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aradia megid0 | h0mestuck

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Character Notes:
History: Aradia is a troll on the world of Alternia. She lives in a hive in an isolated part of the world where there are lots of ruins and ancient stuff all over. She digs for ancient ruins in her backyard, all around her lawnring and doesn't seem to have any other hives nearby.

In the time before the events in Homestuck really start (though it's hard to say when the story officially starts considering everything happens in all sorts of timeframes and the events on the troll world are technically millions of years before the events on Earth), she's a fairly normal low-caste red-blooded troll girl with an interest in archaeology and a fairly dangerous hobby playing a roleplaying game called FLARP in which people have the potential to be horribly maimed and/or killed. She also hears the voices of the dead, which tell her about the future.

Vriska, who is a really big bitch, runs a FLARP session for Aradia and her friends, and psychically controls Tavros into jumping off a cliff, thereby paralyzing him. When Aradia finds out about this, she sends the spirits of the dead to harry and torment Vriska in revenge. Vriska has her own vengeance against Aradia, by sending Sollux, Aradia's possible boyfriend to Aradia's house and mind-controlling him into eating mind honey, which causes his psychic powers to go out of control and destroy Aradia's home, thus killing Aradia and her guardian lusus.

Yeah, I said killing. But the story doesn't end there.

Aradia drifts as a ghost with incredibly enhanced psychic powers and a big chip on her shoulder for a while. No one but possibly Vriska realizes that Aradia is dead. They only think that she's gotten pretty boring and lost interest in most things that she used to love.

When the 12 trolls begin playing the sGrub game (a game which Aradia discovered during her life in the ruins and gave to Sollux to figure out since he's a hacker type) Aradia enters the game as part of the blue team, with Nepeta as her server player and acting as the server player for Equius, a position she knew she had to take. Because of the whispers of the dead, she basically knows what to do and quickly prototypes her sprite with a big stone frog head, then enters the medium. Her world is the Land of Quartz and Melody and she is given the title of the Maid of Time. At that point, she prototypes herself, becoming a sprite - since she's dead, she can do that.

Equius travels to Aradia's world, with a present he carefully prepared for her - a robotic body for her to inhabit. Aradiasprite quickly merges with the robotic body, and then discovers that not only had Equius given the robot body blue blood (which is one of the highest castes), but he had programmed the body to give her feelings of desire and love towards him, since he's kindof been obsessing over her from afar and is basically a big stuck up blue-blooded asshole. She rips the heart with its programming from her own chest with her bare hands, but that doesn't stop the feelings, and she makes out with him.

Jerk.

From a headcanon perspective, I think he's likely her kismesis, which is like hatesex on the troll relationship quadrant thingy. Particularly since I'm pretty sure Sollux filled the matesprit quadrant, and also she kinda obviously hates Equius. It's pretty clear that he wanted the matesprit status, but maybe then he shouldn't have helped kill her and then tried to manipulate her artificially into loving him. Just saying.

Anyway, using her gift of foresight and her powers as the Maid of Time, Aradia causes thousands of versions of herself from splintered-off timelines to travel through time to the point at which the twelve trolls were fighting the final boss. With the help of the Aradia army, they were successful at defeating their boss, but just as Karkat was about to open the door and receive their reward, a rift opened from the newly-created human universe, and the prize was snatched from their grasp. Aradia managed to teleport the twelve troll kids to an asteroid, sacrificing the rest of the army (but they were fated to die anyway) and the troll kids proceeded to troll the human kids and generally just hang out trying to figure out what to do next.