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* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFYnHrqW6LM Vagabounce]], a silly and dreamy tune that first plays when WV is messing around in his exile station.
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* HangingJudge: So far he seems to be played up as this, fashioning a courtroom and judge outfit from weapon parts and punishing misdemeanors with judicious use of heavy artillery. At any rate, he seems as obsessed with the law as WV and PM are with mayorhood and mail.
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* HangingJudge: So far he seems Similar to be played up as this, WV and PM's obsessions with democracy and mail, he's obsessed with the law, fashioning a courtroom and judge outfit from weapon parts and punishing misdemeanors with judicious use of heavy artillery. At any rate, he seems as obsessed with the law as WV and PM are with mayorhood and mail.artillery.
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* DemotedToExtra: The Exiles are initially important secondary characters, but after Cascade leaves WV and PM as the only Exiles alive their appearances in the comic diminish greatly. WV is reduced to a background presence and PM has even fewer scenes than WV.
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* {{Flanderization}}: While he has odd and child-like tendencies, he has shown himself to be genuinely intelligent. However, Act 6 amplifies his childish traits, making him act like a full-on {{Manchild}}.
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* OutOfFocus: He's initially an important secondary character, but as time goes on, his importance diminishes. Act 6 later pushes him into the back and practically makes him Dave and Karkat's pet Carapace.
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* EvilVersusOblivion: Subverted, as they don't really care about the fact that Lord English is an OmnicidalManiac-- Slick just wants revenge for the casino.
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* FlatCharacter: Only a few Exiles in each group receive much focus. For the wanderers this is WV and PM. For the Midnight Crew, it's Spades Slick. All the others are limited to fairly straightforward gimmicks and relieve little development.
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!!The Pre-Scratch Exiles are examples of
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[[ArcWords Years in the future, but not many...]]\\\
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!! Carapacians
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->''Sure are a lot of them today. They must be getting more desperate.''
A bunch of "Exiles", taken from the Post-Scratch Session by the Condesce to form the backbone of her new empire. They mostly live on floating cities that resemble chessboards, which according to Dirk are essentially slums. Roxy lives in one of these cities, and was raised by them. On occasion some of the Carapacians sneak into her lab to hunt her cats. None of them have names or distinct appearances, with exception to one who led a hunting party into Roxy's lab, who is still nameless.
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* ReducedToRatburgers: Roxy tries to avoid thinking about how they're probably breaking into her lab to eat her mutant cats.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Their apparent leader has a unique design and a noticeable crowbar. None of the original crowd has appeared since their debut and shortly afterwards.
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!! Carapacians
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->''Sure are a lot of them today. They must be getting more desperate.''
A bunch of "Exiles", taken from the Post-Scratch Session by the Condesce to form the backbone of her new empire. They mostly live on floating cities that resemble chessboards, which according to Dirk are essentially slums. Roxy lives in one of these cities, and was raised by them. On occasion some of the Carapacians sneak into her lab to hunt her cats. None of them have names or distinct appearances, with exception to one who led a hunting party into Roxy's lab, who is still nameless.
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* CallBack: A lot of them ''almost'' look like known exiles like the Midnight Crew, but none of them are exactly identical to them. Most notably, the apparent leader of the hunting party looks sort of like a cross between Jack Noir and WV, and uses a crowbar. The ones that most closely resemble PM have one of their eyes covered by their robes. Their apparent leader does as well.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Their apparent leader has a unique design and a noticeable crowbar. None of the original crowd has appeared since their debut and shortly afterwards.
* YouAllLookFamiliar: Aside from their apparent leader, all of them share their appearance with another exile in their group, including robes, though this might be Andrew simply copying sprites, as it didn't seem to be the case with their drawn crowd shot. Of course, there's [[OnlySixFaces only so many ways to draw]] random, nameless Dersites without them looking ''somewhat'' like a named character, especially since the Dersites are all canonically clones.
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->''Sure are a lot of them today. They must be getting more desperate.''
A bunch of "Exiles", taken from the Post-Scratch Session by the Condesce to form the backbone of her new empire. They mostly live on floating cities that resemble chessboards, which according to Dirk are essentially slums. Roxy lives in one of these cities, and was raised by them. On occasion some of the Carapacians sneak into her lab to hunt her cats. None of them have names or distinct appearances, with exception to one who led a hunting party into Roxy's lab, who is still nameless.
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* CallBack: A lot of them ''almost'' look like known exiles like the Midnight Crew, but none of them are exactly identical to them. Most notably, the apparent leader of the hunting party looks sort of like a cross between Jack Noir and WV, and uses a crowbar. The ones that most closely resemble PM have one of their eyes covered by their robes. Their apparent leader does as well.
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* ReducedToRatburgers: Roxy tries to avoid thinking about how they're probably breaking into her lab to eat her mutant cats.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Their apparent leader has a unique design and a noticeable crowbar. None of the original crowd has appeared since their debut and shortly afterwards.
* YouAllLookFamiliar: Aside from their apparent leader, all of them share their appearance with another exile in their group, including robes, though this might be Andrew simply copying sprites, as it didn't seem to be the case with their drawn crowd shot. Of course, there's [[OnlySixFaces only so many ways to draw]] random, nameless Dersites without them looking ''somewhat'' like a named character, especially since the Dersites are all canonically clones.
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!!Snowman
Although not a member of the Midnight Crew, she is the fifth Exile of the Troll Session. See her own section for more details.
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!! Carapacians
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* ReducedToRatburgers: Roxy tries to avoid thinking about how they're probably breaking into her lab to eat her mutant cats.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Their apparent leader has a unique design and a noticeable crowbar. None of the original crowd has appeared since their debut and shortly afterwards.
* YouAllLookFamiliar: Aside from their apparent leader, all of them share their appearance with another exile in their group, including robes, though this might be Andrew simply copying sprites, as it didn't seem to be the case with their drawn crowd shot. Of course, there's [[OnlySixFaces only so many ways to draw]] random, nameless Dersites without them looking ''somewhat'' like a named character, especially since the Dersites are all canonically clones.
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* CallBack: A lot of them ''almost'' look like known exiles like the Midnight Crew, but none of them are exactly identical to them. Most notably, the apparent leader of the hunting party looks sort of like a cross between Jack Noir and WV, and uses a crowbar. The ones that most closely resemble PM have one of their eyes covered by their robes. Their apparent leader does as well.
* FacelessMasses: Most of their designs aren't particularly distinct.
* ReducedToRatburgers: Roxy tries to avoid thinking about how they're probably breaking into her lab to eat her mutant cats.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Their apparent leader has a unique design and a noticeable crowbar. None of the original crowd has appeared since their debut and shortly afterwards.
* YouAllLookFamiliar: Aside from their apparent leader, all of them share their appearance with another exile in their group, including robes, though this might be Andrew simply copying sprites, as it didn't seem to be the case with their drawn crowd shot. Of course, there's [[OnlySixFaces only so many ways to draw]] random, nameless Dersites without them looking ''somewhat'' like a named character, especially since the Dersites are all canonically clones.
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* TheStarscream: to the Black Queen's Megatron. [[EyeScream She gets]] [[AnArmAndALeg him back,]] though.
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* UnstoppableRage: Spades Slick is motivated by his pure, unfiltered hatred for the Felt and Lord English. Even the destruction of both the Midnight Crew and an ''entire universe'' [[TheDeterminator couldn't keep him down]]. Unfortuantly, this leads to a RevengeBeforeReason mentality, and it is this quality that leads to his untimely death.
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* UnstoppableRage: Spades Slick is motivated by his pure, unfiltered hatred for the Felt and Lord English. Even the destruction of both the Midnight Crew and an ''entire universe'' [[TheDeterminator couldn't keep him down]]. Unfortuantly, Unfortunately, this leads to a RevengeBeforeReason mentality, and it is this quality that leads to his untimely death.
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** In the AlternateContinuity of [[{{Webcomic/Homestuck 2}} the sequel]]; he apparenty set up a functioning government that somehow managed to keep the peace between the three kingdoms on Earth-C until [[spoiler: the main characters show up and ruin everything]] and the events of the comic begin.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Slick is ultimately killed with little fanfare, after going through Hell and back to kill Lord English. He's decapitated alongside his Jack English incarnation who was nothing more than a snarling monster to be slain. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter It is considered by most to be the most disappointing moment in Collide]].
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Slick is ultimately killed with little fanfare, after going through Hell and back to kill Lord English. He's decapitated alongside his Jack English incarnation who was nothing more than a snarling monster to be slain. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter It is considered by most to be the most disappointing moment in Collide]].
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* PokemonSpeak: The first part of his leitmoif, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9KVN4WfHHc Mayor Maynot]]," features a computerized voice repeating the word "mayor" numerous times.
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* AscendedExtra: Even more so than his fellow Midnight Crew members. Even if the end of the Intermission heavily implied that the Crew was more important than they seemed at first, Slick himself definitely proved his relevance to the story when he showed up at Doc Scratch' home in Act 5 Act 2.
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* UncertainDoom: The last we see of his Game Over iteration, Dave left him on LOHAC, which would later be destroyed when the Condesce bashed it against another planet Aranea was throwing around. John lampshades this when he's told that everyone is dead, and asks if this includes "the little mayor guy Dave loves so much". He, and by extension the reader, never gets an answer to that question. Fortunately, if he ''did'' die, the retcon undid it.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Part of the reason Creator/AndrewHussie gave Spades his name was simply because it sounded cool. When it's put to the deeply misanthropic Jack Noir, his first thought is to admit that it's "got a nice ring to it".
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Though it seemed he died in the destruction of the Troll Universe, Andrew Hussie (in comic that is) swooped in and saved him. He was badly hurt and had to be [[EmergencyTransformation turned into a cyborg]].\\
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The Midnight Crew were originally non-canonical characters from ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', wherein they were Team Sleuth's {{Psycho Ranger}}s counterparts, waging grand warfare against the protagonists through donation-funded commands. In the ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' universe, they were apparently [[BreakoutCharacter so popular]] that the ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' site that the characters visit features a Midnight Crew adventure as the followup to ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', something which Creator/AndrewHussie [[WhatCouldHaveBeen apparently considered in real life]] after abandoning the all-Flash version of ''Homestuck''.\\
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The Midnight Crew were originally non-canonical characters from ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', wherein they were Team Sleuth's {{Psycho Ranger}}s Ranger|s}} counterparts, waging grand warfare against the protagonists through donation-funded commands. In the ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' universe, they were apparently [[BreakoutCharacter so popular]] that the ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' site that the characters visit features a Midnight Crew adventure as the followup to ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', something which Creator/AndrewHussie [[WhatCouldHaveBeen apparently considered in real life]] after abandoning the all-Flash version of ''Homestuck''.\\
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* AfterTheEnd: After abandoning the Incipisphere, their lives take place in the planet of the players they guide.
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* AfterTheEnd: After abandoning the Incipisphere, their lives take place in the rubble-strewn ruins of the planet of the players they guide.
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* DemotedToExtra: Both groups Exiles were major focuses of the early Acts, with the Midnight Crew in particular receiving a whole Intermission to itself. Come Act 6, the Post-Scratch Kids have no proper Exiles and the closest equivalents are given lines, no names, or personalities.
* FlatCharacter: Only a few Exiles in each group receive much focus. For the wanderers this is WV and PM. For the Midnight Crew, it's Spades Slick.
* InsistentTerminology: Averted. Technically, the correct way to refer to them would be as "The WV" or "The PM", but that sounds a bit silly so nobody does.
* FlatCharacter: Only a few Exiles in each group receive much focus. For the wanderers this is WV and PM. For the Midnight Crew, it's Spades Slick.
* InsistentTerminology: Averted. Technically, the correct way to refer to them would be as "The WV" or "The PM", but that sounds a bit silly so nobody does.
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* DemotedToExtra: Both groups Exiles were are major focuses of the early Acts, with the Midnight Crew in particular receiving a whole Intermission to itself. Come Act 6, the Post-Scratch Kids have no proper Exiles and the closest equivalents are given lines, no names, or personalities.
* FlatCharacter: Only a few Exiles in each group receive much focus. For the wanderers this is WV and PM. For the Midnight Crew, it's SpadesSlick.
* InsistentTerminology: Averted. Technically,Slick. All the correct way others are limited to refer to them would be as "The WV" or "The PM", but that sounds a bit silly so nobody does.fairly straightforward gimmicks and relieve little development.
* FlatCharacter: Only a few Exiles in each group receive much focus. For the wanderers this is WV and PM. For the Midnight Crew, it's Spades
* InsistentTerminology: Averted. Technically,
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* MeanwhileInTheFuture: years in the future, [[ArcWords but not many]]
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* MeanwhileInTheFuture: years in In the future, [[ArcWords but not many]]early acts, their segments are depicted as happening concurrently with those of the kids despite happening an unknown amount of time afterwards. This is because the trans-temporal messaging system they use is locked on to the kids' time, advancing at a second per second and preventing them from interacting with whichever part of the timeline they want to.
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* WalkingTheEarth: Or Alternia in the case of the Midnight Crew.
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* WalkingTheEarth: Or Alternia in the case The Exiles spend most of the Midnight Crew.their time after landing on an endless walkabout of their dead planet.
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* ChessMotifs: PM and WV are both Pawns, AR is ''probably'' one too. WK and WQ are royalty though.
** PM travelled to the other side of the board and was promoted, AR sacrificed himself early on for John, and WV is a subversion in that he rejects the rules and attacks his own king.
** PM travelled to the other side of the board and was promoted, AR sacrificed himself early on for John, and WV is a subversion in that he rejects the rules and attacks his own king.
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* ChessMotifs: PM and WV are both Pawns, AR is ''probably'' one too. WK and WQ are royalty though.
**royalty. PM travelled to the other side of the board and was promoted, AR sacrificed himself early on for John, and WV is a subversion in that he rejects the rules and attacks his own king.
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-->''Years in the future, but not many, a WAYWARD VAGABOND records a stuttering step in the sun-bleached dust.''
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->''Years in the future, but not many, a WAYWARD VAGABOND records a stuttering step in the sun-bleached dust.''
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-->"Perhaps one day you will find something new to bear. A burden befitting of the peasant you truly are.
--> Oh my what's that shiny thing in the water."
* AudienceSurrogate: He provides the all-caps directions that John hears in Act 2 after the meteor [[MediumAwareness destroys John's suggestion box.]]
--> Oh my what's that shiny thing in the water."
* AudienceSurrogate: He provides the all-caps directions that John hears in Act 2 after the meteor [[MediumAwareness destroys John's suggestion box.]]
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-->"Perhaps one day you will find something new to bear. A burden befitting of the peasant you truly are.
-->are.\\
Oh my what's that shiny thing in the water."
* AudienceSurrogate: He provides the all-caps directions that John hears in Act 2 after the meteor [[MediumAwareness destroys John's suggestionbox.]]box]].
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Oh my what's that shiny thing in the water."
* AudienceSurrogate: He provides the all-caps directions that John hears in Act 2 after the meteor [[MediumAwareness destroys John's suggestion
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* BerserkButton: [[https://homestuck.com/story/687 KINGS]]. He's okay with WQ, though - she's a Queen (and then she abdicates anyway).
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* BerserkButton: [[https://homestuck.com/story/687 KINGS]]. He's okay with WQ, though - -- she's a Queen (and then she abdicates anyway).
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-->Everyone is dead.
-->Everyone except [[SurvivorsGuilt you.]]
-->Everyone except [[SurvivorsGuilt you.]]
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-->Everyone is dead.
-->Everyonedead.\\
Everyone except [[SurvivorsGuilt you.]]
-->Everyone
Everyone except [[SurvivorsGuilt you.]]
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* ExtremeOmnivore: In addition to haven eaten a pumpkin, a potted plant, several pieces of chalk, a chunk of ''uranium'', and a cyborg bunny's eye, he learned proper human etiquette by ''eating a book on it''. It seems like he'll eat anything as long as it's ''green,'' or if it had been green at some point in time. Doesn't matter if it's edible or not.
** The one exception to this is paradox ghost slime, which he describes as "unappetizing sludge."
** The one exception to this is paradox ghost slime, which he describes as "unappetizing sludge."
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* ExtremeOmnivore: In addition to haven eaten a pumpkin, a potted plant, several pieces of chalk, a chunk of ''uranium'', and a cyborg bunny's eye, he learned proper human etiquette by ''eating a book on it''. It seems like he'll eat anything as long as it's ''green,'' or if it had been green at some point in time. Doesn't matter if it's edible or not.
**not. The one exception to this is paradox ghost slime, which he describes as "unappetizing sludge."
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* {{Jerkass}}: At first, but only because he didn't know human customs.
* ManChild: Justified in that Carapacians are not mentally the same as humans or trolls.
* MaybeEverAfter: With PM in Act 7.
* ManChild: Justified in that Carapacians are not mentally the same as humans or trolls.
* MaybeEverAfter: With PM in Act 7.
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* {{Jerkass}}: At He comes off as very pushy and critical first, but only because he didn't know human customs.
* %%* ManChild: Justified in that Carapacians are not mentally the same as humans or trolls.
* %%* MaybeEverAfter: With PM in Act 7.
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* SidequestSidestory: In an ordinary session, WV functions as a backdoor means to eliminate the Black King, though it is seemingly extremely difficult to do so. Didn't happen in the Kid's session because of Jack.
** This fact is never outright stated in story, but was confirmed [[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40585720/Combined_Formspring_Web_Aug-28-2011.htm#andrewhussie898002954 on Hussie's old Formspring]].
** This fact is never outright stated in story, but was confirmed [[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40585720/Combined_Formspring_Web_Aug-28-2011.htm#andrewhussie898002954 on Hussie's old Formspring]].
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* SidequestSidestory: In an ordinary session, WV functions as a backdoor means to eliminate the Black King, though although it is seemingly extremely difficult to do so. Didn't It didn't happen in the Kid's Kids' session because of Jack.
**Jack. This fact is never outright stated in story, but was confirmed [[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40585720/Combined_Formspring_Web_Aug-28-2011.htm#andrewhussie898002954 on Hussie's old Formspring]].
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He compulsively eats anything green, and he sometimes doesn't even seem aware that he does so. He also describes green text and buttons as "attractive" and tells John not to die in the "tasty fire" when he's surrounded by green flames.
** Tab -- purely because it's drinkable.
* TransformationSequence: Literally, in his dreams.
** Tab -- purely because it's drinkable.
* TransformationSequence: Literally, in his dreams.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: TrademarkFavoriteFood:
** He compulsively eats anything green, and he sometimes doesn't even seem aware that he does so. He also describes green text and buttons as "attractive" and tells John not to die in the "tasty fire" when he's surrounded by green flames.
** He's obsessed with Tab -- purely because it's drinkable.
* TransformationSequence:Literally, He has an extended one in his dreams.dreams where he transforms into Bec Noir.
** He compulsively eats anything green, and he sometimes doesn't even seem aware that he does so. He also describes green text and buttons as "attractive" and tells John not to die in the "tasty fire" when he's surrounded by green flames.
** He's obsessed with Tab -- purely because it's drinkable.
* TransformationSequence:
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-->''Minutes in the future, though perhaps not as few as implied by circumstance, a PEREGRINE MENDICANT trundles precious cargo beneath the gleam of the celestially ominous.''
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-->''Minutes
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->''Minutes in the future, though perhaps not as few as implied by circumstance, a PEREGRINE MENDICANT trundles precious cargo beneath the gleam of the celestially ominous.''
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* ChessMotifs: Starts as a pawn; gets promoted to Queen.
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* ChessMotifs: Starts She starts as a pawn; pawn, and gets promoted to Queen.
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*** [[https://homestuck.com/story/5311 Her delivery is justice, and as you know all too well, nothing stops the mail.]]
** Her determination is strong enough to punch Jade aside (As she couldn't kill her) when she tries to stop the fight between her and Bec Noir, regardless of the UndyingLoyalty to Jade programmed into the prototyping.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Sort of. We've already met Peregrine Mendicant, but Dream Jade gives us an early look at [[https://homestuck.com/story/1033 Parcel Mistress.]]
** Her determination is strong enough to punch Jade aside (As she couldn't kill her) when she tries to stop the fight between her and Bec Noir, regardless of the UndyingLoyalty to Jade programmed into the prototyping.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Sort of. We've already met Peregrine Mendicant, but Dream Jade gives us an early look at [[https://homestuck.com/story/1033 Parcel Mistress.]]
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** Her determination is strong enough to punch Jade aside
* EarlyBirdCameo: Sort of. We've already met Peregrine Mendicant, but Dream Jade gives us an early look at [[https://homestuck.com/story/1033 Parcel
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* MaybeEverAfter: With WV in Act 7.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: [[https://homestuck.com/story/896 MAIL!]]
* PhysicalGod: Now she's inherited the White Queen's ring.
* PhysicalGod: Now she's inherited the White Queen's ring.
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* StealthPun: The RoaringRampageOfRevenge mentioned above. She went postal.
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* StealthPun: The RoaringRampageOfRevenge mentioned above.Her RoaringRampageOfRevenge. She went postal.
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* UndyingLoyalty: She inherited this from Bec via prototyping as the instant she and Jack see that Jade is dead they stop fighting and abscond with her body. When Dave confronts them, [[PoorCommunicationKills they both immediately kill him, thinking he's a threat to Jade]].
** This extends to the fight in [S] Collide, where she can't kill Jade when she blocks both her and Bec Noir in their fight, though her resolve to get revenge allows her to knock her out of the way nonlethally by punching her in the face.
** This extends to the fight in [S] Collide, where she can't kill Jade when she blocks both her and Bec Noir in their fight, though her resolve to get revenge allows her to knock her out of the way nonlethally by punching her in the face.
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* UndyingLoyalty: She inherited this from Bec via prototyping as the instant she and Jack see that Jade is dead they stop fighting and abscond with her body. When Dave confronts them, [[PoorCommunicationKills they both immediately kill him, thinking he's a threat to Jade]].
**Jade]]. This extends to the fight in [S] Collide, where she can't kill Jade when she blocks both her and Bec Noir in their fight, though her resolve to get revenge allows her to knock her out of the way nonlethally by punching her in the face.
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-->''Years in the future, which is to say, THE PRESENT MOMENT PRECISELY, an AIMLESS RENEGADE prepares for company.''
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->''Years in the future, which is to say, THE PRESENT MOMENT PRECISELY, an AIMLESS RENEGADE prepares for company.''
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* HeroicSacrifice: He saves John by strapping him to a rocket board, which is, seemingly, the only means of escaping from an Earth-bound meteor. But he obviously survives, as we had already seen his future self.
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* HeroicSacrifice: HeroicSacrifice:
** He saves John by strapping him to a rocket board, which is, seemingly, the only means of escaping from an Earth-bound meteor. But he obviously survives, as we had already seen his future self.
** He saves John by strapping him to a rocket board, which is, seemingly, the only means of escaping from an Earth-bound meteor. But he obviously survives, as we had already seen his future self.
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-->''A WINDSWEPT QUESTANT suddenly appears.''
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-->''A
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->''A WINDSWEPT QUESTANT suddenly appears.''
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* GambitRoulette: Her abdication.
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* OfficialCouple: With the Writ Keeper of course.
* OhCrap: Her reaction on seeing Jack.
* OhCrap: Her reaction on seeing Jack.
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* OfficialCouple: With the Writ Keeper of course.
*Keeper/White King, as they're married.
%%* OhCrap: Her reaction on seeing Jack.
*
%%* OhCrap: Her reaction on seeing Jack.
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* TheStoic: She's proven to be completely unflappable even during the destruction of Prospit.
** She's justifiably terrified when Jack shows up and murders her husband. And even ''then'' her expression doesn't really change; the only way you can tell she's terrified is through her body posture.
** She's justifiably terrified when Jack shows up and murders her husband. And even ''then'' her expression doesn't really change; the only way you can tell she's terrified is through her body posture.
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* TheStoic: She's proven to be completely unflappable even during the destruction of Prospit. \n** She's justifiably terrified when Jack shows up and murders her husband. And even ''then'' her expression doesn't really change; the only way you can tell she's terrified is through her body posture.
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-->''Soon the WRIT KEEPER will awaken and serve his new queen. It is then that her work may begin.''
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* ChekhovsGun: When he appears as the Writ Keeper, he is seen reading ''Complacency of the Learned'', a story written by Rose. The story is nominally about wizards, but WordOfGod [[http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Rose%27s_Journals has said]] that it represents Rose's subconscious mind about the creation of the universe--specifically the Troll's game of Sgrub.
** Unfortunately, we never know what he learns because he's immediately killed.
* FlatCharacter: Has appeared very few times, so his personality as of yet is still more or less an unknown.
** Unfortunately, we never know what he learns because he's immediately killed.
* FlatCharacter: Has appeared very few times, so his personality as of yet is still more or less an unknown.
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* ChekhovsGun: When he appears as the Writ Keeper, he is seen reading ''Complacency of the Learned'', a story written by Rose. The story is nominally about wizards, but WordOfGod [[http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Rose%27s_Journals has said]] that it represents Rose's subconscious mind about the creation of the universe--specifically universe -- specifically the Troll's Trolls' game of Sgrub.
**Sgrub. Unfortunately, we never know what he learns because he's immediately killed.
* FlatCharacter:Has He has appeared very few times, so his personality as of yet is still more or less an unknown.
**
* FlatCharacter:
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* OffWithHisHead: Only ten seconds after he arrived on Earth!
* RedHerring: As the Writ Keeper, he seemed to be built up as having an important role in the lives of the exiles... and then Jack kills him within 20 seconds of his appearance on Earth.
* SixthRanger: Technically an Exile, but he never meets the others before Jack kills him and WQ.
* RedHerring: As the Writ Keeper, he seemed to be built up as having an important role in the lives of the exiles... and then Jack kills him within 20 seconds of his appearance on Earth.
* SixthRanger: Technically an Exile, but he never meets the others before Jack kills him and WQ.
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* OffWithHisHead: Only Bec Noir beheads him only ten seconds after he arrived on Earth!
Earth.
* RedHerring: As the Writ Keeper, he seemed to be built up as having an important role in the lives of the exiles... and then Jack kills him within20 twenty seconds of his appearance on Earth.
* SixthRanger:Technically He's technically an Exile, but he never meets the others before Jack kills him and WQ.
* RedHerring: As the Writ Keeper, he seemed to be built up as having an important role in the lives of the exiles... and then Jack kills him within
* SixthRanger:
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-->''Sure are a lot of them today. They must be getting more desperate.''
A bunch of "Exiles" taken from the Post-Scratch Session by the Condesce, to form the backbone of her new empire. They mostly live on floating cities that resemble chessboards, and according to Dirk they're essentially slums. Roxy lives in one of these cities, and was raised by them. On occasion some of the Carapacians sneak into her lab to hunt her cats. None of them have names or distinct appearances, with exception to one who led a hunting party into Roxy's lab, who is still nameless.
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* CallBack: A lot of them ''almost'' look like known exiles like the Midnight Crew, but none of them are exactly identical to them. Most notably, the apparent leader of the hunting party looks sort of like a cross between Jack Noir and WV, and uses a crowbar.
** The ones that most closely resemble PM have one of their eyes covered by their robes. Their apparent leader does as well.
* FacelessMasses: Mostly.
** The ones that most closely resemble PM have one of their eyes covered by their robes. Their apparent leader does as well.
* FacelessMasses: Mostly.
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* CallBack: A lot of them ''almost'' look like known exiles like the Midnight Crew, but none of them are exactly identical to them. Most notably, the apparent leader of the hunting party looks sort of like a cross between Jack Noir and WV, and uses a crowbar.
**crowbar. The ones that most closely resemble PM have one of their eyes covered by their robes. Their apparent leader does as well.
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* YouAllLookFamiliar: Aside from their apparent leader, all of them share their appearance with another exile in their group, including robes, though this might be Andrew simply copying sprites, as it didn't seem to be the case with their drawn crowd shot.
** Of course, there's [[OnlySixFaces only so many ways to draw]] random, nameless Dersites without them looking ''somewhat'' like a named character, especially since the Dersites are all canonically clones.
** Of course, there's [[OnlySixFaces only so many ways to draw]] random, nameless Dersites without them looking ''somewhat'' like a named character, especially since the Dersites are all canonically clones.
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* YouAllLookFamiliar: Aside from their apparent leader, all of them share their appearance with another exile in their group, including robes, though this might be Andrew simply copying sprites, as it didn't seem to be the case with their drawn crowd shot.
**shot. Of course, there's [[OnlySixFaces only so many ways to draw]] random, nameless Dersites without them looking ''somewhat'' like a named character, especially since the Dersites are all canonically clones.
clones.
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The Midnight Crew were originally non-canonical characters from ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', wherein they were Team Sleuth's [[PsychoRangers Psycho Ranger]] counterparts, waging grand warfare against the protagonists through donation-funded commands. In the ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' universe, they were apparently [[BreakoutCharacter so popular]] that the ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' site that the characters visit features a Midnight Crew adventure as the followup to ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', something which Creator/AndrewHussie [[WhatCouldHaveBeen apparently considered in real life]] after abandoning the all-Flash version of ''Homestuck''.
The Midnight Crew featured in an intermission between Acts 3 and 4 of ''Homestuck'', wherein they invaded the mansion home of their rival gang [[Characters/HomestuckTheFelt The Felt]] with the aim of ending their gang war once and for all. They later out to be part of the ''Homestuck'' canon after all, existing in the distant post-apocalyptic future of Alternia ([[ArcNumber 612 Alternian years in the future, to be exact]]) in much the same capacity as Earth's exiles, taking MutuallyFictional to another level.
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The Midnight Crew featured in an intermission between Acts 3 and 4 of ''Homestuck'', wherein they invaded the mansion home of their rival gang [[Characters/HomestuckTheFelt
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For tropes pertaining to other iterations of these four, see Characters/HomestuckAgentsAndMonarchs.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: See below.
* AntiHero: Type V. They're only considered heroes during "Operation Regisurp" in the Troll's Session, due to their alliance with the protagonists. In the kid's session, they are definitely evil, and their leader is the primary antagonist.
** Later in story, they're [[EvilVersusEvil only considered heroic at all because Lord English and the Felt]] are ''worse''. They still casually murder people and given half the chance would become just as dangerous as Jack Noir and the agents under him in the Kid's session.
* AntiHero: Type V. They're only considered heroes during "Operation Regisurp" in the Troll's Session, due to their alliance with the protagonists. In the kid's session, they are definitely evil, and their leader is the primary antagonist.
** Later in story, they're [[EvilVersusEvil only considered heroic at all because Lord English and the Felt]] are ''worse''. They still casually murder people and given half the chance would become just as dangerous as Jack Noir and the agents under him in the Kid's session.
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* AntiHero: Type V. They're only considered heroes during "Operation Regisurp" in the
**
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*** Spades Slick is associated with pianos.
*** Diamonds Droog is associated with saxophones.
*** Clubs Deuce is associated with oboes.
*** Hearts Boxcars is associated with cellos.
* MeaningfulRename: Like other Prospitians and Dersites.
*** Diamonds Droog is associated with saxophones.
*** Clubs Deuce is associated with oboes.
*** Hearts Boxcars is associated with cellos.
* MeaningfulRename: Like other Prospitians and Dersites.
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* MeaningfulRename: Like other Prospitians and
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* PlayingCardMotifs: All of them are themed after a suit.
* PornStash: Each of them has a their own unique stash.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: They served this role in the Troll session before Vriska exiled them.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Each one has a favorite candy, keeping a couple pieces in his hat.
* PornStash: Each of them has a their own unique stash.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: They served this role in the Troll session before Vriska exiled them.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Each one has a favorite candy, keeping a couple pieces in his hat.
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* PlayingCardMotifs: All of them are themed after a suit.
suit of cards.
* PornStash: Each of them hasa their his own unique stash.
stash. This is played for comedy, as none of the things they hoard would normally be considered porn.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad:They served this By default, their role in is to serve as mid-level enemies during Sburb sessions, menacing the Troll session players and opposing their plans before Vriska exiled them.
the Black regents are tackled.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Each one has a favorite candy,keeping and keeps a couple pieces of it in his hat.
* PornStash: Each of them has
* QuirkyMinibossSquad:
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Each one has a favorite candy,
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-->''Your name is SPADES SLICK. You are the leader of a notoriously vicious gang of mobsters called the MIDNIGHT CREW. A rival gang known as THE FELT recently knocked over one of your favorite casinos. Your long quest of revenge has finally taken you through the front door of the mansion belonging to their loathsome boss, LORD ENGLISH. ''
The leader of the Midnight Crew. Armed, dangerous, and extremely violent. He and Diamonds Droog are probably the smartest members of the crew. Notably, Spades "made this town what it is." "Wasn't nothing but a bunch of dust and rocks before [he] got here." Long before the Midnight Crew, he was the Jack Noir present in the trolls' session, who allied with the trolls to overthrow and exile the Black Queen but was exiled himself in revenge. He wandered the post-apocalyptic Alternian desert for years as the Scurrilous Straggler before founding the Midnight Crew and returning civilization to the planet.
Though it seemed he died in the destruction of the Troll Universe, Andrew Hussie (in comic that is) swooped in and saved him. He was badly hurt and had to be [[EmergencyTransformation turned into a cyborg]].
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->''Your name is SPADES SLICK. You are the leader of a notoriously vicious gang of mobsters called the MIDNIGHT CREW. A rival gang known as THE FELT recently knocked over one of your favorite casinos. Your long quest of revenge has finally taken you through the front door of the mansion belonging to their loathsome boss, LORD ENGLISH. ''
The leader of the Midnight Crew. Armed, dangerous, and extremely violent. He and Diamonds Droog are probably the smartest members of the crew. Notably, Spades "made this town what it is." "Wasn't nothing but a bunch of dust and rocks before [he] got here." Long before the Midnight Crew, he was the Jack Noir present in the trolls' session, who allied with the trolls to overthrow and exile the Black Queen but was exiled himself in revenge. He wandered the post-apocalyptic Alternian desert for years as the Scurrilous Straggler before founding the Midnight Crew and returning civilization to the
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Though it seemed he died in the destruction of the Troll Universe, Andrew Hussie (in comic that is) swooped in and saved him. He was badly hurt and had to be [[EmergencyTransformation turned into a cyborg]].\\
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Part of the reason Creator/AndrewHussie gave Spades his name was simply because it sounded cool.
** When it's put to the deeply misanthropic Jack Noir, his first thought is to admit that it's "got a nice ring to it".
** When it's put to the deeply misanthropic Jack Noir, his first thought is to admit that it's "got a nice ring to it".
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Part of the reason Creator/AndrewHussie gave Spades his name was simply because it sounded cool.
**cool. When it's put to the deeply misanthropic Jack Noir, his first thought is to admit that it's "got a nice ring to it".
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* BloodBrothers: With Karkat, back when he was Jack Noir.
* BondOneLiner: "Time travel sure can be a... [[https://homestuck.com/story/1284 DOUBLE EDGED SWORD.]]"
* BondOneLiner: "Time travel sure can be a... [[https://homestuck.com/story/1284 DOUBLE EDGED SWORD.]]"
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* BondOneLiner: "Time travel sure can be a... [[https://homestuck.com/story/1284 DOUBLE EDGED
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: Gets one across his eye after his encounter with Snowman.
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: Gets He gets one across his eye after his encounter with Snowman.
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---> ''There, there, you blubbering goddamn pansy.''
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-->You say he did WHAT, why I oughta!
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* PsychoKnifeNut: He's a version of Jack Noir, and as such shares the Jack's universal obsession with knives and pedeliction for knife-based violence.
-->GC: [=K4RK4T, H3S 4 J3RK!=]
-->GC: [=H3 H4S ST4BB3D YOU ON MOR3 TH4N ON3 OCC4S1ON!=]
-->CG: SOME OF THOSE STABBINGS WERE ACCIDENTAL!
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to both Snowman and Droog's blue--with Snowman, it's even color-correct (by blood color, that is).
-->GC: [=K4RK4T, H3S 4 J3RK!=]
-->GC: [=H3 H4S ST4BB3D YOU ON MOR3 TH4N ON3 OCC4S1ON!=]
-->CG: SOME OF THOSE STABBINGS WERE ACCIDENTAL!
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to both Snowman and Droog's blue--with Snowman, it's even color-correct (by blood color, that is).
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* PsychoKnifeNut: He's a version of Jack Noir, and as such shares the Jack's universal obsession with knives and pedeliction predeliction for knife-based violence.
-->GC: [=K4RK4T, H3S 4J3RK!=]
-->GC:J3RK!=]\\
GC: [=H3 H4S ST4BB3D YOU ON MOR3 TH4N ON3OCC4S1ON!=]
-->CG:OCC4S1ON!=]\\
CG: SOME OF THOSE STABBINGS WERE ACCIDENTAL!
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to both Snowman and Droog'sblue--with blue -- with Snowman, it's even color-correct (by blood color, that is).
-->GC: [=K4RK4T, H3S 4
-->GC:
GC: [=H3 H4S ST4BB3D YOU ON MOR3 TH4N ON3
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CG: SOME OF THOSE STABBINGS WERE ACCIDENTAL!
* RedOniBlueOni: The red to both Snowman and Droog's
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* SweetTooth: [[https://homestuck.com/story/3621 When offered sweets]] [[https://homestuck.com/story/3622 from a candy bowl,]] [[https://homestuck.com/story/3623 pockets a few handfuls,]] [[https://homestuck.com/story/3624 then dumps the whole bowl into his hat.]]
* TemptingFate: "She'll have to pry this thing from your rigid severed arm if she wants it back."
* TemptingFate: "She'll have to pry this thing from your rigid severed arm if she wants it back."
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* SweetTooth: [[https://homestuck.com/story/3621 When offered sweets]] [[https://homestuck.com/story/3622 from a candy bowl,]] bowl]], [[https://homestuck.com/story/3623 pockets a few handfuls,]] handfuls]], [[https://homestuck.com/story/3624 then dumps the whole bowl into his hat.]]
hat]].
* TemptingFate: "She'll have to pry this thing from your rigid severed arm if she wants it back."" Snowman promptly tears off the arm in question.
* TemptingFate: "She'll have to pry this thing from your rigid severed arm if she wants it back.
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* VillainProtagonist: During the Intermission.
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* VillainProtagonist: During He's the Intermission.main protagonist during the Intermission. He's very much a violent mobster, but happens to be set against a worse villain's lackeys.
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-->''Everybody out of the god damn way. You got a hat full of bomb, a fist full of penis, and a head full of empty.''
What can be said about Clubs Deuce? He's very small and quite foolish. Nevertheless, he is skilled with explosives and [[BewareTheSillyOnes should not be underestimated.]]
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->''Everybody out of the god damn way. You got a hat full of bomb, a fist full of penis, and a head full of empty.''
What can be said about Clubs Deuce? He's very small and quite foolish. Nevertheless, he is skilled with explosives and [[BewareTheSillyOnes should not be
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* AmbiguouslyGay: His porn stash is called Black Inches and his race is literally black.
** There's also the matter of the BULL PENIS CANE.
** There's also the matter of the BULL PENIS CANE.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: His porn stash is called Black Inches and his race is literally black.
**black. There's also the matter of the BULL PENIS CANE.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Licorice Gummy Bears.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Licorice Gummy Bears.
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-->''You suddenly remember you are Diamonds Droog. Whoever took your hat is about to discover he's the unluckiest man on earth. He better hope you find him dead. What you're gonna do to him will be much less painful that way.''
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-->''You
->''You suddenly remember you are Diamonds Droog. Whoever took your hat is about to discover he's the unluckiest man on earth. He better hope you find him dead. What you're gonna do to him will be much less painful that way.''
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-->''You stop not being Hearts Boxcars. You have made your way to the Felt's SECRET VAULT. It's bigger than you were expecting. You doubt you will be able to rely on your usual safe-cracking method, which is prying it from the wall with your bare hands. You'll have to think of something else.''
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-->''You
->''You stop not being Hearts Boxcars. You have made your way to the Felt's SECRET VAULT. It's bigger than you were expecting. You doubt you will be able to rely on your usual safe-cracking method, which is prying it from the wall with your bare hands. You'll have to think of something else.''
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Wax Lips.
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* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Wax Lips.
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[[{{Characters.Homestuck}} > Go Back]]\\
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