Name: Riksta Poulou
Species: Troll
Gender: Male
Age: need some help here. I want him to be a-just-not-adult-yet kind of person…
Well, we don’t know what age exactly that trolls are considered “adults!” But, this site might help you with the conversion of earth years to troll sweeps. (Or vise versa.)
http://miffthefox.info/mspa/sweepcalc.html
Blood/Theme Color: Violet
Alternia or Beforus (if troll): beforus
Abilities: -
Theme: the Book Shadowships by Tais Teng, basically sailor adventrue stories…yeah
Trolltag: brendansAdventurer
Typing Quirk: he capitalized and dots every single word because his every word is important and he wants you to listen to him thoroughly. So. He. Types. Like. This. But. When. He! Is! Shouting! Or! Startled! He! Will! Type! Like! This! he rarely asks direct questions and will rather form a sentence like: I. Would. Like. To. Know. If…. also doesn’t abbreviate words.
if he is to ask a question it might exist of one word, like: How? Or if it is not just one word he will construct it like this: Where. Did. He. Go? But if he’s very eager to know he might do this: Where. Did. He? Go?
BA: Hello. There. BA: Welcome. On. Board. The. Copper. Amarant. BA: I. am. captain. Riksta. Poulou. BA: Please. Identify. Yourself.
Personality: He basically believes he’s better in things than anyone else. He can be really thoughtless about others, simply not caring about their feelings(at all). Riksta enjoys adventures and adventure stories. He brags about this and seems to forget how scared he was when he was on said adventure. He bites people when he gets angry. refers to landdwellers as Clayeaters or Drylanders.
Bio: Riksta does not have much of an interesting past. He was taken from the caves by a caring (but violent) lusus and grew up with enjoyable hunting trips, riding on his lusus when he got tired. To spice it up a little he started doing dangerous stuff, like exploring the land without a suitable water supply, diving so deep he got unable to see,,,that kind of things. The ring on his horn was put there by a jadeblood called Topaas when they both were young. He kept it on there too long and now it’s stuck.
Two things: How is he not able to see deep under water? Is it because it’s dark? If so, keep in mind that trolls can see in very dark places! (Presumably near-pitch-blackness) and that Feferi’s hive seemed to be quite far out and deep down in the ocean.
And then, I will assume that there is more of a story with Topaas- but this does not give me enough detail to determine whether or not it’s more interesting than “hey this is just a thing that happened.”
I would also like to point out, if the ring fit snugly when he was young, and he can no longer get it off, it’s probably embedded at this point, right?
When you have something fastened securely around something else, and then that thing continues to grow, it will generally either snap (sometimes still embedded in the thing if it’s grown around it enough) or it the thing will grow around it.
This happens often in dogs whose owners never change their tiny puppy collars (be careful if you plan to look this up as it is NOT a happy sight,) but on a horn it would probably be less dangerous and more just painful/uncomfortable/disorienting, depending on the specifics of how you decide to make troll horns work. Maybe none of these, if you have them not have nerves at all, or figure they just have nerves in the base.
This got a bit long but hey! I just wanted to point it out, especially because the way it’s drawn makes it look mostly like it’s either just a little snug or would be able to take off (if the fork of his horns wasn’t there, anyway.)
Which is another comment on the ring; how did they put it on if he has that fork of his horns? As far as we’ve seen troll’s horns are always the same shape, with maybe more curving or elongating/thickening over time, depending on the troll. Just something to think about!
Likes: ship/boats, storytelling, risking his life,
As I comment often, try and give him a few more interests outside of his main theme of adventure!
Dislikes: people singing, pirates, actually being at a point where he could die, when people refuse to answer him because he didn’t ask a question.
playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_2g_kNTBek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2buj4_4bGl8&list=PL5lgMSq-R1uNXr-6HOX0T0aeHL1ndtLC6&index=8, https://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch?v=h6BfGK783pI
Lusus/Guardian: a Guard Fish/ Fishdad. (guard fishes are creatures from the book. They guard merchant ships but are very violent.)
Symbol; Brendan’s boat. A fictional constellation from the book that is his theme
It’s a little messy. I might suggest something more like this:
Or a slightly slanted version of it. The way it is currently is just a little to curve-y, and while there are troll signs with curves (Gamzee, Kanaya, Aradia’s to some extent) it’s not usually such exaggerated lines, unless it’s going into a proper loop.
That said, it doesn’t need to be changed if you don’t want to!
Ancestor (if troll): The Voyageur. A trader/sailor and the captain of the Golden Amarant. legend says The Voyageur could travel trough different dimentions, but it is more likely he just sailed really fast and on really strange places.
Weapon: an iron Super Soaker filled with acid (for book reasons)
sorry for this all but I’d like to send in a few more trolls…
Never a problem, no worries! Sorry for taking a bit to get this one out, I didn’t realize it was still in my inbox!
