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Sollux Captor | Homestuck | Reserved

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Player nickname: Cnd
Player journal: chichirinoda
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Email: chichirinoda@gmail.com
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Are you at least 15?: Still Y
Current Characters: Dr. Franken Stein, Jake English

Character: Sollux Captor
Fandom: Homestuck
Character Notes:
History:

Homestuck is a story about four kids who play a game, which destroys the world. John, Jade, Rose and Dave play SBURB, and get in over their heads. They contact some trolls from another universe, who also played their version of the game, which resulted in the original creation of the human universe. Through their interaction with the trolls, the kids decide to perform The Scratch, which will reset their universe and give them a chance to try again. So the kids scratch, and escape their universe, and a new universe is born. And some other stuff happens.

Sollux is one of the trolls.

Sollux is a yellow-blooded troll, which puts him at the upper end of the low part of the hemospectrum. He has extremely powerful psionic abilities, which make him destined to be enslaved, installed on a ship, and used as a living engine to power interstellar flight. Thankfully, he doesn't seem to know that this is his fate, as he's only six sweeps old, and still a child.

Before the game begins, Sollux' life is pretty decent. He lives in a shitty communal hive stem in a troll city and has terrible dreams of future doom and death, but otherwise life is good. His girlfriend, Aradia Megido, brought him some game disks, and he used his incredible programming skills to translate and unlock the ancient artifacts, so that he and his friends can play.

Then there was an incident in which Sollux got caught up in a revenge cycle involving Vriska, Terezi, and Aradia. Though Sollux has a lot of protection against Vriska's mind control powers, Vriska was able to control him just long enough to make him eat mind honey, a substance created by the bees that are part of his computer mainframe, and which makes his psionic abilities go out of control. Vriska then was able to control him like a puppet, using his abilities to blow up Aradia's hive - and Aradia. Sollux doesn't remember the incident, and didn't know until later that Aradia had actually died, he just thought that Aradia was mad at him for blowing up her hive and killing her lusus, because she became so cold towards him afterwards. He carries a great deal of guilt over the incident.

In any case, the blue team and red team were chosen (Sollux named the teams, of course) and the game began. Sollux is good friends with Karkat, and sent him a virus that blew up his computer as a prank, and Karkat was supposed to get Sollux into the game as his server player, but as the meteors fell and Eridan stopped feeding it, Feferi's lusus died before that could happen. When the lusus died, it released the Vast Glub, a horrific sound that instantly killed all remaining trolls in the universe, including Sollux, except for the Empress of the trolls, far in outer space, Her Imperious Condescension.

Feferi travelled to Sollux' position and corpsekissed him, causing one of his dream selves (unlike most people, Sollux has two) to activate, reviving Sollux within the game. So that's all right, then. Though there was more Doom on the horizon, as Sollux predicted from a vision that he would die twice, the second time after being blinded. As the Mage of Doom is his game title, he's qualified to make such predictions.

Sollux and Feferi went through the game together and became close friends. Though it seems clear that Feferi has great affection for him, it's not clear if they were actually in a quadrant or not, nor whether it's pale or flushed. Eridan, on the other hand, went down a hate spiral towards Sollux, and dueled him at least once during the game, jealous that a lowblood like him was so close to Eridan's flushcrush and former moirail.

Sollux was a key player in the battle against the Black King in the end. His psychic abilities are so powerful that he has no need of a strife specibus, and along with all the many Aradias, he was able to cause a great deal of damage with his telekinetic powers. But then the demon, Bec Noir, came along, and they were all forced to flee to an asteroid in the Veil, where they all waited for something to happen.

Karkat then had the bright idea of trolling the humans who created Bec Noir and making their lives miserable, since they had nothing better to do. Though Sollux was able to use his technical know-how to adapt the weird technology in the asteroid and contact the internet in the human universe from the Veil, Sollux refused to have anything to do with a dumb plan like that. He didn't troll any of the humans, so far as we know, and just hung around playing solitaire and jerking off or something, idk. Mostly mooning over how Aradia probably likes Equius more than him now, actually, and then after Aradia blew up, hanging around in a horn pile with Feferi, talking about his feelings.

At which point, Eridan did something stupid, as he is wont to do. Eridan came up to them and said he was going to join the demon, throw himself on his mercy, and try that out, since hanging out in the asteroid was pretty much just waiting around to die. hey fef do you wwant to come?. Sollux did what he does best - ragged on him until he was in a blinding rage and tried to kill him. So Sollux and Eridan dueled again.

Sollux had beaten Eridan very easily the last time, but now Eridan had his white science stick, and it was a hell of a lot more powerful than anyone ever expected. Eridan beat Sollux quickly, and burned out his eyes. While the rest of the bad stuff went down (i.e., Feferi's death at Eridan's hand) Sollux was unconscious, and his consciousness went to the bubbles in the Furthest Ring, where he encountered a newly god-tiered Aradia, who explained a whole lot of stuff about what happened.

While he was unconscious, Karkat dragged him around while fleeing from Gamzee, dropped him down some stairs, and knocked his teeth out, curing his lisp. Sollux eventually woke up again, was bitten by Kanaya, and then witnessed (okay, he was present going 'hey, what's happening, I can't see') while Karkat shooshpapped Gamzee and became his moirail.

But Sollux still had one foot in the grave. His dreaming self from the bubbles somehow remained conscious, exited the bubbles, and hung out with Aradia outside the green sun, waiting for the asteroid with their friends to arrive. The plan was for the humans to blow up the green sun, and escape the scratch, meeting up with the trolls there. So, to that end, his living self used his abilities to literally 'drive' the asteroid all the way out to the green sun. This effort killed him.

So Sollux has now died twice, but he's still kinda hanging out there. And he's only half blind, able to see in 2D, with one empty eye socket and one dead-white eye. When the other trolls, Dave, and Rose decided to head off on the asteroid to the new human universe, Sollux decided to stay back with Aradia and all the dead trolls. He and Aradia gave the asteroid a final push in the right direction, and off the others went on a three year journey. And that's the last we've seen of Sollux so far.

Personality:

In many ways, Sollux is your classic socially-inept computer nerd, destined to live in his parents' basement until well past 30. Fortunately, he's a troll, and so he doesn't have parents. Or maybe unfortunately.

He is quite bi-polar, able to go from happy and sweet to pissed off and mean and back in the blink of an eye. Trolls are pretty moody, as a race, but Sollux is one of the worst, because of his mutant, bifurcated brain.

Sollux also has terrible self esteem. Though he can often joke and make fun of people easily, he also loathes himself and when that switch flips in his brain, he's as likely to start talking about what a freak and a loser he is, as he is to fly off the handle. He's quite introverted, and self-conscious of his lisp and physical abnormalities, so he can be quite quiet and withdrawn in person, but he's a whiz-kid with computers, capable of feats of programming that shouldn't actually be possible (such as remotely blowing up a computer through a few lines of script). He knows he's apeshit bananas with computers, but thinks he's pretty much useless with everything else. And sometimes, he even beats himself up over his computer skills, thinking he could be better.

He's also psychic, which is another source of self-loathing as well as pride for Sollux. He is completely badass, having powerful telekinetic powers that make weapons unnecessary, and the ability to put animals and weak-minded sentient beings to sleep with a mental concussion as well. But he also hears the screams of the 'imminently deceased', and that fucks with his head, badly. He will easily tell you that he hates his life, and himself, though he won't take anyone talking down his skill with computers or his general badassery.

All that being said, Sollux is a loyal friend and while he's completely unbalanced as far as his mood goes, he's one of the less violent of the trolls. He doesn't tend to initiate violence, though he will egg people on if he thinks they're being dicks, and will happily kick someone's ass if they piss him off enough and challenge him. He's also very brave, and will unthinkingly sacrifice his life (and does) to save a friend.

He's a close friends of Karkat's, and his insults towards kk come off as more affectionate than truly mean, though they have a tendency to egg each other on and their insults can become outrageous when they get really going. He had (has?) a deep crush on Aradia before her death, and was developing a moiralleigance or possible matespritship with Feferi before shit went down.

Sollux is obsessed with duality and with the colours red and blue. His obsession is reflected in various nerdy ways, such as the nicknames he gives people, and the way he doubles his i's in his quirk. If he can get away with it, he will set up two of everything and give them red and blue designations (two teams, named team Red and team Blue). He likes to code in red and blue as well.

He often gives everyone two-letter nicknames, generally the same letter repeated if he can get away with it, though he can't always. His introversion and general apathy led him to dismiss the trolling of the kids as pointless (he was probably right) and so he has had little interaction with humans.

Other: His Trollian handle is twinArmageddons and he used two be ob22e22ed with dualiity and al2o 2poke wiith a biit of a lii2p. but then he decided duality was silly and he was going to abandon that obsession, and Karkat got rid of his lisp, not to mention the fact that he died. So now he speaks a bit h0ll0wly instead, but is pretty 0kay with things.. At the timepoint I'm bringing Sollux from, it's pre-blindness, so he still likes duality and uses his original quirk.

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First Person (text):

okay, thii2 ii2 a publiic 2erviice announcement from me, 2ollux captor, two you, the deniizen2 of dramadramaduck.
 
iif by 2ome weiird chance you deciided to, 2ay, fuck around wiith the code of the communiity. for example, wantiing two know more about who ii2 runniing thii2 occa2iionally 2hiitty place.
 
not two mentiion wantiing two fiigure out the codiing two cau2e 2ome of the viiru2e2. liike that one where we all 2wiitched bodiie2 wiith random people becau2e there'2 thii2 fiiddly biit that ii ju2t can't compiile and every tiime ii try iit blow2 up iin my face, liiterally.
 
anyway.
 
2o my poiint ii2, don't do that. because the part about thiing2 blowiing up? iit happen2 when you get two deep intwo the code of the communiity, two.
 
...
 
doe2 anyone have a 2pare hu2ktop ii could borrow? ii liike my ii2hade2, but they're 2hiit for doiing anythiing more compliicated than u2iing trolliian and fondliing my bulge out of 2heer unadulterated boredom.

thank2.

Third Person:

Sollux sat at his computer, munching on a small, slightly stale bag of grub chips with one hand while he coded with the other. In the background, he could hear Karkat shouting about something, but for once the sound was neither soothing nor did it bring a smile to his face.

That was because his attention was focused elsewhere. Aradia stood to his right, two computers away, a big blank space between them filled with awkwardness and pain.

And a bit beyond her, standing sort of awkwardly in the corner, was Equius.

He had been staring at Aradia for at least an hour. Oh, Nepeta was standing next to him, chattering on about something, and the big blueblood made all the right noises, but he was still staring at Aradia. Staring at Sollux' matesprit.

They were still matesprits, right?

He glanced slightly to one side, just enough to see a vague metallic grey shape. He missed her so much. Sure, he'd complained when she would grab his hand and haul him off to some dirty tomb or cave to look for what she termed 'adventure' and what he thought of as a whole lot of effort to see some ugly rocks that might vaguely be shaped like a building if you turned your head and squinted right. He had never been an outdoors sort of person, and Aradia didn't care.

And deep down, he hadn't cared, either. She had been full of life and light and fun. She had held him when the visions or depression got too bad, and prodded him out of his hive, forced him to shower and eat, and distracted his mind, when he got into one of his really manic moods. And he had held her, too, when the voices of the dead tried to drive her crazy. They had understood each other.

And he had killed her.

And now some musclebound asshole highblood was trying to move in on his territory.

But maybe it was best if he just let that go. It wasn't like a freak like him deserved something as beautiful as her, anyway.

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