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| 6 | !![[center:[-'''Main Cast:''' [[Characters/HomestuckKids Kids, Pre-Scratch]]; '''Kids, Post-Scratch'''; [[Characters/HomestuckTrollsGeneral Trolls]] ([[Characters/HomestuckTrollsOne Lowbloods]], [[Characters/HomestuckTrollsTwo Midbloods]], [[Characters/HomestuckTrollsThree Highbloods]], [[Characters/HomestuckPreScratchTrolls Pre-Scratch]]); [[Characters/HomestuckCherubs Cherubs]]-]]][[center: [-'''Supporting Cast:''' [[Characters/HomestuckGuardians Guardians & Ancestors]]; [[Characters/HomestuckSprites Sprites]]; [[Characters/HomestuckExiles Exiles & the Midnight Crew]]; [[Characters/HomestuckAgentsAndMonarchs Agents & Monarchs]]; [[Characters/HomestuckTheFelt The Felt]] ([[Characters/HomestuckTheFeltTwo Leaders]]); [[Characters/HomestuckOtherCharacters Others]]-]]][[center: [-'''Expanded Universe:''' [[Characters/HomestuckPostCanon Post-Canon]]; ''Characters/SweetBroAndHellaJeff''; ''Characters/{{Hiveswap}}'' ([[Characters/HiveswapTrollCall Troll Call]])-]]] |
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| 8 | ->''One by one, the Nobles will come, only to discover the remains of those who worshiped them and paved the way for their arrival. But it is then their duty to pave the way for [[Characters/HomestuckKids others]]. For those from the planets through [[FourthWall the glass]], whatever that means.'' |
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| 10 | When John and company "scratched" their session at the end of Act 5, things changed. Their session and universe were subjected to a cosmic ResetButton, and the resulting rebooted universe wasn't ''quite'' like the old one. |
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| 12 | Many things, both large and small, were different, presumably to enable mankind to have a better chance at winning Sburb. The most prominent change is that [[Characters/HomestuckKids the original kids]] and [[Characters/HomestuckGuardians their]] [[Characters/HomestuckSprites parents]] have switched places, and now it's the guardians-turned-kids who will tackle the new session. (In actuality, though, they're paving the way for the other kids to arrive.) |
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| 17 | [[folder:The post-Scratch kids in general]] |
| 18 | * ArtisticAge: They start playing Sburb at three years older than their pre-Scratch counterparts did, although their miniature sprites look the same age. Averted with their Hero Mode appearances, which usually depict them as being taller or more mature than their younger counterparts. |
| 19 | * BadassAdorable: Roxy, who won't hesitate to dork out over wizards, and Jake, who often fumbles over himself trying to be an ActionHero, have incredible untapped potential as Sburb players. |
| 20 | * CameBackStrong: As a result of the moons of Prospit and Derse being [[EarthShatteringKaboom blown up]] while they were on their quest beds hidden within them, [[TotalPartyKill all four died]] and [[CameBackStrong God-Tiered]] at the same time. All four have absolutely stupendous new abilities. |
| 21 | * CastFullOfGay: Three out of four of them are LGBT, with Jane being the only one who doesn't show any interest in the same gender. |
| 22 | * ChekhovsGunman: In the pre-Scratch universe, Nanna and Grandpa were shown in flashbacks as thirteen-year-old children in a brief sequence; while it was clearly relevant then, it also served as a preview for the appearance of Jane and Jake. Additionally, Jake's existence as Jade's penpal was introduced as far back as Act 3. |
| 23 | * ClassicalAntiHero: Dirk describes the Nobles as this, believing that their only job (up until the Gods arrive) is to simply wait in a void session. However, he also describes Roxy as the closest thing to a BigGood that the party had. |
| 24 | * ColorCodedCharacters: They share the colours associated with the Sprites of the Pre-Scratch Session. |
| 25 | ** Jaspersprite was slightly darker than Roxy for some reason, likely tying into her mutated cat symbol, and it ''does'' correspond to her Beta Counterpart's trademark ScarfOfAsskicking. |
| 26 | *** And it applies in reverse too; Jane's Cruxite, Kernel, and sprite all have identical colors to John's text. Dirk's are Dave-red, and Jake's are Jade-green. |
| 27 | * {{Deconstruction}}: They seem to be deconstructions of their basic character types or of the Pre-Scratch Kids, especially Jane and Dirk. Jane is a deconstruction of John in that constantly suppressing her emotions eventually leads her to an emotional breakdown - which John eventually has. Roxy is a deconstruction of Rose in that not only is she unable to follow in the footsteps of her "mother", but her eventual dependence of alcohol and returning to it make her feel ashamed of herself. Dirk is a deconstruction of Dave in that he eventually takes {{Irony}} to the point where it's hard to see where the sexual fetishism and {{Hipster}} lifestyle begin and end, whereas Dave simply used it as a coping mechanism for his brother's lifestyle. Jake is a more straightforward deconstruction of Jade's ParodySue status, as his backstory is the same as Jade's though it also leaves his as selfish and insensitive to others. |
| 28 | * DiscOneNuke: So far all of them have been shown to have access to materials and items that give them a distinct advantage over the initial trials the Pre-Scratch Session had to undergo. |
| 29 | ** And also inverted. As a Void Session they'll never have to ''face'' many of the challenges the Pre-Scratch Session did at all, like the Reckoning, but this makes the game UnwinnableByDesign (via TimeyWimeyBall). |
| 30 | * DysfunctionJunction: Even more-so than the Pre-Scratch Kids. Jane has emotional issues and unrequited romantic feelings for Jake, which he is deliberately blind to, Roxy is sick of being her friends' pedestal and due to Jane not believing her about just how terrible her life in the future is, Dirk thinks he's a heartless asshole, and Jake bursts into tears due to the stress that Sburb puts on the group. |
| 31 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: All of their introductions contain allusions to their class and aspect. |
| 32 | * FutureSlang: Roxy and Dirk use Troll terminology from time to time since human culture has essentially been co-opted by the Condesce by their time period. |
| 33 | * GeodesicCast: It also serves as an example in-universe. The post-Scratch kids are younger versions of the pre-Scratch kids' guardians, while possessing similar elements to the pre-Scratch kids themselves. In addition, they have elements in common with several of the deceased Trolls, such as their titles in Sburb. |
| 34 | * HairstyleInertia: Their hairstyles are identical to the ones sported by their pre-scratch selves. |
| 35 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Compared to the Pre-Scratch Kids, their powers ''seem'' a lot less useful. The Pre-Scratch Kids had control over wind (and the ability to turn into it), advanced knowledge over everything in Sburb and strong Light magic, time travel, and changing the volume, location, and speed of any physical thing. The Post-Scratch kids have the ability to bring someone back from the dead, but only once (and considering how many people die in Sburb...), the [[MindScrew ability to steal nothingness]], the ability to destroy souls (which has only been shown once). Jake's power may actually be the strongest though it takes him a while to awaken to it. However, these are also incredibly useful as well. Jane's TheMedic in Collide and even resurrects one of them, Roxy conjured what's basically an incredibly significant item in repopulating the troll race without ectobiology as well as being a heavy hitter against The Condesce, Dirk's title means "one who destroys souls" with the power that comes with the name, and Jake's hopesplosion in standing up against Caliborn is so powerful that he took up his last name as part of becoming Lord English. |
| 36 | * InUniverseNickname: They're known as the Nobles rather than the Heroes, because of some unknown quirk in the session that causes them to enter the session long after the Consorts and Lands have died. Fans adopted this quickly, as a quick way of distinguishing between the Pre and Post Scratch Human sessions. |
| 37 | * InfinityPlusOneSword: After they all enter Trickster Mode, they gain the ability to alchemize all ''seven'' of the legendary weapons of "a magical kingdom from cherubim folklore." The first of these is none other than ''the'' [[ChekhovsGag Warhammer of Zillyhoo]], whose presumably future versions and variations are quite familiar to [[Characters/HomestuckKids other]] [[Characters/HomestuckTrollsThree players]]. Five others are usable to the post-scratch kids: |
| 38 | ** Jane: The [[ForkFencing Battlespork]] of Zillywut. |
| 39 | ** Jake: The [[GunsAkimbo Flintlocks]] of Zillyhau. |
| 40 | ** Roxy: The [[RayGun Blunderbuss]] of Zillywigh. |
| 41 | ** Dirk: The Cutlass of Zillywair and the [[UnbreakableWeapons Unbreakable Katana]]. Yeah, really. It turns out Dirk was ''already using'' the most unremarkable of the "Zilly" weapons. |
| 42 | * JiveTurkey: All four of them. Jane and Jake use archaic terms peppered with modern phrases and swearing (though in the former's case, not at first) and Roxy and Dirk use a deliberately alien vocabulary due to being raised in a pseudo-Troll society. |
| 43 | * LikeFatherLikeSon: Jane and Jake each have similarities to Jade and John respectively. Curiously, between the Strider/Lalondes it seems to be gender-inverted; Roxy has more in common with Dave whilst Dirk has more in common with Rose. |
| 44 | * LoveTriangle: Some pretty simple ones. Both Dirk and Jane like Jake, who has considered the idea of a relationship with either of them, though he seems more interested in Dirk for the time being. Roxy likes Dirk and Jake though she decided not to try to pursue a relationship with Jake since Jane likes him. And finally, Jake likes Aranea, a dead player from the pre-scratch troll session. |
| 45 | * MaleGaze: Weirdly averted. When they all go God Tier, Roxy (and to a lesser extent, Dirk) is the only one whose face is actually shown, whereas Jake gets a humorously lingering shot of his crotch. |
| 46 | * MeaningfulName: Roxy's Land is Pyramids and Neon, Dirk's is Tombs and Krypton, and Jake's is Mounds and Xenon. The Noble gases in descending order are Helium (already used in Jane's land), Neon, Krypton, Xenon, Radon, and '''U'''n'''u'''noctium. |
| 47 | * MeanwhileInTheFuture: Roxy and Dirk live in the far future of Earth, but [[SanDimasTime experience events in concert]] with Jake and Jane in the past. |
| 48 | * OffTheRails: In addition to being an UnwinnableByDesign Void Session which lacks pre-entry prototyping and other mechanics essential to normal gameplay[[note]]A complete lack of pre-entry prototyping prevents Underlings and Monarchs from gaining new powers but it also means the Skaian battlefield will never reach its final form so the players can defeat the Black King and end the game[[/note]], the Post-Scratch session is influenced by the machinations of the Condesce and the arrival of the Pre-Scratch Kids. Calliope says that the session [[InvertedTrope will eventually result in a win]], making it incredibly atypical and essentially unique. |
| 49 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Averted. As the players of a void session, they're Nobles, not Heroes. Jake {{Lampshades}} this: |
| 50 | -->GT: I really thought we would have been treated to more action what with being legendary players of a mysterious cosmic game. But no it seems the primary duty of the so called nobles is to wait around twiddling our thumbs. |
| 51 | * SanDimasTime: Roxy and Dirk use a modified form of Trollian that operates on this. |
| 52 | ** It also becomes apparent that their version of the session runs on this as a result |
| 53 | * ShouldntWeBeInSchoolRightNow: Averted. Jane seemingly doesn't go to school, and Dirk, Jake, and Roxy can't. |
| 54 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Played with. Jane and Jake's genetic children, John and Jade, take after them equally, though in terms of personality John leans towards Jake and Jade leans towards Jane, though they still have elements of the other's personality. Roxy and Dirk's genetic children, Rose and Dave, take after them respectively, but in terms of personality are more similar to their father and mother respectively. |
| 55 | * TechnicolorEyes: Their eyes match their text colors, like their Pre-Scratch counterparts. Jake's eye color is the most plausible, with Jane's very light blue on the edge of normal human variation. Dirk's orange isn't completely impossible, as some shades of light brown verge on amber and can appear golden in the proper lighting, but Roxy's bright pink eyes are pushed to the extreme even if you assume she's an albino. |
| 56 | * TeenGenius: All of them save Jane are very technically inclined. As for herself, Jane is a pretty smart cookie, though she can be clueless sometimes. |
| 57 | * ThemeNaming: A four letter name and a seven letter last name. Jake and Jane share last names with villains. |
| 58 | ** Jane and Jake continue the pattern started with Jade and John of having names starting with J, and their names are phonetically similar to their counterparts' ('''J'''oh'''n''' and '''J'''a'''n'''e, '''Ja'''d'''e''' and '''Ja'''k'''e'''); Jake English has the same initials as John Egbert. |
| 59 | ** Dirk has the same initials as Dave and Davesprite. Roxy has the same initials as Rose. |
| 60 | ** The chumhandles of all the humans except Jane [[RuleOfSymbolism reference the New Testament]]. Jake's chumhandle references the place where UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} died. Roxy's chumhandle refers to UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} (in addition to being a [[ProductPlacement actual brandname]]). Dirk's handle refers to the blind man healed by Jesus. And while Jane's chumhandle breaks the pattern, [[SignificantMonogram her initials are JC]] and she's the Hero of Life. They're all friendly with Calliope, who has a serpent theme. |
| 61 | * TomatoSurprise: Dirk and Roxy actually live on the future wasteland that Earth has become. This was hinted at subtly before being revealed during the End of Act 6 Act 2. |
| 62 | * TrueCompanions: Despite everything [[LoveDodecahedron that]] [[WhatTheHellHero happened]] [[PoorCommunicationKills between]] [[IncompatibleOrientation them,]] it's evident that they still care about each other a lot. |
| 63 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Jane and Roxy. Dirk compares their friendship to a three legged race involving dynamite, and he's not far off. |
| 64 | * WalkingSpoiler: Talking about why they even exist spoils everything that the previous parts of the story were building up to. |
| 65 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: They fall to [[TheCorruption Trickster Mode]] one by one. While granting immense power that possibly amplifies a player's Aspect mastery past God-Tier levels, Trickster Mode makes a player believe that all of their personal problems can be solved if they act out their deepest desires without any inhibitions. More specifically: |
| 66 | ** Jane, in the wake of her deeply depressing fallout over Jake, becomes a Jake-obsessed {{Yandere}} and on sight of him immediately declares her love and desire to marry him and have his children. When he rejects her with his display of fear, she kicks him over a cliff in [[IfICantHaveYou an attempt to kill him]]. After his subsequent transformation, she inexplicably drops the typical symptoms of being Yandere when she agrees to his proposal for polygamy. |
| 67 | ** When Jake transforms, he immediately agrees to marry and have a [[IncrediblyLamePun ZILLION]] babies with Jane, and he proposes in addition to this a plan to [[MarryThemAll marry Roxy and Dirk as well]]. He does this because he knows/suspects they all like him and he's trying to make them all happy - even though moments earlier he was ready to break up with Dirk because he needed space. |
| 68 | ** Trickster!Roxy not only agrees to Jake's polygamous arrangement immediately upon conversion, but she also falls OffTheWagon completely. Yet she's actually only slightly worse off than she was in her life before sobriety. Though she makes grand proposals to persuade Dirk, she's been making such aggressive flirtation long before even her entrance into the game. It's her [[UncannyValley intimidating appearance]] and her endurance of his cynicism that allows her to attempt to convert an already emotionally compromised Dirk... |
| 69 | ** And yet he's so depressed, he turns out to be the [[OnlySaneMan lone]] [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] and fails to become mentally affected by Trickster Mode, though perhaps it's allowed him to be more blunt with everyone and break up with Jake. |
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| 72 | [[folder:Jane]] |
| 73 | !!Jane Crocker |
| 74 | [[quoteright:157:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HS_Jane_Crocker_9360.png]] |
| 75 | [[caption-width-right:157:[[labelnote:At the god tiers:]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jane_crocker_god_tier.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 76 | [[caption-width-right:157:[[labelnote:"Crockertier":]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jane_crocker_mindcontrolled.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 77 | ->[-'''''Webcomic/ParadoxSpace'' Appearances''': "Ace Sleuth Jane" | "A Fun Day for [=GCat=]" | "Secret Sufferer"-] |
| 78 | |
| 79 | ->''Though you guess that probably comes with the territory of being the HEIRESS APPARENT TO A BAKED GOODS EMPIRE. You don't suppose it hurts that you are said empire's NUMBER ONE FANGIRL, either! It should come as no surprise that you enjoy BAKING, but you also adore reading DETECTIVE STORIES. You fancy yourself a SKILLED PRANKSTRESS, if by no other measure than lineage. Though at times you feel it's tough to fill those shoes when you are SURROUNDED BY JOKERS. Seriously, the shenanigans perpetrated by your pals make your old school japes feel KIND OF PEDESTRIAN SOMETIMES, but oh well, you love them all anyway.'' |
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| 81 | The post-Scratch iteration of Nanna Egbert, and John's post-Scratch counterpart, Jane is the heiress to the great Betty Crocker empire and the comedic legacy of her forefathers. |
| 82 | |
| 83 | Her chumhandle is gutsyGumshoe. She is the '''Maid of Life''' of the Post-Scratch Human Session and is the leader of said session. |
| 84 | |
| 85 | Her fetch modus is RECIPE, which allows her to view all the possible Alchemization combinations allowed to create the items she puts in it, as well as the grist cost for each combination, and her STRIFE SPECIBUS is allocated to the [[ImprobableWeaponUser SPOONKIND ABSTRATUS]], which [[SwissArmyWeapon can switch to]] the [[ForkFencing FORKKIND ABSTRATUS]]. |
| 86 | |
| 87 | ->She speaks with proper grammar and capitalization, and uses a spot of old lingo.\ |
| 88 | HOWEVER, SHE USES ALL CAPS AND MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION MARKS WHEN EXCITED OR INFURIATED!!!\ |
| 89 | She also likes using bucktoothed emotes! :B \ |
| 90 | And she has a distinctive laugh. Hoo hoo! |
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| 92 | * AccentRelapse: Played straight compared to John, though later inverted. |
| 93 | * ActionGirl: To an extent, though she never sees as much combat as Rose or Jade. Played straight when she becomes brainwashed. |
| 94 | * AdvancedTech2000: The Junior Battermaster's Bowlbuster Stirring Solution 5000. |
| 95 | * AgentScully: Acts as this to Roxy as [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4156 they argue the existence of the Batterwitch]]. This is later justified by Jane living in a time in which Betty Crocker's influence is subtle instead of the overt tyranny of Roxy's time period. Jane also displays this to Gamzee and Calliope as well. |
| 96 | * AgitatedItemStomping: Does it to her [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5532 chat device]] after a particularly frustrating conversation with Jake in which he forgets her birthday party and drives her completely nuts by continuing to blather about his relationship problems with Dirk. |
| 97 | -->'''ROXY:''' jane |
| 98 | -->'''ROXY:''' yo uh |
| 99 | -->'''ROXY:''' janey |
| 100 | -->'''ROXY:''' u ok there |
| 101 | -->'''JANE:''' I WILL BE PEACHY ''FUCKING'' KEEN ONCE I STOMP THIS NOVELTY MUSTACHE HEADSET INTO OBLIVION, AND NOT A MOMENT SOONER! |
| 102 | * AndIMustScream: She's implied to be fully aware of her Crockertier actions. |
| 103 | * {{Angrish}}: When in Crockertier Mode, she's visibly annoyed by Jade getting crushed by a house, and mutters death threats to Aranea under her breath. |
| 104 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Subverted, when Jake straight up asks her about their mutual feelings towards each other, Jane denies them and then immediately regrets it, and tries to immediately take it back, but Jake thinks she's just trying to comfort him platonically. |
| 105 | ** Later played straight...[[ObliviousToLove but Jake thinks she's talking about Dirk]]. |
| 106 | * AnimeHair: Much like her relatives John and Jade, her hair has impossible cowlicks. |
| 107 | * AntiquatedLinguistics: Her speech implies a southern dialect (though it gradually disappears the more time she spends in the Medium, and is gone completely by the time she enters Crockertier Mode, with a few exceptions) and she occasionally uses old-timey language, though never to Jake's extent. |
| 108 | * AudienceSurrogate: Her skepticism and eventual SkepticismFailure make her seem like this due to the fact that the Scratch also introduced many story features new to both the reader and characters. |
| 109 | * BadBadActing: PlayedForDrama. Her attempts at seeming uncaring when Jake misinterprets her feelings for him end up disturbing him. |
| 110 | * BigBeautifulWoman: Parodied. Caliborn repeatedly calls her fat and ugly, but has a clear - and very disturbing - attraction to her. Played straight in guest art, however, which tends to render her plus-sized but no less cuter than the other kids. |
| 111 | * TheBigGirl: In Crockertier Mode, to the point where all of her old friends are extremely scared of her. Even way before that, her Dad was proud that she's able to lift a whole fridge. |
| 112 | * BigOlEyebrows: In [S] Game Over, she's got a pretty thick pair of grey eyebrows. |
| 113 | * BigShutUp: Delivers one to Jake, after she had enough of listening to him about his relationship problems with Dirk. |
| 114 | * BirdsOfAFeather: Like Meenah, she is the other heir to Betty Crocker's fortune (with Meenah becoming Betty Crocker in an AlternateTimeline) and with A1 Betty Crocker, Feferi. They all have the [[HealingHands Life]] Aspect, which supports this. |
| 115 | * BoyishShortHair: Her hair is like John's, but curlier and slightly longer. |
| 116 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: After Grimbark Jade teleports her tiaratop on her head and makes her go Crockertier. |
| 117 | * BrattyTeenageDaughter: Her relationship with her dad, though it's much friendlier than most examples. |
| 118 | * BrawnHilda: She isn't one, but her father seems to want her to grow up to be strong enough to lift a fridge. This dream seems to have become half-true, since she's now very strong likely due to the combined strain Sburb has put on her as well as ascending to God Tier. |
| 119 | * BrutalHonesty: In Crockertier Mode. While Jane always had trouble being patient with her friends, in Crockertier Mode, she lets her feelings known instantly. |
| 120 | * BuffySpeak: Out of excitement for Sburb Alpha's delivery, she calls the letter box signal flag [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4156 the flappy thing,]] [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4157 THE FLAPPY SWINGY DOODAD, THE ARM DEALIE, and THE GODDARNED RED SWINGY FLAPPY LEVER ARM THINGAMABOB...ON THE MAILBOX.]][[note]]Which is a CallBack to [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/2005 Karkat on trolls & poetry]], which is itself one to [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/28 John waiting for his copy of Sburb]].[[/note]] |
| 121 | * ButThouMust: When seeing a God Tier Gamzee greet her at her home in LOCAH, despite it being an interactive sequence, her responses to having Gamzee be her guide are "No" and "Fuck no". |
| 122 | ** When Gamzee is selling her his "potions", you have the option of clicking "Yes" or "No". Clicking "No" gives you a different dialogue screen, but it still winds up with her reluctantly buying the potion. |
| 123 | ** Later, Crockertier Jane resells the same potions to Kanaya, and [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire "No" is never an option for her]], despite the absolutely exorbitant prices. |
| 124 | * CallBack: Her room is loaded with them. Also a MythologyGag since she ''really'' seems to like ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth''; her shirt is even a sprite version of [[https://www.homestuck.com/problem-sleuth/196 one of the first enemies]]. |
| 125 | ** Mentions having a mental breakdown after learning that the company she's about to inherit makes Gushers, which are good for two things - sensory deprivation and inducing vomiting. [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/979 Sound familiar?]] |
| 126 | * CantSpitItOut: To Jake. ''Even when he asks her up front about it.'' Accidentally invokes LetsJustBeFriends. |
| 127 | ** [[DiggingYourselfDeeper Digs her hole even deeper]] by encouraging Jake to be more forward with Dirk, and outright suggests they date. Jane is appalled by her own stupidity. When some fans brought up her being mindcontrolled into saying it, [[WordOfGod the Huss himself]] all but laughed at the idea of teenagers having to be ''forced'' to act like dumbasses. |
| 128 | ** Finally {{Averted|Trope}} when Trickster!Jane tells Jake how much she loves him. Though he's kind of creeped out by her demeanor. |
| 129 | * CaptainOblivious: She's completely unaware of Crockercorp's influence on her, which Roxy is always trying to warn her about. Justified by the fact that in Roxy and Dirk's time, the Condesce is a tyrannical ruler, whereas in Jane and Jake's, her interference with humanity is subtle. |
| 130 | * ChewToy: She is a mild example. It is exaggerated during Act 6 Act 5. Not only Jake accidentally ruins her birthday, but Caliborn irritates her and makes her believe her father is dead, she becomes depressed only to end up with her entering to Trickster Mode. |
| 131 | * ClusterFBomb: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/6683 To Gamzee.]] |
| 132 | -->'''JANE:''' DID YOU JUST TOUCH MY BOOB. DON'T TOUCH MY BOOB YOU FUCKFACED DUNG HUFFING TOILET GUZZLING IDIOT QUIPSTER SHITPECKER DICKLARK. |
| 133 | * CombatMedic: She's a hero of Life, but also a close-range fighter. And she's a good shot with that fork too. |
| 134 | * ComicallySerious: In Crockertier Mode, she still has her emotions, though only expresses them through dull and simple language. This leads to a few situations like this. |
| 135 | * ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Subverted. Roxy and Dirk are always telling her to abandon Crockercorp technology because it's harmful to her. She doesn't believe them, as she sees it simply as annoying advertising. It's then revealed that Roxy and Dirk live in a time when Betty Crocker has taken over Earth, meaning that their overblown fears of Crocker are justified. |
| 136 | * CorruptTheCutie: Crockertier Mode turned Jane into an emotionless killer, though the "emotionless" part turns out to be an act. She may be fully aware of what she's doing, but unable to stop it. |
| 137 | * CosmicPlaything: She isn't able to prototype pre-Medium because Skaia gave her a Void session, [[MindScrew because she didn't prototype pre-Medium]]. Apparently, Skaia knows and sees all, and gave them a Void session in advance, presumably in order to save time. Justified, as they're simply paving the way for the Pre-Scratch Kids, effectively making an 8-player session. |
| 138 | * CovertPervert: Was mesmerized by Gamzee's codpiece and openly stared at Jake's crotch after his god-tier outfit turned out to be pantless. |
| 139 | * CreatorInJoke: Trickster!Jane's [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5721 bafflingly gleeful]] [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5722 declaration of]] [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5723 feeling Caucasian]] is Hussie's way of poking fun at fans who get worked up over what race the kids are all supposed to be. |
| 140 | ** Later [[{{Retcon}} Retconned]] into "Peachy" after it was misinterpreted as a TakeThat against parts of the fandom. |
| 141 | -->[[http://mspandrew.tumblr.com/post/40461873904/more-so-i-just-dialed-down-the-joke-on-page Hussie:]] But actually what motivates me more to revise it is noticing more than a few unsavory individuals using it as justification to harass [=POCs=] [people of color] or anyone who, reasonably, wanted to voice their concerns. On reflection I’d rather not have my decisions serve as fodder for the arguments of such people. They don’t speak for me. |
| 142 | * CulturedBadass: Compared to her three co-players. Justified by the fact that she was raised as the heir to Crockercorp and on her Grandfather's comedies. |
| 143 | * CunningLikeAFox: Her main business tactic when dealing with [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Kanaya]]. She even gets compared to a fox in the same flash. |
| 144 | * CuteAndPsycho: Trickster Mode reveals that she's got ''a lot'' of issues, with Jake being one of many. |
| 145 | * DamnedByFaintPraise: If her praise of Gushers is any indication, they're really good if you need to induce vomiting. |
| 146 | * DarkActionGirl: In Crockertier Mode, she threatens to murder Aranea, kills Karkat (though revives him afterwards), and forces Jake to marry her, all of which is played for drama. |
| 147 | * DatingWhatDaddyHates: To which he only feels STERN FATHERLY DISAPPROVAL. |
| 148 | * DeadAllAlong: Inverted with the version of her from the retconned timeline. She was thought to be dead when meeting with Jade and Calliope, but the revelation that Vriska simply knocked her unconscious flipped the situation on its head. |
| 149 | * DeadpanSnarker: While never quite as much as [[LittleMissSnarker Rose]] [[StrongFamilyResemblance or]] [[{{Hipster}} Dirk]], she has her occasional moments. |
| 150 | --> [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5796 "Woo!!!"]] |
| 151 | --> "We are all such WINNERS!" |
| 152 | * DecoyProtagonist: Jane is built up to be the {{Tritagonist}} of the post-Scratch kids much like how John was for the pre-Scratch kids. However, Roxy proves herself to be the most emotionally stable of the post-Scratch kids and ends up more active in the plot, being the SoleSurvivor of [[WhamEpisode [S] GAME OVER]] and the one who ultimately fights on the front lines against Her Imperious Condescension and deals the final blow while Jane plays more of a supporting role. |
| 153 | * DependingOnTheArtist: It's notable that for Jane, even compared to the other human kids, tends to vary in figure depending on who's drawing her. She can go looking from Hussie's art of her being stylistically the same as the other girls in terms of body type, to a more defined version of her in some guest art, and in other guest pieces being plus-sized. |
| 154 | * {{Determinator}}: She is very, very stubborn. While she listens to what others have to say, she doesn't make any attempt to follow their advice. This results in her getting brainwashed, however, by refusing to switch to non-Crockercorp devices, which she chalks up to brand loyalty (though in reality, she's being brainwashed). Even when being forcibly put to sleep using MindControl, she still fights on, attempting to kill her attacker. |
| 155 | * DidYouThinkICantFeel: Jane finally flips her shit ([[FlippingTheTable and a table]]) once she's had enough of Jake solely talking to her about his relationship with Dirk. |
| 156 | * DisappointedInYou: Jane gives this vibe toward Roxy after hearing her talk drunk, [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4156 especially saying what would her Mom think of her behavior.]] |
| 157 | * DissonantSerenity: After the gets brainwashed, she still remains as calm and precise as she previously was. |
| 158 | * DoesNotLikeSpam: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4150 Doesn't like Gushers]] if her [[DamnedByFaintPraise faint praise]] is any indication. |
| 159 | ** In a direct mirror to John: he likes gushers, but hates cake. She likes cake, but hates gushers. |
| 160 | * DoomMagnet: She's the constant target of assassination attempts. |
| 161 | * DreamingOfThingsToCome: Jane awakens on Prospit the night before the Sburb Alpha comes out, and has briefly seen Skaian visions during blackouts since. |
| 162 | * EasilyForgiven: She forgives the reader for wanting to call her something rude. |
| 163 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Even while brainwashed, she's completely and utterly disgusted that Aranea used Jake to bring harm to her AlternateUniverse Granddaughter. She also still harbours mixed feelings towards Jake, but that's for [[AdamAndEvePlot other reasons.]] |
| 164 | * EvilCostumeSwitch: When inflicted with [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Crockertier]], her outfit becomes [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]], her [[RedEyesTakeWarning pupils turn red]], while the sclera goes [[BlackEyesOfEvil black]]. |
| 165 | * FakeUltimateHero: Subverted, as she's heroically aligned and has the Aspect of life, but the salamanders of her planet saw her as this. When they learned that she wouldn't arrive at LOCAH for ''millions of years'', they started burying their own graves. |
| 166 | * {{Fangirl}}: To Betty Crocker, though it's pretty justified in that she's the Heiress to the company, and possibly also because she's [[SubliminalSeduction brainwashed into liking it.]] She also likes ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', Jeff Foxworthy, Harry Anderson, and mustached comedians and private eyes in general. |
| 167 | * FearlessFool: Charges into Sburb with more determination and bravery than John did, though it proves to be much more problematic. |
| 168 | * FemaleGaze: When Jake reaches [[UnderwearOfPower God Tier]], his crotch is reflecting in her glasses. The same happens when she meets Gamzee. |
| 169 | * {{Fetish}}: She seems to have a thing for men with mustaches or at least comedians with mustaches. This may have something to do with her admiration and respect for her grandfather and great-grandfather, who were both mustached comedians. |
| 170 | ** She also seems to have a general fixation with crotches, which is PlayedForLaughs. |
| 171 | * TheFettered: What she turns into. |
| 172 | * FlippingTheTable: In a fit of rage, she flips over a table during her birthday party, destroying a cake in the process. |
| 173 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: When she levels up, we see the very next level on her echeladder is "Heiress Sans Parent". |
| 174 | ** On the Sburb loading icon, its color matches the eye color of the most important player. For example, the Kids' session has a green logo, matching Jade's eyes, and Trolls' session had a purple logo, matching Gamzee's, ect. But their session has a red logo, and none of them have red eyes. It turns out to be her eyes, post Crockertier Mode. |
| 175 | * ForkFencing: Upgrades to the Fork Specibus at 11:11 AM. She get the most use out of it after being overwritten by her Tiaratop. |
| 176 | * FreudianTrio: All three, with her normal self, (TheKirk) and her Crockertier self. (TheSpock) Depending on the disposition of the character she's interacting with, she usually fits into TheMcCoy, and now seems to be this. |
| 177 | * FridgeHorror: In-Universe, she has some regarding her dad's Hallway Cera, and how she [[EarnYourHappyEnding wishes she could have the happy ending sans missing, presumed dead father that he had]]. |
| 178 | * FunnySpoon: Her initial and favorite weapons. |
| 179 | * GameBreaker: |
| 180 | ** In-Universe, Heroes of Life all have the ability to heal others, with class not seeming to affect this ability. This is especially handy in Jane's session, which is caught in the crossfire of the Alternian and Pre-Scratch sessions. |
| 181 | ** Jane also has access to CrockerCorp technology meant specifically to work around Sburb's mechanics, like the [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4958 Gristwidget 12000]]. |
| 182 | * GeniusDitz: Like John, she subverts the IdiotHero trope and ends up as this. She's prone to bad decisions and being impulsive, though she has her occasional flashes of brilliance. |
| 183 | * GenkiGirl: Before Sburb, she was energetic and friendly. Afterwards, she becomes jaded and mellow, allowing her transition into Crockertier Mode much easier. |
| 184 | * GoshDangItToHeck: Jane scrupulously avoids using any ''actual'' swear words, initially at least. As time has gone on, she's started peppering her speech with them. |
| 185 | * InternetJerk: She feels incredibly satisfied after her online rampage against Jake, though later regrets it when she meets him again face-to-face. |
| 186 | * GrammarNazi: As seen in [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4136 this BettyBother:]] |
| 187 | -->GT: A joint gift to him from she and i. |
| 188 | -->GG: Her and me. |
| 189 | -->GT: What? Who and you now? |
| 190 | -->GG: "A joint gift from her and me." Grammar, Jake! |
| 191 | %% Merging the above into one quote with \ doubles-spaces this section for some reason. |
| 192 | * GreenThumb: Her Trickster mode causes plants to grow across her land. |
| 193 | * GuestFighter: One of the 3 dateable ''Homestuck'' characters present in ''VideoGame/NamcoHigh''. |
| 194 | * HairTriggerTemper: Her time in the Medium eventually gives her a very, very short fuse. A lot like someone else we know... |
| 195 | * HappilyAdopted: By (probably) her genetic grandson. |
| 196 | * HartmanHips: She [[http://36.media.tumblr.com/68f3b1b2a7ee586749147db3bda4560e/tumblr_ne0f1yaUSO1snbgi5o1_400.png seems to have these]] in [S] GAME OVER, though it might just be DependingOnTheArtist. [[TheMuse Calliope also draws her with these]], and Caliborn's comments imply that she's more filled out than Roxy, though only after calling her fat. |
| 197 | * HardBoiledDetective: Aspires to be one as evidenced with [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4136 her BettyBother handle,]] '''[=gutsyGumshoe=].''' This aspiration got her father in a spot of trouble with the law. |
| 198 | * HealingHands: Her Life powers manifest as a beam of blue energy from her hand. It's inverted for undead targets, like Kanaya, which kills them instead. She can also restore other players' health with her powers. |
| 199 | * HealingMagicIsTheHardest: She can reverse death, but only once per person. |
| 200 | * HeroicBSOD: She has an intense emotional and mental breakdown due to a combination of her dad's presumed death, Jake being too blind to realize her feelings for him, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Caliborn calling her a "fat ugly whore"]]. Then [[TheCorruption Trickster Mode]] [[FromBadToWorse happens]]... |
| 201 | * HollywoodPudgy: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with Caliborn's bullying, to paint him as even more of a jerk than before. She's got a rather modest pear figure and is implied to have a stockier figure than the other human girls, though most artwork has her with the same body type as the others for the purpose of simple art. |
| 202 | * HonestJohnsDealership: Deals with Kanaya as a carrotish [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/6400 "businesswoman"]] rather than as the Condesce's stick. And just what does she sell at an exorbitantly high price? Gamzee's "potions." Your [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Friendly Neighborhood Rainbow Drinker]] just can't resist. |
| 203 | * HopeBringer: Her Trickster Mode form has the power to bring life to a planet that's been dead for billions of years. |
| 204 | * HotBlooded: Not as much as Rose or Jake, though she's got her moments. |
| 205 | * IBelieveThatYouBelieveIt: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4136 Jane wishes Jake Godspeed on his cyborg bunny project,]] despite finding it strange and silly. |
| 206 | * IdiotHero: Downplayed. While she's no idiot, she has a penchant for making terrible choices. Also subverted, just like John, which might also make her a GeniusDitz. |
| 207 | * IfICantHaveYou: Attempts this in Trickster Mode by kicking Jake over a cliff, but this instead results in his own engagement of [[TheCorruption Trickster Mode]]. |
| 208 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5140 Blame DD's]] [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5141 Red Miles.]] |
| 209 | ** Happens once again in GAME OVER, mere moments after Jake pulls a SenselessSacrifice to save her from the sword that Aranea tried to fling at her. Unfortunately, [[KarmicDeath it's a little more permanent this time round]]. Later undone by John. |
| 210 | ** She does this to Jake to get rid of his hope field, which has the unfortunate side-effect of destroying Ghost Brain Dirk - which in turn leaves Aranea alive and with her soul. She also does it to a doomed AlternateTimeline Roxy who later gets replaced with the Game Over Roxy. |
| 211 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: She's so good at throwing her fork that it can penetrate a field of [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower raw Hope]]. Justified, as 6 months of relying on your aim to survive would leave you a good shot. |
| 212 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: Spoons and forks. She eventually starts using larger forks as weapons, meaning that her Specibus skirts the line between FORKKIND and TRIDENTKIND, Feferi's Specibus. |
| 213 | * {{Immortality}}: Played with. She gets stabbed to death before the game even ''starts'', but as a Maiden of Life, she is revived by her powers. It only works once, though, which screws her over later on when she dies a Just death under the Condesce's control. |
| 214 | * InNameOnly: Dirk says that she's the "Team Leader", but that he'll be pulling all the strings. When things get out of his control and Jane turns into a villain, Roxy becomes the closest thing to her session's leader. |
| 215 | * InnocentBlueEyes: Their transition into [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] signifies her new role as a reluctant villain. |
| 216 | * ItOnlyWorksOnce: Her ability to revive the dead will only work once on an individual person. |
| 217 | * JiveTurkey: Not as much as [[AntiquatedLinguistics Jake]], though she also peppers her speak with archaic words and odd sentence structures. Though due to influence from Roxy, also a JiveTurkey, however, she begins speaking with different slang rather than no slang. |
| 218 | * JumpedAtTheCall: Pretty much the only member of her session excited to actually play the game, and pretty happy to explore LOCAH. |
| 219 | * KarmicDeath: The Condesce's shenanigans while possessing Jane rendered her stomach skewering a Just death. Later averted, when John saves Vriska from Terezi, who in turn saves Jane from Aranea. This has put an end to Jane's brainwashed state. |
| 220 | * LargeHam: Considering her relatives and her Pre-Scratch self, this shouldn't be so much of a surprise. She has a tendency to get excited and over-reactive very easily, which tends to get on her friends' nerves. |
| 221 | * TheLeader: Of her session, at least at first. |
| 222 | * LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4117 "You once dabbled in AMATEUR BOTANY but found it TOO FRUSTRATING, because your VEGETABLES KEPT DISAP-actually you know what, you DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT."]] It was later revealed Jake and Roxy were the ones stealing her pumpkins, partially by accident. |
| 223 | * LifeEnergy: She is the Maid of Life. |
| 224 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: Unlike Jake, she is completely unaware Roxy and Dirk live in the future. This is because of her initial AgentScully nature being too overpowering for Roxy to try to tell her otherwise. |
| 225 | * LuminescentBlush: After Dave calls her attractive. It's the first sign that her personality still exists under the Condesce's influence. |
| 226 | * MadeOfIron: Survived being blown out of a second story window with no injuries. |
| 227 | * MamaBear: Her relationship with Jade. When Aranea kills her, Jane attempts to kill her ''while she's asleep'', though she is realistically killed. |
| 228 | * ManicPixieDreamGirl: In Trickster Mode. Later deconstructed when she regrets her in actions in it. |
| 229 | * MoodSwinger: She goes from [[DarkestHour horribly depressed]], to Trickster Mode in what can only be a few minutes. Justified by Trickster Mode's [[StepfordSmiler properties]]. |
| 230 | * {{Mouthscreen}}: In a [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/6446 panel]] that's disturbing and [[NarmCharm Narmy]] in equal measure, Crockertier Jane's [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsonian]] lips part so that she may explain to Jake why she's forcing him into marriage and [[SexSlave Sex Slavery]] despite her absolute contempt for him: |
| 231 | -->JANE: You're lucky you're so hot. |
| 232 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: She levels up by throwing at her at the ground in disgust. |
| 233 | * MyFutureSelfAndMe: With the arrival of the battleship, Jane and Nanna are the only Sburb player(s) to have both of their pre/post-scratch incarnations alive in the same universe simultaneously, and the instance of Nanna from the pre-retcon timeline has revealed that she's come along too. All three have met face to face. |
| 234 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: PlayedForLaughs. When she gets angry at Jake, she immediately regrets tearing up her Tobias poster. |
| 235 | ** Completely played straight when she recalled her actions post-retcon, and recalls she accidentally killed her timeline's Roxy while throwing her fork at Rose in a fit of rage. |
| 236 | * MythologyGag: Two of her Echeladder levels are "Haberdasher's Daughter" and "Sodajerk's Confidante". Both of these are references to the title character of ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', who had two ratings named "Groom to the Haberdasher's Daughter" and "Suitor to the Sodajerk's Confidante". |
| 237 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Her actions toward Jake end up creeping him out unintentionally. |
| 238 | ** In Trickster Mode, she is... unsettling, to say the least. |
| 239 | * NonFatalExplosions: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4451 Poor,]] [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4452 poor]] [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4453 Jane.]] |
| 240 | * NoodleImplements: Something about disappearing pumpkins, which frustrated her to the point of giving up on gardening. |
| 241 | * NoodleIncident: Her love of detectives and her aspiration to become one regularly gets her father in trouble with the law. There was also the incident involving disappearing pumpkins that she really didn't want to talk about. |
| 242 | * NotSoAboveItAll: Despite claiming to be a being of supreme logic and rationality, she falls prey to this on occasion. |
| 243 | * NotSoStoic: Twice as Crockertier Mode. The first is when Dave calls her "johns hot mom", and the second is when Gamzee accidentally feels her up, which makes her go ballistic. Happens again when she tells Jake he's being forced to marry her. |
| 244 | --> "JANE: You're luck you're so hot." |
| 245 | * ObliviousGuiltSlinging: |
| 246 | ** After the mailbox explosion, Jane contacts Roxy and apologizes for doubting her. Roxy says Jane is making her feel bad... because it turns out she was trying to set up a fake assassination attempt involving an exploding copy of the game ''just'' so Jane would start believing her. |
| 247 | ** She's on the receiving end when she fails to be honest with Jake about her feelings, leading him to open up to her as JustFriends. Watching her beat herself up about it as she only digs herself deeper is both funny and heart-wrenching, and Jake's oblivious praise of her only twists the knife further. 5 months later, after listening to one too many relationship problem between Jake and Dirk, while Jake is praising her, she snaps. Complete with TwitchyEye ''and'' BigShutUp. |
| 248 | * OurHeroIsDead: Twice, with both her dreamself and her realself. Played straight when she ends up being okay both times anyways. Then it happens ''again'', but she gets better. |
| 249 | ** Happens a ''third'' time with the timeline John and Roxy retcon. |
| 250 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: She seems to be a jab towards interpretations of Vriska that think this. While Jane is a prankster and aspiring comedian who feels that she cannot live up to her family's name, Vriska was similar. Though unlike Vriska, she doesn't really seem to care. |
| 251 | * PaperThinDisguise: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4160 Behold]]. |
| 252 | * PerpetualFrowner: In Crockertier Mode, she's almost always frowning. |
| 253 | * ThePollyanna: She really doesn't seem all that worried about multiple recent assassination attempts, though the one where she actually got stabbed did upset her somewhat. According to Rose, both she and John are CursedWithAwesome in this regard. |
| 254 | * PowerOfLove: Her powers as the [[HealingHands Maid]] [[ReviveKillsZombie of Life]] get turned up a notch in Trickster Mode, meaning that she can turn Horrorterrors into adorable cherubim and harmless tentacled monsters. |
| 255 | * PrecisionFStrike: Delivers one to Jake after getting fed up with his WallOfText about his relationship with Dirk. Even more intense due to her normally using SymbolSwearing and GoshDarnItToHeck. |
| 256 | --> GG: JAKE. |
| 257 | --> GG: I SAID SHUT UP. |
| 258 | --> GT: Wha... |
| 259 | --> GG: JUST, |
| 260 | --> GG: SHUT, |
| 261 | --> GG: THE FUCK, |
| 262 | --> GG: UUUUUUUUUUP!!! |
| 263 | * PosterGalleryBedroom: Her room is covered in posters of ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', various movies, and funnyman pinups, especially of Ron Swanson. This is to mirror John's posters of bad movies and Creator/LivTyler. |
| 264 | * RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The Condesce's mind control turns her normally grey and green Life robes red and white, and turns her eyes red and black. |
| 265 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Her irises and robes turn from cyan and beige (respectively) to bright red when she's being controlled by the Condesce, who's empire is associated with bright red. |
| 266 | * ReluctantPsycho: Her Crockertier Mode plays with this. She's aware of what she's doing, but is unable to stop it. However, how much of it is her free will or the Condesce's control is deliberately left ambiguous. |
| 267 | * ReviveKillsZombie: Her Trickster Modes life power kills undead underlings instantly. |
| 268 | ** She also threatens Kanaya with this, to no avail |
| 269 | * RidiculouslyAverageGuy: Just like John, she's just a normal teenager, which sets her apart from her friends greatly. |
| 270 | * RightHandCat: The normally aloof GCAT suddenly teleports into Crockertier Jane's arms so she can get her [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld]] on while talking to Jake. |
| 271 | * RuleOfSymbolism: When John made his Cruxite Artifact, needed to enter the Medium, he created a tree that dropped an apple. When Jane makes her Cruxite Artifact, she makes a tree that doesn't drop anything and simply vanishes. Rose uses plants as a metaphor for whether a session is active, void, or dead. |
| 272 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Jane sometimes lapses into this, especially the Jane from Calliope's timeline. It turns out that she isn't dead or from Calliope's timeline, but is instead asleep in the real world. It seems that her speech tendencies seem to be the lingering habits of the Condesce's control, or that she's talking like that for the purpose of her trollsona. |
| 273 | %% * ShonenHair: A rare female example. |
| 274 | * SkepticismFailure: She doesn't believe Roxy's claims of being 4 centuries into the future and living in a CrapsackWorld, or that Sburb is as dangerous as Roxy and Dirk claim it is. Though when things get serious, she lets her skepticism go. |
| 275 | * SkepticNoLonger: She starts trusting Calliope and Roxy at their word shortly before starting the game. |
| 276 | * SophisticatedAsHell: She's the only one of her session who uses totally perfect grammar and is occasionally prone to using long words. She's also surprisingly vulgar at times. |
| 277 | * SouthernBelle: She says that her grandfather was one of the "great southern comedians", and her text implies a southern dialect. |
| 278 | %% * SpockSpeak: Occasionally does this in Crockertier Mode. |
| 279 | * StepfordSmiler: Her Trickster Mode is a subversion...[[DoubleSubversion at first]]. In the flash sequence that the form debuts in, it initially looks like she's in pain, though the subsequent [=A6A5A2=] intro flash shows that she is legitimately having a blast. Nevertheless, she goes to LOMAX in [=A6A5A2=], and [[IfICantHaveYou the one reason]] she would go there suggests that she is, in fact, a [[CuteAndPsycho Type C]]. |
| 280 | * TheStoic: Jane's personality after becoming Crockertier. |
| 281 | -->'''JANE:''' Having recently been crowned [[TheSpock a supreme being of pure logic]], my tolerance for your (Jake's) antiquated horseshit has fallen to nil.\ |
| 282 | [Much nervous prattling by Jake]\ |
| 283 | '''JANE''': [[NotSoStoic Argh!]]\ |
| 284 | '''JANE''': Jake, now you have done it.\ |
| 285 | '''JANE''': [[SpockSpeak You have made me exclaim in frustration audibly.]] |
| 286 | ** Later shown to be [[NotSoStoic an act]] -- see ClusterFBomb. |
| 287 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: She heavily resembles Jade (genetically her daughter) both in appearance and personality, though she tends toward despair rather than rage when sufficiently antagonized. In terms of personality, she takes more after John, particularly in her love of movies, "disguises", and practical jokes, along with being insufferably happy and determined. |
| 288 | * SuddenlyEthnicity: During Trickster Mode. It ended up instigating so much hostility in the fandom that Hussie later changed it from "caucasian" to "peachy". |
| 289 | * SupremeChef: Her Spoonkind Abstrabus contains hundreds of baking recipes, a few of which she's implied to have made herself. Justified; she ''is'' Betty Crocker's heir. |
| 290 | * SwissArmyWeapon: It can change back and forth from SPOONKIND to FORKKIND at the touch of a button. |
| 291 | * SymbolSwearing: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4156 Uses "&%#$@!!!" as a swear towards a drunken Roxy.]] |
| 292 | * TheTeamNormal: She's a normal girl living in a suburban household. Aside from being heiress to a massive company, she's completely average. |
| 293 | * TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Jane is quite the brand loyalist; she immediately thinks the FORKKIND abstratus is inferior to the SPOONKIND and loves the fictional Problem Sleuth sequel for its dedication to the formula. |
| 294 | ** This extends to her personal relationships as well: Jane actively lies about her feelings for Jake in fear of change, doesn't call out Roxy for her alcoholism despite it being a clear problem, and refuses to discuss her pursuit of Jake with Dirk before the Trickster incident forces it out. %%InUniverse |
| 295 | * ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: In Crockertier Mode, at least until she freaks out when Gamzee glomps her. |
| 296 | * TogetherInDeath: With Jake in [S] GAME OVER, both skewered on the same sword. |
| 297 | * TookALevelInBadass: While Jane was always pretty capable, she's a full DarkActionGirl in Crockertier Mode. |
| 298 | * TookALevelInJerkass: While Jade is still polite when Grimbark, Crockertier Jane dispenses with any pleasantries by being ruthless in any way possible, as well as [[BrutalHonesty letting people know exactly what she thinks of them]]. |
| 299 | ** Even before going Crockertier, Jane had a rather short fuse and a tendency to lash out at her friends, so all going Crockertier does is make her less inhibited. |
| 300 | * TranquilFury: In Crockertier Mode, she's more prone to violence, but less able to express her emotions, which leads to this trope. |
| 301 | * TricksterArchetype: Though like John, she freely admits she's awful at pranks. |
| 302 | * TrueBlueFemininity: Her sigil and text color are a bright shade of cyan. |
| 303 | * TwitchyEye: During a conversation between her and Jake, where Jake is telling her about his relationship problems with Dirk, she gets increasingly more and more annoyed, to the point of having her eye twitching. And then she snapped. |
| 304 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: She used to be pretty forgiving and friendly of her friends. However, following the events of her 16th birthday, she became increasingly bitter and impatient. Being mind controlled doesn't help. |
| 305 | * UncannyValleyGirl: Trickster Mode, obviously. |
| 306 | * UnclePennybags: Her introduction says that she is very generous with her Boondollars, which she naturally has millions of. In the Post-Scratch Universe, Boondollars were introduced as a form of cyber-currency, though their use was generally very limited. Being the heir to the company that introduced them, she is in no need of them. This was presumably how Roxy affords her Crockercorp appearifier, and Jake his various equipment. |
| 307 | * {{Understatement}}: When she dies and wakes up in a Dreambubble with Jade and Calliborn (until it was revealed that she was merely sleeping), she seems somewhat stoic to the fact that she had been completely brainwashed by an alien queen bent on the enslavement of humanity. |
| 308 | * TheUnfettered: At first. She's very excited to play Sburb to bring her grandfather back to life, despite the constant dangers Roxy and Dirk warn her of. She never actually does bring her grandfather back - well, for now - but it doesn't stop her optimism. |
| 309 | * TheFettered: What she turns into. |
| 310 | * UnstoppableRage: When she [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5532 gets mad at Jake]], she stomps her headset into the ground out of rage. |
| 311 | --> JANE: I BELIEVE YOU WILL FIND THAT ONCE THIS PIECE OF SHIT HAS BEEN REDUCED TO SUBATOMIC PARTICLES, WE WILL ALL COME OUT SMELLING LIKE ''FUCKING'' ROSES. |
| 312 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Roxy. |
| 313 | --> "TT: Only she could manage to blow up your computer with a nasty deathloop virus and somehow make YOU be the one to feel shitty about it." |
| 314 | --> "GG: Heh!" |
| 315 | --> "GG: You're right." |
| 316 | * WalkingWasteland: Inverted, at least in Trickster Mode, as shown in [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5712 Jane: Blast Off]]. |
| 317 | * WeakWilled: She's been subtly brainwashed by the Batterwitch her whole life, partially by her BrainComputerInterface tiara. So when it gets slapped back on her at the end of Act 6 Act 5 and [[MindControlDevice turned on for real]], she ends up one of the Condesce's pawns in a matter of seconds. |
| 318 | * WeirdnessCensor: She's become oblivious to the Condesce's influence over Earth due to being desensitized to it by constantly being bombarded with it. |
| 319 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: Her "disguises". |
| 320 | * ManChild: Then narration briefly mentions she and her dad resolving fights by outpranking each other and dressing up in silly disguises, along with [[BlatantLies having mature discussions and talking]]. |
| 321 | * WomanScorned: After Jake tries to finish her confession to him, she flips a table over in rage. In Crockertier Mode, she forces him to become her SexSlave, and thinks he should be lucky to be left alive. |
| 322 | * WorthIt: She watches Terezi and Gamzee fight for several minutes because she finds it amusing, only to find that in the time she's wasted observing them that Jack Noir and PM have arrived at Jade's corpse to attempt to revive her. |
| 323 | * WorthlessYellowRocks: Jane starts with a fortune in Boondollars, a fetch modus that tells alchemy recipes, and a device that can render objects back into their component grist, but has no clue just how valuable all of these things are before the game starts. Justified because outside of Sburb, they genuinely are useless. |
| 324 | * {{Yandere}}: Crockertier Jane got into a fight with Rose over her "beloved bbfsy" Roxy in the retconned timeline when the meteor kids were rescuing Jake and Roxy. She attempts to stab her with her fork, only for [[MamaBear Roxy]] to intervene and take the hit instead, resulting in her heroic death. Jane is knocked out by Vriska before she can attempt to revive her. |
| 325 | * YouAreGrounded: Her punishment after [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4122 getting caught outside the house staring into the sky too long.]] You might say she's [[TitleDrop stuck at home.]] It might also have had something to do with [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4156 the assassination attempts on her...]] |
| 326 | ** Grounded even more firmly by being blocked in her room [[CallBack by bathtub]] after she slips out and nearly get assassinated again by a mail bomb. |
| 327 | [[/folder]] |
| 328 | |
| 329 | [[folder:Roxy]] |
| 330 | !!Roxy Lalonde |
| 331 | [[quoteright:163:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Alpha_LaLonde_7393.png]] |
| 332 | [[caption-width-right:163:[[labelnote:At the god tiers:]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/roxy_lalonde_godtier.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 333 | ->[-'''''Webcomic/ParadoxSpace'' Appearances''': "Con Faire" | "Secret Sufferer"-] |
| 334 | |
| 335 | ->''God DAMN do you love WIZARDS.\ |
| 336 | \ |
| 337 | You wish and hope they are REAL, and that so too is their MAJYYKS AND STUFF. You enjoy writing FANPROSE FOR SAID MAGICAL MEN, but you think maybe it's NOT SO GREAT. You are however QUITE GREAT at the esoteric sciences, such as ECTOBIOLOGY, DARK FENESTROLOGY, and the delicate art of APPEARIFICATION. You have tended to accrue dead preserved SPECIMENS from your experiments, little to none of which AREN'T FELINE.'' |
| 338 | |
| 339 | The post-Scratch iteration of Mom Lalonde, and Rose's post-Scratch counterpart. She's a perpetually-drunk, upbeat, flirty, paranoid genius. |
| 340 | |
| 341 | Her chumhandle is tipsyGnostalgic. She is the '''Rogue of Void''' of the Post-Scratch Human Session. |
| 342 | |
| 343 | Her STRIFE SPECIBUS is allocated to both the [[RayGun RIFLEKIND ABSTRATUS]] and the [[ThisIndexKnowsKungFu FISTKIND ABSTRATUS]]. Her fetch modus is MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE. |
| 344 | |
| 345 | ->she types with no punctuation except for EMPHASIS or to make a point???\ |
| 346 | swears all the goddamn time and uses netspeak like lmao a lot\ |
| 347 | makes a lot of typosp when durnk and sometimes uses * to correct hreslef\ |
| 348 | * herself |
| 349 | ---- |
| 350 | * ActionSurvivor: She's not much of a fighter compared to most of the other kids, but manages to handle herself well enough through guile and determination. After finally getting a handle on her Void powers, she graduates properly to ActionGirl. |
| 351 | * TheAlcoholic: Played for laughs and she's quite a bit underage, though it's implied later that she does it in part to try and deal with living in an AfterTheEnd wasteland. |
| 352 | * AllLovingHero: She rounds up her neighboring carapacians because they're afraid and not sure what to do. Dirk's AR calls her out on this. |
| 353 | * AmbiguouslyBi: She expresses attraction to many guys. She also becomes very close with Calliope, has an ambiguous offscreen moment of affection with her, and is seen holding hands with her on the new Earth in Act 7. |
| 354 | * {{Angrish}}: When she accidentally kills Jasper with Jane's book, she starts filling their pesterlog with incomprehensible nonsense with sad emoticons and constantly logs back in and out. Jane chalks it up to her being stressed, and plays Sburb with Dirk instead. |
| 355 | * AuthorAvatar: Somewhat, especially after Dirk falls OutOfFocus. |
| 356 | * BadassBookworm: She loves her mother's books, ''Complacency of The Learned'', which were written using the subconscious memories of her B1 life. |
| 357 | * BadassInDistress: Was temporarily imprisoned in the jail in Derse during Act 6 Act 5. |
| 358 | ** She is imprisoned once again in Act 6 Act 6, alongside DistressedDude Jake, when menaced by a mind-controlled Jade and Jane. |
| 359 | * BadPowersGoodPeople: Not unlike Rose, her powers draw from and are themed around the Void, realm of the eldritch Horrorterrors. While she has some morally questionable moments, Roxy is generally a very good-natured person and mainly uses her powers for helpful, constructive uses. She even manages to create a new Matriorb to repopulate the Troll race after enough attempts. |
| 360 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Like her pre-Scratch Counterpart, she's got a few screws loose and questionable scientific methods, but when the situation calls for it, she's Badass almighty. |
| 361 | * BreakTheCutie: She spends most of her arc looking for Rose, who she sees in a dream. She eventually finds her and Rose dies soon after. She doesn't take it well at all. Though, luckily, after John retcons the timeline, she gets the chance to meet and spend time with Rose properly. |
| 362 | * CallBack: She says that she would like to hold a funeral for Frigglish to honor his memory. Half a century ago, [[MindScrew she did.]] |
| 363 | * TheCassandra: Dirk is amazed by the fact that Roxy hasn't told Jane or Jake about their current situation. It turns out that she has, but Jane didn't believe her. |
| 364 | * CassandraTruth: Knows more about Betty Crocker's true identity and schemes than any other character seen so far (except for perhaps Nanna), but Jane doesn't trust her on virtually anything, causing a major source of angst. |
| 365 | ** On the other hand, she doesn't want any "pity believins". She's a scientist and she wants to prove that she's right about this. Her failure to do this with her appearifier early on with Jane was part of what led to Jane treating her skeptically. |
| 366 | ** She also expresses frustration at the fact that Jane doesn't believe that her [[LaResistance mother]] is dead. |
| 367 | * CharacterDevelopment: In the six months she spends in the Medium, she overcomes her drinking problem and admits to wanting another form of escapism from her friends' drama (which [[OnlySaneMan she refuses to be a part of]]), which is why her Trickster Mode personality immediately goes back home and starts drinking heavily. Dirk says that because of this, she's emotionally the strongest out of the four. Through her interactions with John and going through the events of [S]GAME OVER and everything afterwards, she gains [[TookALevelInBadass a level in badass]] by mastering her Rogue of Void powers and and growing into the {{Tritagonist}} of the post-Scratch kids. |
| 368 | * ChekhovsGunman: We finally know [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4433 who the girl was]] [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/3894 that Jaspers spent the rest of his life with]] after having been taken from Rose. |
| 369 | ** To an even greater extent, Mom Lalonde's odd bedroom in the Skaianet lab proved to be largely relevant to Roxy, making her presence alluded to since Act ''3''. |
| 370 | * ChivalrousPervert: The only thing stopping her from hitting on Jake is that Jane has a thing for him. She has a much harder time staying away from Dirk and respecting his boundaries, though. |
| 371 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Oh so much. It's a parallel to how she and Jade were raised by non-humans, and are thus seen as weird and somewhat dumb by their friends, though neither are. It's also a parallel to her and her son, Dave, who both have a habit of going on long tangents about nothing and their odd senses of humor. |
| 372 | * TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: She turns out to be right about how playing Sburb will lead her session right into the Condesce's hands. |
| 373 | * ClusterFBomb: She tends to pepper her speech with a liberal amounts of misspelled "fucks". |
| 374 | * CollectorOfTheStrange: Like [[GenerationXerox her son]], she keeps dead animals encased in ice in her room. |
| 375 | * CrazyCatLady: {{Downplayed}}. She has a huge collection of mutant cats in her lab that she loves dearly, but it's accidental and not a sign of mental illness or social ineptitude. |
| 376 | * DamselOutOfDistress: Twice. She escapes from the Derse jail during the mayhem and saves Rose from the Condesce after being put to sleep by Aranea. |
| 377 | * DeathSeeker: After [S] GAME OVER, she tells John that they're obviously in a doomed timeline, and that they should just die so that they can be with their loved ones. He snaps her out of it, though. |
| 378 | * DespairEventHorizon: After Rose bleeds out right in front of her and dies a Heroic death, Roxy breaks down crying. |
| 379 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Despite Jane being set up as the Tritagonist, Roxy is slowly growing into this position. She had been the unknowing leader of their session all along according to Dirk and has gotten more involved in the overarching plot of late. |
| 380 | * DisappointedInYou: She's afraid this is how Dirk will feel after she falls off the wagon as a trickster. However, because [[TheHeart she was the one who kept their session from falling apart]], his actual feelings are [[SoProudOfYou quite the opposite]]. |
| 381 | * DistractedByTheSexy: While John is recapping the first six acts of ''Homestuck'', she's too busy thinking about how good a boyfriend he would be to comprehend what he's saying as anything other than "bla bla." |
| 382 | * DominoMask: Sports one after going God Tier. She later [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/7279 ties it around a sword]] where Rose is buried on LOWAS. |
| 383 | * DramaticIrony: Her love of wizards reveals that in the B1 Universe, she wasn't using wizards to belittle her daughter but to bond with her, which sheds a lot of light on Rose's stubborn and confrontational personality. |
| 384 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: Despite effectively babysitting her entire group for their session, she gets little thanks. According to Dirk, this is often a fate that befalls many Void players, and that she's the true leader of the session, even if she never realized it. |
| 385 | * DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp: When the Red Miles are ravaging future Earth, her entire city is on fire, there are Crockerdrones everywhere, and Jane is waiting to send Roxy into Sburb and (relative) safety, what does Roxy do? Does she run straight back to her house, or does she stop to save every Carapician she can see? (If you guessed based on the trope title, that's cheating.) |
| 386 | * DumbBlonde: Subverted. She seems ditzy, but only because she's a bit of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and partial to alcohol, though she's actually a genius scientist. She also turns out to be one of the more competent players in her session, saving Rose from the Condesce's [[PsychicPowers psionic attack]] and trying to hide from her Trickster Mode friends. |
| 387 | * ExpendableClone: The Roxy that never saw the events of [S] Game Over and saved Rose from death was accidentally killed by brainwashed Jane, though she didn't have a chance to revive her before being put to sleep by [[HesBack Vriska]]. The Roxy that saw [S] Game Over and John, now unstuck in reality, are then re-transplanted back into the timeline, meaning that while they both died, they have effectively been replaced with alternate versions of themselves. |
| 388 | * ExpressiveShirt: Her cat symbol shirt. It also changes its expression when she's pestering someone. |
| 389 | * FailedASpotCheck: Her title, the Rogue of Void, allows her to invoke this. |
| 390 | * FriendlySniper: She combines her RayGun with her hand-appearifier. This gives her a massive rifle with a scope that both moves objects around and is a powerful weapon. |
| 391 | * GameplayAndStorySegregation: She invokes this with her Denizen, Nix. As a passive class, she is more inclined to pick the passive option when given The Choice - that is, to do nothing and simply allow herself to be erased from existence. She decides not to, however, and goes with John to the altered timeline in which they both died. |
| 392 | * GamerChick: |
| 393 | ** She has a Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem, Platform/GameCube, Platform/GameBoy, Platform/NintendoWii, Platform/PlayStation, and Platform/{{Xbox360}} in her room, and... |
| 394 | --->''You aren't one to shy from A BIT OF GAMING, particularly the sort WELL PAST ITS PRIME.'' |
| 395 | ** Her favorites are revealed to be ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' and ''VideoGame/Earthbound1994''. |
| 396 | ** Fittingly enough, during [S} Collide, she delivers a swift [[Franchise/StreetFighter Tatsumaki Senpukyaku]] to the Condesce, followed by a Shoryuken. She's putting those fighting game chops to work. |
| 397 | * GeniusDitz: Correctly guesses that playing Sburb will put them right into the Condesce's hands, for starters. It's also implied that a Rogue is a complicated and annoying class to work with due to the non-literal nature of the Aspects (ie, the Rogue of Breath would steal direction, though how that direction would manifest is ambiguous), not helped by its Aspect, Void, though she utilizes it incredibly well. |
| 398 | * GenreSavvy: Correctly guesses that her and her friends playing Sburb would simply be playing right into the Condesce's hands, and suggests to Dirk that it would be better if they just didn't play it at all. She also sends a fake version of the game to Jane to try and scare her out of playing the game. |
| 399 | * GiftedlyBad: She doesn't think that the fanfic she writes after her mother's work is all that good. [[StylisticSuck It really isn't]]. |
| 400 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: Like fellow Void player Equius, she's a FISTKIND user, though she doesn't get nearly as much mileage out of it as he does. It makes its first appearance when she escapes Meenah via a GHOSTPUNCH right to the kisser. |
| 401 | * GratuitousFrench: As a deliberate ShoutOut to the "le" meme, she peppers her speech with French. |
| 402 | * GratuitousSpanish: And when she's serious, Spanish. |
| 403 | * HahahaNo: When Jake asks her to apologize to Dirk through Jane who he is also apologizing to. |
| 404 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: She's selfless enough to start with, and she only gets nicer after her CharacterDevelopment. |
| 405 | * HandsomeLech: A rare female example. John, [[SurpriseIncest Dave]], and Jake all think that she's pretty, and she hits on just about everything. |
| 406 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Even though she's not even 16 in the first three acts. |
| 407 | * HeadTurningBeauty: Dave and John both responded positively to seeing her in dreambubbles. Dave's reaction to finding out she was his mother wasn't kind. |
| 408 | * TheHeart: Ironically, Dirk (a Hero of Heart) considers her (a Hero of Void,fittingly, leading a ''void'' session) the only thing keeping their session's players together, effectively swapping their roles. |
| 409 | * HeroicBSOD: Her reaction to the events of [S]: GAME OVER and its aftermath (which included the deaths of all of her friends and her mother/daughter Rose) basically amounts to sitting on the sands of her planet and waiting for the non-existence that all doomed timelines are destined for to claim her like it did Dirk. It's only after a mortally-wounded and royally-pissed Terezi swoops in that she snaps out of it. |
| 410 | * HeroicSacrifice: In the newly-retconned timeline where Vriska never died, the meteor group (Dave, Rose, Karkat, Kanaya, Terezi, and Vriska) reached Derse and hatched a jailbreak plot for Roxy and Jake. Coming across Crocker Tier Jane, she tries to kill Rose, only for the post-retcon Roxy who was in jail to take the hit and die in her place. Pre-retcon Roxy, teleported to the session by John, then replaces her. |
| 411 | * HopeSpot: She and Rose are finally reunited after meeting each other twice in Dreambubbles, but never having a full conversation. Rose dies just moments after, triggering Roxy's DespairEventHorizon, though thankfully John snaps her out of this. |
| 412 | * HormoneAddledTeenager: She hits on everyone and everything. |
| 413 | * HowDoIShotWeb: At least at first, she has no idea how to use her God Tier powers for anything but summoning perfectly generic objects and pumpkins. |
| 414 | * HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: ...The space in between her Fenestrated Planes...is actually The Furthest Ring. This leads to a surreal moment where an awake Roxy passes her sleepwalking Dream Self. And then it turns out this was foreshadowed [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/305 as early as Act 2.]] |
| 415 | ** It is also a throwback to ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth''. |
| 416 | * HypocriticalHumor: |
| 417 | -->TG: prensent tense\ |
| 418 | TG: grammar jane |
| 419 | ** "i think your mail man is quiet possibly a dumbass" |
| 420 | * ImmuneToFate: Roxy may be able to miraculously survive what is effectively the meltdown of her entire universe by using her Void powers... [[TheUnreveal but she chooses just to hitch a ride with John's planet to a new timeline.]] |
| 421 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: During the End of Act 6, Roxy weaponizes Perfectly Generic Objects, pumpkins and wizard statues in the battle against the Batterwitch. ''She wins.'' |
| 422 | * IncompatibleOrientation: Roxy has a crush on Dirk, but it was doomed to never go anywhere because he's gay. Dirk confides to Jane that he's aware of this and wishes he could give Roxy what she wants but cannot bring himself to lie to her. |
| 423 | * INeedAFreakingDrink |
| 424 | --> TG: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5466 i think]] |
| 425 | --> TG: i could use a drink |
| 426 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Her attempts at calming Jane down during her birthday party. |
| 427 | * IntangibleTheft: As a Rogue of Void she can steal and redistribute the essence of nothingness. This translates into conjuring potentially anything by ''stealing the fact it doesn't presently exist'' and performing a pseudo form of teleportation by making something non-existant and then having it exist elsewhere. |
| 428 | * {{Invisibility}}: Courtesy of a RingOfPower from Courtyard Droll. Later, after hitting God Tier, she can do it even without the ring, though Aranea can see right through it, presumably due to being a Light player. |
| 429 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 430 | ** Is extremely suspicious of Betty Crocker, yet has almost exactly the same hairdo. |
| 431 | ** As a scientist it is her duty to find and organize knowledge. As a Hero of Void she is capable of not only hiding it, but destroying it as well. |
| 432 | * JiveTurkey: Oh so much. LeetLingo abound. |
| 433 | * KickingAssInAllHerFinery: As of Act 6 Act 4, and combined with ZettaiRyouiki (which, based on the apparent dress length, is of Grade B). |
| 434 | * KindheartedCatLover: "D'aw who are you kidding. You can't stay mad at cats." |
| 435 | -->''Why did you have to clone so many cats? Why did they all have to breed so much? Why do they all have to be so friendly???'' |
| 436 | ** Promptly subverted when she encounters a group of Carapacians in her lab hunting her cats. She doesn't begrudge them at all for it. |
| 437 | * TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: She really loves wizards. [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5598 Really]]. |
| 438 | * LadySwearsALot: She can't go a single dialogue box without swearing once. Most of her conversations with Aranea are composed of calling her a bitch and antagonizing her. |
| 439 | * TheLeader: Dirk considers her this due to being the OnlySaneMan and only real competent player of their session. Considering that her co-players are too busy hating themselves and having teenage romance issues, he's not wrong. |
| 440 | * LeetLingo: Uses the most out of anyone in the comic. |
| 441 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Even in Death", though it becomes her session's overall motif. |
| 442 | * LesserOfTwoEvils: When her friends go Trickster Mode, she directly contacts Her Imperious Condescension and begs her to throw her back in jail. The Condesce [[SophisticatedAsHell logs da fuck out]]. |
| 443 | * LethalHarmlessPowers: Inverted. Void is normally a very confusing and powerful Aspect relating closely to the user's personality, though Roxy's class, Rogue, renders it non-lethal. Specifically invoked to show that no class is inherently stronger or weaker than another, as Roxy's power is incredibly powerful, to RealityWarper levels. |
| 444 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: For Jane and Dirk. Jake's mostly too optimistic (and oblivious) to need one. |
| 445 | * LovableCoward: She knows when she's beaten and is very reluctant to play Sburb (though for the right reasons). |
| 446 | * LoveableRogue: And she essentially describes the trope when talking to Calliope about the difference between the Rogue and Thief classes. She demonstrated this the most when she stole pumpkins to feed the Carapacians. |
| 447 | -->TG: so basically\ |
| 448 | TG: a thief is like the asshole class\ |
| 449 | TG: the player who says step off shits mine suckas\ |
| 450 | TG: whereas\ |
| 451 | TG: a rogue\ |
| 452 | TG: is bascially robin hood |
| 453 | * MadScientist: Her idea of testing portals is to throw mutant cats in them. |
| 454 | * MagicKiss: How she converts Dirk to Trickster Mode. |
| 455 | ** Subverted in that it only partially works. |
| 456 | * MagikarpPower: At first, she's only able to steal the nothingness of perfectly generic objects: green cubes. Eventually, she amazes herself when she learns how powerful she truly is. |
| 457 | * MamaBear: Saves Rose from being obliterated by the Condesce's psionic beams in [S] GAME OVER. Although it turned out to be for naught. |
| 458 | * MeaningfulName: Her chumhandle -- a combination of the words "Gnostic" and "nostalgia" -- is [[http://www.gnostalgicspirits.com/ named after an actual company]] that sells [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe absinthe.]] |
| 459 | ** Not to mention someone from the far future communicating with the past being nostalgic about it. |
| 460 | * {{Metaphorgotten}}: A trait she shares with her son, Dave. |
| 461 | --> ROXY: just maybe try not to hold whatever dumb shit he said against him forever? |
| 462 | --> ROXY: thats just how the guy is |
| 463 | --> ROXY: its like |
| 464 | --> ROXY: he doesnt mean to be a douche |
| 465 | --> ROXY: but its just kind of a byproduct of the whole ridiculous jake english experience |
| 466 | --> ROXY: like his dunkass shenanigans leave behind a residue that looks like douche and tastes like douche but it aint the real thing? |
| 467 | --> ROXY: like douche substitute |
| 468 | --> ROXY: "i cant believe its not douche" |
| 469 | --> ROXY: um |
| 470 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Once Jane comes to her hat in hand about how she should've always trusted her, Roxy feels quite like a jerk for sending a copy of Sburb rigged to blow. Unfortunately, she doesn't get a chance to disarm it before Jane sets it off anyway. |
| 471 | * MythologyGag: Roxy gets attacked as soon as she ends up on the other side of an unpowered window, which was a constant threat in their original appearance in ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth''. |
| 472 | * NerdsAreSexy: Over her time as a character, she's had a few male admirers, most notably John. |
| 473 | * NiceGirl: Played with. She's usually nice, but almost kills Jane by making her computer explode, and her plans almost always do more harm than good--though they are generally well-intentioned. |
| 474 | * NightmareFetishist: Like her son, she's got a few signs of this. She keeps dead cats in her room, and likes the carapacians - hulking non-humans who break into her house to steal food. |
| 475 | * OddNameOut: Roxy is the only two syllable first name amongst all of the human Kids. |
| 476 | * OfCorpseHesAlive: When speaking to Jane she talks as though her mother was still alive. This is because in Jane and Jake's time, [[FromACertainPointOfView she is]]. |
| 477 | * OffTheWagon: Her sobriety is temporarily reversed when she goes into Trickster Mode. |
| 478 | * OldShame: InUniverse, she considers her entire life before Sburb to be this, her borderline harassment of Dirk being the worst of it. |
| 479 | * OmnidisciplinaryScientist: She's a competent hacker, ectobiologist, and esoteric physicist. She's also at least a fair roboticist. |
| 480 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Before her real name was revealed she was called by a variety of nicknames. Dirk calls her RL. Jane calls her Ro-Lal. |
| 481 | * OnlySaneMan: She seems to be the only one not caught up in her friends' drama and is trying to get things together in preparation for an upcoming battle. |
| 482 | ** And during the Trickster Mode madness, she quickly realizes that her friends have gone ''insane'' and promptly starts running the fuck away from them while using her Void powers to hide, even ''begging the Condesce to throw her back in jail'' to get away from them. |
| 483 | ** It gets [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] and smashed like the pumpkin that made it so when she is also converted into a Trickster. |
| 484 | * OutOfFocus: As a Void player, she occasionally falls victim to this, especially in regards to her struggle with sobriety and relationship with Fefeta. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjZtB2i8vR0 TexTalks]] goes in depth into this. Her warnings also go unnoticed when chatting up Jake and turned down by Jane. |
| 485 | * PinkMeansFeminine: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/456 The pink cat Mutini on her shirt.]] All of her game systems are painted pink too, and all her plush wizards are pink. |
| 486 | * PiningAfterProtagonistsParent: Gender-flipped, as she has a crush on Jane's Dad. This is most likely due to the fact that she and Dad were lovers in the pre-Scratch universe. |
| 487 | * PlayfulHacker: Stole her copy of Sburb from Crockercorp servers and brags to Jane about it, if somewhat facetiously by way of exaggerating, invoking HollywoodHacking and [[LampshadeHanging acknowledging it]]. She then admits that the game wasn't really encrypted or protected at all, so it was less "hacking" and more "downloading". |
| 488 | ** Though Roxy is good enough at coding ~ATH to blow up people's computers... though that's also what the programming language is best at. |
| 489 | * PluckyGirl: Even after everything her co-players and her went through, she's still got a smile on her face. Not even burying her recently deceased daughter brings her down, though it causes her to have a few suicidal thoughts. John snaps her out of it. |
| 490 | * PortalDoor: Her black fenestrated planes act as two-way portals; when she goes through one plane she comes out at another one set up in her house. |
| 491 | * PowerLimiter: For unknown reasons, alcohol seems to inhibit her Void powers, which Calliope points out after her turn to sobriety following starting Sburb is unusually coincidental with the blackout that prevents the cherubs' direct surveillance on the session. |
| 492 | * PowerOfTheVoid: Rare heroic example, as the Rogue of Void. All Void heroes seem to have PsychicBlockDefense against scrying, and she also has the power to conjure up objects by stealing the essence of nothingness from them. |
| 493 | * ProperlyParanoid: Her friends dismiss her as a raving, paranoid alcoholic. She turns out to be right about everything she says if they play Sburb. |
| 494 | * ProperTightsWithASkirt: To show that she's more feminine than Jane, at least in terms of appearance. It's also part of the Rogues' God Tier outfit, combined with ZettaiRyouiki. |
| 495 | * PrecociousCrush: Toward Jane's Dad. But we ''all'' know why that is... |
| 496 | * RaisedByWolves: Or rather by Carapacians, which in large part helps explain her whimsical nature. |
| 497 | * RayGun: |
| 498 | ** Her preferred weapon for use with her RIFLEKIND ABSTRACTUS. Well, a ray ''rifle'' actually. |
| 499 | ** Her appearifier also looks like a ray gun pistol. |
| 500 | * RealityWarper: Her Void powers allow her to steal nothingness. This seems like a pretty weak skill, but it turns out she can also steal the ''concept'' of nothingness, essentially conjuring an object out of thin air by ''stealing that object's non-existence''. |
| 501 | * RefusalOfTheCall: She's reluctant to play Sburb at first because she worries that it's part of the Batterwitch's scheme. She turns out to be right, but she plays it anyway to escape the fire burning her house down. |
| 502 | * ReincarnationRomance: A complex example. In the Beta timeline, Roxy was Mom Lalonde and fell in love with Dad Egbert. In the Alpha timeline, Roxy is infatuated with Dad Crocker, but she's a teenager and he's an adult, so she can't act on it and he doesn't know about it. |
| 503 | * SadClown: She is a very upbeat person but she is utterly sick of being TheCassandra for Jane and Dirk has hinted she's hiding a lot of issues. |
| 504 | * SanityBall: The firmest grasp on it. |
| 505 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: Like the Mom Lalonde of the Pre-Scratch session. |
| 506 | * SciFiBobHaircut: The way her hair is canonically drawn is similar to one of the many ways to style a 60s bobcut [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/56/48/43/564843ab65d10187cadb5883a535f804.jpg]]. This is even more apparent with her interest in science and her Pre-Scratch self's scientist outfit that looks like a very 1960s dress. To compare, [[https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/hbz-60s-fashion-1962-gettyimages-3164035-1559330048.jpg]] here's an actual 60s dress and here's [[https://www.homestuck.com/images/storyfiles/hs2/05593.gif]] Roxy wearing her "sexy scientist outfit". |
| 507 | * SelfDeprecation: She considers herself a terrible scientist, using her creations only for her self use and spending most of her time drinking and writing terrible stories that rip off her mother's material. She turns out to be a TeenGenius, more so than her co-players, but she still thinks she's no good at her job. |
| 508 | * ShipTease: With everyone, especially Jane and Dirk. The second ship got sunk, however, when WordOfGay outed him as StraightGay. |
| 509 | ** As of the series' ending, she seems most attracted to John, and starts sizing him up as boyfriend material as soon as they meet. |
| 510 | ---> Probably totes eligible |
| 511 | ---> Mental note: mack on. |
| 512 | * {{Sleepwalking}}: Her dream self keeps wandering off in Derse, seeking out the void. At one point, it actually passes by Roxy's real self as she's going through a fenestrated plane. Dirk mentions that this is good for keeping her out of trouble now that the Agents have been preemptively killing the Kids' Dreamselves, but also annoying because he has to constantly go and find her. |
| 513 | * SmallGirlBigGun: Though she seems to prefer hand-to-hand combat if possible. Most of the time, she'll go for her gun. |
| 514 | * TheSmartGuy: Although her scientific knowledge isn't all that useful due to the fact that she's perpetually drunk. She fits the mold better as time passes, however. |
| 515 | * SoBadItsGood: InUniverse she considers a [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5599 portrait of a wizard]] to be genius in a terrible way. Also [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with Wizardy Herbert, her fiction she writes after her mother's footsteps (already implied to be [[PurpleProse inaccessible]] and narmy in-universe). |
| 516 | * SoProudOfYou: Dirk is extremely proud of her and asks Jane to tell her that before both planets are destroyed by the Condesce and Jack. |
| 517 | -->TT: Tell her that I'm proud of her. |
| 518 | -->TT: And as a person she's everything I wish I could be. |
| 519 | -->TT: I wish I could be as nice and loving and selfless as her. |
| 520 | -->TT: But can't. |
| 521 | * SoleSurvivor: Apart from the Condesce, she was the only person involved in GAME OVER that escaped alive, let alone unscathed. She's also the only one of her session left alive, with Dirk allowing himself to be consumed by the glitches in his session. Though John fixes that. |
| 522 | * SociallyAwkwardHero: Justified, as she lacks Dirk's general wit and grew up with almost no human contact. |
| 523 | * StacysMom: A literal version, as well as parodied. Rose is set-up as John's love interest in Act 5, though she gets her own female love interest in the form of Kanaya, while Roxy become's John's. |
| 524 | ** She also likes Mr. Crocker, Jane's dad.. [[LustObject A lot]]. |
| 525 | * StealthExpert: After she ascends to God Tier. This is a feature in both Rogues and Void players, though it doesn't seem to work on Aranea due to her being a Light player. |
| 526 | * StepfordSmiler: Type 1. Outwardly confident and full of self-aggrandizing bluster, but when the façade cracks (which tends to happen when she's stressed or alone with her thoughts), Roxy's really a scared teenager who's carrying a ''lot'' of doubts and self-hatred, and angsts over the fact that her best friend, Jane, refuses to believe even basic facts about her life. More than anything else, this is the trait that she and Dave share. |
| 527 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: With Dave, in terms of personality and appearance, though Rose looks like her too but inherits very little of her personality. InUniverse, she also sees B1 Rose talking to Jaspers just before Roxy appearifies him, and she also sees a girl she assumes to be her daughter in her alcohol-fueled dreams - also B1 Rose, though from the timeline pre-Scratch. She makes the connection that the girl she sees in her dreams is her daughter because she looks like her mother - she actually is her "mother", but several years older. |
| 528 | * StylisticSuck: "Wizardy Herbert", her wizardfic she wrote in the footsteps of her mother's own series of books, Complacency of The Learned. We do eventually get to see it, along with her own illustrations. |
| 529 | * SuckSessor: Jaspers saw her as this. Not helped by the fact that he was crushed to death under her care. |
| 530 | * SuperStrength: Possibly. She managed to break free of a strangle hold by a magenta-blooded ghost troll and then ''jumped'' [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4655 several times her own height to an active window above her]], though this was in a dreambubble, so normal physics might not apply. All FISTKIND wielders we've seen so far have demonstrated this trope, including her B1 counterpart, who punched out a giant. |
| 531 | * SupportPartyMember: Out of the eight kids, she is the only one whose Mythological Role offers no obvious offensive capabilities. Even John and Rose have some in the form of magic despite also having primarily supportive classes (Heir and Seer respectively, they the former is granted offensive magic by their Aspect, Breath). That being said, in the final battle with the Condesce, she is able to weaponize her powers and use them offensively. |
| 532 | * TeamMom: Shared this role with Jane before she TookALevelInJerkass. It seems like Roxy is naturally motherly, as evidenced in [S] Roxy: Sleepwalk and the ensuing conversation with Dirk, in which she enthuses about how Rose is obviously her daughter and how she is destined to meet her. This is even brought more into light when bonding with Kanaya when it comes to the matriorb. Roxy expresses to Kanaya that she feels a maternal instinct towards the egg. Considering that Roxy brought it to existence, it can come to mind that she's kind of the mother of the troll race that populates Earth C that way. Another example is whenever it's brought up that she fantasizes having a family of her own. |
| 533 | * TeleportGun: Roxy has alchemized a portal-window jumping system as of Act 6 Act 4. |
| 534 | * TerribleArtist: Her illustrations for Wizardy Herbert are, as with nearly all in-universe illustrations, fairly laughable. |
| 535 | * TookALevelInBadass: Many. She starts out [[CowardlyLion reluctant to play Sburb]] because she worries that it'll lead her right into the Condesce's hands. While she turns out to be right, that doesn't stop her from being the only one in her group who takes things seriously, and her ascension to God Tier basically made her a [[RealityWarper reality warping]] LovableRogue. |
| 536 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Again, she's 15/16 and drinks. ''Regularly''. And as Jane points out, ''during the day''. {{Justified|Trope}} by living AfterTheEnd and being raised by non-humans to boot. |
| 537 | * TheUnreveal: Parodied - the narration builds up to revealing her first name, only to show that the last two letters are blocked by a cat's tail. The next update properly reveals her first name. |
| 538 | * VitriolicBestBuds: With Jane. |
| 539 | * WeaponForIntimidation: The real purpose of that rifle Roxy carries around, which she rarely if ever fires. She tends to rely on martial arts and her Void powers more often than not when pressed into a real fight. |
| 540 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: She doesn't plan her moves very much, and when she does, things quickly go badly. She means well, though. |
| 541 | * WhatTheHellHero: She purposely sends Jane a bogus copy of Sburb that will ''explode her computer'' when run, just to make Jane believe her about the Batterwitch. When Jane and Dirk realize this, they discuss the extremeness of her actions. |
| 542 | [[/folder]] |
| 543 | |
| 544 | [[folder:Dirk]] |
| 545 | !!Dirk Strider |
| 546 | [[quoteright:164:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dirk_strider.png]] |
| 547 | [[caption-width-right:164:[[labelnote:At the god tiers:]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dirk_strider_godtier.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 548 | ->[-'''''Webcomic/ParadoxSpace'' Appearances''': "Ace Sleuth Jane" | "Antiquated Japesterism" | "Secret Sufferer"-] |
| 549 | |
| 550 | ->''Holy SHIT do you love PUPPETS.\ |
| 551 | \ |
| 552 | "If you weren't so [[TheStoic DAMN ALOOF]] and actually let people GET A LOAD, you might get described all kindsa ways. Maybe tagged as a [[McNinja RENAISSANCE NINJA]], PHILOSOPHER PRINCE, and [[FlashStep FLASHSTEP]] PUPPETEER. Or perhaps a PANTHEONIC [[{{Irony}} IRONICIST]], GANGSTA LOGICIAN, LUCID WAKER and DERSITE SPY. Screw descriptors though, as if the shits you give ain't nil. You're cool with dabbling in the FINE SEQUENTIAL ARTS, and your work could be viewed by some as BORDERLINE PORNOGRAPHIC. And to those philistines you'll be heard wondering, what the fuck do you mean BORDERLINE?'' |
| 553 | |
| 554 | The post-Scratch iteration of Bro Strider, and Dave's post-Scratch counterpart. He is a stoic and intelligent {{Polymath}} who looks out for his friends and builds robots...which then he proceeds to [[DeadlyTrainingArea demolish in death matches]]. He also loves puppets and horses. |
| 555 | |
| 556 | His chumhandle is timaeusTestified. He is the '''Prince of Heart''' of the Post-Scratch Human Session. |
| 557 | |
| 558 | His STRIFE PORTFOLIO contains SPECIBI for [[CoolSword BLADEKIND]], which he considers his main SPECIBUS, and two [[JokeWeapon Joke Weapons]]; [[MarionetteMaster PUPPETKIND]], and [[JokeWeapon FNCYSNTAKIND]][[note]]Fancysantakind--which is also a CallBack to ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'' and a RunningGag[[/note]]. His fetch modus is TECH-HOP, a MythologyGag to ''[[http://www.andrewhussie.com/comic.php?sec=archive&auth=Andrew&cid=aids/00000.jpg And It Don't Stop]]''. It's fairly complicated but is the best modus for [[MusicalAssassin hashrap enthusiasts]]. |
| 559 | |
| 560 | ->Speaks with proper grammar, capitalization, and punctuation,\ |
| 561 | Except for when he breaks a sentence into two lines.\ |
| 562 | Is prone to very verbose and formal remarks, including sarcasm and extended metaphors.\ |
| 563 | Doesn't use emoticons. Sometimes uses Bro puns, such as Brobot or Brocurement. |
| 564 | ---- |
| 565 | |
| 566 | * AndroidsArePeopleToo: Despite his frequent misgivings with his Auto Responder, he considers him a fully sentient being that deserves the right to express himself as often as possible. |
| 567 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Subverted. He's had a long-unspoken crush on Jake, but, rather than declare his affections himself, he manipulates Jake into making the first move to save his life. |
| 568 | ** He even [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4492 lampshaded]] this trope and how weak he thought it was. |
| 569 | *** Which is called back to when Jake finally kisses him/his severed head: Oceans will rise. Cities will fall. [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5250 Volcanoes will erupt]]. |
| 570 | * AnimalMotifs: Gulls to correspond to Dave's crows. The brighter portion of his symbol is a stylized gull as well. |
| 571 | ** He also seems to be frequently associated with horses. |
| 572 | * AnimeHair: Shaped like a bird, similarly to Dave's. |
| 573 | ** [[EightiesHair And a]] ShoutOut[=/=]StealthPun to boot: It resembles a Flock of ''Seagulls'' haircut |
| 574 | * AssassinOutclassin: Hegemonic Brute was required to take out Dirk. He didn't stand a chance. |
| 575 | * AuthorAvatar: To a greater extent than Dave, but still not a 1:1 copy of Hussie. Dirk, however, more closely resembles Hussie as he is now, which is to say that he's a lot less prone to ironic gestures, though he still enjoys them. |
| 576 | * BadassBoast: Addressed to the government of Derse and received by the Draconian Dignitary: |
| 577 | --->The Prince is awake.\ |
| 578 | Your shit is wrecked. |
| 579 | * BadPowersGoodPeople: {{Lampshaded}}. [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4564 Dirk's reaction]] to finding out that his Sburb role could be translated to Destroyer of Souls is that it sounds cool, but he's not sure it's useful for anyone but a "[[CardCarryingVillain cartoonishly villainous sorcerer]]." |
| 580 | ** [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/6745 In action]], it looks a lot like [[Franchise/StarWars Force Lightning]]. Luckily, Dirk's not the bad guy in the situation that he uses it in. |
| 581 | * BattleCouple: With Jake as of Act 6 Act 4. |
| 582 | * BigOlEyebrows: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5048 They seem to run in the family]]. |
| 583 | * BrokenAce: He's the most martially-gifted of any of the shown players, incredibly intelligent, witty to a fault, and almost as full of self-loathing as Karkat. |
| 584 | * CallBack: Has a striking tendency to use phrases oft repeated throughout the story and [[MetaGuy occasionally comments when others do it too]], meaning it may well tie into his abilities as the Prince of Heart. |
| 585 | ** There's already been [[Characters/HomestuckSprites one character who types in orange with the initials DS]]. |
| 586 | ** He's got a lot of copies of himself and alternate versions around, like Dave. |
| 587 | ** The ability to have your Dreamself run around while your real self is awake is similar to [[Webcomic/ProblemSleuth Pickle Inspector and Mobster Kingpin's]] Abstracted Thought Tech. |
| 588 | ** Nepeta and Eridan, one of the other two known Heroes of Heart and Prince respectively, both had unrequited romantic hopes. And the other known ones, Meulin and Kurloz respectively, were in a relationship (with each other) for a while before breaking up. |
| 589 | ** His STRONG wifebeater outfit stems from Hussie briefly considering giving him one in the preliminary design process, and his Hella Jeff tattoo seen while wearing it is based on Hussie's own Hella Jeff tattoo. |
| 590 | ** Dirk isn't the first character in Homestuck to build robots in order to fight them, nor is he the first one to give someone a robot as a gift as a bizarre form of courtship. He also has a wifebeater as one of his outfits, likes horses, has odd fetishes and bizarre porn, and is crushing on a tomb-raiding adventurer who died in some way before entering the game. All of these traits are shared with Equius, who quite naturally becomes one half of Dirk's sprite. |
| 591 | * TheChessmaster: {{Subverted}}. Dirk talks a big talk initially about how he's going to be the puppetmaster pulling the strings of the alpha session. He does seemingly manage to pull off some pretty amazing schemes; but most of these were actually orchestrated by his superintelligent AI clone, and/or turn out to have been bad ideas in retrospect. Dirk later admits that he was never as in control of the situation as he thought he was, and that the AR was really manipulating ''him'' the entire time. |
| 592 | * ControlFreak: Tries to set their session up so Jane is the nominal leader but he's the one pulling the strings and is at his most comfortable when he is in control and has a sense of power over those around him (even his friends). But once he doesn't know what to do or thinks he's failed in some way... |
| 593 | * CoolMask: He wears one resembling his Rocket Board in Act 6 Act 4. He and Jake wear these masks to protect them from the seemingly toxic atmosphere of LOTAK. |
| 594 | * CoolShades: TriangleShades, to be specific, and they don't just look cool. They're also one of his computers and house the Auto Responder. He even wears them on his gas mask. |
| 595 | * CreatorInJoke: Dirk's fascination with horses is a reflection of Andrew Hussie's own facetious obsession. |
| 596 | * DecapitationPresentation: After killing the Hegemonic Brute, Dirk decided to stop pretending to be asleep and announced himself to Derse by sticking HB's head on a pike [[DeadGuyOnDisplay in full public view]] with a note. (See BadassBoast above.) |
| 597 | * DespairEventHorizon: In the GAME OVER timeline, he laments his failure to save anyone and completely gives up, letting himself be consumed by the glitches. |
| 598 | * DidYouThinkICantFeel: Asks this of Jake when breaking up with him. |
| 599 | * EmbarrassingButEmpoweringOutfit: Like Jake, they both have ridiculous God Tier outfits (in Dirk's case, he does have pants, but they're "poofy asshole pants"), but are as powerful as being a God would imply. |
| 600 | * EmbarrassingTattoo: Of Hella Jeff, just like Hussie. |
| 601 | * EvilMeScaresMe: Dirk is pretty disturbed to find out about the kind of person his alt-universe self grew up to be. |
| 602 | * ExactWords: Uses this to hide the fact that he was actually from hundreds of years in the future from Jake and Jane. |
| 603 | --> GT: Yeah but come on its not like youre from a century in the future.\ |
| 604 | TT: Well. [[AfterTheEnd No.]] |
| 605 | * FlashStep: So fast it might as well be TeleportSpam. |
| 606 | * FragileSpeedster: [[FlashStep Crazy fast]], but any blow to either self will knock them both out cold. While he isn't actually fragile, any noticeable hit affects him effectively twice over. |
| 607 | * GeniusBruiser: One of the smartest characters and arguably the most badass one before the game starts as well. |
| 608 | * GenreSavvy: He knows not to cut Aranea's arm off [[StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred after she gloats to him to]], sensing that it's a trap. What does he do instead? '''[[FateWorseThanDeath Tear her goddamn soul out of her body.]]''' |
| 609 | * HeartbrokenBadass: He doesn't take Jake's Trickster Mode well and breaks up with him on the spot, which he later regrets. |
| 610 | * HiveMind: Limited to two bodies. He's always awake on Derse and aware of his dream self's body. He just pretends to sleep because controlling two bodies at once is difficult. |
| 611 | * IncompatibleOrientation: Roxy has a crush on him, but while Dirk loves her like a sister, he can't reciprocate her feelings. As he points out Jane on the quest beds, Jake was the only viable love interest for all three of the other Post-Scratch kids, due to their conflicting orientations. |
| 612 | * InterplayOfSexAndViolence: His "courtship" of Jake consists of beating the hell out of him through a robot proxy to train him, as well as playing aggressive mind games. |
| 613 | * InventoryManagementPuzzle: The only Post-Scratch Kid to have a genuinely difficult FETCH MODUS. Everything in a GROOVE ROW must share a theme like puppets, orange soda, or stuff about bros. Everything in a SHADE COLUMN must rhyme. If you can't find a slot for an item that matches both (after creative renaming) you can't pick it up. |
| 614 | * {{Irony}}: Obsessed with the various levels and meanings within meanings of ironic gestures, attempting to refine the concept to its highest levels. Essentially, by intense commitment to the absurd, you gain the "sincerity" of reverence to the ridiculous, which means that you "mean it" on a level that is impenetrable to non-ironic minds, a fact which itself can be mined for additional humor. |
| 615 | ** His mocking edit of the kids' book he gave Jane is a prime example of just how he tends to get carried away with this. Note that this is also a CreatorInJoke; Hussie has done similar edits. |
| 616 | * ItsAllMyFault: Overlapping with OtherMeAnnoysMe, hearing about the antics of Dave's Bro from the horse's mouth while the two are on LOTAK wracks Dirk with guilt, and he admits to Dave that he feels responsible for not only his actions, but also the actions of any AlternateSelf since they're essentially a reflection of him. Knowing firsthand what Dave would've been able to do without Bro may have helped. |
| 617 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Dirk can be rather blunt, cold and dismissive at times, but past that is a troubled young man who truly loves his friends and would gladly give his life for them. |
| 618 | * JokeWeapon: One of his three weapons of choice are FANCY SANTAS. Nobody's sure how to damage someone with one, but if someone can figure it out it's probably him. |
| 619 | * KatanasAreJustBetter: The weapon of choice for a guy who has a bunch of swords. |
| 620 | * KissOfLife: Dirk gives this to both Roxy and Jane to revive them (censored by Squarewave's cheering on the former and a whiteout on the latter, however). He also receives one from Jake, albeit decapitated on-screen and more dramatically in front of an erupting volcano and a dragon flying by. |
| 621 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: Tries to play himself off as the most knowledgable and competent player of the Alpha Session, but ultimately he lets the team fall apart emotionally and turn into a gaggle of lollipop stoners. This is especially true with his critiques of [[AgentScully Jane]] and [[AgentMulder Jake]], seeing as both address these issues and end up having emotional breakdowns regardless. |
| 622 | * {{Leitmotif}}: [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/beatdown-strider-style-2 "Beatdown"]] |
| 623 | * LethalJokeWeapon: His use of puppets is just straight up dangerous. |
| 624 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: Between the AR, Squarewave, Sawtooth, and his dreamself, Dirk has a ''very'' fractured sense of self, which ties into his personal journey. One of Dirk's "splinters" as they're referred to in universe even turns up in Jake's subconscious. |
| 625 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: Happens to him through much of Act 6 Act 6, ever since Grimbark Jade punched him into the Furthest Ring. While everyone else is participating in the action involved, Dirk has to spend 3 hours flying back into the session. |
| 626 | ** In the GAME OVER timeline, Arquiusprite (his sprite) was the only person he know of who was available for contact, and he wasn't exactly helpful giving the information. When Arquiusprite suggests that he contacts Dave, Dirk does, but can't get any information due to the glitches in the session, and Dave couldn't tell that it was Dirk contacting him. By the time he gets back to the session, he sees everything in ruins from all the destruction caused in [S] GAME OVER. |
| 627 | ** In the new retconned timeline, it is not known if Dirk contacted anyone at all after being punched into the Furthest Ring. However, his arrival is expedited by Vriska, who uses a Crockercorp Rifle ([[ChekhovsGun the same one seen briefly in the Act 6 Act 4 flash]]) to teleport him to the victory platform where everyone else is, where he is brought up to speed. |
| 628 | * MadScientist: Dirk downplays his own scientific knowledge, saying that in the future, the technology level has greatly advanced, but he still has chunks of uranium and random robots all around his apartment. |
| 629 | * ManlyGay: A borderline example. |
| 630 | * ManipulativeBastard: A WellIntentionedExtremist and Downplayed example, Dirk believes he knows how everything's supposed to go, and how his friends will react to the situations they're in, and try to get them to act the way he wants for (mostly) unselfish reasons. However, he's not as good at this trope as he likes to imply, and his own emotions can screw his plans over without even realizing it. |
| 631 | * MarionetteMaster: His puppets are weapons. |
| 632 | * MatchmakerCrush: A dream splinter of him offers pointers to Jake on how to woo Aranea, but seems content to let him make a complete fool of himself in their presence. |
| 633 | * MeaningfulName: The first part of his chumhandle can refer to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timaeus any one of these guys.]] His chumhandle may also refer to the TuringTest thanks to his auto-response program which is ''almost'' indistinguishable from himself. |
| 634 | ** Dirk refers to a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk a type of long dagger]] and Dirk fights with Bladekind. |
| 635 | * MesACrowd: Is the only known player yet to be able to keep his Dreamself and Realself active at the same time, though it's a bit difficult. |
| 636 | * MrExposition: Does this a lot. |
| 637 | * {{MST}}: Gave Jane a copy of ''Pony Pals: Detective Pony'' that started with tons of penciled in snarky comments, and then progressed to in-line edits, until he finally went OffTheRails into a full replacement of the book, keeping only the chapter titles and turning into a "tough, draining read" that's "cathartic in all the worst ways." |
| 638 | * MythologyGag: His TECH-HOP modus is lifted straight from ''[[http://www.andrewhussie.com/comic.php?sec=archive&auth=Andrew&cid=aids/00000.jpg And It Don't Stop]]'', including [[InsistentTerminology Grooves (themes) and Shades (rhymes)]]. Plus Dirk battles with robots, which is where the TECH in TECH-HOP comes from in ''And It Don't Stop''. |
| 639 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Dirk is essentially responsible for creating Lord English by sealing Caliborn, Arquiusprite and half of Gamzee into Lil' Cal and sending the puppet into the Void for it to spread as a nightmare. |
| 640 | * NoSell: He's immune to the sugar rush effects of Trickster mode because of how much self-loathing he has for himself. |
| 641 | * NoSocialSkills: Can usually hide this behind his aloof irony, but when he's not in a position of mental or physical superiority over someone else, he comes off as flustered, desperately needy, and completely oblivious to other people's feelings. Jake suggests this might be because he was raised in isolation, though he reverses himself when he realizes that he's exactly the same [[HypocriticalHumor and turned out just dandy]]. |
| 642 | * NotSoImaginaryFriend: Strangely, Brain Ghost Dirk still remains behind when Jake wakes up and when Dirk's Dream Self in knocked unconscious the imaginary Dirk suddenly becomes Dream Dirk, rendering himself visible and audible to the other people in the dream bubble. He also seems to retain his memories of being imaginary Dirk. |
| 643 | ** When Jake has his full potential unlocked, Brain Ghost Dirk becomes tangible again and attacks Aranea until Jake's brief death. |
| 644 | * NotSoStoic: He completely loses it talking to the Auto Responder later on out of self-loathing, even threatening to destroy it. Shortly afterward, he freaks out a little when trickster!Roxy starts putting the moves on him. |
| 645 | * OfCorpseHesAlive: When speaking to Jane he talks as though his brother was still alive. This is because in Jane and Jake's time, [[FromACertainPointOfView he is]]. |
| 646 | * OffWithHisHead: He does this to the [[RunningGag Hegemonic Brute]]. |
| 647 | ** His plan to get everyone safely into the game and out of the Miles involves him doing it to himself via PortalCut. |
| 648 | ** He lets Dave do this to him to defeat Spades Slick and Jack English. |
| 649 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Similar to Roxy, before his name was revealed he was called by various nicknames -- Strider, DS, Di-Stri, and to a lesser extent, Bro. |
| 650 | * OnlySaneMan: Dirk tended to be the cool, level-headed kid in any conversation. He was the last non-Trickster among the post-scratch kids before [[SubvertedTrope he, too, was ultimately converted]]... [[DoubleSubversion Yet even after that]], he still uses his normal text color, and has very little change in personality compared to the others. He even states that Trickster mode has done virtually nothing, except bring the problems to the forefront. |
| 651 | * OtherMeAnnoysMe: |
| 652 | ** He makes it fully known during his break down that he despises AR because of his attitude is essentially a reflection of how he must be, and this self hate is so great that he nearly kills the A.I. because of it. |
| 653 | ** Dirk is ''horrified'' when he learns his pre-Scratch self stunted Dave psychologically growing up because of his antics, and [[ItsAllMyFault offers condolences out of guilt]]. |
| 654 | * OracularUrchin: Has been awake and aware on Derse for ''years'', which explains his extensive pre-game knowledge of the session. |
| 655 | * PassiveAggressiveKombat: With his AR. With one being a copy of the other and with both enjoying irony and messing with other people's heads, it was practically inevitable. |
| 656 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: He ripped out Aranea's soul after she knocked out Roxy and messed with Jake's head. |
| 657 | * PerversePuppet: Has them in his room. Along with Lil' Cal. |
| 658 | * PetTheDog: His rationale for leaving his auto-responder on as much as possible. |
| 659 | -->TT: It is a fully cognitive, self-aware entity I am responsible for, not even to mention an approximate\ |
| 660 | cerebral duplicate of myself.\ |
| 661 | TT: You don’t just make a clone of yourself to live in a dead end existence where it has no chance to\ |
| 662 | thrive as an individual or surpass its limitations.\ |
| 663 | TT: That’d be sick. |
| 664 | * PoorCommunicationKills: Tries to pursue a relationship with Jake, but despite all of Jake's efforts, Dirk never actually talks to the guy, instead allowing his Auto-Responder and Training Robot to hassle the guy all day. In fact, we never witness a conversation between the real Dirk and Jake until the Trickster arc, in which they break up. |
| 665 | * PortalCut: Does it to ''his own head''. All part of a StableTimeLoop ThanatosGambit. |
| 666 | * PunnyName: A sword user named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk Dirk]]. |
| 667 | * RealMenWearPink: He has pictures of horses in his room... including [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash.]] He also has a tiny Maplehoof - as in an actual FunSize horse. As with all of his interests, the line between irony and sincerity is blurred. |
| 668 | --> "OK FINE, YOU LOVE THIS ONE PARTICULAR LITTLE RAINBOW HORSE UNIRONICALLY, IS THAT SUCH A CRIME." |
| 669 | --> "She is so spunky. <3" |
| 670 | * RobotMaster: He has built several robots for himself and his friends, including a sparring bot, a [=PesterChum=]-using bot, rapping bots, and a robot bunny. |
| 671 | * SeriousBusiness: Considers irony to be this. |
| 672 | * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Slips into this sometimes. [[LikeFatherLikeSon Now you see where Rose gets it.]] |
| 673 | * SpiritAdvisor: When Jake falls unconscious in the frog temple he encounters an imaginary version of Dirk in his dream bubble. This Dirk can only be seen or heard by Jake (because he came from Jake's mind) and Terezi (presumably because she's the Seer of Mind). |
| 674 | * SkySurfing: Remember how Bro Strider had a rocket board? Dirk does too. |
| 675 | * SmartPeopleBuildRobots |
| 676 | * SpannerInTheWorks: Brain Ghost Dirk ends up seriously screwing up Aranea's plans. This is made all the better considering that [[NiceJobFixingItVillain she's the one that ended up bringing him into existence in the first place]]. |
| 677 | * SophisticatedAsHell: Less so than his Auto-Responder, but it's still present in his own conversations. |
| 678 | * SoProudOfYou: Dirk is incredibly proud of Roxy and sees her as the best of all the Post-Scratch kids. |
| 679 | * StealthPun: When they're finally revealed, [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4467 the last two letters of his name are called "diluvial"]]. Diluvial means something pertaining to a flood, and "RK" sounds like (and is the last two letters of) "[[TheArk Ark]]". These last two initials were revealed after Roxy's last two initials were revealed; [[Literature/TheBible two-by-two]], as it were. It's later shown that Dirk lives in the future [[TheGreatFlood where Earth is completely flooded]]. |
| 680 | * TheStoic: Just about the only one taking everything seriously in his Session. Not that he can't loosen up and goof off himself, but he understands the full implications of Sburb much better than anyone else. He would like to goof off more, but he has too many responsibilities and important things to take care of. Even Trickster mode is incapable of pushing its manic sugar rush insanity onto him -- he's still just as stoic. |
| 681 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: In terms of personality, he's very similar to his ectobiological daughter, Rose. They are both intellectual, stoic, and fond of [[StealthPun Stealth Puns]]. In terms of appearance, he's more similar to Dave. |
| 682 | * SoulPower: He has an active class (Prince being the active counterpart to the Bard) and has the Heart Aspect. While it doesn't seem like it has many applications, his title translates roughly to ''destroyer of souls''. |
| 683 | * TeenGenius: To the point where Jake considers him more intelligent than Roxy. However, he downplays some of his robotics skills, saying that building a robot in his time is akin to putting a computer together in Jake and Jane's. |
| 684 | * ThanatosGambit: Kills himself through PortalCut so Jake will kiss his severed head in the past. This revives Dirk as his Dream Self, allowing him to save Jane and Roxy. [[StableTimeLoop And then go back in time and wake Jake up to kiss his severed head.]] |
| 685 | ** Dirk pulls this again in [S] Collide, with Dave recovering his body for Jane to revive. |
| 686 | * TricksterMentor: He sent Jake's training bot in pieces to him for him to assemble, making him "complicit in his own merciless jungle predation" with the goal of training him into a "ruthless killing machine." It's worth mentioning that said robot can [[BulletCatch catch bullets or cut them in half with its sword]] ''on easy mode'' and will pummel Jake into the ground mercilessly. |
| 687 | * UnbreakableWeapons: Dirk's Katana, as confirmed during the Tricksters' alchemy binge. |
| 688 | ** As of the End of Act 6, [[AvertedTrope averted.]] |
| 689 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Accidentally creates Lord English through mashing together the component souls in Lil Cal. |
| 690 | * TheUnreveal: Parodied the same way as Roxy's name above - only this time the letters are obscured by a FunSize Maplehoof. |
| 691 | * WhatTheHellHero: When AR/Lil Hal is trying to persuade Dirk not to kill him, he reminds him: "I know that you know this is wrong." |
| 692 | * WouldHitAGirl: Kicks Roxy away from Jane with a "DOOF" so he can kiss her and properly wake up her dream self. |
| 693 | ** More seriously, his Brain Ghost has no qualms about cutting up Aranea and mangling her soul. |
| 694 | * YourSoulIsMine: One his abilities as the Prince of Heart. |
| 695 | * ZenSurvivor: He enjoys [[ExploitedTrope playing up]] this persona, mostly to infuriate Jake. |
| 696 | -->GT: Oh my god you can be one opaque motherfucker just clue me in bro! |
| 697 | [[/folder]] |
| 698 | |
| 699 | [[folder:Jake]] |
| 700 | !!Jake English |
| 701 | [[quoteright:151:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/JakeEnglish_4164.png]] |
| 702 | [[caption-width-right:151:[[labelnote:At the god tiers:]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jake_english_godtier.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 703 | ->[-'''''Webcomic/ParadoxSpace'' Appearances''': "Antiquated Japesterism" | "Secret Sufferer"-] |
| 704 | |
| 705 | ->''Not a gent of your PANACHE AND SWAGGER, qualities which you would BANDY WITH APLOMB on your globe-spanning adventures, HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING. You would love to travel around the world, toppling any SACRED URNS you encountered. You'd be tickled by the opportunity to defile HALLOWED TOMBS everywhere, raiding them of their treasures. And how you'd give your RIGHT LEG for a shot at desecrating THE SHIT out of some real life MYSTIC RUINS for their byzantine wares. Luckily for your limb, there is a dandy set of such ruins nearby, and you desecrate them quite frequently!'' |
| 706 | |
| 707 | The post-Scratch incarnation of Grandpa Harley, and Jade's Post-Scratch counterpart. He is Jade's penpal, communicating with her across the two Earth universes, and he assisted in the creation of the cyborg bunny and provided [[InfinityPlusOneSword its weapons]]. |
| 708 | |
| 709 | His chumhandle is golgothasTerror. He is the '''Page of Hope''' of the post-Scratch Human Session. |
| 710 | |
| 711 | His STRIFE SPECIBUS is allocated to the [[GunsAkimbo 2X PISTOLKIND ABSTRATUS]]. His fetch modus is PUZZLE, which can hold a truly absurd number of items as long as the pieces fit. |
| 712 | |
| 713 | ->He starts with capitals and ends with punctuation but thats all he does!\ |
| 714 | He uses a mix of archaic slang and indubitably motherfucking virile profanity.\ |
| 715 | WHEN HE GETS ANGRY THOUGH IT IS A DADBLASTED FRIGGIN SIGHT TO BEHOLD! ALL HIS WORDS ARE RENDERED IN CAPS, AND EXCLAMATION POINTS ABOUND!!!!\ |
| 716 | He also sometimes uses role playing emotes like this. *adjusts glasses knowingly* |
| 717 | ---- |
| 718 | * AdventurerArchaeologist: Aspires to be one. |
| 719 | * AncestralWeapon: His weapon, [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4164 Twin M9 Barettas,]] are part of an absurd arsenal inherited from his [[Characters/HomestuckGuardians Grandmother]]. |
| 720 | * AntiquatedLinguistics: Moreso than Jane, Jake speaks with an odd mix of modern and early 20th century slang. |
| 721 | * BadassNormal: In [S] Collide, he faces down the entire frigging Felt, who are all armed with conventional weaponry ''and'' various Time-related powers. Despite getting mowed down in a hail of bullets once (and getting revived via Jane's powers afterwards), Jake manages to take down ''eleven'' of the fourteen mobsters '''without''' using his own god tier powers, impressing/surprising Crowbar (#7 of the lot) so much his cigarette falls out of his mouth. |
| 722 | * BattleCouple: With Dirk, as of Act 6 Act 4. |
| 723 | * BlingBlingBang: His golden pistols from Act 6 Act 4. |
| 724 | * BoisterousBruiser: Loves a good scrum. |
| 725 | * BreedingSlave: Jake is kept on Derse with the intention of becoming this for the possessed Jane, as part of their agreement to have "a zillion babies." Jake is completely broken by this and tries to isolate himself from others, in part because of the whole incident. |
| 726 | * BruiserWithASoftCenter: Even though Jake is prone to accidental assholery and, as we see in his fight with Meenah, he can be pretty dang aggressive when he needs to, he's still a sweetie a good deal of the time. He's consistently polite and kind and obviously cares about his friends. Plus, he's probably cried more than all the other human boys put together. |
| 727 | * ButtMonkey: So much in the later parts of Act 6. Having to wear a stupid-looking speedo is the least of his worries. |
| 728 | ** Tavrosprite tries to cheer him up about accepting he might not be the great adventuring hero he wanted to be but Vriska immediately corrects that: |
| 729 | --->'''VRISKA''': You are never going to do anything important, and you'll never amount to anything. Period! |
| 730 | * CallBack: Caliborn wanting to be the cause of everything and helping Jake become a WorthyOpponent is similar to Vriska manipul8ing things and helping Tavros and John. However, Caliborn does not seem to have contacted Jake nearly as much as Vriska did with the people she was working with. |
| 731 | * CaptainOblivious: He completely fails to notice things that everyone else figures out quickly though at least some of this is self-delusion to avoid acknowledging upsetting or difficult truths. |
| 732 | * CasanovaWannabe: Caliborn accuses him of this, even calling him a douche for it. |
| 733 | * CelibateHero: After the romantic entanglements of Act 6 Act 5, Jake becomes dismayed with the romantic attention he has received, even outright rejecting the advances of Aranea, his literal dream girl. |
| 734 | ** Even after John's retcon shenanigans, Jake's shame over the whole affair leads him to strive for isolation and decide to avoid contact with others as much as possible. |
| 735 | * ChekhovsGunman: As Jade's pen pal as early as Act 3. |
| 736 | * ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: The source of his Hope powers, including making his [[ImaginaryFriend imaginary Dirk]] [[NotSoImaginaryFriend real]]. |
| 737 | --> '''ARANEA:''' It seems to me that you are quite real, Dirk. |
| 738 | --> '''DIRK:''' That's because my buddy Jake just helped me become a whole hell of a lot less fake. |
| 739 | --> '''DIRK:''' You see, |
| 740 | --> '''DIRK:''' He believes in me. |
| 741 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He ''is'' related to Jade, after all. |
| 742 | * CluelessChickMagnet: ''Everyone'' wants him. He just doesn't get it. |
| 743 | * CoolMask: He wears one resembling his Skull Top in Act 6 Act 4. He and Dirk wear these masks to protect them from the seemingly toxic atmosphere of Dirk's planet. |
| 744 | * CrazyPrepared: He carries 5 computers on himself at all times, like a sensible person. |
| 745 | * CurbStompBattle: His power as a awakened Page of Hope is so great it defeats Grimbark Jade even when she's using the power of the Green Sun against him. |
| 746 | ** This is even more blatantly spelled out in Caliborn's claymation masterpiece (detailing the battle between him and the kids), where not even the "RAINBOW SEIZURE FIELD" -- Caliborn's clockwork majyyks, which become Lord English's signature ''reality-shattering'' doublekilling attack -- not even ''that'' can overcome Jake's Hope powers (which Caliborn dubbed a "MASSIVE GAY HOPE BUBBLE"). |
| 747 | * DeadToBeginWith: His dreamself was killed before his first appearance. |
| 748 | * {{Deconstruction}}: Of the naive pretty boy type. See EvenTheGuysWantHim and ItsAllAboutMe below. |
| 749 | * DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: Much of the humor of his interactions with [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5516 Erisolsprite]] come from this. |
| 750 | * EmbarrassingButEmpoweringOutfit: Jake's god tier costume has bright yellow briefs that surprises Jake and Jane even more than the sudden appearance of [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight reality warping dog-eared girl]]. |
| 751 | * EmbarrassingTattoo: Of Sweet Bro, [[ShipTease to compliment Dirk's tattoo]]. It has since been covered up by a Geromy sticker. |
| 752 | * EroticDream: Involving Neytiri. |
| 753 | * EvenTheGuysWantHim: Every one of his friends has a crush on him, to the point where it drives Dirk and Jane apart for months. |
| 754 | ** It extends to Dirk's splinters too, like the AR or a copy of Dirk in Jake's subconscious. |
| 755 | ** Roughly 1/3 of his lower tier echeladder rungs lampshade this: "One Tomb; Many Suitors;" "Cupid's Crosshair Candy," "Sharkbait Heartthrob," "[[MythologyGag Hunk Rump]]us Buster," "Beau Skylark." |
| 756 | * ExtremeDoormat: Eventually offers no objection to being referred to as "Joke." |
| 757 | * EyeGlasses: Humorous {{Lampshade}}d when Dirk's Brobot punches him and knocks his ''eyes'' off with the glasses. |
| 758 | ** Played with once again in the same way, though with an added dash of terror, when Trickster!Jane sends him over a cliff [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5724 Gamzee-and-Kanaya]] [[CallBack style]]. |
| 759 | * FailedASpotCheck: Thanks to using a vision-blocking computer helmet while hanging around outdoors where FRIGHTENING FAUNA of a regrettable REALNESS ATTRIBUTE lurk. |
| 760 | * {{Fetish}}: Pretty open about having a thing for {{Green Skinned Space Babe}}s. And [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurfette]]. And washed-out blue pictures of [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]]. Really, he's not that discriminating as long as they're blue. Two of his crushes, Aranea and Jane, are heavily associated with the color blue as well. |
| 761 | * TheFool: Initially seems to fill this role in the same way as John, but Jake's plucky ignorance eventually becomes so profound that multiple characters are bewildered at how oblivious he is to the people and events around him. Strongly suggested to be some kind of subconscious ObfuscatingStupidity. |
| 762 | * GeniusBruiser: He's pretty intelligent when he applies himself, though he's had a lot of help from Dirk and Roxy. |
| 763 | * GoodCounterpart: To Eridan. Both are Heroes of Hope and routinely fight lusii, but Jake shows remorse for killing a fairy bull and is outright scared of the lusii. Eridan propositions everyone for romantic interest and is always unsuccessful, while Jake gets romantic interest from everyone without even trying but eventually blows it. Both manage to monopolize conversations with others with blather about their relationships, frequently trampling over whatever the other side might wish to talk about. Ironically, Jake even ends up with Eridan as part of his sprite, to act as a foil to him. |
| 764 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: One of his preferred methods of fighting. |
| 765 | * GunsAkimbo: Inherited from his Grandmother. |
| 766 | * HaveAGayOldTime: As part of [[AntiquatedLinguistics his tendency to employ anachronistic vernacular]], although he's aware of its modern meaning and is only using it to troll Caliborn. |
| 767 | -->GT: In my view distinguished gentlemen should always strive to be as gay as possible with each other. |
| 768 | * TheHeart: A rare male example, though he's also - indirectly - responsible for a lot of turmoil in his group. He later starts living up to his Aspect - Hope - in the retconned timeline and becomes a more straightforward version of this. |
| 769 | * HeroicSacrifice: Jake attempts to save Jane from being stabbed by Aranea by flinging himself in front of her and taking the blow. It's all but [[SenselessSacrifice useless and detrimental]] as not only does Aranea fling the sword into Jane anyway, but his attempt to save her ends up preventing his potential revival. |
| 770 | * HollywoodActionHero: What he likes to think he is. |
| 771 | * HypocriticalHumor: Complains to Jane about how suffocating Dirk can be and about how little he really thinks about the other party's interests of feelings in a conversation while doing exactly the same thing to Jane. |
| 772 | * ImpossiblyTackyClothes: |
| 773 | ** His full set of ostentatious wearable computers. |
| 774 | --> "Luckily (or unfortunately) you grew up alone, so there was never anyone around to point out how ridiculous you look." |
| 775 | ** See also EmbarrassingButEmpoweringOutfit above. |
| 776 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Takes a sword to the stomach courtesy of Aranea in an attempt to prevent the same fate from happening to Jane. It ends up being judged a Heroic death. |
| 777 | * ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4165 His double holster,]] shown [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4166 here.]] |
| 778 | * InformedAttractiveness: PlayedForLaughs and parodied. All of his co-players are in love with him and most dialogue says that he's really hot... despite Hussie's art style rendering him the same as the other kids. |
| 779 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Most likely due to his unconventional upbringing, Jake has a tendency to be oblivious to the feelings of others, mostly with Jane. It's also implied that in his previous incarnation he was similar and ran away from home and from Nanna without apparently considering how it made her feel. |
| 780 | ** His tendency to turn any conversation into one about his own problems eventually drives Jane bonkers to the point of destroying her chat device. |
| 781 | * InventoryManagementPuzzle: Literally; his Fetch Modus is PUZZLE. He keeps the remains of his old house in it. |
| 782 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Due to being raised entirely alone, and thus has a very, very limited social understanding, he constantly blabbers on about his relationships, and routinely misinterprets and misconstrues implications. This means that he rarely, if ever, actually considers another persons issues, or what how what he is saying might harm others. This makes Jane furious at him and Dirk break up with him. |
| 783 | * JiveTurkey: Speaks in a really odd mix of archaic and modern slang. Unlike Jane's predilection for proper grammar, this gets commented on a lot. |
| 784 | * JumpedAtTheCall: |
| 785 | ** If [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4120 exuberant for ADVENTURE,]] then logically would accept it readily. |
| 786 | ** Subverted later. He's wary of the fact that as a Page, he subconsciously knows a lot of things he doesn't think he should. |
| 787 | * KidFromTheFuture: During Acts 3-5, it seemed that he was Jade's grandson from the future. It's subverted when we learn that he's just her grandfather's AlternateUniverse counterpart. He however, does think he's speaking to his Grandma in the past. |
| 788 | * LargeHam: [[OhTheHumanity "OH MY GOD THE HUMANITY.]] [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4273 HOW THEY EXACT THEIR POUND OF FLESH. OH GOD NO OH GOD OH GOD OH GOOOAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH."]] |
| 789 | ** Taken to a new zenith with the Hopesplosion - Jake's incessant catchphrases can be heard ''[[ArtisticLicenseSpace across planets]]''. |
| 790 | %%* LeapAndFire: He thinks this looks really cool. |
| 791 | * LGBTAwakening: Figuring out that Dirk has feelings for him gets him to seriously consider the possibility of a relationship with him, and he realizes that he doesn't really consider Dirk being a guy to be a barrier in this regard. |
| 792 | -->GT: But my thought process sort of went like this. \ |
| 793 | GT: Hes been my best friend forever and ive always liked him a lot as a bro. \ |
| 794 | GT: And years ago i used to joke around with him that we would probably be totally into each other if he was a girl. \ |
| 795 | GT: But of course that was before i started to realize he was probably serious about those feelings for me regardless. \ |
| 796 | GT: Heheh come to think of it maybe that was unwittingly poor form on my part kind of leading him on or something? \ |
| 797 | GG: Whoops!! \ |
| 798 | GT: But then... \ |
| 799 | GT: Later i started thinking. \ |
| 800 | GT: Maybe i was being kind of unfair to him in the first place?\ |
| 801 | GT: I mean by saying we would be a good match only if he was a girl. \ |
| 802 | GT: Like is that last condition there really all THAT important? |
| 803 | * LegFocus: His legs seem to be the first thing Dirk and Jane notice about his God Tier outfit, though that could be because his outfit doesn't cover the legs while the others' do. [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Even Caliborn]] describes them as "shapely" and good-looking in his ridiculous speedos. They've become minor memes in their own right. |
| 804 | * LightEmUp: The visual manifestation of [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve Hope powers]]. |
| 805 | * LivingMemory: As the Page of Hope, he is able to use his Hope to create these, such as Ghost Brain Dirk - his ideal boyfriend taking the physical form of Dirk - and the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]] he spawns, which are actually wingless dragons. |
| 806 | * LonersAreFreaks: Jake turns to solitude in Act 6 Act 6, which earns him the ire of Aranea, Vriska and Jasprosesprite^2. |
| 807 | * MagikarpPower: All Pages have this, but Jake as the Page of Hope in particular has vast amounts of untapped potential. |
| 808 | ** For the record, he spends most of his time as a God Tier weeping uncontrollably. Just after that, he created a field of literal hope that, with Aranea's intervention, results in the death of a PhysicalGod, explicitly stated to be one of the strongest beings in Sburb. |
| 809 | * MaliciousMisnaming: Vriska calls him "Jape" and "Joke" because she doesn't care about him or his "simplistic human name" and at that point Jake is too weak-willed to correct her ('''Jake:''' Yes. Sure.). On the other hand in Caliborn's "foreshadowing/spoiler" he is definitely a WildCard. |
| 810 | * MarryThemAll: After going Trickster he decides to marry Jane and have lots of babies. Then when they go after Roxy he proclaims that Roxy can be his co-bride and he'll have lots of children with her. The three of them go find Dirk later, and while Jane and Roxy lose interest when they see his Trickster Mode didn't really change his mental state, Jake insists they include him. |
| 811 | * MeaningfulName: His grandmother deliberately renamed herself after [[Characters/HomestuckTheFeltTwo Lord English]] in order to insult the Condesce. Jake himself is obsessed with skulls, wears what appears to be a caricature of English's skull on his shirt [[http://awesometatious.tumblr.com/post/12652631122/does-this-look-familiar and there's a poster of what appears to be a film about Lord English on his wall]]. Most of his wearable-computers resemble Lord English: a flashing coat, mismatched shoes that follow the same color scheme as LE's clawed foot and peg-leg, and a skull-shaped helmet with flashing eyes. These turn out to be made by Grandma English's company, as another way of insulting the Batterwitch. |
| 812 | ** His chumhandle is named for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary Golgotha]]. As the article states, the name means "place of a skull", referencing Jake's love of skulls. It's also the site of [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} JC's]] death... |
| 813 | ** The heroes of the Post-Scratch Human session are known as Nobles. Lord is a title of nobility. |
| 814 | ** Just to add to the confusion, he's now named after an immortal evil alien who ''stole his name'', creating a loop of two people naming themselves after each other. |
| 815 | * MidSeasonUpgrade: He gains powers through his brief period as a Trickster and upon reaching the Godtier, as does everyone else. What sets him apart, however, is the Hope upgrade he gains from Aranea. |
| 816 | * MookMaker: The awakening of his Page of Hope powers is creating angels. Note that in Homestuck, "angels" are gargantuan limbless dragons that breathe their Aspect - in this case, [[PowerOfLove Hope]]. |
| 817 | * TheMovieBuff: Like John and Karkat, he loves movies. Unlike them, who focus on bad movies and romcoms respectively, he loves ALL movies indiscriminately. |
| 818 | * MrFanservice: He's a permanent ''joke'' on this trope. His idea of what a dashing adventurer should look like covers all the visual range from "male [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]]" to "stripper boy complete with bowtie and all". The irony is that any potential sexiness is nullified by Homestuck's iconic art style; the ''double irony'' is that the fanarts and cosplays more than make up for it... and that's obviously the way it was meant to be all along. |
| 819 | ** He also has a considerable amount of fetish fuel points, between the fact that he's oddly [[PrettyBoy well-groomed]] for a boy who has lived alone on an island his whole life, the not-so-implied [[GuyOnGuyIsHot bisexuality]], the weird affinity for impossibly short shorts, etc. |
| 820 | ** Played straight on the Volume 9 album cover, which shows him in all of his PrettyBoy adventurer glory. |
| 821 | * MythologyGag: One of his echeladder levels is called "[[Webcomic/ProblemSleuth Hunk Rump]]us Buster" |
| 822 | * NerdActionHero: What he actually is. Deconstructed after his Trickster Mode rampage. |
| 823 | * NoSell: Awakening to his Page of Hope powers created a Hope Field that makes it impossible for others to communicate with him. His underpants and Hope Field also make it impossible for Jade to concentrate and send him to the Furthest Ring. |
| 824 | * NoSocialSkills: Part growing up in isolation, part natural personality. He's bad at reading between the lines and thinking about things from other perspectives unless prompted. He can be really careless with the feelings of others, and often fails to consider that they may have a problem with the way he's treating them until they tell him up-front. But this is far more from his tendency to take things at face-value - especially from people he trusts - than any actual malice, as he hates hurting his friends and will quickly stop if told he's doing so. |
| 825 | * ObliviousGuiltSlinging: To Jane as he talks repeatedly about how relieved he is to get all his feelings honestly out in the open, right after she fails to be honest with hers. |
| 826 | * ObliviousToLove: Zig-zagged. He's aware of Jane's and Dirk's feelings for him, but when Jane CantSpitItOut when asked directly, he takes her at face value despite noticing that she's acting odd about it. He may also be aware of Roxy's feelings, though he's only hinted at it in passing. |
| 827 | ** Subverted later. Dirk's fragment in Jake's subconscious shows that he's actually completely aware of what is going on with everyone's feelings and just isn't comfortable acknowledging it. |
| 828 | ** Being hopeless with romance seems to be the hat of Hope players, with Jake being seemingly oblivious to the considerable romantic interest directed at him and Eridan and Cronus being a little (in Cronus's case, ''far'') too obsessed with romantic pursuit, to the extent of alienating everyone they may have had a chance with. |
| 829 | * OhCrap: When fighting the brobot. |
| 830 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Before his full name was revealed he was only known by his initial "J". It turned out to be Jane's nickname for him. |
| 831 | * PlotAllergy: He shares [[BrickJoke John's peanut allergy]]. His dreamself died when he was fed peanuts by (B2) Courtyard Droll. |
| 832 | * PosterGalleryBedroom: So far, easily the most extreme example: you can't even ''see'' the walls or windows because of his movie posters. |
| 833 | * RedHerring: After the introduction of one of Homestuck's most powerful villains, [[BigBad Lord English]], we are soon introduced to the alpha kids, including one Jake English. His shirt's icon closely resembles Lord English's skull, and apart from having the same surname, [[FridgeLogic the alpha kids' title of the Nobles would make Jake's noble title "Lord English".]] Then, we are introduced to [[JerkAss Caliborn]], who is essentially a young Lord English. He receives the cursed juju [[DemonicDummy Lil Cal]], which eventually becomes a SoulJar that contains him during all of its timeline. |
| 834 | * ReluctantFanserviceGirl: The Page outfit consists of speedos and a hoodie. He is not happy about it. |
| 835 | * SecretDiary: Filled with BARK code. Roxy appearified it from him and still has it, unwilling to admit to the theft. |
| 836 | * SenselessSacrifice: Tries to save Jane in [S] GAME OVER. Both of them end up dying. |
| 837 | * SexSlave: Crockertier Jane plans to move forward with Trickster!Jane's plans to marry him and have "a zillion babies" with him, and these would obviously play out this way. Trickster!Jane may have had similar intentions as a drugged-up {{Yandere}}, but, unlike her, she's planning this despite her absolute contempt for him. |
| 838 | -->JANE: You're lucky you're so hot. |
| 839 | * ShoutOut: |
| 840 | ** One of his echeladder levels is titled "[[Film/FaceOff Castor Troy's Apprentice]]". |
| 841 | ** Another is titled "[[Film/WeekendAtBernies Bernie Lomax's Revenge]]". (Bernie Lomax is [[Characters/HomestuckOtherCharacters Terry Kiser's]] character.) |
| 842 | ** His planet is the Land of Mounds and Xenon, abbreviated LOMAX. |
| 843 | * SmallNameBigEgo: He thinks he's like [[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Nathan Drake]], but in reality he'd be that character's understudy at best. |
| 844 | * SoBeautifulItsACurse: "Why does everyone want to kiss me all the time! What did i ever do to deserve this sort of attention!" |
| 845 | * SophisticatedAsHell: Quite a bit. |
| 846 | -->GT: Forgive my botherations. I know this is meant to be a spanking ripsnorter of a day for you and all.\ |
| 847 | GT: But do you happen to know where the devilfucking dickens mr strider might be? |
| 848 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: John and Jake are almost exactly alike, right down to sharing a peanut allergy and having similar personalities and mannerisms, although Jake is more eccentric and less sensitive. Not to mention that, with a haircut, Jake would be virtually identical to John. According to Roxy, [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/6451 they even sound alike.]] |
| 849 | * TakeUpMySword: Upon learning that his grandmother was affiliated with the resistance movement against Crocker. |
| 850 | -->GT: I want to join the opposition!\ |
| 851 | GT: Fuck this witch i have lots of guns and reckless bravado and i want to stop her. Ill pick up where my grandma left off! |
| 852 | * TookALevelInBadass: Subverted with the Godtier, as Jane is easily able to haul him into Derse's prison. Played magnificently straight with [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/6601 the results]] of the Hopesplosion, which not only generated enough energy to create Angels, but ''destroyed most of '''Derse'''''. |
| 853 | * UncannyValleyMakeup: In Trickster Mode, as with Jane. Made even worse not so much by the fact that he is a male example who ''isn't'' in drag, but instead because it's essentially the same as Jane's, ''eyelashes included''. |
| 854 | * WallOfWeapons: [[ExaggeratedTrope His inventory is literally full of guns and food]]. |
| 855 | * WildCard: Caliborn didn't realize the power of Jake's Hopesplosion in his preview of the final battle. |
| 856 | ** [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/7434 THE HOPE... MY GOD.]] |
| 857 | * WorthyOpponent: To Caliborn. To the extent that Caliborn took the name of English after Jake [[CurbstompBattle laid a hope-fueled beatdown]] on him out of respect. |
| 858 | * WouldntHitAGirl: He acts dorkily chivalrous, but he does make one exception. Once he figures out that Meenah is a version of the Batterwitch, he starts beating her to a pulp. Of course, she's already dead, so it doesn't really do much. That and she's too busy fangirling over her post-Scratch self, the Condesce, who's the actual Batterwitch, to even notice. |
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