[TUNNELSTUCK] two slots open!

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Re: [TUNNELSTUCK] three slots open!

Postby liliet » Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:38 am

[hey guys! hope you don't mind a newbie :D I've played a lot in forum rp's before, but never here and never in homestuck chat-style]

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Your name is Nanaoh Iselia.

You are a jadeblood about seven sweeps old, which translates you think rougly to fifteen human years. You don’t have a hive because of a violent conflict that had erupted at the place of your wriggling soon after it, and spend most of your life travelling Alternia. You find the immunity to sun characteristic of your caste particularly useful for that purpose.

Your online friends usually do not believe that your lusus is a dragon, but it’s true. However, she is very small, albeit pretty, and feeds on insects. You’ve had to mostly fend for yourself to survive your wriggler years, and you consider yourself pretty tough.
Your online friends usually also do not believe tales of your
numerous adventures with your trusty explosivekind specibus, involving hordes of daywalkers, hungry rainbow drinkers, violent highbloods, terrifying alternian wildlife, sandstorms and avalanches, but they are all true! You keep telling them nevertheless, as although your friends don’t believe you, you know they are still amused by your recounting, and that is gratifying by itself. You sometimes also come up with fictional stories, but you do not show those to anyone, mostly because you think telling fake stories alongside real ones will drop your already long-suffering credibility somewhere way below the deepest brooding caverns.

Your hobby is chemistry, with biology and geology of Alternia also feeding into it, as you have to find ingredients for your trusty explosives somewhere! You like to experiment, and you perhaps would not have survived to your age had you not had a mutant power of regeneration, which is coincidentally the only reason you still have hair, eyebrows, eyelashes and are not fully covered in scars.
(Your friends do not believe you about your power, either, which perhaps contributes to making your stories that much more unbelievable)
You also prefer to keep clawkind specibus on hand, just in case you are caught in close quarters. You are not a fan of blowing yourself up: even with regeneration, it hurts; besides, during exploration you usually keep enough explosives on yourself that if they detonate there won’t be anything to regenerate from.

You are notably short, which you consider an advantage as your opponents are that much more likely to underestimate you. For your size you are rather muscular, which is however not always visible as you are also fairly chubby.
Unlike most trolls, you consider yourself to be in posession of good fashion sense. Mostly it realizes itself through your love of color yellow, which you think goes really well with your unusually dark skin. You dye your hair yellow, use it in makeup instead of your bloodcaste green, and accessorize with it. You dye your horns yellow and green with non-toxic dye, which is an unusual practice for trolls and makes you rather memorable for those who’ve met you in person.
(In the wilds that you call your home, however, these encounters are rare and usually end with the death of one of the parties. Not you, so far.)
You also like to cut your own hair, usually without a mirror, then style the remains with excessive amounts of hair gel and say that’s how you intended it. Your lusus approves of anything you do, your online friends mostly just roll eyes at anything you do, and as already mentioned there aren’t many in-person social encounters in your life, so your fashion sense remains unchallenged.

Your bloodcaste symbol is a single flame, which you also think resembles a leaf since it’s green. You don’t like to display it anywhere, but you have a pendant with it tucked safely into one of your pockets at all times.

Your trolltag is temerariousRaconteur, and you tend to insert a lot! of seemingly random exclamation marks! into your sentences! their placement however! makes sense to you! and you don’t understand! why your friends don’t do the same!


You are currently comfortably tucked in a corner of a small cave you've decided will be your shelter for tonight. Your lusus, unlike you, is mostly nocturnal, which works out well for you as you carry her on your backpack by day and let her be your guard by night.

You aren't going to sleep yet, though. Your husktop is out, and your numerous contacts, both troll and human, are blinking with 'online' status in trollian.

Your own status is 'online' as well. You pause, considering who to contact. Perhaps someone will contact you first?
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Re: [TUNNELSTUCK]

Postby sicknasty » Fri Sep 25, 2015 6:32 pm

Jay Gifford - abstractConcept - tagged: Nanaoh
You close the chat window and examine the rest of your chumroll. As you watch, a new name lights up, and you grin and click on it.
AM: Hey, Nanaoh!
AM: How's it going?
AM: FUN FACT: Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.
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Re: [TUNNELSTUCK]

Postby liliet » Fri Sep 25, 2015 7:33 pm

The chat window bleeps, informing you that your procrastination paid off and you don't, in fact, have to pick the one to talk to yourself. You look what the random winds have brought you - oh. A human. You weren't one of those young trolls brought up together with human children - your wigglerhood was pretty old-style. A bit too old style even. You aren't entirely comfortable with humans and their strange culture, but this doesn't mean you aren't curious! And this one is always particularly satisfying to talk to, the strage fact just now being a good example of why. It takes you a couple of seconds to gather his name, though. Human names are so weird!

TR: hi jay!
TR: fear of feathers? is that a thing? for humans? do your lusus tickle you a lot?
TR: i don't think! i would have survived long! if i was afraid of being tickled!

Being tickled really isn't a situation that comes up in your daily life often, so you aren't all that sure of that last statement. But the last troll you met with a weird fear froze up at the sight of your lusus fluttering motionlessly in the air, which let you slaughter them particularly effortlessly, so you think this is a good enough generalization.
After half a second pause you add:

TR: also! how are you?
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Re: [TUNNELSTUCK]

Postby sicknasty » Sat Sep 26, 2015 3:16 am

Jay Gifford - abstractConcept - tagged: Nanaoh
AM: To be honest, I have no idea!
AM: It's just one of the facts I have saved on my computer at the moment.
AM: And I'm fine, thank you!
back in the building! ish!
probably going to do a bit of an account clearout, but i'm mostly here to putter around and see what's changed



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Re: [TUNNELSTUCK]

Postby liliet » Sat Sep 26, 2015 3:31 am

You sigh. It's just one of those social human things that you keep forgetting about. Why are they so weird?

TR: i meant tell me stuff! fine means nothing! what are you doing? how is your lusus? or how are? humans have several guardians? looking over them usually right? i don't remember!
TR: why are humans so complicated!

You scan your contact list. Maybe someone else will want to talk to you too... or maybe you will want to talk to someone. You are pretty sure you are not far from at least one of your friends' hives, you just can't quite remember whose.
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Re: [TUNNELSTUCK]

Postby sicknasty » Fri Oct 02, 2015 6:14 am

Jay Gifford - abstractConcept - tagged: Nanaoh
AM: You think humans are complicated.
AM: You have wild animals for parents, for goodness's sake!
AM: On the subject of which, yeah, my 'lusii' are fine.
AM: Well, I'm guessing they're at work.
AM: And I'm just talking to you.
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Re: [TUNNELSTUCK]

Postby liliet » Fri Oct 02, 2015 6:34 am

astaria wrote:Jay Gifford - abstractConcept - tagged: Nanaoh
AM: You think humans are complicated.
AM: You have wild animals for parents, for goodness's sake!
AM: On the subject of which, yeah, my 'lusii' are fine.
AM: Well, I'm guessing they're at work.
AM: And I'm just talking to you.


Parents. You scan your memory for the vaguely familiar word. Ah right, human lusus. Who are humans. This will never stop being weird to you.

TR: see this! is why its weird! they have their own thing! and they are also lusus to you! thats illogical!
TR: and i dont see! whats complicated about lusus! they choose a wriggler and look after them! its simple!

(you don't REALLY think it's simple. It's very complicated, especially the part where some people get strong lusus that take care of them, some people get terrifying lusus that they have to appease to even survive wrigglerhood, and some people get, well, not like you don't love your dragonmom with your whole heart, but you sure would have appreciated it if she were something more than an occasional distraction in actual fights)
(the verbal fights about proper pluralization of lusus are something you took part in one or two times, then concluded they were boring and that as long as all parties understood each other it didn't actually matter)

TR: humans don't even get! to choose! they just have a random wriggler! dumped on them out of the blue! right?

You aren't QUITE sure you've got everything straight about the human lusus system, but you are fairly confident about the 'don't choose' part. You've heard something about it before. You are almost entirely certain.
And isn't that weird?!
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Re: [TUNNELSTUCK]

Postby sicknasty » Fri Oct 02, 2015 6:51 am

Jay Gifford - abstractConcept - tagged: Nanaoh
AM: It's... not quite like that.
AM: We have an, er, more direct approach to parenting.


You are not telling an alien about the birds and the bees. Or the birdbeasts and the beebeasts, or whatever trolls call their animals.
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Re: [TUNNELSTUCK]

Postby liliet » Fri Oct 02, 2015 7:13 am

astaria wrote:Jay Gifford - abstractConcept - tagged: Nanaoh
AM: It's... not quite like that.
AM: We have an, er, more direct approach to parenting.


You are not telling an alien about the birds and the bees. Or the birdbeasts and the beebeasts, or whatever trolls call their animals.

You perk up. The ellipses and typed out verbal ticks surely mean you've chanced upon something interesting - and something that's going to be good for teasing! You aren't much of a fan of making others uncomfortable but this opportunity is too good to pass up!

TR: what do you mean? direct?
TR: is it like??? a wriggler chooses a lusus instead of the other way round???

You are pretty sure it's not like that - what would be so embarrassing about it? You are just letting him know you aren't letting go of this point. Also playing oblivious to the discomfort of the situation.

TR: why would humans! even accept that!

This is the real question that bugs you. No troll would ever let someone dump a random wiggler on them and make them raise it. You have heard of some jadebloogs willingly taking on mutants and orphans - hell, you might consider doing that yourself one day, it sort of sounds like fun in a terrible exhausting way that you prefer your fun to be - but that's just a hobby! Not something that could sustain a population!
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Re: [TUNNELSTUCK]

Postby sicknasty » Sun Oct 04, 2015 5:15 am

Jay Gifford - abstractConcept - tagged: Nanaoh
AM: ...
AM: I cannot believe I am even having this conversation.
AM: Er.
AM: Why don't you, like, look up human reproduction or something?

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