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Summarize the themes of your Sovereignstuck player character(s) in the vaguest way you can?

Oooh, this is a fun question!! Thanks for asking!! If I had to pick…

RETRIS MORAGE: The Tetris Effect. TOMIEI AERRAS: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. ANNOMI ERRATA: Parasociality.

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NEKRO!!! important (read: stupid) question. Do Annomi, Tomiei, and Kankri have rantsonas? Do they get into pointless Earth C discourse? Like debating whether or not Dersite Carapacians should be allowed to choose Space as part of their classpect, since the Genesis Frog associated with Space? I wanna know your thoughts

This is incredibly funny. Reading this ask felt like getting shot. Help.

Most likely character here to have a genuine rantsona is Annomi. He’s inspired by CinemaSins, as well as a couple other bullshit media critics, so he’s pretty likely to have a YouTube. It is a scholarly-looking anthropomorphic turtle partially inspired by his own Lusus. It looks absolutely nothing like him. He projects himself as being cooler and smarter than he actually is. You know, usual Prince of Heart shenanigans. He’s pretty likely to try and deconstruct discourse he doesn’t know jack shit about, all while pretending he knows what he’s saying. His attempts at a rational approach are very flawed because his understanding of the topics are flawed and so is his worldview.

Kankri isn’t the rantsona type. He’d have his own avatar, sure, but I doubt he’d take the time and money to commission sprites from someone. Doesn’t seem very within his nature. His online presence doesn’t predominantly consist of video essays, either, unlike Annomi- though he does like to hear himself talk, filming and editing are quite time consuming and he’s found that it’s not very viable to only contain his thoughts on video format. Regularly engages in the most pointless discourse you’ve ever seen, whether it’s in agreement or disagreement. He’s a surprisingly angry person, and is quite known for his hypocrisy. He tends to function under the rules of “it’s okay if I like it and problematic if I don’t,” and also refuses to admit to the fact that he has definitely sent people anon hate before.

The closest Tomiei gets to a rantsona is engaging in serious discourse in anime clowngirl cosplays. She does not take discourse seriously. At all. She tends to hit serious talks about serious subjects with total nonsense and completely derail the direction of the conversation. Sometimes the discourse is bullshit. Sometimes it isn’t. She doesn’t really care what the gravity of the topic is either way, as long as chaos is ensued. She strives to be the living, troll equivalent to getting Rickrolled, but, like, worse. Doesn’t actually have many strong opinions of her own, except for ones that don’t particularly matter, and this is on purpose. She thinks people should be able to do what they want, especially her, and what she wants to do is fuck with people.

BONUS DISCOURSE ROUND: Meulin posts fandom discourse on main at random and can get surprisingly heated about it, Ajax uses his scalesona as a rantsona ironically on Twitter Dot Com, Horuss only uses Facebook and is deaf to the sins of this world, and Tintin thinks people should “FUCKING GO OUTSIDE. NOW.”

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*slides you a 20 dollar monopoly bill* do you have any typology (MBTI) headcanons for your ocs?

Oh, man, I really don’t subscribe to that kind of thing- no hate at all, of course, it’s just not my particular poison!! I can’t wrap my head around it, lol. I can, however, generally point at characters and say whether they’re largely Introverted or largely Extroverted, though, as long as we’re subscribing to my own personal understanding of the two… Being that Introverts recharge in solitude, and Extroverts recharge in company.

Retris is hard to gauge at first glance. As an Heir of Light, he’s had a spotlight on him for so long that that’s simply what he’s used to, so one might fall under the impression that he’s Extroverted. He is, however, an Introvert!! He needs time to breathe and be in his own space- it’s just that this time isn’t granted to him very often. That makes his moments of solitude all the more sacred to him, though.

Tomiei is an opposite case from Retris. One might fall under the assumption that she’s just a particularly rambunctious Introvert based on how she acts and speaks, but that’s not true at all!! Tomiei is an Extrovert who is very much so used to solitude as a natural state. She largely grew up on a boat with no parents to fret over her, so she’s spent some pretty long swaths of time entirely disconnected from the rest of humanity… Save for her Social Media sites of choice, of course!

Annomi is… An odd one, just in general. He can be a little bit hard to read at times, and that’s intentional. The best way I can describe him is… He is a deeply lonely Extrovert, entirely by his own fault. He is painfully aware of this. His penchant for obsession and self-isolation has fucked him up a little bit. You know how it is with Princes of Heart and Self Destruction. It’s… Kind of what their whole title is about.

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Could you tell us more about Tomiei? She’s a favorite of mine, even though I know pretty much nothing about her.

(I also really love Emeric, so if you want to say something about her…)

Tomiei as a favorite sure is interesting! It’s one of those cases where she’s incredibly fun to watch, but is kind of a little asshole. Couldn’t blame you for a second, she brings some really fun chaos.

(Re: Emeric, she’s not my character, so for the sake of other writers getting to talk about their own characters, I’ll redirect you to @unexiled!)

Tomiei Aerras is a 17-year-old girl whose most immediately defining character traits are being “terminally online,” and arrogance out of ignorance. She’s a Caprius, and has mostly lived her life guardianless. She’s largely inspired by the eccentric culture prevalent on TikTok, especially with regards to the more teen-heavy circles. She’s chaotic, self-centered, and very prone to negging others.

Due to being raised with no guardian, and mostly isolated from society outside of extremely outrage-based, algorithm-centric social media sites, she tends to be pretty socially unaware. She’s got little sense for boundaries, and when too far is, in fact, too far- tending to push even the harshest jokes way past the point of it being funny. She touts her title of online influencer like a badge of honor. What she tends to leave out of that sentiment is that she gets her fame doing cute clowngirl cosplays of, largely, anime characters.

~ shes got this real chill way of speakinn annd kinnda just €£nn$0r$ her f*€k1nn words sometimes… force of habit, u knnow how it be lollll ~

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Knowing that Tomiei's name comes from Junji Ito's Tomie and her classpect being a Thief of Breath makes soooo much sense!! Aerras taking back her freedom/independence/agency mirrors how Tomie's corruption into a monster can be attributed to things outside of her control (i.e the society/people around her). The men who kill her, vilify her beauty. "It's not their fault Tomie tempted them into killing her." Basically, what I'm trying to say is that, Tomie is not a good person, but she was never given as much as a say in what person she would become as she would have liked.

You get it!! Tomie isn’t at all a good person, but good lord is she interesting to watch. It’s really interesting seeing how different aspects of her personality show to different extremes depending on which Tomie clone is the center of focus.

I actually managed to get my hands on a hardcover full collection of the Tomie series recently. It’s uncomfortable and addicting, like most of Junji’s work. He’s one of my favorite artists, and absolutely my favorite mangaka, which I honestly hope will show, whenever I get to publishing some works of mine. (Though, there’s not much competition for that latter title. I’m not a very big anime/manga person. Nothing against the mediums, I just cannot stand how fanservice-y they can get.)

It’s funny how you brought up Agency! That’s usually a theme I see people apply to Life. Which, uh… Still isn’t wrong. Tomiei certainly has an interesting relationship with Life. It… Sure is something!!

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