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Player
Name: Zorn
Personal Journal:zornsable
E-mail: Zornsable@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: zornsable
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Route: N/A
Character
Name: Eridan Ampora
Series: Homestuck
Timeline: Ministrife!
Canon Resource Links: Here
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, 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. 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.
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, 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 baw baw. 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 wweh wwehing 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.
Eridan is definitely something of an acquired 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. He’s very dramatic in every way possible, even when showing general gratitude, he throws in his own flare of dramatics, like 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?
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--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.
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.
So because of his terrible plan, he ended up dying, being killed by one of the people he thought HE had killed: Kanaya. After that, he spent his time in the dream bubbles. By the perspective of the living, he’s been dead for 3 years, but to him, it could have been way longer, or even shorter. Time is not relevant to those in the dream bubbles after all. What we do see of him, which is at the ministrife between Vriska and Meenah, is his time in the dream bubbles have left him so lonely he is willing to go out with his Dancestor, Cronus Ampora, despite thinking he’s trash. Commenting that his tragic scenario has reduced him to this, which, anyone going out with Cronus is facing unforetold tragedy indeed, but that’s another can of worms entirely.
In other words, being three-years-dead hasn’t done Eridan the slightest of favors, other than allowing him to regret his decisions made. He becomes a sprite later, fused with Sollux, and through that, he finds a means to apologize to Feferi for his actions--which does show that yes, despite Eridan’s assholery and being entirely seflish and a jerk, he does feel remorse and he can own up to his mistakes. Like I said, he’s trying, even if it doesn’t seem like it most the time.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+Determined: If there is one thing Eridan is, determined. Once he gets an idea in his head, he will chase it to the ends of the earth, no matter how terrible it might be. His perseverance is nothing but astonishing and even when faced with opposition, he continues to stride forward.
+Strategic: Eridan was obsessed and still is, with military tactics. Which makes it pretty easy for him to strategize, even in terrible situations. i.e. when he was slaughtering hundreds of angels, he was able to do so in a way that ensured his own survival despite the toughness of each angel and the speed, which means he had to rely on strategic means to stay alive, because dumb luck had no place there.
+Intelligent: Now this is a loaded strength, because while Eridan IS intelligent, he often times muddies it with his emotions and makes rash decisions. But, it still stands to say he isn't stupid, he's actually pretty keen on things and pretty quick witted for the most part.
-Stubborn: Eridan is ridiculously stubborn and it's painful to try and get him to do anything he is set against doing. Even those who are really important to him have a hard time convincing him. Once his mind is made up, there's basically no unmaking it.
-Hot headed: Eridan is really easy to piss off and he can really get wrapped in his emotions and make really dumb decisions. It's pretty much what lead to his own downfall to be honest.
-Overbearing: Eridan is so emotional and overbearing that he pushes people away a lot of the time with his drama and problems. He really is an acquired taste, and most can't even stick around long enough to acquire some taste. So, he's really a drag on people sometimes with all his problems and woes. Does not make him an easy friend.
-Selfish: Eridan is an egotist and selfish as all hell to boot. While he does hold concern for his friends, which we have seen several times in canon, he does hold himself above the rest and worry about himself first, everyone else later. It's the kind of mentally enforced by his race and society, and Eridan kind of clung to it.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Horsea
Password: Scrambled Eggs
Samples
First Person Sample:
alright i may havve been fuckin amazin and got my lusus to let me saddle him up
but that by no means i wwanted to be saddled myself
at least wwith this fuckin responsibility to take care a these wweird beasts
i mean sure the little guy aint so bad he at the vvery fuckin least seems competent evven if a little on the small side
certainly wwont be able to saddle him up and ride him any time soon
anywway im derailin myself
wwhat i really wwanted to talk about wwas the fact that this place has the fuckin AUDACITY to take awway my biological superiority and turn me into one a you pink-skinned pieces a filth
no horns no fins howw the fuck do you lot keep on livvin as this sad excuse for a sentient race
its like fuckin torture for someone as regal as myself to be made into one a you dirtstompers
there best be a wway to revverse this damage or im gonna be sure to fuck shit up till its fuckin showwn to me
im not evven jokin
Third Person Sample: It’s been a month since Eridan’s arrived in Johto and he still doesn’t know how to feel. He’s been stripped of his natural species, now nothing but some weak and pathetic human. His face feels naked without his fins, and his head feels light without his horns. He still is careful to duck where he normally would need to, to mind his horns, and he still tries to wiggle the fins that are not protruding from his face.
No, in place of them, he has these weirdly structured human ears. They couldn’t even be like troll ears, instead they are small little disks of unappealing flesh sticking out from the side of his face. Eugh, humans were not only pathetic, but decidedly ugly. Sure, their facial features didn’t vary that much from a troll’s, but they were not nearly as majestic looking as one.
All that complaining aside, he’s made it to Violet town, and while Violet is a color he is very fond of, he can’t help himself but not give a shit. Sure, there’s all that badge collecting he’s heard about, and maybe he’ll get them all and show his utter superiority through this dumb challenge this place poses, but it feels all utterly pointless. Oh well, it beats not doing anything, and maybe he’s come to enjoy his little seabeast--horsea, he thinks it’s called. At least, that’s what others called it.
What a dumb name. No, a pokebeast of his needs something far more regal. Far more impressive and intimidating. Yes, he knows just the name. Caligula, what a perfect name for a beast that resides under him. Far more intimidating than “horsea”, that’s for damn sure! Now, if only he could get it to look more intimidating, because as it is, it looks far too friendly to be anything scary. Ahh well, maybe it will grow more of a spinal column once it’s become more battle hardened. At least, he certainly hopes so.
Name: Zorn
Personal Journal:
zornsableE-mail: Zornsable@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: zornsable
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Route: N/A
Character
Name: Eridan Ampora
Series: Homestuck
Timeline: Ministrife!
Canon Resource Links: Here
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, 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. 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.
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, 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 baw baw. 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 wweh wwehing 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.
Eridan is definitely something of an acquired 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. He’s very dramatic in every way possible, even when showing general gratitude, he throws in his own flare of dramatics, like 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?
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--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.
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.
So because of his terrible plan, he ended up dying, being killed by one of the people he thought HE had killed: Kanaya. After that, he spent his time in the dream bubbles. By the perspective of the living, he’s been dead for 3 years, but to him, it could have been way longer, or even shorter. Time is not relevant to those in the dream bubbles after all. What we do see of him, which is at the ministrife between Vriska and Meenah, is his time in the dream bubbles have left him so lonely he is willing to go out with his Dancestor, Cronus Ampora, despite thinking he’s trash. Commenting that his tragic scenario has reduced him to this, which, anyone going out with Cronus is facing unforetold tragedy indeed, but that’s another can of worms entirely.
In other words, being three-years-dead hasn’t done Eridan the slightest of favors, other than allowing him to regret his decisions made. He becomes a sprite later, fused with Sollux, and through that, he finds a means to apologize to Feferi for his actions--which does show that yes, despite Eridan’s assholery and being entirely seflish and a jerk, he does feel remorse and he can own up to his mistakes. Like I said, he’s trying, even if it doesn’t seem like it most the time.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+Determined: If there is one thing Eridan is, determined. Once he gets an idea in his head, he will chase it to the ends of the earth, no matter how terrible it might be. His perseverance is nothing but astonishing and even when faced with opposition, he continues to stride forward.
+Strategic: Eridan was obsessed and still is, with military tactics. Which makes it pretty easy for him to strategize, even in terrible situations. i.e. when he was slaughtering hundreds of angels, he was able to do so in a way that ensured his own survival despite the toughness of each angel and the speed, which means he had to rely on strategic means to stay alive, because dumb luck had no place there.
+Intelligent: Now this is a loaded strength, because while Eridan IS intelligent, he often times muddies it with his emotions and makes rash decisions. But, it still stands to say he isn't stupid, he's actually pretty keen on things and pretty quick witted for the most part.
-Stubborn: Eridan is ridiculously stubborn and it's painful to try and get him to do anything he is set against doing. Even those who are really important to him have a hard time convincing him. Once his mind is made up, there's basically no unmaking it.
-Hot headed: Eridan is really easy to piss off and he can really get wrapped in his emotions and make really dumb decisions. It's pretty much what lead to his own downfall to be honest.
-Overbearing: Eridan is so emotional and overbearing that he pushes people away a lot of the time with his drama and problems. He really is an acquired taste, and most can't even stick around long enough to acquire some taste. So, he's really a drag on people sometimes with all his problems and woes. Does not make him an easy friend.
-Selfish: Eridan is an egotist and selfish as all hell to boot. While he does hold concern for his friends, which we have seen several times in canon, he does hold himself above the rest and worry about himself first, everyone else later. It's the kind of mentally enforced by his race and society, and Eridan kind of clung to it.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Horsea
Password: Scrambled Eggs
Samples
First Person Sample:
alright i may havve been fuckin amazin and got my lusus to let me saddle him up
but that by no means i wwanted to be saddled myself
at least wwith this fuckin responsibility to take care a these wweird beasts
i mean sure the little guy aint so bad he at the vvery fuckin least seems competent evven if a little on the small side
certainly wwont be able to saddle him up and ride him any time soon
anywway im derailin myself
wwhat i really wwanted to talk about wwas the fact that this place has the fuckin AUDACITY to take awway my biological superiority and turn me into one a you pink-skinned pieces a filth
no horns no fins howw the fuck do you lot keep on livvin as this sad excuse for a sentient race
its like fuckin torture for someone as regal as myself to be made into one a you dirtstompers
there best be a wway to revverse this damage or im gonna be sure to fuck shit up till its fuckin showwn to me
im not evven jokin
Third Person Sample: It’s been a month since Eridan’s arrived in Johto and he still doesn’t know how to feel. He’s been stripped of his natural species, now nothing but some weak and pathetic human. His face feels naked without his fins, and his head feels light without his horns. He still is careful to duck where he normally would need to, to mind his horns, and he still tries to wiggle the fins that are not protruding from his face.
No, in place of them, he has these weirdly structured human ears. They couldn’t even be like troll ears, instead they are small little disks of unappealing flesh sticking out from the side of his face. Eugh, humans were not only pathetic, but decidedly ugly. Sure, their facial features didn’t vary that much from a troll’s, but they were not nearly as majestic looking as one.
All that complaining aside, he’s made it to Violet town, and while Violet is a color he is very fond of, he can’t help himself but not give a shit. Sure, there’s all that badge collecting he’s heard about, and maybe he’ll get them all and show his utter superiority through this dumb challenge this place poses, but it feels all utterly pointless. Oh well, it beats not doing anything, and maybe he’s come to enjoy his little seabeast--horsea, he thinks it’s called. At least, that’s what others called it.
What a dumb name. No, a pokebeast of his needs something far more regal. Far more impressive and intimidating. Yes, he knows just the name. Caligula, what a perfect name for a beast that resides under him. Far more intimidating than “horsea”, that’s for damn sure! Now, if only he could get it to look more intimidating, because as it is, it looks far too friendly to be anything scary. Ahh well, maybe it will grow more of a spinal column once it’s become more battle hardened. At least, he certainly hopes so.