Application: Ruby City
Jan. 11th, 2014 01:28 amPLAYER
Name: Wesley
Age: 20
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E-mail: floridiancheese@gmail.com
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CHARACTER
Name: Cronus Ampora
Canon: Homestuck
Age: Cronus has been dead for many, many years but he still appears to be about 19 years old, or 9 sweeps.
Timeline: After getting Slampora'd
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: While I do play Alpha!Dave, the two of them have absolutely no reason to talk to each other. Dave is... well, Dave, and doesn't like most trolls, usually only talking to them if he wants to antagonize them or because he has to. With Meenah and Eridan ingame, as well as the vast pool of people out there to flirt with, Cronus wouldn't really bother with old man Dave. As such, the two of them won't have reason to interact.
Personality: Cronus is thesecond worst character in Homestuck by far.
Alright that isn't entirely true, but he's pretty horrible. At first glance, he might not seem like the worst person you could meet. In fact, he even seems rather nice! Claiming to be a sensitive artist, Cronus is a friendly, well meaning kind of guy. He understands your problems and can sympathize with them and is just overall there for you. He gets you, y'know?. No ulterior motives or anything! He definitely seems like the type of guy you could bring home to your folks, charming and charismatic and easy to talk to, you can't find a better guy than Cronus even if you tried!
That's what he wants you to believe, at any rate. The truth is that this is all very much an act, and the dude is actually a douche bag underneath a layer of false charm. He's clearly only nice to get close to people and to lead into making inappropriate advances on them more often than not. Cronus is somewhat obsessed with filling his quadrants and having sex. While he obviously wouldn't admit to it, years and years of getting rejected have made Cronus a desperate guy when it comes to sex and romance. To say the guy has standards would be a lie; he might claim to have them, but it's pretty clear that he'll eat it up from anyone if they give him a little bit of positive attention. After all, when you're used to nothing but rejection, you start to crave attention from just about anything.
The one thing you should know about Cronus is, it's not his fault! It's other people's faults. He is very much based on the 'nice guy' stereotype, and he lives up to that by blaming other people for not wanting to be with him and that he's obviously just too good for them, or that their tastes just aren't good. No matter what it is, he's great at twisting it around and making himself the victim. He alluded to this multiple times throughout his appearance in the comic, and not only that but he also made inappropriate advances on Mituna Captor, before proceeding to heavily victim blame and make Mituna feel bad for it. In fact, this conversation also revealed what a manipulative bastard and jerk Cronus can be. Not only is he a jerk, but it also showed what an ableist he is by the way he blamed Mituna and insulted him over his mental problems. Of course he tried to hide it a little, but on multiple occasions he nearly slipped up and called Mituna 'retarded'.
Really, his interactions with Mituna made a lot of things clear, like the fact that he just has no personal boundaries what so ever and doesn't see anything wrong with violating people's personal space. It can be assumed that Cronus is a bit of a touchy-feely person, laying hands on someone's shoulder and such even if they might not want him to; as is the case with Mituna, and Cronus didn't see anything wrong with his actions. As mentioned above, he even went as far as to make Mituna feel bad for being uncomfortable about it. Despite this lack of boundaries, unlike common perception, Cronus isn't a rapist by any means and he does have some respect for established romances, so he wouldn't go breaking people up just so he can get with them. This might be one of the only ways in which the guy has standards.
Cronus is a very dramatic troll in that regard. He plays up his feelings in a way to try and get people to sympathize with him. Most interactions with him involve talking about his feelings in a pretty dramatic fashion. Additionally, he also claims to be humankin; a human born in a troll body- specifically a 1950s human greaser. Whether or not this is genuine or a ploy to get people interested in him remains to be seen, though it seems fairly genuine given his discussion about it with Kankri, who enabled this behaviour. Fake or not, Cronus is wrapped up tight in it, using gratuitous 50s slang, greasing his hair and keeping a(n unlit) cigarette in his mouth ofte- that isn't however, the worst out of Cronus. Probably the epitome of drama would be his tendency to threaten suicide upon being rejected. It's so hammy and played up that it's clear to most people that he wouldn't actually do it, but it goes to show that he stoops pretty low in order to garner sympathy and acceptance.
He is also rather egotistical and thinks he's better than other people, another few of his negative traits that he tends to hide under his ~nice guy~ facade. He claims that his blood colour is not a big deal to him, but the opposite is obvious given the way he talks about it and that he's downplaying it as a way to make people think he's humble so they like him better. The truth of the matter is he does think his blood colour makes him better than anyone below him and that it makes him entitled to things; much the way Eridan and Dualscar were as well. This sort of thing tends to run in the Amporas' blood and Cronus is no exception, he's just a bit more sneaky with it, unlike the other Amporas.
There might be a lot about Cronus that's fake, but surprisingly enough there are some things about him that aren't fake. One of the bigger examples would be his music; sure it may be raunchily named and inappropriate as all get out, but it's obvious that Cronus has put a lot of time and effort into it. When he speaks of music, he doesn't sound like someone merely dabbling in it, he sounds like someone who really knows his stuff. And why not? He wants to impress people and to be as good as he can be, so of course he's put a lot of energy into getting as good as he can at it. The same thing can be assumed in regards to combat; while he claims not to be in a violent space in his life anymore, he probably is really good at his choice of weapon, which like Eridan and Dualscar before him, would be Ahab's Crosshairs.
Overall, Cronus is not the kind of guy you really want to be in the same room with for extended periods of time, because even his few redeeming qualities he might have hidden underneath aren't enough to make the guy bearable.
Background: his vwiki
Abilities: Cronus has all of the abilities that come with being a violet blood. He has the ability to use magic even if his wizarding days are behind him and he no longer wants to even talk about that. He's skilled with music, having dedicated quite a lot of time to the art. Above all, he's a damn good marksman if he ever decides that he's in a violent enough space to use one again. Aside from that, he also has all of the abilities of a troll; tougher skin, he's stronger physically than most humans, etc.
First Person: eugh vwhat evwer vwill i do?
fresh out of a nasty fight vwith some guy picking on a lowvly grub vwho couldnt defend himself.
i sure do hope the thing is alright.
but, and i mention this vwith all the humbleness i can muster, he managed to get a good hit on me.
vwhat a jerk he vwas, let me tell ya.
is there anyone out there kind enough to help a nice guy like myself out?
and yknowv its pretty cold out here, vwould anyone be vwilling to help vwith that?
i hear sharing body heat is the perfect vway to fix a problem such as this!
but really its my injuries that need help the most.
i think i fractured something, maybe evwen broke it completely!
i might be dying, vwho evwen knowvs.
he vwas a vwicious thing, that guy i vwas fighting.
and evwen vwhen im not in a vwiolent space in my life right nowv i still did it to help that little guy.
im such a hero, i just hope i dont die before i figure out if he made it out alivwe.
that vwould be so awvful.
Third Person: Ow. That was Cronus's first thought upon coming to. The last thing he remembered was crashing into a different version of himself and blacking out. When consciousness came back to him, he felt the side-effects of that hitting him in full force. A headache, a sore side and basically sore everything that collided with his other self. At first, Cronus was pretty sure that he was having some sort of weird dream. He wasn't where he remembered being at last, that was for sure. Had someone moved him? Why would they move him there, of all places?
It quickly became apparent, however, that it wasn't the case. All too soon he felt the inexplicable need to leave the train once it stopped, despite how sore he was. With a groan, he disembarked into the strange new world that he was beginning to realize was not the dream bubble he had been in moments before. Either that, or this was one vivid dream within a dream.
"Vwell if this IS a dream, then only one vway to find out..." He snapped his fingers. "Hot and naked people vwill appear out of thin air in three, tvwo, one..."
And nothing happened.
"Globes," he grumbled under his breath. Of course he couldn't be so lucky as to be dreaming something that wonderful. There didn't seem to be anyone around, upon further inspection. What he did find were posters explaining a few things about the place. Ruby City, huh? That sounded fancy. He wondered if the people there were as fancy as the name might suggest. But really, the biggest thing on his mind was the fact that it felt like Christmas had come. A whole new world! It didn't matter how he'd got there or why; for Cronus, it was a fresh start. A new pool of dateable people who had no idea what kind of person he was. Even if, unbeknownst to him, he'd actually been there before. STILL, he was going to make the most of this. He would woo everyone, that he was sure of!
Just... after he found something- or someone- to ease the pain from his little Slampora incident. And maybe a coat, because wow it was hellaciously cold, how was a seadweller to EVEN survive? Maybe he could find someone to share body heat with.
Name: Wesley
Age: 20
Personal Journal:
vastexpletiveE-mail: floridiancheese@gmail.com
AIM/MSN/etc: AIM: floridiancheese@gmail.com
CHARACTER
Name: Cronus Ampora
Canon: Homestuck
Age: Cronus has been dead for many, many years but he still appears to be about 19 years old, or 9 sweeps.
Timeline: After getting Slampora'd
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: While I do play Alpha!Dave, the two of them have absolutely no reason to talk to each other. Dave is... well, Dave, and doesn't like most trolls, usually only talking to them if he wants to antagonize them or because he has to. With Meenah and Eridan ingame, as well as the vast pool of people out there to flirt with, Cronus wouldn't really bother with old man Dave. As such, the two of them won't have reason to interact.
Personality: Cronus is the
Alright that isn't entirely true, but he's pretty horrible. At first glance, he might not seem like the worst person you could meet. In fact, he even seems rather nice! Claiming to be a sensitive artist, Cronus is a friendly, well meaning kind of guy. He understands your problems and can sympathize with them and is just overall there for you. He gets you, y'know?. No ulterior motives or anything! He definitely seems like the type of guy you could bring home to your folks, charming and charismatic and easy to talk to, you can't find a better guy than Cronus even if you tried!
That's what he wants you to believe, at any rate. The truth is that this is all very much an act, and the dude is actually a douche bag underneath a layer of false charm. He's clearly only nice to get close to people and to lead into making inappropriate advances on them more often than not. Cronus is somewhat obsessed with filling his quadrants and having sex. While he obviously wouldn't admit to it, years and years of getting rejected have made Cronus a desperate guy when it comes to sex and romance. To say the guy has standards would be a lie; he might claim to have them, but it's pretty clear that he'll eat it up from anyone if they give him a little bit of positive attention. After all, when you're used to nothing but rejection, you start to crave attention from just about anything.
The one thing you should know about Cronus is, it's not his fault! It's other people's faults. He is very much based on the 'nice guy' stereotype, and he lives up to that by blaming other people for not wanting to be with him and that he's obviously just too good for them, or that their tastes just aren't good. No matter what it is, he's great at twisting it around and making himself the victim. He alluded to this multiple times throughout his appearance in the comic, and not only that but he also made inappropriate advances on Mituna Captor, before proceeding to heavily victim blame and make Mituna feel bad for it. In fact, this conversation also revealed what a manipulative bastard and jerk Cronus can be. Not only is he a jerk, but it also showed what an ableist he is by the way he blamed Mituna and insulted him over his mental problems. Of course he tried to hide it a little, but on multiple occasions he nearly slipped up and called Mituna 'retarded'.
Really, his interactions with Mituna made a lot of things clear, like the fact that he just has no personal boundaries what so ever and doesn't see anything wrong with violating people's personal space. It can be assumed that Cronus is a bit of a touchy-feely person, laying hands on someone's shoulder and such even if they might not want him to; as is the case with Mituna, and Cronus didn't see anything wrong with his actions. As mentioned above, he even went as far as to make Mituna feel bad for being uncomfortable about it. Despite this lack of boundaries, unlike common perception, Cronus isn't a rapist by any means and he does have some respect for established romances, so he wouldn't go breaking people up just so he can get with them. This might be one of the only ways in which the guy has standards.
Cronus is a very dramatic troll in that regard. He plays up his feelings in a way to try and get people to sympathize with him. Most interactions with him involve talking about his feelings in a pretty dramatic fashion. Additionally, he also claims to be humankin; a human born in a troll body- specifically a 1950s human greaser. Whether or not this is genuine or a ploy to get people interested in him remains to be seen, though it seems fairly genuine given his discussion about it with Kankri, who enabled this behaviour. Fake or not, Cronus is wrapped up tight in it, using gratuitous 50s slang, greasing his hair and keeping a(n unlit) cigarette in his mouth ofte- that isn't however, the worst out of Cronus. Probably the epitome of drama would be his tendency to threaten suicide upon being rejected. It's so hammy and played up that it's clear to most people that he wouldn't actually do it, but it goes to show that he stoops pretty low in order to garner sympathy and acceptance.
He is also rather egotistical and thinks he's better than other people, another few of his negative traits that he tends to hide under his ~nice guy~ facade. He claims that his blood colour is not a big deal to him, but the opposite is obvious given the way he talks about it and that he's downplaying it as a way to make people think he's humble so they like him better. The truth of the matter is he does think his blood colour makes him better than anyone below him and that it makes him entitled to things; much the way Eridan and Dualscar were as well. This sort of thing tends to run in the Amporas' blood and Cronus is no exception, he's just a bit more sneaky with it, unlike the other Amporas.
There might be a lot about Cronus that's fake, but surprisingly enough there are some things about him that aren't fake. One of the bigger examples would be his music; sure it may be raunchily named and inappropriate as all get out, but it's obvious that Cronus has put a lot of time and effort into it. When he speaks of music, he doesn't sound like someone merely dabbling in it, he sounds like someone who really knows his stuff. And why not? He wants to impress people and to be as good as he can be, so of course he's put a lot of energy into getting as good as he can at it. The same thing can be assumed in regards to combat; while he claims not to be in a violent space in his life anymore, he probably is really good at his choice of weapon, which like Eridan and Dualscar before him, would be Ahab's Crosshairs.
Overall, Cronus is not the kind of guy you really want to be in the same room with for extended periods of time, because even his few redeeming qualities he might have hidden underneath aren't enough to make the guy bearable.
Background: his vwiki
Abilities: Cronus has all of the abilities that come with being a violet blood. He has the ability to use magic even if his wizarding days are behind him and he no longer wants to even talk about that. He's skilled with music, having dedicated quite a lot of time to the art. Above all, he's a damn good marksman if he ever decides that he's in a violent enough space to use one again. Aside from that, he also has all of the abilities of a troll; tougher skin, he's stronger physically than most humans, etc.
First Person: eugh vwhat evwer vwill i do?
fresh out of a nasty fight vwith some guy picking on a lowvly grub vwho couldnt defend himself.
i sure do hope the thing is alright.
but, and i mention this vwith all the humbleness i can muster, he managed to get a good hit on me.
vwhat a jerk he vwas, let me tell ya.
is there anyone out there kind enough to help a nice guy like myself out?
and yknowv its pretty cold out here, vwould anyone be vwilling to help vwith that?
i hear sharing body heat is the perfect vway to fix a problem such as this!
but really its my injuries that need help the most.
i think i fractured something, maybe evwen broke it completely!
i might be dying, vwho evwen knowvs.
he vwas a vwicious thing, that guy i vwas fighting.
and evwen vwhen im not in a vwiolent space in my life right nowv i still did it to help that little guy.
im such a hero, i just hope i dont die before i figure out if he made it out alivwe.
that vwould be so awvful.
Third Person: Ow. That was Cronus's first thought upon coming to. The last thing he remembered was crashing into a different version of himself and blacking out. When consciousness came back to him, he felt the side-effects of that hitting him in full force. A headache, a sore side and basically sore everything that collided with his other self. At first, Cronus was pretty sure that he was having some sort of weird dream. He wasn't where he remembered being at last, that was for sure. Had someone moved him? Why would they move him there, of all places?
It quickly became apparent, however, that it wasn't the case. All too soon he felt the inexplicable need to leave the train once it stopped, despite how sore he was. With a groan, he disembarked into the strange new world that he was beginning to realize was not the dream bubble he had been in moments before. Either that, or this was one vivid dream within a dream.
"Vwell if this IS a dream, then only one vway to find out..." He snapped his fingers. "Hot and naked people vwill appear out of thin air in three, tvwo, one..."
And nothing happened.
"Globes," he grumbled under his breath. Of course he couldn't be so lucky as to be dreaming something that wonderful. There didn't seem to be anyone around, upon further inspection. What he did find were posters explaining a few things about the place. Ruby City, huh? That sounded fancy. He wondered if the people there were as fancy as the name might suggest. But really, the biggest thing on his mind was the fact that it felt like Christmas had come. A whole new world! It didn't matter how he'd got there or why; for Cronus, it was a fresh start. A new pool of dateable people who had no idea what kind of person he was. Even if, unbeknownst to him, he'd actually been there before. STILL, he was going to make the most of this. He would woo everyone, that he was sure of!
Just... after he found something- or someone- to ease the pain from his little Slampora incident. And maybe a coat, because wow it was hellaciously cold, how was a seadweller to EVEN survive? Maybe he could find someone to share body heat with.
