Characters / Homestuck Trolls Three

Main Cast: Kids, Pre-Scratch; Kids, Post-Scratch; Trolls (Lowbloods, Midbloods, Highbloods, Pre-Scratch); Cherubs Supporting Cast: Guardians & Ancestors; Sprites; Exiles & the Midnight Crew; Agents & Monarchs; The Felt (Leaders); Others Expanded Universe: Post-Canon; Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff; Hiveswap (Troll Call)

Elsewhere in paradox space, we examine another planet, forgotten by time. But we will strive to remember. What was this planet's name?

Long before the formation of planet Earth, there was a world called Alternia. Alternia was a world ruled by the trolls, a species who, at least externally, look like humans with grey skin, fangs, yellow eyes, and striped horns. The trolls, too, have found Sburb (or rather, Sgrub), and over the course of the adventure we meet twelve troll children who play it together, split into two sessions of six. However, sometime during the course of their quest, something goes very wrong, and they begin a campaign of petty internet harassment against the kids, who they blame for the incident. Despite their monstrous looks, sinister screennames, and character profiles composed of mixes and inversions of traits from one or more of the kids, the trolls mostly aren't that bad; they were introduced properly in their own sub-adventure arc in Act 5 Act 1, also known as Hivebent, before essentially becoming part of the main cast on par with the kids in Act 5 Act 2.

Equius

♐ Equius Zahhak ♐

Engineer

Paradox Space Appearances: "Headed for Stardom" | "John's Birthday" | "Hunting Lesson" | "Killswitch ENGAGED" | "Night at the 100dseum" | "Secret Sufferer" | "Steward of Void" | "Relation Shipping" | "Summerteen Romance" | "Vrisky Business"

You love being STRONG. You are so strong, you would surely be the class of the elite legion of RUFFIANNIHILATORS. And while such a calling would be quite honorable, you would prefer to join the ranks of the ARCHERADICATORS, perhaps the most noble echelon the imperial forces have to offer. Unfortunately, you SUCK AT ARCHERY. You have not successfully fired a SINGLE ARROW. Every time you try, you BREAK THE BOW. You are simply too strong. You have broken so many bows, it has developed into a habit BORDERING ON FETISHISTIC. You have to stop. But addiction is a powerful thing.

A traditionalist troll who staunchly believes in upholding the noble customs and beliefs attributed to his blood color.

In Sburb, he is the Heir of Void. His Trolltag is "centaursTesticle".

He has filed three STRIFE SPECIBI in his STRIFE PORTFOLIO: FISTKIND ABSTRATUS, BOWKIND ABSTRATUS and 1/2BOWKIND ABSTRATUS.

D —> Types by beginning his lines with a bow and arrow, replaces "X" and similar-sounding consonant combinations with the % sign, "loo" and "ool" with "100" and "001", uses horse puns when ser100sly agitated, and leaves his sentences unpun%uated

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• A Glass in the Hand: The guy can't drink a glass of anything without accidentally crushing it.
• Aggressive Submissive: Equius has a big habit of telling people what to do as accordance to the hemospectrum. He even makes the first move when it comes to his crushes of Aradia and Gamzee! However, his interactions with both make it painfully clear that he wants them to take control: Urging them to be destructive and order him around when neither quite know what to do.
• Animal Motifs: Horses. He loves them... maybe a little too much... and he's named after equus, the Latin word for "horse", and a Zoroastrian mythical villain whose name meant "he who owns a thousand horses".
• Antiquated Linguistics: He sometimes types like this when he gets worked up, and especially when he raps.
• Back from the Dead: As Equiusprite. And after Dirk tosses his Auto-Responder into the mix, Arquiusprite.
• Battle Couple: With Aradia for a while; later, with Nepeta, although in a different quadrant.
• Bestiality Is Depraved: Played for Laughs with his interest in "fine art".
• Big Brother Instinct: His protectiveness of Nepeta.
• The Big Guy: He's the strongest of the trolls by a very wide margin, and responds to threats primarily be bashing them to pieces with his bare hands.
  TG: how the fuck do you even wield a broken bow
  TG: did you go around clubbing shit with the two halves
  CT: D —> Yes
  CT: D —> Sometimes
• Blessed with Suck: He's incredibly strong, to the point where he can decapitate an ogre with a single punch. He also cannot control this strength, so a "gentle", appreciative pat bruises his lusus (which itself was picked for its own strength), he cannot handle a bow without snapping it in half, he manages to shatter his own teeth every time they have regrown, and the only person he can hold an intimate relationship with has a robot body that he built himself.
• Blue Blood: Figuratively and literally (indigo, to be precise). He looks down on those from the lower classes.
• Butterface: Played for Laughs with his talksprites. They're not pretty.
• Casual Kink: His penchant for being subservient to other people is both borderline fetishistic and prone to entering casual conversations.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Equius isn't acknowledged in any of the extracanonical continuations, the Epilogues and Homestuck: Beyond Canon, of Homestuck.
• Combat Medic: He's frighteningly STRONG, but at the same time, he's kept the more unlucky trolls patched up with robot prosthetics, including Vriska's arm, Tavros' legs, and Aradia's soulbot.
• The Comically Serious: He's stubbornly serious and uptight, and often ends up playing the straight man to his more eccentric fellows.
  CT: D —> Humorous insincerity is for pedantic wigglers
• Control Freak: He's this early into the story with Nepeta and a few other trolls, and while it frustrates her, it does prevent her from being caught in deadly games of FLARP that happened before the story began. By the time of the session happens however Equius is significantly not this as much as he's much more willing to listen to others than before.
• Covert Pervert: "It would always make everyone uncomfortable when he just stood there. And watched."
• Cultured Warrior: He collects fine art (or at least what he considers to be fine art), has an appreciation for nature, and displays a penchant for slam poetry. If you piss him off, however, he will literally punch your head off. He also objects to 100d ^note  Lewd language, leading to Gosh Dang It to Heck!.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: He's choked to death by Gamzee after finally snaps and becomes Ax-Crazy.
• Death by Irony: He wants so badly to be an archer, but he always breaks the bows. So naturally Ax-Crazy Gamzee brings him to his knees with an arrow, then kills him with a broken bow.
• A Death in the Limelight: Both he and Nepeta share this in the same flash, as their extensive interactions is immediately preceded by their deaths.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: He's terrible at archery due to always breaking the bows and he bruises his lusus (one of the strongest creatures on the planet) when trying to give him "a grateful pat, as gently as possible" for bringing him a glass of milk. Also, he can't drink without breaking the glass.
• Erotic Asphyxiation: He starts grinning as he's being strangled to death by Gamzee. He's always had "bloodshot bags" under his eyes (petechia, for those who love Forensic Dramas), which is probably a hint he doesn't mind his killbots going for the neck.
• Everyone Has Standards: Equius, with all his weird fetishes, still feels uncomfortable with how Eridan hits on him.
• Failed a Spot Check: When he does finally meet Gamzee, he spends a few lines thinking it's Terezi for no reason other than wearing her glasses, despite not sounding or looking remotely similar.
• Fantastic Racism: Played With. Equius is the troll most likely to fall into this, often literally referring to people by their blood color rather than their name, and reprimanding them for not acting as they're expected to according to the Hemospectrum. On the other hand, it's not-so-subtly implied that his adherence to the hemospectrum becomes fetishistic at times, particularly getting sweaty when the norms of it are subverted.
• Fatal Flaw: His fetishes. Word of God is that if Equius was not SO into being dominated by highbloods he could have broken the bow with the muscles from his neck and lived. He even lampshades this, telling Karkat he wasn't sure if he'd able to subdue Gamzee should they come face to face.
• Fetish: Equius gets off on being ordered around and chastised by highbloods. And from getting strangled by highbloods. And by what he considers "depravity" (subversion of the caste hierarchy, such is lowbloods being disobedient or holding authority over highbloods, lowbloods acting dignified and highbloods acting undignified).
  CT: D --> It's so magnificently depraved.
• Filth: His musclebeast portraits.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Not to the same degree as Eridan but (Nepeta aside) you'd hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't consider him to be something of a creep. Even the narrator doesn't like him.
• Furry Fandom: His "art" collection, though it's also implied that Alternia in general considers it high art.
• Gadgeteer Genius: He likes building robots, usually just to destroy them, but he made some prosthetic legs that he let Tavros keep, as well as Vriska's mechanical arm, and a robot body for Aradia.
• Genius Bruiser: He builds strong and sturdy killer robots, and beats the shit out of them in caged brawls.
• A Glass in the Hand: Happens every time he picks up any glass because he is so STRONG.
• Gonk: Has mouthful of broken teeth, blue circles under his eyes that are often visible even underneath his sunglasses, frequently sweats profusely and in the Alterniabound segments his hair is particularly stringy-looking. Needless to say he's probably the least attractive of the trolls.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: He refuses to use obscenity, and as a result tends to resort to comically tepid "swears".
  CT: D —> Fudgesicles
• Got Me Doing It: He makes horse puns when flustered, much like Nepeta does with cats. Take both of them roleplaying as each other while flustered and you have quite a sight.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: And he's a bit grudging about it, given his preference for archery. But When All You Have Is a Hammer…...
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He gets mad pretty easily, which is why he builds robots. He needs something to take his anger out on. Note that venting his rage at his robots seems to work; we never actually see him get seriously angry at anyone else—we only see him venting at inanimate objects.
• Happily Married: Despite how utterly screwed up the rest of his life is, his moirallegiance with Nepeta is the textbook example of how that particular quadrant is supposed to work. Notably, he doesn't just use her as an emotional crutch, he returns the favor by warning her away from dangerous situations and generally working to keep her safe.
• Hey, You!: Despite presumably knowing the names of all the trolls he interacts with, he only ever refers to trolls (sans Nepeta) by their blood color if anything at all.
• Hidden Depths:
  • He is, of all things, a pretty good rapper. He even wins a rap battle with Dave (though Dave wasn't taking it super seriously). There's also his moirallegiance with Nepeta and his hobby of making robots. Plus, despite being glaringly obviously neurotic and having serious fetish issues, he actually turns out to be one of the most stable trolls — he has one of the few actually healthy and stable relationships in the entire series, and (aside from his death and his inappropriate decision to build Aradia's robot body with an attraction to himself) he manages to keep all his various issues in check enough to remain functional even when everyone else is going batshit. He even recognizes that he probably won't be able to make himself kill Gamzee, and tries to make sure Nepeta is safe first.
  • He can actually be a dork, but only when around Nepeta or Aradia.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: He bothers Karkat on one of his memos for no reason than to dispute his claim as leader and mock the usefulness of the memos. Karkat then flips this around on him and gets him to admit to sweating at inappropriate times.
• Honor Before Reason: Even though he wants to stop Gamzee and save his friends, and he's STRONG enough to easily snap the bowstring with his neck muscles, doesn't even try to resist when Gamzee strangles him to death because of his STRONG belief in highb100d supremacy. And this is how reacts upon learning of Gamzee's killing spree: "Are you saying the highb100d has finally embraced his position atop the hierarchy ... I'm not entirely positive I can raise a hand to the highb100d".
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: He forms this dynamic with his diminutive moral Nepeta. This is made more apparent in the more-detailed talksprites in Act 5 Part 2, although it's primarily musculature and not height that makes Equius the Huge Guy.
• In a Single Bound: He gets to his first Gate by simply STRONGJUMPING right to it from a standing start.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: He may be a racist asshole, but it's hard to really hate him when his obscene strength prevents him from doing pretty much anything. Plus he's still racist in situations where it doesn't benefit him or even goes against his interests. And he does question it sometimes, and it's almost more like a fetish for him.
• Jerkass: First-class, at first. He's a genuinely nice person though, although he buys into racism a bit much.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: As much as he looks down on the lower classes, he readily provides robotic prosthetics to the crippled Vriska and Tavros, and looks after Nepeta as best he can.
• Joke Character: Word of God himself confirms this. Introduced with his "Fine Art" and died as a Senseless Sacrifice.
• Knee Capping: Gamzee forces him to kneel by shooting him in the knee with an arrow.
• Leitmotif: Horschestra
• Macho Camp: The author has associated him with incredibly eroticized masculine imagery since his first full appearance, mostly for comedic purposes or to deliberately Squick out fans. Of course, he's bi like all trolls.
• Mad Scientist: A mostly-heroic version.
• Made of Iron: Implied as a Required Secondary Power for his Super-Strength, but made more explicit in these pages, where he STRONGFALLS a significant distance and suffers no noticeable injury. So naturally he's strangled to death like the Hercules' Nemean Lion.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Equus" is Latin for horse.
  • Zahhak is a villain in Zoroastrianism, who has an older name that means "[he who has] 10,000 horses". He's also known as "Aži Dahāka" in more ancient folklore, a name derived from the Avestan word for "serpent", which roughly translate his full name to "Horse Serpent". Think on that for a moment.
  • He's the Heir of Void, and dies devoid of air.
• Mind Hive: He eventually becomes a sprite that is fused with Lil Hal in the Post-scratch Kids' session, serving as Dirk's sprite, courtesy of Gamzee. In Caliborn's Masterpiece, it is revealed that he, along with Caliborn, Lil Hal and one half of Gamzee, are all sealed within Lil Cal, and he may well be the reason Doc Scratch used the hemospectrum as his means of changing Alternia into the Dystopia it is.
• Morality Pet: Shortly before going off to get killed, he tells Nepeta that she's the only reason he didn't become a murderer like most of the other highbloods.
• My Greatest Failure: Letting Nepeta die. When they meet again after being revived as sprites, he's horribly ashamed, which is made worse by him being merged with Lil Hal, who's never had to deal with emotions like that and promptly freaks out.
• Mythical Motifs: Centaurs. His Zodiacal sign is Sagittarius, which is traditionally depicted as a bow-wielding centaur, his Trollian handle is centaursTesticle, and his lusus is a centaur.
• Mythology Gag: More than any other character in Homestuck, Equius is a reference to Hussie's older work, like his satirical blog post on the paintings that would later became Equius's "fine art" or his death being a Whole-Plot Reference to Whistles.
  He was always the troll personification of everything like Humanimals I ever did and put on the internet. [...] I used to do all sorts of weird stuff, reviewing obscene furry pornography, making weird collages involving horses, and just a whole lot of bizarre shit that didn't make much sense, but I thought was funny. The whole span of these endeavors was quite trollish in nature[...] The fact that it puts some people off is part of what makes it funny. So Equius was that entire arena of trollish content, rolled into a character.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: He's very upset that Aradia only said goodbye to Sollux before she exploded, hence why he makes it a point to say goodbye to Nepeta before confronting Gamzee.
• Noble Bigot: Towards both Lower Castes and Seadwellers.
• Noodle Incident: We have no idea how he broke his right horn. Presumably it has something to do with his cage matches with his robots or his uncontrollable STRENGTH.
• Perpetual Frowner: Part of what makes him The Comically Serious, he is almost always wearing a sort of scowl, with his broken teeth gritted together. The main times he isn't scowling are when he's talking face-to-face with Nepeta or fulfilling certain... caste fantasies.
• Personality Powers: The most obvious inversion. Heirs are closely related to becoming their aspect literally and figuratively, and Void means being ignored and hiding things. Equius clings to the hemospectrum — a superficial and violence-instigating concept in troll society — in order to feel special as he feels he is of little merit. Enforced by Kanaya stating that a player's title is designed to both challenge them and suit them.
• Pet the Dog:
  CT: D —> You e%terminate beautiful, innocent creatures by the hundreds
  CT: D —> I can't condone such wretched behavior
  CT: D —> Beasts are meant to be 100ked upon with adoration
  • Later, we find out exactly what he means by "looked upon with adoration".
  • His deceptively NON-abusive relationship with Aurthour might count as this also.
  • And he prevented Nepeta from playing FLARP, which could've gotten her killed by his neighbor◊.
  • Also, he sets aside his racism to build a pair of robot legs for Tavros, who is near the bottom of the blood spectrum.
  • He gets another moment when he fully admits his belief that it's due to Nepeta being his moirail that he hadn't snapped and gone on a rampage. And how he prioritizes her safety above his own.
• The Pig-Pen: He smells pretty bad due to sweating all the time. Caliborn refers to him as "Smelly Horse Man".
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Nepeta. It's actually the only moirallegiance which works perfectly fine.
• Possession Implies Mastery: Averted with bowkind, played straight with fistkind and ½bowkind (because his freakish strength makes him good at breaking bows (and killing things with broken bows).
• Power Dynamics Kink: Equius Zahhak gets off on being ordered by other trolls, both highbloods and lowbloods.
• Power of the Void: Equius' mythological role is the Heir of Void, which may or may not have this trope in effect. Darkleer, his ancestor, was naturally surrounded by a void in Doc Scratch's awareness—a Psychic Block Defense against scrying and omniscience. UU mentions in Act 6 that Void powers are about the destruction or obfuscation of knowledge, but how it manifests in an Heir is unknown.
  • This isn't so much an extension of his power but rather an ironic subversion, but UU's book that contains Rose's description of what happened in the kids' session was censored by Gamzee with Equius' blood used as ink.
• Precision F-Strike: Equius considers swearing beneath him, but that doesn't stop him from dropping an F-Bomb when he realizes that Aradia, who is at the very bottom of the blood hierarchy, has authority over him as his server player.
• Properly Paranoid: He tells both Nepeta and Karkat that he's not sure if he'll be able to stop Gamzee due to him embracing highblood ideals. He's completely right, as he'd rather die than go against his fetish.
• Pungeon Master: Starts making horse puns by the dozens when flustered.
• Pure Is Not Good: He doesn't condone foul language (such as "what the hell") or the killing of animals and refuses to pollute his body with "sugary beverages and soporific to%ins". It doesn't stop him from being a Jerkass and elitist bigot, though.
• Required Secondary Powers: Averted. Sure, he's got super strength — but he doesn't have the super muscle control that's always been a part of Superman's power set. In theory a super-strong longbowman would be a devastating combatant (this was Odysseus's thing), but not when he can't draw a bow without snapping it. Or drink a beverage without smashing the glass. He does however, have super toughness.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: His Sinister Shades have this appearance in the dark.
• Ship Tease: With Nepeta, although this turned out to be more of Platonic Life-Partners, and with Gamzee here, to truly astonishing levels. He also has a very strong crush on Aradia, and the two share a kiss.
• Sinister Shades: Broken ones, at that, because he is too strong to ever put them on without breaking them
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: And a wimp he is not.
• Sunglasses at Night: Out of style, apparently. They fall off when he dies.
• Super-Strength: He can't fire arrows because he always breaks the bows, and he's capable of destroying robots with his bare hands.
• Terse Talker: At times. Compared to just about everyone else, Equius can come off as this due to his habit of often giving very short replies. Averted when he talks to Nepeta, Gamzee and Aradia, all of whom he is very verbose with.
• Testosterone Poisoning: He loves being STRONG, Does Not Know His Own Strength, wears a muscle-exposing tank top, and unleashes his aggression by beating the shit out of killer robots. Later exaggerated when he merges with Lil Hal. The resulting Arquius spends most of his pagetime encouraging people to touch his muscles.
• Theme Naming: Equius's Zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
• Those Two Guys: He tends to form a self-contained duo with Nepeta.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Subdued, but still evident. Equius before the game is rather controlling and critical of those he interacts with (Especially with Gamzee, as he becomes frustrated that the roles are not reversed). However, by the time his and Nepeta's dedicated flash comes around, it's shown that he is much more relaxed about things, more willing to have a give and take with his moirail and willing to at least attempt to do what he can to help the rest of the group.
• Too Kinky to Torture: Getting strangled by a highblood gives him a big smile on his face when he dies.
• Toothy Issue: Some of his teeth have been knocked out in his fights with his robots. (Luckily, they usually grow back.)
• Trademark Favorite Drink: He loves milk, but he can't drink it because whenever he tries to pick up a glass, he accidentally shatters it due to his immense STRENGTH.
• Undignified Death: Why on earth is he smiling as he is strangled to death? On the other hand, Hussie maintains that Equius "died a death of supreme integrity". Which is true — he remained loyal to his ideals of highblood supremacy and extreme squickiness even as he died.
  "He died as he lived: Sweaty and inappropriately turned on."
• Unskilled, but Strong: In terms of combat, Equius relies wholly on his own strength to demolish something, something that is helped by the fact he cannot wield the weapon he wishes to. Which contrasts with Nepeta, who is Weak, but Skilled.
• Unstoppable Rage: The only safe outlet for his anger is beating up robots inside a steel cage.
• Unsound Effect: E%AMPLE!
• Virile Stallion: Exaggerated and Parodied. Equius admires horses and the art with horses, his name comes from the Latin "equus" ("horse"), and his zodiac sign (Sagittarius) is associated with the centaur archer, Chiron. As for masculinity, Equius reaches the point of Testosterone Poisoning, being insanely physically strong, but unable to control his own strength.
• Worf Had the Flu: His fight with Gamzee probably wouldn't have been so one-sided if weren't for his refusal to fight a Highblood and his fetish for domination.
• World's Strongest Man: By far demonstrates the highest level of physical strength out of all the trolls, not that it helps him in the end.

Gamzee

♑ Gamzee Makara ♑

Capricious

^{Fake god tier:}

Paradox Space Appearances: "John's Birthday" | "Headed for Stardom" | "Hospitality" | "Secret Sufferer" | "Spritecon" | "Summerteen Romance"

You get pretty excited by CLOWNS OF A GRIM PERSUASION WHICH MAY NOT BE IN FULL POSSESSION OF THEIR MENTAL FACULTIES. You belong to a RATHER OBSCURE CULT, which foretells of a BAND OF ROWDY AND CAPRICIOUS MINSTRELS which will rise one day on a MYTHICAL PARADISE PLANET that does not exist yet. The beliefs of this cult are SOMEWHAT FROWNED UPON by those dwelling in more common lawnrings. But you don't care, you got to be going with what feels right at where your heart's up in, you know?

A rather spacy troll, perpetually high on sopor slime, who holds a deep and spiritual awe for all life's miracles, great and small.

In Sburb, he is the Bard of Rage. His trolltag is "terminallyCapricious".

He has allocated his STRIFE SPECIBUS with the CLUBKIND ABSTRATUS, and later the JOKERKIND ABSTRATUS.

TyPeS wItH aLtErNaTiNg UpPeR aNd LoWeR cAsE lEtTeRs AnD pUnCtUaTiOn, AnD pEpPeRs HiS sPeEcH wItH mOtHeRfUcKiN oDd PrEpOsItIoNaL cOnStRuCtS aLl Up On OvEr.

He AlSo LiKeS tO uSe SmIlIeS wItH cLoWn NoSeS. hOnK HoNk! :o)

post-sobering up and declaring himself subjugglator he uses lines of text alternating all caps and lowercase,

WHICH IS INTERPRETED AS HIS TWO PERSONALITIES WHO ARE BOTH EVIL ALTERNATELY YELLING AND WHISPERING

honk :oD

HONK Do:

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• Addled Addict: A rare case where this is portrayed as a good thing: his sopor slime addiction leaves him too addled to be Ax-Crazy and be more of a devoted follower of this setting's Religion of Evil. When he finally runs out of slime and sobers up, he starts killing people in artistic fashion.
• The Aggressive Drug Dealer: Acts as one by the time he meets Jane, trying to push her to buy "potions" that suspiciously bear the same (blood) colors and promised traits as the dead trolls. Answer however you want, But Thou Must! buy them from him.
• Animal Motifs: He's generally associated with goats through his Zodiac sign, sea-goat lusus, and goatlike horns.
• Anime Hair: He has the most ridiculous hair style of the trolls, and is a good contender for having the most ridiculous hair style of any character in the comic.
• And I Must Scream: As Aranea's loyal servant:
  ARANEA: You will not ever 8e speaking again. No. Never, never, never again. Never.
  • It gets worse. As it turns out, Aranea's mind control stopped him from screaming in pain when Terezi started stabbing him repeatedly. Which means that all of the pain inflicted on him in previous panels actually was hurting him, and he couldn't do anything about it.
  • His (implied) ultimate fate. Since he was last seen bawling his eyes out while trapped in Jake's fridge on LOTAK, there's a strong possibility he was either completely disintegrated by Jack English's exploding severed head or sucked into the resulting black hole. The latter is the more terrifying of the two, as his inability to die would leave him trapped in the void for all eternity.
• A Love to Dismember: He was romantically interested in Tavros and dismembers his corpse, sporadically kissing his severed head and saving the body for over three years.
• Always Chaotic Evil: Averted. His particular blood caste is generally Ax-Crazy, and his Mirthful Messiahs canonically are essentially the Devil and Grim Reaper equivalents in Alternian culture, but Gamzee himself is pretty okay when he can control his insanity.
• Ambiguously Evil: After the Scratch, it wasn't entirely clear if he's still working for Lord English or if he was just being weird. Act 6 Intermission 4 seems to confirm that he is, in fact, working for him. Even before then, when Gamzee had run out of pies, he had reverted to his original personality, but it's ambiguous as to HOW "evil" the purple blood would have been, as it's only after he stares into the Soul Jar's eyes that he decides to kill his friends.
• Ascended Extra: His solo appearances that weren't as part of the Cast Herd prior to going crazy can be counted on your hands; later events indicate he may be the most important character in the comic as a whole. Played With, in that Gamzee has very little dialogue past Act 5 and his influence is more implied than outright shown unless you count half of him being part of Lord English.
• Asshole Victim: By the time Kanaya cut him in half, he had been STRONGLY implied to be an abusive partner by Terezi before violently beating her up, and also killed Nepeta, Equius AND his former moirail Karkat. It's easy to say he fell into this trope. And that's not even counting the things he actively did to help assist in Lord English's arrival.
• Ax-Crazy: His Face–Heel Turn in Act 5 Act 2 single-handedly turned the trolls' asteroid into a slasher flick. He got better before the end of the act, but as Act 6 went on to display, that didn't make him any less evil. Outright subverted when he starts beating and killing two of his friends again in [S] Game Over.
• Berserk Button: The "Miracles" music video by Insane Clown Posse, which he describes as BlAsPhEmY is what sets off his plunge into insanity.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Prior to his Face–Heel Turn, Gamzee was easily the most laid back member of his session, but also dealt the most damage out of his entire party during the final battle against the Black King. In a single blow.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Terrifyingly so, between his stoned persona and the polite half of his sober persona.
• Blood Lust: Inherited from his ancestor.
• Blood from the Mouth: An absolute torrent after being shot and brutally beaten by Caliborn. Who got told off for it with elevator music.
  You made this dear, sweet, pseudo-innocent juggalo vomit liter after thick, glutinous liter of nasty purple blood.
• Blue Blood: He actually has purple blood, but it has the same implications, as he's the highest on the hemospectrum aside from the nautical royality. Averted in that he's pretty chill for a hereditary aristocrat... at least before he gets involved with Lord English.
  • Played straight later on when he accepts his role as the heir to the Subjugglators, a line of trolls meant to subjugate the rest of the troll race, and starts calling people peasants and commanding them to kneel before him.
• Bound and Gagged: In the retconned timeline, Terezi binds Gamzee with rope and gags him with a horn while he's still in shock of being unexpectedly found.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: It's shown that Lil Cal has had an influence on him, and it's also implied that the godforsaken thing was crucial to making him want to kill his friends.
• Break the Cutie: Averted. His descent into insanity was shown to be incredibly emotional for Karkat, but Gamzee himself really enjoyed it.
• Butt-Monkey: Caliborn really likes pumping his guts full of lead, along with whacking him right upside the head. This definitely applies to his post-retcon self as well, as he's easily taken care of once John intervenes and has absolutely nothing go his way after being caught by Terezi, which culminates in him crying pathetically as he's tossed around in a locked fridge.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • mOtHeRfUcKiNg MiRaClEs. mOtHeRfUcKeR in general is pretty commonly used by him.
  • He actually says "honk". A lot. hOnK hOnK. honk HONK honk HONK.
  • By Act 6, he says "honk" and "HONK" more than anything else. It really makes him seem like a soulless puppet... perhaps fitting, considering his servitude to Lord English/Caliborn.
• The Chessmaster: He's capable of some shenanigans once he goes insane, and helped manipulate pre-retcon Vriska's death.
• Chekhov's Gun: The Vast Honk prophesied by his religion turns out to be the summoning of Lord English, the counterpart to the Vast Croak, and his Mirthful Messiahs are actually Lord English and Doc Scratch, i.e. the Big Bad and his Dragon.
• Confusion Fu: His Jokerkind Strife Deck gives him access to any weapon he carries, so he's pretty unpredictable, though he never uses a weapon twice. Nobody is quite sure what he did to The Black King that messed him up so badly either.
• Cool Bike: A rocket unicycle. He never uses it but it does exist.
• Cooldown Hug: Gets a very comforting cooldown shoosh-pap from Karkat. As moirails, Karkat continues to be a stabilizing influence on Gamzee... except not at all, as their moirallegiance soon falls apart. Even before that, it was shown that Gamzee was still evil, just much calmer and more sane about it.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: After spending some time sitting there getting stabbed by Terezi, as soon as Aranea's mind control slips from him, he utterly decimates her so badly that many characters are disturbed and try to get him to stop. Karkat in particular is so angry he's the first one to attack... and is almost immediately killed.
• Cute and Psycho: His quiet personality, the one that speaks in lowercase, is cheerful and polite, but is still equally as psychotic as the loud personality.
• Demoted to Extra: He has no lines or relevance since the retcon, being subdued and stuffed in a fridge for the remainder of the comic. It seems to be a Take That! at the character as well.
• Destructive Romance: With Terezi. It's a romance that perfectly demonstrates the need of an auspistice (which Rose tries to be but has her own issues distracting her) as it's because of this romance coming to fruition that both parties damage their relationships with the rest of the meteor. Outright even worse when it's revealed that their kismesissitude became abusive.
• Determinator: He just. Won't. Die.
• Dissonant Serenity: His usual personality. He's pretty chill with the fact that Sollux died. When he's talking in lower case, he's pretty much chill with everything, including his desire to murder everyone he knows. It comes back full force in Act 6, where he keeps smiling after being brutalized by Caliborn and stabbed by Terezi — and it's absolutely clear that he's in excruciating pain, but can't show it, especially in the latter's case.
• The Dragon: For Caliborn. He's also Aranea's Dragon at some points, but it certainly isn't willingly.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Gamzee was unceremoniously murdered over the course of four flash sequences. Or he would've been, if he wasn't still alive. He kept on going until he was bisected and melted by lava... Until the timeline was retconned by John, anyway.
• Drugs Are Good: In his case, at least. When he's stoned off his gourd, he's incredibly chill and it's when he runs out of it for a long while that he begins to act aggressively.
• Easily Forgiven: At least by Karkat. Kanaya certainly didn't. And by the time [S] GAME OVER rolls through, he's shown to be utterly despised by everyone, whether they're from the pre-retcon or post-retcon timeline.
• Enigmatic Minion: On one hand, he created a self-loathing Tavros/Vriska Body Horror hybrid for no reason, conspires with his even more insane dancestor, and serves as a guide for Caliborn. On the other hand, he still values his relationships with Karkat and Terezi, offered to be a guide for Jane, and created a stable hybrid of Sollux and Eridan to assist Jake with, a stable hybrid of Nepeta and Feferi to assist Roxy with, and prototyped Equius to assist Dirk with. Act 6 Act 5 Act 2 reveals that he's been under the mind control of Aranea for quite some time, which would explain some of his actions. And then Caliborn's masterpiece indirectly reveals (it's shown with clay models of questionable quality) that at least half of Gamzee becomes part of Lord English, meaning that Gamzee likely did everything he did to make this event happen.
• Erudite Stoner: Though he zones out from time to time, his sopored up self is fairly smart at understanding exactly what to say to his pals.
• Evil Costume Switch: Or at least, typing style switch. When sober, He GoEs FrOm TyPiNg LiKe ThIs to alternating between all lowercase... THEN GOING ALL MOTHERFUCKIN CAPS LIKE KARKAT.
  • After his Face–Heel Turn, he remains scarred from his self inflicted injury from Nepeta's claws.
  • And then finally an actual costume change, into the Bard of Rage God Tier robes, which include a preposterous codpiece.
• Evil Counterpart: A troll with an important role in their society abandons everything to raise a baby with candy red blood, whose accomplishments will change things forever. Is this a description of Gamzee or is this the Dolorosa?
• Eye Take: Shared with Vriska in surprise to... someone walking.
• Face Framed in Shadow: In the two parts of Openbound that he appears in, his actual face can't be seen. His blood's visible, though.
• Face–Heel Revolving Door: Gamzee has gone crazy, seemingly becomes sane after being confronted by Karkat near the end of Act 5 Act 2, and then continues to do dubious things that end in [S] GAME OVER's bloodbath. Needless to say, he ends on Heel rather than Face.
  • His codpiece outfit that he's been seen wearing in Act 6 was given to him by Kurloz Makara, who explicitly stated that both of them were in service to Lord English.
• Faith–Heel Turn: Seen here (although it did occur earlier in the story).
  • Partially Inverted in Act 6. He returns to believing in his faith, but he's working for the Big Bad in order to bring about its prophesied promised land, which also turns out that he's a part of.
• Faux Affably Evil: Became this during Act 5 Act 2, making jokes and acting friendly only to further torment the other trolls.
• Flash Step: Rivals Dirk in this regard.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: By halfway through Act 6, he's managed to drive away everyone on the meteor except Terezi, even his former best friend. The closest thing that he has to a buddy now is Caliborn, who actively hates his guts, and even Terezi wants to dump him, though she can't quite manage to do it. By the post-retcon, he spends a lot of time either being mind controlled or treated as a joke before being stuffed in a fridge. No one really minds this except Dave, asking if they should let him out for some air, and then drops the question soon enough.
• Freak Out: After he watches the "Miracles" music video, he finds it blasphemous and goes completely insane. He never really recovers from it, either, even if he stops killing for a bit.
• Fluffy the Terrible: "Gamzee" is a real-world Turkish name that means "Dimple", and it's typically a female name at that.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: From Joke Character to Hero Killer over the course of a few hundred panels, and it only keeps getting uglier despite the deaths stopping for a while. After GAME OVER gets retconned, this trope is inverted and he goes back to basically being a joke again (albeit one kept under watch rather than the once loved, sopored up version of himself). When John shows up on the meteor he's completely at a loss, basically unable to stop him from derailing his stalking of Terezi, which results in her tying him up and neutralizing him as a threat. He then spends the timeskip as Vriska's helpless pet and has no role for the rest of the story aside from getting sliced in half and one half of him becoming part of Lord English, and basically being tied up and/or being the target of mockery or physical punishment.
• Gag Penis: His cod piece is rather large; however it serves primarily as a Mythology Gag to Bard Quest, as it's not even known if Trolls have penises.
  • If Kurloz's mission is of any indication, it's part of something more sinister. No, really.
• A God Am I: Claims to be both of the Mirthful Messiahs when on his rampage. Many fans take this as evidence of a Split Personality. Later on, his soul (or at least half of it) is trapped inside Lil' Cal along with those of ARquiusprite and Caliborn while the latter begins his ascension as Lord English.
• Good Parent: Surprisingly, he actually takes fairly good care of both Calliope and Caliborn.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Evil and self inflicted.
• Greater-Scope Villain: While Gamzee himself is not the biggest threat or most pressing evil in the story, he was directly responsible for introducing the Cherub race to Sburb, resulting in the creation of Lord English. Then again, Lord English, like Jack Noir earlier, was already there. Turns out that he is part of the Greater-Scope Villain when half of him is a component of Lord English, though.
• Groin Attack: The victim of one.
• Gruesome Goat: He has caprine horns to go with his general Animal Motif, and turns into an Ax-Crazy Monster Clown when he's sober.
• Half the Man He Used to Be:
  • Kanaya does this to him in GAME OVER. Vertically. This is notable in that, whether it sticks or not, it's the first time Gamzee has died in any timeline — ever. That is, if he actually did die. The event was eventually erased from the narrative by John.
  • According to Caliborn's masterpiece, it happens again during their battle with the kids. To top it all off, his soul is then ripped from one half of his body and trapped inside Lil' Cal.
• Heel–Face Brainwashing: Aranea's mind control over him, if only in the sense that it keeps him pacified and that he serves her lofty goals.
• Helpless Good Side: Unfortunately subverted. When Terezi is attacking him just before GAME OVER, he takes her attacks with a dopey smile — then Aranea's control of him vanishes and he appears to "wake up" and says: "TeReZi... wHoA. PlEaSe StOp. YoU'rE mOtHeRfUcKiN... hUrTiNg Me. :o(". Terezi drops her weapons in shock and as she's having a My God, What Have I Done? reaction, he gets an angry look in his eyes and breaks into a Nightmare Face HONK before attacking. It's not impossible that he did very briefly return to his sopored up self after being suddenly freed from mind control, but it clearly did not last or matter compared to his sober personalities being far stronger than any remaining vestige of the Gamzee of Act 5 Act 1, if that is the case.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: While he's sober and trying to help Jane, he skirts around on this line. Namely, he calmly throws the corpses of Tavros and Vriska into Jane's Sprite in order to help her out... while she screams her lungs out.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners:
  • Initially with just about everyone. When he goes crazy, it's subverted, as the only thing he wants to do with them is make finger paintings out of their blood.
  • Subverted between him and Tavros as shown in this update. Gamzee has a crush on him but Tavros did not reciprocate. Eventually turned into Yandere on Gamzee's part, as he's seen kissing Tavros's severed head while crazy. And then ultimately Double Subverted, as the power of moiraillegiance partially reintegrates his two personalities and makes him sane-ish again. But then...
• Immortality Hurts: His rascally clown status is somewhat of a double edged sword, as he can evidently still feel pain from every injury, even those that SHOULD BE MORE THAN ENOUGH to kill him. Not to mention that his inability to die essentially makes it nigh impossible for him to achieve god tier status. This doesn't stop him from wearing the outfit, though.
• Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Lampshaded by Jane when she see his "Cod Tier" outfit, which includes a polka dot, peaked, clown hat/hood and the ostentatious codpiece from Bard Quest.
• Insane Equals Violent: He is violent when sober. But, according to troll society's expectations of his blood caste, Gamzee as a murderous sociopath is actually more normal than as a blissed-out space case.
• Internal Retcon: Gamzee apparently went through Rose's tome about the events of the story and censored bits about Lord English and himself by covering them up with Equius's blood.
• Inventory Management Puzzle: He doesn't understand how it works, nor does he care to learn. He just captchalogues stuff to watch the lights. He deserves points for being the first character to use [1] for such an abstract modus.
• Irony: Unlike the rest of the trolls, his personality is the polar opposite of his zodiac sign — Capricorns are supposed to be greedy, antisocial, and ambitious while Gamzee is a Friend to All Living Things Love Freak Defector from Decadence — when drunk on sopor slime. When sober, it's straight as can be. He threw away his beliefs after becoming enraged from seeing the Miracles ICP music video, only to start acting like the murderous characters from their much darker songs.
• Joker Immunity: Every Troll has at least one dead doomed timeline version of themself. Not for Gamzee. He also apparently literally has this, as he is notoriously hard to kill because he is a "rascally clown". It takes Kanaya chainsawing him in half vertically to push Gamzee onto death's doorstep, and even then it's unclear if he actually died before the timeline was retconned.
• Kick the Dog: The list is short, but brutal: he kills Nepeta and Equius pretty much For the Evulz, ends up in a terrible, abusive kismessitude with Terezi, and then murders Karkat when he tries to stop the abuse. Perhaps surprisingly, one instance of this is subverted: he makes fun of Terezi's blindness in their hate-relationship, causing her to get her eyes healed out of bitterness. However, he's later revealed to have been under Aranea's control when he mocked her disability.
• Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Caliborn's initial treatment of Gamzee is meant to showcase just how much of a Jerkass he is, though it's undercut somewhat since Gamzee had it coming for screwing some of his friends over.
• Kneel Before Zod: His request to Equius before killing him.
• Laser-Guided Karma: He kills a troll nicknamed "centaursTesticle," then Kanaya appears, and nut shots him!
• Leitmotif: mIrAcLeS and later Blackest Heart.
  • Even just honking in general is very associated with Gamzee.
• Lethal Joke Character: He seems harmless enough, but apparently what he did to the Black King in the troll session was the single most damaging move in the battle, outweighing even Vriska's final blow. During Act 5 Act 2, his descent into insanity slowly showcased the development of him going from Joke to just plain Lethal.
• Lightning Bruiser: Master of Flash Step and capable of catching a pouncing Nepeta out of midair with one hand.
• Love Freak: His obsession with recognizing miracles within the universe makes him one, at least initially.
• Made of Iron: Getting filled with bullets doesn't kill him and, judging on the lack of any dead Gamzees in dreambubbles, he has never died in any timeline. The Narration says he's God Tier but Caliborn doesn't buy it and believes he's a fake, which is later officially confirmed that he's not, he's just ridiculously hard to kill (hinted by the fact that when other God Tier characters die they're actually dead for a few seconds before reviving, while Gamzee just doesn't die no matter what happens).
• Mad Love: For Caliborn. He gave up everything and everyone else in his life (except his blackrom with Terezi) to serve him. Caliborn greeted him by pumping his torso full of hot lead in a sincere attempt to kill him. Repeatedly. Even after Hussie got him to stop by hanging the threat of playing Elevatorstuck forever over his head, Caliborn still treats Gamzee like crap when he deigns to acknowledge his existence at all.
• Madness Mantra: honk HONK honk HOOOOOOOOOONK.
• Magical Clown: He has a clown theme, and at one point uses "chucklevoodos" to create/replicate a Creepy Doll in Dream Dave's bedroom on Derse.
• Meaningful Name: Makara is the Indian equivalent of Capricorn.
  • Makara means blessed. He is a self proclaimed Dark Messiah.
  • His Trollian account name is terminallyCapricious, where capricious means "prone to sudden mood swings." Given his sudden turn for the quite insane once he got all the sopor slime out of his system, and the fact that he terminated some of his former friends, his name seems quite appropriate.
  • Karkat gave the kids' universe cancer, but Gamzee made it terminal.
• Measuring the Marigolds: His sopored up self takes this attitude toward any kind of knowledge, from computer science to lemonade recipes.
  • He also has a captchalogue that operates via "Miracle Modus"; he has absolutely no idea how it works, and doesn't want to know.
• Messy Hair: Easily has the worst haircut of the Post-Scratch Trolls.
• Mind Rape: His innate psychic power due to his purple blood is to insert things into people's subconscious, usually in the form of hatred, which also makes said thing real in their Dream Land. He's shown to have done this twice, which instilled a fear of clowns in John (creating the Imp Doll in his tower on Prospit) and a fear of puppets in Dave (creating Cal in his tower on Derse). It's implied that with proper application of his powers, you can make a person go insane.
• Modest Royalty: He's only a smidge away from Eridan and Feferi's castes, but he doesn't act or look like it and doesn't seem to care about blood color—until he's sober. Then he cares deeply about ALL the blood colors, specifically in the sense of "what can I paint with these?"
• The Mole: Though he serves Lord English on the surface, he's also being mind-controlled by Aranea. However, given what her plan is, this isn't necessarily a good thing.
• Monster Clown: Looks the part, and collects posters of them. He also has juggling clubs, a unicycle and a load of horns. Subverted, however, due to his genial, friendly personality. But only until the sopor slime runs out. Then he may as well be the page image.
• Mood Whiplash: Suddenly appears for a second in the otherwise silly "[S] All: Behold the glory of the Warhammer of Zillyhoo" flash, appearing before Karkat just before Gamzee kills him. This was shown later to be an alternate timeline where Karkat never ran the ~ATH program that blew up his computer, which resulted in Gamzee killing everyone save Aradia, who went back in time and corrected the problem.
  • At the very end of his Motive Rant at a very confused past Dave for ruining his faith (which he will do later, as a result of this conversation) he suddenly starts flirting with him and asks if he wants to rap. "They both then proceeded to have one of the best rap-offs in the history of paradox space."
  • He unexpectedly appears after the very atmospheric and spooky Myst-esque puzzle session on Jane's planet in full God-Tier regalia that includes a codpiece and sells/gives her potions that are strongly implied to be the blood of his friends. Just when the audience has gotten used to Gamzee acting silly again, he reveals he stored Vriska and Tavros's bodies in Jane's fridge, tosses both of them into Jane's kernelsprite creating Tavrisprite, and adds a "honk" for good measure.
  • When he's under Aranea's mind-control (or at least the times we know he's under her control) he's incredibly placid, but the second he's free he completely freaks out. When he's freed during Terezi's attack, he reverted to his original personality—
    GAMZEE: TeReZi...
    GAMZEE: wHoA.
    GAMZEE: PlEaSe StOp.
    GAMZEE: YoU'rE mOtHeRfUcKiN...
    GAMZEE: hUrTiNg Me. :o(
  • —for about a second, then violently attacked her (in his defense she was stabbing him with her cane-sword and he couldn't move or even speak because Aranea "ordered" him not to; in Terezi's defense he was a horrible, horrible black-rom partner).Especially if you compare it to the time Gamzee lets Caliborn shoots several holes in him with a smile on his face while the latter gets away with it, no violent retaliation whatsoever
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Apparently the main tenet of the Subjugglator cult's theology.

  TC: I PeEpEd oN A PlAcE Of 6 tRiLlIoN HeMoS
  TC: AlL Up aT OnE RoCk, BlEeDiNg aS EqUaLs
  TC: It's eAsY To sEe iF YoU SeArCh aLl yOuR FeElInS
  TC: ThAt pEaCe hApPeNs fIrSt, AnD MuRdEr's tHe sEqUeL

  • Subjugglators make "humorous" sacrifices in anticipation of the Vast Honk, which was ultimately revealed to be Lord English.
• Mythology Gag: Gamzee isn't the first clown bard in MS Paint Adventures.
• Nice Guy: He's pretty polite and friendly in spite of how profane he is. Even after going Ax-Crazy, he still has some shades of this.
• Nightmare Face: Whether it's of the subtle, creepy variety or the kind that terrifies you with the tenacity and appearance of a Jump Scare, Gamzee can do either, to very horrifying effect.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Gamzee is a rascally alien clown/juggalo/stoner/serial killer and worshipper of mirthful messiahs.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Is on the receiving end of one by Terezi and her cane. Shortly after he's freed from Aranea's control, he flies into a rage and delivered one to Terezi. Rose even yells at him to stop, and Jake (who only just came back from having died and has no idea what's going on) observes that whatever she's done, she surely doesn't need to be beaten up that badly.
• No Kill like Overkill: Gamzee has failed to die in any timeline. He constantly survives getting pumped full of lead by Caliborn back on alpha Earth, and in the A2 session survives multiple cane stabs courtesy of Terezi, afterwards remaining strong enough to completely trash her and easily kill Karkat when he attempts to save Terezi, all while dancing on the brink of a lava pool. Kanaya responds to all of this by slicing him in half a la Eridan (but vertically this time around.) It was never confirmed as to if this actually killed him, or if he barely clung to life before the timeline reset. Also, all of GAME OVER is retconned, he gets sliced this way again in Caliborn's fight with the kids and promptly has at least half of his soul sealed in Lil' Cal along with Caliborn and ARquiusprite's.
• No Medication for Me: It may be improper for a troll to eat sopor slime pie, but Gamzee eventually rejects consuming sopor again altogether after he found a revelation after being off of it for a while, calling it a poison to his brain.
• Noodle Incident: How he got ahold of Aradia's time-travel music boxes is hand-waved as "shenanigans."
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: He was generally nonviolent during the session (and, incidentally, was nowhere near the status of a villain), but realized his potential at the end of Sburb's Final Boss, and moreso after going insane.
• Offscreen Teleportation: Although less "teleportation" and more "being already there." Because of all the Weird Time Shit, there are at least four instances of him running around Universe B2 simultaneously, as well as the instances on the cherub session's Earth and on the trolls' meteor.
• Oh, Crap!: He gives off this expression from Lil' Cal, just to show the reader how scary Lil' Cal is. Note that Gamzee has never shown fear on screen before up until that point.
• Out of Focus: Post-Retcon Gamzee is so inconsequential to the plot that he never actually says a proper sentence and is only acknowledges as a glorified plot device.
• Omnicidal Maniac: While insane, he goes on a murderous rampage with the seeming intention of killing everyone he can his hands on. It's an unfortunate aspect of being descended from Subjuggulators.
• Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: He's bleeding more than any other character after Caliborn fills him with holes.
• Parental Abandonment: Gamzee's lusus was never around to teach Gamzee anything.
• Pet the Dog: He raised both Calliope and Caliborn well (to the best of his ability, anyway), is genuinely shocked by Fefeta's death and cries when ARquius is created, which would imply that he cared about resurrecting his dead friends.
• Phrase Catcher:
  • "Fuck that guy", from Kanaya, Erisolsprite, and Dave.
  • "You can't keep down the clown" and "Down with the clown", to a lesser extent.
• Plucky Comic Relief: Before graduating to full-fledged, albeit insane, cast member.
• Power Copying: He steals Aradia's Magic Feather time crystals and gains the ability to travel in time, too, just in time to visit Jane. Credit to him being the first person to actually think to do that.
• Power Limiter: The sopor slime that Gamzee was shoving down his gullet possibly kept his murderous impulses at bay. "Possibly" since there's extensive debate over whether it was actually the lack of sopor slime that set him off or any of a number of other contributing factors. It is likely that his chucklevoodoo abilities were suppressed by the slime, at any rate.
• The Power of Friendship: How Karkat cured his ax craziness.
• The Power of Hate: He is the Bard of Rage.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: His response to seeing Insane Clown Posse's music video for their song "Miracles".
  This. Is. Motherfuckin'. BlAsPhEmY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Is given one by Terezi about how much she loathes him and his disgusting faith as well as insulting him for being in league with Aranea, while beating him up. Sadly, she completely fails to understand that he isn't in control of himself, and that Aranea is using him as a puppet.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: He serves as a Blue Oni to Karkat and Caliborn's Red Oni.
• Reflective Eyes: Shown here fondly regarding Jadesprite's prototyping off the computer screen.
• Scars Are Forever: When he shows up on Jane's planet, he still has the scars from Nepeta's claws despite an unknown amount of time passing. In fact, he carries them to the end of the comic.
• Serial Killer: When sober.
• Shipper on Deck: Appears to ship Karkat/Terezi here.
• Shout-Out:
  • He's become a murderous Monster Clown who caused one of his victims to die with a smile on his face, wears smeared makeup all over his now scarred face, has a predominantly purple wardrobe, and is obsessed with a constantly scowling emotional cripple. Sound familiar?
  • After taking a graceful swan-dive off the deep-end, he describes his former "mental instability" and sums up his new-found "lucidity" to Karkat thusly:
    TC: RUSTS YOUR MOTHERFUCKIN THINK PAN.
    TC: and the floor all stares up back at you through the motherfuckin hole.
    TC: BUT THERE IS NO HOLE NOW.
  • Most of his personality after becoming sober is from the more darker ICP character songs. Specifically, his tendency to collect heads is from one of their better songs Bowling Balls, while his inflicting Death by Irony comes from most of their Dark Carnival songs about Karmic Death.
• Signature Sound Effect: honk. HONK. Honking is immediately associated with Gamzee both in- and out-of-universe.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Gamzee curses more frequently than any other character in Homestuck with the exception of Mituna, who speaks less than three hundred words anyway. "Motherfuckin'" is the word he uses the most, as seen from this codpiece-friendly wordcloud.
• Slasher Smile: With his Face–Heel Turn, his partially-shown grinning smile here qualifies. Let's just say that Gamzee has completely mastered the art of the Slasher Smile.
• Snake Oil Salesman: While peddling his "potions" to Jane.
• Split Personality: A common explanation in fandom for Gamzee's post-Freak Out behavior. On the one hand, his writing style and proclamation of being both of the Mirthful Messiahs lends this interpretation credence; on the other, it's never been explicitly confirmed canonically (although much about him hasn't been anyhow), and he doesn't show any other real examples of dissociative thinking.
• Split-Personality Merge: In line with the above example, this is commonly believed to be what happened when he was calmed down by Karkat, though it's later shown to not be true; he's calmed down, but still evil, and still has his two opposite "personalities" (if that's what they are) separate.
• The Stoner: All the potions he sells/gives to Jane are 420 Boonbucks, and that update came out around 4/20/2012.
• Stoners Are Funny: Generally, through his ramblings and moments where he spaces out.
• Suddenly Shouting: His trademark speech quirk when sober. The other characters even complain about it.
• Superpowered Evil Side: Subverted in that the "evil side" may very well be his true self which was only suppressed by the ingestion of sopor slime. However, it also isn't certain how crazy he'd be if it wasn't for the influence of Lil' Hal/Lord English. Either way, without sopor slime, nothing stops him from violence and cruelty.
• Teeth Flying: Terezi kicks him in the face and knocks out a tooth on LOFAF.
• Theme Naming: Gamzee's Zodiac sign is Capricorn.
• Token Evil Teammate: Slaughtered several of his friends, mutilated the corpses of others, and, even after all that, worked against them with his eviller ancestor and the god he worships.
• Totally Radical: More than half of the things he says. The rest is primarily the words "motherfucker" and "miracles".
• Trademark Favorite Food: Faygo, like many Juggalos.
• Tuckerization: Inadvertently. Gamzee was named after a Turkish fan who had been roleplaying as him on Formspring. Her friends repeatedly suggested her name as a joke and added an e ^note  Her name being only five letters long as Gamze. Other suggestions included Gamzel, and Andrew assumed that it was a Meaningful Name and used it. That's right, the terrifying unstoppable killer's name means "Dimple". That does however make Gamzee the only troll with a an actual real world name.
• The Trickster: An apparently evil one. He's capricious, temperamental, and much cleverer than he seems.
• The Unreveal: Fans demanded to know Gamzee and Eridan's titles in Sgrub. When Gamzee's came up in his conversation with Dave, he'd actually forgotten half of it. The title remained this way until it was stated by Karkat to be the Bard of Rage.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: He was probably the most idealistic and friendly guy in the troll session (outdone only by Feferi), even to the point where a number of Imps refused to attack him. This changed when Dave showed him the "Miracles" video, inadvertently making a mockery of his religion, which assisted in turning him into a homicidal wreck who hunted his old friends for no rational reason. Even if he resembles his old self more after the Scratch, his actions show that he's not the same person he once was.
• Unstoppable Rage: Presumably his power as Bard of Rage.
• Verbal Tic: hOnK hOnK mOtHeRfUcKeR :o)
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Calls Karkat his best friend. In return, Karkat loathes him like hell. Only not really. This proves to be all for nothing as Gamzee murders Karkat in GAME OVER, and Karkat in the post-retcon timeline doesn't shooshpap Gamzee and loathes him along with the rest of the Meteor crew.
• Voice of the Legion: HiS uSuAl WaY oF tAlKiNg/TyPiNg sorts itself into SMALLCASE OR ALLCAPS EVERY OTHER line, which gamzee claims is his two alternate personalities. Oh, and they're both evil.
• Wall of Weapons: Jokerkind consists of stacks upon stacks of weapon cards, including ones that belong to The Bunny and members of The Felt.
• Walking Spoiler: Explaining why he's the most important character (or at least a very important one) in Homestuck will lead to spoiler after spoiler, let alone explaining his behavior during sobriety.
• Western Zodiac: Capricorn.
• Wham Line: "shut up."
  • To a lesser extent, "honk". Considering his previous claim that typing in all lowercase feels unnatural, seeing that one word in the picture before even looking at that troll log itself instantly indicates that something is wrong.
  • Later in the act:
    TC: i focused on [my dark ancestral chucklevoodoos through] the rage you made me have
    TC: AND I WENT AND MADE YOUR UNIVERSE...
    TC: terminal. Bo)
• Wild Card: Typical of the Bard class, apparently, who UU says "are typically known for their spontaneoUs and dramatic story-altering inflUence on the fate of a party" and are sometimes known for being "single handedly responsible for their spectacUlar downfall or improbable victory. or both!" Gamzee was partially responsible for their success against the Black King, but also perhaps the biggest factor in why the Meteor crew became fragmented and GAME OVER even happening. UU concludes that the post-Scratch kids are probably fortunate for not having a Bard in their party.
  • And then he inexplicably appears as a God Tier on LOCAH waiting for Jane. On the other hand, he seemed to have Aradia's timetables on hand, so he probably jumped to the past after the meteor arrived.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He's directly responsible for the creation of Lil Cal and was used by Doc Scratch and Lord English to help destroy the Human Universe.
  • He's also been manipulated by Aranea for quite some time, and only has a vague idea of what he's doing.
• Worf Effect: Deals this to both Nepeta and Equius, dispatching both with ease despite them being established as credible fighters. Is on the receiving end from Terezi and Vriska post-retcon, being subdued and treated as a disposable pawn by both respectively.
• Would Hit a Girl: Attacks Terezi after being released from Aranea's control after she's been stabbing him for a while (the glitched-up screen covers up the violence, but somehow makes it more disturbing). It's implied that he hit her when they were blackrom partners:
  TEREZI: WH4T, NOW OF 4LL T1M3S YOU C4NT BR1NG YOURS3LF TO R41S3 4 H4ND TO M3?

Eridan

♒ Eridan Ampora ♒

Zealous

Paradox Space Appearances: "Headed for Stardom" | "Critical Miss" | "Hospitality" | "Secret Sufferer" | "Relation Shipping" | "Summerteen Romance"

You have an overpowering GENOCIDE COMPLEX, and have made it your sworn duty to KILL ALL LAND DWELLERS. You have amassed resources and deadly weaponry from around the world for this ambition through many sweeps of EXTREME ROLE PLAYING, while pursuing a working DOOMSDAY DEVICE which will bring armageddon to all those on the surface. Haven't had much luck with that, but maybe tonight's your night.

A noble of the troll Nautical Aristocracy with a borderline-genocidal distaste for land dwellers which he's perfectly willing to overlook should it serve his purposes.

In Sburb, he is the Prince of Hope. His trolltag is "caligulasAquarium".

He has allocated his STRIFE SPECIBUS with the RIFLEKIND ABSTRATUS.

types wwith no capitalization or punctuation doubles the letters "V" and "W" so that they look like wwavves

often drops the "G" from wwords endin in "-ing" and likes to shorten his friends names dowwn to the first syllable

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• Amicable Exes:
  • Downplayed, but present with Vriska, as while their interactions prove to be awkward, they manage to have fairly normal conversation, with Vriska's teasing and Eridan's need to boast not withstanding. Furthermore, Pre Retcon Vriska later admits that she would have liked his company on the pirate adventure, and Post Retcon Vriska doesn't hold his decision to betray everyone as anything other than a mistake.
  • He shares with with Feferi as well, as even after they break up, she still continues to think of him as a good friend up until his betrayal. Eridan, for his part, is shown to respect her and states that he still cares greatly for her even if she doesn't reciprocate his feelings which he is okay with.
• Anime Hair: A mop of a hairdo with a purple skunk stripe.
• Attention Whore:
  • It is implied by Feferi that Eridan's talk of doomsdays are really nothing but talk to get attention. Considering he frequently commissions Vriska to give him machines that don't work, she may have been right.
  • Eridan himself is frequently noted by the other trolls as to try to get attention from them as noted by Feferi, Karkat and Kanaya, most frequently by repeatedly pestering them.
• Asshole Victim: While Eridan does have his sympathetic points, it's hard to say that Kanaya killing him was unjustified.^note Killing two of his closest friends when they try to stop him from betraying everyone and dooming the troll race by destroying the Matriorb.
• Ax-Crazy:
  • He made it a point to kill his session's allied constructs despite the fact that they didn't give any grist.
  • When all hope is lost, he ultimately decided to turn on his friends with the intent of stopping them from dying. Given Feferi and Sollux's objections, Eridan decides to fight them. Then, Kanaya gets in the way and is promptly defeated. His killing spree is entirely out of paranoia and has nothing to do with actual allegiance to Jack Noir, the person who he was trying to make a possible deal with in order to save them all. Of course, Eridan's plan fails.
• Back from the Dead: Prototyped with, of all people, Sollux to form Jake's sprite, Erisolsprite.
• Badass Cape: Which he wears at all times and think of him as you will, but he did manage to take on a land full of virtually-unkillable Angels on his own. He also manages to take out Sollux, Feferi, and Kanaya in a matter of seconds. Even though it is in no way justified, you have to admit, it was rather impressive. Oh, and his first appearance has him taking out a whale using his AHAB'S CROSSHAIRS without breaking a sweat.
• Bait the Dog: Originally presented as a Harmless Villain or Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, Eridan's grandiose ambitions were easily thwarted and made fun of, like everyone thinking he's a tool. He has sympathetic moments, like when his relationships fail, and when his insecurities show. "Kanaya: Return to the Core" emphasizes this, with him being quite pitiful, showing the problems in his planet were caused by himself, and showing that in-spite of everything, he still considers Kanaya to be a good friend and wants to help her, even using animations to show him at his most awkward, ready to cry, lip quivering, etc. Then he has his Freak Out.
• Because Destiny Says So: Why he wanted to kill all landdwellers; he thought that it was the "destiny" Dualscar passed on to him the moment he found AHAB'S CROSSHAIRS. Later on, this trope is subverted: after staying on LOWAA for an amount of time and interacting with the angels, he abandons this destiny, claiming that it was useless and that he never got any recognition for it anyway.
• Biting the Handkerchief: Bites his scarf when he realizes that his caliginous feelings for Sollux are pathetically obvious.
• Black Magic: Inverted in name as "White Science" due to Eridan's insistence that belief in magic is for wrigglers, but otherwise played completely straight. Kanaya claimed to have trained him in White Sorcery to rival Rose. Or at least, she made him a light-based magic wand to shut him up. However, Light & Dark symbolism is inverted for trolls, and his "Empiricist's Wand" is entirely used to destructive ends.
• Blatant Lies: In one of his memos, Karkat accuses Eridan of still trying to kill the angels. Eridan denies it, while his AHAB'S CROSSHAIRS are in his hands.
  • He claims to not be into magic multiple times, but given his various piles of shitty wands, his claim of being a "wizard of white science" and him literally using a wand before his betrayal, it's pretty clear he's a fan.
• Blood from the Mouth: When cut, and dead.
• Blue Blood: His violet blood is the second-highest on the hemospectrum, as a matter of fact.
• Break the Haughty: He tries so hard, thinking he is the best, leading him to get rejected by every female everyone he tries to hit on. Then he gets a White Wand, KO's Sollux in a possible duel to the death, and blasts Feferi to death through the chest. And that's just for starters...
• Butt-Monkey: Poor Eridan just can't seem to catch a break. He's a giant bundle of insecurities under the regal pretensions, and getting pre-emptively rejected by Feferi only to develop blackrom feelings for the guy she chose over him didn't help.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Averted when he reveals his flushed feelings for Feferi early on. They've both been carefully considering their feelings for a long time, and independently resolve that for good or ill, this night is the night upon which they each pour out their heart to the other. Unfortunately for Eridan, Feferi is emotionally burnt out from keeping him in check and staving off his constant attempts at genocide upon the lower social classes, and wants to downgrade the relationship from moirallegiance to platonic friendship.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: He is the Prince of Hope.
• Clarke's Third Law: Despite his own aspirations to be a wizard, he's convinced at this point that magic is not real, and that anything that appears to be magic is just highly advanced technology. Even after Kanaya makes him a science wand, he simply proclaims himself to be a "mighty wwizard of wwhite science"
• Cluster F-Bomb: He swears quite a lot, though not as much as Gamzee.
• Les Collaborateurs: Somewhat subverted in a sense, he doesn't seek to join Jack out of a desire to get revenge on his fellow Trolls, but rather thinks that it's the only way to survive.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Resembles a "lame gothy supervillian" which Dave jokingly aspires to be.
  • His rifle was first seen with the Uber Bunny.
• Darkest Hour: His killing spree is part of a series of catalysts for his character's darkest hour.
• Death by Irony: Eridan blasted a hole in Kanaya's stomach, resulting in her demise. When she becomes a rainbow drinker and returns to battle, she chainsaws Eridan in half. She also wears a sash consisting of a cape he dropped earlier when fighting Sollux which covers the hole Eridan made in her stomach.
• Death World: Turns his world (Land of Wrath and Angels) into this by killing the titular angels, enraging them to the point the rest of the trolls were too scared to even consider going on it. This is a race of people who thrive on a complete Crapsack World, and they were scared shitless of his world.
• Despair Event Horizon: As the Prince of Hope, he believes he knows when there isn't any, and now? Well, the trolls have no chance whatsoever—their only option, as he sees it, is to join Noir and pray he doesn't kill them. It's reached the point where he dooms his own race to extinction, just to prove there's no hope left. It is later revealed that the "Prince of Hope" title can literally mean "the DESTROYER of Hope" meaning he was meant to cause this all along.
• Deus Angst Machina: In essence what happens to him over the course of Sgrub. On any other day his quest would have been his perfect power fantasy; an enemy to destroy utterly, angels of death at his command, and a world of temples dedicated to his ego. However, breaking up with Feferi makes him miss this, driving him to reprehensible behavior that isolates him and eventually leads to madness.
• Diabolical Mastermind: He aspires to be one, at least. He's plotted to wipe out all the land dwellers and Feferi feels a need to keep an eye on him and his "nefarious schemes."
  • He also modelled himself after famous trolls in history, particularly the diabolical ones.
• Dirty Coward: Sometime after being on the meteor, Eridan decides that everyone is going to be killed by Jack and the best thing to do would be to team up with him. Which, wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that he plans to wants Feferi(and ONLY her despite his two only other friends being not far from him) due to his Fantastic Racism being in full effect and feeling that only the two of them should survive the ensuing onslaught. Both Feferi and Sollux call him out on this and try to stop him.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: When Feferi breaks up with him.
  CC: I can't look after you anymore.
  CA: I DIDNT EVER NEED ANYONE TO LOOK AFTER ME
  CA: i was totally fuckin fine my ambitions were noble
  CA: and really none of your fuckin business QUITE FRANKLY your majesty
• Dogged Nice Guy: Overall, Eridan zigzags this trope. He tried to be this for Feferi during their time as a moiraillegiance, and in regards to most of his friends he actually was this prior to his Freak Out. When push comes to shove, he is more often a Nice Guy than not. However, he also was initially antagonistic towards land-dwellers. His paranoia became more rampant, which led to him thinking there was no hope left in his session. Nevertheless, he shows remorse after everything is said and done.
• Duel to the Death:
  • Challenged Sollux to one offscreen earlier. It didn't wind up going anywhere.
  • Later challenged BY Sollux to one after learning about his plan to ditch everyone and team up with Jack.
  • Before Kanaya interrupted it, he was about to engage in a duel with both Gamzee and Vriska. The "to the death" part was implied, given Gamzee and Vriska were also going to duel to the death for their own survival and because they were also Ax-Crazy.
• Ear Fins: All of the seadwellers have fins where human ears would be.
• Easily Forgiven: Zigzagged. Terezi cites that Eridan's actions were especially heinous and therefore should not be given a chance at rebirth (opting instead for Feferi and Nepeta to be sprites due to both being victims). Vriska acknowledges that it was wrong, but also chalks it up to a mistake, as she had similarly killed someone and was saved from death due to timely intervention. It's implied to be played straight with Feferi, who seemingly forgives him both as Fefetasprite and in the Post-Retcon timeline.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Played for Drama. He believes that Bec Noir would spare him if he asks to go by his side, which as the viewer knows by now is far from true. He also believes that having Feferi join him so they can rule together is genuinely good for her. He's quickly called out on both points.
• Ermine Cape Effect: Wears rings and a cape, but that's about the extent of his royal attire. Even without them, though, his outfit is less simple than most trolls.
• Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Wears a lot of rings^note Given that said rings have fuchsia stones, they may signify his moiraillegiance with Feferi.
• Everyone Has Standards: "Critical Miss" gives him some when doing his seafaring game with Vriska, as he openly disapproves of his "slaves" (actually trolls that he convinced to lazily play along) being fed to her lusus due to them being good sports about the whole thing. Which is more consideration than Vriska, or any highblood troll really, would give them.
• Expospeak Gag:

  CA: wwhatEVVER you are so the vvillage twwo wwheel devvice wwhen it comes to auspisticing

• Famous Ancestor: Orphaner Dualscar.
• Fantastic Racism: He wants to kill all land-dwellers, except some of his friends. But at this point it's probably safe to say that he absolutely sucks at being a racist. He only ever says he wants to kill all land dwellers, but he never actually goes through with it and given that he knows that Vriska's superweapon wouldn't work and doesn't care, it's probably safe to say that it's all just a charade even if he did want to do it at some point. And beside that he is genuinely friendly with Kanaya, Karkat and Gamzee and is as genuinely taken back at Sollux's death. Up until he decides to kill them himself.
  • His fish-themed moirail points out that he's practically a land-dweller himself; he's barely even spent a full day under water in his whole life.
  • Although, given the fact that he only tries to take Feferi and no one else when he believed there was only one way to survive, there may be some genuine belief there, but it was undeniably pushed up to the surface thanks to his paranoia and loss of hope.
• Fish People:
  CA: ok please lets just not get into the wwhole fuckin fish pun thing again ok
  CA: like wwe get it wwe are nautically themed
• Flat-Earth Atheist: What with all the time travel, psychic powers and general weirdness flying around, you'd really think Eridan would have changed his mind on magic and its nonexistence.
• Freudian Excuse: Implied. Eridan's reaction when picking up some litter that washed onto his island implied that part of his actual grievance against land dwelling trolls is that they pollute the ocean without regard. That said, the story never puts his future actions as being in the right.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: While never exactly the most popular troll, Eridan's frequent flirting with the trolls in his session caused many to avoid him and be creeped out, irritated or just tired with his advances. General opinions dip even lower once he betrays them in his paranoia and desperation.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Eridan goes from this◊ to this◊ in SEVEN PAGES.
• Growing Up Sucks: A complaint he has at the end of his conversation with Kanaya.
  CA: kan its hard
  GA: What
  CA: being a kid and growwing up
  CA: its hard and nobody understands
• Green-Eyed Monster: Like his ancestor before him, his jealousy ends being his downfall.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: He gets cut in half by Kanaya's chainsaw, Darth Maul style. It's about as gruesome as it sounds.
• Harpoon Gun: Nothing less than Ahab's Crosshairs, which were seen earlier with the robot bunny. A miniaturized version, anyway. It's used as a sort of Lightning Gun/Ray Gun however.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: A particularly unexpected Face–Heel Turn happened with very little foreshadowing in Act 5. With Eridan's death, his story arc had not been immediately resolved. He was made into Erisolsprite with Sollux, which gave him a second chance. As Erisolsprite, he's displayed himself to be genuinely remorseful, and it's implied that even Feferi's half of Fefetasprite forgives him. His final appearance in the comic shows he was forgiven by Feferi and accepted into Sollux and Aradia's group, placing him on the side of good again.
• Heel Realization: As a result of becoming Erisolsprite he realized how harmful his actions were during his Freak Out and made a genuine attempt to apologize to Fefetasprite for the harm he caused Feferi.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Pretty Downplayed, but present. Eridan is often vindictive and dismissive of his fellow trolls, but his interactions with Karkat, Kanaya and Feferi (To a lesser degree Vriska and Gamzee) all show that he's not as tough as he likes to put on. Most tellingly, he's a lot more forthcoming with the former two than he is with the latter. Additionally, when Sollux first dies, Eridan's very taken back by it despite him 1: Not evidently having any connection with him beforehand. 2: Being one of the many lowblood land dwellers he swore genocide against.
• High Collar of Doom: It's even built into his cape!
• Hopeless Suitor: In every quadrant, though he pines mostly for black romance.
• Horrible Judge of Character: The thought that Jack Noir- who had killed or tried to kill everyone he came across- would spare him if Eridan offered him allegiance is unlikely at best.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Eridan is noted to flirt with at least ten different people (spanning all four quadrants no less). And he keeps getting rejected.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: As Feferi points out, none of his plots to kill the land dwellers ever succeed, and every doomsday device he gets his hand on is a piece of junk.
• Insistent Terminology: Magic isn't real. He practices science.
• Irony: Despite being the most vocal about the hemospectrum of all the twelve trolls and the one most likely to fall into Fantastic Racism one of Eridan's closest friends is a land dweller who's not even on the hemospectrum to begin with. As Feferi herself points out: Despite Eridan's proclaimed hatred for land dwellers, he spends far more time on land then in the sea, his rebuttal for this isn't very convincing.
• Jerkass: Eridan can be rather rude, abrasive, self centered, and ignorant to his fellow trolls.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Eridan may be a tool, but he's completely right when it comes to presenting your intentions properly when it comes to one's love interest. Him and Kanaya not explicitly doing this results in their heartbreak when things don't work out because of their inability to do so earlier.
• Kick the Dog: His destruction of the Matriorb, a defenseless, harmless object that the survival of the troll race depended on. Unlike some of his other actions, which could be seen as self-preservation or acting in the heat of the moment, this action was deliberate, calculated, and something he stood no personal gain from.
• Knight of Cerebus: Killing off two of his fellow trolls — and two of the most unambiguously good trolls, to boot — sent Eridan firmly into Knight of Cerebus territory. Especially because it's when the trolls hit their Darkest Hour.
• Knight Templar: His ulterior motives all hinge around the concept of hope, and he was planning on joining Jack because his friends would otherwise be doomed. But he takes this way too far. He decides that hope is his to do with as he wishes. As such, he destroys the Matriorb, the troll race's only hope of further propagation.
• Lady and Knight: Was Feferi's knight before they broke up.
• Large Ham: He deliberately attempts to craft an image for himself as a legendary conquerer through exaggerated emotional theatrics. But it backfires; people just think he's a tool.
• LARP: He plays FLARP through his character Orphaner Dualscar.
• Leitmotif: Eridan's Theme (Now with lyrics from General Ivan.)
• Lethal Joke Character: Becomes this, in-universe. His romantic failures and social buffoonery were meant to mask much of his true dangerousness. Confirmed by Word of God to be what was intended.
• Light Is Not Good: Wielding white science to heroine Rose's black magic. Don't forget, light/dark symbolism is reversed for trolls.
• Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places:
  • Eridan just can't win on any quadrant. Feferi didn't really reciprocate his feelings, Vriska just got bored of their rivalry, his attempts to start a new rivalry with Sollux are painfully obvious and fall flat, Rose responded to his clumsy flirtation by blowing up his computer, and Jade flatly only tolerated him long enough for him to leave her alone.
  • Oh, and Terezi doesn't want to auspistice between him and Sollux, Karkat wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole, Equius is made uncomfortable by his advances (though in which quadrant, it's not specified), Sollux is uninterested and dismissive of his black flirtations and his own client player Nepeta spectacularly failed to fall in love with him for saving her life in the same way Feferi did with Sollux.
• Love Hurts: Jerk that he is, it's hard not to feel bad for him when Feferi breaks up with him.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Eridanos was the name of a river in ancient Athens which symbolizes Aquarius, while Ampora is likely from amphora, a vessel used for carrying, among other things, water, in Ancient Grome.
  • If you shorten it, it becomes Eri' 'pora.
  • His FLARP character, Orphaner Dualscar, kills custodians to feed Feferi's lusus.
  • His title of "Prince of Hope" was for the longest time considered ironic due to this eventual actions, until UU revealed that the "Prince of x" is "one who destroys x, or caUses destrUction throUgh x". In other words, Eridan is literally the Destroyer of Hope.
  • The first part of his chumhandle ties not only into his role as The Caligula but also according to Word of God to his dark romantic obsessions via the caliginous quadrant.
• Named Weapons: His favorite weapon is a handheld Wave-Motion Gun called Ahab's Crosshairs.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: His planet. Anybody up for a trip to the Land of Wrath and Angels?
• Nerd Glasses: Eridan's glasses serve to make him look like a stereotypical Hipster.
• Never My Fault: Zigzagged. Eridan has a problem of immediately blaming his problems on anything but himself, but he does admit his shortcomings every so often in a self-deprecating way either due to some push from the other trolls or just naturally admits it.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He killed the local game constructs of his world, and then kept doing so, enraging them and turning it into a Death World that the other trolls were afraid to even set foot on.
• Nietzsche Wannabe: He tells Feferi that, as the Prince of Hope, he is most qualified to tell them when there is not hope left for them, which leads to him attempting to try to join Jack.
• The Nicknamer: While talking to the trolls he addresses them by the first syllable of their names (Fef for Feferi, Kar for Karkat, Ter for Terezi and so on).
• Non-Standard Character Design: Eridan is the only troll to have color in his hair.
• Not Good with Rejection: His reaction to Feferi breaking it off is just the start of his downward spiral.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: Initially, he's portrayed as a harmless comic-relief butt-monkey villain whose plans aren't really serious. Then snaps and murders or seriously injures a third of the Troll cast within the space of a few pages.
• Odd Friendship: Kanaya, being one of the most sensible and patient characters, is regularly shown to be good friends with Eridan, who is one of the most impatient and willfully ignorant characters. She puts up with his antics while taking a few jabs while he often respects her input (as much as someone like Eridan can) and explicitly reassures her his plans don't involve her being killed whenever he talks about his otherwise genocidal plans.
• Ominous Opera Cape: Wears one constantly until he decides to get serious.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Intentionally. When he's about to reveal his feelings for Feferi to her, he stops typing in his "wweird accent" to show that he's serious.
• Paper Tiger: Played straight but eventually subverted. He likes to talk a big game, but is shown to be not committed in any of the threats or prejudiced comments he makes, and is frequently commented to be kind of pathetic and is not viewed as a threat by anyone. While he does challenge Sollux, it's viewed dismissively and it's implied that he lost their first match. It's not until his defection and defeat of Sollux in their second duel that he shakes of this trope.
• Perpetual Frowner: He has a constant scowl on his face that never lets up. He has only ever smiled once in the main comic, and that was in a jokey Freeze-Frame Bonus in Collide.
• Pet the Dog: After finding out that he's a genocidal, serial-killer of trolls and their lusii (to feed Vriska & Feferi's lusii) in his introduction, you find out that he knows exactly how to kill off all the land dwellers. But he won't do it because it would make Feferi upset.
  • It's also implied that the reason that he was the one killing the lusii instead of Feferi was because doing so would also make her upset.
  • Although it's undercut by his actions moments later, he does take a moment to openly and sincerely thank Kanaya for helping him out even if she had simply made the wand and left him to his own devices afterwards.
  • As Erisolsprite, when forced into meeting Fefetasprite, he does his best to genuinely apologize for killing half of her. It doesn't work out perfectly due to the situation, but she accepts his apology regardless.
• Pirate: Used to play Flarp as a seagrift, and was on-and-off an ally with Vriska.
• Pretend Prejudice: Played With to hell and back. On one hand: Eridan does throw around insults revolving around troll's blood color and status as land dwellers, even wanting to get his hands on a doomsday for the express purpose of wiping them out. On the other hand: Two of his closest friends are said land dwellers (even when everyone knows Karkat's not on the hemospectrum, this doesn't affect their relationship), he's not very motivated on getting a doomsday device as much as he is meeting up with Vriska for it, and he's clearly distraught when Sollux dies. So it's pretty evident that beneath that he's more cherrypicking things rather than having a genuine belief in it. This eventually gets subverted however. After his paranoia and hopelessness reach an all time high, he decides it's best to take Feferi and only Feferi and form an alliance with Jack as he feels they should be the two to escape due to their blood color.
• Purple Is the New Black: He wears fancy royal-purple clothes, and in regards to the trope's second meaning as a signifier of an ineffectual villain it's pointed out that all his plans to kill land-dwellers never work, he spends more time on land (or at least above the sea) than in the ocean, and doesn't even have enough rage to hate the soda that littered his beloved shore.
• Royal Blood: Kickass royal blood, as he calls it. It's penultimate on the hemospectrum, second in their group only to Feferi's.
• Royal Brat: Easily the least reasonable Troll to deal with. Most of the other Trolls can't stand him because of this.
• Sanity Slippage: While never the most sane troll, he could be decent to others and at times even reasonable. Once he gives up hope, he demonstrates ruthlessness and violence that he never demonstrated before.
• Scarf of Asskicking: Wears one.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: His glasses are covered by shadow just after his fight with Sollux, contrasting with their nerdier appearance earlier.
• Self-Defeating Prophecy: Tries to join Jack Noir because, as he sees it, there's nothing left worth fighting for... and a few pages later, he's killed Feferi and destroyed the Matriorb- the trolls' last hope for recreating their species.
• Shout-Out: Couldn't you already tell from the glasses, the scarf, or the lightning bolt-shaped horns and mark on his head? Oh, and he likes magic.
  • Also, when you first see him for real, he's Hunting a White Whale. With a gun named Ahab's Crosshairs.
  • Could be a coincidence, but he is an egomaniac who wears purple and models himself after historical conquerors, who causes a huge, squidlike monster to give off a psychic shockwave that kills millions of people. His good intentions drive the comparison home, too.
  • He's also a renaissance man who is trying to get his ex-girlfriend back from a nerdy loser. Heck, one flash even had the two fighting in Scott Pilgrim style sprites.
  • He's a white wizard who loses hope in the fight against a seemingly-unstoppable opponent and decides to switch sides.
• Small Name, Big Ego: While he's highly ranked in the hemospectrum, this seems to have colored everything about him. His Royal Blood means he knows best about everything, whether or not he actually has any clue whatsoever. For example, killing some of his planet's local game constructs until they were so fed up they were attacking him and any other troll who visited, despite them not dropping any grist. When Karkat calls him on that specific bit of idiocy, he agrees it was silly of him... then two sentences later he seems to have forgotten that lesson, and is talking about how hard it was to kill them and how he can't believe no one came to help him.
• Slow Laser: Best description of the energy blasts used to kill Feferi, the Matriorb, and Kanaya.
• Teens Are Monsters: At age thirteen he has (so far) killed countless troll lusii, the "angels" from his planet (most likely peaceful game constructs), two close friends, and an egg housing what would have helped repopulate the troll race. He could be the page image, alongside Vriska.
• Theme Naming: Eridan's Zodiac sign is Aquarius.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Made a personal decision to this effect by the opening of Return to Core. By then, Eridan has utterly given up on everything except survival and is perfectly willing to murder all trollkind if doing so would get him out of his current situation.
• The Millstone: His actions in the Medium were....less than helpful, despite his intentions. Slaughtering the angels on his planet which only served to make said planet inhospitable for visitors, flirting with most of the other trolls which even Equius was put off by, antagonizing Sollux in hopes of messing up Sollux and Feferi's relationship, generally trying to keep Alternia's toxic social ideas alive while everyone else was moving on....then he goes and murders/maims his friends and destroys the matriorb.
• Too Dumb to Live: Eridan often makes assumptions or plans that aren't very thought out and fueled by his stubbornness and pride, and as such they tend to backfire on him spectacularly:
  • The assumption that his NPCs were actually enemies ended up aggravating all of them on his planet and effectively scaring off any chance of a troll visiting him after they passed through his gate. And then continued to attack them even AFTER it was made plain and simple that they were supposed to guide him.
  • His plan to join Jack just screams this, as Jack is an Omnicidal Maniac with no shown intentions other than to violently murder any person he comes across, for Eridan to think that Jack would spare him (or even form an alliance) was unrealistic and doomed to fail. Even when both Feferi and Sollux point out his plan is insane, he sticks with it while not giving any real reason as to why it would work.
• The Social Darwinist: A mix of types 2 and 4. He mostly uses the caste system as an excuse to be a jerk, but his attempt to bring Feferi (and no one else) with him when he defects implies that he really does believe in highblood superiority (at least when he's lost in his own paranoia and hopelessness).
• Trigger-Happy: Enough to keep killing some of his planet's local unkillable game constructs.
• Undignified Death: He dies terrified of a very pissed off Kanaya in a darkly humorous way.
• Unsound Effect: His corpse gives off the word DEAD. As did Feferi's and Kanaya's. Sollux and the Matriorb come with unsounds of their own, too (all by Eridan's hand).
• Verbal Tic: Not as pronounced as Feferi, but, being an aquatic troll, he occasionally uses "glub", too.
• Warrior Prince: Not that this is especially unusual on Alternia, where everyone from the royalty down is raised to fight.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Kanaya and Karkat after his betrayal, two of the people who were his closest friends, the former goes on to kill him and the latter gives him a rant proclaiming his actual hate and disgust for the troll.
• Western Zodiac: Aquarius.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: An easter egg in Homestuck shows that Eridan occasionally crossdresses, Pesterquest expands on this by having him be very vocal on gender norms in a serious manner, but Pesterquest is dubiously canon.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Possible; he seemed to have gone Grimdark for a second right before his murder spree kicked into overdrive.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: In a way. He seems to treat Sgrub as a First-Person Shooter rather than staying true to its pseudo-RPG format—he spent most of his time in the game blowing angels up, instead of trying to make nice with them and learning more about his land and his heroic destiny as he was supposed to.
  • In aspect terms, Eridan thought being the Prince of Hope means knowing whether hope exists or not, and having pure mastery of the aspect. But there are two sides of the Hope aspect: one who destroys using hope, and one who destroys hope. Eridan's total despair made him the latter.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Believed this about Jack, saying that the trolls were all doomed to be killed anyway and the only way to avoid this was to join him. This attitude is partly what led to his Start of Darkness
• You Will Be Spared:
  • He says so to Kanaya as she's one of the few land dwellers he likes and will put up with him.
    CA: im not goin to vvery wwell kill you am i that wwould be fuckin unconscionable
    CA: wwhat kind of friend wwould i be
  • When he undergoes his Face–Heel Turn, Kanaya is the only land dweller he manages to kill. Hussie even brought the above quote up saying, "What kind of friend indeed."

Feferi

♓ Feferi Peixes ♓

Cleric

Paradox Space Appearances: "Headed for Stardom" | "A Friend In Need" | "Secret Sufferer" | "Star of the Ocean" | "Spritecon" | "Relation Shipping" | "Summerteen Romance"

You would redefine what it means to be CULLED in troll society. Under your rule it would mean caring for the unfit and infirm rather than exterminating them, and you have put this idea into practice by CULLING THE FAUNA OF THE DEEP. You tend to wild and beautiful AQUATIC HOOFBEASTS, grooming and feeding them daily. You capture and cage CUTTLEFISH by the thousands for their own good, and also because they are funny and colorful and you love them. They often swim through the bars of their cages, but that is fine. You run your whole palace as a sort of WILDLIFE ADOPTION FACILITY, even if the wildlife's need for care is dubious at best, and the practice really just amounts to an elaborate ROLE PLAYING SCENARIO. It's still fun though.

The sea-dwelling heiress apparent to the throne of the Alternian Empire, she is determined to one day make a better life for trollkind.

In Sburb, she is the Witch of Life. Her trolltag is "cuttlefishCuller".

She has allocated her STRIFE SPECIBUS with the 2x3DENTKIND ABSTRATUS.

Types by replacing t)(e letter "H" wit)( reverse ordered parent)(eses to make them look like t)(e Pisces symbol.

Places )(yp)(ens in front of capital ——E's to create TRID-ENTS!

38D S)(e uses smilies wit)( curly )(orns and goggles, makes fishy puns, and LOV-ES to say t)(e word "glub". Glub glub glub! 38)

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• Action Girl: Like the other highbloods, she's physically very strong, despite seeming to have no visible buffness on her all of her sprites compared to Equius. Her introductory page shows her towing a whale through the water with ease. And like Equius, also leaps several meters from the water to go through her first gate without hive extensions. She's also shown fighting Sgrub enemies like imps and, like the rest of her team, against the Black King.
• All Girls Like Ponies: She keeps aquatic hoofbeasts resembling Maplehoof in her hive.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Previously in a relationship with Eridan, a wannabe villain who later Face Heel Turns and becomes a real villain. Currently in a relationship with Sollux and seems to find his grouchy, negative side attractive. Subverted in Eridan's case: it was those very "bad boy" traits that eventually drove her away from him.
• All-Loving Hero: Reflected in her mythological role, which allows her to heal others, and her assortment of creatures she cares for.
• Abusive Alien Parents: Fef seems to have a real affection for her lusus, but she's an Eldritch Abomination miles long, and can cause an X-4 apocalypse if she gets extremely hungry and any voice above a whisper causes trolls to start dying. Though it's hardly Gl'bgolyb's fault that her voice just happens to be a Brown Note to trolls and she was more than willing to sacrifice her life to help Feferi to safety. This is in stark contrast to Vriska, who has a similar deal but her giant spider will make sure to put HER on the menu should she not keep the food on the table.
• Amicable Exes: Even after they break up, Feferi voices a desire to stay friends, and while he initially doesn't comment on it, she does later refer to him as such before his betrayal. For Eridan's part, he is willing to be cordial upon request and openly admits that he cares for her greatly even if they aren't in a quadrant, wanting to bring her with him before he betrays the other trolls.
• Animal Motifs: Sea creatures, mostly cephalopods like cuttlefish. Her Trollian handle is cuttlefishCuller, she keeps a large number of cuttlefish in her home, and she peppers her speech with liberal use of fish and marine puns. Her name is derived from Metasepia pfefferi, a kind of real-life cuttlefish, and peixes, the Portuguese word for "fishes".
• Art Evolution: Averted. Her sprite in Kanaya's walkaround is the same one from Karkat's, meaning that it looks quite out of style compared to the other greatly improved talksprites used by the other trolls.
• Back from the Dead: She returns to life some time after the slaughter on the meteor when she's prototyped into Roxy's sprite with Nepeta.
• Better as Friends: When Eridan finally reveals his feelings for her, she politely rejects him, much to his disappointment, but she says they should still be friends. This does NOT end well for her or Eridan.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's very hard to piss off, but doing so makes her fly into a rage that can really only be stopped by ending her life. She screams at an imp while readying her trident in [S] Make Her Pay, as an example. Beyond that, she's easily one of the nicest trolls, but even then you still have to put up with her being very unsettling at times.
• Blue Blood: Her fuchsia blood is the highest on the hemospectrum.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: The relentlessly cheerful Feferi forms this dynamic with the moody, irritable Eridan and later the depressive, irritable Sollux.
• Brown Note Being: A specific case, but due to a quirk of their genetics, two fuchsiablood trolls cannot be in the same area without immediately having the uncontrollable urge to kill each other to maintain their hold over Alternia's throne. Meenah cannot talk to Feferi for this reason, even though she thinks Feferi is cute and is saddened that they cannot meet because of this. However, Feferi notably does not display any murderous feelings towards Meenah, only thinking she is cool. Whether she suppressed her own urges to kill or is completely immune to them is unknown.
• Cain and Abel: Genetically speaking, the Condesce is more like Feferi's older sister than her great-x-times-grandmother due to Gl'bgolyb having raised both of them at separate times, but the point remains that the two of them are fated to one day fight to the death over Alternia's throne. However, this never happens in-story due to Feferi being killed under different circumstances.
• Character Development: For someone destined to rule it, she accepts the destruction of Alternia and Alternian culture very well. She also becomes more and more unhinged as the session goes on.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: More than most trolls, considering her lusus is an Eldritch Abomination that is capable of killing her entire species if its voice ever gets above a whisper (and it does). Compared to that, all the other Horror-Terrors Of The Furthest Ring are nothing.
• Cool Crown: She wears a golden tiara around her brow, similar to the Condesce's. She even uses it with her emotes ("38D").
• Death by Irony: In the sense that the Witch of Life is dead. Also, she's the last sign of the zodiac, and she likely dies first after the Troll session ends. Compare to Aradia, who was the first sign of the zodiac, and died before the session started... but recovered.
• Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Feferi has no issue with Horrorterrors at all. They're FRI—ENDLY!
• Dies Wide Open: Twice, actually. She first dies by being blasted in the gut with Eridan's "Science Wand", and the second time her dream self get's brutally bisected by Jack Noir. Notably, both times she dies with her eyes wide open, and is the only female Troll to have this trait.
• Dissonant Serenity: Even as her friends start to split off into various parts of the lab, Feferi seems oddly calm about the whole ordeal.
  • She quite happily accepts her death and even has a casual conversation with Jade before just blurting out that she's dead.
• Double Weapon: ΨDON's^note The Greek letter Psi (ψ) ENTENTE, a DOUBLE CULLING FORK.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: She's killed so fast and so quickly that one may not believe it.
• Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help: She goes out of her way to help others.
• Ear Fins: All of the seadwellers have fins where human ears would be.
• Ermine Cape Effect: Wears multiple accessories and a tiara, even though neither are needed for her day-to-day life- much like fellow blinged-out seadwellers.
• Et Tu, Brute?: She's clearly very upset that Eridan wasn't joking about betraying anyone to survive.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The first thing she's seen doing is culling cuttlefish (though it turns out she has a different definition of "culling" than we do).
• Fish People: She is an aquatic troll.
• Faux Action Girl: Unfortunately, the only times Feferi is shown to be in action is either against some Mooks which she deals with offscreen, or against Eridan, who kills her in one hit.
• Foreshadowing: She did say she was D-----EAD, after all.
  • Also, the title is said to challenge the player. So why would a title like Witch of Life challenge her unless she were to die?
  • Her room intro, especially her treatment of cuttlefish, shows just how well she'll run Beforus.
• Funny Octopus: Her pet cuttlefish, which she keeps by the thousands because they are funny and colorful and she loves them.
• Genki Girl: She's very -EXCIT-ED! about Sgrub, and everything in general.
• Good Is Not Soft: One of the nicest and one of those more vocal about helping the humans, but she has zero hesitation in attempting to kill Eridan once he knocks Sollux out in their duel.
• Goggles Do Nothing: She wears them mostly because they're cool.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: How Bec Noir kills her dreamself.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Like with Jade, just of her dream self, though her purpose was to show that the gods of the furthest ring weren't dangerous. Bites her in the ass when she's killed by Eridan.
• Immune to Mind Control: Seeing how no version of Feferi is shown to be controlled by any troll at any point of the story, it seems that being a fuschia blood gives her this immunity.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: By Eridan, using his wand.
• Informed Attribute: Highbloods are known to be stronger and more durable, as well as having a lot of blood the higher up you are on the hemospectrum and while Vriska^note Had her arm and eye blown out, bleeding profusely in the aftermath, she can give a long winded rant to Terezi. And when she gets beaten to a bloody pulp by Aradia, it takes her a long while to actually bleed out., Gamzee^note Shot repeatedly and turns up just fine. Also gets stabbed and beaten repeatedly without bleeding out. and even Terezi^note She's beaten pretty brutally and forced to stab herself, and only after good while later she finally succumbs to it. demonstrate this pretty well, Feferi^note Shot through the chest and dies instantly. does not despite being the highest up and therefore theoretically the most durable troll of all. Granted, most of these examples came way into act Six, some time after her death.
• Healing Hands: The power of an Alternate Timeline Feferi who went God Tier. In a dreambubble, she heals WV's injuries, showing that physical wounds are consistent in dreambubble and out of them.
• Kindly Vet: Rescues sea animals and helps them get better.
• Leitmotif: Keepers, originally shared with Eridan, and now Love You (Feferi's Theme).
• Life Energy: She is the Witch of Life.
• Mama Bear: Mess with her friends and you'll be on the wrong end of a very, VERY angry fish troll and her 2x3dent. Not that there's a right side, really.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Her relationship with Eridan was a deconstruction of this trope: she tried to make him happy and get him to open up, but Eridan's refusal to contribute emotionally to their moirallegiance broke it down. She may also be this trope for Sollux.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Feferi is a corrupted form of pfefferi, the scientific name of a poisonous species of cuttlefish. Peixes is Portugese for Pisces (and just plain "fishes", for that matter).
  • Feferi could also be a reference to "feri", a form of contemporary non-wiccan witchcraft with practitioners who believe in the beauty of nature and life, fitting with Feferi's ability to heal others and her love of animals.
• Morality Chain: The main reason Eridan hasn't implemented a plan to kill all land-dwellers yet? It would upset Feferi. Their breakup leaves Eridan with little else besides his genocidal fantasies to latch onto.
• Mood-Swinger: As seen in her conversations with Eridan and Sollux, and tendency to switch to capslock at the slightest provocation. She's sweet, but has quick flashes of anger. ^note Given her relation to the tyrannical Condesce, and the hints that highbloods are more prone to insane furies and violence than other trolls, this might imply that she's suppressing something worse.
• More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Her smile is... unnerving.
• Named Weapons: She uses a double-ended trident called Ψdon's Entente, and she later replaces it with the more powerful Brainfork.
• Nice Guy: Believes in Troll equality, which is something nigh-unheard of on her planet during her generation(and may qualify her as Wide-Eyed Idealist).
• Nightmare Face: "Because, Stupid! I'm D-----EAD!" For those who only want to read about it, imagine Feferi's usual creepy smile with Prophet Eyes.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She doesn't seemed bothered by the Horrorterrors while asleep, unlike Jade, Karkat, and most of the readers, and cheerfully tries to convince the others that said Horrorterrors are harmless and even friendly. Justified: her lusus was the emissary of said Horrorterrors, so falling asleep is more like visiting family to her.
• Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Because of Feferi being raised the way she was, there are a lot of things she considers normal that even manage to weird out the other trolls, with eldritch abominations just being one of them. Feferi can easily switch from being one of the most adorable trolls to the most creepy, within TWO PANELS of each other. To her she's just being friendly in her own unusual way.
• Nightmare Retardant: Invoked, after all, Feferi is a fish alien, so what other expression would she have on her face in death than that of a dead fish?
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Among the Trolls, she shares Rose's trait of knowing the most about the Horrorterrors, considering she was raised by one. Plus she makes it so that Jade can communicate with the Trolls via dream bubbles, something the living would not normally be able to do on their own without being God Tier and physically inside the bubbles. So yeah, things are starting to pay off for her even though she's dead.
• Oblivious to Love: To the point of cheerfully teasing Eridan about who he might have red feelings for. Turns out, she got sick of putting up with Eridan's crap especially when he decided to show up in Sollux' land just to start a fight with him over Feferi.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Convincing Horrorterrors to make dream bubbles, which has a HUGE impact on the plot.
• Out of Focus: Even compared to Nepeta and Equius, who are legendarily Those Two Guys, Feferi has suffered the most out of the Trolls in terms of screentime. Even her plot critical dream meetings have mostly occurred offpanel.
• Politically-Active Princess: Feferi is, to quote a tumblr user, a radical reformist heir apparent to the imperial crown, whose predecessor has already signed her death warrant and who, given a chance, intends to take the throne by force.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Despite being one of the nicest trolls, she uses the word "retard" rather casually. Might be a product of the comic being made in the late 2000s, but she uses it quite often more than at least over half of the beta trolls. Notable moment is when she also calls Jade, an alien that didn't know what a lusus is at the time, a "retard" and condescends her for not knowing what it is instead of just explaining to her the troll term.
• The Pollyanna: Easily the most optimistic of all the trolls. She's -EXCIT-ED about just about everything, is one of the first to step up with the suggestion that they should help the kids instead of trolling them, is absolutely positive the horrorterrors are not dangerous in the slightest, and is quick to reassure everyone that their friends starting to become scarce is not a big deal. Not even death really does anything to dampen her spirit.
• Precision F-Strike: "What the FUCK did I just SAY!?"
• Prongs of Poseidon: As an aquatic humanoid and royal of a sea-based society, she uses a two-headed trident in battle.
• Psychic Block Defense: Being in the highest caste in the hemospectrum means that she is highly resistant to the mental powers of other castes, possibly to the point of immunity.
• Pungeon Master: Loves fish-puns in particular, even when she's trying to be serious.
  CC: Will you just clam up for once in your life?
  CC: Always carping and carping and carping!
  CC: You go completely overboard with your emotions, always looking to reel in drama wherever you can.
  CC: I am up to my gills in it! I just can't salmon the strength anemonemore.
  CA: i cannot
  CA: BELIEVE
  CA: you are doin the fish pun thing while youre breakin up with me
  CA: real nice
  CA: whoops i mean REEL nice
• The Quiet One: Becomes this as both Fefeta and later when paired with Nepeta.
• Rage Breaking Point: She's already shocked and hurt by Eridan's declaration that he's going to join Jack, but him attempting to use her love of puns to sway her causes her to ban him from EVER using puns. When he drops one more, she yells at him.
• Rebellious Princess: Has big plans for social reform. See Politically-Active Princess above.
• Royal Blood: Her blood color is unique to her and the current Empress, her ancestor.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: This is the kind of leader she aspires to be. However, in Sburb she becomes decidedly more low key and is content with Karkat and Aradia leading the trolls around.
• Satellite Character: Feferi has a grand whopping total of one interaction where she is the sole focus of a conversation, and that is with Jade who is similarly Out of Focus. Otherwise, the vast majority of characterization is seen with Eridan, Sollux or Nepeta (though neither her nor Nepeta speak their time together.) Subverted in the dubiously canon Pesterquest.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She bails Vriska's ghost pirate adventure along with Tavros, Nepeta and Sollux.
• Ship Tease: With Sollux shortly after the game begins. Later they spend their time together talking about their feelings.
• Signature Sound Effect: She makes distinctive glubbing noises when speaking, and goes through the trouble of transcribing them when using Trollian.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Feferi establishes the dream bubbles thanks to convincing the horrorterrors. Aside from that, she's killed off fairly quickly and doesn't even have much development in the dreambubbles. Her Alternate Timeline selves, however, played much bigger roles in their sessions.
• Super-Strength: As trolls get higher on the hemospectrum their natural strength increases while psychic ability decreases. Being the highest she possibly can be on the spectrum, she can pull a whale with ease underwater and leap out of the water several hundred feet.
• Theme Naming: Feferi's Zodiac sign is Pisces.
• There Can Be Only One: Only one fuchsiablood troll can rule over Alternia at a time. To perpetuate this, the genetics of fuchsiablood trolls dictate that they can't even go near each other without immediately getting the uncontrollable urge to kill their rival for the throne. In the dream bubbles, this means that she and Meenah need to give each other a wide berth.
• Token Heroic Orc: She (and Equius, to a lesser extent) seem to exist partly to assure the audience that not all highbloods are crazy.
• Too Good for This Sinful Earth: She was a very idealistic character who wanted to create a more equal and just Troll society, yet was murdered before she was able to carry out any of her plans.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Thanks to character development, she shows a more jerkish side, possibly because she doesn't feel the need to be tactful around her friends anymore. Not to say she's still not the nicest troll around, but it is comparable to how Jade is also becoming more unwound.
• Torso with a View: A hole was blasted in her chest by Eridan.
• Troll: Pretends to be depressed to mess with Vriska in Alterniabound. It works.
• Undignified Death: Her dream self's death. Yes, she had every intention of sticking around for a front row seat of the destruction of Derse. No, she probably doesn't realize what Jack likes to do when there's main characters about. And as for her actual death, she doesn't even get a step into her charge before Eridan blows a hole right through her chest, killing her instantly. Granted, considering dying has done nothing to lower her spirits to the point where she's able to proclaim she's dead with a huge grin on her face, she herself doesn't exactly treat her death with any dignity.
• Unstoppable Rage: As hard to piss off as she is, it's only natural that, when she DOES get angry, she means business. The only thing that stopped her is her death.
• Uptown Girl: She's the heiress-to-be of Alternia while her matesprit Sollux is near the bottom of the hemospectrum. Then again, by the time their relationship actually starts, Alternia has been destroyed, so there's not really anyone around to care.
• Verbal Tic: Glub glub glub glub glub!
• Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: She's typically very kind. That doesn't keep her from mocking Eridan and calling Jade a retard.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: As demonstrated in the A1 Universe, her Perfect Pacifist People style of ruling would leave her people unprepared for danger. This is part of what caused the A1 session to fail, the other part being time shenanigans resulting in a glitch in the game.
• Western Zodiac: Pisces.
• We Used to Be Friends: Zigzagged. She breaks off her friendship with Eridan when it's revealed he's serious about betraying everyone else, but when everything's said and done, she's implied to forgive him for his actions.

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