[X] Spend the night in a haunted building
[X] Go into a burning/collapsing building to save someone
[X] Take a shortcut through a dark alleyway
[ ] Stay calm with a weapon pointed at them
[ ] Be confident defending themselves from an attack
[ ] Touch a dangerous exotic animal
[X] Take someone else’s punishment to protect them
[X] Travel to an unknown place by themselves
[X] Spend a night in the woods alone (he does this often)
[ ] Witness (or join) a seance
[X] Play a scary video game in the dark alone
[X] Explore a pitch black catacomb with only one light (does this often also)
[ ] Contact the spirit of someone they once knew
[ ] Spend the night in a cemetery
[ ] Sit in a room with one hundred creepy dolls
[X] Hang their feet over the edge of a tall building
[ ] Swim in dark, murky waters without being able to touch the bottom
[ ] Use or accept a powerful magic spell
[X] Be covered in spiders, snakes, or other insects
[X] Go looking for the source of a mysterious sound late at night
[ ] Spend an hour sealed up in a coffin
[ ] Go sailing miles from shore without any communication
[X] Use a Ouija board
[ ] Go diving in a dark, underwater cave
[X] Climb through a long tunnel just big enough to fit through (has also done this in canon)
[X] Explore a spot where cult rituals were performed
[X] Go walking late at night, alone
[X] Spend the night in a home where someone was murdered
[X] Go surfing on the Dark Web
[X] Play an urban legend game (bloody mary, the midnight man, etc…)
[X] Stay home alone with a suspected killer on the loose
[X] Climb a dangerous mountain where many others have died on their way to the top
[X] Explore ancient ruins where strange things have happened
[X] Touch a supposedly cursed object
[X] Check out a creepy cellar or attic
[X] Cross an unstable bridge over a huge drop
[ ] Pick up a hitchhiker in the middle of the night
Could I get a basic run down do more detailed questions may be asked please?
Yeah I can do that!! Um!
Okay so! Joster is my librarian troll!
(this guy if you don't know him yet)
He runs a private lending library by subscription, the money goes towards expanding his collections! He has a regular lending collection, and then he has a collection of ancient texts, journals and historical accounts that he maintains, including ancestor accounts and more accurate details on rebellions!
He runs the main business part of it, but his ash, Telmon, runs the delivery side of things.
He got into this business when he was still very, very young, after some fairly traumatic events in his adolescence concerning a would-be kismesis, his then-moirail Yamina, and Telmon. He might be dodgy if you ask about that but you can read something
He's extremely anti-empire, and has had several friendships/relationships end over this. Just like his ancestor, the Bookkeeper! Who he also knows tons about! The library he runs out of used to belong to him, he and telmon discovered it together. Many of the texts he lends out belonged to the Bookkeeper or his friends/lovers.
You can ask him, Telmon, or Yamina about him or any of the above!
If you had to give an estimate how large the library is what would you say?
by number of books? Easily over a hundred thousand by now, of just like regular books. He wastes no time acquiring books as they come to his attention either via general shopping or by patron request, and he's been running it for many sweeps now.
By SIZE? HUGE. It's run out of a large cavern system in the base of the mountains he lives near. It was natural at first, but his ancestor had more carved out as he needed more space for his illicit librarian activities.
I'm curious, what's the deal with Ekates? What happened to that whole crew? How did they/she/he? (I am unsure) die? What went down with that and if you would mind elaborating on it all? (I hope you don't mind the questions to much!)
Oh god no please I love talking about this,,,, I’m gonna put it under cut though cuz it’s gonna get pretty lengthy.
Okay so Ekates was essentially an NPC character written entirely for purpose of just… background shit right? Something to give my initial handful of characters (Joster, Yamina, and Diemos) something to I could build off of, and then later, Telmon. In a sense, she’s sort of like this group’s Vriska I guess. Only with less potentially redeemable qualities. Which I suppose would be the mark of a bad character were she not based entirely on my own abuser. #coping woooo
And to really understand the gravity of the things Ekates did/caused, there are a few basic like...ties I guess to lay out.
So Joster and Yamina were moirails from 4 to 6 1/2 sweeps old. Ekates Joster and Yamina were friends from around 4 1/2 to 6 sweeps (5 to 7 1/2 for Ekates), and Ekates and Joster engaged in a sort of rivalry for the duration of their friendship.Telmon and Ekates were moirails, and Ekates introduced Telmon to Joster and the two became fast friends.Diemos was mostly unrelated to the party on the whole until Joster introduced him and his moirail to the group, and he and Joster shared mutual flushed feelings for the duration of their friendship but never pursued it.
Now that that’s all out of the way, onto the real grit of it. Most of what Ekates did was done specifically to Joster, the object of her hate and eventual pitch advances.
Now, Joster’s and Ekates’ rivalry was already unhealthy from the get-go. It was largely based in what Ekates wanted to do and what she was good at, rarely ever anything Joster particularly enjoyed. Keeping in mind that at the time of their rivalry, Joster wasn’t the nerdy little bookkeeper we know and love now, but more like a snooty little gremlin with a baseball bat, and that Ekates was easily twice his size. She would often force him into physical fights with her and other trials of endurance just to say that she beat him, often causing him bodily harm and rarely bothering to console him afterwards. During their rivalry, Joster only once beat her fairly, after outwitting her during a particularly nasty game. It was after this that Ekates decided he was worth pursuing in black romance, and their rivalry became much more intense for Joster, until she finally cornered him about their potential pitch romance.
Now by this point, Joster is 6 sweeps old and is coming to realize that his relationship with Ekates isn’t healthy (he had a little help realizing this from Telmon and Diemos), and that their rivalry could kill him if he pursues anything more serious with her. So naturally, when she cornered him, he rejected her advances, stating that he wasn’t really interested much in quadrants outside of pale. Ekates, having grown possessive of Joster and her relationship with him, decides ‘Hey, y’know what? Murder is the only option here. If I can’t have him no one can’, and attempts to kill him, permanently damaging his horns and leaving him with a large number of permanent scars.
It is worth mention that during their rivalry, Telmon would often have to intervene, to keep Ekates from maiming Joster less in interest of keeping his moirail under control and more to keep his friend from dying. It was Telmon who saved Joster’s life in the end, and Ekates, enraged that her own moirail would choose Joster’s side, lashed out and effectively blinded him in his left eye, ending their relationship.
Ekates fled, leaving Joster in shambles, injured, scared out of his wits, and unable to continue the things he once loved. Now severely depressed, shaken, and feeling like he couldn’t trust even his friends, he turned to his moirail for support only to find her woefully unequipped to handle such a high stress position so suddenly. This caused their relationship to become strained, as Joster could not rely on Yamina to fulfill her duties as his moirail, and the two drifted further and further apart until Joster finally ended the relationship.
From that point on Joster mainly relied on Telmon for emotional support, and the two engaged in a pseudo-pale friendship to fill the holes left in Ekates’ wake.
As for Diemos, he had maintained a mostly casual relationship with the group outside of Joster, and after the fall out he and Joster agreed that for the time being they wouldn’t pursue any romantic feelings either might have. His moirail left him during this time for reasons I haven’t solidly decided yet, although it had a great deal to do with Ekates and the games she liked to play with people.
Fast forwarding three sweeps, Ekates begins stalking Joster in an attempt to either rekindle old flames or to enact revenge for causing her to lose her moirail, whose betrayal she never really forgave. She stalked him for months, taunting him online and leaving things around his hive to scare him. Eventually, she confronted him, intending to kill him this time to get back at Telmon, who Joster remains close with. Joster, having taken a personal oath to never commit any act of direct violence, refused to fight back against her until he was certain that he would not survive the encounter. Joster ended up killing Ekates in self defense, something that has conflicted him since, and was traumatizing for him.
Telmon himself was relieved to hear of Ekates’ death, and even let his and Joster’s mutual friend Cintra take her horns for her collection, under the condition that she was never to tell Joster of them.
BUT ya.
TDLR version, Ekates:
- Emotionally and physically abused Joster under guise of 'rivalry' for several sweeps.- Took advantage of her moirail repeatedly and put him in positions to choose between his friends.- Attempted to murder Joster for rejecting her pitch advances- Blinded Telmon in one eye for protecting his friend- Caused the entire group to lose their moirails in some sense or another- Ruined Joster’s chances to pursue his then dreams (legislacerator, what an honor it would be!)- Attempted to murder Joster again to get revenge on Telmon for leaving her- Severely impaired Joster’s understanding of the quadrant system, causing him to distrust his loved ones- Left the entire friend group in shambles, socially isolating all of them in the aftermath.
my fav thing about joster is that he’s so...anti-violence and the opposite of whats expected from troll society, and this is something he is well aware of
but then other times he just completely unaffectedly cleans out his lusus’ den of trolls’ remains, cleans some of them and uses them as halloween decor for his territory. like that doesn’t bother him at all
someday josters gonna feel the need to come clean to kro about literally everything ever and it's gonna be????? really sad and I'm probably gonna cry tbh
