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Name: Rose
At least 13 years old?: Yes
At least 18 years old?: Yes (23!)
Journal?:rosenight
Contact: AIM: kakarikarose
Current Characters Played: N/A
Character
Name: Dirk Strider
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Canon: Homestuck
Canon Point: A6A5A1 (Inside Derse's moon, before godtier)
World and Background: Homestuck Dirk
Personality: Dirk's the coolest bro anyone could ever know, the ultimate badass who can't be phased by anything and takes every problem in stride without even breaking a sweat. At least, that's what he wants people to believe. There's really much more to him than that, an entire mess of teenage problems beneath the persona of cool he tries to put out. Because that's all he really is deep down, a teenager with enough issues to keep a psychologist busy for weeks. Years if he would have anything to say about it as it'd be a case of mind games and question dodging to avoid facing what he already knows is there. Because if anything, Dirk is more self aware than most people and fully recognizes most of his fears and faults along with the aspects of himself that most people wouldn't want to admit about themselves. He's also pretty chill and laid back most of the time, keeping all of his personal problems to himself.
Control issues is a big thing with him, he views himself as the puppet master who'd always be behind the scenes pulling all the strings and setting things into place. While they may have a leader, he would assume he'd be the real leader controlling everything with little to no effort. He never knows when to stop trying to control a situation, overworking himself to dangerous levels where even his AI self has to frequently remind him that he's only human and has to damn near beg him in his own way to allow him to actually help. His mind is focused and sharp when he needs it to be, able to keep two separate bodies in two separate worlds functioning and awake at all times. He claims to do this effortlessly, but in all actuality he's been known to space out in one body while he's distracted and really working on things in the other. He eventually gives a little on the stance, allowing his AI self to assist in his tasks at the bare minimum while he lets himself fully focus on other problems. But it wasn't without seriously strain and someone just as stubborn as him giving him hell until he agreed to let up a little of his control.
Not just with himself, but with his friends as well. He tries to pull things to go as he wants them to and even uses his words and other means at times to push and control their actions and beliefs as best he can. Never maliciously, he always tries to have their best interest in mind. But he just assumes that he knows what's best and while he tries to look out for them it can sometimes come off as borderline insane. Like with Jake whom he was rather in love with, he sent him a robot to fight that would beat the ever loving shit out of him effortlessly even on Novice mode, making Jake be paranoid and always having to watch his back on an island that was already dangerous as hell. It was an effort to train him to make him stronger and more aware of things around him. He uses his words in much the same manner, trying to push people into being what he believes they should be for the best and using elaborate methods to pull this off if he sees necessary.
As it's shown with his ability to control multiple bodies at once, Dirk's extremely strong willed. It takes a lot to break him, and sometimes even that seems impossible unless there's drastic circumstances thrown at him. The only time he seriously broke his cool was when all of his friends were mentally and physically altered to be deranged copies of themselves that were near psychotic happy and under the impression a magic candy that transformed them would make all of their problems go away. Dirk flipped out, stating that he was too fucking cool for this while acting exceedingly uncool and looking as if he was about to have a panic attack. They were his friends and he couldn't hurt them or do anything to stop them from infecting him as well, his cool only returning when he was convinced to say fuck it and give in. While it worked on all three of the others, even when Dirk had been infected with the sickening Trickster mode, he stayed his usual self and was not having any of that bullshit. His outward appearance changed, but his exact thoughts on the matter were "Hell no." and "Fuck this." Unlike the others who were delusional to believe it would solve all of their problems, he was firm on the fact that you can't just magically make your problems disappear, you actually have to talk them out or face them head on to deal with them.
Dirk's a genius and he loves to flaunt this fact as much as possible when given the chance. His biggest accomplishments are his robots, most of which have simple to elaborate AI's and multiple capacities. Some of which he sends to his friends, like Lil' Seb the bunny to protect Jane and Brobot tobeat the shit out of be a sparring partner for Jake. Despite how highly he holds himself, he's very loyal and caring to his friends and would do anything for them. Literally anything. This is a boy who made an elaborate scheme in the span of seconds to cross multiple worlds and time periods to save the lives of his three friends. A scheme which involved severing his own head to send it back in time to Jake and trusted his AI to be able to talk Jake into kissing it so he could revive in his other body and put the rest of his plan into motion. And he pulled it off flawlessly, even having the confidence to do some sweet tricks on his rocketboard and give a passing fish girl a high five. As he grew up alone with only an AI clone of himself to talk to (the specific reason he made him was because he was lonely and wanted someone as intelligent as himself to converse with) his three friends mean more to him than anything. He even states he'd rather run a sword through his own dick before he'd be able to kill one of them even if it was for her own good.
All in all, Dirk's always the guy who's got his shit together and making the plans to get shit done. Being told that he's in a world between life, dreaming and death wouldn't even phase him on the outside, he'd take it in calculations and facts and try to discover the reasoning behind it. Not directly as he's smart enough to figure a direct approach wouldn't be the best choice, but subtly so others wouldn't be able to directly guess what he was getting at and trying to find. He'd want a way back home, but wouldn't push the issue beyond what he believed he'd be able to get away with without causing too much trouble. Laying low is how he prefers to go about big things, always waiting and planning before making his move. So while home will be his number one priority, he won't rush it as that could only lead to complications that could postpone it for even longer.
Abilities: His title in Sburb is the Prince of Heart which translates into Destroyer of Souls. The main ability we've seen shown with this are he has fragments of his soul which act as full entities of their own that he calls splinters. From the AI he made to his dreamself and even a version of himself that's only in Jake's dreams who stays behind even after Jake wakes up, every part of himself is connected in some way.
Skills: Dirk's a genius when it comes to computer programs and robotics, not only building robots in his spare time but also going as far as at the age of 13 creating an AI that was a mental clone of himself and implementing it into a computer system in his shades as a self learning entity with the ability to learn and grow like a normal person. His other robots vary in function, from advanced sentient ones like Brobot who was made with two difficulty settings for giving Jake someone to keep him on his toes, to Squarewave who was a simple rapbot and Sawtooth who was an unbeatable rapbot who also was equipped with dangerous weapons and fighting knowledge, to all out brainless fighting robots who were only programmed to be set on kill mode and fight Dirk so he could destroy them.
Which shows a glimpse of his fighting ability as he trained himself using such drastic methods. Though his main weapon is a katana, he can also fight with a fancy Santa doll or puppets if he really feels like humiliating someone. Another thing is his speed which is far beyond that of what most people would consider normal.
Weaknesses: Dirk's biggest weaknesses are his control issues and how much he hates himself. He tries to be in charge of everything, assuming himself a puppet master who always has to be pulling the strings behind the scenes even when he himself realizes that things don't always go as planned. He plans everything far too much, to the point where sometimes it takes forever for things to get done. And as the Prince of Heart he has splinters of himself that show him how he acts toward other people and in seeing that realizes how much he hates himself and even when he tries to back off, one of his splinters picks up the slack and makes him hate himself even more for his overly controlling and sometimes smothering behavior.
Roleplay Samples
First-Person Sample: [text]
Skipping the bullshit and heading right into the formalities here.
Fresh fish stepping up to the bars of this prison to say while it's an inconvenience to be here we could always take this as a chance to expand on our knowledge of other cultures and worlds, hell maybe even other species as there's no limit to the possibilities before us.
So yo, what's up?
Name's Di-Stri and I build sweetass bots in my spare time.
You provide materials and I might be able to work something out for anyone who's interested, anything from something to keep you company to a full on death battle bot to fight with.
Artificial intelligence included might cost a bit more than me simply being bored as it takes up more time and effort and such a delicate technology has to be handled with care on a case by case basis.
What about the rest of you?
Any special sets of skills, hobbies or even traditions you liked to indulge in back in your worlds?
Third-Person Sample: Trapped they said, refusal to elaborate on why or if there was any other way back home. If it weren't for the friendly nature of them and the elaborate accommodations they gave without hesitance then Dirk would be more than a little pissed off at the situation he was thrown into. As it was, he wasn't foolish enough to think that there was anything he could do as things stood. At least not without the proper knowledge of Tu Vishan and others who've been brought here like him. In between life, death and dreaming? He'd experienced the pains of death before and the strangeness that came with the dream bubbles and going through the Void, but this was something else entirely new. He felt strange, whole almost, like his splinters had been melded together and his mind only had one focus point instead of many for the time being. Even AR seemed to be off his shades, a fact that was as much of a relief as it was highly concerning. It meant he was alone, trapped and alone in a strange world with no hope of getting home.
And thinking of hope only made him think of one of the reasons why he had to get back. Not only Jake, but for Jane and Roxy too. While there hadn't been much going on aside from treasure hunts and exploration of their planets his friends would still be worried about him if he were to just disappear. He'd picked up what he could from the conversations as he was brought to this new home, bigger even than what he was used to back in his apartment, enough to get a general idea of this city's layout. They didn't have any useful information but any small bit was useful to someone who knew how to use it the right way.
Once he'd mapped out his new home and made sure there was nothing suspicious hidden within the walls, at least nothing he could detect, he'd sat at his console and observed just what was going on with this network of other prisoners. Their cells were elaborate and the exercise field was large and full of everything one would need to imitate a normal life but in the end they were being held against their will and expected to behave. It was interesting to see so many people interacting, some frustrated and some who seemed to have taken it much better than others had. Nothing overly useful as of yet and he knew he couldn't simply throw out a "Hey who has any ideas on how the fuck to get out of here" because that was far too broad of a question and in addition to that if the people were half as intelligent as they seem he wouldn't be the first one to pose it. No, he needed information another way. A way to find out if there was a pattern, if there was a reason all of them were brought here. Something to link them together, maybe something they had in common or a group of skills that would be of use for a bigger picture.
Anything else? Samples come from another game setting
Name: Rose
At least 13 years old?: Yes
At least 18 years old?: Yes (23!)
Journal?:
rosenightContact: AIM: kakarikarose
Current Characters Played: N/A
Character
Name: Dirk Strider
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Canon: Homestuck
Canon Point: A6A5A1 (Inside Derse's moon, before godtier)
World and Background: Homestuck Dirk
Personality: Dirk's the coolest bro anyone could ever know, the ultimate badass who can't be phased by anything and takes every problem in stride without even breaking a sweat. At least, that's what he wants people to believe. There's really much more to him than that, an entire mess of teenage problems beneath the persona of cool he tries to put out. Because that's all he really is deep down, a teenager with enough issues to keep a psychologist busy for weeks. Years if he would have anything to say about it as it'd be a case of mind games and question dodging to avoid facing what he already knows is there. Because if anything, Dirk is more self aware than most people and fully recognizes most of his fears and faults along with the aspects of himself that most people wouldn't want to admit about themselves. He's also pretty chill and laid back most of the time, keeping all of his personal problems to himself.
Control issues is a big thing with him, he views himself as the puppet master who'd always be behind the scenes pulling all the strings and setting things into place. While they may have a leader, he would assume he'd be the real leader controlling everything with little to no effort. He never knows when to stop trying to control a situation, overworking himself to dangerous levels where even his AI self has to frequently remind him that he's only human and has to damn near beg him in his own way to allow him to actually help. His mind is focused and sharp when he needs it to be, able to keep two separate bodies in two separate worlds functioning and awake at all times. He claims to do this effortlessly, but in all actuality he's been known to space out in one body while he's distracted and really working on things in the other. He eventually gives a little on the stance, allowing his AI self to assist in his tasks at the bare minimum while he lets himself fully focus on other problems. But it wasn't without seriously strain and someone just as stubborn as him giving him hell until he agreed to let up a little of his control.
Not just with himself, but with his friends as well. He tries to pull things to go as he wants them to and even uses his words and other means at times to push and control their actions and beliefs as best he can. Never maliciously, he always tries to have their best interest in mind. But he just assumes that he knows what's best and while he tries to look out for them it can sometimes come off as borderline insane. Like with Jake whom he was rather in love with, he sent him a robot to fight that would beat the ever loving shit out of him effortlessly even on Novice mode, making Jake be paranoid and always having to watch his back on an island that was already dangerous as hell. It was an effort to train him to make him stronger and more aware of things around him. He uses his words in much the same manner, trying to push people into being what he believes they should be for the best and using elaborate methods to pull this off if he sees necessary.
As it's shown with his ability to control multiple bodies at once, Dirk's extremely strong willed. It takes a lot to break him, and sometimes even that seems impossible unless there's drastic circumstances thrown at him. The only time he seriously broke his cool was when all of his friends were mentally and physically altered to be deranged copies of themselves that were near psychotic happy and under the impression a magic candy that transformed them would make all of their problems go away. Dirk flipped out, stating that he was too fucking cool for this while acting exceedingly uncool and looking as if he was about to have a panic attack. They were his friends and he couldn't hurt them or do anything to stop them from infecting him as well, his cool only returning when he was convinced to say fuck it and give in. While it worked on all three of the others, even when Dirk had been infected with the sickening Trickster mode, he stayed his usual self and was not having any of that bullshit. His outward appearance changed, but his exact thoughts on the matter were "Hell no." and "Fuck this." Unlike the others who were delusional to believe it would solve all of their problems, he was firm on the fact that you can't just magically make your problems disappear, you actually have to talk them out or face them head on to deal with them.
Dirk's a genius and he loves to flaunt this fact as much as possible when given the chance. His biggest accomplishments are his robots, most of which have simple to elaborate AI's and multiple capacities. Some of which he sends to his friends, like Lil' Seb the bunny to protect Jane and Brobot to
All in all, Dirk's always the guy who's got his shit together and making the plans to get shit done. Being told that he's in a world between life, dreaming and death wouldn't even phase him on the outside, he'd take it in calculations and facts and try to discover the reasoning behind it. Not directly as he's smart enough to figure a direct approach wouldn't be the best choice, but subtly so others wouldn't be able to directly guess what he was getting at and trying to find. He'd want a way back home, but wouldn't push the issue beyond what he believed he'd be able to get away with without causing too much trouble. Laying low is how he prefers to go about big things, always waiting and planning before making his move. So while home will be his number one priority, he won't rush it as that could only lead to complications that could postpone it for even longer.
Abilities: His title in Sburb is the Prince of Heart which translates into Destroyer of Souls. The main ability we've seen shown with this are he has fragments of his soul which act as full entities of their own that he calls splinters. From the AI he made to his dreamself and even a version of himself that's only in Jake's dreams who stays behind even after Jake wakes up, every part of himself is connected in some way.
Skills: Dirk's a genius when it comes to computer programs and robotics, not only building robots in his spare time but also going as far as at the age of 13 creating an AI that was a mental clone of himself and implementing it into a computer system in his shades as a self learning entity with the ability to learn and grow like a normal person. His other robots vary in function, from advanced sentient ones like Brobot who was made with two difficulty settings for giving Jake someone to keep him on his toes, to Squarewave who was a simple rapbot and Sawtooth who was an unbeatable rapbot who also was equipped with dangerous weapons and fighting knowledge, to all out brainless fighting robots who were only programmed to be set on kill mode and fight Dirk so he could destroy them.
Which shows a glimpse of his fighting ability as he trained himself using such drastic methods. Though his main weapon is a katana, he can also fight with a fancy Santa doll or puppets if he really feels like humiliating someone. Another thing is his speed which is far beyond that of what most people would consider normal.
Weaknesses: Dirk's biggest weaknesses are his control issues and how much he hates himself. He tries to be in charge of everything, assuming himself a puppet master who always has to be pulling the strings behind the scenes even when he himself realizes that things don't always go as planned. He plans everything far too much, to the point where sometimes it takes forever for things to get done. And as the Prince of Heart he has splinters of himself that show him how he acts toward other people and in seeing that realizes how much he hates himself and even when he tries to back off, one of his splinters picks up the slack and makes him hate himself even more for his overly controlling and sometimes smothering behavior.
Roleplay Samples
First-Person Sample: [text]
Skipping the bullshit and heading right into the formalities here.
Fresh fish stepping up to the bars of this prison to say while it's an inconvenience to be here we could always take this as a chance to expand on our knowledge of other cultures and worlds, hell maybe even other species as there's no limit to the possibilities before us.
So yo, what's up?
Name's Di-Stri and I build sweetass bots in my spare time.
You provide materials and I might be able to work something out for anyone who's interested, anything from something to keep you company to a full on death battle bot to fight with.
Artificial intelligence included might cost a bit more than me simply being bored as it takes up more time and effort and such a delicate technology has to be handled with care on a case by case basis.
What about the rest of you?
Any special sets of skills, hobbies or even traditions you liked to indulge in back in your worlds?
Third-Person Sample: Trapped they said, refusal to elaborate on why or if there was any other way back home. If it weren't for the friendly nature of them and the elaborate accommodations they gave without hesitance then Dirk would be more than a little pissed off at the situation he was thrown into. As it was, he wasn't foolish enough to think that there was anything he could do as things stood. At least not without the proper knowledge of Tu Vishan and others who've been brought here like him. In between life, death and dreaming? He'd experienced the pains of death before and the strangeness that came with the dream bubbles and going through the Void, but this was something else entirely new. He felt strange, whole almost, like his splinters had been melded together and his mind only had one focus point instead of many for the time being. Even AR seemed to be off his shades, a fact that was as much of a relief as it was highly concerning. It meant he was alone, trapped and alone in a strange world with no hope of getting home.
And thinking of hope only made him think of one of the reasons why he had to get back. Not only Jake, but for Jane and Roxy too. While there hadn't been much going on aside from treasure hunts and exploration of their planets his friends would still be worried about him if he were to just disappear. He'd picked up what he could from the conversations as he was brought to this new home, bigger even than what he was used to back in his apartment, enough to get a general idea of this city's layout. They didn't have any useful information but any small bit was useful to someone who knew how to use it the right way.
Once he'd mapped out his new home and made sure there was nothing suspicious hidden within the walls, at least nothing he could detect, he'd sat at his console and observed just what was going on with this network of other prisoners. Their cells were elaborate and the exercise field was large and full of everything one would need to imitate a normal life but in the end they were being held against their will and expected to behave. It was interesting to see so many people interacting, some frustrated and some who seemed to have taken it much better than others had. Nothing overly useful as of yet and he knew he couldn't simply throw out a "Hey who has any ideas on how the fuck to get out of here" because that was far too broad of a question and in addition to that if the people were half as intelligent as they seem he wouldn't be the first one to pose it. No, he needed information another way. A way to find out if there was a pattern, if there was a reason all of them were brought here. Something to link them together, maybe something they had in common or a group of skills that would be of use for a bigger picture.
Anything else? Samples come from another game setting
