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Eridan Ampora | Homestuck | Unreserved
Name: Zorn
Age: 26
Contact Info: Aim: Zornsable |
Other Characters: Emmanellain de Fortemps
Character Information
Name: Eridan Ampora
Canon: Homestuck
Age: 6 sweeps (equivalent to 13 years old)
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Right as Kanaya kills him after 3x Showdown
Background Link: Bam
Inventory:
Just his clothes on his back pretty much, which is:
Scarf, black long sleeved shirt with a violet Aquarius symbol on it, striped
horrorspants, his bowling shoes, and ugly hipster glasses.Personality:
To put Eridan simply, he’s a raging selfish, hipster, wanna-be wizard, douchebag, prince with a genocide complex. But to go a little more in depth, he’s basically still that just with a little more foundation as to why. Being part of the troll race, which is highly violent and destructive, it’s natural for him to be a bit of an asshole. That of course, goes hand in hand with his blood, being the second richest hue in the hemospectrum(The system in which trolls use as a caste depending on blood color) making him royalty and he grew up as such; which by the way, he’ll remind you of repeatedly, because that’s what he is, royalty, don’t you forget it. But with being such, he’s also better than you, seeing as not only is he a troll AND royalty, but he’s also a sea dweller (which is a subspecies of troll that mutated, allowing them to live underwater). Basically, chances are, he’s better than you in some capacity if not all, and he’ll tell you as such, because he can’t let you forget the facts, you know the ones about him being better than you? Because that’s what he is. Better than you.
At first glance, he seems to be nothing more than a dramatic douchebag, which really basically IS what he is, seeing as through his love for Alternian history, wars, and the stories that follow such a genre, he’s crafted himself a dramatic and theatrical persona that follows suit to the epic stories of conquest and heart wrenching defeat and horrible betrayal and sweeping romance. With those tales, he’s molded himself a prideful, overly dramatic, and obnoxious identity. That coupled with his already ‘Holier than thou’ attitude makes for quite the charmer. Along with these most charming personality traits comes his interests, which having already covered his love for the glorious military history of Alternia and their captivating tales, comes his genocide complex, which one could easily imagine the idea spawned from these tales of glory and defeat, along with him being a vicious sea dweller. Trolls are violent as is, but as one climbs the rainbow ladder that makes up the hemospectrum, the higher you get, the more violent the troll. Eridan definitely reigns true on this fact, seeing as he’s sworn it as his destiny to kill all land dwellers! With such plans, he amassed a great deal of doomsday devices and weapons with the help of his then kismesis(Basically hategirlfriend), Vriska Serket.
Of course, he amassed these by his FLARPing sessions with her. FLARP being Fatal Live Action Role-Play. This is a pretty common thing for Troll kids to take part in, but it often ends in death and revenge cycles. Eridan, miraculously, avoided both in his time, perhaps because he killed anyone before they could start a revenge cycle or kill him, and also because he was more so in a partnership/rivalry with Vriska so it never quite got to that point between them at least. However, he was a very seasoned FLARPer and as notorious as Vriska, they defintiely swept the seas and divided the spoils among each other for a good while! Eridan killing lusii to keep Feferi’s own fed, while Vriska took the trolls for her own lusus. All the while Vriska giving him these dooms day devices to help him in his plot to KILL ALL LANDDWELLERS. Which always failed.
While Eridan may dramatically boast about his intent on killing all land dwellers, it’s made obvious by his then moirail(another quadrant in troll romance) Feferi, that she didn’t think he actually had the intent to kill them, seeing as he made friends with a few of them. This may be true, which evidence does point more towards her speculation being as such since at any moment he could have killed them all with minimal effort, since he kept her lusus fed in order to keep its voice down. Had her lusus even began to whisper, trolls would have started dropping dead like flies. But one could presume that maybe he was trying to preserve what he had with Feferi as well, since she definitely wasn’t for his plans. A point he’s actually pretty sore about.
Which ever it is, it’s pretty apparent that Eridan is rather dubious with how he holds himself, which of course makes him come off as a raging douche, which he is, surely I failed to mention that before. He often times judges people by their worth to him, trying to use them to whatever extent he can to achieve his goals and hardly valuing them as a person--he mainly does this, though, with those lower on the hemospectrum. He also holds very entitled views for things he does, and when he doesn’t get what he thinks he deserves, he bitches and moans and complains--mainly to Karkat. Much like he had done in the veil when Nepeta had rejected him after he saved her life by getting her into the game. Karkat, of course, calls him out on his shit after he refers to her as “the kitty cat shipper cave girl” instead of by name, which one could assume he might not even REMEMBER her name at all because of her lowblood status. Which, Eridan very maturely changes the subject instead of owning up to being the insensitive douche he is.
He also hardly cares if he’s not being as gentle as he should be, because fuck your feelings they don’t mean shit compared to his. Which is probably why his flushed feelings for his moirail went very unrequited, since he never once really thought about her feelings in their relationship, or really considered her feelings for much of anything other than not using her lusus to kill all land dwellers. He had wanted something more red with her, but ended up playing his cards wrong and getting into the pale quadrant with her. Which, instead of trying to define his feelings to her in a less dubious fashion, he continued their romance and hardly acted the part of a moirail should, which leaves no question as to why their relationship ended how it did. This of course, devastated Eridan and the dramatics went everywhere, because woe is he, how could she leave him?!
This is another important point about Eridan though, as much as he whines and complains and throws around dramatics like a monkey does its own shit, there is a distinct difference between him dramatically whining and him being legitimately sad. He doesn’t so much like to show off his actual, genuine emotions, in fact a good deal of them need to be dragged out of him, where as he’s ready and willing to throw around his fake tears and wibble lips and scarf chewing and running off in a dramatic fashion and making a huge tool out of himself to everyone around him. Which, most people just get tired of, especially when he does this display when someone rejects him. Oh did I not mention how he throws himself at someone if they show the vaguest sense of interest at him? Yeah he does that too.
He wasn’t always such a desperate tool, really only getting to that apex of his personality through losing nearly EVERYTHING. As the twelve of them entered the game, one could argue that this hipstery fool lost more than anyone. For most, they escaped the tyranny of their own homeworld, where as Eridan lost all footing his homeworld gave him. Not to mention, he lost two quadrants almost simultaneously! That’s a HUGE shot to anyone’s ego, and Eridan didn’t take it well. But, then again, what 13 year old child would? And things only got worse for him in the game. He basically exiled himself to his own planet, where he killed angels, and felt utterly victimized by everyone’s “negligence” towards him, and then when they went to claim their victory BAM, they get stuck on a meteor waiting to die. However, while everyone else was busy worrying about important things, Eridan’s flirting with humans, so he really doesn’t help himself at all. He's the master of self sabotage.
Eridan is definitely something of an acquired taste he requires someone to acquire some taste, it takes a certain kind of person to deal with him on a day to day basis, especially when he really brings a lot of his own woes onto himself with his ridiculous attitude and bullheadedness and then tries to play the victim when he fucks up. He’s very dramatic in every way possible, even when showing general gratitude he throws in his own flare of dramatics. An example of which is when Kanaya made him his science stick, he definitely pulled out his wibble lip in thanking her there. Which by the way, this SCIENCE stick is powered by science, not magic, cuz magic is fake and science isn’t ok? Good.
Who cares if he is really into magic, despite him recognizing it’s fiction, this thing is powered by science and nothing else! (Except, chances are, it IS magic.) His fascination with what he so eagerly writes off as fiction is painfully apparent, with how it lead him to hassle Rose later on in the veil. Accusing her of such fraudulent acts, while in the same conversation he tries to solicit her for a black relationship and even demanding she shares with him her secrets of witchcraft--this of course ended in bitter rejection and Eridan losing his computer on account of her using her fakey fake fictional magic to explode it in his face. So in short, Eridan is a bit of a hypocrite. Okay, he’s a huge hypocrite, but fuck that noise because if it benefits him it hardly matters a damn bit, right? Right.
He relentlessly antagonizes people in hopes of getting a kismesis and then tries to swoon people into a matespritship, it hardly works--in fact doesn’t at all, but he’s trying. Trying to get people to like/hate him and trying to do what HE thinks is right, but he goes about it in all the wrong ways, that it pushes everyone away and makes himself miserable. He’s excessively difficult about near everything, and extremely stubborn, he had spent a great deal of the game killing angels on his own planet, despite Karkat trying to convince him to stop. Eridan was so set on being right about this, that he stayed there the whole time (Till he left to try and duel Sollux), but later bitches that no one would visit him on his planet, despite how he made the place a war zone. He is such the victim in this, as you can see.
Eventually, through an instance of his stubbornness and thinking he’s right about a solution to their horrible situation in the veil (Of course not without some egging on by a certain double-horned, bipolar, mustard-blooded troll) he demonstrates how thoughtless and vicious he can be by throwing a tantrum and with it he KINDA guarantees their species’ extinction via destroying the one thing they need to reproduce. Of course not before killing the girl he loved and one he regarded as a friend right after blinding the troll who stole "his" girl from him, and then absconding to go and duel some more. This all because he thought he knew how to save Feferi and himself, what with them being trapped on a meteor with the other 10 trolls waiting for death, but his plan was pretty stupid and not so well thought out, so of course it ended disastrously.
As much as Eridan isn’t completely heartless, he’s too wrapped in his own emotions and ideals to really think and consider other people as much as he should, or really even think about his actions before he does them. He’s an extremely impulsive and entitled jerk, who IS trying, but just doing it entirely wrong. He’s definitely misguided with his ideals and with troll society being what it was, but it hardly excuses him being the vicious dickbag he is.
Flavor Abilities:
Trolls are tough as hell to kill, seriously, unless it's something fatal like being CHAINSAWED IN HALF, they basically can withstand a lot. So, while Eridan wouldn't be able to withstand that much, I do wish for him to retain SOME durability from that, so he's not as frail as some 13 year old kid normally would be.
Suitability:
Eridan is pretty used to being in terrible situations to be perfectly honest. However, snow and ice isn't something he's really encountered before. He's also got a bit of a huge genocide streak, and used to kill giant intimidating monsters as part of his responsibility of keeping his species alive—so not being able to kill these monsters will surely frustrate him beyond all reason. Which is fine by me!
RP Samples:
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None of this was any fucking fair at all.
He didn't ask to be brought into this veritable hell of snow and ice. Sure, maybe the alternative wasn't much better, what with being dead and all. But his hands feel as though they're ice—or at least what he CAN feel of them—and there's these obnoxious monsters that don't have the good decency to even take any damage no matter what he tries. He'd never admit to being a little scared of them, even though he kind of is.
But who could blame him? Probably Vriska, but she'd be just as much up shit creak without a paddle, so he doesn't let the thought bother him too much. Even if all he has right now is his thoughts while he tries to keep himself warm in the shitty coat that was provided for him. He's cursing his poor fortune in finding a house without a usable fire place or any other such useful amenities. Seriously, whoever was responsible for this place needed to be promptly eviscerated or something equally fitting for the kind of torment he's being put through! At least that line of thinking was keeping his mind off of how his knees were shaking from the cold, or how he was pretty sure he couldn't feel his hands anymore. Not to mention his poor fins.
"God fuckin' damnit, this is a load a festerin' fucking behemoth leavin's!" He growls to absolutely no one, because he doesn't have the good graces to even earn himself company here it seems. Something he doesn't entirely blame on himself, even if he knows it's likely got to do with his less than charming personality. At least, to some degree, but it's a whole lot easier just blaming it on the populace at large and their need to acquire some good taste. Hell, if he was any of them, he would DEFINITELY want a violet blood like himself as company! His is the best there could be!
What a bunch of shitty peasants, maybe he's better off shivering on his own in this abandoned house. It's not like he needed anyone back on the meteor, or in the game, and he certainly doesn't need anyone here. He'll survive... probably. If he could handle those powerful as shit angels back on LOWAA, then he can handle this.
Even if he might prefer killing angels to freezing his fins off.
ACCEPTED
This A-frame house consists of one large empty room and a sealed door that seems like it should lead to a basement, although there's currently no way to open it up and see. A penis has been drawn on a corner of the wall in some sweet-smelling dried white substance, as well as "suck it". Below the words, "you first" is written in pen.
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