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cephalopodcounselor) wrote2013-06-28 03:01 am
cephalopodcounselor) wrote2013-06-28 03:01 am
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Vatheon Application / Character Information
☆ Player - - -
( Player Name ) : Lils
( Personal DW ) :
fukuda( Age ) : 29
( Timezone ) : US EST (GMT -5)
( Other Characters ) :
Leo Valdez ( fundemetal ) | Percy Jackson & the Olympians/Heroes of Olympus
☆ Character - - -
( Character's Name ) : Rose Lalonde
( Character's Age ) : 16
( Series ) : Homestuck
( Canon Point ) : Act 6, Intermission 5, just before Jade shows up. (here, to be exact.)
( Playability ) : N/A
( History ) :
MSPA Wikia
( Personality ) :
During the course of her time spent on the meteor in Act 6, Rose has managed to loosen up some. While much of her base characteristics remain the same, she's become more open in showing mirth, as can be evidenced by how much more frequently she is seen smiling and laughing. This change could be attributed to several things such as maturation, a new lease on life after reaching god-tier, an attempt to better herself, or even being around others more often.
When we first met Rose, she was very reserved in showing her emotions (when she did smile, it was often a small one.) She also does not like to admit to sincerity, often hiding behind a wall of sarcasm. She doesn't joke around much, but when she does it is through a display of sarcastic wit. She is also very cynical, though it leans to the side of cynical realism as opposed to cynical pessimism.
She is a very private person and is a bit of a loner. Her only friends appear to be ones she'd met online. Until the time they entered the medium, she had never spent any time with them face to face. Even now she still enjoys having time to herself and will stand back to observe in larger groups unless she has something important to say.
Her observational skills play directly into her interest in psychology and her ability to analyze her friends and acquaintances. Dave is the one who most often falls prey to her analyses, primarily due to the fact that he frequently exhibits behavior that is very Freudian in nature. While Rose is aware of and largely supports the debunking of Freudian psychology, it is difficult to not reference it when analyzing him. This skill in conjunction with her seer abilities allows her to aptly make sense of whatever situation is at hand.
Rose's title is the Seer of Light, as such she has the ability to see glimpses of the future. These glimpses have not always led her down what others might think is the "best" path. She learned that there was no way to win the game and began seeking methods to change this with both research and making use of her abilities as a seer. She began to act more mysteriously, worrying her friends, especially John and Kanaya. It eventually led to her attempts to break the game and to being influenced by both Doc Scratch and the voices of the gods in the Furthest Ring.
At Doc Scratch's urging she consulted the magic cue ball about the intent of the horrorterrors and it caused her to go grimdark. She lost control which led to her death in a fight against Jack. Once she awoke on the Derse moon (thanks to a reviving kiss from John) she went about her suicide mission of destroying the Green Sun, which in fact actually created it. Her and Dave reached god-tier as a result of this mission. This clearly seems to be the path that was meant to be taken as if they hadn't, there would be no way for them to survive the scratch, a necessary step in being able to win the game.
Not only will winning the game require her seer abilities, but also her intelligence and sheer diligence. She has an expansive vocabulary which she uses liberally to show off how learned she is. Rose uses perfect grammar and syntax in most of her communication both verbally and via pesterchum.
The only time this really falters is when she's drunk. Her speech becomes slurred, though she still manages to make mostly proper use of her large vocabulary and is able to express deep thoughts, though she sometimes loses her point along the way. She has a tendency to speak at length, often doing what amounts to information dumps. Meenah refers to her as "extra talky human" and "rosefang" comparing her to Aranea whom she calls "windfang".
Her interest in alcohol, both in creating and consuming it started during the second year on the meteor. While it seems to be mostly influenced by boredom, there may be some influence from an offhanded comment Dave made about how they're teenagers alone in space with no adults so they should do crazy things like get drunk. She "alchemizes" the alcohol via experiments, which she admits it is nothing more than chemistry.
While this leads her to a road of drunkenness and quite possibly alcoholism, it also leads to her matespritship with Kanaya. While drunk she admits to how she feels about Kanaya and they kiss.
She has even dabbled in a guilty pleasure of reading trashy troll romance novels, the first of which she swiped from Karkat when he was trying to explain troll romance to Dave. Troll romance is only one of her interests in troll culture. She has spent a lot of time on the meteor reading up on things related to SBURB/SGRUB as well as troll history and culture.
Her reading interests do not end there. She is also an avid fan of reading obscure literature and texts regarding the bestially strange. This interest also spreads to a more general interest in all things cephalopodic as can be evidenced by the things she collects and wears. She is secretive about her interest in creative writing, possibly because she enjoys writing wizard (fan)fiction. Her interest in wizards is genuine and she believes her mom's choice in wizardly decor is meant to mock her. She is also a talented violinist.
Another interest and talent of hers is knitting, which she got into after receiving a gift of wool yarn and knitting needles from John. While she only intended to learn in order to give him a thoughtful gift made from his gift, she wound up enjoying it a lot and has made many knitted things since including a laptop cozy that features a squiddle on it. Rose is also a bit messy as evidenced by several knitting projects strewn about her floor. Though some things like her books are kept in very neat order.
The interest in knitting leads to her using needlekind in her strife specibus. She is able to use the needles and yarn to great effect in defeating monsters. Through alchemy she creates magic wands out of them which she wields with great power.
( Strengths/Weaknesses ) :
+ highly intelligent
+ astute observational skills
+ seer abilities
+ has many talents
+ a fierce fighter
+/- she is aware of her own mistakes
+/- very precocious
- hiding her true feelings
- cynical
- sometimes says hurtful and mean things to her friends
- is long-winded
- drunkenness/alcoholism(?)
( Other Important Facts ) :
Rose has a fondness for her deceased cat Jaspers. He is the reason she has interest in SBURB due to Jade telling her that there would be a game that would allow her to resurrect her cat.
( Sample ) :
demigodstuck voice testing
( Questions? Comments? Concerns? ) :
copy pasta'd revisions
The conversation continues for a bit and she tells him that she has personal experience in being drunk back during the doomed timeline. As when it was just her and Dave left, Rose had four months of doing pretty much nothing, which led her to begin consuming the stocks of alcohol in her house out of boredom. She adds that the taste of it really grew on her. Roxy and Rose seem to be in a vicious cycle of influence as Roxy states (at another point) that she started drinking to get closer to her mom since the house was stocked with alcohol. It doesn't help that it's incredibly common for alcoholism to run in families due to genetics. Given how Roxy and Rose are related through ectobiology/genetics, it's no surprise that they are predisposed to alcoholism even without the added behavioral influences that they received.
At a point some time after that conversation, while on the meteor, Dave makes a comment about how they're teenagers alone in space with no adults so they should do crazy things like get drunk. This comment, her boredom at the current time, along side the contents of the previous two paragraphs are key factors in leading Rose to start "alchemizing" alcohol (which she admits it is nothing more than chemistry.) She begins consuming it that afternoon in order to calm her nerves for a date with Kanaya, which she winds up super late to because she's drunk. However, her being drunk doesn't seem to bother Kanaya and they have their date anyway and form a matespritship.
Rose doesn't stop drinking after that night and is seen drunk again as they are getting ready to enter into the new session, which she has once again done to the claim of calming her nerves. This may very well be the truth in the case, but alcoholics will make any excuse to justify why they were drinking. It's inferred that she spends a lot of time drunk, but it is also inferred that there's plenty of times when she's sober. Alcohol proves to be a rather slippery slope for Rose, especially as she is a very happy and silly drunk. It doesn't appear that anyone sees this behavior to be particularly harmful. Of course, they're teenagers and teenagers rarely think about those sorts of consequences beyond how they affect the moment. The fact that her drunken behavior is not generally perceived or treated as a problem likely only enables Rose to keep drinking. The only concern at that particular moment is that it's inconvenient to them for Rose to be drunk right then.