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Trolls: Equius, Gamzee, Eridan, and Feferi

♐ Equius Zahhak ♐

You love being STRONG. You are so strong, you would surely be the class of the elite legion of RUFFIANNIHILATORS. And while such a calling would be quite honorable, you would prefer to join the ranks of the ARCHERADICATORS, perhaps the most noble echelon the imperial forces have to offer. Unfortunately, you SUCK AT ARCHERY. You have not successfully fired a SINGLE ARROW. Every time you try, you BREAK THE BOW. You are simply too strong. You have broken so many bows, it has developed into a habit BORDERING ON FETISHISTIC. You have to stop. But addiction is a powerful thing.

A traditionalist troll who staunchly believes in upholding the noble customs and beliefs attributed to his blood colour.

In Sburb, he is the Heir of Void. His Trolltag is "centaursTesticle".

He has filed three STRIFE SPECIBI in his STRIFE PORTFOLIO: FISTKIND ABSTRATUS, BOWKIND ABSTRATUS and 1/2BOWKIND ABSTRATUS.

D --> Types by beginning his lines with a bow and arrow, replaces "X" and similar-sounding consonant
combinations with the % sign, "loo" and "ool" with "100" and "001", uses horse puns when ser100sly agitated,
and leaves his sentences unpun%uated

  • The Archer: In keeping with the Sagittarius theme, considers the bow a dignified weapon of the upper classes. He even begins every line with a symbolic bow and arrow: D -->. He's actually terrible at archery, though, to the point where he's never successfully fired an arrow.
  • Antiquated Linguistics/Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: He sometimes types like this.
  • Badass: His hobbies include programming robots and TEARING THEM APART WITH HIS BARE HANDS.
    • JUMPED INTO HIS GATE. PUNCHED AN OGRE'S HEAD OFF. YEAH HE'S BADASS.
    • This exchange.

TG: how the fuck do you even wield a broken bow
TG: did you go around clubbing shit with the two halves
CT: DYes
CT: DSometimes

  • Bare-Fisted Monk: His weapon of choice is his bare hands.
  • Battle Couple: With Aradia for a while.
  • Big Brother Instinct: His protectiveness of Nepeta.
  • The Big Guy: Whoa.
  • Blessed with Suck: He's incredibly strong, to the point where he can decapitate an ogre with a single punch. He also cannot control this strength, so a "gentle", appreciative pat bruises his lusus (which itself was picked for its own strength), he cannot handle a bow without snapping it in half, and the only person he can hold an intimate relationship with has a robot body that he built himself.
  • Blue Blood: Figuratively and literally (indigo, to be precise). He looks down on those from the lower classes.
  • Combat Medic: He's frighteningly STRONG, but at the same time, he's kept the more unlucky trolls patched up with robot prosthetics, including Vriska's arm, Tavros' legs, and Aradia's soulbot.
  • The Comically Serious: CT: D --> Humorous insincerity is for pedantic wigglers
  • Cultured Warrior: He collects fine art (or at least what he considers to be fine art), has an appreciation for nature, and displays a penchant for slam poetry. If you piss him off, however, he will literally punch your head off.
  • Death by Irony: He wants so badly to be an archer, but he always breaks the bows. So naturally Ax Crazy Gamzee brings him to his knees with an arrow, then kills him with a broken bow.
  • A Death in the Limelight
  • Does Not Know His Own Strength: He's terrible at archery due to always breaking the bows and he bruises his lusus (one of the strongest creatures on the planet) when trying to give him "a grateful pat, as gently as possible" for bringing him a glass of milk. Also, he can't drink without breaking the glass.
  • Erotic Asphyxiation: He starts grinning as he's being strangled to death by Gamzee. He's always had "bloodshot bags" under his eyes (petechia, for those who love Forensic Dramas), which is probably a hint he doesn't mind his killbots going for the neck.
  • Estrogen Brigade Bait: Memetically, thanks to fan association with Nicholas Cage. However, in-universe, he's mostly seen as an intensely creepy pervert by everyone but Nepeta and possibly Aradia.
  • Fetish: Equius gets off on being ordered around and chastised by highbloods. And by what he considers "depravity" (subversion of the caste hierarchy, such is lowbloods being disobedient or holding authority over highbloods, lowbloods acting dignified and highbloods acting undignified).

D --> It's so magnificently depraved.

"He was always the troll personification of everything like Humanimals I ever did and put on the internet. [...] I used to do all sorts of weird stuff, reviewing obscene furry pornography, making weird collages involving horses, and just a whole lot of bizarre shit that didn't make much sense, but I thought was funny. The whole span of these endeavors was quite trollish in nature[...] The fact that it puts some people off is part of what makes it funny. So Equius was that entire arena of trollish content, rolled into a character."

  • Never Got to Say Goodbye: He's very upset that Aradia only said goodbye to Sollux before she exploded, hence why he makes it a point to say goodbye to Nepeta before confronting Gamzee.
  • Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant / Covert Pervert: "It would always make everyone uncomfortable when he just stood there. And watched."
  • Noble Bigot: Towards both Lower Castes and Seadwellers.
  • Overprotective Dad: He seems to have something similar going on with Nepeta. Most notably, he doesn't want her to talk to the "lower-class" trolls (based on blood colour, of all things), and she feels the need to ask his permission before playing Sgrub.
  • Pet the Dog:

CT: D --> You e%terminate beautiful, innocent creatures by the hundreds
CT: DI can't condone such wretched behavior
CT: DBeasts are meant to be 100ked upon with adoration


♑ Gamzee Makara ♑

"You get pretty excited by CLOWNS OF A GRIM PERSUASION WHICH MAY NOT BE IN FULL POSSESSION OF THEIR MENTAL FACULTIES. You belong to a RATHER OBSCURE CULT, which foretells of a BAND OF ROWDY AND CAPRICIOUS MINSTRELS which will rise one day on a MYTHICAL PARADISE PLANET that does not exist yet. The beliefs of this cult are SOMEWHAT FROWNED UPON by those dwelling in more common lawnrings. But you don't care, you got to be going with what feels right at where your heart's up in, you know?"

A rather spacy troll, perpetually high on sopor slime, who holds a deep and spiritual awe for all life's miracles, great and small.

In Sburb, he is the Bard of Rage. His trolltag is "terminallyCapricious".

He has allocated his STRIFE SPECIBUS with the CLUBKIND ABSTRATUS, and later the JOKERKIND ABSTRATUS.

TyPeS wItH aLtErNaTiNg UpPeR aNd LoWeR cAsE lEtTeRs AnD pUnCtUaTiOn, AnD pEpPeRs HiS sPeEcH wItH mOtHeRfUcKiN oDd
PrEpOsItIoNaL cOnStRuCtS aLl Up On OvEr. He AlSo LiKeS tO uSe SmIlIeS wItH cLoWn NoSeS. hOnK hOnK! :o).
after sobering up and DECLARING HIMSELF SUBJUGGLATOR he types alternating lines of text WITH ALL CAPS AND LOWERCASE,
WHICH IS INTERPRETED as his two personalities who are both evil ALTERNATELY YELLING AND WHISPERING
honk :oD
HONK Do:

  • The Aggressive Drug Dealer: Acts as one by the time he meets Jane, trying to push her to buy "potions" that suspiciously bear the same (blood) colors and promised traits as the dead trolls. Answer however you want, But Thou Must! buy them from him.
  • Anime Hair: Most ridiculous hair style of the trolls, and pretty much any character in the comic.
  • A Love to Dismember: He was romantically interested in Tavros and dismembers his corpse, sporadically kissing his severed head and saving the body for over three years.
  • Exclusively Evil: Averted. His particular blood caste essentially was Ax Crazy, and his Mirthful Messiahs canonically are essentially the Devil and Grim Reaper equivalents in Alternian culture, but Gamzee himself is pretty okay when he can control his insanity.
  • Ascended Extra: His solo appearances that weren't as part of the Cast Herd prior to going crazy can be counted on your hands.
  • Ax Crazy: His Face Heel Turn in Act 5 Act 2 single-handedly turned the trolls' asteroid into a slasher flick. He got better before the end of the act, though he's still pretty nuts.
  • Badass: Once he goes Ax Crazy, he becomes incredibly lethal.
  • Berserk Button: The "Miracles" music video by Insane Clown Posse, which he describes as TyPeS wItH aLtErNaTiNg UpPeR aNd LoWeR cAsE lEtTeRs AnD pUnCtUaTiOn, AnD pEpPeRs HiS sPeEcH wItH mOtHeRfUcKiN oDd is what sets off his plunge into insanity.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Prior to his Face Heel Turn, Gamzee was easily the most laid back member of his session, but also dealt the most damage out of his entire party during the final battle against the Black King. In a single blow.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: Hell. Yes.
  • Blood Lust: Inherited from his ancestor.
  • Blue Blood: Actually purple blood, but has the same implications, as he's the highest on the hemospectrum aside from the nautical royality. Averted in that he's pretty chill for a hereditary aristocrat.
    • Played straight later on when he accepts his role as the heir to the Subjugglators, a line of trolls meant to subjugate the rest of the troll race, and starts calling people peasants and commanding them to kneel before him.
  • Break the Cutie: Averted. His descent into insanity was shown to be incredibly emotional for Karkat, but Gamzee himself really enjoys it.
  • Catch Phrase: PrEpOsItIoNaL cOnStRuCtS aLl Up On OvEr. He AlSo LiKeS tO uSe SmIlIeS wItH cLoWn NoSeS. hOnK hOnK! :o). BlAsPhEmY in general is pretty commonly used by him.
  • The Chessmaster: He's capable of some shenanigans once he goes insane, and helped manipulate Vriska's death. He currently is manipulating Jane in ways that have yet to be explained.
  • Chekhov's Gun: The Vast Honk prophesied by his religion turns out to be the summoning of Lord English, the counterpart to the Vast Croak.
  • Cluster F-Bomb: Drops swears incredibly often (mainly "Motherfucker", and any derivative of it).
  • Comedic Heroic Sociopath: While he's both sober and good, he skirts around on this line. Namely, he camly throws the corpses of Tavros and Vriska into Jane's Sprite in order to help her out. While she screams her lungs out.
  • Confusion Fu: His Jokerkind Strife Deck gives him access to any weapon he carries, so he's pretty unpredictable, though he never uses a weapon twice. Nobody is quite sure what he did to The Black King that messed him up so badly either.
  • Cool Bike: A rocket unicycle. He never uses it but it does exist.
  • Cool Down Shoosh-Pap: Gets a very comforting one from Karkat. As moirails, Karkat continues to be a stabilizing influence on Gamzee.
  • Cute and Psycho: His quiet personality, the one that speaks in lowercase, is cheerful and polite, but is still equally as psychotic as the loud personality.
  • Dangerously Genre Savvy: Which is what makes him an especially good Chessmaster.
  • The Ditz
  • Dissonant Serenity: His usual personality. He's pretty chill with the fact that Sollux died. When he's talking in lower case, he's pretty much chill with everything including his desire to murder everyone he knows. hooooooooooonk ;o)
  • Easily Forgiven: At least by Karkat. Kanaya still wants to murder him however.
  • Evil Costume Switch: Or at least, typing style switch. When sober, mOtHeRfUcKiNg MiRaClEs to alternating between all lowercase THEN GOING ALL MOTHERFUCKIN CAPS KARKAT STYLE.
    • After his Face Heel Turn, he remains scarred from his self inflicted injury from Nepeta's claws.
  • Eye Take: Shared with Vriska in surprise to...someone walking.
  • Face Heel Revolving Door: Gamzee has gone crazy, become sane again, and currently seems to be crazy again. He's also been suggested to be working with Doc Scratch and Lord English, and is very fond of Cal.
  • Faith Heel Turn: Seen here.
  • Fan Nickname: Gamzee's God Tier Bard of Rage outfit has been referred to as "Cod Tier", after it's notable codpiece.
  • Flash Step: Rivals Dirk in this regard.
  • Friendly Enemy:

TC: bUt NoW wE kInD oF sEtTlEd DoWn AnD mE aNd ThE iMpS aRe ShArInG sOmE pIe
TC: tHeSe MoThErFuCkErS aRe PrEtTy DoPe AcTuAlLy, I lIkE tHeM.

TC: I AM GOING TO MOTHERFUCKING KILL ALL YOU MOTHERFUCKERS.
TC: and paint the wicked pictures with your motherfuckin blood.

  • Madness Mantra: honk HONK honk HOOOOOOOOOONK.
  • Meaningful Name: Makara is the Indian equivalent of Capricorn.
    • Makara means blessed. He is a self proclaimed Dark Messiah.
    • His Trollian account name is terminallyCapricious, where capricious means "prone to sudden mood swings." Given his sudden turn for the quite insane now that he's gotten all the slime out of his system, and the likelihood that he has (or will soon have) terminated the lives of some of his former friends, his name seems quite appropriate...
    • Karkat gave the kids' universe cancer, but Gamzee made it terminal.
  • Measuring the Marigolds: Takes this attitude toward any kind of knowledge, from computer science to lemonade recipes.
    • He also has a captchalogue that operates via "Miracle Modus"; he has absolutely no idea how it works, and doesn't want to know.
  • Messy Hair
  • Mind Rape: His innate psychic power due to his indigo blood is to insert things into people's subconscious, usually in the form of hatred, which also makes said thing real in their Dream World. He's done this twice that we've seen, which instilled a fear of clowns in John (creating the Imp Doll in his tower on Prospit) and a fear of puppets in Dave (creating Cal in his tower on Derse). He was not shown using his power on Rose or Jade, suggesting that they might have some immunity to this power. However, seeing as he essentially never interacted with them it may just not have occurred to him to do so.
  • Modest Royalty / Rebel Prince: He's only a smidge away from Eridan and Feferi's castes, but he doesn't act or look like it and doesn't seem to care about blood color—until he's sober.
  • Monster Clown: Looks the part, and collects posters of them. He also has juggling clubs, a unicycle and a load of horns. Subverted, however, due to his genial, friendly personality.
  • Mood Whiplash: Suddenly appears for a second in the otherwise silly "[S] All: Behold the glory of [the Warhammer of] Zillyhoo" flash, appearing before Karkat just before Gamzee kills him. This was shown later to be an alternate timeline where Karkat never ran the ~ATH program that blew up his computer, which resulted in Gamzee killing everyone save Aradia, who went back in time and corrected the problem.
    • At the very end of his Motive Rant at a very confused past Dave for ruining his faith he suddenly starts flirting with him and asks if he wants to rap. "They both then proceeded to have one of the best rap-offs in the history of paradox space."
    • He unexpectedly appears after the very atmospheric and spooky Myst-esque puzzle session on Jane's planet in full God-Tier regalia that includes a codpiece and sells/gives her potions that are strongly implied to be the blood of his friends. Just when the audience as gotten used to Gamzee acting silly again, he reveals he stored Vriska and Tavros's bodies in Jane's fridge, tosses both of them into Jane's kernelsprite creating Tavrisprite, and adds a "honk." for good measure.
  • Mythology Gag: Gamzee isn't the first clown bard in MS Paint Adventures.
  • No Medication for Me: It may be improper for a troll to eat sopor slime pie, but Gamzee needs it... or else he remembers that he's one of the descendants of the Subjugglators, and both of his Split Personalities are evil.
  • Noodle Incident: How he achieved God Tier or got a hold of Aradia's time-travel music boxes is so far, hand-waived as "shenanigans."
  • Not So Harmless
  • Omnicidal Maniac: While insane.
  • Parental Abandonment: Gamzee's lusus was never around to teach Gamzee anything.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: Was before graduating to full fledged cast member.
  • Power Copying: A God Tier Gamzee from some unknown timeline (possibly even the alpha timeline) stole Aradia's Magic Feather time crystals and gained the ability to travel in time too, just in time to visit Jane. Credit to him being the first person to actually think to do that.
  • Power Limiter: The sopor slime that Gamzee was shoving down his gullet kept his sociopathic Split Personality in check. Turns out to be literal in the case of his Mind Rape abilities.
  • Reflective Eyes: Shown here fondly regarding Jadesprite's prototyping off the computer screen.
  • Religion of Evil / Kill'Em All / Together in Death / Murder Is the Best Solution: This is what (sopor) Gamzee actually belives.

TC: I PeEpEd oN A PlAcE Of 6 tRiLlIoN HeMoS
TC: AlL Up aT OnE RoCk, BlEeDiNg aS EqUaLs
TC: It's eAsY To sEe iF YoU SeArCh aLl yOuR FeElInS
TC: ThAt pEaCe hApPeNs fIrSt, AnD MuRdEr's tHe sEqUeL

  • Scars Are Forever: When he shows up on Jane's planet he still has the scars from Nepeta's claws despite an unknown amount of time passing.
  • Serial Killer: When sober.
  • Shipper on Deck: Appears to ship Karkat/Terezi here.
  • Shout-Out: He's become a murderous Monster Clown who caused one of his victims to die with a smile on his face, wears smeared makeup all over his now scarred face. Oh, and his trademark colour is purple. Sound like anybody you know?
    • After taking a graceful swan-dive off the deep-end, he describes his former "mental instability" and sums up his new-found "lucidity" to Karkat thusly:

{TC: RUSTS YOUR MOTHERFUCKIN THINK PAN.
TC: and the floor all stares up back at you through the motherfuckin hole.
TC: BUT THERE IS NO HOLE NOW.

This. Is. Motherfuckin'. BlAsPhEmY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Totally Radical: More than half of the things he says.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Faygo, like many Juggalos.
  • Tuckerization: Inadvertently. Gamzee was named after a Turkish fan who had been roleplaying as him on Formspring. Her friends repeatedly suggested her name as a joke and added an e,[1] and Andrew assumed that it was a Meaningful Name and used it. That's right, the terrifying unstoppable killer's name means "Dimple". That does however make Gamzee the only troll with a an actual real world name.
  • The Un-Reveal: Fans demanded to know Gamzee and Eridan's titles in Sgrub. When Gamzee's came up in his conversation with Dave, he'd actually forgotten half of it. The title remained this way until it was stated by Karkat to be The Bard of Rage.
  • Unstoppable Rage: Presumably his power as Bard of Rage.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Calls Karkat his best friend. In return, Karkat loathes him like hell. Only not really.
  • Voice of the Legion: HiS uSuAl WaY oF tAlKiNg/TyPiNg sorts itself into SMALLCASE OR ALLCAPS EVERY OTHER LINE, which gamzee claims IS HIS TWO ALTERNATE PERSONALITIES. oh, and THEY'RE BOTH EVIL.
  • Wall of Weapons: Jokerkind consists of stacks upon stacks of weapon cards, including ones that belong to members of The Felt and The Bunny.
  • Western Zodiac: Capricorn.
  • Wham! Line: TC: shut up.
    • To a lesser extent, TC: honk Considering his previous claim that typing in all lowercase feels unnatural, seeing that one word in the picture before even looking at that troll log instantly indicates something is wrong.
    • Recently:

TC: i focused on [my dark ancestral chucklevoodoos through] the rage you made me have
TC: AND I WENT AND MADE YOUR UNIVERSE...
TC: terminal. Bo)

  • Wild Card: Typical of the Bard class, apparently, who UU says "are typically known for their spontaneoUs and dramatic story-altering inflUence on the fate of a party" and are sometimes known for being "single handedly responsible for their spectacUlar downfall or improbable victory. or both!" Gamzee was partially responsible for their success against the Black King and definitely a factor in their party coming unglued. UU concludes that the Alpha kids are probably fortunate for not having a Bard in their party.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He's directly responsible for the creation of Cal and was used by Doc Scratch and Lord English to help destroy the Human Universe.


♒ Eridan Ampora ♒

"You have an overpowering GENOCIDE COMPLEX, and have made it your sworn duty to KILL ALL LAND DWELLERS. You have amassed resources and deadly weaponry from around the world for this ambition through many sweeps of EXTREME ROLE PLAYING, while pursuing a working DOOMSDAY DEVICE which will bring armageddon to all those on the surface. Haven't had much luck with that, but maybe tonight's your night."

A noble of the troll Nautical Aristocracy with a borderline-genocidal distaste for land dwellers, which he's perfectly willing to overlook should it serve his purposes.

In Sburb, he is the #c7a419;font-weight:bold;">Prince of Hope. His trolltag is "caligulasAquarium".

He has allocated his STRIFE SPECIBUS with the RIFLEKIND ABSTRATUS.

types wwith no capitalization or punctuation doubles the letters "V" and "W" so that they look like wwavves
often drops the "G" from wwords endin in "-ing" and likes to shorten his friends names dowwn to the first syllable

  • Anime Hair
  • Anything That Moves: Eridan's continual failure at romance leads to a downward spiral of neediness and desperation that causes him to gradually regard matters of blood colour, species and crippling sociopathy as inconsequential downsides to a prospective romance partner.
  • Asshole Victim
  • Ax Crazy: He made it a point to kill his session's allied constructs despite the fact that they didn't give any grist.
  • Badass Cape
  • Bad Powers, Bad People: Revealed well after his Face Heel Turn, Eridan's title, the "Prince of Hope" is "one who destroys hope, or destroys using hope." Eridan decided to go with the former.
  • Biting The Scarf: When he realizes that his Caliginous feelings for Sollux are pathetically obvious.
  • Black Magic: Inverted in name as "White Science" due to Eridan's insistence that belief in magic is for wrigglers but otherwise played completely straight. Kanaya claimed to have trained him in White Sorcery to rival Rose. Or at least, she made him a light-based magic wand to shut him up. However, Light & Dark symbolism is inverted for trolls, and his "Empiricist's Wand" is entirely used to destructive ends.
  • Blatant Lies: In one of his memos, Karkat accuses Eridan of still trying to kill the angels. Eridan denies it, while his AHAB'S CROSSHAIRS are in his hands. He also thinks Karkat is hitting on him.
  • Blood From the Mouth: When cut, and dead.
  • Break the Haughty: He tries so hard, thinking he is the best, leading him to get rejected by every female everyone he tries to hit on. Then he gets a White Wand, KO's Sollux in a possible duel to the death, and blasts Feferi to death through the chest. And that's just for starters...
  • Butt Monkey: Poor Eridan just can't seem to catch a break. He's a giant bundle of insecurities under the regal pretensions, and getting pre-emptively rejected by Feferi only to develop blackrom feelings for the guy she chose over him didn't help. He might just be the most pathetic out of all the trolls, since while even Tavros eventually got his robot legs and slightly less antagonism from Vriska, Eridan is still stuck with everyone thinking he's a tool.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: Averted when he reveals his flushed feelings for Feferi early on. They've both been carefully considering their feelings for a long time, and independently resolve that for good or ill, this night is the night upon which they each pour out their heart to the other. Unfortunately for Eridan, Feferi is emotionally burnt out from keeping him in check and staving off his constant attempts at genocide upon the lower social classes, and wants to downgrade the relationship from moirallegiance to platonic friendship.
  • Clarke's Third Law: Despite his own aspirations to be a wizard, he's convinced at this point that magic is not real, and that anything that appears to be magic is just highly advanced technology. Even after Kanaya makes him a science wand, he simply proclaims himself to be a "mighty wwizard of wwhite science"
  • Cluster F-Bomb: He swears quite a lot, though not as much as Gamzee.
  • Continuity Nod: Resembles a "lame gothy supervillian" which Dave jokingly aspires to be.
    • His rifle was first seen with the Uber Bunny.
  • Death World: Turns his world (Land of Wrath and Angels) into this by killing the titular angels, enraging them to the point the rest of the trolls were too scared to even consider going on it. This is a race of people who thrive on a complete Crapsack World, and they were scared shitless of his world.
  • Despair Event Horizon: As the Prince of Hope, he believes he knows when there isn't any, and now? Well, the trolls have no chance whatsoever - their only option, as he sees it, is to join Noir and pray he doesn't kill them. It's reached the point where he dooms his own race to extinction, just to prove there's no hope left.
    • It is later revealed that the "Prince of Hope" title can literally mean "the DESTROYER of Hope" meaning he was meant to cause this all along.
  • Diabolical Mastermind: He aspires to be one, at least. He's plotted to wipe out all the land dwellers and Feferi feels a need to keep an eye on him and his "nefarious schemes."
    • He also modeled himself after famous trolls in history, particularly the diabolical ones.
    • Subverted in that he really just wanted to hang around Feferi and the threats were a good excuse.
  • Did Not Get the Girl / If I Can't Have You: Kills her with his wand after his fight with Sollux.
  • Dogged Nice Guy: Was evidently trying to be the patient type, although we join them not too long before the confession, which is rejected because he's a genuinely unpleasant person. He doesn't take it well.
  • The Dragon: Wants to become this to Jack Noir.
  • Duel to the Death: Challenged Sollux to one offscreen earlier. It didn't wind up going anywhere.
  • Emo Teen: To a small degree, given his appearance and exaggerated emotional theatrics.
  • Ermine Cape Effect: Wears rings and a cape, but that's about the extent of his royal attire. Even without them, though, his outfit is less simple than most trolls.
  • Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Wears a lot of rings.
  • Expospeak Gag

CA: wwhatEVVER you are so the vvillage twwo wwheel devvice wwhen it comes to auspisticing

  • Face Heel Turn
  • Famous Ancestor: Orphaner Dualscar.
  • Fantastic Racism: He wants to kill all land dwellers, except some of his friends. But at this point it's probably safe to say that he absolutely sucks at being a racist. He only ever says he wants to kill all land dwellers, but he never actually goes through with it and given that he knows that Vriska's superweapon wouldn't work and doesn't care, it's probably safe to say that it's all just a charade even if he did want to do it at some point. And beside that he is genuinely friendly with Kanaya, Karkat and Gamzee and is as genuinely taken aback at Sollux' death. Up until he decides to kill them himself.
    • His fish-themed Moirail points out that he's practically a land-dweller himself; he's barely even spent a full day under water in his whole life.
  • Fish Trolls

CA: ok please lets just not get into the wwhole fuckin fish pun thing again ok
CA: like wwe get it wwe are nautically themed

CA: kan its hard
GA: What
CA: being a kid and growwing up
CA: its hard and nobody understands

  • Harpoon Gun: Nothing less than Ahab's Crosshairs, which were seen earlier with the robot bunny. A miniaturized version, anyway.
  • High Collar of Doom
  • Hopeless Suitor: In every quadrant, though he pines mostly for black romance.
  • I Just Want to Be Loved: And he keeps getting rejected.
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: As Feferi points out, none of his plots to kill the land dwellers ever succeed, and every doomsday device he gets his hand on is a piece of junk.
  • Insistent Terminology: Magic isn't real. He practices science.
  • It's All About Me: Eridan is an amazingly self-absorbed character, often whining about how hard he has it or how no one understands him and never really listening to criticism. He can even forget stuff people said in the same conversation if he doesn't want to hear it, such as how he wasn't supposed to be killing his angels.
  • Jerkass: It says a lot that even Kanaya can't stand him and that Equius of all people thinks he's a creep.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For a guy who wants to kill all land-dwellers, he certainly put a lot of work into saving them.
    • Of course, since he's killed his Morality Chain, all bets are off now.
  • Kick the Dog: Deliberately blew up the matriorb, destroying all hope for his species, which is what he always meant by "helping" Kanaya.
  • Killed Off for Real: Comboed with a Call Back, Ludicrous Gibs, and Half the Man He Used To Be. Here.
    • Death by Irony: He white-laser-beams Kanaya through her midsection; in turn, she kills him by chainsawing through his torso.
  • Knight of Cerebus: Killing off two of his fellow trolls—and two of the most unambiguously good trolls, to boot—sent Eridan firmly into Knight of Cerebus territory. Especially because it's when the trolls hit their Darkest Hour.
  • Knight Templar: His ulterior motives all hinge around the concept of hope, and he was planning on joining Jack because his friends would otherwise be doomed. But he takes this way too far. He decides that hope is his to do with as he wishes. As such, he destroys the Matriorb, the troll race's only hope of further propagation.
  • Large Ham: He deliberately attempts to craft an image for himself as a legendary conquerer through exaggerated emotional theatrics. But it backfires, people just think he's a tool.
  • (F)LARP: Through his character Orphaner Dualscar.
  • Le Collaborateur: Somewhat subverted in a sense, he doesn't seek to join Jack out of a desire to get revenge on his fellow Trolls, but rather thinks that it's the only way to survive.
  • Leitmotif: Eridan's Theme
  • Light Is Not Good: Wielding white science to heroine Rose's black magic. Don't forget, light/dark symbolism is reversed for trolls.
  • Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places: Eridan just can't win on any quadrant. Feferi didn't really reciprocate his feelings, Vriska just got bored of their rivalry, his attempts to start a new rivalry with Sollux are painfully obvious and fall flat, Rose responded to his clumsy flirtation by blowing up his computer, and Jade flatly only tolerated him long enough for him to leave her alone.
    • Oh, and Terezi doesn't want to auspistice between him and Sollux, Karkat wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole, Equius is made uncomfortable by his advances (though in which quadrant, it's not specified), and his own client player Nepeta spectacularly failed to fall in love with him for saving her life in the same way Feferi did with Sollux.
  • Love Hurts
  • Love Makes You Evil: Arguably. Killing Feferi seems to drive the point home, somehow.
  • Meaningful Name: Eridanos was the name of a river in ancient Athens which symbolizes Aquarius, while Ampora is likely from amphora, a vessel used for carrying, among other things, water, in Ancient Grome.
    • If you shorten it, it becomes Eri' 'pora.
    • His FLARP character, Orphaner Dualscar, kills custodians to feed Feferi's lusus.
    • His title of "Prince of Hope" was for the longest time considered ironic due to this eventual actions...until UU revealed that the "Prince of x" is "one who destroys x, or caUses destrUction throUgh x". In other words, Eridan is literally the Destroyer of Hope.
    • The first part of his chumhandle ties not only into his role as The Caligula but also according to Word of God to his dark romantic obsessions via the caliginous quadrant.
  • Multicolored HairmOtHeRfUcKeRSkunk Stripe: A purple tuft in the middle. Though the fact that his hair has any color at all is pretty notable as far as trolls are concerned—and what's more, he was apparently born that way.
  • Names to Run Away From Really Fast: His planet. Anybody up for a trip to the Land of Wrath and Angels?
  • Nerd Glasses
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He killed the local game constructs of his world, and then kept doing so, enraging them and turning it into a Death World that the other trolls were araid to even set foot on.
  • Nietzsche Wannabe: He tells Feferi that, as the Prince of Hope, he is most qualified to tell them when there is not hope left for them, which leads to him attempting to try to join Jack.
  • Not Good with Rejection: His reaction to Feferi breaking it off is just the start of his downward spiral.
  • Not So Harmless: Much of his true dangerousness was hidden behind his status as a joke character, revolving around his repeated romantic failures and his self-absorbed blindness. According to Word of God, this was deliberate to make his Face Heel Turn all the more stunning.
  • Ominous Opera Cape
  • Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Intentionally. When he's about to reveal his feelings for Feferi to her, he stops typing in his "wweird accent" to show that he's serious.
  • Pet the Dog: After finding out that he's a genocidal, serial-killer of trolls and their lusii (to feed Vriska & Feferi's lusii) in his introduction, you find out that he knows exactly how to kill off all the land dwellers. But he won't do it because it would make Feferi upset.
  • Pirate: Used to play Flarp as a seagrift, and was on-and-off an ally with Vriska.
  • Purple Is the New Black: He wears fancy royal-purple clothes, and in regards to the trope's second meaning as a signifier of an ineffectual villain it's pointed out that all his plans to kill land-dwellers never work, he spends more time on land (or at least above the sea) than in the ocean, and doesn't even have enough rage to hate the soda that littered his beloved shore.
  • Royal Blood: Kickass royal blood, as he calls it. It's almost the highest on the hemospectrum, second in their group only to Feferi's.
  • Royal Brat
  • Scarf of Asskicking
  • Shout-Out: Couldn't you already tell from the glasses, the scarf, or the lightning bolt-shaped horns and mark on his head? Oh, and he likes magic.
  • Sure Why Not: The reason he has an interest in wizards is because of people comparing his appearance to Harry Potter.
  • Ted Baxter: While he's highly ranked in the hemospectrum, this seems to have colored everything about him. His Royal Blood means he knows best about everything, whether or not he actually has any clue whatsoever. For example, killing some of his planet's local game constructs until they were so fed up they were attacking him and any other troll who visited, despite them not dropping any grist. When Karkat calls him on that specific bit of idiocy, he agrees it was silly of him... then two sentences later he seems to have forgotten that lesson, and is talking about how hard it was to kill them and how he can't believe no one came to help him.
  • Teens Are Monsters: At age thirteen, has so far killed countless lususes of trolls, the "angels" from his planet (most likely peaceful), two close friends, and an egg housing what would have helped repopulate the Troll race. With these criteria, could contend for the Trope Page Image, tied with Vriska.
  • Theme Naming: Eridan's Zodiac sign is Aquarius.
  • The Quisling: Went on a killing spree to try to impress Jack Noir.
  • Trigger Happy: Enough to keep killing some of his planet's local game constructs.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: Kills Feferi, his moirail for a long time, and Kanaya, who gave him his white science wand.
  • Unsound Effect: His corpse gives off the word DEAD.
  • Verbal Tic: Not as pronounced as Feferi, but being an aquatic troll, he occasionally uses "glub", too.
  • Violet Blood
  • Warrior Prince: Not that this is especially unusual on Alternia, where everyone from the royalty down is raised to fight.
  • We Can Rule Together: Eridan offers Feferi the chance to join him to work under Jack Noir.
  • Western Zodiac: Aquarius.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Possible, he seemed to have gone Grim Dark for a second much the same as Rose right before his murder spree kicked into overdrive.
  • Who's Laughing Now?
  • You Can't Fight Fate: Inverted. Eridan insists on his blackrom rivalry with Vriska, but the latter broke it off entirely and avoids him. And then, it's later revealed that they're not only destined to face each other again, but their ancestors in the past also had a similar relationship/confrontation as well. However, Kanaya breaks up the present confrontation and kills him.

♓ Feferi Peixes ♓

"You would redefine what it means to be CULLED in troll society. Under your rule it would mean caring for the unfit and infirm rather than exterminating them, and you have put this idea into practice by CULLING THE FAUNA OF THE DEEP. You tend to wild and beautiful AQUATIC HOOFBEASTS, grooming and feeding them daily. You capture and cage CUTTLEFISH by the thousands for their own good, and also because they are funny and colorful and you love them. They often swim through the bars of their cages, but that is fine. You run your whole palace as a sort of WILDLIFE ADOPTION FACILITY, even if the wildlife's need for care is dubious at best, and the practice really just amounts to an elaborate ROLE PLAYING SCENARIO. It's still fun though."

The sea-dwelling heiress apparent to the throne of the Alternian Empire, she is determined to one day make a better life for trollkind.

In Sburb, she is the Witch of Life. Her trolltag is "cuttlefishCuller".

She has allocated her STRIFE SPECIBUS with the 2x3DENTKIND ABSTRATUS.

Types by replacing t)(e letter "H" wit)( reverse ordered parent)(eses to make them look like t)(e Pisces symbol, and places )(yp)(ens in
front of capital ----E's to create TRID-ENTS! S)(e uses smilies wit)( curly )(orns and goggles, makes fishy puns, and LOV-ES to say t)(e
word "glub". Glub glub glub! 38)

  • All Girls Like Sea Ponies
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: Previously in a relationship with Eridan, a wannabe villain who later Face Heel Turns and becomes a real villain. Currently in a relationship with Sollux, where she seems to find his grouchy, negative side attractive.
    • Subverted in Eridan's case: it was those very "bad boy" traits that eventually drove her away from him.
  • Abusive Alien Lusii: Arguably. Fef seems to have a real affection for her lusus but she's an Eldritch Abomination miles long, and can cause X-4 apocalypse if she gets extremely hungry and any voice above a whisper causes trolls to start dying. Though it's hardly Gl'bgolyb's fault that her voice just happens to be a Brown Note to trolls and she was more than willing to sacrifice her life to help Feferi to safety. This is in stark contrast to Vriska, who has a similar deal but her giant spider will make sure to put HER on the menu should she not keep the food on the table.
  • Better as Friends: When Eridan finally reveals his feelings for her, she politely rejects him, much to his disappointment, but she says they should still be friends. This does NOT end well for her or Eridan.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: She's very hard to piss off, but doing so makes her fly into a rage that can really only be stopped by ending her life. Fanon is currently running wild determining what exactly is going to happen to Eridan when he gets killed thanks to her being friends with the horrorterrors. Beyond that, she's easily the nicest troll, but even then you still have to put up with her being very unsettling at times.
  • Conditioned to Accept Horror: More than most trolls, considering her lusus is the Eldritch Abomination that can kill the whole species if its voice ever gets above a whisper (and it does). Compared to that, all the other Horror-Terrors Of The Furthest Ring are nothing.
  • Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Feferi has no issue with Horrorterrors at all. They're FRI—ENDLY!
  • Dissonant Serenity: Even as her friends start to split off into various parts of the lab, Feferi seems oddly calm about the whole ordeal.
    • She quite happily accepts her death and even has a casual conversation with Jade before just blurting out that she's dead.
  • Double Weapon: ΨDON's[2] ENTENTE, a DOUBLE CULLING FORK.
  • Dream Weaver: Implied to be one of her abilities as the Witch of Life: It is the past, brought back to life by a witch!. Also being (meta)physically located in the furthest ring due to being dead helps. Considering it's not all that easy for someone without a clear concept of time to navigate between bubbles, the fact that she can means she must have some ability in this regard.
  • Ermine Cape Effect
  • Everything's Better with Princesses: Her preeminent blood makes her heir apparent to the Alternian empress.
  • Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: She's decked out in it.
  • Everything's Squishier with Cephalopods: Her pet cuttlefish, which she keeps by the thousands because they are funny and colorful and she loves them. Also her lusus, a very Cephalopod-like Eldritch Abomination.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The first thing she's seen doing is culling cuttlefish (though it turns out she has a different definition of "culling" than we do).
  • Expy: Shares a lot of traits with Jade, such as having a deadly powerful guardian, being a Witch of Something, being free spirited, and being the weird one among their respective circles. Partially because of this, in Act 5 Jade underwent a lot of Character Development and they're not as comparable after.
  • Fish Trolls
  • Foreshadowing: She did say she was D-----EAD, after all.
    • Also, the title is said to challenge the player. So why would a title like Witch of Life challenge her unless she were to die?
  • Fuchsia Blood
  • Genki Girl: She's very -EXCIT-ED! about Sgrub, and everything in general.
  • Goggles Do Nothing: She wears them mostly because they're cool.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Like with Jade, just of her dream self, though her purpose was to show that the gods of the furthest ring weren't dangerous. Bites her in the ass when she's Killed Off for Real by Eridan.
  • Ironic Death: In the sense that the Witch of Life is dead. Also, she's the last sign of the zodiac, and she likely dies first after the Troll session ends. Compare to Aradia, who was the first sign of the zodiac, and died before the session started... but recovered.
  • Healing Hands: The power of an Alternate Timeline Feferi who went God Tier.
  • Kindly Vet: Rescues sea animals and helps them get better.
  • Leitmotif: Keepers, originally shared with Eridan, and now Love You (Feferi's Theme).
  • Mama Bear: Mess with her friends and you'll be on the wrong end of a very, VERY angry fish troll and her 2x3dent. Not that there's a right side, really.
  • Manic Peixes Dream Girl: For Eridan, and possibly also for Sollux.
  • Meaningful Name: Feferi is a corrupted form of pfefferi, a poisonous species of cuttlefish. Peixes is Portugese for Pisces (and just plain 'fishes', for that matter).
  • The Messiah: If it weren't for Alternia's annihilation preventing her reign, her plans would have included uniting land and sea dwellers and redefining culling to mean caring for the unfit and infirm members of troll society instead of exterminating them.
    • Later she's the first to suggest simply working together with the humans, and she makes it possible for Jade to communicate with the dead trolls via dream bubbles. Or at least Jade wants to thank her for setting them up.
  • Morality Pet: The main reason Eridan hasn't implemented a plan to kill all land-dwellers yet? It would upset Feferi.
  • More Teeth Than the Osmond Family: Her smile is... unnerving.
  • Nightmare Face: "Because, Stupid! I'm D-----EAD!" For those who only want to read about it, imagine Feferi's usual creepy smile with Prophet Eyes.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: She doesn't seemed bothered by the Horrorterrors while asleep, unlike Jade, Karkat, and most of the readers, and cheerfully tries to convince the others that said Horrorterrors are harmless and even friendly.
    • Justified: Her lusus was the emissary of said Horrorterrors.
  • Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Because of Feferi being raised the way she was, there are a lot of things she considers normal that even manage to weird out the other trolls, with eldritch abominations just being one of them. Feferi can easily switch from being one of the most adorable trolls to the most creepy, within TWO PANELS of each other. To her she's just being friendly in her own unusual way.
  • Nightmare Retardant: Invoked, after all, Feferi is a fish alien, so what other expression would she have on her face in death than that of a dead fish?
  • No Pronunciation Guide: While this is a problem with all of the trolls, Feferi has it the worst. For the record, it's fuh-FERRY puh-SHAYS according to Word of God.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Among the Trolls, she shares Rose's trait of knowing the most about the Horrorterrors, considering she was raised by one. Plus she makes it so that Jade can communicate with the Trolls via dream bubbles, something the living would not normally be able to do on their own without being God Tier and physically inside the bubbles. So yeah, things are starting to pay off for her even though she's dead.
  • Oblivious to Love: To the point of cheerfully teasing Eridan about who he might have red feelings for. Turns out, she got sick of putting up with Eridan's crap especially when he decided to show up in Sollux' land just to start a fight with him over Feferi.
  • Out of Focus: Aside from Nepeta and Equius, who are legendarily Those Two Guys, Feferi has suffered the most out of the Trolls in terms of screentime. Even her plot critical dream meetings have mostly occurred offpanel.
  • The Pollyanna: Easily the most optimistic of all the trolls. She's -EXCIT-ED about just about everything, is one of the first to step up with the suggestion that they should help the kids instead of trolling them, is absolutely positive the horrorterrors are not dangerous in the slightest, and is quick to reassure everyone that their friends starting to become scarce is not a big deal. Not even death really does anything to dampen her spirit.
  • Prongs of Poseidon: The first kind.
  • Pungeon Master: Loves fish-puns in particular.

CC: Will you just clam up for once in your life?
CC: Always carping and carping and carping!
CC: You go completely overboard with your emotions, always looking to reel in drama wherever you can.
CC: I am up to my gills in it! I just can't salmon the strength anemonemore.
CA: i cannot
CA: BELIEVE
CA: you are doin the fish pun thing while youre breakin up with me
CA: real nice
CA: whoops i mean REEL nice

  • Purple Is Powerful
  • Rebellious Princess: Has no regard for the hemospectrum and planned to introduce a much more unified and caring order to troll society, though troll society was completely wiped out before she could.
    • To cement this, the current empress is her ancestor, and is basically the polar opposite of Feferi.
  • Royal Blood: Her blood color is unique to her and the current Empress, her ancestor.
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something: The kind of leader she aspires to be.
    • However in Sburb she becomes decidedly more low key and is content with Karkat and Aradia leading the Trolls around.
  • Ship Tease: With Sollux shortly after the game begins. Later they spend their time together talking about their feelings.
  • Spoiled Sweet
  • Strange Girl: Even by Troll standards. She points out to Jade that as a royal, it's practically her duty to be weird, though she probably didn't mean that literally even though she often acts that way.
  • Super Strength: As trolls get higher on the hemospectrum their natural strength increases while psychic ability decreases. Being the highest she possibly can be on the spectrum, she can pull a whale with ease underwater and leap out of the water several hundred feet.
  • Theme Naming: Feferi's Zodiac sign is Pisces.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Thanks to character development, she shows a more jerkish side to her, possibly because she doesn't feel the need to be tactful around her friends anymore. Not to say she's still not the nicest troll around, but it is comparable to how Jade is also becoming more unwound.
  • Undignified Death: Her dream self's death. Yes, she had every intention of sticking around for a front row seat of the destruction of Derse. No, she probably doesn't realize what Jack likes to do when there's main characters about. And as for her actual death, she doesn't even get a step into her charge before Eridan blows a hole right through her chest, killing her instantly. Granted, considering dying has done nothing to lower her spirits to the point where she's able to proclaim she's dead with a huge grin on her face, she herself doesn't exactly treat her death with any dignity.
  • Unstoppable Rage: As hard to piss off as it is, it only comes natural that when she DOES get angry, she means business.
  • Verbal Tic: Glub glub glub glub glub!
  • Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: She's very friendly—probably one of the most friendly trolls, along with probably Nepeta. That doesn't keep her from mocking Eridan and calling Jade a retard.
    • On the other hand, Feferi was very patient with Eridan and he still managed to get on her bad side. As for Jade, she's likely not entirely all together at the moment, with being dead and all.
  • Western Zodiac: Pisces.

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  1. ↑ Her name being only five letters long as Gamze. Other suggestions included Gamzel
  2. ↑ The Greek letter Psi
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