends and life in general. As a lingering ghost, she lost interest in basically everything except bursts of wanton destruction. Once she got her robot body, her pent-up frustration and anger were (for whichever reason) amplified to the point where Karkat started calling her a “tin can psychopath.” Now that she’s reached God Tier, though, she has a new lease on life, and is much more like the friendly, optimistic young girl she originally was.
Aradia is extraordinarily sunny and cheerful – often to the point of being a little creepy, especially when it comes to the subject of death. Partly because she’s experienced so much of it, she views death rather differently than everyone else does, seeing it as a natural part of life (the last part) or even something to be celebrated. But at the same time, she feels she’s died enough times for one existence and refuses to do it again. As a result, she’s adopted a philosophy of pacifism as a way to protect her own life, and is quite open about her decision not to do any fighting.
This is not to say that she’ll stand idly by while her friends are being hurt, or that she delights in anyone’s destruction. She loves all her friends and is still willing to go out of her way to help them take down the Big Bad, in a non-combat capacity. Her old feuds are long forgiven and forgotten, now that she always keeps one eye trained on the big picture. Vriska’s suicide mission, which involved using millions of innocent ghosts as bait while knowing they would be obliterated, evoked unsavory reactions in a number of other characters, but Aradia agreed it was necessary given the circumstances. Sometimes, the end justifies the means; sometimes, people have simply lived past their time; and all time loops must be tidied up eventually.
In general, much like the first time she was alive, Aradia is outgoing, friendly, warm, and open-minded toward others. It’s extremely hard to offend her or make her angry, although she won’t tolerate people who are out to harm her or her friends. It’s also hard to make her follow orders. She’s a free spirit who does what she thinks is best, regardless of chain of command or even her sense of loyalty. If she thinks something is a bad idea, she’ll say so, and/or decline to take part in it. She’s got a healthy and slightly teasing sense of humor, and doesn’t put much stock in what others think of her – although that may be partly because she doesn’t always realize that she’s doing something creepy, or that some people don’t eat bugs.
» EXSILIUM INFORMATION
Chosen WEAPON: Aradia’s weapon of choice, brought with her from canon, will begin as an ordinary black leather whip. However, she has always been more of a caster class, relying on her powerful telekinesis and time powers rather than her weapon. The only time she’s actually used her whip in canon was to swing from a stalactite with it, Troll Indiana Jones style. As such, her whip will evolve in ways that support her powers and/or increase its usefulness as a tool, e.g.:
- Becomes extendable/retractable.
- Gains inherent bonus to accuracy, reducing the need to aim.
- Gains inherent bonus to grappling, increasing its ability to snare, trip, disarm, etc.
- Gains the ability to hit targets somewhat outside its physical range without touching them.
- Gains the ability, through time shenanigans, to hit targets a second or two before actually touching them. Might function as a double strike.
- Eventually, it would become a telekinetic focus, increasing the potential for variety in her attacks. Normally in a fight Aradia uses her telekinesis as unfiltered brute force, which, while effective, is not very precise or interesting. This would allow her to perform maneuvers like ranged slicing, localized sonic booms (like the ones produced by an ordinary whip crack, only more explosive), and punching more precise holes in things.
Character INVENTORY: Aradia’s sylladex operates via the Ouija fetch modus, meaning that whether she gets what she wants out of it is technically up to nearby ghosts, not her. Usually it’s just handwaved that the spirits are cooperative, but it can still be played for laughs if necessary. It contains:
- her Crosbytop (a laptop that looks like Bing Crosby)
- one broken robot arm
- several bags of Doritos (Nacho Cheesier)
- one bottle of apple juice
- a jar of fireflies
- two red helium balloons
» PREVIOUS GAME INFORMATION ( IF APPLICABLE )
Previous GAME(s): N/A
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First PERSON:
[Hey Exsilium, have another troll on your video feed! She’s rather amused at her new tablet having this feature, as her other computer doesn’t, and wanted to try it out. Aradia waves at the screen, smiling brightly.]
Hello, everyone! My name is Aradia Megido and apparently I am joining your Initiative as of about twenty minutes ago. Although I won’t be doing any fighting, this is still a very interesting project you have going on, and I would be happy to lend my particular expertise – which happens to be in the field of time travel, so that works out nicely. However, I will need to return to my own universe sooner or later in order to help counter a grave threat to existence itself! I’m sure you understand.
In the meantime, though, it’s very nice to meet you all, and I hope we can be friends!
Third PERSON: Test Drive Meme
» ADDITIONAL NOTES
HARGLEBARGLE