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GLORIA DEMEIZ: abaddonTerrified
Your name is Gloria Demeiz, you are 11 sweeps old, and life has fucked you over.
You were hatched with impressive psionic powers, and we all know where that gets lowbloods like you. Yep- strapped to the front of a battleship and used as it's engine, tied to a bunch of wires and having your life force sucked away to ferry highbloods to distant planets. To say it sucks is putting it lightly. Not that you can do much about it, of course. The best you can do is simply withdraw inside yourself and sleep the days away, catching up on the sleep you missed out on when you were a youngster.
Hmm, what? Why, it's not like this ship's engine thing is a surprise to you. You knew it was going to happen from the first time you learned about the Empire. So you grew up a partier, fully intending to make the most of your life on the planetside, but you were always resigned to your fate. You were interested in FLARP, in tales of eldritch terrors, you had friends and lovers and haters, but when they dragged you off Alternia and shackled you to the S.S. Destructinator you weren't even remotely shocked.
You would have killed yourself before the drones got you, honestly, were it not for one thing. Ever since you were a wiggler, your dreams have been beautiful- the most glorious things you've ever seen, visions of golden streets and their friendly white denizens. Every moment you spend asleep is a moment you live your second life in a caste-free paradise. You didn't think it was so impressive when you were young, and Alternia was right there for you to run around in while awake, but these days any time you're not in the agony of the wires is a precious time indeed.
Your trollTag (not that you have time to use it) is abaddonTerrified and you used t:: have a strangely d::tty way ::f w::rding y::ur tr::llings.
DETAILS:
AGE: 11 Sweeps
NAME: Gloria Demeiz. Directly ripped off the English words "Glory" and "Demise".
BLOOD: #800000, hue 0, redblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: o -> ::
LUSUS: Golden Mole
STRIFE SPECIBUS: Unassigned (Laser eyes)
SGRUB TITLE: Witch of Hope (beta group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Heather and Angels
SGRUB MOON: Prospit
LUQUAS ELCHIZ: hurtComfort
Your name is Luquas Elchiz, you are 9 sweeps old, and you are a complete asshole.
It's not your fault, though. Or perhaps it is. While it's no secret that Alternia breeds it's trolls to be ruthless to each other by way of survival, your nature takes it to a whole new level. It might be some sort of bizarre psychic power, or perhaps you were just hatched wrong, but you came into the world completely unable to feel empathy. Any empathy. You can feel emotions, sure, a whole bunch of them- but the concept of feeling compassion for your fellow troll is as alien as the idea of having bright red blood. To you, other members of your own species are as significant or as worthy of living as disgusting bugs that crawl underfoot, and you feel nothing but curiosity and amusement when their lives are snuffed out.
You believe yourself to be the smartest individual on the planet, with an intellect far surpassing any of these other idiotic trolls. As a result, you satisfy your natural bloodlust not by simply taking your buzzsaw to a random troll's neck, but by playing complex social games. You are an excellent actor, with a "humble helpful lowblood" persona mimicked to a T, and your favorite pasttime is worming your way into social groups and destroying them from within. You befriend others and then spread slander about them, you give horrendous advice to people suffering moments of weakness, and you scheme and manipulate until everyone in the friends group is either traumatized or dead. Nothing else gives you quite as much fun, bottom line!
But when you lie awake during the day, in your rundown hive and respiteblock, you cannot help but secretly envy those same trolls you're disgusted by. What is this 'empathy' like? What would it be like, actually respecting and emotionally connecting to others? You evaded being culled by the drones by faking your way into red and black relationships (ugh, how that disturbed you), but some small part of you desperately wishes you could enjoy the romance that your culture places so much importance on. Oh, well. You'll most likely never know.
Your trolltag is hurtComfort and you h9ve 9 pretty helpful w9y of typing, if you do s9y so yourself, but something 9lw9ys seems 9 bit... superior?...
DETAILS:
AGE: 9 Sweeps
NAME: Luquas- derivative of Lucas, which means "light", and Elchiz, a shortening of Melchizedek, biblical righteous king.
BLOOD: #802b00, hue 20, brownblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: a/A -> 9
LUSUS: Hedgehog-dinosaur
STRIFE SPECIBUS: buzzsawKind
SGRUB TITLE: Thief of Rage (beta group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Wheat and Quell
SGRUB MOON: Derse
ESPORA JETRAN: timeCrash
Your name is Espora Jetran, you are 8.5 sweeps old, and time is not on your side.
You used to think it was, back when you were a wriggler and didn't know any better. Why? Well, your brown blood, something the spectrum dictates you ought to have been cursing, gave you a pretty awesome psychic ability- the ability to control your own time. You can speed yourself up to the point that you appear to be a blur to others, and if you're stuck in something boring- like a schoolfeeding session or bad movie- you can slow yourself down so that the world zooms past ten times faster. You thought you had hit the jackpot when it came to psychic abilities, and as a result you developed a cocky, headstrong personality. You even started fancying yourself an amateur vigilante, beating up older trolls in the blink of an eye. You were the best. Completely unstoppable. Nothing could get in your way!
That is, until you noticed that you had shed all your wiggler traits and developed into a full grown troll an entire sweep and a half before normal. It was then that you realized the truth of your ability, the one that your Pigeon-Kangaroo lusus had been trying and failing to teach you ever since you crawled out of the Cave of Trials- you've been running on your lifespan all along. Every time you sped up, you sped up your growth and development as well- effectively fastforwarding your way towards your inevitable death of old age. Or even that. Because when you speed up, everything in your body does. Wounds bleed and heal faster, diseases take much quicker to infect fully and then go away, your hair grows at an accelerated rate and your horns have practically exploded out of your head. Sounds good, right? Not if you had a tumor, or anything else like that. Without keeping your medical state constantly in check, careless use of your speed ability would turn an oddly shaped mole into a fatal melanoma before you even knew you had it.
Of course, slowing yourself down does the opposite- if you were to be critically wounded and use that ability, you wouldn't bleed out until weeks had passed- but you can never turn back the clock. As it is, you are an eight and a half sweep old in a ten sweep old's body, and if you don't manage your abilities much more finely then the gap's only going to get worse. But with your careless demeanor, who knows if you'll be able to?
Enough about the ability that's more or less defined your life, though. Let's examine your interests. You love to show others up, especially highbloods, although if pressed you will grudgingly admit you follow the spectrum. Sports are your favorite activity, although you won't say no to motorized two-wheel device races or even impromptu parkour (although the latter you are pretty shoddy at, due to never thinking out your jumps properly before you make them). You genuinely enjoy cooking, but often find yourself abusing your time powers to hurry up the process and thus ending up with under/overdone meals. Patience is a virtue you have yet to learn.
Your hive is in a shitty hivestem in a shitty town, and your lusus spends most of his time scuttling around eating trash. When at home you enjoy listening to edgy rock bands most of which have names like "We Sort of Slightly Disagree With The Hemospectrum (Please Don't Cull Us)", and either painting or practicing a wide variety of sports. So many sports. Oh god, the sports.
Your trolltag is timeCrash and you > speak fast and don't care.
> > except sometimes you do.
> > > well you care a lot of the time actually.
> > you just don't show it.
> hmmm.
DETAILS:
AGE: 8.5 Sweeps
NAME: Espora, from "Sporadic"; Jetran, from... ehh, let's say Cyborg 002.
BLOOD: #805500, hue 40, brownblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: Speed arrows before sentences, lowercase.
LUSUS: Pigeon-kangaroo
STRIFE SPECIBUS: greaveKind
SGRUB TITLE: Knight of Light (alpha group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Rice and Flow
SGRUB MOON: Prospit
ZENERE MORULA: hotbagHelios
Your name is Zenere Morula, you are 9 sweeps old, and- oh, fuck! You're late!
Late for what? Your job, of course, one of the few things you've been able to hold down in your clusterfuck of a life. You are one of many delivery chumps for the industry known as Pizza Grub, a joint located in one of the most populated hivestem cities on Alternia. Ever wondered how so many trolls can lock themselves up in their hives and still have a supply of nice food? Yep, that's your responsibility. Pizza Grub delivers all hours of the night, to all castes and personalities- and let's not pretend this is an easy job. You've had to evade blueblood turrets, strap on your scuba gear and infiltrate in order to deliver grubnion rings to lazy-ass seadwellers, dodge the cantankerous lusii of many a troll and even protect yourself against psychic powers employed by confused lowblood customers who thought you were there to attack them. All in all, it's a rough existence, and it's a standing testament to your powers of survival that you're the oldest in employment.
Not that you're old. You're only about nine sweeps, the latter two of which have been spent in employment. Yeah, you started shovelling pizzas pretty young- but hey, you reckon it's been good for you! You're certainly fit as a fiddle, if a little aggressive at times.. okay, yeah you're rather. You're very boisterous, quite impatient, but most of all enthusiastic. It's not often that you get time off work (mostly because everyone has a bad tendency to kill each other, so you're the most reliable employee there is) and you spend it living large, doing whatever the hell you want. Gambling? Sure. Egging hives? Super fun. Picking fights at random? Of course, there's nothing like a bit of bloodthirst! You're normally pretty amicable, always willing to have a drink with anyone, but you're also a rather proud individual.
Well, you're not proud of your blood. Yellow blood, ugh, ugh. So gross. You haven't even gotten a sweet power to make up for it- you often theorize that your power is surviving, but honestly that's not exactly special. You often dream about having a higher caste, and you're more than a bit resentful of higher-castes who spend their time denouncing the hemospectrum, the same thing that made them so privileged in the first place! Jerks. Although, you're pretty well off for a lowblood yourself. You live in a two-story hive on the outskirts of the hivestem city where you work, and your lusus spends most of the time sleeping there. In a hilarious twist of irony, the lusus of Pizza Grub's No. 1 Employee is... a grublike being itself, a landdwelling blob of grubby goodness. From what you've read about your particular lusus species, they're meant to grow into lizards, but that has never happened and you highly doubt it ever will.
Your job gives you a good source of caegars, and you spend them on various things, like cosmetic horn surgery. What, you didn't think that horn looping was natural, did you? Hell no! They used to be useless downwards-facing horns before you paid for that. Now you can carry things in the loops of your horns, or hang things from them- useful, and in your opinion pretty cool looking. Unfortunately your brawling tendencies and job-related hazards got the right one smashed, and you keep it taped up to stop it from falling apart altogether. In fact, uh, you're normally covered in bandages of some sort. But hey, you're keeping the medical industry alive, yeah!!!!
Your trolltag is hotbagHelios, and you TYPE WITH A SORTA EASY-GOIN LAID BAQ ACCENT, YA KNOW? NO BIG DEAL, DAT'S LIFE.
DETAILS:
AGE: 9 Sweeps
NAME: Zenere from "Zenith", Morula as in the stage of a fertilised egg (I don't know).
BLOOD: 808000, hue 60, yellowblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: All caps, CK -> Q, YOU -> YA, THAT = DAT, THE = DA.
LUSUS: Giant grub
STRIFE SPECIBUS: pizzactrKind
SGRUB TITLE: Rogue of Blood (alpha wave)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Xenon and Yarn
SGRUB MOON: Prospit
ORLATH AYSRIS: rebornTeratoma
Your name is Orlath Aysris, you were 8 sweeps old, and you're sort of dead.
Oh, well, it seemed like you had grand luck at the start. You were born a greenblood, yes, and your cramped hivestem respiteblock barely had room for all the Doctor Trollible and Doctor Frankentroll merchandise you shoved in it. Unlike your neighbours, who could shoot lasers from their eyes or move at ridiculous speeds, you had a power you thought was pretty gross: cellular manipulation. Namely, giving people tumours. Fast acting ones that could kill in minutes, yes, but still- gross. However, it was the basis for your fascination with mad scientists, and everything went from there.
Most of your wigglerhood was spent locked in your respiteblock, perfecting your evil scientist laugh, sewing your own labcoat, watching every single thriller or horror movie you could and practicing your powers on, well, anything you could find. After killing a neighbour who broke into your block looking for a fight by growing a massive tumour in the middle of his thinkpan, a passing-by redblood saw the display of your powers and immediately dragged you out with her to the FLARP grounds.
You? FLARP? You were always pretty self-assured, but you weren't sure if you were cut out for actual combat. Your doubt proved unfounded, however, and you shot to the top of the leader-board. This lead to you getting noticed by the leader of a notorious highblood team, being recruited into their ranks, living a brief and glorious life of luxury...
...and then snuffing it. Yeah, turns out that the leader of that highblood team was pretty hot, but everyone else had designs on her. Including a devious seadweller with a knack with wires. Long story short, he tricked you into shooting him, and then tricked her into killing you. It was a comedy of errors all 'round! You weren't particularly amused, though. In fact, were it not for the fact that you're sort of emotionless, you would totally be exacting your ghostly revenge.
But that's just it, you don't have emotions. You don't feel. You're nothing but a floating pawn of a million dead voices you never heard before, executing their wishes for reasons that escape you, and nobody can see you but the few trolls who can commune with the dead. That's alright with you, though. You don't mind at all. You don't mind anything.
Your trolltag is rebornTeratoma, and you (encl0se all y0ur w0rds in a tum0r)
DETAILS:
AGE: 8 Sweeps (dead)
NAME: Orlath and Aysris come from jumbling up "Osiris" and "Nyarlathotep".
BLOOD: 558000, hue 80, yellow-greenblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: o -> 0, all sentences contained in (brackets), no punctuation.
LUSUS: Clump of cells
STRIFE SPECIBUS: raygunKind
SGRUB TITLE: Page of Heart (alpha group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Ichor and Sinew
SGRUB MOON: Prospit
VALOKI GHARIL: toothTrauma
Your name is Valoki Gharil, you are 12 sweeps old, and you more or less hate everyone.
You hate everyone so much that you willingly isolated yourself in the most hostile swamps known to trollkind in an attempt to get as far away from them as possible, dressing like a savage and tussling with swamp monsters on a nightly basis. Why do you hate your own kind so? Is it because they don't respect nature, the thing you've plunged into so deeply that you don't think you could ever return to the civilised world? No, nothing like that. It's because you loved them once, and they did nothing but spit on you.
Once upon a time you were a philanthropist, a kindly troll in a world that catered for the cruel. With your nigh-unnatural strength in one hand and determinator personality in the other, you devoted your life to helping out the less fortunate trolls that fate had spat on. You crafted four wheel devices for the paralysed, provided financial aid for the poor, and tutored the overly compassionate on how to survive in the world. Often you were met with hostility, but for every three who turned you away, there was one that thanked you with open arms. That was all you needed. Well, you... thought so.
The truth is that, over the perigees, you grew unhappy and restless. Every troll who was hostile to you grated on your nerves more and more, while the thanks of those who were receptive to your help meant less and less. Eventually, you got to the point where your benevolence turned to bitterness, and bitterness turned to wrath. You gunned down the hostiles and shrugged off the thankful. And then, a group of trolls organized an attempt on your life, and you just snapped.
Gunned them all down, fled to the swamps, and made a new life for yourself. A new, alone life. Where you didn't have to worry about the hemospectrum, or quadrants, or any of that societal bullshit. You don't expect to live here forever- one day a drone will surely find you and drag you out. But you've more or less dropped off the grid, you've survived for three more sweeps than you thought you would, and you've nestled yourself quite comfortably in the forest. You don't need anyone.
Your trolltag is toothTrauma, although you barely use it, and you aren't HERE TO HELP: anyone. They CAN JUST GO fuck off and: die.
DETAILS:
AGE: 12 Sweeps
NAME: Valoki from "Loki", Norse god, and Gharil from the gharial.
BLOOD: #2b8000, hue 100, greenblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: Capitalises second/third/fourth words and adds a colon after the second-last word in a sentence.
LUSUS: Bear-boar-bat (baoeart)
STRIFE SPECIBUS: rifleKind
SGRUB TITLE: Knight of Mind (beta group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Convection and Complication
SGRUB MOON: Prospit
REMIEM SHURAB: abbatoirAvarice
Your name is Remiem Shurab, you are 9 sweeps old, and you aren't who you say you are.
Which is to say, you're a conwoman. A successful one, at that- but you don't think you're anything too special, just someone who learned how to exploit a critical weakness of other trolls from an early age. You saw the hubris and boasting of rich highbloods, the desperation of your kind to fill quadrants, and the commonplace nature of online relationships- and with these three things in mind, you created a false persona to scam others out of their caegars with.
To the denizens of the internet, you aren't Remiem at all. No, you're not the vicious jadeblood living alone with her fearsome naga lusus, not Remiem Shurab with her sharp tongue and penchant for laughing at the misfortune of others. You are "Meimer Sharle", a vulnerable and coquettish damsel, all alone in Alternia and running a vanity blog in the attempts of attracting a matesprit. There’s no message board on this blog of yours, only a link to your false trolltag, and it’s by this end that you extort your victims. You spin a web of lies to anyone who contacts you, claiming to have fallen for them and oh won’t you please buy me something, it’s so hard to live in this hivestem city! You pretend to love them, spend your waking hours manipulating them into buying you things or sending you their caegars, and when they demand to finally meet you in person? You murder them, frisk their body, and feed the corpse to your lusus.
Why do you do it? Because it brings in the riches, of course! You're practically rolling in cash, to the point where your lusus cheerfully sleeps on a pile of gold, and more and more suckers keep marching into your web. Although, to be fair, you are starting to get a little scared. If you've spent so much time as Meimer, do you really know how to be yourself any more? And if everyone falls in love with your alter ego... are they ever going to fall for you? You don't know, and you don't want to think about it. So you'll keep spinning your deceit and pulling the wool over some rich idiot's eyes, because you're frightened by the possibility that you might not actually know how to interact in proper society any more.
Your true trolltag is abbatoirAvarice, where you TYPE IN YOUR TRUE COLOR aaND HaaVE aa PRETTY OFFENSIVE WaaY OF TaaLKING, FUCKERS!
But when you're playing Meimer, you go by ambrosiaAnguine and you dec*o*rate y*o**u*r text with l*o*ts *o*f c*u*te little faces, heeheehee. *u*
DETAILS:
AGE: 9 Sweeps
NAME: From a couple of video game references, basically meaningless
BLOOD: #00802b, hue 140, jadeblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: As herself: all caps, A -> aa. As Meimer: lowercase, o/u -> *o*/*u*.
LUSUS: Female naga
STRIFE SPECIBUS: whipKind
SGRUB TITLE: Maid of Space (beta group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Glitter and Frogs
SGRUB MOON: Prospit
INDRAN DUCERA: humbleTechnicalities
Your name is Indran Ducera, you are 8 sweeps old, and you are so normal. So, so normal.
Let's go through the reasons why you're normal, shall we? First off! You live in a wonderful little hivestem in a huge city, a hivestem so bland it's nigh impossible to tell which one is yours from the outside. You dress solely in shades of black and grey, the only attempts you make at fashion being what your moirail tries to dress you in, and you keep your appearance completely low-key. Even your hair- something that a lot of trolls style- isn't remarkable at all. Your interests are completely generic, with computers and digital music being a forte of yours; but even so, you've never made a popular program or song or anything else worth nothing. You could, if you wanted to, but you prefer to just poke around aimlessly. You've decorated your hive in monochrome, even going so far as to dye your sopor grey, and instead of typing in your blood you opt for a lovely hue of no satuation. Awesome! It's totally bland!! Just like you, and you're probably a red or a yellow blood, so why don't you scoot along and go examine some other tro-
yeah okay you're not fooling anyone.
...you're jade. Jade as jade can be, blood so rare that you don't think there's another troll who shares it on your entire continent. Perhaps if you had been blessed with a lusus who actually did a good job of raising you it wouldn't be such a big deal, but the enormous birdy beasty clawed thing that got assigned to you did such an abysmal job it left you utterly, 100% convinced that you would be murdered if anyone saw your blood color. Or worse. After all, doesn't this blood mean you can survive the sun? Doesn't this blood mean that you're destined for a life of being special? You don't want that. You don't want anyone to pay attention to you, you just want to be left alone!
So you hide yourself away in your respiteblock, boards nailed over the windows and Pizza Grub boxes littered on the floor, playing with your codes and tunes, content in the fact that you haven't been discovered yet. You have an excellent moirail, a possible red romance on your horizon, and you'll do anything to prevent anyone finding out your secret- even if it means you have to kill them yourself.
Your trolltag is humbleTechnicalities, and you have somejthing of a sjtrange jtyping quirk.
DETAILS:
AGE: 8 Sweeps
NAME: First name from "Indra", sun god, and second name from "Dudugera", another sun god.
BLOOD: #008055, hue 160, jadeblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: T/t -> JT/jt
LUSUS: Gryphon
STRIFE SPECIBUS: polearmKind
SGRUB TITLE: Heir of Hope (alpha group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Neon and Angels
SGRUB MOON: Prospit
ACRIRE RAGENI: rareCatch
Your name is Acrire Rageni, you are 9 sweeps old, and you're going to be the very best.
Your lusus's species only thrives in the most hostile and driest of environments, so it was natural that you would be living in a tower hive in the middle of the desert, your respiteblock a good seventeen storeys off the ground in order to prevent any ravenous undead climbing up to eat you. If your darling monster mommy wasn't so cooperative, you would be trapped in your hive like some sort of storybook princess! As it is, though, she is perfectly happy to ferry you up and down.
To say you are overconfident would be... a pretty apt assessment, to be honest. Your relative isolation from everyone else makes it easy for you to think you are simply the best, and you often believe that you are much smarter than the trolls you talk to; so much so that you often talk down to others, dispensing advice that isn't really particularly relevant to the situation. It's not your fault others don't understand.
If someone challenges your superiority, it's very easy for you to hate them. Not in a blackrom sense, just pure platonic loathing. You are a very, very, very sore loser. This is why you have only ever played one game of FLARP in your life before switching to fiduspawn- your first session ended with your Clouder using his psychic powers to warp the cells in the very roots of your horns, forever cursing them to grow in the shape of tumors. Seriously, who was that guy? Fuck him. You hope he dies.
But FLARP was dumb anyway. Fiduspawn is your true calling! You want to be the very best, like no-one ever was, and you're not joking. You've sunk all your money and time into this so-called game for wrigglers, and constantly make a killing on the professional tourney circuit. You own all the oogonibombs and oogoniballs. All of them. The bottom sixteen floors of your hive have been pretty much converted into stables for your fidusuckers to rest and breed in; the cash spawned from selling off the young helps keep you out of debt. Having spent the last few sweeps training up on Fiduspawn has left you sort of inept when it comes to hand to hand combat, and you have all but assigned your strife specibus to fiduskind. You have so many monsters that you can afford to pit them against other trolls! What? That's unethical? Pfff, what the hell are ethics?
Insofar as trolls go, you're... pretty sane! You haven't killed anyone, or even mauled them; you attended your schoolfeeding sessions regularly, have been doing research into the career you wish to pursue in the Fleet, and even have your own pseudoshipping wall constructed for when you find yourself needing to fill your quadrants. But when it comes to interacting with other trolls... well, you're sort of a huge gossip and flirt. It's true that most trolls are fairly reserved about their quadrants, but you? Subtlety flies out the window. You'll hit on anything that moves, especially if you're drunk, and you tend to have a hilarious bias towards those on the indigo and purple end of the spectrum. Hah, rareCatch? More like goldDigger.
Your trollTag is rareCatch and you ~~~~ (encl(o)se things in balls t(o) mimic the (o)nes y(o)u thr(o)w ar(o)und all day!)
DETAILS:
AGE: 9 Sweeps
NAME: Acrire from "acrid", Rageni from "vinegar" spelt backwards.
BLOOD: #008080, hue 180, tealblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: ~~~~ prefix before all sentences, (sentences in brackets), O/o -> (O)/(o).
LUSUS: Giant insect-like desert-dwelling monster.
STRIFE SPECIBUS: fidusKind
SGRUB TITLE: Mage of Rage (alpha group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Loyalty and Vinegar
SGRUB MOON: Prospit
MAYANO YAXCHE: triggerHappy
Your name is Mayano Yaxche, you are 9 sweeps old, and you're more robot than troll.
Yes, you do seem to have an impressive collection of robotic limbs, don't you? You can explain, you swear. They're simply… souvenirs, from your many, many FLARP outings. Of which there have been many. In fact, you even run your own elite FLARP squadron! Sure, you might have lost more than a few body parts to monsters and/or other trolls, but your stats have never been better. You have all the levels! All of them!!
…Okay, maybe not all of them. You don't have any vision 8fold to manipulate enemies off cliffs for easy wins, so you guess you're stuck brawling it out with your pistolKind and fistKind. Sometimes you get badly hurt, but if you wind up sans a limb, you just get a robotic replacement! It's not like flesh is worth anything. Or, well, much at all is worth anything. Except life. You've seen far too many trolls you liked or admired fall in combat to underestimate the value of life. Whereas other FLARP captains might not give much of a damn if a couple of their team members snuff it, you have an unhealthy preoccupation with keeping those you love alive, right down to the most useless members of your FLARP group. In truth, this is where your injuries come from: before you adopted this attitude, you barely had a scratch on you.
You don't really want to talk about it, but you used to be pretty ruthless. Then, you fell for someone!… then he died. Quite horribly. In combat. It was mostly your fault. Since then you've been nothing but remorseful, hellbent on stopping anyone else from dying, afraid that you'll lose anyone else. Your guilt complex is so large that you're willing to sacrifice your own life to save someone else, although your team keeps dragging you from the jaws of death. It's gotten to the point that your FLARP class has changed from "Space Captain" to "Dumbfuck Deathseeker".
But hey, nobody wants to hear about your personal woes! You've got to think positive! Act positive. That's why you smear on a cheery face and chirpy tone at all times, even if you might be feeling pretty wretched that day. If you break a bone, well, just gotta suck it up and grin on anyway. The only thing that would make you really sad is if your horn broke, but that's because you're proud of it- it grows in a continuous loop behind your head, and you think it's the coolest. Sooo coool. Wait, hold on, interests! You have to talk about those. That should distract people from your weird pseudomasochism. Okay, let's see.
You like watching sports, particularly FLARP tourneys, and your favorite genre of movie is ones about space pilots. You think they're the coolest!! You're going to be one some day, you just know it. You often try making your own FLARP costumes, but you're not very good at it, so they just fall to rags. Sometimes your neighbour takes pity on you and makes you some, but she always makes them so... girly. Not that you have a problem with that, but frills and shit tend to get in the way! Half the time your carnivorous lusus just ends up dragging your clothes off to it's bed anyway. Sigh. You'd go retrieve them, but your lusus scares you shitless. No, really. Thing's the size of a truck. Fuck your life.
Your trollTag is triggerHappy, and you e(nclose your sentences in your loopy hor)n!
DETAILS:
AGE: 9 Sweeps
NAME: Mayano from Persona 2's Maya Amano, Yaxche from the Mayan/Aztec tree of the dead.
BLOOD: #002b80, hue 220, blueblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: Sentences enclosed in brackets with the exception of first and last letters.
LUSUS: Tiger-hornet
STRIFE SPECIBUS: revolverKind, prsthticKind
SGRUB TITLE: Bard of Space (alpha group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Print and Frogs
SGRUB MOON: Prospit
RONINA LOKINE: halcyonRags
Your name is Ronina Lokine, you are 8 sweeps old, and you live a double life.
You were hatched into the upper echelons of blueblood culture, which is to say you were hatched into a culture of backstabbing, hypocrisy and musclebeast portraits. Not only that, but you also had the misfortune of being a shy, withdrawn personality with a lusus who couldn't defend you against anything but a rabbit. Things weren't looking good for you, especially when you somehow managed to make the stupid choice of building your hive smack in the middle of a snooty highblood neighbourhood. So what could you do?
You learnt to become a doormat, pacifying your neighbours instead of standing your ground. Secretly, you loved fashion, you loved non-violent roleplaying, and you thought quite a few lowbloods were pretty cute- but in order to appease the cull happy and murderous backstabbers you were surrounded by, you hid your interests behind lock and key and put on a facade of being dull as dishwater. Your demeanor was glacial, your evenings spent helping your neighbours out with menial chores, and you never really got the opportunity to live the good life.
So you... devised an alternate solution. If you couldn't go roaming and seeing the world, you'd do it by proxy. You borrowed a robot from a female mechanic neighbour, learned the basics of robotics, and tuned it up to look like you. With a camera in it's head and a carefully tailored dress on it's metal hide, it was now your duplicate: your method of doing dramatic things, and you called it Lolita Rocket. Well, perhaps you should call it she? It did have rudimentary AI, after all, but nothing that didn't make it 100% loyal to you.
You used Lolita to fly around the world, watching through the camera as she swooped over mountains with her rocket feet and peered in the windows of other troll's hives. Voyeuristic? Yes, probably. But it's not like anyone would catch you. You sent her to record footage of other trolls while you spent your mundane life pacifying your neighbours, and delighted in watching the playback in the solitude of your hive. Yet, recently... the concept of becoming a robot yourself has started to appeal... hmm...
Your trolltag is halcyonRags, and you speak with a polite and clipped tone, if you don't mind. would pestering please stop, if that's not too much to ask.
DETAILS:
AGE: 9 Sweeps
NAME: Ronina from the Japanese "ronin", Lokine from "locket" or "locked away".
BLOOD: #000080, hue 240, blueblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: lowercase, ends sentence with "if you don't mind", "if you please", or "if that's not too much to ask".
LUSUS: Silent Hill 2 styled mannequin
STRIFE SPECIBUS: needleKind
SGRUB TITLE: Sylph of Breath (alpha group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Frost and Knowledge
SGRUB MOON: Derse
CSETJE ZSEBET: riposteRevenge
Your name is Csetje Zsebet, you are 9.5 sweeps old, and you are fucking glorious.
Your blood has ruled your life ever since you were a wiggler, and for a very obvious reason- you suffer from Alternian Cluckpox, a highly recessive trait carried by the Bloodbaronesses of olden days. Once considered an attractive feature hundreds of sweeps ago due to it being an indicator of indigo caste, troll society quickly came to it's senses and began to revile it due to the fact it covers the sufferer's body with hundreds of blood colored blotches. Your blood is obvious to anyone who looks at you, rendering it impossible to hide your spectrum position, and your theoretically pretty features are marred by the patches of pigmentation. In this circumstance you had only two options- to slather on makeup and pretend that you weren't deformed, or to obsess over them as a sign of your noble heritag and turn up your nose at any mockery. You chose the latter.
Emulating your ancestors is your life goal, and you have shaped your entire being around living up to the Bloodbaroness ideal. You revere the hemospectrum like it's a religion- which it probably is, to you- and attempt to cull anyone who disrespects it, taking your aristocratic position very seriously. Your posture is perfect, your manners well-practised; you adore cultured past-times like duels and operas, and even the most boring of tasks like writing out commands please you due to how dignified they make you feel. In fact, even though you were born with a fairly common accent, you have spent sweeps refining your Bloodbaroness pronounciations. This has pretty much made you sound like a stereotypical Rainbow Drinker from those awful novels, but you refuse to change.
You are wickedly cruel to the lower classes and pander shamelessly to the upper. Since your attitude to the gutterbloods has made you quite a few enemies, you hone your skills with the traditional Baroness sabre every night. Your swordfighting ability, at least your specific style of it, is second to none, and you'll hold a duel with anyone who offers to exhibit your prowess. Why, you're not bragging- you're just continuing on your ancestry! You carry yourself with a stoic nature all the time, attempting to almost never show your emotions, but in truth you are far easier to provoke than you think. You attempt to possess as much dignity as possible in every situation, but anything that makes you uncomfortable such as romance tends to turn you into a stuttering mess.
Your frame reflects your heritage as a baroness, although sometimes you wish it didn't. You are incredibly tall for a female, with the top of your head brushing the 6'2 mark and your long horns increasing that to a total of seven feet. There is absolutely no excess fat on your frame, nor are there any curves; you are lean, with a flat chest and slender limbs, and any padding on that is sheer muscle. You wear your hair short in heavily styled curls- long hair just doesn't suit you, much to your distress. When it comes to your wardrobe you place emphasis on your aristocracy, opting for sweeping capes and long dresses (although you apparently have no qualms about showing skin, perhaps in a desperate attempt to make yourself feel attractive). Your sign, the traditional mark of the cluckpox sufferer, is displayed prominently on your belt buckle.
Your trollTag is riposteRevenge, and you talk vith ze mozst dignified accent you can think of, zat of ze ancient nobletrollzs you zshare a bloodline vith!
DETAILS:
AGE: 9.5 Sweeps
NAME: Csetje from the Csejte Castle, Zsebet from Elizabeth Bathory's Hungarian name.
BLOOD: #2b0080, hue 260, indigoblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: W/w -> v, phonetic th -> z, S/s -> ZS/zs.
LUSUS: Swordfish
STRIFE SPECIBUS: bladeKind (sabreKind)
SGRUB TITLE: Thief of Life (alpha group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Pyre and Midnight
SGRUB MOON: Derse
BALORA XOLOTL: comebackReplicant
Your name is Balora Xolotl, you are 9 sweeps old, and you are so incredibly sorry.
DETAILS:
AGE: 9 Sweeps
NAME: Balora from "baleen" and "Balor", Xolotl from "axolotl".
BLOOD: #550080, hue 280, purpleblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: Lowercase, no punctuation, cuts up sentences with // two words at a time.
LUSUS: Giant anemone
STRIFE SPECIBUS: wireKind
SGRUB TITLE: Prince of Doom (alpha group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Thunder and Ghosts
SGRUB MOON: Derse
KAPALA HYNOMU: celebrityTraitor
Your name is Kapala Hynomu, you are 8.5 sweeps old, and fuck everyone.
You weren't always this way. In fact, if you rewind the clock back a mere half-sweep ago, you were possibly the most social troll anyone had ever met. You were a partier, a glubgrub at home in the company of others, and making close friends amongst your peers came as easily as swimming to you. In fact, it came a little too easily- you were notorious for extending your friendliness to every single member of the aquatic castes, and even when you were violently you still kept up a perky demeanor. After all, why wouldn't you? Everyone loved you! You held the best parties, you always had the best gossip, and you even had the best collection of salvaged trinkets from sunken ships and treasure chests that anyone had ever seen.
But it all came crumbling down. Because you got a little too loose with your gossip, and a little too careless with your quadrants, and never stopped to think about the consequences of either; you lived for the present, assuming the future would never come. But it did. Your tendency of forming relationships on a whim and then abruptly dumping them when they got boring came back to bite you when all your exes teamed up in a mission to smear your name, accompanied by all the so called "friends" who had told you their secrets and then been heartbroken to know that you had told others behind their backs. Despite the vast network of buddies that you thought you had built up, it seemed like everywhere you turned was another bitter enemy wishing malaise upon you. Humiliated in public as the embarrassing secrets you told your exes were spread across the social circles, widely mocked as that one pathetic hoarder by your former admirers, and even having suffered a few direct attacks on your life, you gave up and went into exile.
Your normally bright and cheerful underwater hive, perpetually lit up by a series of floodlights intended to guide people to the main party chamber, had it's power cut. Anyone who came to taunt you in person was met with empty rooms and a pronounced hollowness. The lush kelp gardens were left to grow over, missing the attentions of your giant isopod lusus. Instead, you dove down, and dove deeper- you sunk into the abysses of the great chasms, home to some of the most terrifying sea creatures Alternia had to offer. Fortunately, your lusus was one of these, and it kept you safe while you built yourself a new hive.
This one was more sinister, more imposing than your last. It was a grand amalgamation of spires and spikes, the most diabolical castle you could build from scratch- it was a good thing you were born with freakish strength, or else your hive would still be incomplete. You stole an internet cable from an unsuspecting neighbour and rigged it up, using most of the power from your old hive's generator to fuel an impenetrable forcefield that repelled both trolls and sea monsters alike. While your lusus swam back and forth, catching critters for you to feed on, you went online for the first time- and you started to socialize with the land dwelling castes.
Your interests include architecture and hoarding. You have always been very structurally-minded, even when you were a partier- your raves were always meticulously planned out, and you'd construct houses out of empty drink bottles as a party trick. Nowadays you use your skills to build onto your hive, constantly building new parts onto the massive castle. As for your second hobby, well, you've always been intrigued by random things. Not trash, mind you, but bits and bobs that shouldn't be lying on the sea floor. Ornate cutlery that looks like it came from the land dwellers, fine works of art, even chests containing items from old ancestors... it fascinates you, and a great deal of your massive is occupied by brilliantly organized collections of these things. If you knew anything about SGRUB, you would be amused that your collection would put you at a great advantage when it came to alchemization. As it is, you're a little ashamed of it.
Your trollTag is celebrityTraitor, and you glub in a somewhat stuttttering, way. You also make sure to duplicate any double letttters and shout poles/query, hooooks. And you can't stop the, glubs????
DETAILS:
AGE: 8.5 Sweeps
NAME: Both names or part of names of giant isopods.
BLOOD: #800080, hue 300, purpleblood caste
TYPING QUIRK: Quadruples any instance of double letters and punctuation, adds a comma before the last word of a sentence.
LUSUS: Giant isopod
STRIFE SPECIBUS: clubKind
SGRUB TITLE: Maid of Mind (alpha group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Bubble and Gaps
SGRUB MOON: Derse
SCYLLA ERMINE: terminatedRegent
Your name is Scylla Ermine, you are 12 sweeps old, and you are really quite famous.
Your life has not been the nicest, and yet you have spent the vast majority of it in an euphoric delirium. With a blood hue of 320, you were born into the royal caste, and had things gone correctly you would surely have grown into a refined lady of court. Unfortunately, that didn't quite happen. Why? Well, the reason was none other than your wonderful lusus. An enormous octopus, to be exact, a gluttonous and selfish creature with the ability to control the mind of whoever it happened to share it's blood color with. It threw your future away in favor of turning you into a cannibalistic monster, a method of delivering it the tasty troll flesh it so craved without having to actually go hunting for itself.
You survived exactly four sweeps underwater, using the facts that you were an adorable wiggler and your peers were quite dumb to hide your murders, but as your lusus took more control over your brain you lost your lucidity and became sloppy. You were caught, your fins were severed, and you were subjected to the ultimate humiliation a seadweller could suffer- you were exiled from the entire spectrum by your former aquatic peers, and sent to live with your lusus in one of the most disgusting environments on Alternia. The swamps.
The picture that might come to one's mind when they hear swamp is "gross and boring", but only the former was true for the mires of Alternia. The swamp was a vast, impenetrable mess of warped trees and disturbed wildlife, an environment so savage that very few trolls even contemplated living in it. If the filthy conditions and poisonous plants didn't do you in, the animals would- while there might have been no musclebeasts running rampant, there were plenty of many-eyed and many-armed monstrocities all too willing to gobble a young wiggler up. Yet somehow, you managed to survive.
Alright, so perhaps it wasn't such a miracle you survived, what with your freakish strength and equally freakish lusus. You took up home in a cave on the borders of the swamp, with your octopus settling into an underground grotto, and spent seven whole sweeps being one of the terrors of Alternian youth culture. With your mind firmly controlled by your lusus, every waking moment was spent in a mad delirium- you had been taught to savor the taste of troll flesh, to derive joy from murdering them and delivering their bones to the grotto. You took up juvenile activities to amuse yourself when you weren't hunting, such as painting and roleplaying, but nobody ever talked to you on the introllnet. Not that you minded! Too much. You tried your best to make friends, but it inevitably ended with them blocking you or being eaten by you once they told you where they lived, and the drones gave up trying to hunt you down for quadrants when it became explicitly clear you had hidden yourself so deep in the swamps that nothing could retrieve you.
With your diet of troll flesh, and your natural seadweller genes, your growth accelerated to the point where you were brushing 6'7- and that's not even taking into account your horns, which were so tall that birds sometimes perched on them by mistake. Your strength only grew, to the point where you could scale mountains and throw boulders with ease, but your mental state never grew beyond that of a woofbeast dedicated to it's master. This backfired on you when you picked a fight with a freakishly strong troll and lost spectacularly, tearing your right leg off in the process. You strapped a pegleg to the stump and made do, although you had a hard time not going "arrrr" every time you looked at it.
But then, you met with a rather bizarre accident- or rather, your lusus did. You came back one day to find him butchered, and since then, you really haven't known what you're supposed to do with yourself...
Your trollTag is terminatedRegent, and you h{a}ve a pretty silly {a}nd so~rt o~f tent{a}cley w{a}y o~f spe{a}king!!!
DETAILS:
AGE: 12 Sweeps
NAME: Come on.
BLOOD: #800055, hue 320, purpleblood caste (exiled from hemospectrum)
TYPING QUIRK: A/a -> {A}/{a}, O/o -> {O}/{o}.
LUSUS: Giant octopus
STRIFE SPECIBUS: fistKind, bladeKind
SGRUB TITLE: Witch of Time (alpha group)
SGRUB LAND: Land of Glory and Despair
SGRUB MOON: Derse
















































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Overlard's menagerie of various things











