Meridian App
PLAYER INFO
Name: Ky
Main Journal: Kylie_gmc -rarely used
Contact Info: Aim @ Swirlingflight; Skype @ Swirlingflight; Plurk @ Swirlingflight
Played Characters: n/a
AC Reminders: A private plurk's the best way.
CHARACTER INFO
Name: Kanaya Maryam
Age: 6 solar sweeps; approximately 13 earth years old
Species: Troll
Series: Homestuck
OU/AU: OU
Canon Point: At the end of [s]Return To The Core, after the full animation.
History: From the wiki
Personality: Kanaya Maryam is somewhat unusual among the trolls, even with each being as different as they are.
She lives primarily in the sunlight, though her species is nocturnal---sunlight is dangerous enough to most trolls that viewing the sun directly blinded one of her peers. Thanks to her rare blood color, she was raised by the nearly unprecedented virgin Mother Grub; her Lusus, the creature that served as her guardian since her youth, was one of the creatures that lays the eggs that eventually develop into trolls and who renounced that duty in order to raise her.
She is also unusually interested in aesthetics. It ranges from her fashionable attire, clothing-making, home design, topiary art and landscaping. Her favorite books are romance and "rainbow drinker" stories, seemingly akin to vampire romance novels such as the Twilight books... indicating her simultaneous interest in the dynamics of being a social outlier and of the delights in surreptitious romance.
Kanaya tries to make those around her be happy and get long with others more easily. Peoples' problems are often due to having assumptions and acting on them. She listens enough to understand the situation, and encourages people to examine their assumptions by asking very leading questions, usually starting with "Have you considered that...?" Typically her aid is purely given through advice and suggestions. On more rare occasions she intervenes more directly, abruptly, and violently. Her chainsaw gets involved more than once.
She has a history of being an auspistice, essentially acting as a mediator between those whose relationships are growing inappropriately hateful. Multiple of her peers, especially her ex-moirail Vriska, refer to her as meddlesome. However Kanaya is neither meddlesome nor a mediator. She is helpful. Helpful, dammit! Even if the more reckless and dangerous of her friends and peers never can be helped. After all, they have to be willing to talk with her and describe what they're feeling, for her to offer relevant advice.
Throughout Hivebent, Kanaya prefers to seem calm, collected, and stable. She takes care with her words to choose those directly communicating what she means, she seeks to guide her friends and allies safely through their trials, and undertaking whatever unpleasant actions she must. This calm is to some degree a facade, as she had multiple sources of information about the future, between the cloud-visions in her dreams and her access to the walk-through that Rose Lalonde wrote. When she is truly surprised, her reactions are more abrupt and emotional.
A consistent way to irritate Kanaya is to make a fool of her. Whether by counter-trolling her, requesting needless side projects from her in order to divert her attention, or creating an obscene spectacle when she could be seen observing, Kanaya responds irritably.
Powers:
+ Wielding a chainsaw, be it for topiary design, impromptu amputations, or fighting
+ Evidently capable of rising as an undead rainbow drinker shortly after death under certain kinds of circumstances. My understanding is that it would take being killed by some kind of white magic, like FF's Holy or the Science Stick of her canon.
+ Fashion, design and tailoring
Weaknesses:
- Understanding unfamiliar sarcasm
- Revolving around reckless women and their wants in life
- *Not* offering advice to her friends
Possessions: Strife Specibus: Makeupkind. Any make-up, especially that which could be wielded as a weapon, can be stored in a subspace within this.
Innocuous Object: Lipstick that can provide black or green coloration. It has the ability to change into a chainsaw. The chainsaw is the highest level one she was able to make, and is capable of cleanly cutting through bone.
Chastity Modus: Allows the storage of items within a kind of subspace. Doing so is problematic, as they can only be retrieved when the time is "right," by a reasoning outside her control. The difficulty of accessing things was part of a long-running joke... Actually using it may not be as restrictive as that description implies.
Wardrobifier: Has a variety of tasteful outfits, primarily involving tops and skirts, that she can switch between at a moment's notice. Doing so is a simple way to change into clean/dry clothing.
Marking Location: The middle of her torso, around where a belly button would be on a typical human.
Miscellaneous: In canon, Kanaya apparently goes through a metamorphosis after dying and becomes a rainbow drinker---the rough equivalent her species has for a vampire. Being brought to Meridian and revived just as she was dying would interrupt that. She is still a relatively ordinary, albeit jade-blooded and sunlight-resistant, troll.
Kanaya speaks in a very precise and even-toned manner, using anything ranging from long sentences of large and unusual words to one word slang remarks; whatever is needed to most accurately convey her meaning. Some conversation conventions, like emoticons to depict mood and ellipses to denote silence, she uses only when she announces their use ahead of time.
Her Even Toned Manner Is Conveyed In Her Typing Quirk By Capitalizing Every Word
She Also Doesnt Typically Use Punctuation
As with the majority of trolls, Kanaya uses her blood color as the font of her text when using any messenger program. But since messenger programs don't exist in Meridian, people will be spared that.
First Person:
I didn't put much thought into what dying would be like. But if I expected anything, it wasn't to feel like I'm still alive, or to be in a strange place like this. This doesn't seem like the Veil at all.
Maybe I mistakenly fell asleep at some point, despite the standing orders. With how troubled Karkat's dreams apparently were, experiencing a friend murdering me seems to fit what our dreams must be like now, without a recuperacoon or dream self...
I would rather believe that.
Third Person:
Kanaya's eyes narrowed in concentration as she stared into the screen of the computer that Sollux had helpfully set up for them. Her fingers moved as she scrolled up and down, looking for a new clue, but none revealed themselves to her.
For herself and the other trolls, scrolling up their timelines revealed the strange swirling lines. Within each of the human's timelines, she could watch until the scratch---all of them except Rose.
The Human Rose, she thought, remembering Karkat's insistence that the trolls maintain a scornful facade in their interactions with the humans. She smiled briefly at the memory. The smile faded as she stared at a moment of frozen time, the one in which the view of Rose turned to black. There was no apparent explanation for it, aside from implications that the dark powers were responsible. Which they probably were, but it was hardly a satisfactory answer. Kanaya wanted to understand and to know if it was potentially reversible.
She considered the possible sources. It seemed that, of her fellow trolls, she was the primary one to speak with the tentacleTherapist. Most likely none of them would know anything more than she did. This left her with questioning the humans. John was even stupider than her initial impression of Rose had been. Dave was deliberately frustrating, to a degree that even surpassed Rose. This left the fourth of their group, Jade.
Kanaya contemplated Jade's timeline, looking for an ideal time to start the interrogation from, and opened a new Trollian window.