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Equius Zahhak ♐ Homestuck ♐ Unreserved
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Contact Info: themechanagnome@yahoo.com themechanagnome @AIM mechanagnome @Plurk
Other Characters Played: N/A
Preferred Housing: I have permission to request to be put in the Suffersons household.
Character Name: Equius Zahhak
Character Series: MS Paint Adventures/Homestuck
Character Age: 13
Background: Wiki Page
Equius Zahhak ♐ Homestuck ♐ Unreserved
Equius is a very Serious, Mature, Refined Gentleman, if only in his own mind. His rich blue colored blood means that he is a member of Alternia's upper class, and it is not something he takes lightly. He is a firm believer in the principals of the Hemospectrum, and looks down upon those lower on the scale than he is while regarding those above him a sort of reverence that boarders on fetishistic. However, he also seems to have a fetish for "rustbloods," those trolls at the very bottom of the hemospectrum. He finds fraternizing with them to be scandalous and depraved, two words whose very meanings make him sweat more than an ice cold glass of milk on a hot day. Then again, it's very easy to fluster him and get him sweating because he takes everything so seriously. He has a hard time distinguishing jokes, teasing, or sarcasm from sincerity, and takes everything at face value. He frowns upon the use of facetious insincerity, however he's not above blatant lies, as highbloods are expected to be duplicitous and backstabbing at all times. He also believes in maintaining a high level of dignity, and doesn't like to tolerate lewd language and unbecoming behavior, though he's learned to deal with it - most people he admonishes only swear more when he tries.
Because of his high standing, he is also highly educated, with a fairly impressive vocabulary and a keen interest engineering and programming. Although he isn't a hacker software wizard like Sollux, he does builds robots in his spare time, which would require some knowledge of programming in order to make them move and present a challenge to him during his daily cage matches. He has also made and installed prosthetic limbs for two of his fellow SGRUB players, implying that he has a basic, if not in depth, understanding of anatomy. His hobbies also include collecting traditional (yet disturbing) musclebeast artwork, the noble art of archery (though he's never successfully fired a single arrow), and Alternian Slam Poetry (which is very private for good reasons).
As much as he would like to maintain an air of stoic refinement, he's easily upset and prone to leaping before he looks. He's easily discouraged by failure, criticism, not getting his way, and sometimes even his own strength causing him to fly off into rages. When frustrated, the only things that calm him down are random acts of violence or his moirail, Nepeta. She is the most important person in his life, and he watches over her with fierce devotion, protecting her from the many dangers of the Alternia, whether it's physical harm or simply poor manners. And despite the way he belittles her for roleplaying, he has an active imagination himself, often playing with his robots as if they were other people, talking to them and playing out little fantasies. He also likes roleplaying himself, after a fashion. Specifically, the kind where he is put into a position of subjugation by a superior. But that's a far cry from the childish games Nepeta indulges in, let him tell you, and it's not really roleplay.
Because his instabilities bother him, he prefers to be left alone with his machines. There, the worst that can upset him is when he accidentally breaks a part, or if he runs out of fresh towels. It also reduces the risk of him accidentally hurting someone else with his freakish strength – Oddly enough, despite the fact that he could easily get away with it because of his blood status, he never, ever raises a hand to anyone. He always takes his anger out on inanimate objects, such as his robots, or his bows. Though no one torments him out of fear, there are a few trolls who consistently yell at him, and the most he'll do is yell back. Or sweat. Mostly, he sweats. He's greatly embarrassed by this, especially since it leads people to think that he's “getting off,” but there's very little he can do about it, except shower or wipe himself down with towels. Still, it's gross, and he's self-conscious about it.
He's incredibly awkward in social situations, preferring to keep to himself and observe others interacting. It's kind of creepy. When he is engaged in conversation, he's highly condescending to those below him, or the biggest brown-noser in existence to those above him. He takes a lot of hate in stride, holding his head high and proud even though he knows the others laugh at him behind his back. He believes very strongly in STRENGTH, not just of the body, but of mind and conviction as well. It does bother him that he is hated and looked down upon, and he's well aware of the faults of the hemospectrum (noting that (dead)Aradia is graceful and well behaved, while Gamzee is a useless degenerate), but he doesn't allow himself the flexibility to change, feeling that it is better to stand by what you believe, and endure all criticism stoically than to bend to the will of others (unless they are of higherblood, but as that is one of his strongly held principles, it sort of doesn't count).
Equius Zahhak ♐ Homestuck ♐ Unreserved
He's also quite a skilled engineer, as he builds robots, programs them to kill, then BEATS THE DICKENS OUT OF THEM IN CAGED MATCHES. But for as much as he likes beating up robots, he also likes smooching them, and built an entire robotic body for a dead girl, and programmed it to love him. In the sweep before that, he built a robotic arm for Vriska. His last project, however, was a hooven quadrupedal lower torso for Tavros, but no one would let him install it, so he ended making him a normal pair of legs. As Tavros was paralyzed from the waist down, he probably has a fairly good grasp on biology and anatomy as well.
And like all other Homestuck characters, he has access to an inventory system called a Sylladex, which can captchalogue items of an indeterminate size and weight in cards. These cards are slotted into either the sylladex, or if they contain a weapon, into the strife portfolio (Equius has Fistkind, Bowkind and 1/2Bowkind equipped, meaning he should be able to use any weapon of this form in combat)
Sample Entry:
[He hated getting up in the morning. He hated it with a passion usually reserved for a kismesis, with a fury once directed at hundreds of hapless robots, to the point were one could almost say he loathed it. ]
[It wasn't always that way. There had been a time before when he welcome each brand new, productive day with enthusiasm and glee. In fact, it had been notoriously hard to get him to go to sleep in the first place, although that trait had, in fact, been carried over. And it wasn't that he no longer anticipated each morning for the new levels of productiveness he was sure to achieve, oh no]
[He hated the stupid rigmarole his "father" insisted on putting him through each and every day. Were it traps, challenges, or puzzles designed to test his skills and physical prowess that greeted him every morning, he would have been thrilled, delighted even! But no. No, it had to be something far more innocuous]
[His "father" wanted... a hug.]
[This morning, he made it out of his bedroom, half way down the hallway before he sensed it. A presence right behind him that he'd quickly learned to identify over the first few weeks of his arrival.]
[It was him, getting ready to pounce and enfold Equius in his skinny, loving arms]
Father, if you lay a hand on me, I will throw you over my shoulder, into the vase, and I will feel no remorse if something breaks. Unless it is the vase. Then I will be quite inconsolable, and perhaps even approach Mother in tears to demonstrate the depth of my sorrow.
Accepted!
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Equius is not.