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☞ Player Information;
Name: Alphie
Player Journal: technicolorgenius
Age: 22 (birthday is 8/31 I just don’t feel like going back and changing the app)
Contact: Skype: cupcakeCatalyst,
Other characters currently played at Ryan's Gulch: N/A
☞ Character Information;
Character Name: Gamzee Makara
Canon: Homestuck
OU or AU?: OU
Canon point: Pre-Sober point, right before the last of his pies ran out.
Setting: Alternia

Alternia is the home planet of the trolls of Homestuck. On this planet, the rule is done so in a caste system, where based on your blood color, is where you stand on a social scale. Its lowest color is red, and as it moves through the visible spectrum, it becomes more and more upper class. On Alternia, there are very few adults, the majority of which is off the planet, taking over other planets. So when it comes to raising the young on this planet it goes through a very complicated process. Since there are four types of relationships, and two of them are used for procreation, breeding occurs through depositing genetic material in a pail to be delivered to something known as the Mother Grub, and all the material is mixed together in an incestuous slurry to fertilize eggs which will later hatch into tiny little grubs known as Wigglers.These are the young trolls of Alternia. When they hatch within what is known as the Brooding Caverns, the little grubs go through perilous trials, which do end up killing many of them, but when they survive, they are then adopted. But not by adult trolls, but by something known as a lusus, which is actually a wild animal. The young wigglers then are raised and required to build their own homes, known as hives. While being raised by their lusus, they must not only act as children of the lusus, but also zoo keepers to keep their lusus from going wild. Some trolls are required to kill others and feed them to their lusus, while other ones are timid and don’t need to be kept satiated by murdering others of a trolls kind.

Violence and murder on Alternia are incredibly common and it’s not unnatural for trolls to kill one another for fun, or for survival. There appears to be really no real law against killing, but when someone’s crimes become severe, there is no concept of innocent or guilty, as there is no such thing on Alternia as defense lawyers. So when a troll is brought to court for murder? They’ve really done something wrong. For the most part, Alternia is run by children, and the few adults on the planet are actors or authors, and they don’t do much in terms of militaristic rule.

However, the planet is still completely controlled by an incredibly highblooded empress who oversees everything, and going against her law is essentially justified by death. Since most of the planet is overrun with children, and the adults away to participate in military action, there’s a lot of shenanigans. And a lot of difficulties when it comes to being young. Particularly when the idea of quadrants comes along.

Quadrants are the trolls way of measuring romantic relationships. With the root word “quad” in there, it’s clear there are four types. The most understandable is Flushed romance which we as humans understand to be love. Then there is the exact opposite, Caliginous romance, which as far as we can understand is Hate Sex. Both of these relationships are required for procreation. The other two relationships are more social. The easier to understand of the two is Pale romance, known as moiraillegiance, which is a platonic sort of romance. It’s essentially someone who balances another out, and without them, are essentially a bit empty. The other is Ashen romance which is a mediating like romance. When two friends start to lean towards hating one another, a third person steps in to keep them from hating each other as a mutual friend. However, when it comes to Flushed and Caliginous romance, something called the Imperial Drones come to subjects requiring them to fill pails with genetic material, and if they fail to comply? The subjects in question are killed. So on Alternia, the pressure to fill these two quadrants is heavy, since without them, a person is better off dead.

History: History!”
Personality: Gamzee originally came into Homestuck as a calm, relaxed and rather spiritual kid, with not much going for him. He was living on his own for the most part, with only the support of a handful of friends whom he communicated with through the internet. While he appears to be a Juggalo—one of the followers of the band Insane Clown Posse- he isn’t exactly like one of those followers exactly, even though, in some odd way, Gamzee has a habit of referencing the subculture almost constantly. Mainly, it comes across in the form of him stating that almost everything around him is a “motherfucking miracle.”

And even though the kid seems to appear as if he’s some clown obsessed, twisted little kid, he’s really far from it. He spends most of his time totally tripped out from consuming pies made out of the illicit drug that is sopor slime. He knows he really shouldn’t eat the stuff, but hey, he sees a bunch of cool colors, so what’s the harm in it, right? Gamzee for the most part is a positive character, seeming to be very friendly towards the others in the series. Even though their culture focuses on living in a caste system, and Gamzee who is placed near the top being expected to adhere to his social superiority, doesn’t seem to meld into the expected criteria of someone near the top of the social order. He is certainly one of the types of characters who doesn’t appear to harbor any negative feelings towards anyone he knows, and comes across as being a friend and therapist to those close to him. However, as a friend, he tends to give some very strange, and often vague advice that his friends can’t follow.

For the most part, Gamzee seems to be very nonchalant and uncaring about many of the troubles that might surface in his life. He’s constantly finding other things to focus on, and other things that are far more important to keep himself busy with. Usually he’s more focused on busying himself with staring off into space, or looking at colors, or consuming pies, or trying to ride his one wheeled device (unicycle) or just chillaxing in a pile. He’s cool with talking to just about anyone, and the idea of his friends contacting him is actually kind of exciting for the kid. Gamzee’s actually rather enthusiastic about having friends, and might be a little too excited over the opportunity to do things with them. He’s also come to understand that his zoning out tends to happen rather frequently, and often apologizes for it. He’s shown to be incredibly fond of having rap-offs with his best bros (namely Tavros), and loves to just kick it, even though the both of them are pretty terrible. Usually.

Even though Gamzee has had to deal with other trolls basically telling him that he’s a disgrace, and annoying, he’s actually very okay with this. He knows that he can’t make everyone happy all the time, but he’d like to try his best to make everyone just be bros together. He tries his best anyways, and doesn’t really enjoy making enemies with others at all, he’d rather just make others happy, such as how he’s attempted to order Equius around at the others request. He’d really rather just be a supportive friend, and in his own strange way, he’s as good of a friend he can be to all the others. When Karkat witnessed Sollux getting killed, Gamzee just stepped in and made a point to tell Karkat that he didn’t need to worry, and that things would work out, stating that there was a “miracle” coming on. It’s his own brand of optimism, and he does what he can to make his friends feel better.

He likes to roll with whatever comes to him, and doesn’t seem to show any interest in conflict in any form. Gamzee doesn’t seem to care much at all that he belongs to a religious cult that others frown upon and assume he’s got some problems for being involved with. Even so, he also doesn’t seem to care that he’s almost totally clueless when it comes to most things. And frankly? Gamzee kind of lacks a lot of common sense. Come on, he seems to believe that standing on a unicycle constitutes as riding the damn thing. However, his lack of common sense could most likely be blamed on having a rather poor upbringing, since his lusus/parent/custodian was never around to really care about him. Gamzee does seem to have a very strong attachment to his lusus, even though he’s often been left alone and never got to see the creature often. Turns out, that even with his lusus being a less than fabulous parent figure to Gamzee, when the sea-goat actually passes away, Gamzee’s actually incredibly sad about it, but he’s the type that actually can accept that this sort of thing is natural, and there’s no going against it.

Overall, Gamzee is a very relaxed, very friendly, and very caring individual. Even if he doesn’t always make sense when it comes to all of this. He might not always make sense when he’s trying to be a good friend, since he is high out of his goddamn mind most of the time, but at least the sentiment is still there.

However, this is the old Gamzee.

When Gamzee becomes sober, things change.

When Gamzee’s supply of sopor slime runs out, he stops becoming distracted and oblivious. He starts to see the world for what it really is. This is pretty much to blame (for starters) on Dave Strider, who exposed Gamzee to Insane Clown Posse, and actually caused the troll to completely doubt his religion. He freaks out at Dave at one point, tearing him apart with a wall of indigo text, telling the kid how because of his need to taunt him with sending him ICP videos, he had his faith shattered.

Gamzee becomes very aware of who he is, and he becomes incredibly accepting of it. He starts to preach about how the slime he’s been eating all this time is poison and how it’s been rotting his brain, and how now that he’s off of the substance, he’s become understanding of what his goal in life is supposed to be. He starts to snap slightly, using instances of the “we” pronoun instead of “I”. Gamzee starts to rant on how he’s been denying his true calling in life, and how’s he’s supposed to take on a role as a “subjugglator”, which is a group of highblooded trolls in Alternian society responsible for “slaughtering the wicked ignorance”, which is a fancy way of saying, killing the people who deserve to be killed.

He starts to adopt a “higher than you” attitude, and starts to embrace his location in the Hemospectrum caste system, since he’s now figured out how his world works. Gamzee also starts to obsess over his religion again, basically claiming that he’s the two god-like figures of his religion, and that he’s always been his religious saviors. From there, his intentions become clear, as he announces that now that he has come to accept what he is—he’s going to kill anyone who opposes him. And he does so. When confronted by Equius at one point, he seems to completely forget any of the friend relations he had with the troll prior to the incident, and he uses his superiority on the Hemospectrum to assert himself, and when Equius refuses to listen to him, he quite literally ends Equius’s adventure by giving him an arrow to the knee. Yet, he doesn’t stop there. He manages to force Equius on the ground, and proceeds to snap the bow he used to fire the arrow in half, and strangles the troll to death with it—while smiling.

And it only gets worse. When Nepeta witnesses this and attacks Gamzee for killing Equius, he simply just grabs her arm as she’s aiming to slash at him across the face with a pair of claws—and snaps her wrist. In doing so, he also takes her hand and drags it across his face, slashing his face open, all while laughing at her, before he approaches her, and beats her to death with a pair of clubs.

To put it more simply, once Gamzee pulls himself off of the sopor slime, he goes from being a friendly, optimistic and rather peaceful individual…to being a total nutcase. And that can really be attributed to three things. The first being that he had his faith in his religion crushed by Dave Strider, who simply just made fun of his beliefs. The second being that Vriska Serket had killed Tavros Nitram, the kid who Gamzee seemed to be harboring some sort of crush for. The third being that he had finally run out of the slime that made him calm, and helped him shut out the horrible things that happened all around him. With these three things, he’s basically broken down, and the only way he can cope with his struggles at this point, is to kill whatever stands in his way, and to embrace what runs in his blood line, by becoming a subjugglator.

However once he became pacified by Karkat, with a mighty papshoosh to calm his tits, Gamzee slowly started to slwip back into his normal self again, having gotten a smack to the face with reality. He's only shown to be concerned about his best bro, by being a comforting shoulder to cry on when things got back for the other troll. In addition, he's recently shown interest in being his old dopey self again when he went to start selling potions to Jane Crocker, rather oblivious to the gigantic codpiece he'd been wearing at the time.

Abilities: When Gamzee was first introduced into Homestuck, it would seem like the kid could do very little. He was always sitting around, eating pies made of a supposedly toxic substance which the species usually slept in. He’d be lazing about, worshiping the strange clown like gods of his religion, attempting to ride around on unicycles, and failing quite miserably at attempting to troll his friends and human counterparts.

He was capable of being a horrible freestyle rapper, dancing weirdly, playing with bike horns, sleeping, spacing out, looking at pretty colors, and well...aside for his ability to wield juggling clubs as weapons, he could do pretty much nothing. However, as the story progressed we’ve seen that Gamzee can do some relatively scary things.

We do know that Gamzee is incredibly violent, and a lot stronger than he looks. Gamzee’s God Tier title in the game of SGRUB is that of “Bard of Rage” and has it in his nature to be incredibly powerful. It’s been noted that in the troll’s fight against the Black King during the game, Gamzee did more damage to their enemy than anyone else. This is also shown when Gamzee shoots Equius with a bow and then strangles the other with it. He’s proficient with several weapons in the series, as it’s shown that in his Strifedeck, when he goes to kill Nepeta, there are multiple weapons, and it has changed from just Clubkind, to Jokerkind.

However, while the extent to which Gamzee has used this is unclear…Gamzee does know how to manipulate dreams. He has been shown to go into the dreams of others and place new things in them, or remove other things. He can play around with the subconscious workings of someone’s dreams until they no longer represent a dream, but are more so that of a nightmare than anything else. In addition, even though Gamzee’s title as Bard of Rage has been known to be incredibly powerful, we have yet to really see what he can do with that title since he has yet to realize what this title does for his abilities.

RE: Strifekind/Weapon Carrying: Generally in Sgrub/Sburb, all the characters in Homestuck have something known as a Sylladex/Memory Modus, where they all keep their personal items. None of the characters within the series really understand exactly how they work, they just know that if you put something into one of these things, you can retrieve it later. As for strife decks, these are an aspect of their Sylladex where they can place weapons in order for them to retrieve them prior to a fight breaking out. In Gamzee's situation, his strife deck went from being Clubkind, where he could only use a pair of weaponized juggling clubs, to that of Jokerkind. From what has been revealed, Jokerkind allows Gamzee to have access to the weapons of the other players of Sgrub/Sburb (although only a few of them have been revealed, those being Clubkind, Lancekind, Whipkind, Hammerkind, Bowkind. However, he's only been shown to use Clubkind, Bowkind and Hammerkind). So, he's been able to draw out these weapons from the deck. Very literally, using a strife deck is very much like drawing guns from holsters, or a sword from its sheath.

While Gamzee does have access canonly to all of these weapons, I'd be completely understanding if it would be preferred if he only had access to his default weapons of Clubkind. When it comes to how he’d use them in Rapture? Given that his canon point is before he starts using Jokerkind, he’ll be using Clubkind primarily as a means of protecting himself from splicers who might attack him. Later on, if he does manage to use Jokerkind, he’ll be doing essentially the same thing, and he’ll just have a larger arsenal. But there is a chance that come Rapture, given his mood, he may use his chuckle voodoos and combine them with plasmid usage (possibly Enrage?). But since his canon point involves him being far too relaxed and chilled out, there will be very little chance he’d even realize he had chuckle voodoos that he could use on anyone. Chances are, that unless he gets canon updated to a sober point, the only skills he really has that will be used would be his ability to rhyme and do slam poetry.

How did your character arrive in Rapture? He’ll be brought in via malfunctioning teleportation plasmid. Let’s assume he took a transportalizer on the meteor and accidentally wound up here.

Network sample:
YoU kNoW iT tOoK mE aLl A wHiLe To ReAlIzE tHaT tHiS aIn'T nO mEtEoR aNyMoRe.
BrOThEr WaS aLl MoThErFuCkInG wAnDeRiNg ArOuNd. WoNdErInG wHeRe HiS bEsT mOtHeTfUcKiNg FrIeNdS aLl Up AnD wEnT.
AnD tHeN bAm. LoOk OuT a WiNdOw AnD sPaCe NoT bEiNg SeEn fRoM tHeSe LoOkInG gLoBeS.
AlL wEt GuYs.
PaN aLl GoT tHoUgHtS fOr ThInKiNg ThAt It WaS uP aT a SeA sIsTeRs HiVe Or SoMe ShIt.
YoU bE sEeInG aLl ThEm BuBbLeS fLoAtInG aWaY?
MiRaClEs SaYs ThIs MoThErFuCkEr.
AlL bEiNg LiKe PlIp PlOp PoP aNd ShIt BeFoRe ThEy AlL bE fLyInG aWaY tO gEt ThEmSeLvEs SoMe MoThErFuCkInG aIr.
YoU kNoW wHeN yOu'Re AlL bLoWiNg BuBbLeS aLl WiTh YoUr BrEaTh?
ThErE bEiNg ThOsE bLeNdS oF cOlOr AlL sHiMmErY iN tHoSe MoThErFuCkInG oRbS?
YeAh MaN.
ThAt'S wHaT i'M tAlKiNg AbOuT.
wAtChInG tHoSe LiTtLe ShItS fLoAt AwAy In ThE sKy TiL tHeY'rE aLl MeEtInG tHeIr EnD?
MoThErFuCk TaLk AbOuT gEtTiHg DrEaAs AlL fLoAtInG aWaY wItH tHe MoThErFuCkInG mAgIc BeInG aLl In ThE aIr, Am I rIgHt Or Am I mOtHeRfUcKiNg RiGhT? :o)
BuT tHeN iT wAs aLl BeInG lIkE wHoA.
wHeRe ThE mOtHeRfUcK wAs ThIs BrOtHeR?
aIn'T nO sPaCe HeRe.
No MoThErFuCkInG bLaCk AnD sTaRs AnD rOcKs AlL bEiNg BoBbInG uP aNd DoWn In SpAcE.
iNsTeAd It'S aLl LiKe MoThErFuCkInG wEt.
WaVeS aNd WaTeR aLl BeInG fLoWiNg ArOuNd ThEsE wInDoWs AnD tHeSe WaLlS.
AnD i WaS aLl HoLy ShIt I'm AlL bEiNg UnDeR tHe WaTeR. aNd InSiDe.
BuT wHeRe'S mY mOtHeRfUcKiNg sEa DwElLiNg BiZzNiTcHeS?
YoU aLl BeInG oUt ThErE gUyS? yOu AlL mAkE tHe WhOlE fLyInG rOcK a MoThErFuCkInG bUbBlE uNdEr ThE sEa Or WhAt? :o)

Log sample:

Gamzee hadn’t realized he’d been off the meteor initially, and it wasn’t until he started to stare out of a window to see all the bubbles flowing out from around the creases of Rapture, floating away and into nothingness, perhaps up to the surface. He wasn’t too sure where they were going, but it was nice to watch them. There was something pretty motherfucking magical about watching the ocean. He’d always lived by the ocean, and he’d always enjoyed watching the water move, even though he had never been all that good at swimming in it. He figured as long as the glass and metal didn’t break, he’d be fine. But as he stood by the window, he heard a few people murmuring as they walked past him, mostly commenting on his horns. The lighting around him hid the color of his skin, but as far as he could tell, he was of a minority in Rapture. He turned to look at some of the murmuring voices only to see a few human women strolling past. He smiled wide, waving at the ladies. They looked surprised and scuttled off, leaving Gamzee a bit perplexed. Maybe he did look a little funny, or maybe it was his makeup, but he was far too relaxed right now to care all that much. The water outside was pretty damn mesmerizing.

He had been standing there for a while though. Completely lost in the little popping and ripples of water outside the window, as well as the occasional fish swimming past. He kept hoping another one might go by, but he’d waited long enough. Although the blue-green glow of the city lights was almost as distracting as the pretty colors of his miracle modus. He kept losing himself in the colors, and...wasn’t he supposed to be going somewhere? Or something? He couldn’t remember if he was supposed to do something. He figured another few minutes of staring at the colors wouldn’t hurt.