Application: Mostly Harmless
OOC:
Name: Claire
Are you over 16?: Yep.
Personal LJ: dunkass
Email: aradiab0t@aol.com
Timezone: EST (GMT - 5)
Other contact: AIM: Aradiab0t
Characters already in the game: None
How did you find us?: There was a recruiter asking for Homestuck characters on rpanoncomm and dear-mun.
IC:
Character name: Aradia Megido
Fandom: Homestuck
Timeline: After entering the Veil
Age: Was approximately 13-14 in Earth years at the time of her death.
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: This character is telekinetic (the telekinesis is generated by her chassis and was not a trait inherent to her before death). She can lift items without touching them, including herself. If she can apply enough kinetic energy to an object, she can make it explode from a distance. She can apparently hear the voices of the dead. And, of course, she packs a powerful punch.
How would they use their abilities?: Aradia rarely takes the initiative to do anything. She uses her abilities merely as a reaction/self-defense. If she or a friend is in danger, or if she or a friend has been attacked, she will fight. Otherwise, she doesn't actively look for reasons to float/blow shit up/talk to the dead. Really.
Appearance: A humanoid robot with bright red eyes, synthetic gray hair, and the blue zodiac sign for Aries printed on her torso. Her head is adorned with the horns of a ram. She arbitrarily wears a black wraparound skirt.
Background: Once upon a time, there was a planet called Alternia.
Then it got blown up.
But before that, on this planet, there lived a horned, gray-skinned species who liked to call themselves "trolls." One of these young aliens was Aradia Megido, an adventure-crazed, silly girl raised by a loving, ram-like creature known as a lusus. Aradia enjoyed archaeological digs and live-action role-playing with her friends. At some point in her early youth, she discovered she possessed the ability to hear the long-lost voices of the dead. Psychic powers like these were apparently typical of some trolls, specifically those lower on the hemospectrum (an Alternian caste system determined by blood color; implement the roygbiv sequence for the visible spectrum and you immediately get the sequence of castes from lowest caste to highest).
While roaming through old planetary ruins one day, Aradia discovered an old piece of coding that looked like the blueprints to a video game. Aradia gave the coding to her friend Sollux, a skilled computer programmer. The two decided to look into the game's reconstruction at a later point in time.
As mentioned earlier, however, one of Aradia's biggest hobbies was live-action role-playing. During a role-playing session gone wrong, Aradia's friend Tavros was left crippled. Specifically, he had been manipulated by Vriska Serket, a friend of theirs with mind control powers, into throwing himself off of a cliff. The incident left Tavros confined to a wheelchair. Aradia, Tavros' friend and role-playing partner, was not pleased.
Determined to avenge Tavros, Aradia spoke with the departed souls of Alternians whom Vriska had previously killed in order to feed them to her own parental guardian, a lusus in the form of a giant, monstrous spider whose food source consisted of nothing but children. Aradia convinced the ghosts of these slain children to haunt Vriska, seemingly in a bid to imbue Vriska with some newfound remorse. The attempt failed. In retaliation, Vriska suddenly sought vengeance against Aradia. Vriska took control of the mind of Sollux Captor (earlier mentioned to be Aradia's friend) and manipulated him into killing her.
Aradia's lingering spirit continued communicating with her friends, but no longer with the passion or emotion she had possessed while alive. Presumably, Aradia and Sollux went through an awkward patch, though we are not shown this sequence of events. (We are shown, however, that Aradia later seeks double-vengeance against Vriska in a wraparound ordeal that makes it seem as though their enmity towards one another will continue in a perpetual cycle.) At some point, from the coding Aradia had previously uncovered, Sollux recreated a video game called Sgrub, an immersive MMORPG that initially seemed harmless. As Aradia and her friends entered the game and proceeded along its levels, however, they learned that the game was actually a sinister means of creating new universes by destroying old ones. The minute Aradia and her friends had entered Sgrub, Alternia was destroyed, and the twelve of them were all that remained of their species.
In order to better facilitate her mobility, Aradia's friend Equius then built for her a robot chassis which she could inhabit at will. This is the form Aradia uses for the rest of the series.
Aradia and her friends proceeded through the MMORPG in the hopes of creating a new universe on the ashes of their own, then entering that universe and living in peace. Though the young trolls were successful at creating a new universe, a glitch in the game--caused by a different group of players' gaming session--prevented them from entering that universe, and the Alternians were forced to flee to a section of the game known as "The Veil," a strip of meteors that served as a divider between galaxies, while the glitch slowly spread across all of Sgrub and threatened to destroy everything in its wake. The de facto leader of the trolls, Karkat Vantas, decided to come into contact with the humans responsible for the glitch and talk them backwards in time through their Sgrub session in the hopes that he would be able to undo the damage they'd caused. Aradia declared that she would not partake in this plan.
Personality: Aradia Megido was a very friendly, outgoing girl. An adventurous sort, she loved mimicking Indiana Jones (or the Alternian equivalent of Indian Jones), complete with hat and whip and excavation attempts. Headstrong, and a tiny bit impulsive, she would have done anything for her friends, especially going the extra mile to avenge one of them when they were wronged. That was before she died, however.
Though Aradia still managed to exist in a ghost form, dying apparently took a negative toll on Aradia. Either she became traumatized by her own death, or dying disconnected her from the feelings she had possessed while alive; but in either case, Aradia's lingering soul/spirit suddenly became devoid of emotion, to the extent where she could no longer remember what it felt like to feel in the first place. Her ghost ceased expressing interest in the subjects she used to enjoy with deep passion. Nor was her ghost capable of anger, hatred, or sorrow toward its present predicament. The ghost was, for all intents and purposes, a cold, empty robot. And then the ghost actually began inhabiting a robot--built for her by her friend Equius--but even this new body did not restore Aradia's lost emotions.
Still, there have been occasions when Aradia is hinted to retain a semblance of sentience somewhere inside her metallic shell. When faced with her murderer again, she displays an uncharacteristic rage and proceeds to savagely beat her murderer to the brink of death. When she discovered that the boy who built her robot body for her, Equius Zahhak, had implanted within her an artificial heart with a personality chip for the purpose of trying to make her love him, she ripped the artificial heart out of her chest, crushed it, smacked Equius repeatedly, and then proceeded to kiss him. All of her own accord and independent of meddlesome programming. In her culture, there is a form of hate so strong that it turns into unbridled love, and Aradia is hinted to possess that form of love for Equius. This leads to further discrepancy as to whether or not she can actually feel emotion. In light of her behavior toward Equius, it seems more likely that she has simply forgotten how to feel rather than become incapable of feeling, and certain events trigger memories of lost sensations.
Aradia is obsessed with spirits, specifically ghosts. She is also obsessed with the concept of inevitability. If something happens, it's because it was meant to happen. Do not meddle with fate. In fact, if you can, do everything in your power to make sure fate realizes itself. (Which...is sort of meddling with fate, so that makes her a hypocrite.) She claims not to care about anything, and she will repeatedly make sure you know about her all-encompassing apathy, but she's probably not entirely as apathetic as she claims to be. On the contrary, she is shown to be quite silly, professing her love for "smashing things" and ribbiting at inopportune times. While she claims she can't control when she ribbits, this claim is debunked in a later update.
Give her access to a computer, or anything remotely like it, and Aradia obnoxiously finds a way to reformat the default font settings as per her preferences. She replaces all o's with 0's, perhaps in a melodramatic attempt to convey how "empty" she is. She frequently utilizes a zero-eyed emoticon (specifically: 0_0), and she apparently finds punctuation and capitalization to be superfluous, as she uses neither in online conversation.
She is described as being "mopey" by Karkat Vantas, further indicating a possible level of melodrama to her emotionlessness, and though she claims to have no interest in life or living beings, she all too readily refers to the other characters as her friends.
Have you read up on how the game works?: Characters communicate via the FlamingFerret client. Characters can earn money by accepting missions, pickpocketing, or opening their own businesses.
1st person sample:
[If the typing quirk is discouraged here, because I understand the colored/bolded Courier can annoy non-Homestuck fans, please let me know. I will gladly exclude it from future posts to the comm.]
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[It starts as video feed; a recording of a single, bright red eye, seemingly mechanical in nature. The feed suddenly zooms out to reveal half of a face; sleek metal, robotic but humanoid. The feed pulls back further still, and it becomes evident that the video is being recorded from the dolphin pool. Aww, look! One of the cute little guys is doing a flip in the background for your viewing pleasure.]
[Yeah, okay. The video abruptly ends and switches to text.]
0_0
the spirits sp0ke n0thing 0f the pr0bability 0f this event
this must be an illusion 0f s0me s0rt
im n0t buying it
0k
well
i d0nt really care
[The text ends there. But...the audio setting must still be turned on. Strain your ears and you'll hear it: a single, low-pitched ribbit. ...What the hell is a frog doing there?]
3rd person sample:
...And just as she finished her first ever FlamingFerret transmission, Aradia Megido aimlessly sat down by the shallow end of the swimming pool to watch the dolphins at play.
She was, in fact, a robot. Humanoid in every aspect, except for the sleek chrome of her "skin" and the seams holding together the angles of her face; the synthetic woolen gray hair hanging from her artificial scalp and the unsettling red hue of her eyes; the curled horns protruding from just above her temples. Her chest did not expand and contract with breath; nor did her eyes blink, nor move in any direction whatsoever.
So this was a ship. A ship out in the middle of a galaxy whose name Aradia had never heard of, apparently large enough to house an entire city. During her earlier exploration, Aradia had experimentally destroyed a large chunk of one of the walls with her hands. The wall had grown back. Curious. But she couldn't bring herself to properly question the regenerative properties of this mammoth of a vehicle floating through the cosmos. She didn't really care.
...And she had been told, by apparently one of the "natives" here (could a ship of this nature really have "natives"?), that her universe was destroyed. This was not news to the ghost-in-the-machine. She had been one of the parties directly responsible for the death of her home. She had long since reconciled herself with the fact that Alternia was gone because of her own folly, and it wasn't coming back.
But--
They spoke of a factory of sorts, too, the people aboard this ship. A place that could revive lost galaxies wholesale. Was something like that even possible, outside of the Sgrub game engine? The spirits with whom Aradia would frequently commune--the whispering voices of the dead--they had never before spoken of such a thing. Aradia wasn't sure what to feel towards this piece of new information. The prospect of going home some day soon; what did that instill in her? Curiosity, suspicion, indifference, hope...
When she thought about it--really thought about it--even when she tried to muster up new emotions from the memories of old ones, she felt nothing.
And that itself made her feel disappointed.
Questions?: No.
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: Yes!
Name: Claire
Are you over 16?: Yep.
Personal LJ: dunkass
Email: aradiab0t@aol.com
Timezone: EST (GMT - 5)
Other contact: AIM: Aradiab0t
Characters already in the game: None
How did you find us?: There was a recruiter asking for Homestuck characters on rpanoncomm and dear-mun.
IC:
Character name: Aradia Megido
Fandom: Homestuck
Timeline: After entering the Veil
Age: Was approximately 13-14 in Earth years at the time of her death.
~*Magical*~ abilities and strengths: This character is telekinetic (the telekinesis is generated by her chassis and was not a trait inherent to her before death). She can lift items without touching them, including herself. If she can apply enough kinetic energy to an object, she can make it explode from a distance. She can apparently hear the voices of the dead. And, of course, she packs a powerful punch.
How would they use their abilities?: Aradia rarely takes the initiative to do anything. She uses her abilities merely as a reaction/self-defense. If she or a friend is in danger, or if she or a friend has been attacked, she will fight. Otherwise, she doesn't actively look for reasons to float/blow shit up/talk to the dead. Really.
Appearance: A humanoid robot with bright red eyes, synthetic gray hair, and the blue zodiac sign for Aries printed on her torso. Her head is adorned with the horns of a ram. She arbitrarily wears a black wraparound skirt.
Background: Once upon a time, there was a planet called Alternia.
Then it got blown up.
But before that, on this planet, there lived a horned, gray-skinned species who liked to call themselves "trolls." One of these young aliens was Aradia Megido, an adventure-crazed, silly girl raised by a loving, ram-like creature known as a lusus. Aradia enjoyed archaeological digs and live-action role-playing with her friends. At some point in her early youth, she discovered she possessed the ability to hear the long-lost voices of the dead. Psychic powers like these were apparently typical of some trolls, specifically those lower on the hemospectrum (an Alternian caste system determined by blood color; implement the roygbiv sequence for the visible spectrum and you immediately get the sequence of castes from lowest caste to highest).
While roaming through old planetary ruins one day, Aradia discovered an old piece of coding that looked like the blueprints to a video game. Aradia gave the coding to her friend Sollux, a skilled computer programmer. The two decided to look into the game's reconstruction at a later point in time.
As mentioned earlier, however, one of Aradia's biggest hobbies was live-action role-playing. During a role-playing session gone wrong, Aradia's friend Tavros was left crippled. Specifically, he had been manipulated by Vriska Serket, a friend of theirs with mind control powers, into throwing himself off of a cliff. The incident left Tavros confined to a wheelchair. Aradia, Tavros' friend and role-playing partner, was not pleased.
Determined to avenge Tavros, Aradia spoke with the departed souls of Alternians whom Vriska had previously killed in order to feed them to her own parental guardian, a lusus in the form of a giant, monstrous spider whose food source consisted of nothing but children. Aradia convinced the ghosts of these slain children to haunt Vriska, seemingly in a bid to imbue Vriska with some newfound remorse. The attempt failed. In retaliation, Vriska suddenly sought vengeance against Aradia. Vriska took control of the mind of Sollux Captor (earlier mentioned to be Aradia's friend) and manipulated him into killing her.
Aradia's lingering spirit continued communicating with her friends, but no longer with the passion or emotion she had possessed while alive. Presumably, Aradia and Sollux went through an awkward patch, though we are not shown this sequence of events. (We are shown, however, that Aradia later seeks double-vengeance against Vriska in a wraparound ordeal that makes it seem as though their enmity towards one another will continue in a perpetual cycle.) At some point, from the coding Aradia had previously uncovered, Sollux recreated a video game called Sgrub, an immersive MMORPG that initially seemed harmless. As Aradia and her friends entered the game and proceeded along its levels, however, they learned that the game was actually a sinister means of creating new universes by destroying old ones. The minute Aradia and her friends had entered Sgrub, Alternia was destroyed, and the twelve of them were all that remained of their species.
In order to better facilitate her mobility, Aradia's friend Equius then built for her a robot chassis which she could inhabit at will. This is the form Aradia uses for the rest of the series.
Aradia and her friends proceeded through the MMORPG in the hopes of creating a new universe on the ashes of their own, then entering that universe and living in peace. Though the young trolls were successful at creating a new universe, a glitch in the game--caused by a different group of players' gaming session--prevented them from entering that universe, and the Alternians were forced to flee to a section of the game known as "The Veil," a strip of meteors that served as a divider between galaxies, while the glitch slowly spread across all of Sgrub and threatened to destroy everything in its wake. The de facto leader of the trolls, Karkat Vantas, decided to come into contact with the humans responsible for the glitch and talk them backwards in time through their Sgrub session in the hopes that he would be able to undo the damage they'd caused. Aradia declared that she would not partake in this plan.
Personality: Aradia Megido was a very friendly, outgoing girl. An adventurous sort, she loved mimicking Indiana Jones (or the Alternian equivalent of Indian Jones), complete with hat and whip and excavation attempts. Headstrong, and a tiny bit impulsive, she would have done anything for her friends, especially going the extra mile to avenge one of them when they were wronged. That was before she died, however.
Though Aradia still managed to exist in a ghost form, dying apparently took a negative toll on Aradia. Either she became traumatized by her own death, or dying disconnected her from the feelings she had possessed while alive; but in either case, Aradia's lingering soul/spirit suddenly became devoid of emotion, to the extent where she could no longer remember what it felt like to feel in the first place. Her ghost ceased expressing interest in the subjects she used to enjoy with deep passion. Nor was her ghost capable of anger, hatred, or sorrow toward its present predicament. The ghost was, for all intents and purposes, a cold, empty robot. And then the ghost actually began inhabiting a robot--built for her by her friend Equius--but even this new body did not restore Aradia's lost emotions.
Still, there have been occasions when Aradia is hinted to retain a semblance of sentience somewhere inside her metallic shell. When faced with her murderer again, she displays an uncharacteristic rage and proceeds to savagely beat her murderer to the brink of death. When she discovered that the boy who built her robot body for her, Equius Zahhak, had implanted within her an artificial heart with a personality chip for the purpose of trying to make her love him, she ripped the artificial heart out of her chest, crushed it, smacked Equius repeatedly, and then proceeded to kiss him. All of her own accord and independent of meddlesome programming. In her culture, there is a form of hate so strong that it turns into unbridled love, and Aradia is hinted to possess that form of love for Equius. This leads to further discrepancy as to whether or not she can actually feel emotion. In light of her behavior toward Equius, it seems more likely that she has simply forgotten how to feel rather than become incapable of feeling, and certain events trigger memories of lost sensations.
Aradia is obsessed with spirits, specifically ghosts. She is also obsessed with the concept of inevitability. If something happens, it's because it was meant to happen. Do not meddle with fate. In fact, if you can, do everything in your power to make sure fate realizes itself. (Which...is sort of meddling with fate, so that makes her a hypocrite.) She claims not to care about anything, and she will repeatedly make sure you know about her all-encompassing apathy, but she's probably not entirely as apathetic as she claims to be. On the contrary, she is shown to be quite silly, professing her love for "smashing things" and ribbiting at inopportune times. While she claims she can't control when she ribbits, this claim is debunked in a later update.
Give her access to a computer, or anything remotely like it, and Aradia obnoxiously finds a way to reformat the default font settings as per her preferences. She replaces all o's with 0's, perhaps in a melodramatic attempt to convey how "empty" she is. She frequently utilizes a zero-eyed emoticon (specifically: 0_0), and she apparently finds punctuation and capitalization to be superfluous, as she uses neither in online conversation.
She is described as being "mopey" by Karkat Vantas, further indicating a possible level of melodrama to her emotionlessness, and though she claims to have no interest in life or living beings, she all too readily refers to the other characters as her friends.
Have you read up on how the game works?: Characters communicate via the FlamingFerret client. Characters can earn money by accepting missions, pickpocketing, or opening their own businesses.
1st person sample:
[If the typing quirk is discouraged here, because I understand the colored/bolded Courier can annoy non-Homestuck fans, please let me know. I will gladly exclude it from future posts to the comm.]
---
[It starts as video feed; a recording of a single, bright red eye, seemingly mechanical in nature. The feed suddenly zooms out to reveal half of a face; sleek metal, robotic but humanoid. The feed pulls back further still, and it becomes evident that the video is being recorded from the dolphin pool. Aww, look! One of the cute little guys is doing a flip in the background for your viewing pleasure.]
[Yeah, okay. The video abruptly ends and switches to text.]
0_0
the spirits sp0ke n0thing 0f the pr0bability 0f this event
this must be an illusion 0f s0me s0rt
im n0t buying it
0k
well
i d0nt really care
[The text ends there. But...the audio setting must still be turned on. Strain your ears and you'll hear it: a single, low-pitched ribbit. ...What the hell is a frog doing there?]
3rd person sample:
...And just as she finished her first ever FlamingFerret transmission, Aradia Megido aimlessly sat down by the shallow end of the swimming pool to watch the dolphins at play.
She was, in fact, a robot. Humanoid in every aspect, except for the sleek chrome of her "skin" and the seams holding together the angles of her face; the synthetic woolen gray hair hanging from her artificial scalp and the unsettling red hue of her eyes; the curled horns protruding from just above her temples. Her chest did not expand and contract with breath; nor did her eyes blink, nor move in any direction whatsoever.
So this was a ship. A ship out in the middle of a galaxy whose name Aradia had never heard of, apparently large enough to house an entire city. During her earlier exploration, Aradia had experimentally destroyed a large chunk of one of the walls with her hands. The wall had grown back. Curious. But she couldn't bring herself to properly question the regenerative properties of this mammoth of a vehicle floating through the cosmos. She didn't really care.
...And she had been told, by apparently one of the "natives" here (could a ship of this nature really have "natives"?), that her universe was destroyed. This was not news to the ghost-in-the-machine. She had been one of the parties directly responsible for the death of her home. She had long since reconciled herself with the fact that Alternia was gone because of her own folly, and it wasn't coming back.
But--
They spoke of a factory of sorts, too, the people aboard this ship. A place that could revive lost galaxies wholesale. Was something like that even possible, outside of the Sgrub game engine? The spirits with whom Aradia would frequently commune--the whispering voices of the dead--they had never before spoken of such a thing. Aradia wasn't sure what to feel towards this piece of new information. The prospect of going home some day soon; what did that instill in her? Curiosity, suspicion, indifference, hope...
When she thought about it--really thought about it--even when she tried to muster up new emotions from the memories of old ones, she felt nothing.
And that itself made her feel disappointed.
Questions?: No.
Did you put your characters name and fandom in the subject: Yes!