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Player Name: Latroma
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IC INFO;
Character Name: Terezi Pyrope
Canon: Homestuck
Canon Information: Terezi's Wiki - Covers her history pretty thoroughly.
Canon Point:
[S] Terezi: Remem8er (Specifically, this is (Terezi) who is in the doomed timeline, standing beside (Vriska) as the two hold hands as moirails and watch paradox space cracking and crumbling around them, at peace.)
Age: 7.38 Sweeps/16 Years (per wiki)
God Houses:
Mimir - A student of the mind and culture, Mimir's quest to make society work meshes well with Terezi's obsession with justice and law (and with it the philosophy of law), the implementation of culture. As a Seer of Mind, she is focused upon strategy, and tasked to find ways through seeing the ways that people's minds work together to guide her teammates to their ultimate potential.
Odin - The study of law is one of the higher forms of modern education, and if Terezi needs anything in her obsession, it is the pursuit of a far more thorough understanding of justice. A Seer must be thorough, must know all angles and if Terezi has a flaw as a seer, it is the tunnel vision with which she views things. Once she makes an assumption, she follows it to the bitter end regardless of the consequences and ultimately had to have someone else go back in time to change how she viewed things. Broadening her wisdom can only help her.
Personality:
-The first thing most people ever see about Terezi is her mad, shark-like smile and the ease with which she cackles at most things, even when not appropriate. She is always more than a little manic, even when she is at her worst. She is almost always seen smiling, her fanged grin taking on just the slightest sinister edge. It is, to an extent, the front that she operates with on most days, a front she presents in unpredictable ways outside of that frenetic energy. She can be civil, playful, teasing, aggressive, dismissive, derisive and/or downright insulting, depending on who she is talking to. She likes to change this outward behavior so that she can use variable treatment to confuse people and keep them on edge (such as how she attempts to manipulate both Rose and John through her helpful treatment to one and her false and mocking tone with the other.) This outer exterior, constantly teasing, mocking and cackling at the confusion that she causes appears to have little reason other than her own amusement. She just kind of likes to see people squirm and prefers to make it hard to gauge her real intentions or motives.
-It is dangerous to assume that her mind games are entirely safe. She has been known to both flirt and taunt people with extremely violent acts, once threatening to cut John's throat upon meeting him just so that she can smell him as he dies, seemingly as a joke. It can be extremely hard to tell just how serious she is at any given time, considering the fact that in her earlier FLARPing days, she performed very violent, retributive acts and participated in the culling of other trolls. Her blackrom (hateship) relationship with Gamzee took a noticeably violent turn even by troll standards towards the end, and while the manipulation of Gamzee and others had a hand in this, she has been shown to have a very violent streak. She keeps it in check, however, sticking to arguably playful mind games rather than actually hurting people most days, possibly because of the potential consequences of her actions being undesirable to her. She's usually all talk, but it can be unwise to assume that's all she is.
-She has a curious fascination with colors, stemming from the loss of her sight at the hands of Vriska. She spent a bit over a sweep (3 years, give or take), 'seeing' by smelling and tasting the colors of the world around her. Most of her interactions are colored by her constant sniffing of others, and the way in which she reacts to those colors she considers more 'delicious' than others. While blind, she was able to even read text using smell and taste. A lot of her interpersonal interactions tend to be phrased in the way that they are because of the 'smell' of another person's colors. She is particularly obsessed with the color red, with countless examples of stealing red things or chasing after them, from the red of Karkat's blood to the red of Jade's shoes. When her sight was regained with Aranea Serket's help, she nevertheless maintained this synesthesia. Despite being unable to actually 'see' through smelling colors, she still seemed to maintain that smells and tastes coincided with their colors. Inevitably, it became obvious that she preferred to view the world this way, putting a blindfold on when she went "clown hunting" so that the world was how she was used to experiencing it, as tastes and sounds associated with color (That and bright lights could be painful for trolls).
-One of her biggest obsessions is law. Underneath the giggles, bad jokes, mind games and jokes there is a cold, determined side to her that is focused on its hunt for what she perceives to be wrongdoers. She obsesses over the implementation of law and justice, the killing of the wicked and the protection of the innocent. Her earlier forays into this were fraught with the vicious and unfortunate consequences of callously and unempathically killing in the name of justice and necessity. These killings were fraught with problems, as her judgment was frequently compromised and the facts altered by others before she saw them. (That, and honestly using stuffed animals as her assistants in investigations didn't speak well to her methods). Foremost among these was the regret that she felt over killing Vriska, an act she felt was necessary (but only believed this because of Gamzee's manipulations). Her near-sighted approach to law and absolute justice caused hurt that she didn't wish, which brought her a great deal of regret. However, she did not then give up on the pursuit of justice at any point. She could still be cold and calculating about it, but she endeavored in her last days to try and be more careful in the performance of her self-proclaimed 'duties,' wanting to make sure that the one punished was who needed to be punished. One can see her continued devotion to her perception of justice in her putting on the blindfold, not only wanting to smell the world instead of seeing it but because her self identity was tied up in justice (specifically blind justice, ala Lady Justice.).
-Regret is one of the emotions that far fewer people see in Terezi. She only shows her doubts and her regrets to the people that are most important to her, the very scant few that she feels she can trust, like Karkat, Vriska (for a time), Dave and ultimately John (though he might be in part because he's all that she has left.). She doubts her skills, doubts her powers, doubts how much her friends care about her, doubts her decisions, doubts her self worth, doubts pretty much everything. She regrets many of her kills because of her poor judgment in the past. Gamzee, when the mind control was off of her begged her to stop attacking him because he was hurting her and she simply stopped. She is consumed by regrets, fumbling and unsure about her relationships and everything she has ever done. At her worst, she can plunge herself into complete isolation and soporific stupors, consuming vast quantities of sugary drinks with an effect akin to an alcoholic binge for her species, unwilling to fully address her problems for years. She feels, as she tells John, that she has little business telling others how to fix their lives since her own is so mortally fucked up and instead ultimately sends him back to fix the past by fixing her mistakes.
-In the wake of her final success and handing off the reigns of their world's salvation to John Egbert, Terezi is more at peace with her mistakes. Though this peace is only a very recent development, it is as if a great weight has been lifted from her shoulders. She acknowledges that not only is she about to die and will never live to see John's success, but that she was always doomed to die and that hers is a doomed timeline, and she is ok with it. She is ok with the fact that her reality will simply cease to be. Paradox Space will shatter and fragment around her and she will stop existing at some point, and she accepts this, because she has finally proven that she actually does have it in her, even if the doubts overwhelm her a lot of the time. She embraces her own nature, flawed as it is, and dies in a small way on her own terms (predicting how she will fall to her death with a chalk outline right in front of John).
-Romance and relationships were always a rocky thing, even by troll standards, for Terezi. Her experiences in her youth with Vriska (where Vris betrayed Terezi, Aradia and Tavros in the midst of their games and led to the death of Aradia, the crippling of Tavros and the blinding of Terezi, losing her own eye in the process) irrevocably damaged her ability to trust others. Additionally, it stole away from Terezi one of the most precious things she'd ever had, her only true friend at the time. Though she sought others that she could trust and found them to some extent in Karkat, she was betrayed again by Gamzee and she found herself making poor judgment call after poor judgment call when it came to love and hate. Her relationship with Dave at least avoided betrayal, but didn't fare a whole lot better in the luck category, when her choice of seeing Gamzee in a blackrom at the same time led to the end of the relationship. It may not have helped that sometimes she seemed to choose romantic partners for surface reasons (both of her redrom relationships were with people who were strongly associated with the color red, the color that always drove her to distraction.). She relied upon her outer shell of a personality, perpetually grinning, always laughing, mocking, teasing and changing her mercurial nature with everyone, to keep her from being betrayed again, but all the while it left her lonely, away from her best friends and yearning for things to be back the way that they were. She still found romance and close relationships intensely amusing in others, but her own life was filled with broken friendships, broken hearts and ruined trust, a scorched earth she helped to create.
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One w/ Rhys
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Two w/ Dave
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Three w/ Rose
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