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CHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: gamzee makara
AGE: 13, 16 and 20-something throughout the series until its end.
CANON: homestuck
NAME: gamzee makara
AGE: 13, 16 and 20-something throughout the series until its end.
CANON: homestuck
CANON HISTORY: laughs at you
CANON PERSONALITY:
take a good, hard look and tell me: do you regret me, because i regret myself.
Gamzee is a peculiar and capricious thing by nature, where past his surface and presented personality we run across constant contradictions and swings in psych. So let’s start from the basics: back when we first meet him as a thirteen year old alien perpetually high on toxic chemicals, and maintaining such for most of his canon screentime. To be honest, thank those chemicals.
All trolls usually grow up with custodians called a Lusus; Gamzee's, a large sea-goat, was unfortunately absent throughout what should’ve Gamzee’s upbringing, leaving him uneducated and alone— and incredibly high after making a habit out of eating a highly sedative substance meant for trolls to sleep in.
When high, Gamzee was the well meaning stoner friend; very laid back, calm and good natured. This Gamzee is simple, awed and fascinated by the smallest things in an even childlike wonder and wanting to keep it that way. He lacks basic knowledge and doesn’t seem to miss it— all he wants are the tiny miracles in them. Gamzee wants to please those around him, lonely from his isolated upbringing, and while he might not be the best of advice givers, he certainly tries as hard as his fried brain can go.
TC: oK lIkE jUsT bE tAkIn tHiS fUcKiN tItS bOtTlE oF fUcKiN fAyGo I jUsT cRaCkEd Up OpEn.
TC: AnD hOw It'S bEiNg AlL lIkE hIsSiNg AnD sHiT.
TC: mOtHeRfUcKiN hIsSiNg MaN, wHo WeNt AlL aNd ToLd It To Do ThAt?
TC: HoW wOuLd It EvEn Do ThAt, It'S cRaZy.
TC: iT's A mIrAcLe.
CG: IT'S CARBONATION YOU IGNORANT DOUCHE.
CG: TRY GETTING SCHOOLFED SOME TIME INSTEAD OF SLURPING DOWN THAT WEIRD SWILL ALL DAY AND FONDLING YOUR STUPID HORNS.
TC: No No BrO, i DoN't WaNnA kNoW, dOn'T eVeN tElL mE.
TC: kNoWiNg ShIt JuSt StEaLs Up AlL tHe FuCkIn MaGiC fRoM mY mIrAcLeS lIkE a MoThErFuCkIn ThIeF.
TC: AnD tHaT aIn'T cOoL.
He's easily side tracked, prone to zoning out, attracted to colors and lacking a certain initiative to interact actively with his surroundings and others as any normal troll would; Gamzee is shown to pick up and capchalog random items into his fetch modus, Miracle, for the sole purpose of sitting back and watching the flashing colors it produces.
He's friendly, supportive, and by all means, loves his friends, even if you express hatred or frustration towards him. He’s just. Too high to notice and too lonesome to extract himself from company. He's there when one comes to him with problems, and he'll gladly give advice and act because he genuinely cares for his friends! Even if . . . his advice doesn't really do much to help with anything at all, as they're almost always, if not always, waiting for a miracle to happen, or just being as chill as him. Also, because of his constant high, he's fairly oblivious to many things that happen around him, and tends to take the direness of some situations with a grain of salt. He’d rather be trying to share pies with the enemies.
This all doesn’t make Gamzee a complete flower bouquet to sniff—despite his friendliness, Gamzee followed a rather morbid religious cult involving clown-like messiahs, enthusiastically worshiping their insanity based around violence, murder, and a paradise world brought about by death and the bleeding of all as equals. One might consider that Gamzee is, perhaps, too high most of the time to really act on these or take them for what they really mean. The high offers disconnection from reality and a slow-motion drag through emotions to the point that by the time he should be thinking about the honkalypse, he’s gotten distracted by a speck on the ground—but the thoughts are there and should be noted.
A high Gamzee is a rather harmless Gamzee; one that wants nothing more than kicking back, baking Soper Slime into pies, hanging with friends to become better bros, and enjoying the miracles of life. Even if he could seem like a simple, unfocused joke the majority of the time— Well, shoot. Who needs to worry about that when you have this? Honking, clowning around, and kicking up some rhymes with a brother is just the greatest way to live. Seeing his friends with a smile on their faces is all he wants, and he would be the happiest motherfucker if he is part of making that miracle happen.
We’ve only been talking about a Gamzee completely under the effects of troll drugs, though. Once effects start to wear off, Gamzee begins interacting more with his surroundings, taking initiative and even doing what he’s told. He becomes a little muddy-minded, a little clearer until Dave sends him the forbidden video that plummets him into a rageful faith crises. To make matters worse, the death of his best friend and long time crush is also killed, destabilizing Gamzee to the point that he isolates himself, something he’s never done that was quick to bring concern.
TC: and now.
TC: AND MOTHERFUCKING NOW.
TC: i am going to motherfuckin kill all you motherfuckers.
CG: OH GOD
CG: OH MAN
CG: OH GOD
TC: I AM GOING TO MOTHERFUCKING KILL ALL YOU MOTHERFUCKERS.
TC: and paint the wicked pictures with your motherfuckin blood.
TC: FROM YOUR VEINS WILL DRIP MY MIRACLES.
TC: your crushed bones will make my special stardust.
TC: WELCOME TO THE DARK CARNIVAL, BROTHER.
TC: honk.
TC: HONK.
TC: honk.
TC: HOOOOOOOOOOONK.
His voice frequently fluctuates from calm murmurs to yells— there’s really no better way to explain this. Guys, he completely loses it. He hears voices telling him to kill, he grows an obsession of collecting bodies and painting the walls with blood (something most likely from his descendants). His rage takes him to inexplicable heights, taking his anger out on the people that go after him in an attempt to stop his threats from turning into action.
It should be noted that even though Gamzee freaks out and says he’ll kill everyone— it took a while for him to act on his first kill. Afterwards, he doesn’t actively go after anyone else beyond those that indirectly have done him harm (killing Tavros). The cast system (where Gamzee falls right next to blood considered royalty) was ignored while high, taken into strict use during Gamzee’s breaking point, then ignored again, implying that it had only been briefly used to give him reason for his killings. His blood cast does play a part in his violent tendencies, though, which shouldn’t be forgotten.
Ultimately, Gamzee can be easily described as intelligent without anything influencing his head; he can plan ahead and plan on the spot, he can create fake crime scenes that criminalize others. He’s manipulative, a little aloof, cunning and observational, but he isn’t a phychotic killer really out for anyone— He might have many screws loose, but he isn’t as unhinged as he’s shown to be; consider it a shot at dramatic theatrics in an attempt to cope with himself and the true him. A turning point was when he contacts Karkat again, implying how he himself becomes disturbed with his own behavior and reaches out in a call for help, to change his mind and turn things around.
Karkat is able to calm him for a determined amount of time, leaving Gamzee in a place where we could see: he still values interaction with people he deems important. He’s grisly, but he won’t jump at your throat without a reason for it. While he can be manipulative, he has his weaknesses: his anger issues, for one. Gamzee is also an easy candidate to being manipulated, ironically enough (we all remember s u c k e r). With cards played wrongly, Gamzee is a menace, an annoying one that can get shit done if you aren’t careful, giving the trolls and kids a perfect enough reason to lock him up in a fridge until the final act.
The reason for this also brightens some aleatory facts already known and make even clearer to understand Gamzee’s roll in the entire story, even though we’re told that a lot of what he does just doesn’t make sense: he’s a bard, a passive class that either allows destruction of rage or invites it. Through early cameos, Gamzee, whether consciously or not, allowed the destruction of his nature through the consumption of sopor slime as well as wanting to constantly soothe the anger of those he came in contact with. When faced with his faith crises, in stark contrast, he blatantly destroyed via his rage— for a passive roll, at least. We see he doesn’t keep this activity up, and settles down before it could get worse.
Then we get a Gamzee that passively (yet actively, does that make sense?) destroys through his aspect; he loses many things that had once stabilized him and redirects his loyalty to Lord English and his birth— the true god to the cult Gamzee’s ancestors worshipped, all while being tools to bringing violence and chaos onto Alternia when it, many moons ago, didn’t exist. Gamzee comes in contact with Lil Cal, essentially a part of Lord English’s soul and learns of his own importance in the creation of, well, probably his own religion.
TC: I FINALLY GOT MY MOTHERFUCKING UNDERSTAND ON TO WHO THE MIRTHFUL MESSIAHS ARE.
TC: they were always both me. :o)
TC: AND ALSO MOTHERFUCKING ME. Do:
While Caliope and Caliborn are the true mirthful messiahs, Gamzee believes he’s the mirthful messiah that could bring Lord English back. He kills friends necessary for Lord English’s return (Equius) and goes on to murder or brutally maim those that Caliborn (LE) deems irrelevante during his retelling of Homestuck (or, in Terezi’s case, getting in the way of Caliborn’s OTP). Instead of going directly after Vriska, Gamzee manipulates his surroundings and drags Terezi into the mix to, unknowingly, do the killing for him (and later entering an abusive and unhealthy relationship to drag her down). In the end, he does everything he does strictly to serve Lord English after coming to terms with the truth.
The truth that! Homestuck is a webcomic written by Andrew Hussie, and he was meant to be some weird parody on juggalos. A joke. Well, joke’s on webcomic!Hussie, who’s killed by Caliborn, taking the story’s narrative reigns and causing everything we know what happens up until then, proving his absoluteness! Gamzee is given orders and scripts to follow as he follows Doc Scatch’s words and later, directly serving Caliborn into Lord English. In the end— all he has to do is act.
In the end, Homestuck is a world to many, but to Gamzee, it’s a stage he’s supposed to act on as comedy relief. Jokes on the joke.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
Gamzee, and other characters of Homestuck are in possession of something called a sylladex. Basically, it's a storage system— a game inventory that allows players to store a number of items without having to juggle them in their hands, depending on the number of cards they have. The sylladex is a system that uses something called Capchalogue Cards. When blank, one can store an item of practically any shape or size on the card, and for the duration of time that it's capchalogued ( when it's not in use ), it carries no physical weight or size, which makes things much more convenient. There's also the different modes in which cards can be retrieved and organized, which is called a person's fetch modus. They can be easy to work, annoying, complicated . . . or, a mix of everything and more. Gamzee's fetch modus is named Miracle; true to its name, it can take a miracle for this thing to do what you want it to do, because it is by far the most complex and confusing modus out there. To match its user to boot, this modus has completely random functions and is unpredictable-— You'll never know when a chosen item is going to get launched halfway across the ocean or not.
Lastly, a sylladex has two different card decks: the capchalogue deck, which is used for the storage of items, and then the strife deck, which is used to hold weapons. Each deck ( which is held in a strife specibus ) has something called a kind abstratus; this is simply the type of weapon that the character has chosen to use, and the type of weapon they are limited to for that specific specibus ( for example: hammerkind- can only use hammer like weapons. bladekind- only swords, things with blades, and so on ). Gamzee is shown to have two different strife specibi: clubkind and jokerkind. Clubkind is his default, and specializes in clubs and bludgeoning weapons. In this specibi, he wields the deuce clubs— which are, in fact, clown juggling clubs. Then, we have the dangerous jokerkind. Just like its name suggests, this specibus is a winning wildcard. It's the only specibus shown to not be limited to one specific abstrata, and allows the user to store and use any weapon he wants. The deck is made up of twenty cards, and so far, is shown to have the deuce clubs, the clawsickle, the fiduspear, a whip, a bow and arrows ( before they were discarded ), and the legendary Warhammer of Zillyhoo
Gamzee also has the psychic ability to create and amplify the fears of others, something called "chucklevoodoo". As a decendeant of Grand High Blood and the Subjugglators, he can plant fear, that usually takes the form of a "chucklevoodoo doll", and from there can easily exaggerate the victim's fears to his liking, to the point of being able to manipulate their actions. An example: Gamzee purposly caused an elaborate domino effect with John. He was the cause of John's dislike and fear of clowns, planting a chucklevoodoo doll of a clown into his mind while he slept and manipulating it to the point that he subconciously fearing them, and drawing them on his walls while he slept. John's father, taking notice of this, interpreted the dislike as a liking, and filled his entire house with harlequins, thinking that he was sharing an interest with John, but it actuality, making it worse. With Dave, Gamzee did the same thing, causing his discomfort and fear of puppets. Equius was completely incapacitated by the simple fear of failing, because Gamzee took and amplified it to the point that he couldn't move, leading to his death by suffocation. With Terezi, while all evidence pointed to Gamzee setting up a trap, she starting believing it was all Vriska, due to her manipulated fear of it actually being Gamzee. He's only able to use this ability when sober, as the slime's qualities blocks this out.
Most of the time, Gamzee is sedated to an intoxicated state, and is pretty much harmless. Although, that doesn't mean he can't fight to survive-- in the game , he's capable of survival and defense when fighting the imps with his clubs, alone, as we see breifly in the flash Make Her Pay. While he can give off the impression of being harmless, in actuality, he's shown to be frighteningly strong, fast, and especially sharp when he's sober. This above average strength is mostly due to his role in SBURB as "The Bard of Rage." Each character, the player, is given mythological role, and along with that role, comes a special ability. In Gamzee's case, it isn't explained fully, like many of the other characters, but what we can assume is that it increases his attack power, as seen when the trolls fight a powerful final boss off screen, the Black King. Karkat goes on to say that basically, Gamzee pulverized the King to such a pulp that nobody could explain what just happened, neither could they compare their attack powers to his. He did this without upgrading his weapon's either, which could have fairly been a shock to everyone that had witnessed his attack. He just went back to spacing out during the rest of the battle after he had dealt his blow(s). It should also be noted that Gamzee seems to have a very high tolerance for pain and remarkable reflexes (enough to flash step, even).
CANON PERSONALITY:
take a good, hard look and tell me: do you regret me, because i regret myself.
Gamzee is a peculiar and capricious thing by nature, where past his surface and presented personality we run across constant contradictions and swings in psych. So let’s start from the basics: back when we first meet him as a thirteen year old alien perpetually high on toxic chemicals, and maintaining such for most of his canon screentime. To be honest, thank those chemicals.
All trolls usually grow up with custodians called a Lusus; Gamzee's, a large sea-goat, was unfortunately absent throughout what should’ve Gamzee’s upbringing, leaving him uneducated and alone— and incredibly high after making a habit out of eating a highly sedative substance meant for trolls to sleep in.
When high, Gamzee was the well meaning stoner friend; very laid back, calm and good natured. This Gamzee is simple, awed and fascinated by the smallest things in an even childlike wonder and wanting to keep it that way. He lacks basic knowledge and doesn’t seem to miss it— all he wants are the tiny miracles in them. Gamzee wants to please those around him, lonely from his isolated upbringing, and while he might not be the best of advice givers, he certainly tries as hard as his fried brain can go.
TC: oK lIkE jUsT bE tAkIn tHiS fUcKiN tItS bOtTlE oF fUcKiN fAyGo I jUsT cRaCkEd Up OpEn.
TC: AnD hOw It'S bEiNg AlL lIkE hIsSiNg AnD sHiT.
TC: mOtHeRfUcKiN hIsSiNg MaN, wHo WeNt AlL aNd ToLd It To Do ThAt?
TC: HoW wOuLd It EvEn Do ThAt, It'S cRaZy.
TC: iT's A mIrAcLe.
CG: IT'S CARBONATION YOU IGNORANT DOUCHE.
CG: TRY GETTING SCHOOLFED SOME TIME INSTEAD OF SLURPING DOWN THAT WEIRD SWILL ALL DAY AND FONDLING YOUR STUPID HORNS.
TC: No No BrO, i DoN't WaNnA kNoW, dOn'T eVeN tElL mE.
TC: kNoWiNg ShIt JuSt StEaLs Up AlL tHe FuCkIn MaGiC fRoM mY mIrAcLeS lIkE a MoThErFuCkIn ThIeF.
TC: AnD tHaT aIn'T cOoL.
He's easily side tracked, prone to zoning out, attracted to colors and lacking a certain initiative to interact actively with his surroundings and others as any normal troll would; Gamzee is shown to pick up and capchalog random items into his fetch modus, Miracle, for the sole purpose of sitting back and watching the flashing colors it produces.
He's friendly, supportive, and by all means, loves his friends, even if you express hatred or frustration towards him. He’s just. Too high to notice and too lonesome to extract himself from company. He's there when one comes to him with problems, and he'll gladly give advice and act because he genuinely cares for his friends! Even if . . . his advice doesn't really do much to help with anything at all, as they're almost always, if not always, waiting for a miracle to happen, or just being as chill as him. Also, because of his constant high, he's fairly oblivious to many things that happen around him, and tends to take the direness of some situations with a grain of salt. He’d rather be trying to share pies with the enemies.
This all doesn’t make Gamzee a complete flower bouquet to sniff—despite his friendliness, Gamzee followed a rather morbid religious cult involving clown-like messiahs, enthusiastically worshiping their insanity based around violence, murder, and a paradise world brought about by death and the bleeding of all as equals. One might consider that Gamzee is, perhaps, too high most of the time to really act on these or take them for what they really mean. The high offers disconnection from reality and a slow-motion drag through emotions to the point that by the time he should be thinking about the honkalypse, he’s gotten distracted by a speck on the ground—but the thoughts are there and should be noted.
A high Gamzee is a rather harmless Gamzee; one that wants nothing more than kicking back, baking Soper Slime into pies, hanging with friends to become better bros, and enjoying the miracles of life. Even if he could seem like a simple, unfocused joke the majority of the time— Well, shoot. Who needs to worry about that when you have this? Honking, clowning around, and kicking up some rhymes with a brother is just the greatest way to live. Seeing his friends with a smile on their faces is all he wants, and he would be the happiest motherfucker if he is part of making that miracle happen.
We’ve only been talking about a Gamzee completely under the effects of troll drugs, though. Once effects start to wear off, Gamzee begins interacting more with his surroundings, taking initiative and even doing what he’s told. He becomes a little muddy-minded, a little clearer until Dave sends him the forbidden video that plummets him into a rageful faith crises. To make matters worse, the death of his best friend and long time crush is also killed, destabilizing Gamzee to the point that he isolates himself, something he’s never done that was quick to bring concern.
TC: and now.
TC: AND MOTHERFUCKING NOW.
TC: i am going to motherfuckin kill all you motherfuckers.
CG: OH GOD
CG: OH MAN
CG: OH GOD
TC: I AM GOING TO MOTHERFUCKING KILL ALL YOU MOTHERFUCKERS.
TC: and paint the wicked pictures with your motherfuckin blood.
TC: FROM YOUR VEINS WILL DRIP MY MIRACLES.
TC: your crushed bones will make my special stardust.
TC: WELCOME TO THE DARK CARNIVAL, BROTHER.
TC: honk.
TC: HONK.
TC: honk.
TC: HOOOOOOOOOOONK.
His voice frequently fluctuates from calm murmurs to yells— there’s really no better way to explain this. Guys, he completely loses it. He hears voices telling him to kill, he grows an obsession of collecting bodies and painting the walls with blood (something most likely from his descendants). His rage takes him to inexplicable heights, taking his anger out on the people that go after him in an attempt to stop his threats from turning into action.
It should be noted that even though Gamzee freaks out and says he’ll kill everyone— it took a while for him to act on his first kill. Afterwards, he doesn’t actively go after anyone else beyond those that indirectly have done him harm (killing Tavros). The cast system (where Gamzee falls right next to blood considered royalty) was ignored while high, taken into strict use during Gamzee’s breaking point, then ignored again, implying that it had only been briefly used to give him reason for his killings. His blood cast does play a part in his violent tendencies, though, which shouldn’t be forgotten.
Ultimately, Gamzee can be easily described as intelligent without anything influencing his head; he can plan ahead and plan on the spot, he can create fake crime scenes that criminalize others. He’s manipulative, a little aloof, cunning and observational, but he isn’t a phychotic killer really out for anyone— He might have many screws loose, but he isn’t as unhinged as he’s shown to be; consider it a shot at dramatic theatrics in an attempt to cope with himself and the true him. A turning point was when he contacts Karkat again, implying how he himself becomes disturbed with his own behavior and reaches out in a call for help, to change his mind and turn things around.
Karkat is able to calm him for a determined amount of time, leaving Gamzee in a place where we could see: he still values interaction with people he deems important. He’s grisly, but he won’t jump at your throat without a reason for it. While he can be manipulative, he has his weaknesses: his anger issues, for one. Gamzee is also an easy candidate to being manipulated, ironically enough (we all remember s u c k e r). With cards played wrongly, Gamzee is a menace, an annoying one that can get shit done if you aren’t careful, giving the trolls and kids a perfect enough reason to lock him up in a fridge until the final act.
The reason for this also brightens some aleatory facts already known and make even clearer to understand Gamzee’s roll in the entire story, even though we’re told that a lot of what he does just doesn’t make sense: he’s a bard, a passive class that either allows destruction of rage or invites it. Through early cameos, Gamzee, whether consciously or not, allowed the destruction of his nature through the consumption of sopor slime as well as wanting to constantly soothe the anger of those he came in contact with. When faced with his faith crises, in stark contrast, he blatantly destroyed via his rage— for a passive roll, at least. We see he doesn’t keep this activity up, and settles down before it could get worse.
Then we get a Gamzee that passively (yet actively, does that make sense?) destroys through his aspect; he loses many things that had once stabilized him and redirects his loyalty to Lord English and his birth— the true god to the cult Gamzee’s ancestors worshipped, all while being tools to bringing violence and chaos onto Alternia when it, many moons ago, didn’t exist. Gamzee comes in contact with Lil Cal, essentially a part of Lord English’s soul and learns of his own importance in the creation of, well, probably his own religion.
TC: I FINALLY GOT MY MOTHERFUCKING UNDERSTAND ON TO WHO THE MIRTHFUL MESSIAHS ARE.
TC: they were always both me. :o)
TC: AND ALSO MOTHERFUCKING ME. Do:
While Caliope and Caliborn are the true mirthful messiahs, Gamzee believes he’s the mirthful messiah that could bring Lord English back. He kills friends necessary for Lord English’s return (Equius) and goes on to murder or brutally maim those that Caliborn (LE) deems irrelevante during his retelling of Homestuck (or, in Terezi’s case, getting in the way of Caliborn’s OTP). Instead of going directly after Vriska, Gamzee manipulates his surroundings and drags Terezi into the mix to, unknowingly, do the killing for him (and later entering an abusive and unhealthy relationship to drag her down). In the end, he does everything he does strictly to serve Lord English after coming to terms with the truth.
The truth that! Homestuck is a webcomic written by Andrew Hussie, and he was meant to be some weird parody on juggalos. A joke. Well, joke’s on webcomic!Hussie, who’s killed by Caliborn, taking the story’s narrative reigns and causing everything we know what happens up until then, proving his absoluteness! Gamzee is given orders and scripts to follow as he follows Doc Scatch’s words and later, directly serving Caliborn into Lord English. In the end— all he has to do is act.
In the end, Homestuck is a world to many, but to Gamzee, it’s a stage he’s supposed to act on as comedy relief. Jokes on the joke.
SKILLS/ABILITIES:
Gamzee, and other characters of Homestuck are in possession of something called a sylladex. Basically, it's a storage system— a game inventory that allows players to store a number of items without having to juggle them in their hands, depending on the number of cards they have. The sylladex is a system that uses something called Capchalogue Cards. When blank, one can store an item of practically any shape or size on the card, and for the duration of time that it's capchalogued ( when it's not in use ), it carries no physical weight or size, which makes things much more convenient. There's also the different modes in which cards can be retrieved and organized, which is called a person's fetch modus. They can be easy to work, annoying, complicated . . . or, a mix of everything and more. Gamzee's fetch modus is named Miracle; true to its name, it can take a miracle for this thing to do what you want it to do, because it is by far the most complex and confusing modus out there. To match its user to boot, this modus has completely random functions and is unpredictable-— You'll never know when a chosen item is going to get launched halfway across the ocean or not.
Lastly, a sylladex has two different card decks: the capchalogue deck, which is used for the storage of items, and then the strife deck, which is used to hold weapons. Each deck ( which is held in a strife specibus ) has something called a kind abstratus; this is simply the type of weapon that the character has chosen to use, and the type of weapon they are limited to for that specific specibus ( for example: hammerkind- can only use hammer like weapons. bladekind- only swords, things with blades, and so on ). Gamzee is shown to have two different strife specibi: clubkind and jokerkind. Clubkind is his default, and specializes in clubs and bludgeoning weapons. In this specibi, he wields the deuce clubs— which are, in fact, clown juggling clubs. Then, we have the dangerous jokerkind. Just like its name suggests, this specibus is a winning wildcard. It's the only specibus shown to not be limited to one specific abstrata, and allows the user to store and use any weapon he wants. The deck is made up of twenty cards, and so far, is shown to have the deuce clubs, the clawsickle, the fiduspear, a whip, a bow and arrows ( before they were discarded ), and the legendary Warhammer of Zillyhoo
Gamzee also has the psychic ability to create and amplify the fears of others, something called "chucklevoodoo". As a decendeant of Grand High Blood and the Subjugglators, he can plant fear, that usually takes the form of a "chucklevoodoo doll", and from there can easily exaggerate the victim's fears to his liking, to the point of being able to manipulate their actions. An example: Gamzee purposly caused an elaborate domino effect with John. He was the cause of John's dislike and fear of clowns, planting a chucklevoodoo doll of a clown into his mind while he slept and manipulating it to the point that he subconciously fearing them, and drawing them on his walls while he slept. John's father, taking notice of this, interpreted the dislike as a liking, and filled his entire house with harlequins, thinking that he was sharing an interest with John, but it actuality, making it worse. With Dave, Gamzee did the same thing, causing his discomfort and fear of puppets. Equius was completely incapacitated by the simple fear of failing, because Gamzee took and amplified it to the point that he couldn't move, leading to his death by suffocation. With Terezi, while all evidence pointed to Gamzee setting up a trap, she starting believing it was all Vriska, due to her manipulated fear of it actually being Gamzee. He's only able to use this ability when sober, as the slime's qualities blocks this out.
Most of the time, Gamzee is sedated to an intoxicated state, and is pretty much harmless. Although, that doesn't mean he can't fight to survive-- in the game , he's capable of survival and defense when fighting the imps with his clubs, alone, as we see breifly in the flash Make Her Pay. While he can give off the impression of being harmless, in actuality, he's shown to be frighteningly strong, fast, and especially sharp when he's sober. This above average strength is mostly due to his role in SBURB as "The Bard of Rage." Each character, the player, is given mythological role, and along with that role, comes a special ability. In Gamzee's case, it isn't explained fully, like many of the other characters, but what we can assume is that it increases his attack power, as seen when the trolls fight a powerful final boss off screen, the Black King. Karkat goes on to say that basically, Gamzee pulverized the King to such a pulp that nobody could explain what just happened, neither could they compare their attack powers to his. He did this without upgrading his weapon's either, which could have fairly been a shock to everyone that had witnessed his attack. He just went back to spacing out during the rest of the battle after he had dealt his blow(s). It should also be noted that Gamzee seems to have a very high tolerance for pain and remarkable reflexes (enough to flash step, even).
CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: gamzee makara
AU AGE: twenty two
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES:
major differences right off the bat: gamzee isn’t an alien troll. no candy corn horns, grey skin, yellow eyes, indigo blood or sharpened fangs. i’ll be using this reference for recollé’s human gamzee— curly, jaw length dark hair, a lean figure, hazel eyes and a grueling amount of tattoos and piercings. consider him covered from the neck down to the torso, complete with both arms sleeved.
AU NAME: gamzee makara
AU AGE: twenty two
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES:
major differences right off the bat: gamzee isn’t an alien troll. no candy corn horns, grey skin, yellow eyes, indigo blood or sharpened fangs. i’ll be using this reference for recollé’s human gamzee— curly, jaw length dark hair, a lean figure, hazel eyes and a grueling amount of tattoos and piercings. consider him covered from the neck down to the torso, complete with both arms sleeved.
AU HISTORY:
✨comes from a mostly Argentinian/Hispanic family in a poorer part of recollé. grew up with a single mom, a ton of cousins, two aunts and a grandma. mom abandoned ship at some point when gamzee was a child, leaving him with granny and co. he has a father— somewhere! he’s never met him before though, and neither has dad (rumor has it dad doesn’t even know he’s daddy).
✨ he grew up . . . okay!! it could’ve been worse. what remained of his family looked after him and loved him, even if they didn’t have much to offer him. his older cousins weren’t the best of influences, either, but he still hung around them and the younger ones. gamzee started smoking as early as his freshman year in high school, and that easily led to recreational drug use.
✨ with his grades sucking (and only getting worse as his interest waned), gamzee only really got out of high school by cheat sheets and sheer luck. there was a single community college acceptance, but a couple days of hookie turned into a complete drop out soon enough. gamzee preferred to work with his things, visit abuelita, and do some favors— like babysitting dave strider (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
parodeity) once :’o) they might’ve kissed at a party a few years after, too, but gamzee doesn’t remember all too well. drunk and high af that day.
✨ gamzee took to the only talent he had since he was a kid, art, and went from street graffiti to becoming a tattoo artist! he even made tattoos for yusuke (fabrefactions) and keeps in artsy touch with him. he still occasionally paints the streets as well with street art as long as he doesn’t get in trouble for it. he also put together a reggae band called carnival kush (gaining a fan of his beats, yosuke (youraffection)), and habitually paints his face (and his compadres) to get into the mood and match their artistic theme. (he’s really good as a make up artist, my bros. it’s a gift). bands aside, he also has a fair good number of friends he met in the streets: may (me_matey) who got him into dub music and frequently cross paths, dwyer (notthatbutler) who became best motherfuckin friend, kiyoshi (yakan) who shares a love for weird instruments and frequent jam outs, orihime (lastcomfort) who teaches and makes the best and most questionable foods for him to taste test, and a masked diablo (blessmefather) that scared the shit out of him ages ago in an alley— but who he now pleasantly feeds information to about sinners on the streets. word.
✨ as a side thing and for himself, he also grows his own weed and deals. he isn’t to hard to get in contact with, either. he knows jamie doe (floret) as a quaint and long time customer, eichi (idoworship) who tries it out for good fun and hangouts as friends that occasionally sleep together afterward, as well as elliot craig (fiddlestick) through a former NPC roommate and occasional street performing. to elliot’s demise, gamzee affectionately calls him “churros” even though he barely knows him.
✨ and now, gamzee lives by peach beach, having no real dreams or aspirations and just wanting to live the now. he’s satisfied that his art, music and plants give him just enough to get by, and that’s good enough for him. somewhere down the line, gamzee also met fellow tattoo artist roberta (mirrorbound) while street painting and hit off pretty well due to fairly similar hobbies and talents. one thing led to another, and, needing a place to stay, gamzee offered a spot at his place for as long as she needed. To this day, that is where they stand: roommates with a no-strings-attached fwb status.
note that all characters mentioned have had these details discussed earlier and approved!
AU PERSONALITY:
✨ alternia vs earth!! gamzee was born and grew up human here, so culture, references, language and the like are all very, very different. things that trolls, and gamzee specifically wouldn’t pay mind to, he probably does here: like fashion, pop culture references and so on.
✨ gamzee is not part of a freaky religious clown cult and neither is he the counterpart of a juggalo— he’s just a guy who likes art (reggae!!!!), music, and getting high. his mouth might still be colorful with creative language and swears, but he no longer shares the juggalo culture or his obsession with clowns, and enjoys the carnival theme recreationally rather as a lifestyle. most of his family was also catholic, so gamzee was brought up under said circumstances and follows them, well, religiously and seriously.
✨ gamzee’s likes, hobbies and interests are a lighter twists of what he once was; the recollé counterpart to batman’s joker continues to be his favorite character of all time, he has a major fantasy crush on harley quinn and paints his face when he performs. it’s not . . . extreme enough to hoard clown horns, clubs or own a unicycle, of course. he adores impromptu lyric jams, the tranquil and sloppy swipes of reggae/dub or the exotic strums of a latin tune. tango, samba and pagode are some of his sub favorites next to reggae and dub, rap also being among the favored, but usually avoiding crazy beat twists like edm and rock. lastly: he loves art? he loves art. he could paint walls all day (which is a thing he does!!) but thank god it’s not with blood.
✨ while gamzee did not grow up with loving parents, he did grow up with a mostly loving family in contrast to growing up practically alone as a troll with an absent lusus. gamzee dislikes being alone and does have some underlying problems, but not to the point that he’s uneducated and self destructive ( in fact, he’s “self destructive” by choice, here). naturally, recollé’s gamzee while sober is generous, laidback and social at best, if not a ton easier to tick off; that’s what his grandma always taught him— to look after others the way you’d want to be looked after. that, and fuck shit up when you need to.
✨ gamzee is not prone to mental breakdowns and neither is he influenced enough by blood castes or evil time gods that he’s got major violent tendencies (collecting bodies, painting the walls with blood, murder, etc). he’s got some issues that can occasionally lead to anger, but none of it compares to homestuck gamzee’s . . . problems. recollé gamzee has considerably “normal” human problems (loneliness, abandonment, self esteem, anger that stems from that, and an escape to cover it all up: drug use).
✨comes from a mostly Argentinian/Hispanic family in a poorer part of recollé. grew up with a single mom, a ton of cousins, two aunts and a grandma. mom abandoned ship at some point when gamzee was a child, leaving him with granny and co. he has a father— somewhere! he’s never met him before though, and neither has dad (rumor has it dad doesn’t even know he’s daddy).
✨ he grew up . . . okay!! it could’ve been worse. what remained of his family looked after him and loved him, even if they didn’t have much to offer him. his older cousins weren’t the best of influences, either, but he still hung around them and the younger ones. gamzee started smoking as early as his freshman year in high school, and that easily led to recreational drug use.
✨ with his grades sucking (and only getting worse as his interest waned), gamzee only really got out of high school by cheat sheets and sheer luck. there was a single community college acceptance, but a couple days of hookie turned into a complete drop out soon enough. gamzee preferred to work with his things, visit abuelita, and do some favors— like babysitting dave strider (
parodeity) once :’o) they might’ve kissed at a party a few years after, too, but gamzee doesn’t remember all too well. drunk and high af that day.✨ gamzee took to the only talent he had since he was a kid, art, and went from street graffiti to becoming a tattoo artist! he even made tattoos for yusuke (
fabrefactions) and keeps in artsy touch with him. he still occasionally paints the streets as well with street art as long as he doesn’t get in trouble for it. he also put together a reggae band called carnival kush (gaining a fan of his beats, yosuke (youraffection)), and habitually paints his face (and his compadres) to get into the mood and match their artistic theme. (he’s really good as a make up artist, my bros. it’s a gift). bands aside, he also has a fair good number of friends he met in the streets: may (me_matey) who got him into dub music and frequently cross paths, dwyer (notthatbutler) who became best motherfuckin friend, kiyoshi (yakan) who shares a love for weird instruments and frequent jam outs, orihime (lastcomfort) who teaches and makes the best and most questionable foods for him to taste test, and a masked diablo (blessmefather) that scared the shit out of him ages ago in an alley— but who he now pleasantly feeds information to about sinners on the streets. word.✨ as a side thing and for himself, he also grows his own weed and deals. he isn’t to hard to get in contact with, either. he knows jamie doe (
floret) as a quaint and long time customer, eichi (idoworship) who tries it out for good fun and hangouts as friends that occasionally sleep together afterward, as well as elliot craig (fiddlestick) through a former NPC roommate and occasional street performing. to elliot’s demise, gamzee affectionately calls him “churros” even though he barely knows him. ✨ and now, gamzee lives by peach beach, having no real dreams or aspirations and just wanting to live the now. he’s satisfied that his art, music and plants give him just enough to get by, and that’s good enough for him. somewhere down the line, gamzee also met fellow tattoo artist roberta (
mirrorbound) while street painting and hit off pretty well due to fairly similar hobbies and talents. one thing led to another, and, needing a place to stay, gamzee offered a spot at his place for as long as she needed. To this day, that is where they stand: roommates with a no-strings-attached fwb status. note that all characters mentioned have had these details discussed earlier and approved!
AU PERSONALITY:
✨ alternia vs earth!! gamzee was born and grew up human here, so culture, references, language and the like are all very, very different. things that trolls, and gamzee specifically wouldn’t pay mind to, he probably does here: like fashion, pop culture references and so on.
✨ gamzee is not part of a freaky religious clown cult and neither is he the counterpart of a juggalo— he’s just a guy who likes art (reggae!!!!), music, and getting high. his mouth might still be colorful with creative language and swears, but he no longer shares the juggalo culture or his obsession with clowns, and enjoys the carnival theme recreationally rather as a lifestyle. most of his family was also catholic, so gamzee was brought up under said circumstances and follows them, well, religiously and seriously.
✨ gamzee’s likes, hobbies and interests are a lighter twists of what he once was; the recollé counterpart to batman’s joker continues to be his favorite character of all time, he has a major fantasy crush on harley quinn and paints his face when he performs. it’s not . . . extreme enough to hoard clown horns, clubs or own a unicycle, of course. he adores impromptu lyric jams, the tranquil and sloppy swipes of reggae/dub or the exotic strums of a latin tune. tango, samba and pagode are some of his sub favorites next to reggae and dub, rap also being among the favored, but usually avoiding crazy beat twists like edm and rock. lastly: he loves art? he loves art. he could paint walls all day (which is a thing he does!!) but thank god it’s not with blood.
✨ while gamzee did not grow up with loving parents, he did grow up with a mostly loving family in contrast to growing up practically alone as a troll with an absent lusus. gamzee dislikes being alone and does have some underlying problems, but not to the point that he’s uneducated and self destructive ( in fact, he’s “self destructive” by choice, here). naturally, recollé’s gamzee while sober is generous, laidback and social at best, if not a ton easier to tick off; that’s what his grandma always taught him— to look after others the way you’d want to be looked after. that, and fuck shit up when you need to.
✨ gamzee is not prone to mental breakdowns and neither is he influenced enough by blood castes or evil time gods that he’s got major violent tendencies (collecting bodies, painting the walls with blood, murder, etc). he’s got some issues that can occasionally lead to anger, but none of it compares to homestuck gamzee’s . . . problems. recollé gamzee has considerably “normal” human problems (loneliness, abandonment, self esteem, anger that stems from that, and an escape to cover it all up: drug use).