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[ PLAYER INFORMATION ]
Player Name: Lore
Age: 25
Timezone: CST
Personal Journal: lorelessmoon
Contact Information: e-mail: totalbanditdog@gmail.com
AIM: worldisdespair
Plurk: Guilen
Current Characters: N/A
Links to Activity Check: N/A
Beta-reader: N/A

[ CHARACTER INFORMATION ]
Name: Eridan Ampora
Trollian handle: caligulasAquarium
SGrub Title: Prince of Hope
Age: 6 solar sweeps (13)
Gender: Male
Canon: Homestuck
Timeline: Post-carnage, after running into Vriska and Gamzee

Character History
http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Eridan_Ampora

Character Personality:
When speaking of a troll, one must always be aware of their place on the hemospectrum, and to do that, first a small discussion of the hemospectrum itself is in order. Every troll is born with a certain blood color, ranging from dark red to bright purple. A troll's blood color determines both their place in society and their temperament. The higher you are on the hemospectrum, effectively the higher your social standing. On the down side, those higher on the hemospectrum also tend to be more volatile.

That said, Eridan has the second highest blood color on the hemospectrum, making him basically troll royalty. He lets this go to his head, considering himself of an elite level and therefore better than almost everybody. He has no problem saying this, most often to Feferi, a troll with the absolute highest blood color, in an attempt to get her to act more as a proper highblood should.

He takes the hemospectrum to an extreme that other trolls don't, however. Where most highblooded trolls have a desire to rule those with lowblood, Eridan actively plots a genocide against the landdwelling, lower blooded trolls. It is a grandiose plan, which he actively works toward. He uses his time playing Fatal Live Action Role PLaying (FLARP) games to amass the means to do this. All of his plans include the creation of an ultimate doom machine which would wipe out the landdwelling sub-race.

Unfortunately, like many things about Eridan, there are built-in contradictions to these plans. The first and more minor is that he doesn't, in fact, want to kill absolutely all of the landdwellers. He tells one of his friends, Kanaya, that she is an exception, as it would be "unconscionable" to kill her. As he has a number of other friends among the landdwelling trolls, it's likely they, too, would be exempt from his genocidal plot. The second, and much more undermining, contradiction is that his weapons of ultimate destruction are designed and created by his landdwelling friends, Vriska and Equius. As trolls are a highly self-preservative race living with natural homicidal tendencies, Eridan puts a glitch in his own plans by having weapons built by people he would, theoretically, kill should he use them.

In the end, his is a false egomania, an idealistic view of what a troll of his blood color should be that Eridan has taken to heart. So while his interest in genocide is real enough, the grandiose plans for actually putting it into practice are part of a larger picture. Eridan loves military history, as well as legendary conquerors. These are his role models, and he actively tries to make himself as much like them as possible. It has led to all sorts of dramatics and theatrics in his manner of dress and speech, but is most obvious in the way he acts. This is his ideal, the him he wants to be, and the front he puts on most of the time.

His over-the-top persona has in some ways actually become him. He spends most of his conversations with others being a jerk, swearing and belittling others almost casually. It has become almost a thing he does more than a thing he means, because for all his dramatics and high-reaching ideals of bloodshed, all of that is the part of Eridan that he's built as a sort of shell. It's his default, sure, but it isn't his full personality, as he tends to backtrack on it when it's pointed out to him that yes, indeed others do have thoughts and feelings that don't match his own. His better-than-thou attitude is, basically, strictly from a hierarchical perspective. Eridan himself actually isn't a person with especially high self-esteem. While he's more than willing to insult someone, he is quick to turn around and apologize when it's pointed out that he's acting like a douchebag. He'll actually beat himself up to the person he's apologizing to, easily switching to pointing out his own flaws. He never actually makes the attempt to learn from it, however, preferring to apologize rather than actually control his behavior.

But it is still to be said that he does love the theatrics of it all. Eridan is extremely self-involved and self-centered, and loves to make any situation all about himself. He creates drama for himself, both with others and inside his own head. He isn't self-confident, however, and for all his bluster, most of the time he assumes negative things about others' actions toward him. If he goes without a reply, people are ignoring him. If people are ignoring him, they must have moved on, and doesn't he just deserve it, they have so many better things to do than talk to him. If they don't want to talk to him, seriously what is their problem, just talk to him already. Sure, if they disagree with him, they're obviously stupid, but if they tell him their feelings are hurt, he can't understand how they even put up with him.

It's no wonder that Eridan has issues getting along with others. He isn't any good at expressing his feelings in any case, but the problem is that he isn't any good at hiding them, either, and it makes him difficult for others to deal with. He ends up putting himself on the outside, always wishing to be on the inside. He can't relate to others, needing things to be spelled out for him before he'll understand what a person is really thinking, rather than the elaborate make-believe he's set up in his head.

This extends, quite naturally, into his attempts at romance. Troll romance is complicated, involving four different types of relationships that all need to be filled. There are lines of hate and pity, as well as a difference in function, romantically or socially. It's a confusing thing, especially for young trolls. Eridan, however, has more trouble with it than most. The two quadrants he did have filled, or thought he did, both failed, in various levels of misery. He was in pity with his moirail (basically something like a platonic soulmate), Feferi, who he was unintentionally draining emotionally, the relationship much more one-sided, on her part, than it's ever meant to be. His rivalry with Vriska fell apart as he tried to hold on to the relationship as she developed other interests. In the end, both of his relationships end up as more friendship than romance.

While Eridan isn't the type to throw himself indiscriminately at everyone all the time, when he gets feelings that are even a bit romantic for someone, he will start attempting to flirt with them. He's overly sensitive to other people's comments romantically, as well, and tends to see comments that were meant innocently as an attempt on their part to flirt with him. He tends to try to make his attempts at flirtation subtle, when the interest is on his own part. Another troll, Karkat, didn't even realize Eridan's attempts to flirt with him at the time, only realizing it many hours later when his future self spoke with past Eridan. When it's a case of apparent interest on the other person's part, Eridan is much more likely to broach the subject, put himself forward as willing to attempt a quadrant with them. Like any troll, he just wants to find his destined partners.

Eridan is an extremely jealous person. He would love to monopolize people, having all their attention. He tends to attempt this with gifts, most especially when it comes to Feferi, but also to Jade in the form of his ultimate rifle, and arguably even to Vriska, in their FLARP partnership and the spoils it gained them. It's hard for him to accept when a troll has others they hate or pity more than him, and it can easily send him into a rage.

Eridan's interest in romance doesn't only apply to his own romances, however. He avidly follows romcoms and discusses romantic movies with Karkat frequently. He also tends to gossip about romances amongst their friends with Kanaya. He's always willing to impart a piece of romantic advice if he's able, but more frequently he seeks it. Taking the advice he seeks, however, is a different story, as he isn't someone who follows advice easily.

Eridan likes to do things his own way. When that comes to feelings, he sometimes has a hard time actually approaching the issues. With his low self-esteem, his feelings are easily hurt, despite the fact that he tells himself he enjoys the drama of it. He tries to keep his real feelings as secret as possible from the object of them, especially when it comes to pity. The more real and deep his feelings are, the less likely he is to actively pursue them, making flirting with those he doesn't hold a serious pity or hatred for much easier than the real thing, in many ways.

Leaving off of the subject of romance, Eridan tends to do whatever he wants despite other's objections in all aspects of his life. His quest for landdweller genocide is one such example. Kanaya and Feferi are both opposed, but he's set on it regardless. In SGRUB, Eridan single-mindedly pursues the genocide of the angels of his world, LOWAA. The other trolls are against it, as it makes the angels homicidal against them, but it becomes his mission in the game, and almost the only thing he does the entire time. He'll lie to them about continuing it, however, because while he's made himself alone in LOWAA, the angered angels scaring any potential visitors away, he really wants for people to visit him. In another case, when he made the decision that their only hope was to join Jack Noir to save themselves, no one else's opinion mattered to him, to disastrous ends. He just has trouble giving up on a course of action, once he's begun it.

Eridan is a lonely person, the sort with an empty ache to fill, but he doesn't know how to fill it. He tries romance, and a blustering facade, but fails at more general friendship. Life is hard, and no one understands.

That said, Eridan has other interests as well. He likes stories about magic, despite believing it to be completely fake, and wizards, although they are only FAKE FRIENDS. He believes in destiny, like Jade getting his rifle from someone from the future before he gave it to her, and that all trolls have a link to an ancestors that affects who they are.

Despite the hopelessness of his own situation, SGRUB dubbed him the Prince of Hope, after all, and Eridan takes that to mean he is the one who decides what hope is. The titles are both a description of the bearer, and a role that challenges them. There is a positive side to this: Eridan is ever hopeful, never giving up on things, even when it would be better for him to do so. However, Prince is a destructive title, and without meaning to, his actions tend to destroy his hope, and that of others.

Character Abilities you would like to expand on further:
Trolls are nocturnal, so Eridan has the ability to see in the dark. Highblood trolls like Eridan tend to have very long lifespans, living for centuries. As a sea-dwelling troll specifically, he can breathe both underwater and on land. Speaking of the aquatic sub-race, he has an instinctual ability to swim, but little in the way of actual experience so doing. He does, however, have lots of experience riding on his guardian lusus, a Skyhorse - a creature that looks much like a seahorse, but has the ability to fly.

Eridan knows how to sail ships, a skill he put to use in his extreme role playing. As for said extreme role playing, FLARP was very handy for finding treasure, hunting other trolls' lusii, and winning all the levels. He is also good at planning and plotting, to great effect in FLARP, but less than effectively in real life.

In the SGRUB game, Eridan put his knowledge of rifles, another skill he gained and improved through FLARP, to good use killing all the angels. Or perhaps bad use, but at least important use. In the end, it was good practice, at least. He is very good with a rifle.

Through various shenanigans in the veil post-SGRUB, Eridan got a wand of white science. It shoots blasting rays of white science. It isn't magic. Really.

Character Weaknesses you would like to expand on further:
Trolls aren't able to stand the light of the Alternian sun, and Eridan is no exception. Although the effects of other stars is never mentioned, it's probably safe to assume sunlight would always be irritating.

Eridan has no close-range fighting capability, and no defense against psychic attack. All-in-all, he's no good in any sort of fight but long-range.

His greatest weakness, however, is a complete lack of natural empathy. While he does know people have them, Eridan isn't really capable of understanding others' feelings or motivations. Short of being wacked upside the thinkpan with a cluebat, Eridan can't grasp the why behind others' reactions.

[ SOUL CAMPAIGN SECTION ]

What abilities will your character retain in Soul Campaign?
-Improved night vision, in comparison to day vision
-Ability to breath underwater
-Better than average swimming ability
-Knowledge of Alternian history and troll movies
-Knowledge of how to ride a sky horse
-Ability to use rifles
-Ability to use a science wand
-Being pirate-y

What weaknesses will your character lose or gain in Soul Campaign?
Weaknesses lost:
-none, really, though Alternia's sun, specifically, will be irrelevent

Weaknesses gained:
-Having to live with humans - human culture, human schedule being largely diurnal, human morals and values

The wish Death the Kid made to the BREW in 2009 was to “rescue Death City and stop the waves of Madness from overtaking the world.” By whatever means necessary. Pretend you are the BREW. Why would you choose to bring this character to Death City?
There are a number of reasons Eridan would be brought to Death City. The first is having grown up on Alternia and played SGRUB. He's already accustomed to fighting for his life when basically everything is, potentially, out to kill him, meaning he'll be able to adapt to the many dangers the guests face. The second is his inability to be swayed from his opinion by others. Once on Shibusen's side, he will be a staunch supporter. The third and last is his predilection for genocide. While this makes him something of a gamble, should this be turned against Shibusen and the guests, it makes him invaluable against the onslaught of Kishin eggs and Witches.

If your character has difficulty verbally communicating or can’t verbally communicate at all (mute or non-humanoid), elaborate on how this will be treated in the game.
N/A

[ WEAPON ONLY SECTION ]

Why is your character a Weapon and not a Meister?
Eridan will be a Weapon because of the character development it will force upon him. While Weapons and Meisters are equals in their partnership, Eridan won't be one to see it as such. As the one who wields, Eridan would see the Meister as the move enviable role. Being a Weapon would force him to deal with having someone else lead in battle. Additionally, if he were a Meister, he would likely lord his position over his weapon, whereas as a Weapon, he'll be forced to learn to get along.

What is your character’s Weapon Form? Why?
Eridan's Weapon form will be a wand, much like his magic science wand (http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004947). Instead of the ornate decoration of the original, his Weapon form will have purple threading through the white.

What is your character’s Weapon Ability?
Eridan's Weapon form will shoot soul wavelength, much the same way gun-type Weapons do. It would manifest as a beam of wavelength, rather than a bullet. The actual attack power is concentrated at the front of the beam, however, the tail being little more than a visual effect.

While there wouldn't be any further specialized attack ability, the strength and steadiness of the wavelength would depend on resonation. At basic resonance, the attack is weak, and can't be upheld for long. It will be necessary to rest a short time between use, and will do only minor damage. At average resonance, the attack is stronger, and more attacks may be done before it's necessary to rest. Damage will be greater. At strong resonance, rests are needed only infrequently, and damage will be significant. At full resonance, a wavelength beam with the potential to knock out enemies can be fired, but more often it will result in major damage.

[ SOUL INFORMATION ]

Describe your character’s soul with six adjectives.
Dramatic, lonely, violent, arrogant, defensive, hard-headed

What does your character’s soul look like? Be creative.
Eridan's soul is a dark grey with two wavy bands with a slightly purple tint to them circling it. His soul-tail will be shaped like one line of the Aquarius symbol.

[ SAMPLES ]

Provide a First Person style sample in the form of a post to the DEMISE network.

[text]
so wwhat
its fuckin wwitches huh
look
i get it
bring the wwhite science wwizard get him to solvve your problem
somethin like that right
wwell thing is
ivve got some important shit goin dowwn
a vveritable sea a stupidity to deal wwith
howw about wwe leavve off all the bullshit
an someone tell me wwhat the fuck is really goin on here

Provide a Third Person sample set during the last minutes on their world and/or their first few moments in the Kishin Chamber (http://soul-mods.dreamwidth.org/3401.html).

For a moment it had felt like old times, him and Vriska. A renewal of their old rivalry, the beginning of a glorius kismesissitude. They could make a contest out of killing whomever was left in this shitty labratory. He'd start with a lead, even; he could enjoy himself watching her try to catch up. Maybe she would oppose his plans to join Jack Noir. They could work it up into a really big thing, it could be a blackrom to go down in history.

Sure, there wasn't much of a history to go down in, now. Like that mattered, anyway.

The honking horn announcing Gamzee's arrival and his blood-covered club were the only surprising things in this situation. He shouldn't be here, he wasn't a proper kismesis for anyone, let alone someone who could challenge the two of them. Who could believe that clown would be trying to step up to his hatchright and follow in his ancestor's footsteps?

But of course, all that destiny stuff was a bunch of fakey fake fake stories for grubs. Even if their ancestors left them things to find, which obviously they did, fate wasn't a thing that was real. It didn't decide anything about what they were meant to do with their lives.

Even if it wasn't fate, which it WASN'T, at all, it had still come to a showdown between the three of them. Eridan gripped his science wand tighter, gritting his teeth and waiting, like the others, to see who would make the first move.

As his glance slid from Gamzee back to Vriska, he found she suddenly wasn't there. In a panic he looked back to Gamzee, only to find he wasn't there, either. This wasn't the right place, not the labratory, someplace else entirely.

His first thought was that Jack had found them. "Where are you? What the hell did you do?" he asked into the room at large, trying to catch sudden, terrible movement behind one of the statues. "Look, I tried to tell them you'd-"

The sudden appearance of a screen brought him up short. When a face appeared (not a troll, was that a human?) his first instinct was to blast it with white science. He brought up his wand and shot, only to find there was no shot, no beam of light, no destruction.

Not waiting to hear what that human was saying, he turned away, his only thought being to find an exit.


[ NOTES ]
Eridan types with a quirk.

it looks somethin like this
his wweird wwavvy accent is represented wwith the doubled ww and vv
hes always droppin the g off a verbs and wwords like anythin nothin sometin an the like
theres no capitalization except for EMPHASIS an no punctuation
of gets wwritten as a much a the time
an sometime a replaces an and an replaces and