Terezi Pyrope ♎ gallowsCalibrator (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
seerofnothing) wrote2012-09-30 06:45 pm
seerofnothing) wrote2012-09-30 06:45 pm
HISTORY
WIKI
Terezi's early childhood isn't given much mention, but her more recent years are expanded on quite a bit.
To start with, her lusus-- caretaker who is also an animal, basically-- is absent. She lays in wait, a massive dragon, on a tipping doomsday scale in an unhatched egg. As a result of this, she doesn't grow up in a hive surrounded by other trolls like most of her friends do, and instead in a tree. She isn't lonely and amuses herself easily.
Probably in part due to her looking for new ways to amuse herself, she plays a game with her friends called FLARP. It is a kind of live action roleplaying with enemies and treasure abound. She spends a lot of time with her best friend Vriska Serket as part of this game; they are teammates in it, and together they go by Team Scourge, or the Scourge Sisters. They work together to defeat bad guys-- they are just a few among the people Vriska feeds to her gigantic spider lusus.
Terezi spends her time talking these people down and manipulating them with words alone, which is remarkable on its own but made even more so by the fact that trolls often have psychic abilities that allow them to basically brainwash others! Vriska is one such person.
It isn't stated exactly when it happens, but at some point Vriska and Tavros-- another one of their friends they FLARP with-- are playing a session out together and Tavros tries to get out of a situation that is too hard for him. Vriska is a murderous, unevenly tempered troll, and she doesn't hesitate in using her psychic powers to get him to literally jump off of a cliff. He loses use of his legs.
Terezi and Tavros are implied to be close, so the accident rings a really rotten note with her. She and Aradia, another good friend, cut ties with Vriska. Terezi tells Aradia not to meddle with Vriska because she doesn't know how to handle her. But she does not heed Terezi's warning and summons the souls of the people Vriska has killed over the years to terrorize her, using her own psychic abilities. This ends in Vriska killing Aradia indirectly, getting her then-boyfriend to blast her with psychic energy after consuming what is essentially a drug that enhances abilities.
In reply to Aradia's death, Terezi throws down all pretence of not dealing with her ever again and tricks her into looking into a valuable magical object, a cue ball. She tells the object's previous owner about her having the artifact and he blows it up in her face! This destroys one of her eyes and one of her arms. Immediately after that she retaliates by performing what canon calls a 'double psychic reacharound'. She manipulates Tavros' ability to commune with animals, and contacts Terezi's unhatched lusus. She through him gets her dragon lusus to contact Terezi psychically and make her leave her house during the day, a notoriously dangerous time.
The danger comes from the bright, bright sun. Looking directly into it is said to blind whoever does it, and Terezi proves the saying right! Terezi and Vriska form a truce quickly, and put a stop to what would likely become an unending chain of revenge.
In the time that passes after that, Terezi's lusus communicates with her-- awoken by Vriska-- and shows her how to perceive the world without vision. She learns to taste colors and smell shapes; a psychic level up on regular synesthesia. And after her initial fear, as she becomes more and more used to a world where she can't see, Terezi finds that she loves being blind.
When she is actually formally introduced, Terezi is recruiting people to take part in her team for a game called SGRUB. She quickly relinquishes position of team leader to Karkat, a friend of hers. A lot of their actually getting into the game and playing is sped through, so we can't be sure of the exact details of many things. There are a lot of specifics as to how SGRUB is played, and that would take up another few hundred words so I'm just going to skip that and instead link to a handy-dandy wiki.
Terezi enters her medium and then her land presumably without a hitch. She has communication with an exile, and she tells her to go on a mission to exile the archagent Jack Noir. She and Vriska do this at some point. Here comes the handwaving: after this, they end up very nearly winning the game. It's a close close match, and just as they are going to get their prize at the end... a portal opens up. This is called the scratch, and it allows another session in a separate universe to bleed into theirs.
This other session's Jack Noir comes in and proceeds to fuck everything up. They are unable to reap the rewards and instead end up hiding on a meteor, far away! On this meteor, she receives an extremely large amount of money. She gets her hacker friend, Sollux, to trace the money's origins. And that's how they find the humans: Dave, John, Rose and Jade.
There is a lot of timeline fuckery that goes on with the trolls going through their timeline and talking to the kids. Terezi speaks with Rose, scares the living daylights out of John, and strikes up an odd friendship with Dave. Her initial motivation for supporting Dave through the game is out of curiosity and the want for amusement-- she is bored, hiding away, and he is there and he is entertaining. But her affection for him grows and she comes to genuinely care for him-- enough that the death of one of his alternate selves moves her to flee the room in tears.
This is significant because soon after she leaves the room and broods, the dead body of Tavros happens upon her. Her reaction isn't to cry at the death of a good friend she's known for a long time, but to orchestrate a playful investigation of his and other people's deaths in desire to bring the culprit to justice. She presumes that Vriska is the one who killed Tavros (which is correct), Feferi and Kanaya (which is not correct).
She talks to Sollux, who has just gone blind, and smells the undead Kanaya approaching. She passes out somehow and wakes up with bite marks on her neck and a realization that she has to find Vriska and stop her: as a Seer of Mind, she forsees what Vriska is actually going to go do, but conveniently does not realize that she isn't the one who killed them. Vriska is set out to go confront Jack Noir on her own-- she has a chance of succeeding, but the more likely outcome is that she'll end up leading Jack back to the meteor, where everyone will die.
Meanwhile, Gamzee, one of the previously thought to be more peaceable trolls has gone off on a murderous rampage. He further manipulates Terezi's willingness to believe that Vriska is the one behind all of the death, and brazenly Terezi goes forth to confront Vriska. She flips a coin in one of her signature movements and Vriska uses her abilities to throw the flip-- she wins, and starts to set off to find Jack.
The timeline splits off here. In the true path, the path that is not utterly and totally doomed... Terezi manages to kill Vriska just as she goes to fly off. But in this timeline, Terezi does not.
Terezi's early childhood isn't given much mention, but her more recent years are expanded on quite a bit.
To start with, her lusus-- caretaker who is also an animal, basically-- is absent. She lays in wait, a massive dragon, on a tipping doomsday scale in an unhatched egg. As a result of this, she doesn't grow up in a hive surrounded by other trolls like most of her friends do, and instead in a tree. She isn't lonely and amuses herself easily.
Probably in part due to her looking for new ways to amuse herself, she plays a game with her friends called FLARP. It is a kind of live action roleplaying with enemies and treasure abound. She spends a lot of time with her best friend Vriska Serket as part of this game; they are teammates in it, and together they go by Team Scourge, or the Scourge Sisters. They work together to defeat bad guys-- they are just a few among the people Vriska feeds to her gigantic spider lusus.
Terezi spends her time talking these people down and manipulating them with words alone, which is remarkable on its own but made even more so by the fact that trolls often have psychic abilities that allow them to basically brainwash others! Vriska is one such person.
It isn't stated exactly when it happens, but at some point Vriska and Tavros-- another one of their friends they FLARP with-- are playing a session out together and Tavros tries to get out of a situation that is too hard for him. Vriska is a murderous, unevenly tempered troll, and she doesn't hesitate in using her psychic powers to get him to literally jump off of a cliff. He loses use of his legs.
Terezi and Tavros are implied to be close, so the accident rings a really rotten note with her. She and Aradia, another good friend, cut ties with Vriska. Terezi tells Aradia not to meddle with Vriska because she doesn't know how to handle her. But she does not heed Terezi's warning and summons the souls of the people Vriska has killed over the years to terrorize her, using her own psychic abilities. This ends in Vriska killing Aradia indirectly, getting her then-boyfriend to blast her with psychic energy after consuming what is essentially a drug that enhances abilities.
In reply to Aradia's death, Terezi throws down all pretence of not dealing with her ever again and tricks her into looking into a valuable magical object, a cue ball. She tells the object's previous owner about her having the artifact and he blows it up in her face! This destroys one of her eyes and one of her arms. Immediately after that she retaliates by performing what canon calls a 'double psychic reacharound'. She manipulates Tavros' ability to commune with animals, and contacts Terezi's unhatched lusus. She through him gets her dragon lusus to contact Terezi psychically and make her leave her house during the day, a notoriously dangerous time.
The danger comes from the bright, bright sun. Looking directly into it is said to blind whoever does it, and Terezi proves the saying right! Terezi and Vriska form a truce quickly, and put a stop to what would likely become an unending chain of revenge.
In the time that passes after that, Terezi's lusus communicates with her-- awoken by Vriska-- and shows her how to perceive the world without vision. She learns to taste colors and smell shapes; a psychic level up on regular synesthesia. And after her initial fear, as she becomes more and more used to a world where she can't see, Terezi finds that she loves being blind.
When she is actually formally introduced, Terezi is recruiting people to take part in her team for a game called SGRUB. She quickly relinquishes position of team leader to Karkat, a friend of hers. A lot of their actually getting into the game and playing is sped through, so we can't be sure of the exact details of many things. There are a lot of specifics as to how SGRUB is played, and that would take up another few hundred words so I'm just going to skip that and instead link to a handy-dandy wiki.
Terezi enters her medium and then her land presumably without a hitch. She has communication with an exile, and she tells her to go on a mission to exile the archagent Jack Noir. She and Vriska do this at some point. Here comes the handwaving: after this, they end up very nearly winning the game. It's a close close match, and just as they are going to get their prize at the end... a portal opens up. This is called the scratch, and it allows another session in a separate universe to bleed into theirs.
This other session's Jack Noir comes in and proceeds to fuck everything up. They are unable to reap the rewards and instead end up hiding on a meteor, far away! On this meteor, she receives an extremely large amount of money. She gets her hacker friend, Sollux, to trace the money's origins. And that's how they find the humans: Dave, John, Rose and Jade.
There is a lot of timeline fuckery that goes on with the trolls going through their timeline and talking to the kids. Terezi speaks with Rose, scares the living daylights out of John, and strikes up an odd friendship with Dave. Her initial motivation for supporting Dave through the game is out of curiosity and the want for amusement-- she is bored, hiding away, and he is there and he is entertaining. But her affection for him grows and she comes to genuinely care for him-- enough that the death of one of his alternate selves moves her to flee the room in tears.
This is significant because soon after she leaves the room and broods, the dead body of Tavros happens upon her. Her reaction isn't to cry at the death of a good friend she's known for a long time, but to orchestrate a playful investigation of his and other people's deaths in desire to bring the culprit to justice. She presumes that Vriska is the one who killed Tavros (which is correct), Feferi and Kanaya (which is not correct).
She talks to Sollux, who has just gone blind, and smells the undead Kanaya approaching. She passes out somehow and wakes up with bite marks on her neck and a realization that she has to find Vriska and stop her: as a Seer of Mind, she forsees what Vriska is actually going to go do, but conveniently does not realize that she isn't the one who killed them. Vriska is set out to go confront Jack Noir on her own-- she has a chance of succeeding, but the more likely outcome is that she'll end up leading Jack back to the meteor, where everyone will die.
Meanwhile, Gamzee, one of the previously thought to be more peaceable trolls has gone off on a murderous rampage. He further manipulates Terezi's willingness to believe that Vriska is the one behind all of the death, and brazenly Terezi goes forth to confront Vriska. She flips a coin in one of her signature movements and Vriska uses her abilities to throw the flip-- she wins, and starts to set off to find Jack.
The timeline splits off here. In the true path, the path that is not utterly and totally doomed... Terezi manages to kill Vriska just as she goes to fly off. But in this timeline, Terezi does not.