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fightybroad) wrote2015-12-20 09:13 pm
fightybroad) wrote2015-12-20 09:13 pm
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Character name: The Handmaid (also referred to as The Demoness & Damara Megido)
Age: unstated, presumably around 18 human years
Canon: Homestuck
Canonpoint: Soon after completes her training, attempts to run away, and begins serving Lord English.
Background: wiki link
Personality: The Handmaid was raised with a purpose, but it wasn't one that she chose. Where the other eleven troll ancestors were born on meteors sent to their home planet, her meteor never made it. Instead, it was intercepted by Doc Scratch who prepared her from a young age to be the servant of Homestuck's villain, Lord English.
This decided fate for her bred the Handmaid's most obvious trait -- her rebelliousness. The Handmaid rejects her upbringing violently and recklessly. Throwing, hitting, and breaking things are common behavior for her. She exists in a state of almost constant anger.
Doc Scratch referred to the Handmaid’s fights as one of her “moods”, implying that she would go back and forth from being moderately obedient and following protocol to rebellious and destructive. Punishment for her frequent "bad behavior" was always strict, with Doc Scratch resorting to physically beating her with a broom and revoking privileges that range from having furniture and electricity to things as drastic as breathing. Despite the severity of her punishments, the Handmaid never wavered in her willingness to keep fighting.
Not oblivious to the hopelessness of her situation, the Handmaid's sole desire being escape led her not to care how she obtained her goal. The Handmaid has reached a point where death became the ideal. While she failed numerous suicide attempts under Doc Scratch's care due to being cursed with conditional mortality (she would remain immortal until she had fulfilled Lord English's purpose for her), her longing to die became her driving force, thus being a foil for her descendant, Aradia, who spent a large portion of her time being dead with a desire to live again. Also like Aradia's ghost, when it comes to things other than destruction, the Handmaid is shown to be apathetic. Her expression is shown to be deadpan when she's forced to engage in Doc Scratch's lessons, such as listening to his re-education lectures.
Although we only get a small glimpse of how the Handmaid actually speaks in her canon, it's shown to share a similarity with the crass, rudeness of her alternate self, Damara Megido, who she also shares a name with. Unlike the alternate Damara, however, she isn't shown pretending to be sweet when talking to humans -- calling both Doc Scratch and Andrew Hussie "suckers" during one escape attempt.
While she would never be free from her duties, the Handmaid’s destructive and hateful ways became something of a blessing for her. At the side of Lord English, she would follow her orders, traveling back through time and wreaking havoc on Alternia and the session of SGRUB the younger trolls would play. She would become a monster to her race, referred to in legend as the Demoness. The title would not phase her, and the pain she caused would not affect her conscious -- she’d been raised not to have one, after all.
Her true core never waivers. Beneath it all, the Handmaid is ruled by her disdain for her fate, sacrificing logic, reason, and hope to act brashly and combatively. The traits she was raised to have, while being part of what she loathes, have also become the closest to what she loves. The Handmaid doesn't know joy, but she does know that she craves destruction, be it as a release for her anger or as a genuine interest.
Wish: "I wish to never serve anyone so that I can destroy only for myself."
The Handmaid's deepest desire has always been her own freedom. Growing up under the care of Doc Scratch and then being forced to obey Lord English, she's never not been a servant.
She doesn't oppose the ruin that her position forced her to cause, so while her wish is to break free from Lord English's servitude, she still wants the power to destroy. This will manifest in her passive ability of super strength, particularly when she is angry. Her strength will be contingent on her mood, and she'll have trouble controlling it at first (i.e. breaking things when trying just to hold them).
Power: Infinite binding chains. Her wish to no longer be bound by servitude manifests in a physical way with the ability to bind her opponents in large chains with a lock in the center. If the lock is broken (with weapons or magic), the chains release. The longer the chains are in place, the quicker her soul gem darkens.
Weapon: A kusari-fundo. Sticking with the Handmaid's eastern Asian theme, the kusari-fundo is a Japanese chain weapon with weights at either end. It's also a bit of a callback to Aradia's original whipkind weapon.
Sample: Escape was beyond her grasp. Where she had been fleeing moments before with a confident smirk and the faith that it would work this time, the abrupt realization stopped her in her tracks. Were she to look up at the hideous, muscled beast before her, she would find herself eye to eye with the Lord she had spent the past several sweeps training to serve.
She would not look up yet, frozen in her place, shaking from a frustrated combination of fear and anger. It had all seemed like it was going so smoothly for a second there. Doc Scratch had been subdued and murdered. She no longer had someone to confine her to her terrible bedroom. She had been beaten by her last broom. She had fled, successfully at that.
It still wasn’t good enough.
She didn’t even have time to bask in the glory of her dismembered former host. The lessons she had striven to break away from had finally come to an end, but it wasn’t the end she had wanted. She had a new duty now that wasn’t simply learning manners and understanding the terrible history she would eventually cause. She was done with all of it.
And for the first time, she doubted everything.
Maybe she wasn’t ready.
But what could she do? She couldn’t just turn tail and run. The man she had heard so many gruesome stories about was finally there and he was ready to collect his Handmaid. The stupid little servant that she had supposed to become.
The fear she had felt was subsiding, replaced with a rage that came from feeling so defeated and unprepared.
“YOU THERE. GIRL.”
She deigned to finally look up at him. He was a monster, more so than she would ever become. She gritted her teeth, stifling a bitter laugh. This was the monster, and yet, he was not the one trolls would fear for thousands of sweeps. No, according to Doc Scratch, that would be her, the small troll in the hideous green school girl outfit. She would be a demon in their eyes.
“Do not ever call me that again,” she spoke up, aware that there would be a price to pay for her defiance. "I'm not a little girl anymore." There always had been before. Yet she had a swell of confidence again. Her master may never fear her, may think of her as just a little girl doing his dirty work, but there were a hell of a lot of trolls out there who were about to see just how bad she could be.
Someone had to suffer, and she was tired of it being her. If that society breathed life into the reason for her existence, she was more than pleased to destroy it.
That stupid, angry little school girl would be no more. She had to be the Demoness she was meant to be, and for that, she would make everyone pay.
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in universe test drive links: here and here.
Contact info: prefer PMs / aim @ goodbyeglamourous but also available on plurk @
Other characters currently played: 0
Character name: The Handmaid (also referred to as The Demoness & Damara Megido)
Age: unstated, presumably around 18 human years
Canon: Homestuck
Canonpoint: Soon after completes her training, attempts to run away, and begins serving Lord English.
Background: wiki link
Personality: The Handmaid was raised with a purpose, but it wasn't one that she chose. Where the other eleven troll ancestors were born on meteors sent to their home planet, her meteor never made it. Instead, it was intercepted by Doc Scratch who prepared her from a young age to be the servant of Homestuck's villain, Lord English.
"I would raise the girl to be groomed for her calling. My lessons would emphasize obedience, mastery of the clockwork majyyks, and being locked in a room."- Doc Scratch
This decided fate for her bred the Handmaid's most obvious trait -- her rebelliousness. The Handmaid rejects her upbringing violently and recklessly. Throwing, hitting, and breaking things are common behavior for her. She exists in a state of almost constant anger.
Doc Scratch referred to the Handmaid’s fights as one of her “moods”, implying that she would go back and forth from being moderately obedient and following protocol to rebellious and destructive. Punishment for her frequent "bad behavior" was always strict, with Doc Scratch resorting to physically beating her with a broom and revoking privileges that range from having furniture and electricity to things as drastic as breathing. Despite the severity of her punishments, the Handmaid never wavered in her willingness to keep fighting.
"Though her most common of blood should have let her expire in just a dozen or two sweeps, his curse kept her very much alive.
And she did not intend to stay that way."- Doc Scratch
Not oblivious to the hopelessness of her situation, the Handmaid's sole desire being escape led her not to care how she obtained her goal. The Handmaid has reached a point where death became the ideal. While she failed numerous suicide attempts under Doc Scratch's care due to being cursed with conditional mortality (she would remain immortal until she had fulfilled Lord English's purpose for her), her longing to die became her driving force, thus being a foil for her descendant, Aradia, who spent a large portion of her time being dead with a desire to live again. Also like Aradia's ghost, when it comes to things other than destruction, the Handmaid is shown to be apathetic. Her expression is shown to be deadpan when she's forced to engage in Doc Scratch's lessons, such as listening to his re-education lectures.
Although we only get a small glimpse of how the Handmaid actually speaks in her canon, it's shown to share a similarity with the crass, rudeness of her alternate self, Damara Megido, who she also shares a name with. Unlike the alternate Damara, however, she isn't shown pretending to be sweet when talking to humans -- calling both Doc Scratch and Andrew Hussie "suckers" during one escape attempt.
While she would never be free from her duties, the Handmaid’s destructive and hateful ways became something of a blessing for her. At the side of Lord English, she would follow her orders, traveling back through time and wreaking havoc on Alternia and the session of SGRUB the younger trolls would play. She would become a monster to her race, referred to in legend as the Demoness. The title would not phase her, and the pain she caused would not affect her conscious -- she’d been raised not to have one, after all.
Her true core never waivers. Beneath it all, the Handmaid is ruled by her disdain for her fate, sacrificing logic, reason, and hope to act brashly and combatively. The traits she was raised to have, while being part of what she loathes, have also become the closest to what she loves. The Handmaid doesn't know joy, but she does know that she craves destruction, be it as a release for her anger or as a genuine interest.
Wish: "I wish to never serve anyone so that I can destroy only for myself."
The Handmaid's deepest desire has always been her own freedom. Growing up under the care of Doc Scratch and then being forced to obey Lord English, she's never not been a servant.
She doesn't oppose the ruin that her position forced her to cause, so while her wish is to break free from Lord English's servitude, she still wants the power to destroy. This will manifest in her passive ability of super strength, particularly when she is angry. Her strength will be contingent on her mood, and she'll have trouble controlling it at first (i.e. breaking things when trying just to hold them).
Power: Infinite binding chains. Her wish to no longer be bound by servitude manifests in a physical way with the ability to bind her opponents in large chains with a lock in the center. If the lock is broken (with weapons or magic), the chains release. The longer the chains are in place, the quicker her soul gem darkens.
Weapon: A kusari-fundo. Sticking with the Handmaid's eastern Asian theme, the kusari-fundo is a Japanese chain weapon with weights at either end. It's also a bit of a callback to Aradia's original whipkind weapon.
Sample: Escape was beyond her grasp. Where she had been fleeing moments before with a confident smirk and the faith that it would work this time, the abrupt realization stopped her in her tracks. Were she to look up at the hideous, muscled beast before her, she would find herself eye to eye with the Lord she had spent the past several sweeps training to serve.
She would not look up yet, frozen in her place, shaking from a frustrated combination of fear and anger. It had all seemed like it was going so smoothly for a second there. Doc Scratch had been subdued and murdered. She no longer had someone to confine her to her terrible bedroom. She had been beaten by her last broom. She had fled, successfully at that.
It still wasn’t good enough.
She didn’t even have time to bask in the glory of her dismembered former host. The lessons she had striven to break away from had finally come to an end, but it wasn’t the end she had wanted. She had a new duty now that wasn’t simply learning manners and understanding the terrible history she would eventually cause. She was done with all of it.
And for the first time, she doubted everything.
Maybe she wasn’t ready.
But what could she do? She couldn’t just turn tail and run. The man she had heard so many gruesome stories about was finally there and he was ready to collect his Handmaid. The stupid little servant that she had supposed to become.
The fear she had felt was subsiding, replaced with a rage that came from feeling so defeated and unprepared.
“YOU THERE. GIRL.”
She deigned to finally look up at him. He was a monster, more so than she would ever become. She gritted her teeth, stifling a bitter laugh. This was the monster, and yet, he was not the one trolls would fear for thousands of sweeps. No, according to Doc Scratch, that would be her, the small troll in the hideous green school girl outfit. She would be a demon in their eyes.
“Do not ever call me that again,” she spoke up, aware that there would be a price to pay for her defiance. "I'm not a little girl anymore." There always had been before. Yet she had a swell of confidence again. Her master may never fear her, may think of her as just a little girl doing his dirty work, but there were a hell of a lot of trolls out there who were about to see just how bad she could be.
Someone had to suffer, and she was tired of it being her. If that society breathed life into the reason for her existence, she was more than pleased to destroy it.
That stupid, angry little school girl would be no more. She had to be the Demoness she was meant to be, and for that, she would make everyone pay.
+
in universe test drive links: here and here.