Apologies for my absence! I came down with a rather bad cold, but I'm coming off it now!
((I...kind of wrote way too much for this. xD; I hope it's not to irritating to read through it all, haha...
Donut worry! More might take longer (or less, depending), but it also means there's less to ask you to add!
AAAA THIS IS REALLY FANTASTIC...
THEIR FACE... OH MY GLOB... AND THOSE HORNS...
also I really like the ears! they're not really necessary, since usually ears aren't included in a sprite, but THEY ARE REALLY FANTASTIC LOOKING HERE...
an older sprite that I should really redo
SO GREAT and fuq that earring is so cute
I can't help it I love vests and earrings and goggles/glasses
and a crappy scribble that's more accurate as per his clothing.
So yes, on to the actual troll! ))
== > Be the jittery, cautious scumbag
Your name is TORPAQ ATERAN. You are a male, yellowblooded troll of 7 sweeps and you live in an offshoot tunnel of a LARGE CAVERN DEEP UNDERGROUND with your LEATHERWINGBEAST LUSUS. You love your lusus; You have fondly nicknamed him CHIRPCHIRP after the little noises he makes. He’s kind of UGLY, so you’ve been told, but you don’t really care because you can’t see him, anyway, so it all works out! Even if you could see him, you’re sure you would LOVE HIM ALL THE SAME.
man one of my favourite things about fantrolls is finding out what their lusus is/what their relationship with their lusus is like
this is all fine, though maybe chirpdad might be better for a lusus' nickname? idk it just seems like the all seem to follow the "-mom" or "-dad" format, but chirpchirp is good as well! or a better uh, kind of onomatopoeia, might be screech? so screechscreech or screechdad!
like I said, it's okay, these are just suggestions!
Because of living in near-complete darkness all your life (after all, fuel for lamps can run out very quickly), you've learned to rely upon your sense of hearing above sight, and as a result your ears grew quite a bit larger than most troll’s to catch sound waves better. CHIRPCHIRP has helped by teaching you how to tell if things were in your way by making a series of SMALL CLICKING NOISES with your tongue. However, while this is EXTREMELY HELPFUL, you cannot discern DETAILS very well. If you did go above ground often, even in the light of the moons you wouldn’t be able to ‘SEE’ a thing without your sound-sight; Your left eye is EXTREMELY NEARSIGHTED and your right eye is EXTREMELY FARSIGHTED. You would wear glasses, but you have learned to cope without eyesight so WHY BOTHER. Besides, were you to get glasses you wouldn’t be able to put on your SPIFFY GOGGLES- Your eyes may not work very well, but they still have feeling in them and gog DAMN getting bits of stone in your eyes hurts.
OHHH SO THAT'S WHY HIS EARS ARE SO LONG! yes this is good
I think it might put him in some danger, since it's a mutation, but it doesn't seem like he gets out much... so yes, I like this!
also yes! I think being in the dark would really screw up someone's eyesight, and I like that bit about the goggles. like, they serve a practical purpose, but they're also really spiffy!
The fact that you can’t see above ground either doesn’t really matter, though, because the only time that you need to go above ground is when you need to COLLECT SUPPLIES for yourself and FOOD for your lusus. To get food for your lusus, you simply set some traps to catch FLUTTERBEASTS. To acquire food, water, and any other basic needs for yourself, you bring a few GOLD TRINKETS with you to trade with other trolls.
YES GOOD FLUTTERBEASTS...
I think you could maybe clarify this bit a little? I mean, just to make sure you are indeed talking about insects you could add "and annoying blood-sucking pests called BITEBEASTS" or something? I mean, just so we're sure you're not referring to birds or something
other than that, I like that his environment provides a source of income for him!
Speaking of GOLD TRINKETS, you mine for precious minerals in the main cavern, namely gold. You're quite fond of gold, as it VERY NEARLY MATCHES YOUR BLOOD, except your blood is not shiny. You surround yourself with little gold trinkets, though you insist that it’s justified by a LOGICAL REASON. You know you should stop, but addiction is a powerful thing. The ‘logical reason’ is that the shines are really the only thing you can SOMEWHAT SEE without your sound-sight; Gold catches light very well, so you line safe pathways with small gold pieces so that they shine in the light of the ONE SMALL OIL LAMP that you own. However, since you go through fuel REALLY FAST, the light is never really on anyway so you really are JUST HOARDING GOLD. Oops.
no, no way am I hoarding gold
SHUSH
Anyway, most trolls are not averse to a little extra money, so most are MORE THAN WILLING to trade. However, you prefer to work with lowbloods, as highbloods SCARE YOU quite a bit. They make you nervous, so when you meet anyone above a light blueblood, you are as polite as you can possibly be. Lowbloods make you nervous, too, but less so than highbloods.
In fact, a lot of things make you nervous; extremely large open spaces, large crowds, being above ground in general...When you’re nervous, you tend to TALK A LOT FASTER and a LOT QUIETER, automatically assuming that because you can hear yourself perfectly fine, SO CAN EVERYONE ELSE. Obviously, this is NOT THE CASE and many a horrible things could happen from someone mishearing you. It has YET TO HAPPEN, but you know it will someday, and so you get EVEN MORE nervous and talk EVEN FASTER...And so the circle continues.
I love how he assumes that everyone can hear him, like he's unconsciously willing them NOT to hear him
and the bit about highbloods is good!!!
I can't recall seeing many trolls that are like, particularly worried about those of a higher colour, or those that have a... breaking point, I guess? for how high the blood can be before GROVELING BEGGING ness
On a completely unrelated note, you have an interesting ability; If know the EXACT location of an item or thing, you can TELEPORT it. The distance you can make it go depends on the size of the object. However, it can be rather TEMPERAMENTAL- should you let your concentration waver for but a second, the object could be sent to the COMPLETELY WRONG PLACE. Despite the risk. this is an ability which your friends exploit for VARIOUS SHENANIGANS.
You also use your ability to clear CAVE-INS and to MINE FOR YOUR GOLD, and drop the rubble and dirt somewhere above ground.
good! I like all the restrictions on it. it has a practical use besides shenanigans, but only for specific situations, and would only really be useful in a few
if you didn't have these limitations it'd be like
but this is good! I'm sure a lot of hilarious things could happen with this...
Because of your lack of outside contact, you are extremely timid and awkward when it comes to socializing with other trolls. For example, you have amassed quite a large collection of PET ROCKS whom you talk to and care for. Your friends say it’s weird- NOT SO, you insist.
DOES TORPAQ MAKE TEA SETS OUT OF GOLD
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
((okay so this next bit...I really need opinions on it, still not 100% sure if I’m using it.))
...okay, so some of that was a lie, but you CAN’T HELP YOURSELF. Yes, you hoard gold, and yes, you are extremely cautious, and yes, you are a bit of a social reject, but you are also LIAR LYING LIARFACE. You are not even close to as socially awkward as you pretend; In fact, you’ve even had most of your quadrants filled. As for going above ground, you actually venture there QUITE OFTEN when you have NOTHING BETTER TO DO.
THE NERVOUS RUSE WAS A,,,,,,,,, DISTACTION
You are extremely polite to highbloods partly because you are NERVOUS and partly because you REALLY DO BELIEVE in the hemospectrum, but more because the more high troll’s good books you’re in, THE BETTER. You can grovel and plead and beg, act the perfect lowblood part, get into highblood’s favor (and sometimes even a quadrant!), and then carefully PULL A FEW STRINGS. The highblood never realizes you were using them and EVERYONE’S HAPPY. Obviously, were any of the trolls you know to find out, they’d be SUPER PISSED, but hey, YOU’RE A TROLL; what do you expect, sunshine and flowers and rainbows? You’re a troll. You manipulate. Big deal.
outer layer of nervousness
inner layer of manipulation
maybe a core of feeling really horrible that he supports stuff like this? and a hatred for everything he does?
idk it seems like a lot of trolls have... some form of inner hatred that they don't remember to deal with or don't know how to deal with so they lock it away
just my thoughts, here!
Your strife specibus is SLINGSHOTKIND- you carry a small pouch around your waist full of small stones and pebbles. Unfortunately, this specibus REALLY DOESN’T HELP AT ALL because you’re a CRAP SHOT, considering your lack of good eyesight. Therefore, you often fall back on your PSYCHIC ABILITY to move things around and hopefully do something to help you.
though wouldn't be hilarious if
one of his friends who knows he's just putting on a show
thought that his crap shot was just an act
really really bad
Your trolltag is auditoryFlittermouse and "you speakkk in a tentative, quiet and slightly meekkk way, and yOu do your best tO not Offend anyOne Or ccause trOuble".
oooo!!! I like this! it's nice and easy to read
though I think maybe you could change the first part of his tag? to something like
but also GOOD OLD WORDS FOR BAT perfect
(( misc;
Torpaq- Azerbaijani for earth or soil
Ateran- I totally forgot, actually, I think it’s a shortening of a word that means ‘sounds’ or ‘bats’ or something. whoops.
Bard of Void
Land of Echoes and Stone
quirk; Triple 'k', as there are three bones in the inner ear, capital O to represent his symbol, Double 'c' because it can resemble a pair of ears or soundwaves. Everything else is lowercase, and no apostrophes, rarely periods unless in a “...” type manner.
I'm liking the quirk even more!
it's nice and easy to read, but also has a lot of stuff relating to his theme
When actually talking, he stutters a bit, but not much, and pronounces the ‘k’ and hard ‘c’ sound very crisply. He also speaks in a very low volume, because he automatically assumes that since he can hear himself perfectly well, so can everyone else.
His fetch modus is Sightkind; it stores infinite amounts of items, but his echolocation doesn't work on it so most of the time he just store only a few items so that his chances of pulling the right one is higher. (I’m still not totally sure about the modus, any suggestions?)
maybe for this you could do
maybe the items are hidden in the area he's in and so he has to use echolocation to find something that would be large or small enough to hide the item he wants?
The person who figured out his ruse was a past matesprit; a seadweller. After a while, Torpaq actually started to feel for the highblood, so when they left he was kind of really torn up about it. As per the current timeline in the RP I’m using him for with some friends, he’s overly cautious with the relationships he’s engaged in in case they decide to leave him, too.
oooo dang that's gotta hurt!
especially with him being of such a low colour? it's probably added some like, genuine fear because
seadweller knows your secret
and not all seadwellers are fef...
Also, I feel I should include this because I don’t really know how to put it in the paragraphs; to see his husktop screen when talking to his friends, he moves the nearsighted eye reeeeeaaaaally close to the screen so he can read the text. This kind of gives him a headache, though.
YES I LOVE LITTLE THINGS LIKE THIS
Yeppp. Feel free to tear apart, I’m interested in seeing opinions and such! ))
Then, you linked a picture of his lusus in another ask so let's look at tha--
http://whitenosebats.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/dsc0145.jpg
I really like the character you have here! I love all the layers of his character, and all the little things that connect to another. The only thing I'm wondering is the meaning of his symbol!
Other than that, there's not much to change here! The only things you could do to make this better, really, would be just to tweak it in some places to make it more fluent? I'd also like to hear more about his relationships!
Thank you for submitting!