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Character Name: Vriska Serket
Series: Homestuck
Gender: Female
Age & Canon Point: 6 sweeps old (13 years) and she came in after she was sent halfway across the floor by Kanaya's punch. After being in the Garden for a year two years she'll be 7 and a half sweeps old (15 years).
Requested Sponsor: Sapphire
Entry position (Cadet, SeeD, Instructor, other): SeeD!
Description of her past year:
It took Vriska a few weeks to get around to actually enrolling into Balamb Garden, still stuck on the idea that she could find a way back to the Veil and get back to business. A month into school she wasn't very serious about it, more interested in the physical parts rather than the academic, but slowly she got through with it. She specialized in Para-Magic and graduated with eight GFs under her belt. 

Because of her summoning the GFs Vriska has had some problems with recalling certain parts of her past, but nothing too drastic yet, just small things so far. Not being around her peers hasn't helped her realize she's been forgetting small things here and there, but despite that she's still determined to head back to the Veil.


History: History!
Abilities & Physical Abnormalities: 
Vriska’s abilities don’t span much farther than luck stealing, mind control and extreme FLARPing. Her mind control is essentially taking control of someone else of a weaker mindset and controlling them to do whatever she wants. She can also slightly influence feelings (such as seen when she tries to make Tavros WANT to kiss her), but when used on humans it seems she can only make them fall asleep and wake up. She can also ‘supposedly’ read minds, but thus far we only see mention of this when she says she can read the minds of the Consorts from the Land of Sand and Zephyr.

She also has eight 8-sided dice that she uses to carry out commands to her sylladex and pull out weird and utterly morbid shit, like a guillotine device used to decapitate her lusus as a means to end her suffering after an avalanche of rocks crushed her.

Personality: 
If you asked anyone who knew Vriska well enough what she was like the first thing they would (most likely) say is, “Bluh bluh HUGE BITCH.” This already says something about Vriska, but it’s only a taste compared to everything else others having to say about her. Vriska Serket is considered a highly dangerous troll, what with sociopath tendencies and a deranged personality. Of course while she may be psychotic, hateful, angry, short-tempered, paranoid, there are reasons as to why she is like she is!

One reason could be her giant spider lusus. You see, while other trolls were being taken care of by their lusii, Vriska was left taking care of HER lusus most of the time. This encompassed making sure her monster of a lusus was always fed, lest she be her spider mother’s next meal. These meals were other young trolls that Vriska killed during games of FLARP, an extreme role-playing game that Vriska took high enjoyment in. In it she was at the top of her class and at the highest levels – naturally. She had the best motivator, after all. In FLARP she played with another troll named Terezi. During the games Terezi broke away from Vriska, not particularly liking that Vriska kept killing all the other trolls for fun or for food. Who would? Well they split up and Vriska was left alone to her conquests of booty hunting and treasure stealing. 

Well after throwing someone off a cliff things went downhill pretty fast for her. From there she manipulated Aradia’s boyfriend to kill her (she deserved it! After bringing up all those ghosts of dead trolls to haunt her…) and then when Terezi ousted her cheating to another player (that resulted in Vriska losing an arm and her seven eyes) she used Tavros’s powers to commune with animals to guide Terezi’s unborn lusii to command Terezi to stare into the Alternian sun and consequently blinding her. Vriska acts on impulse and without hesitation, as her aforementioned actions confirm. She tends to jump the gun in situations and doesn’t think of the consequences of what her actions may bring. If anything bad ever happens she just happens to blame it on her “bad luck” and won’t even think to wonder if there are any other reasons as to why certain things happen to her (such as stepping on the dice littered about in her room; this wouldn’t happen if she just tidied up a bit, but no. It’s her confounded bad luck!). She also hates being ignored – to her any attention is better than no attention, whether it be good or bad. Even if everyone hates her she’d rather have their spite than have nothing at all. Being alone and unnoticed is a great fear for Vriska and one she wants to completely vanquish. On the flip side she is paranoid as well. “What are they saying? Are they talking about her? What are they planning? I need to know I MUST KNOW! They’ll never outsmart me I won’t let them!” And so on and so forth…

Yet Vriska isn’t totally lost to her sociopath mentality. There are times (as few as they may be) where she feels guilt and a little remorse for the things she’s done. The only problem is that while she may feel these things (sincere as they may be) no one else would believe her if she said so. Why? Well because she’s also a lying bitch. When she isn’t spouting off about her GR8TNESS she’s almost always lying about one thing or another. It’s naturally for her to deny anything that contradicts her own ideas and what she believes about herself, truth or not. She walks the walk and talks the talk to a capital T and she’ll forever deny anything that opposes her own ‘truth’ even when she herself knows it’s true. Admitting that she was wrong is a weakness and a kind of defeat and Vriska is not someone who admits to defeat or weakness. Nope, not ever. Never ever. 

She’d faster throw a tantrum than bend for anyone else. Everyone else must bend to HER will. Naturally, no one in their right mind who knows Vriska well enough would do this. This is where Vriska uses her abilities to manipulate people through her mind control to get what she wants. It’s really the only way she CAN make people do what she wants, but there’s a kick. Only those of weak minds are susceptible to her abilities which leaves out the most infuriating people (to her) unaffected by her powers. One such troll is Terezi Pyrope. Even after being blinded by her it seems that Terezi’s abilities to push people into what she wants have only tripled in size and it only furthers Vriska’s anger and jealously. Yes, that’s right, she is terribly, green-in the face jealous of Terezi. She doesn’t understand it and what Vriska doesn’t understand only continues to fuel her anger which pushes her to manipulate more which makes others despise her more which increases her paranoia which… yeah. In the end it just becomes one big vicious cycle that she just can’t seem to break out of. 

Vriska does indeed feel remorse, not for various actions she has committed in the past, but for herself. One such example is killing off Tavros- in her mind she had tried so hard to help him be stronger so that he stood a chance in their society (yet always failing to even come CLOSE to her expectations) that when he finally decided to ‘man up’ and come at her she killed him out of anger. Later she feels bad for this, feeling bad for herself as well for being so ‘messed up’ because of the society she grew up in. Vriska isn’t a bad troll, but good intentions pave the way to Hell and that is what she did. In her own strange way her plan to go and fight Jack Noir, despite knowing that it is a suicide mission, is her way of ‘protecting’ her friends. 

What are your plans for the character in-game? I'd like to play on Vriska's development from being in the Gardens for the past two years and how being the only troll around has affected her. See how she's matured (and how she hasn't) and the memories she's lost over the past two years has also affected her now that she has castmates that could trigger her remembering that she's forgotten certain things (if that makes sense).