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Character Name: Terezi Pyrope
Series: Homestuck
Timeline:After Alterniabound, around 3:14:00 on the MYSTERIOUS COUNTDOWN [before kiwisuit Dave gets shown stabs]. In the middle of the coinflip with Vriska.
Canon Resource Link: The more thought you put into it, the less sense it makes.
Setting: Homestuck basically addresses two main points: the concept of "rebirth" or life after death, and the most ridiculous creation myth imaginable. Of course, a variety of other themes fall under that: growing up, relationships, overcoming challenges (or not), fate, etc. But the two big ones (at least, in my opinion) are those mentioned above. Now, in order to get Terezi's background from this clusterfuck of a canon, I think it's best to examine her through three major settings: Alternia, SGRUB, and the Veil. Technically, the last two could be combined but I’m not doing that so shushhhhhhhhh don’t question me
Alternia: Let's set up ~*~*~~*~*~. I know you're all waiting to read this for the nine bajillionth time. I'll try to be brief (spolier warning: I fail miserably).
While trolls are very humanoid in shape, their anatomy is completely different and unexplained. However, whenever one of them references their own biology, it's normally with creative names-- like bone bulge, anything+nook, chitinous windhole, etc. But we don't have much info beyond names on a lot these things. They sleep in Recuperacoons (a cocoony thing) filled with a bright green slime called Sopor Slime. It acts as sort of a "CHILL THE FUCK OUT" mechanism which allows for trolls to sleep. Just... Don't eat it (unless you're Gamzee). IN SUMMATION: they are fuckin' aliens, bro.
Now, the homeplanet of the trolls is called Alternia. It's a lovely little place with two moons and crazyass monsters roaming the lands. Only the troll youth live here, though. Once a troll comes of age and can start filling pails with genetic material (ohohonhonhonhon), they usually leave Alternia and start conquering planets or being space pirates or whatever that doesn't involve them on Alternia anymore. But until then, the trolls on the planet have to look out after themselves.
After hatching from an egg lain by the Mother Grub, young trolls are "wigglers." Pretty much larvae. Pretty much the antithesis to "KAWAII DESU NEKO-CHINSSSS." From there, they find a nice, big stalactite and spin a wee petit cocoon. Unlike a caterpillar, they emerge as angry assholes, AKA little, pupated trolls with arms and legs and no longer grubbiness. They must then face several, unexplained challenges that are supposedly very very difficult. If they survive, then the troll will find a Lusus Naturae with the same colored blood and together they will emerge from the depths of Alternia as charge and guardian. Lusus are basically big monsters. So these kids are raised by big monsters. Kinda like Koji's mom.
So, now we've got the troll/lusus combo on the surface of the planet. There, they get imperial drones to help them build hives to their design--- SOMEHOW TROLLS ARE INHERENTLY GOOD AT ARCHITECTURE?? and then they live in them. Terezi's a little weird with her "family" structure. Her hive is in the middle of a forest, built into a tree high high high in the air. It's not hard to find where she lives, though-- the trees along the path to her hive are lined with hanging Scalemates, judged guilty by HIS HONORABLE TYRANNY. Her lusus, instead of taking care of her, hasn't actually... hatched by the beginning of her story. Instead, her unhatched dragon is located on one-half of the DOOMSDAY SCALE. She knew that the Doomsday Scale would tip and bring on the end of their world (it later turned out to be a countdown to the end rather than the cause) if her lusus ever hatched. Which it what happens right before she's brought into the game and meteors are striking and as soon as the dragon hatches, it gets killed. >:[
But that's not all. Previous to entering the game, when Terezi slept, her dragon lusus could speak to her in her dreams. The first time Terezi heard her voice, Vriska (through the use of Tavros' animal controlling skills) used Terezi's lusus to control Terezi to stare at the sun until she went blind (and woke on Prospit; more on that later). After this point, Dragonmom would speak to Terezi in her dreams, helping her to sense the world like a dragon does-- through taste and smell.
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HERE COMES YOUR FAVORITE PART: TROLL ROMANCE, BABY. I know you were waiting for it.
So, as a mentioned above, when a troll is old enough, they'll be expected to "fill pails." WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
It means that an imperial drone with two pails will come to your door. One pail will have a ♥ and the other a ♠. It wants them filled with genetic material that a troll has produced through their sexual ♥ and ♠ relationships. If you don't have those relationships checked, you're gettin' your ass culled (read: killed).
♥ - Matespritship: Redrom. It's mating fondness. The most comparable thing to human's concept of love. At one point, during SGRUB, Karkat and Terezi exchange a brief <3 after Terezi tells Karkat he's a great leader. In Entranceway, they are the lamest almost-matesprits-who-are-too-embarrassed-to-do-anything-about-it ever.
♠ - Kismesissitude: Blackrom. It's the exact opposite. Pure, unadulterated and monogamous hate.
There are two other types of relationships, though. These are considered to be more "pale."
♦ - Moirallegiance: Back in redrom. One half acts as a guardian/calmer-downer while the other is typically more unstable in nature. However, both provide something for the other. It's a mutual thing.
♣ - Auspistice: Back in blackrom. This is a three-way thing. An auspistice basically mediates between two who are flipping between kismesis and matesprits/disloyal kismesis/any sort of relationship problem between two other trolls.
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One final thing to note before moving on to SGRUB: the hemospectrum. There are a variety of bloodcolors trolls have. It's pretty much a goddamn rainbow. In order to understand the class system of Alternia, think of a reverse ROY G BIV. VIB- Violet, Indigo, Blue and everything in between are the "highbloods." Those beyond Indigo often have a mutation that allows them to live under the sea. G - Green is "okay" blood color. YOR - Yellow, orange, red and everything in between is pretty shitty.
Terezi, despite being at the low-end of Blueblooded nobility, really doesn't care all that much about the social status of blood. She just likes it for the colors.
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SGRUB: Alright, movin' right along. SGRUB was a game developed by Terezi's TROLL COPS bro, Sollux, from ancient ruins found on Alternia. He was told by his deadghost friend that this game would be key to saving their civilization.
Well, that was a lie.
Instead, the game prompted meteors to completely wipe out life on Alternia. Whoops. However, this was a necessary thing due to crazy Time Shenanigans that will be described in a bit.
Each of the trolls enter the game before getting killed (except Sollux, but he gets better), and find themselves on their own world. Terezi's is the Land of Thought and Flow-- a world with pulsing, neuron-like lights in the sky and ancient ruins abound. Aided by her Sprite (Dragonmom [who died earlier] and some random object combined) and Karkat (with Jack Noir in tow [a stab-happy agent of Derse [will explain better in the next paragraphs]), Terezi and the other trolls (with their own spites) rock the game.
Wow, that sentence was confusing. Let's get a fucking map.
Here. The Incipisphere is the world of SGRUB. It exists outside the plane of existence Alternia was on.
Let's break it down, starting right to left.
The 12 planets circling Skaia and Prospit are the planets of the trolls-- like I mentioned above, each got their own. I originally made this map for a Karkat app, so just pretend the red planet is really the Land of Thought and Flow.
Prospit, the golden planet, is the planet of light. Once in the game, each of the characters have two bodies-- a realself and a dreamself. Half the troll's dreamselves are on Prospit while the other half are on Derse. Terezi is a Prospit dreamer. However, she woke her dreamself before the game even began (as described above). That means she was able to "see" into the clouds of Skaia to witness the past, present, and future.
Skaia is the battle field of the game. It acts as a massive, multidimensional chessboard where the powers of Derse and Prospit fight nonstop. Looking into the clouds here will show you visions of everything ever, even Andrew Hussie kissing Rufio in the most dramatic scene of our age. Remember the meteors that destroyed Alternia? Yeah, that was Skaia's fault. A thing called The Reckoning occurs, where the forces of Derse try to destroy Skaia by sending meteors from the Veil to crush it. However, Skaia has a defense mechanism: portals to other worlds that take the meteors elsewhere--- AKA Alternia.
The Veil is a ring of meteors that separates the world of light and the world of dark. On the meteors are various laboratories that are used to produce soldiers for each side. However, it's also here that Karkat creates the 12 trolls, including himself.
What. Yeah, you heard me. Rock it, Karkat. Through a crazy, convoluted process, all of the trolls are paradox clones of themselves, send from the Veil to Alternia to grow up and create themselves in the game. So, if you're sitting there thinking "DON'T PLAY SGRUB AND THEN EVERYTHING IS OKAY," that just can't happen. Because in order for them to exist, SGRUB needs to be played.
The Veil is an important setting for the trolls later on; however, I'll get there after describing these last two areas.
Derse is the planet of darkness. Like Prospit, half the trolls are Derse dreamers. Instead of gaining knowledge through Skaian clouds, they gain knowledge by gazing into the Furthest Ring. The Black King of Derse needs to be defeated to win SGRUB, which, despite his crazyass powers, the trolls are able to do. After doing this, they try to claim their prize (access to the universe they just created), but are interrupted by a dog demon bluh bluh HUGE ASSHOLE. We'll get more on this later.
The Furthest Ring is pretty much the scariest place ever. Tentacle demon monsters are there, and if you gaze at them, they'll whisper shit to you. Bluhhhhhhhhscary.
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the Veil: The last major setting. Ring of meteors. We all suddenly realize that I have been using "meteor," "meteorite," "whatever astronomical terms you want to use" completely wrong. In the words of my nine year old sister: "YOURE STUPED SOUL IS RUED AND I DONT GIVE CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Thank you for that, Lulu.
The Veil is where the trolls are located for most of the storyline of Homestuck. Hiding away in the lab they were all created in. Waiting to be killed by the master of random teleportation murders, Jack Noir, who is also the one that ruined their SGRUB session. IRONY?????
Here, through the use of Trollian (an AIM like device that is Time Shenanigans manifest), the trolls watch the universe they created and lost by beating SGRUB. Which means they watch Rose, John, Dave, and Jade grow up. And, by the orders of Karkat, the trolls troll the fuck out of them. Until they realize that helping the humans will probably help themselves.
Terezi is pretty much the only one who is good at the trolling and helping aspect. Great job, guys.
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Character Background: Now that you understand the setting, I'm going to go more in depth into Terezi's role in the story.
Terezi was born in a lab from the ectoplasmic paradox goop of other trolls/herself along with eleven others who would all be her "friends" in the future (keep in mind, the troll word for "friend" is the same one for "enemy"), shot into space on a meteor by one of those aforementioned friends, crashed into her home planet of Alternia, and then adopted and raised by an unhatched dragon egg that communicated with her in her sleep while she lived alone in a tree house. Wow, that sentence. Hopefully it makes sense if you read the above crap.
Pre-Homestuck, she enjoyed FLARPing (an extreme version of live action roleplaying). She and Vriska Serket made up Team Scourge and were pretty much unstoppable hellyeah defeatin' evil. But when Vriska forced Tavros to jump off a cliff, thereby crippling himself and killed Aradia, Terezi was not a happy camper. She disbanded Team Scourge and got revenge. With Sollux's help, she told
Fastforward a bit, and Terezi gets a message from Sollux about starting a new computer game with him and their friends. Sollux delegates Terezi as leader of the Red Team, but she eventually hands that title over to a whining Karkat because it was really a pretty damn pointless position.
Karkat and Terezi are the first to start playing SGRUB, receiving Sollux's warning about how playing the game will begin the end of their world a bit too late. Karkat starts, with Terezi as his server player. Needless to say, she starts wrecking his house as soon as she starts, which is pretty much required. She is the greatest of artists.
Once she starts playing, she ends up in the Land of Thought and Flow (abbreviated as LOTAF). There, she speaks with her Exile. See, each of the kids who plays the game gets their own world and someone who was exiled in the past to guide their actions. Most of the kids can't communicate with their exiles-- their orders are more subconscious than anything. However, with Terezi (because she's the Seer of Mind), she's able to communicate with her exile via chalk. Her exile is
Okay, whatever. So all 12 Trolls make it through their game, and with the help of Jack Noir, they defeat the Black King. Unfortunately, before they can gain the final prize and win the game, something called "the Scratch" occurs, results in "the Great Undoing" and the release of a "Demon" who fucks up the Troll's game and start destroying everything ever, including Prospit and Derse (which kills their dreamselves). The Demon is Jack Noir from the human's game. This makes Karkat sad. Blooood broo wry you gotta be that way???
The Trolls retreated to The Veil-- the asteroid belt near Derse. The "Scratch" was caused by the main characters of Homestuck (John, Rose, Dave, and Jade), so Karkat comes up with the brilliant idea to troll the kids in revenge. Brilliant.
So, for most of the storyline, the Trolls are in the Veil, trolling the main characters from the universe that they just created. Yeah, that's right. The Trolls created our universe.
Each Troll has the ability to talk to any of the main characters during any point in their timeline. Some Trolls decide to troll all over the place, like Karkat with his crazyass Trolling-Backwards theme. But Terezi claims that Weird Time Stuff hurts her head-- she trolls in a very time-linear fashion.
When trolling John, she acts generally very sketchy and rude. Once he starts the game, at some point she convinces him to skip ahead, bypassing most of the Riddle Shit one is supposed to do, and to go fight the Denizen before it wakes up. This results in him dying, creating an alternate timeline where, after 4 months, Dave gets fed up and goes back in time, telling her to back off. She explains how she knew John wouldn't die, because she can see his whole timeline and she knew he didn't die there. BUT, she expresses guilt when she finds about the Weird Time Stuff. IT MAKES SENSE SOMEHOW.
She moves to Rose (who she declares is a "H4T3FR13ND"), but most of her interactions happen with Dave. Once they start the game, she becomes surprisingly helpful to them; especially to Dave. In fact, their constant dorkiery causes Karkat to summon Dave and John into a chatroom and warn them to stop flirting. Enchanté. It doesn't work (surprise). Eventually, she gets Dave to cheat the system via time travel and make tons of money, send her that money to her in the past, which makes her take notice of him before they ever meet, which is how the trolls find out about the humans in the first place.
Outside of that, it's just Weird Time Stuff everywhich direction, despite Terezi's dislike of it. Around here is where I'm taking her from.
Abilites/Special Powers: She's completely blind; however, before her Lusus hatched, it taught her how to "see" via smelling and tasting-- a new way to view the world.
After beating the game (or as close to 'beating' it as they could get), she was a super high level, so that means she's strong. She uses her seeing cane as a weapon, but has upgraded it to be equipped with swords and junk. Hell yeah.
She's also got a Sylladex, which is a crazy ass way to catalog all the crap she picks up over time. Her fetch style is "Scratch and Sniff," where she just scratches at the Captchalogue Cards, sniffs to figure out what they are, then uses them to get the item. It's, like, super confusing. Whatever, DON'T QUESTION IT.
As a player of SGRUB, Terezi is the Seer of Mind. Which means, before Prospit (the crazy dream moon thing that she goes to in her sleep) was destroyed, she could "gaze" into the clouds of Skaia (the planet Prospit orbits), and could see bits and pieces of the past/present/future. Unfortunately, where I'm taking her from, all the Troll's dreamselves are dead when both Prospit and Derse were destroyed.
However, that's not all that role allows her to do:
GC: HOW MUCH OF YOUR R34L1TY DO YOU TH1NK 1S M4D3 OF WH4TS 1N YOUR M1ND?
TG: i dont know sounds like a riddle
TG: fuck it ill just say all of it
TG: i mean that is the answer right
GC: SM4RT4SS >:P
GC: 1T 1S NOT 4 R1DDL3, 1T 1S 4 S3R1OUS QU3ST1ON, TH3R3 1S 4 B1G D1FF3R3NC3 D4V3
GC: 1F YOU S33 WH4TS 1N YOUR M1ND CL34RLY 4ND UND3RST4ND TH3 POW3R YOUR THOUGHTS H4V3
GC: TH3N YOU UND3RST4ND R34L1TY WH1L3 3V3RYON3 3LS3 1S RUNN1NG 4ROUND CONFUS3D 4ND 4NGRY 4ND UPS3T
GC: B3C4US3 TH3Y TH1NK R34L1TY 1S SOM3TH1NG H4PP3N1NG TO TH3M
GC: R4TH3R TH4N SOM3TH1NG TH3Y 4R3 M4K1NG 3V3RY MOM3NT W1TH 3V3RY THOUGHT
TG: oh ok
GC: 1 KNOW YOUR M1ND B3TT3R TH4N YOU
TG: oh do you
GC: 1 4M NOT PSYCH1C, BUT 1 H4V3 TH3 S1GHT S33RS 4R3 M34NT TO H4V3
GC: 1T W4S MY ROL3 TO H4V3 1T
GC: TO T4LK TO P3OPL3 4ND S33 TH3 TUNN3LS 4ND VORT1C3S 1N TH31R M1NDS 4ND TO UND3RST4ND TH3 R34L1T13S TH3Y WOULD CR34T3 1F THOS3 THOUGHTS L34D TO 4CT1ON
GC: FOR MY 3N3M13S, 1 W4S M34NT TO BR1NG 4BOUT TH3 1NH3R3NT R3TR1BUT1ON FLOW1NG FROM TH3 R34L1TY M4D3 BY TH31R OWN 3V1L THOUGHTS
GC: 4ND FOR MY FR13NDS, TO PROT3CT TH3M FROM TH31R T3ND3NCY TO UND3R3ST1M4T3 TH3 POW3R TH31R CONFUS1ON H4S OV3R TH31R F4T3 >:]
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Move Note: Most of the posts from this journal have been imported from livejournal,
turn4bout.Additional, Homestuck related comment: While I won't be putting my posts under a cut, nor will my default position be forgoing the font color/quirk when tagging others, I WILL accept requests to not tag your character or to not use the quirk with them. If that's what you prefer, please request below. Anon's enabled, as well as screening.
For reference, Terezi types US1NG TH3 NUM3R4LS OF TH3 BL1ND PROPH3TS replacing the letters "aie" with "413."
Finally, Scent List and OOC Permissions.
Character Name: Terezi Pyrope
Series: Homestuck
Timeline:
Canon Resource Link: The more thought you put into it, the less sense it makes.
Setting: Homestuck basically addresses two main points: the concept of "rebirth" or life after death, and the most ridiculous creation myth imaginable. Of course, a variety of other themes fall under that: growing up, relationships, overcoming challenges (or not), fate, etc. But the two big ones (at least, in my opinion) are those mentioned above. Now, in order to get Terezi's background from this clusterfuck of a canon, I think it's best to examine her through three major settings: Alternia, SGRUB, and the Veil. Technically, the last two could be combined but I’m not doing that so shushhhhhhhhh don’t question me
Alternia: Let's set up ~*~*~~*~*~. I know you're all waiting to read this for the nine bajillionth time. I'll try to be brief (spolier warning: I fail miserably).
While trolls are very humanoid in shape, their anatomy is completely different and unexplained. However, whenever one of them references their own biology, it's normally with creative names-- like bone bulge, anything+nook, chitinous windhole, etc. But we don't have much info beyond names on a lot these things. They sleep in Recuperacoons (a cocoony thing) filled with a bright green slime called Sopor Slime. It acts as sort of a "CHILL THE FUCK OUT" mechanism which allows for trolls to sleep. Just... Don't eat it (unless you're Gamzee). IN SUMMATION: they are fuckin' aliens, bro.
Now, the homeplanet of the trolls is called Alternia. It's a lovely little place with two moons and crazyass monsters roaming the lands. Only the troll youth live here, though. Once a troll comes of age and can start filling pails with genetic material (ohohonhonhonhon), they usually leave Alternia and start conquering planets or being space pirates or whatever that doesn't involve them on Alternia anymore. But until then, the trolls on the planet have to look out after themselves.
After hatching from an egg lain by the Mother Grub, young trolls are "wigglers." Pretty much larvae. Pretty much the antithesis to "KAWAII DESU NEKO-CHINSSSS." From there, they find a nice, big stalactite and spin a wee petit cocoon. Unlike a caterpillar, they emerge as angry assholes, AKA little, pupated trolls with arms and legs and no longer grubbiness. They must then face several, unexplained challenges that are supposedly very very difficult. If they survive, then the troll will find a Lusus Naturae with the same colored blood and together they will emerge from the depths of Alternia as charge and guardian. Lusus are basically big monsters. So these kids are raised by big monsters. Kinda like Koji's mom.
So, now we've got the troll/lusus combo on the surface of the planet. There, they get imperial drones to help them build hives to their design--- SOMEHOW TROLLS ARE INHERENTLY GOOD AT ARCHITECTURE?? and then they live in them. Terezi's a little weird with her "family" structure. Her hive is in the middle of a forest, built into a tree high high high in the air. It's not hard to find where she lives, though-- the trees along the path to her hive are lined with hanging Scalemates, judged guilty by HIS HONORABLE TYRANNY. Her lusus, instead of taking care of her, hasn't actually... hatched by the beginning of her story. Instead, her unhatched dragon is located on one-half of the DOOMSDAY SCALE. She knew that the Doomsday Scale would tip and bring on the end of their world (it later turned out to be a countdown to the end rather than the cause) if her lusus ever hatched. Which it what happens right before she's brought into the game and meteors are striking and as soon as the dragon hatches, it gets killed. >:[
But that's not all. Previous to entering the game, when Terezi slept, her dragon lusus could speak to her in her dreams. The first time Terezi heard her voice, Vriska (through the use of Tavros' animal controlling skills) used Terezi's lusus to control Terezi to stare at the sun until she went blind (and woke on Prospit; more on that later). After this point, Dragonmom would speak to Terezi in her dreams, helping her to sense the world like a dragon does-- through taste and smell.
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HERE COMES YOUR FAVORITE PART: TROLL ROMANCE, BABY. I know you were waiting for it.
So, as a mentioned above, when a troll is old enough, they'll be expected to "fill pails." WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
It means that an imperial drone with two pails will come to your door. One pail will have a ♥ and the other a ♠. It wants them filled with genetic material that a troll has produced through their sexual ♥ and ♠ relationships. If you don't have those relationships checked, you're gettin' your ass culled (read: killed).
♥ - Matespritship: Redrom. It's mating fondness. The most comparable thing to human's concept of love. At one point, during SGRUB, Karkat and Terezi exchange a brief <3 after Terezi tells Karkat he's a great leader. In Entranceway, they are the lamest almost-matesprits-who-are-too-embarrassed-to-do-anything-about-it ever.
♠ - Kismesissitude: Blackrom. It's the exact opposite. Pure, unadulterated and monogamous hate.
There are two other types of relationships, though. These are considered to be more "pale."
♦ - Moirallegiance: Back in redrom. One half acts as a guardian/calmer-downer while the other is typically more unstable in nature. However, both provide something for the other. It's a mutual thing.
♣ - Auspistice: Back in blackrom. This is a three-way thing. An auspistice basically mediates between two who are flipping between kismesis and matesprits/disloyal kismesis/any sort of relationship problem between two other trolls.
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One final thing to note before moving on to SGRUB: the hemospectrum. There are a variety of bloodcolors trolls have. It's pretty much a goddamn rainbow. In order to understand the class system of Alternia, think of a reverse ROY G BIV. VIB- Violet, Indigo, Blue and everything in between are the "highbloods." Those beyond Indigo often have a mutation that allows them to live under the sea. G - Green is "okay" blood color. YOR - Yellow, orange, red and everything in between is pretty shitty.
Terezi, despite being at the low-end of Blueblooded nobility, really doesn't care all that much about the social status of blood. She just likes it for the colors.
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SGRUB: Alright, movin' right along. SGRUB was a game developed by Terezi's TROLL COPS bro, Sollux, from ancient ruins found on Alternia. He was told by his deadghost friend that this game would be key to saving their civilization.
Well, that was a lie.
Instead, the game prompted meteors to completely wipe out life on Alternia. Whoops. However, this was a necessary thing due to crazy Time Shenanigans that will be described in a bit.
Each of the trolls enter the game before getting killed (except Sollux, but he gets better), and find themselves on their own world. Terezi's is the Land of Thought and Flow-- a world with pulsing, neuron-like lights in the sky and ancient ruins abound. Aided by her Sprite (Dragonmom [who died earlier] and some random object combined) and Karkat (with Jack Noir in tow [a stab-happy agent of Derse [will explain better in the next paragraphs]), Terezi and the other trolls (with their own spites) rock the game.
Wow, that sentence was confusing. Let's get a fucking map.
Here. The Incipisphere is the world of SGRUB. It exists outside the plane of existence Alternia was on.
Let's break it down, starting right to left.
The 12 planets circling Skaia and Prospit are the planets of the trolls-- like I mentioned above, each got their own. I originally made this map for a Karkat app, so just pretend the red planet is really the Land of Thought and Flow.
Prospit, the golden planet, is the planet of light. Once in the game, each of the characters have two bodies-- a realself and a dreamself. Half the troll's dreamselves are on Prospit while the other half are on Derse. Terezi is a Prospit dreamer. However, she woke her dreamself before the game even began (as described above). That means she was able to "see" into the clouds of Skaia to witness the past, present, and future.
Skaia is the battle field of the game. It acts as a massive, multidimensional chessboard where the powers of Derse and Prospit fight nonstop. Looking into the clouds here will show you visions of everything ever, even Andrew Hussie kissing Rufio in the most dramatic scene of our age. Remember the meteors that destroyed Alternia? Yeah, that was Skaia's fault. A thing called The Reckoning occurs, where the forces of Derse try to destroy Skaia by sending meteors from the Veil to crush it. However, Skaia has a defense mechanism: portals to other worlds that take the meteors elsewhere--- AKA Alternia.
The Veil is a ring of meteors that separates the world of light and the world of dark. On the meteors are various laboratories that are used to produce soldiers for each side. However, it's also here that Karkat creates the 12 trolls, including himself.
What. Yeah, you heard me. Rock it, Karkat. Through a crazy, convoluted process, all of the trolls are paradox clones of themselves, send from the Veil to Alternia to grow up and create themselves in the game. So, if you're sitting there thinking "DON'T PLAY SGRUB AND THEN EVERYTHING IS OKAY," that just can't happen. Because in order for them to exist, SGRUB needs to be played.
The Veil is an important setting for the trolls later on; however, I'll get there after describing these last two areas.
Derse is the planet of darkness. Like Prospit, half the trolls are Derse dreamers. Instead of gaining knowledge through Skaian clouds, they gain knowledge by gazing into the Furthest Ring. The Black King of Derse needs to be defeated to win SGRUB, which, despite his crazyass powers, the trolls are able to do. After doing this, they try to claim their prize (access to the universe they just created), but are interrupted by a dog demon bluh bluh HUGE ASSHOLE. We'll get more on this later.
The Furthest Ring is pretty much the scariest place ever. Tentacle demon monsters are there, and if you gaze at them, they'll whisper shit to you. Bluhhhhhhhhscary.
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the Veil: The last major setting. Ring of meteors. We all suddenly realize that I have been using "meteor," "meteorite," "whatever astronomical terms you want to use" completely wrong. In the words of my nine year old sister: "YOURE STUPED SOUL IS RUED AND I DONT GIVE CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Thank you for that, Lulu.
The Veil is where the trolls are located for most of the storyline of Homestuck. Hiding away in the lab they were all created in. Waiting to be killed by the master of random teleportation murders, Jack Noir, who is also the one that ruined their SGRUB session. IRONY?????
Here, through the use of Trollian (an AIM like device that is Time Shenanigans manifest), the trolls watch the universe they created and lost by beating SGRUB. Which means they watch Rose, John, Dave, and Jade grow up. And, by the orders of Karkat, the trolls troll the fuck out of them. Until they realize that helping the humans will probably help themselves.
Terezi is pretty much the only one who is good at the trolling and helping aspect. Great job, guys.
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Character Background: Now that you understand the setting, I'm going to go more in depth into Terezi's role in the story.
Terezi was born in a lab from the ectoplasmic paradox goop of other trolls/herself along with eleven others who would all be her "friends" in the future (keep in mind, the troll word for "friend" is the same one for "enemy"), shot into space on a meteor by one of those aforementioned friends, crashed into her home planet of Alternia, and then adopted and raised by an unhatched dragon egg that communicated with her in her sleep while she lived alone in a tree house. Wow, that sentence. Hopefully it makes sense if you read the above crap.
Pre-Homestuck, she enjoyed FLARPing (an extreme version of live action roleplaying). She and Vriska Serket made up Team Scourge and were pretty much unstoppable hellyeah defeatin' evil. But when Vriska forced Tavros to jump off a cliff, thereby crippling himself and killed Aradia, Terezi was not a happy camper. She disbanded Team Scourge and got revenge. With Sollux's help, she told
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that Vriska had stolen his ~*~Magic Cue Ball~*~, which basically answered your questions like a Magic 8 Ball, but it didn't suck. He flipped the fuck out and blew up the ball, taking Vriska's arm and eye with it. The first half of this happens, which results in both Terezi becoming blind and waking up in the dream world of Prospit. But, considering how crazy their cycle of revenge had become, Terezi and Vriska called a truce, which stated that Vriska would no longer use her crazy mind powers to fuck people up. Not surprisingly, this truce doesn't last. But, Terezi stopped FLARPing after Tavros was crippled, so it gave Vriska little opportunity to pull that sort of stunt again.Fastforward a bit, and Terezi gets a message from Sollux about starting a new computer game with him and their friends. Sollux delegates Terezi as leader of the Red Team, but she eventually hands that title over to a whining Karkat because it was really a pretty damn pointless position.
Karkat and Terezi are the first to start playing SGRUB, receiving Sollux's warning about how playing the game will begin the end of their world a bit too late. Karkat starts, with Terezi as his server player. Needless to say, she starts wrecking his house as soon as she starts, which is pretty much required. She is the greatest of artists.
Once she starts playing, she ends up in the Land of Thought and Flow (abbreviated as LOTAF). There, she speaks with her Exile. See, each of the kids who plays the game gets their own world and someone who was exiled in the past to guide their actions. Most of the kids can't communicate with their exiles-- their orders are more subconscious than anything. However, with Terezi (because she's the Seer of Mind), she's able to communicate with her exile via chalk. Her exile is
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, the Black Queen from the Troll's session that they end up exiling. Yeah, so the Trolls are the ones who exile her, but in the future, she's guiding one of the Trolls. ARE YOU CONFUSED. YOU SHOULD BE.Okay, whatever. So all 12 Trolls make it through their game, and with the help of Jack Noir, they defeat the Black King. Unfortunately, before they can gain the final prize and win the game, something called "the Scratch" occurs, results in "the Great Undoing" and the release of a "Demon" who fucks up the Troll's game and start destroying everything ever, including Prospit and Derse (which kills their dreamselves). The Demon is Jack Noir from the human's game. This makes Karkat sad. Blooood broo wry you gotta be that way???
The Trolls retreated to The Veil-- the asteroid belt near Derse. The "Scratch" was caused by the main characters of Homestuck (John, Rose, Dave, and Jade), so Karkat comes up with the brilliant idea to troll the kids in revenge. Brilliant.
So, for most of the storyline, the Trolls are in the Veil, trolling the main characters from the universe that they just created. Yeah, that's right. The Trolls created our universe.
Each Troll has the ability to talk to any of the main characters during any point in their timeline. Some Trolls decide to troll all over the place, like Karkat with his crazyass Trolling-Backwards theme. But Terezi claims that Weird Time Stuff hurts her head-- she trolls in a very time-linear fashion.
When trolling John, she acts generally very sketchy and rude. Once he starts the game, at some point she convinces him to skip ahead, bypassing most of the Riddle Shit one is supposed to do, and to go fight the Denizen before it wakes up. This results in him dying, creating an alternate timeline where, after 4 months, Dave gets fed up and goes back in time, telling her to back off. She explains how she knew John wouldn't die, because she can see his whole timeline and she knew he didn't die there. BUT, she expresses guilt when she finds about the Weird Time Stuff. IT MAKES SENSE SOMEHOW.
She moves to Rose (who she declares is a "H4T3FR13ND"), but most of her interactions happen with Dave. Once they start the game, she becomes surprisingly helpful to them; especially to Dave. In fact, their constant dorkiery causes Karkat to summon Dave and John into a chatroom and warn them to stop flirting. Enchanté. It doesn't work (surprise). Eventually, she gets Dave to cheat the system via time travel and make tons of money, send her that money to her in the past, which makes her take notice of him before they ever meet, which is how the trolls find out about the humans in the first place.
Outside of that, it's just Weird Time Stuff everywhich direction, despite Terezi's dislike of it. Around here is where I'm taking her from.
Abilites/Special Powers: She's completely blind; however, before her Lusus hatched, it taught her how to "see" via smelling and tasting-- a new way to view the world.
After beating the game (or as close to 'beating' it as they could get), she was a super high level, so that means she's strong. She uses her seeing cane as a weapon, but has upgraded it to be equipped with swords and junk. Hell yeah.
She's also got a Sylladex, which is a crazy ass way to catalog all the crap she picks up over time. Her fetch style is "Scratch and Sniff," where she just scratches at the Captchalogue Cards, sniffs to figure out what they are, then uses them to get the item. It's, like, super confusing. Whatever, DON'T QUESTION IT.
As a player of SGRUB, Terezi is the Seer of Mind. Which means, before Prospit (the crazy dream moon thing that she goes to in her sleep) was destroyed, she could "gaze" into the clouds of Skaia (the planet Prospit orbits), and could see bits and pieces of the past/present/future. Unfortunately, where I'm taking her from, all the Troll's dreamselves are dead when both Prospit and Derse were destroyed.
However, that's not all that role allows her to do:
GC: HOW MUCH OF YOUR R34L1TY DO YOU TH1NK 1S M4D3 OF WH4TS 1N YOUR M1ND?
TG: i dont know sounds like a riddle
TG: fuck it ill just say all of it
TG: i mean that is the answer right
GC: SM4RT4SS >:P
GC: 1T 1S NOT 4 R1DDL3, 1T 1S 4 S3R1OUS QU3ST1ON, TH3R3 1S 4 B1G D1FF3R3NC3 D4V3
GC: 1F YOU S33 WH4TS 1N YOUR M1ND CL34RLY 4ND UND3RST4ND TH3 POW3R YOUR THOUGHTS H4V3
GC: TH3N YOU UND3RST4ND R34L1TY WH1L3 3V3RYON3 3LS3 1S RUNN1NG 4ROUND CONFUS3D 4ND 4NGRY 4ND UPS3T
GC: B3C4US3 TH3Y TH1NK R34L1TY 1S SOM3TH1NG H4PP3N1NG TO TH3M
GC: R4TH3R TH4N SOM3TH1NG TH3Y 4R3 M4K1NG 3V3RY MOM3NT W1TH 3V3RY THOUGHT
TG: oh ok
GC: 1 KNOW YOUR M1ND B3TT3R TH4N YOU
TG: oh do you
GC: 1 4M NOT PSYCH1C, BUT 1 H4V3 TH3 S1GHT S33RS 4R3 M34NT TO H4V3
GC: 1T W4S MY ROL3 TO H4V3 1T
GC: TO T4LK TO P3OPL3 4ND S33 TH3 TUNN3LS 4ND VORT1C3S 1N TH31R M1NDS 4ND TO UND3RST4ND TH3 R34L1T13S TH3Y WOULD CR34T3 1F THOS3 THOUGHTS L34D TO 4CT1ON
GC: FOR MY 3N3M13S, 1 W4S M34NT TO BR1NG 4BOUT TH3 1NH3R3NT R3TR1BUT1ON FLOW1NG FROM TH3 R34L1TY M4D3 BY TH31R OWN 3V1L THOUGHTS
GC: 4ND FOR MY FR13NDS, TO PROT3CT TH3M FROM TH31R T3ND3NCY TO UND3R3ST1M4T3 TH3 POW3R TH31R CONFUS1ON H4S OV3R TH31R F4T3 >:]