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Name: King DW Journal:kingrockwell Contact: aim @ royal.times, royaltimes Current Characters: n/a
Character Name: Kanaya Maryam Canon: Homestuck Age: 15 Gender: Female
Canon Point:a6i3, after openbound pt 3 History:Link Personality: Kanaya Maryam is a very particular and moody person. Duty and method have always been central conceits in her life, to the point that her entire sense of self worth is directly proportionate to how useful she feels to those around her. When things don't go well, she doesn't tend to take it well because of this, and she's had a lot of things work against her. She's already seen her hopes shattered, and the very purpose she'd defined her life by taken from her, so fighting the urge to just give up can be hard for her. She keeps at it mostly because she's expected to, but she hasn't found a lot to keep her going on her own. She doesn't really trust herself or her own feelings to let herself look.
"On her own" is an important phrase, as she has a bad habit of considering her own wants and needs low priority, wanting to do her best to help others, and frequently being a nuisance about it. She thinks enough of her opinion to shove it at anyone who may even look like they may need it, and part of this is because they're easier to think about without as much of a personal investment, but also because she just isn't sure that her own are all that important. She's used to having no one care about them or her, and this isn't because no one does, it's largely just a result of her own hangups. Partly due to the fact that she never talks about them and bottles them up until they fester into something worse, and maybe a bit because her best friend for the longest time was an egomaniac who made her own issues more important than anything else.
She isn't really satisfied with this position either, she's just kind of bitterly resigned to it, lacking the resolve to really do anything about it, letting passivity and cynicism convince her there would be any point to it. She'd rather let outside elements swoop in to fix it for her, though most of the time she pretty much takes it for granted that this will never happen. She doesn't take being ignored and blown off well, but she involves herself with people who do just that on a regular enough basis that she may have convinced herself that it's simply her lot in life, that she's just not worth the trouble.
Kanaya is a person who invests a lot into into the way she comes off. She wants to be seen as rational, mature, and smart in hopes that you'll buy into it and listen when she starts involving herself with your business. She's very good at rationalizing and justifying herself, but her decisions are more often driven by her emotions than whatever logic she may use to explain them. She isn't always right or consistent, but she absolutely thinks she is. She's passive-aggressive, often inconsiderate, can bear a long grudge, is prone to anger, and in many ways not as good a person or as good a friend as she thinks she is.
But despite how hard she works to come off as calm, cool, and collected all the time, she's incredibly awkward and easily flustered. When things go against her expectations, she has to take a moment to catch her bearings. She isn't by any means an intellectual slouch, but her dreamself on Prospit had been awake from a very young age, so her dreams were often filled with visions of the future, reflected in the clouds of Skaia. She's used to knowing things, and without having that anymore she finds herself running into things blind, or more often withholding herself from running into things, because she usually has no idea what's going on anymore. Her sense of humor is incredibly inept, she misspeaks on occasions, sometimes says more than she'd like and needs to deflect when called on it. Her mature facade has many cracks in it, because at her heart she is only a young girl who is nowhere near as mature as that, but any time one shines through she will turn on a dime to shove it under the rug and work harder than is reasonable to dispel the impression that it ever came up, just drawing more attention to it in the process.
Put simply, Kanaya is kind of a clusterfuck of a teenager too responsible for her own good, trying way too hard to be an adult before her time. She had a great fondness for her very maternal lusus, and aspired at one point to be something like her. She's not really sure that she'll ever have the opportunity at this point, but she might like to if she ever could. It's an intimidating idea, but it's what she's meant for, coming from a caste of midwives. She doesn't romanticize it quite as much as whatever prospects she has in her quadrants, but then she also had more confidence in its eventual realization. Had being the keyword.
More recently, she's had a lot of encouragement to hope that she may have it again, and a few good influences to try to improve her mood. She's made some progress, and having two years to mostly relax and not have any real heavy conflict weigh against her has helped, but it is still a process, and one she may like to project herself as being further along with than she is. She still has her doubts sometimes, and her environment can have a major effect on her mood, but now, while it's still unchallenged, she thinks she might be able to handle it. She could possibly be free to determine her own future.
She does have a strong sense of aesthetics, despite coming from a largely utilitarian culture. She incredibly devoted to the practices of fashion, landscaping, and interior design. Looking good goes into her feelings of presentation, and apply just as much to visual appearance as disposition. She's often disappointed that no one else seems to care about them as much as she does.
Powers: As an Alternian troll, Kanaya possesses pointed horns and sharp fangs. She isn't a terribly delicate person, having practiced a fair amount of physical labor in her youth, though inactivity on the meteor has likely softened her a bit, smoothed out the callouses.
She is an awakened jadeblood, a rainbow drinker. The most visible trait of this is that her body has a bright glow that can vary slightly due to her mood, but remains for the most part at a point that could best be described as Annoying, though she can also shut it off entirely. The major abilities beyond that include an absolutely insane fastness attribute while still being able to move almost noiselessly, a resilience to most major injuries that might have been fatal to other trolls (sever the head or destroy the brain and she'll die like anyone, she can survive most anything else), and a thirst for blood. She also possesses considerable physical strength, enough to punch someone across a room or crotch-check them over a cliff.
In-game this will translate to her having quicker reflexes and a much higher level of stamina than a normal person, but her glow is dimmer and her thirst may actually be more debilitating than it would otherwise be. Any mutation powers may develop her in the direction of empathy and telekinesis (or maybe nix telekinesis and pair the empathy with precognition so she could develop legit twilight powers, that would be funny).
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DW Journal:
Contact: aim @ royal.times,
Current Characters: n/a
Character Name: Kanaya Maryam
Canon: Homestuck
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Canon Point: a6i3, after openbound pt 3
History: Link
Personality: Kanaya Maryam is a very particular and moody person. Duty and method have always been central conceits in her life, to the point that her entire sense of self worth is directly proportionate to how useful she feels to those around her. When things don't go well, she doesn't tend to take it well because of this, and she's had a lot of things work against her. She's already seen her hopes shattered, and the very purpose she'd defined her life by taken from her, so fighting the urge to just give up can be hard for her. She keeps at it mostly because she's expected to, but she hasn't found a lot to keep her going on her own. She doesn't really trust herself or her own feelings to let herself look.
"On her own" is an important phrase, as she has a bad habit of considering her own wants and needs low priority, wanting to do her best to help others, and frequently being a nuisance about it. She thinks enough of her opinion to shove it at anyone who may even look like they may need it, and part of this is because they're easier to think about without as much of a personal investment, but also because she just isn't sure that her own are all that important. She's used to having no one care about them or her, and this isn't because no one does, it's largely just a result of her own hangups. Partly due to the fact that she never talks about them and bottles them up until they fester into something worse, and maybe a bit because her best friend for the longest time was an egomaniac who made her own issues more important than anything else.
She isn't really satisfied with this position either, she's just kind of bitterly resigned to it, lacking the resolve to really do anything about it, letting passivity and cynicism convince her there would be any point to it. She'd rather let outside elements swoop in to fix it for her, though most of the time she pretty much takes it for granted that this will never happen. She doesn't take being ignored and blown off well, but she involves herself with people who do just that on a regular enough basis that she may have convinced herself that it's simply her lot in life, that she's just not worth the trouble.
Kanaya is a person who invests a lot into into the way she comes off. She wants to be seen as rational, mature, and smart in hopes that you'll buy into it and listen when she starts involving herself with your business. She's very good at rationalizing and justifying herself, but her decisions are more often driven by her emotions than whatever logic she may use to explain them. She isn't always right or consistent, but she absolutely thinks she is. She's passive-aggressive, often inconsiderate, can bear a long grudge, is prone to anger, and in many ways not as good a person or as good a friend as she thinks she is.
But despite how hard she works to come off as calm, cool, and collected all the time, she's incredibly awkward and easily flustered. When things go against her expectations, she has to take a moment to catch her bearings. She isn't by any means an intellectual slouch, but her dreamself on Prospit had been awake from a very young age, so her dreams were often filled with visions of the future, reflected in the clouds of Skaia. She's used to knowing things, and without having that anymore she finds herself running into things blind, or more often withholding herself from running into things, because she usually has no idea what's going on anymore. Her sense of humor is incredibly inept, she misspeaks on occasions, sometimes says more than she'd like and needs to deflect when called on it. Her mature facade has many cracks in it, because at her heart she is only a young girl who is nowhere near as mature as that, but any time one shines through she will turn on a dime to shove it under the rug and work harder than is reasonable to dispel the impression that it ever came up, just drawing more attention to it in the process.
Put simply, Kanaya is kind of a clusterfuck of a teenager too responsible for her own good, trying way too hard to be an adult before her time. She had a great fondness for her very maternal lusus, and aspired at one point to be something like her. She's not really sure that she'll ever have the opportunity at this point, but she might like to if she ever could. It's an intimidating idea, but it's what she's meant for, coming from a caste of midwives. She doesn't romanticize it quite as much as whatever prospects she has in her quadrants, but then she also had more confidence in its eventual realization. Had being the keyword.
More recently, she's had a lot of encouragement to hope that she may have it again, and a few good influences to try to improve her mood. She's made some progress, and having two years to mostly relax and not have any real heavy conflict weigh against her has helped, but it is still a process, and one she may like to project herself as being further along with than she is. She still has her doubts sometimes, and her environment can have a major effect on her mood, but now, while it's still unchallenged, she thinks she might be able to handle it. She could possibly be free to determine her own future.
She does have a strong sense of aesthetics, despite coming from a largely utilitarian culture. She incredibly devoted to the practices of fashion, landscaping, and interior design. Looking good goes into her feelings of presentation, and apply just as much to visual appearance as disposition. She's often disappointed that no one else seems to care about them as much as she does.
Powers: As an Alternian troll, Kanaya possesses pointed horns and sharp fangs. She isn't a terribly delicate person, having practiced a fair amount of physical labor in her youth, though inactivity on the meteor has likely softened her a bit, smoothed out the callouses.
She is an awakened jadeblood, a rainbow drinker. The most visible trait of this is that her body has a bright glow that can vary slightly due to her mood, but remains for the most part at a point that could best be described as Annoying, though she can also shut it off entirely. The major abilities beyond that include an absolutely insane fastness attribute while still being able to move almost noiselessly, a resilience to most major injuries that might have been fatal to other trolls (sever the head or destroy the brain and she'll die like anyone, she can survive most anything else), and a thirst for blood. She also possesses considerable physical strength, enough to punch someone across a room or crotch-check them over a cliff.
In-game this will translate to her having quicker reflexes and a much higher level of stamina than a normal person, but her glow is dimmer and her thirst may actually be more debilitating than it would otherwise be. Any mutation powers may develop her in the direction of empathy and telekinesis (or maybe nix telekinesis and pair the empathy with precognition so she could develop legit twilight powers, that would be funny).
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