OOC INFORMATION Player: Kim Age: 22 Personal Journal:heartpocket Contact Info:HeartPocket Other Characters: none
IC INFORMATION Characters Name: Karkat Vantas Age: 7.4 Alternian Solar Sweeps (16 earth years) Canon: MSPaint Adventures - Homestuck Canon Point: Recent canon as of this point. Basically, the three years on the meteor are over, and Jade has JUST space-zapped him and company onto Jake English's game planet, the Land of Mounds and Xenon, where John has been waiting for them. Species: Alternian Troll Gender: Male Orientation:Palesexual bisexual as per the troll norm. Gender doesn't matter for reproduction in their species, and he has canonically held interest in both male and female characters.
History:His MSPA wikia entry. Appearance: In canon, he looks kinda like this, but in Holly Heights he looks kinda like this. Personality: Karkat is almost constantly angry and judgmental. He even insults the people he is closest to, probably more than he would a stranger. A lot of his personality can be summed up as ‘crabby’, because of this. From his first appearance in the comic, it’s obvious that he makes a big deal out of everything and has a short temper on top of an already ornery disposition. He only smiles once throughout the entire comic so far, and that was only after a poignant scene that could have ended in his own death, but instead ended in a new relationship. It’s safe to say he reserves his smiles only for critical moments like this. As far as explaining why he’s such an angry kid, just take a look at the race he’s a part of. Trolls are a violent, bloodthirsty species who believe in survival of the fittest to the extreme. The weak are killed off; the strong live to fight another day. Karkat’s anger is likely conditioned to step away from that ‘weak’ label, because the louder you are, the more people fear you, right? And because of his mutant blood color (trolls have varying blood colors, and with them a tiered caste system. Red is the lowest and rarest, because it is considered a mutation), he has all the more reason to appear threatening and strong. It’s self-defense, carrying over to his every day interaction with everyone he knows. He also hates seeing other people having fun, probably because he has little interest in what other people consider fun, and has to antagonize them for it.
Karkat likes to compete and come out on top. At the start of the troll’s session of the SGRUB game, he usurps the role of Red Team leader from Terezi Pyrope, pitting him against Sollux Captor, who at first led the Blue Team. He and Sollux have a history of competition, particularly with insult wars and hacking (Sollux is the superior hacker, hands down). Through all their bickering, the two are somehow still friends. A pair of friendly rivals is probably a better description, because they still fight and Karkat still wants to rub a win in his face. When Sollux tells him to stop playing the game, Karkat takes his warning as an attempt to cheat a win, and this only eggs Karkat to keep playing the game with gusto. Like he’s wearing blinders, all he sees ahead of him is the eventual win to hold over Sollux’s head. He’s stupid in the sense that he views advice as a trick, and he believes everyone to be as into the competition as he is. Later in the game, he is seen as ruthless and ambitious, quickly developing a plan to take down the King and Queen with the help of a new ally, the troll session’s incarnation of Jack Noir. He also killed the Denizen (boss) of his medium (his own little game planet) without any hesitation (we later discover this was probably a bad idea, as these giant creatures had an important part in each character’s own quest within the game. For example, Jade spoke with hers and was given important choices to make.) Being reckless, stubborn, and competitive makes him a somewhat successful leader in the end. All of the trolls managed to survive their session, anyway. He does have trouble with subtlety, though, so his strengths lie in creating a plan and yelling at everyone until they follow it.
His obvious aggressive character traits aside, he also actually cares deeply for those close to him. Karkat sheds actual tears when Sollux dies for the first time, in front of Jack Noir and a distracted Gamzee, even. He even goes so far as to attempt to revive Kanaya Maryam with a kiss after her apparent death, also while crying. It takes something as drastic as the death of a friend to make him cry, but obviously it’s not entirely beyond him to do so. This is a big deal, because trolls cry the same color as their blood, which means if someone were to see his tears, they would instantly know that he’s a weird mutant. So, yes, he will try to force back these tears unless he absolutely cannot handle it anymore. On the topic of his blood color, it’s not something he’s proud of. He won’t talk about it and he definitely doesn’t wear the color in his everyday wardrobe like the rest of the trolls are fond of doing. Even his gray text is (what he used to think was) a clever disguise to throw people off of his case, making him the only troll who doesn’t type in his blood color. When Terezi hounds him about it, he clams up and changes the subject quickly. Later, after a private off-screen meeting the two have, Terezi seems to have learned Karkat’s blood color, but he makes her promise not to tell the others. He says he will tell them eventually, but only when he knows they respect him as a leader. Thus far, he still hasn’t told anyone. When he and Jack Noir first met, the carapace stabbed Karkat (in a way Karkat describes as his way of saying “hello”, a little naively perhaps) and the troll tried to hide it on instinct. The two soon bonded though, when Jack revealed that his blood was the same color. Karkat can easily sympathize with those who share his blood color, and finding out humans all have this same mutant color still surprises him. Later, he mellows out and stops trying to hide his blood color as much, because Alternia is essentially destroyed and none of his friends seem to care either way. He even has a conversation with himself from the future via the chat interface using the bright red color he used to despise.
Possibly another way Karkat relates to humans is that he is not at all as bloodthirsty as the rest of the troll race. He talks a big game, threatens violent murder with the best of them, but that’s all behind those CAPITAL LETTERS and his shroud of intelligent vulgarity. When he’s behind a computer screen, he’s big and bad, a hatched leader made out to become a threshecutioner one day. This all changes when he’s right in the middle of the action, when his friends start killing each other and he is too dumbstruck to do anything about it but stare like a dumbass. When Kanaya cuts off Tavros’ legs, Karkat literally faints at the sight of the gore. He doesn’t handle intense situations well in person and will often lock up or panic. This goes back to him caring too much, tacked on with the reason he cries when his friends die. He hates this weakness, along with other attributes of himself he loathes and despises. His failures are things he is very aware of and will openly admit to when they aren’t a point of pride. Some things take longer for him to admit than others, but in general he is very open about finding reasons to hate himself.
As much as he’d loathe admitting it, Karkat relates well to people and is a font of personal advice for some of his awkward needier friends. He loves horrible romance movies and isn’t ashamed of it, so naturally he’s picked up a few things from watching the movies he favors. This doesn’t necessarily make his outlook on romance a healthy or correct one because movies only emulate so much of a relationship before they are considered superficial and fake, but thanks to his surprisingly stable mental condition he has a decent understanding of emotions and how one should balance them. He believes showing many kinds of pity is the best way to have the capacity to hate. Pity and hate, by the way, happen to be the strongest two emotions trolls experience, and thus are the basis for the ideology of troll romance. If he feels another person’s problems are within his power to help, he’ll even cease with the insults and try to understand the problem on the level of the other person. He can’t make people follow his advice, but he can sure as hell thrust it at them until they get the picture and either (a) try it out, or (b) leave him alone. As soon as he’s done trying to be Troll Dr. Phil, he’s quick to switch back to being prickly and insulting. With as much as he understands the delicate balance of pity and hate and how romance is technically supposed to work, he sucks spectacularly at it.
So basically, Karkat is primarily a grouchy douchebag who likes to fling obscenities at suspecting and unsuspecting faces. He’s headstrong and ambitious, but kind of a screw-up when it boils down to it. In blind rage or desire to beat someone, he can do really reckless things. It’s easy to get his blood boiling and he hates being teased, that will set him off quicker than anything. Still, he’s a good guy with a lot of heart and a desire to safely corral all of his idiot friends for their own good. His demands might be stupid or harsh at times, but he really does mean well. The last thing he wants is for his friends to die or kill each other. He can’t keep up his façade of giving no damns all the time, especially when he lets his emotions shine through his jerk exterior like a beacon of how much he cares. Abilities: Karkat is a self-proclaimed expert on relationships and the ilk, likes to give advice and takes heart to heart matters seriously. His role is the Knight of Blood, which means he "protects" (Knight) "bonds" (blood). He builds alliances with people to obtain a goal. Seriously, that's his power. He is a lethal weapon with a pair of sickles and has experienced quite an adventure. Other than that, he has an impressive vocabulary and a mediocre at best skill at computer programming. Useful stuff. Other: :|a Would he be able to retain previous game memories or has that option been nixed?
Third Person: The light seasons for this world were somewhat enjoyable, Karkat could admit. Couples walked along by, chitchatting about some new occasion or another, all the while the sun shined on. Never before could he say that the sun felt comforting.
The bench he was sitting on was comfortable, though sturdy. He took up as much as possible to prevent anyone getting any bright ideas like sitting beside him while he enjoyed a day outside. For once, he wasn't screaming, wasn't being anal about something someone didn't do just right, didn't have to be the leader for just one day. He could enjoy the break, right?
Karkat learned the hard way that you can't trust the weather in Spring. He learned this when it started raining and he didn't have an umbrella. He was now soaked and pissy.
"...of fucking course this would happen."
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IC INFORMATION
Characters Name: Karkat Vantas
Age: 7.4 Alternian Solar Sweeps (16 earth years)
Canon: MSPaint Adventures - Homestuck
Canon Point: Recent canon as of this point. Basically, the three years on the meteor are over, and Jade has JUST space-zapped him and company onto Jake English's game planet, the Land of Mounds and Xenon, where John has been waiting for them.
Species: Alternian Troll
Gender: Male
Orientation:
Palesexualbisexual as per the troll norm. Gender doesn't matter for reproduction in their species, and he has canonically held interest in both male and female characters.History: His MSPA wikia entry.
Appearance: In canon, he looks kinda like this, but in Holly Heights he looks kinda like this.
Personality: Karkat is almost constantly angry and judgmental. He even insults the people he is closest to, probably more than he would a stranger. A lot of his personality can be summed up as ‘crabby’, because of this. From his first appearance in the comic, it’s obvious that he makes a big deal out of everything and has a short temper on top of an already ornery disposition. He only smiles once throughout the entire comic so far, and that was only after a poignant scene that could have ended in his own death, but instead ended in a new relationship. It’s safe to say he reserves his smiles only for critical moments like this. As far as explaining why he’s such an angry kid, just take a look at the race he’s a part of. Trolls are a violent, bloodthirsty species who believe in survival of the fittest to the extreme. The weak are killed off; the strong live to fight another day. Karkat’s anger is likely conditioned to step away from that ‘weak’ label, because the louder you are, the more people fear you, right? And because of his mutant blood color (trolls have varying blood colors, and with them a tiered caste system. Red is the lowest and rarest, because it is considered a mutation), he has all the more reason to appear threatening and strong. It’s self-defense, carrying over to his every day interaction with everyone he knows. He also hates seeing other people having fun, probably because he has little interest in what other people consider fun, and has to antagonize them for it.
Karkat likes to compete and come out on top. At the start of the troll’s session of the SGRUB game, he usurps the role of Red Team leader from Terezi Pyrope, pitting him against Sollux Captor, who at first led the Blue Team. He and Sollux have a history of competition, particularly with insult wars and hacking (Sollux is the superior hacker, hands down). Through all their bickering, the two are somehow still friends. A pair of friendly rivals is probably a better description, because they still fight and Karkat still wants to rub a win in his face. When Sollux tells him to stop playing the game, Karkat takes his warning as an attempt to cheat a win, and this only eggs Karkat to keep playing the game with gusto. Like he’s wearing blinders, all he sees ahead of him is the eventual win to hold over Sollux’s head. He’s stupid in the sense that he views advice as a trick, and he believes everyone to be as into the competition as he is. Later in the game, he is seen as ruthless and ambitious, quickly developing a plan to take down the King and Queen with the help of a new ally, the troll session’s incarnation of Jack Noir. He also killed the Denizen (boss) of his medium (his own little game planet) without any hesitation (we later discover this was probably a bad idea, as these giant creatures had an important part in each character’s own quest within the game. For example, Jade spoke with hers and was given important choices to make.) Being reckless, stubborn, and competitive makes him a somewhat successful leader in the end. All of the trolls managed to survive their session, anyway. He does have trouble with subtlety, though, so his strengths lie in creating a plan and yelling at everyone until they follow it.
His obvious aggressive character traits aside, he also actually cares deeply for those close to him. Karkat sheds actual tears when Sollux dies for the first time, in front of Jack Noir and a distracted Gamzee, even. He even goes so far as to attempt to revive Kanaya Maryam with a kiss after her apparent death, also while crying. It takes something as drastic as the death of a friend to make him cry, but obviously it’s not entirely beyond him to do so. This is a big deal, because trolls cry the same color as their blood, which means if someone were to see his tears, they would instantly know that he’s a weird mutant. So, yes, he will try to force back these tears unless he absolutely cannot handle it anymore. On the topic of his blood color, it’s not something he’s proud of. He won’t talk about it and he definitely doesn’t wear the color in his everyday wardrobe like the rest of the trolls are fond of doing. Even his gray text is (what he used to think was) a clever disguise to throw people off of his case, making him the only troll who doesn’t type in his blood color. When Terezi hounds him about it, he clams up and changes the subject quickly. Later, after a private off-screen meeting the two have, Terezi seems to have learned Karkat’s blood color, but he makes her promise not to tell the others. He says he will tell them eventually, but only when he knows they respect him as a leader. Thus far, he still hasn’t told anyone. When he and Jack Noir first met, the carapace stabbed Karkat (in a way Karkat describes as his way of saying “hello”, a little naively perhaps) and the troll tried to hide it on instinct. The two soon bonded though, when Jack revealed that his blood was the same color. Karkat can easily sympathize with those who share his blood color, and finding out humans all have this same mutant color still surprises him. Later, he mellows out and stops trying to hide his blood color as much, because Alternia is essentially destroyed and none of his friends seem to care either way. He even has a conversation with himself from the future via the chat interface using the bright red color he used to despise.
Possibly another way Karkat relates to humans is that he is not at all as bloodthirsty as the rest of the troll race. He talks a big game, threatens violent murder with the best of them, but that’s all behind those CAPITAL LETTERS and his shroud of intelligent vulgarity. When he’s behind a computer screen, he’s big and bad, a hatched leader made out to become a threshecutioner one day. This all changes when he’s right in the middle of the action, when his friends start killing each other and he is too dumbstruck to do anything about it but stare like a dumbass. When Kanaya cuts off Tavros’ legs, Karkat literally faints at the sight of the gore. He doesn’t handle intense situations well in person and will often lock up or panic. This goes back to him caring too much, tacked on with the reason he cries when his friends die. He hates this weakness, along with other attributes of himself he loathes and despises. His failures are things he is very aware of and will openly admit to when they aren’t a point of pride. Some things take longer for him to admit than others, but in general he is very open about finding reasons to hate himself.
As much as he’d loathe admitting it, Karkat relates well to people and is a font of personal advice for some of his awkward needier friends. He loves horrible romance movies and isn’t ashamed of it, so naturally he’s picked up a few things from watching the movies he favors. This doesn’t necessarily make his outlook on romance a healthy or correct one because movies only emulate so much of a relationship before they are considered superficial and fake, but thanks to his surprisingly stable mental condition he has a decent understanding of emotions and how one should balance them. He believes showing many kinds of pity is the best way to have the capacity to hate. Pity and hate, by the way, happen to be the strongest two emotions trolls experience, and thus are the basis for the ideology of troll romance. If he feels another person’s problems are within his power to help, he’ll even cease with the insults and try to understand the problem on the level of the other person. He can’t make people follow his advice, but he can sure as hell thrust it at them until they get the picture and either (a) try it out, or (b) leave him alone. As soon as he’s done trying to be Troll Dr. Phil, he’s quick to switch back to being prickly and insulting. With as much as he understands the delicate balance of pity and hate and how romance is technically supposed to work, he sucks spectacularly at it.
So basically, Karkat is primarily a grouchy douchebag who likes to fling obscenities at suspecting and unsuspecting faces. He’s headstrong and ambitious, but kind of a screw-up when it boils down to it. In blind rage or desire to beat someone, he can do really reckless things. It’s easy to get his blood boiling and he hates being teased, that will set him off quicker than anything. Still, he’s a good guy with a lot of heart and a desire to safely corral all of his idiot friends for their own good. His demands might be stupid or harsh at times, but he really does mean well. The last thing he wants is for his friends to die or kill each other. He can’t keep up his façade of giving no damns all the time, especially when he lets his emotions shine through his jerk exterior like a beacon of how much he cares.
Abilities: Karkat is a self-proclaimed expert on relationships and the ilk, likes to give advice and takes heart to heart matters seriously. His role is the Knight of Blood, which means he "protects" (Knight) "bonds" (blood). He builds alliances with people to obtain a goal. Seriously, that's his power. He is a lethal weapon with a pair of sickles and has experienced quite an adventure. Other than that, he has an impressive vocabulary and a mediocre at best skill at computer programming. Useful stuff.
Other: :|a Would he be able to retain previous game memories or has that option been nixed?
Karkat Vantas | Homestuck | Not reserved
First Person: Link...
Third Person: The light seasons for this world were somewhat enjoyable, Karkat could admit. Couples walked along by, chitchatting about some new occasion or another, all the while the sun shined on. Never before could he say that the sun felt comforting.
The bench he was sitting on was comfortable, though sturdy. He took up as much as possible to prevent anyone getting any bright ideas like sitting beside him while he enjoyed a day outside. For once, he wasn't screaming, wasn't being anal about something someone didn't do just right, didn't have to be the leader for just one day. He could enjoy the break, right?
Karkat learned the hard way that you can't trust the weather in Spring. He learned this when it started raining and he didn't have an umbrella. He was now soaked and pissy.
"...of fucking course this would happen."
OTHER
Housing Request?: None.
Did you read the rules and FAQ?: Yes.
Would you like your application to be unscreened?: Unscreened is fine.
Accepted
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