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PLAYER INFORMATION

Name: Paul
Journal:

the_berkeleian
Contact information: [AIM/PLURK] miyazaki895 [EMAIL] kohaku.river626@gmail.com
Other characters: None
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CHARACTER INFORMATION

Name: Rose Lalonde
Age: 13
Subject taught: N/A
Canon: Homestuck canon
Canon point: After being killed by Jack Noir, before waking up on Derse's moon.

Personality:

Every group needs a straight man, and among her circle of close friends, Rose is that straight man. This is most easily viewed in her typing style; her perfect grammar and capitalization rise to the rung of sophistication without climbing higher to the looming pedestal of precociousness. Rose can be dependable, helping her friends through their group gaming session, and encouraging or indulging their sarcasms and tangents. She is also very good at reading people, psychoanalyzing them to the point of being uncomfortable to one or both parties. In interactions with others, she is very drily sarcastic, which endears her to some and alienates her to others. She often grows closer to those who participate in prolonged bouts of insincere teasing, metaphors, and occasional roleplaying.

Rose has a very independent spirit. She has had control issues with her mother in the past; not believing or allowing that her mother’s interest in wizards was an attempt at empathy to her daughter’s obsessions, Rose resented her mother for what she saw as ironic echoing of her own passions, and thus a means of winning her over and controlling her. Rose needs to be as free an agent as her cat, Jaspers. It’s worth noting that her first role in her group’s gaming session was to be a server player – that is, to manipulate and control the environment around the other player. Being at the mercy of Dave Strider during her entrance to the game caused her a great deal of anxiety.

Within this freedom, Rose’s goal is to learn all of the things. An exhaustive quantity of them, in fact. The easiest way to do this is through logical assessment of situations; Rose excels at this, particularly in the realm of psychoanalysis, as noted above. Not that that’s the only way for Rose to learn things, of course: she has an illogical streak. She resorts to anarchical tactics within the game, blowing up the means of transportation and leveling-up provided to her, choosing instead to look for clues to the game’s purpose on her own terms. Rose takes information from wherever she can get it, gravitating towards those sources that fascinate her the most. This fascination can lead her astray of logic; one informant, Doc Scratch, turns out to have ill intentions for her and her friends’ well-being, but Rose is blinded to this by her thirst for hunger and Scratch’s inviting leading questions and vague responses.

When she has a goal, Rose is single-mindedly focused on achieving it. This can cause her to neglect her friends; for several instances during Homestuck, Rose’s friends lose track of her as she works to further her knowledge, battle monsters, or gather a following of cohorts. Rose doesn’t intend to be egocentric or unfriendly; she is simply very invested and curious in whatever she is currently doing, and efficiently removes all other distractions from her consciousness.

This is not to say that Rose is all business, of course. Rose’s ironic battles with her mother carry an element of humor, as do many of her sarcastic conversations with her friends. And in addition to the practicality being a wizard brings Rose (allowing her powers with her wands, and near-omniscience with her crystal ball), she takes up the mantle of the spellbook because it is fun. (After all, she had been secretly writing wizard fanfiction for an undisclosed amount of time before beginning the game.) This further explains her tolerance for John’s and Jade’s wackiness, and Dave’s sick beats.

Weapon:

Name: Scratches

Form: Purple knitting needles

Upgrades:
Dark
Sonar
Stormfront
Akhet
Thread: A Weapon that is in two parts and is naturally dual-wielded gains an Offense boost, as the two halves of the weapon work better in tandem with one another. Singly-wielded Weapons gain the same boost if they are dual-wielded with another Weapon.

Lost memories:

How to process visual information (rendering her effectively blind upon arrival)
Events on Skaia's battlefield, including seeing her dead mother and being killed by Jack Noir
How to use the "SHIFT" and "CAPSLOCK" keys
The trolls
Why she started playing SBurb (to revive her dead cat)
Dates of her friends' birthdays
How doors work
That alcohol makes you drunk
The difference between hot and cold
The existence of her mother

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