Tier Three App for Reference
Nov. 21st, 2019 03:33 pmCharacter Name: Terezi Pyrope (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mindseer)
Canon: Homestuck
Level Three Power: Her Powers, Level 3 is True Smelling
Activity Requirement:
First Proof: LINK - 11/05/2019 - Asterios (beefaroni) - 19 Net Tags by Terezi
Second Proof: LINK - 12/10/2019 - Asterios (beefaroni) - 16 Log Tag by Terezi
Third Proof: LINK - 12/06/2019 - Sora (keybearing) - 13 Net Tags by Terezi
Fourth Proof: LINK - 12/10/2019 - Chizuru Yukimira (tealeafs) - 15 Net Tags by Terezi
Fifth Proof: LINK - 10/29/2019 - Naminé (lethechained) [Present in Tier 2 App] - 15 Log Tags by Terezi
Written Requirement:
As with the previous developments, there's been three primary angles of development related to Terezi's growth within the setting and her investment in the broader Asgard/ties to her faction and friends in town:
A) Valuing Her Own Life -
In her threads with Naminé & Chizuru, a pattern is laid out that has persisted over the last nearly six to nine months. Terezi, in canon, is fairly well known like most of the trolls for taking considerable risks and being very aggressive when provoked to anger. It makes her take foolhardy risks that ultimately lead to her engaging in fights that lead to her demise. Since she's come to Asgard, not only canon mates (Karkat Vantas and Dave Strider while present) but characters like Naminé, Chizuru and Peter Quinn have put a very distinct effort into convincing her that her life matters, and that she shouldn't take foolish risks with this. It has led her not to going quite as deep into heavy fighting as she did in the first major battle with the great dragon (riding bareback behind Ivar the Boneless and directly assaulting the thing by stabbing while between its legs), but rather to moving into more of a supporting role. In the confrontation with the frozen horde and the wraiths, she did enter the fray, but hung back as a supporting 'sniffer' to help pin-point wraiths for others to kill using her level 2 powers, rather than directly engaging or taking the insane risk of scouting deep into enemy territory as she personally wanted to. This is how she returns to Naminé in the above thread alive, but injured. It further develops in later threads, with her serving entirely in support rather than entering the main confrontation with the DmC hordes of hell, remaining back to assist in building bulwarks rather than entering a fight she couldn't properly support.
B) Intentionality in Communicating with Others/Mentoring Those In Need -
Terezi is somewhat infamous in her canon for being a demented and terrible teacher. In canon, she 'took Dave under her wing,' though the result of this was that she frequently sought out ways to get him killed, forcing him to use his time manipulation powers to avoid the death. She was occasionally helpful, but more often just a troll. Because of the goading of her moirail, Naminé, Peter and others she's attempted to turn over a new leaf, particularly with newer arrivals. While she's still tempted to try and tease and troll newbies, she's taken them more explicitly under her wing to attempt to help them settle into life in Asgard. Probably the most noteable example of this was Asterios. The berserker has next to no social skills, and would potentially be an 'easy mark' in her mind, but rather than trolling him actively, she's been taking her time to try and offer him assistance in learning battle tactics that could help him be more than a brute-force fighter when not in the middle of a battle rage, and more importantly has been helping him learn to read off and on, teaching him words (And even making sure he understands the difference between troll words and human english words) and helping to increase his vocabulary.
She's taking it upon herself at this point, when she sees a new person, to maybe poke a little fun if she's certain that they can take it, but mostly to make sure that they're on the same page as everyone else. It shows a level of development that drags her out of her violent and dangerous behavior in the past and more towards being a productive team player and a useful mentor to newer arrivals.
C) Coping with Loss/Self-Esteem improvement/Helping others cope -
In a lot of ways, this is a direct development of her previous growth listed in Tier 2. Where previously she was forced to cope with the fact that Vriska was gone and had not appeared here (meaning that the friend she had JUST made peace with in canon was now dead and she wasn't, and building survivor guilt onto someone who already struggled with depression), now she had to lose two other friends, her only ones from home that were present in Asgard, Dave and Karkat. It was in some ways a test of whether or not she had built the support network she had begun to seek in Asgard with the loss of Vriska and its sting, and whether she could handle it again, and even be supportive of others in turn.
Chizuru and Sora, along with most of her cast, have been important in this. Both Dave and Karkat disappeared to return home right around the start of December, around the same time that most of the remainder of Sora's own friends from home disappeared. This has given Terezi an opportunity to clear up and open up about her own circumstances, that any friend she loses here is a friend she will never see again even if she returns, as she's effectively dead within seconds of her return. Partings are permanent ones to her, and she's been forced to make peace with this, which has led her to actively wish to help the kingdom build itself up as much out of a sense of self preservation as any. At this point, however, she's also been seeking and counseling, helping others whose friends have disappeared (A level of empathy she isn't generally known for in canon, but which is not out of the realm of possibility for those closest to her, showing that she's been opening up to people in Asgard). She counsels Sora about the loss of his friends, and at the same time receives support from Chizuru (along with Peter and Ivar, not listed above as they're also on the previous power upgrade request and I kept that to one repeat this time.), helping her to cope both with her situation, and to continue to see herself as worth caring about, rather than falling into the depressive states that the character canonically struggles with. She has yet to collapse into inebriated stupors, as she sometimes did in canon, in large part due to the support of her CR in Asgard.
mindseer)Canon: Homestuck
Level Three Power: Her Powers, Level 3 is True Smelling
Activity Requirement:
First Proof: LINK - 11/05/2019 - Asterios (
beefaroni) - 19 Net Tags by TereziSecond Proof: LINK - 12/10/2019 - Asterios (
beefaroni) - 16 Log Tag by TereziThird Proof: LINK - 12/06/2019 - Sora (
keybearing) - 13 Net Tags by TereziFourth Proof: LINK - 12/10/2019 - Chizuru Yukimira (
tealeafs) - 15 Net Tags by TereziFifth Proof: LINK - 10/29/2019 - Naminé (
lethechained) [Present in Tier 2 App] - 15 Log Tags by TereziWritten Requirement:
As with the previous developments, there's been three primary angles of development related to Terezi's growth within the setting and her investment in the broader Asgard/ties to her faction and friends in town:
A) Valuing Her Own Life -
In her threads with Naminé & Chizuru, a pattern is laid out that has persisted over the last nearly six to nine months. Terezi, in canon, is fairly well known like most of the trolls for taking considerable risks and being very aggressive when provoked to anger. It makes her take foolhardy risks that ultimately lead to her engaging in fights that lead to her demise. Since she's come to Asgard, not only canon mates (Karkat Vantas and Dave Strider while present) but characters like Naminé, Chizuru and Peter Quinn have put a very distinct effort into convincing her that her life matters, and that she shouldn't take foolish risks with this. It has led her not to going quite as deep into heavy fighting as she did in the first major battle with the great dragon (riding bareback behind Ivar the Boneless and directly assaulting the thing by stabbing while between its legs), but rather to moving into more of a supporting role. In the confrontation with the frozen horde and the wraiths, she did enter the fray, but hung back as a supporting 'sniffer' to help pin-point wraiths for others to kill using her level 2 powers, rather than directly engaging or taking the insane risk of scouting deep into enemy territory as she personally wanted to. This is how she returns to Naminé in the above thread alive, but injured. It further develops in later threads, with her serving entirely in support rather than entering the main confrontation with the DmC hordes of hell, remaining back to assist in building bulwarks rather than entering a fight she couldn't properly support.
B) Intentionality in Communicating with Others/Mentoring Those In Need -
Terezi is somewhat infamous in her canon for being a demented and terrible teacher. In canon, she 'took Dave under her wing,' though the result of this was that she frequently sought out ways to get him killed, forcing him to use his time manipulation powers to avoid the death. She was occasionally helpful, but more often just a troll. Because of the goading of her moirail, Naminé, Peter and others she's attempted to turn over a new leaf, particularly with newer arrivals. While she's still tempted to try and tease and troll newbies, she's taken them more explicitly under her wing to attempt to help them settle into life in Asgard. Probably the most noteable example of this was Asterios. The berserker has next to no social skills, and would potentially be an 'easy mark' in her mind, but rather than trolling him actively, she's been taking her time to try and offer him assistance in learning battle tactics that could help him be more than a brute-force fighter when not in the middle of a battle rage, and more importantly has been helping him learn to read off and on, teaching him words (And even making sure he understands the difference between troll words and human english words) and helping to increase his vocabulary.
She's taking it upon herself at this point, when she sees a new person, to maybe poke a little fun if she's certain that they can take it, but mostly to make sure that they're on the same page as everyone else. It shows a level of development that drags her out of her violent and dangerous behavior in the past and more towards being a productive team player and a useful mentor to newer arrivals.
C) Coping with Loss/Self-Esteem improvement/Helping others cope -
In a lot of ways, this is a direct development of her previous growth listed in Tier 2. Where previously she was forced to cope with the fact that Vriska was gone and had not appeared here (meaning that the friend she had JUST made peace with in canon was now dead and she wasn't, and building survivor guilt onto someone who already struggled with depression), now she had to lose two other friends, her only ones from home that were present in Asgard, Dave and Karkat. It was in some ways a test of whether or not she had built the support network she had begun to seek in Asgard with the loss of Vriska and its sting, and whether she could handle it again, and even be supportive of others in turn.
Chizuru and Sora, along with most of her cast, have been important in this. Both Dave and Karkat disappeared to return home right around the start of December, around the same time that most of the remainder of Sora's own friends from home disappeared. This has given Terezi an opportunity to clear up and open up about her own circumstances, that any friend she loses here is a friend she will never see again even if she returns, as she's effectively dead within seconds of her return. Partings are permanent ones to her, and she's been forced to make peace with this, which has led her to actively wish to help the kingdom build itself up as much out of a sense of self preservation as any. At this point, however, she's also been seeking and counseling, helping others whose friends have disappeared (A level of empathy she isn't generally known for in canon, but which is not out of the realm of possibility for those closest to her, showing that she's been opening up to people in Asgard). She counsels Sora about the loss of his friends, and at the same time receives support from Chizuru (along with Peter and Ivar, not listed above as they're also on the previous power upgrade request and I kept that to one repeat this time.), helping her to cope both with her situation, and to continue to see herself as worth caring about, rather than falling into the depressive states that the character canonically struggles with. She has yet to collapse into inebriated stupors, as she sometimes did in canon, in large part due to the support of her CR in Asgard.
