TLDR'D

[82the8th]

Body and Appearance
1. Describe the character's height and build. Is she heavyset, thin, short, rangy?
Vriska is short and skinny. This is mostly because she's still young, but she's short and skinny in the sort of way that implies that later she'll be tall and still skinny.

2. How old is she?
Six Alternian solar sweeps. That's 13 in Earth years.

3. Describe her posture. Does she carry herself well or does she slouch?
The way Vriska's drawn suggests that her posture isn't stellar; she seems to always be standing at a curve. She slouches when she's grumpy, too.

4. How is her health? Is she fit or out of shape? Any illnesses or conditions? Any physical disabilities?
Pretty physically fit, aside from the fact that she's missing one eye and one arm. That's a thing.

5. How does she move? Is she clumsy, graceful, tense, fluid?
Her movements are... big. She's high energy and more than a bit of a grandstander, so she tends towards grand, sweeping gestures. She can also be a bit predatory and overbearing in her posture when she's feeling extra sinister. You know, like a spider.

6. How attractive is this character physically? How does she perceive herself in the mirror?
SIX SOLAR SWEEPS, but if Mindfang is any indication, she's going to be pretty smokin' when she grows up. However good-looking she may be, though, it has nothing on how good-looking she is in her mind's eye.

7. Describe her complexion. Dark, light, clear, scarred?
A lovely shade of gray.

8. Describe her hair: color, texture, style.
Huge, somewhat disheveled mane of thick black hair. It could probably dazzling if she put any effort into taming it, which she really doesn't.

9. What color are her eyes?
Yellow whites, gray irises. When she gets older, they'll fill in with her blood pigment, making them blue.

10. Does the character have any other noteworthy features?
Robot eye and robot arm. Asymmetrical yellow horns. Fangs.

11. What are her chief tension centers?
This is where I admit that I don't really know what tension centers are, so I'm going to say that she doesn't, either.

12. What is the character's wardrobe like? Casual, dressy, utilitarian? Bright colors, pastels, neutrals? Is it varied, or does she have six of the same suit?
Vriska is a huge fashion dork, so she probably has all sorts of variation going on in her wardrobe. She tends to favor dark and cool colors, fitting with her dark blue blood and the general tendency of troll aesthetics towards darkness. Since they're nocturnal, and all.

13. Do her clothes fit well? Does she seem comfortable in them?
Oh yes. So comfortable.

14. Does she dress the same on the job as she does in her free time? If not, what are the differences?
Well, that gets complicated. At FLARP she dresses in her Mindfang costume, and she generally dresses as normal during the SGRUB session, but she switches to bright orange and yellow hooded pajamas when she ascends to God Tier.

15. You knew it was coming: Boxers, briefs or commando?
That question makes absolutely no sense to her.


Speech
1. What does this character's voice sound like? High-pitched, deep, hoarse?
High-pitched, what with being essentially a 13-year-old girl, and I like to think pretty grating as well.

2. How does she normally speak? Loud, soft, fast, evenly? Does she talk easily, or does she hesitate?
Loud and bold. Why wouldn't anyone want to hear what she has to say?

3. Does the character have a distinct accent or dialect? Any individual quirks of pronunciation? Any, like, you know, verbal tics?
She is a liiiiiiiittle biiiiiiiit dramaaaaaaaatic, which is expressed in text as vowels sometimes being stretched out for 8 letters. Also, she's got a weird 8/spider fixation. If she was a batman villain, she'd make spider puns all the time.

4. What language/s does she speak, and with how much fluency?
English and Alternian/Trollspeak, although the difference seems to be vague sometimes.

5. Does she switch languages or dialects in certain situations?
Nope.

6. Is she a good impromptu speaker, or does she have to think about her words?
She's great at monologuing on the spot. A natural born talker.

7. Is she eloquent or inarticulate? Under what circumstances might this change?
She's pretty informal in her speech patterns, although this might not be apparent to most humans. In troll dialect, for instance, "bathtub" is a very fancy and upper-class word, which she would eschew in favor of the much more casual term "ablutions trap".


Mental and Emotional
1. How intelligent is this character? Is she book-smart or street-smart?
You don't get to being a furious manipulatrix without some smarts behind it! That being said, Vriska isn't nearly as smart as she thinks. Most of her plans end up going awry one way or another, and she usually can't actually manipulate people without resorting to straight-up mind control.

2. Does she think on her feet, or does she need time to deliberate?
She's capable of doing both, but prefers the latter. She's a schemer more than an improviser.

3. Describe the character's thought process. Is she more logical, or more intuitive? Idealistic or practical?
Gosh, uh, hm. Vriska's mental outlook revolves furiously around herself. Her thoguht process is probably more practical and logical than it is idealistic or intuitive, as she's constantly playing Machiavellian Xanatox Gambitlord with her friends. She's probably clinically a psychopath, too.

4. What kind of education has the character had?
Like most trolls, she's basically had to raise herself from childhood, with some help from her lusus (who mostly just ate other trolls( and carpenter droids (which helped her build her hive). So, uh, home-schooled?

5. What are her areas of expertise? What, if anything, is she interested in learning more about?
Piracy, manipulating people, the pursuit of power and glory, precognition. Most of those for reasons to be discussed in the next section.

6. Is she an introvert or an extrovert?
Extrovert, very.

7. Describe the character's temperament. Is she even-tempered or does she have mood swings? Cheerful or melancholy? Laid-back or driven?
All of these things, all at different times. She's usually quite upbeat and driven, but occasional bouts of self-reflection send her into a Mood.

8. How does she respond to new people or situations? Is she suspicious, relaxed, timid, enthusiastic?
By leaping into them with great fervor, then trying to get on top!

9. Is she more likely to act, or to react?
Act, always. Reacting is what happens to other people, and it can get you killed.

10. Which is her default: fight or flight?
Fight!

11. Describe the character's sense of humor. Does she appreciate jokes? Puns? Gallows humor? Bathroom humor? Pranks?
Vriska has what one might call a supervillain's sense of humor. Most of the things she finds funny are 1) dark, and 2) at the expense of others.

12. Does the character have any diagnosable mental disorders? If yes, how does she deal with them?
As mentioned before, she is probably a diagnosable psychopath. She once used mind control to make somebody jump off a cliff while laughing, leaving them paralyzed, then later tried to get them to apologize for being crippled. While laughing again.

13. What moments in this character's life have defined her as a person?
The big one is probably when her eye and arm were blown off by Doc Scratch's orbsplosion, then Aradia beat her within an inch of her life. Also, killing her lusus. Also, dying and ascending to God Tier. Also, dying again.

14. What does she fear?
She doesn't show much fear, even in the face of death. If she fears anything, it's being unimportant.

15. What are her hopes or aspirations?
Glory, power, riches. Filling the boots left by her Ancestor. After Bec Noir escapes the human session to destroy her world, she sets about beginning the chain of events that will lead to his creation, so that she can be the one to kill him.

16. What is something she doesn't want anyone to find out about her?
How much killing Tavros affected her, and how human she was becoming near the end.


Relationships
1. Describe this character's relationship with her parents.
Parents don't exist in troll culture, but this is a good time to talk about her Ancestor instead! Every troll, some believe has a speciic ancestor whose genetic material runs strong in them, and whose footsteps they are destined to follow. Vriska's Ancestor is Mindfang, a pirate queen and all-around insane, treacherous badass of epic proportions. Vriska doesn't admire Mindfang so much as want to be her. She named her FLARP character Mindfang, and uses the name as an alias at least once. It's an obsession.

2. Does the character have any siblings? What is/was their relationship like?
Siblings also don't exist in troll culture. It's every troll for themself.

3. Are there other blood relatives to whom she is close? Are there ones she can't stand?
Since you probably get the point by now, I'll go ahead and talk about her lusus here. A lusus is a guardian creature from the caverns of Alternia that selects a young troll, and acts as its guardian. Over time, the relationship changes, the troll taking care of their lusus as much as the lusus protects the troll. Vriska's lusus is an enormous spider with a ravenous appetite. Her only way to keep it from dying was to kill an feed it thousands of other trolls. She resents this on some level, but doesn't really care about all those dead strangers enough to really hate the huge spider. She didn't seem to particularly enjoy putting it out of its misery when it died.

4. Are there other, unrelated people whom she considers part of her family? What are her relationships with them?
There's the other eleven core SGRUB player trolls, and less so the four SBURB player humans she indirectly meets later. Her relationships with them are very complicated, but mostly consist of spite and burned bridges.

5. Who is/was the character's best friend? How did they meet?
"Friend" is another difficult concept on Alternia, where the word for friend is identical to the word for enemy. However, I'd probably go with Kanaya. Their relationship goes through a number of phases, and they seem to have known each other since childhood, but if Vriska was to call any other troll a friend, it would probably be her.

6. Does she have other close friends?
Not anymore.

7. Does she make friends easily, or does she have trouble getting along with people?
She seems to make friends pretty easily, but she loses them just as easily, due to being a huge bitch. Bluh bluh.

8. Which does she consider more important: family or friends?
This question makes no sense.

9. Is the character single, married, divorced, widowed? Has she been married more than once?
SIX SOLAR SWEEPS.

10. Is she currently in a romantic relationship with someone other than a spouse?
No.

11. Who was her first crush? Who is her latest?
At a decent estimate:
PALE: Kanaya. Currently none.
ASHEN: Tavros, Kanaya. Currently none.
CALIGNIOUS: Aradia. Currently unknown.
FLUSHED: Nicolas Cage. Currently Kanaya.

12. What does she look for in a romantic partner?
Incredible badassery, apparently.

13. Does the character have children? Grandchildren? If yes, how does she relate to them? If no, does she want any?
SIX SOLAR SWEEPS.

14. Does she have any rivals or enemies?
Those words describe... basically everyone she knows, actually.

15. What is the character's sexual orientation? Where does she fall on the Kinsey scale?
The scale is meaningless - trolls consider gender about as relevant to sexual attraction as humans do about, say, hair color. To say she was bisexual would still be misleading because it implies a sexual identity, which isn't a thing on Alternia. It helps that their reproductive process can work with either gender.

16. How does she feel about sex? How important is it to her?
Without getting into the details of the troll reproductive process (which is gross), it's very important to all trolls, considering that failing to produce the required genetic material results in being culled my imperial drones.

17. What are her turn-ons? Turn-offs? Weird bedroom habits?
She might actually be a bit of a masochist. It's possible.


Beliefs
1. Do you know your character's astrological (zodiac or choice) sign? How well does she fit type?
While it's hard to explain quite what these terms mean for someone born on another planet, Vriska is undoubtedly a Scorpio. The themes fit, but that's not too suprising, as each of the twelve trolls was designed with a specific zodiac sign in mind.

2. Is this character religious, spiritual, both, or neither? How important are these elements in her life?
I kind of suspect that religion doesn't really exist in any coherent sense on Alternia. She believes in the Ancestors, though, to the point of obsession.

3. Does this character have a personal code of morals or ethics? If so, how did that begin? What would it take to compromise it?
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4. How does she regard beliefs that differ from hers? Is she tolerant, intolerant, curious, indifferent?
Being a troll AND an egomaniac, Vriska generally considers beliefs aside from hers to be dumb and wrong.

5. What prejudices does she hold? Are they irrational or does she have a good reason for them?
She has a bit of contempt towards lowbloods, largely because they're more susceptible to her psychic powers. She isn't a dick about it, though, any more than she's a dick about everything.


Daily Life
1. What is the character's financial situation? Is she rich, poor, comfortable, in debt?
Rolling in loot from her piracy days, but it mostly just sits in a pile. She seems to live about as comfortably as any of the other trolls.

2. What is her social status? Has this changed over time, and if so, how has the change affected her?
She's a blueblood, which is close to the top of the hemospectral hierarchy. The only higher rank is purple blood, which is only seen in full-on royalty.

3. Where does she live? House, apartment, trailer? Is her home her castle or just a place to crash? What condition is it in? Does she share it with others?
She lives in a castle-like hive that she built herself. She lives alone aside from the massive lusus hanging out near the hive. Most trolls have a similar arrangement.

4. Besides the basic necessities, what does she spend her money on?
Magic eight balls, fashionable duds, FLARPing gear. Fraymotifs.

5. What does she do for a living? Is she good at it? Does she enjoy it, or would she rather be doing something else?
If you consider first SGRUB and then trolling humans to be her "job", then she loves and excels at both.

6. What are her interests or hobbies? How does she spend her free time?
She's a major apocalypse buff, and has a borderline fetishistic fixation on breaking magic eight balls. She's also big into extreme roleplaying, the kind that's so extreme that it has, in fact, real monsters and lethal peril in it.

7. What are her eating habits? Does she skip meals, eat out, drink alcohol, avoid certain foods?
I don't think we ever see anyone other than Gamzee or Terezi eat something...


Associations
Which of the following do you associate with the character, or which is her favorite:

1. Color? Blue.
2. Smell? Blood.
3. Time of day? Midnight.
4. Season? Spring.
5. Book? The Prince, Machiavelli.
6. Music? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0mFr3WY1m8
7. Place? The troll asteroid base.
8. Substance? Venom.
9. Plant? *shrug*
10. Animal? Black widow spider.


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