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doc_scratch) wrote2016-05-25 04:52 pm
doc_scratch) wrote2016-05-25 04:52 pm
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đź’€ Player Information
Name: Mordrid
Age: 27
Contact: PM this account
Characters In-game: n/a
đź’€ Character Information
Name: Doc Scratch (technically a pseudonym, but his most-used--and we never do learn his "real" name)
Canon: Homestuck
Canon Point: he dies at the end of Act5-Intermission2, but he's loosely aware of events up until canon end.
Age: unknown, but OLD. evolutionary-timescale old.
Description: A four foot tall white cloth ragdoll with a giant cue ball for a head. His insides are fluffy white stuffing. He typically wears a white suit and shoes with a green dress shirt, bow tie, and suspenders.
Physical changes: None!
Powers:
Near omniscience. What's most easily classifiable as reality-warping, to the degree of nigh-omnipotence. Haha, yeah he's not keeping either of those. Things he does get to keep:
History:
Because Homestuck has a circular timeline, fourth-walls itself a LOT (Scratch even usurps the narrative for a while and the author has to physically attack him to get it back) and he's canonically nigh-omniscient, he's aware of most events in canon.
Unfortunately, Doc Scratch's wiki page is a bit out of date. It still covers his own actions between creation and death perfectly well, but there have been fairly significant revelations concerning his origin since the page was last given a good overhaul.
When Scratch dies, the story's foremost big bad, Lord English, sprouts out of his cloth corpse. There's currently no explanation given on his wiki page. However, while there is definitely some weird shit in Homestuck that could use an explanation but just doesn't have one, this does! And it's kinda a big deal. Part of Scratch's ectobiological makeup, the mysteriously omnipresent puppet Lil Cal, acts as a sort of “soul prison” for Lord English throughout most of the story. The how and why of that are... complicated, to say the least, but explained on Lil Cal's wiki page quite well.
Hell Status: Hell Newbie
What Brings Them To Hell:
He specialized in manipulating people from afar, so he's indirectly responsible for quite a lot, including the reconditioning of an entire intelligent species from their original peaceful natures into brutally violent warmongering. Sticking just to what he's done personally is a more manageable list:
The Pitch:
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Setting Fit:
Scratch is ok with death. He's been looking forward to it even! ...He's less keen on this "afterlife" nonsense. He had really expected something more oblivion-y, and is salty there's no opt-out on the eternal life thing. But if he has to exist forever, he'd rather be in Hell. From what he's hearing, Heaven sounds far duller. (In fact he's of the opinion that it's not so much of a reward as the "boring punishment" option.)
He's actually never had the chance to set his own overarching goal! So that's gonna be a thing he'll have to figure out. Without predetermined master plans, it's entirely possible he might genuinely make A Friend (or two??) rather than the routine of "befriend in order to further the master plan"; on the other hand, while he doesn't typically fuck people over just for lulz, that might have had more to do with not having had enough wiggle room in his plan rather than an actual dislike of the concept. He is drawn to people he deems suckers, generally with an eye to manipulating them to some ends. It was primarily his foreknowledge that prevented his becoming personally invested in more things though. It's very hard to care when you already know the outcome--uncertainty would remove a lot of that detachment. Especially because he does have a controlling streak, and one that's been heavily catered to at that.
Basically though, Hell is going to be his first chance at leading a normal(ish) life. What he ends up deciding to do with that will depend a lot on CR. I see him being a Sin-Tracker for at least a while, though--spying on people and writing up lengthy stories documenting everything? The phrase "sounds like Heaven" would be apt if we hadn't just established he thinks of Heaven as Boring-Hell.
Samples:
Dear_Player thread: here
Test Drive thread: here
second Test Drive thread: here
Name: Mordrid
Age: 27
Contact: PM this account
Characters In-game: n/a
đź’€ Character Information
Name: Doc Scratch (technically a pseudonym, but his most-used--and we never do learn his "real" name)
Canon: Homestuck
Canon Point: he dies at the end of Act5-Intermission2, but he's loosely aware of events up until canon end.
Age: unknown, but OLD. evolutionary-timescale old.
Description: A four foot tall white cloth ragdoll with a giant cue ball for a head. His insides are fluffy white stuffing. He typically wears a white suit and shoes with a green dress shirt, bow tie, and suspenders.
Physical changes: None!
Powers:
Near omniscience. What's most easily classifiable as reality-warping, to the degree of nigh-omnipotence. Haha, yeah he's not keeping either of those. Things he does get to keep:
- Ragdoll Physiology - While he does typically move like he has an internal skeleton, that's purely a personal aesthetic preference--he doesn't actually have bones, or for that matter anything inside him beyond regular ol' stuffing. Understandably he doesn't breathe or eat/drink either, nor does he have a body temperature.
- Cue Ball Head - His head is fairly sturdy and durable. Of greater note is that he possesses all five senses and the ability to speak, despite not having a face. (His range of sight is inexplicably still restrained to a forward-facing arc.)
- Surprising Strength - Even without his reality-warping he's capable of curling up an iron bar into an unusable loop barehanded. It didn't even seem to take effort.
- High Pain Tolerance - He's been both hit over the head with an iron bar and set on fire, neither time reacting with more than mild annoyance. He can still be damaged, especially now that he's lost the reality-warping, but pain just doesn't matter to him at the same degrees as normal people.
- Formerly Omniscient - He knows most of the events of Homestuck. Due to having his omniscience nerfed away, it is more difficult for him to actively remember such things than it is in canon, but his memory hasn't been wiped. This only applies to his own canon.
History:
Because Homestuck has a circular timeline, fourth-walls itself a LOT (Scratch even usurps the narrative for a while and the author has to physically attack him to get it back) and he's canonically nigh-omniscient, he's aware of most events in canon.
Unfortunately, Doc Scratch's wiki page is a bit out of date. It still covers his own actions between creation and death perfectly well, but there have been fairly significant revelations concerning his origin since the page was last given a good overhaul.
When Scratch dies, the story's foremost big bad, Lord English, sprouts out of his cloth corpse. There's currently no explanation given on his wiki page. However, while there is definitely some weird shit in Homestuck that could use an explanation but just doesn't have one, this does! And it's kinda a big deal. Part of Scratch's ectobiological makeup, the mysteriously omnipresent puppet Lil Cal, acts as a sort of “soul prison” for Lord English throughout most of the story. The how and why of that are... complicated, to say the least, but explained on Lil Cal's wiki page quite well.
Hell Status: Hell Newbie
What Brings Them To Hell:
He specialized in manipulating people from afar, so he's indirectly responsible for quite a lot, including the reconditioning of an entire intelligent species from their original peaceful natures into brutally violent warmongering. Sticking just to what he's done personally is a more manageable list:
- Acting as a distraction so a kid could attempt to murder her playmate uninterrupted.
- Badly maiming a kid during a tantrum.
- Lies of omission to the Nth degree. (This may sound pretty minor, but includes such things as technically not specifying whether the suicide mission he's encouraging would destroy or create the source of his power.)
- Just all-around being a truly indescribable ass to his foster daughter (temporarily revoking her "breathing privileges", Scratch? really? by teleporting her into space, no less).
- Only having taken in said foster daughter in order to leave her enslaved to a malevolent entity for centuries.
- "Gifting" an eldritch abomination to a populated planet.
The Pitch:
Get your Doc Scratch today to experience these exciting features:
- Unapologetic general awfulness that manages to be both self-aware and horrifyingly sincere, with perfect "Eggs, Milk, Squick" delivery! Does he agree that he's disturbing? Meh, he doesn't really care one way or another--but you clearly do, and that amuses him.
- Attempts to manipulate you (and everyone else) through words alone without resorting to lies! WARNING: commitment to not lying involves a lot of cherry-picking truths and the firm belief that lies of omission don't count.
- His discomfort when he doesn't understand something, his short-lived but dramatic flipping-of-shit when events deviate from the path that he is certain is The Correct One™! DISCLAIMER: we are not responsible for any damage caused while his shit is flipped.
- His collected and gentlemanly demeanor, which he can maintain even while bludgeoning you with a blunt object! He can even pull off "friendly" when he's in the mood for it.
- Despite so-called "anti-social tendencies" he's not unsociable at all! He genuinely enjoys company. He's even capable of liking people--shocking, but true.
- Eloquent monologues, unprompted storytelling, tangential verbosity, and more! He enjoys talking almost as much as you'll want him to shut up.
- Vanity taken to hilarity and beyond! Have you ever heard someone refer to themselves as "devastatingly handsome"? How about a cue ball?
- Are you a young lady? He'll willingly double as a mentor and a creepy uncle. What a deal!
Setting Fit:
Scratch is ok with death. He's been looking forward to it even! ...He's less keen on this "afterlife" nonsense. He had really expected something more oblivion-y, and is salty there's no opt-out on the eternal life thing. But if he has to exist forever, he'd rather be in Hell. From what he's hearing, Heaven sounds far duller. (In fact he's of the opinion that it's not so much of a reward as the "boring punishment" option.)
He's actually never had the chance to set his own overarching goal! So that's gonna be a thing he'll have to figure out. Without predetermined master plans, it's entirely possible he might genuinely make A Friend (or two??) rather than the routine of "befriend in order to further the master plan"; on the other hand, while he doesn't typically fuck people over just for lulz, that might have had more to do with not having had enough wiggle room in his plan rather than an actual dislike of the concept. He is drawn to people he deems suckers, generally with an eye to manipulating them to some ends. It was primarily his foreknowledge that prevented his becoming personally invested in more things though. It's very hard to care when you already know the outcome--uncertainty would remove a lot of that detachment. Especially because he does have a controlling streak, and one that's been heavily catered to at that.
Basically though, Hell is going to be his first chance at leading a normal(ish) life. What he ends up deciding to do with that will depend a lot on CR. I see him being a Sin-Tracker for at least a while, though--spying on people and writing up lengthy stories documenting everything? The phrase "sounds like Heaven" would be apt if we hadn't just established he thinks of Heaven as Boring-Hell.
Samples:
Dear_Player thread: here
Test Drive thread: here
second Test Drive thread: here