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Age: 25
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Game Cast: Mako | Legend of Korra, Ellie | The Last of Us
Character Information:
Name: John Egbert
Canon: Homestuck
Canon Point: End of Act 6, Act 5.
Age: 16
Reference: John Egbert at the Wiki
Setting:
SBURB
In the world of Homestuck, the kids seem like your average set of young kids. They use a program called "pesterchum" to pester their friends via the internet. They maintain blogs, or knitting. They watch Nick Cage movies. They excitedly wait for a game known as 'SBURB' that's supposed to be all the rage. However, it's SBURB that throws their entire world into something straight out of a movie. SBURB, for all intents and purposes is a very real MMO that obeys very basic gaming conventions: you have boon dollars and boon bucks for in game currency, and various forms of "grist" which is used to sythesize items... which you use a punchcard and reCAPTCHA based system to create.
Your main enemies are imps, and there is a war between what looks like the white and black sides of a chess game. Your goal is to save Skaia, the planet where the battle is happening, and the white chess pieces from their inevitable defeat.
Sound complicated yet?
Because I haven't even gotten through the loose grasp on time, death, and the very fabric of reality yet. But let's start simple, with mechanics unique to SBURB.
SBURB requires a client player and a server player, the server player has the ability to interact with the client player's environment, which is necessary for getting into the game world. And when I say "environment", I literally mean their home becomes sort of like a Sims household. The client player can build, deploy game items with needlessly complicated names, and move existing items around. The goal is to get into the game before the clock winds down, and the client player is hit with a meteor, which is game over. Besides that, client players have a kernel sprite that they need to merge with something-- John chooses to merge his kernal sprite with a clown doll, and once more after arriving in the game with his grandmother's ashes.
Well, okay, he didn't choose that, it kind of happened.
What's prototyped before entering the game informs the forms of enemies-- so John's imps look like clowns.
Theoretically, each player forms a daisychain of server and client players. And each player has their sprite guide, leading them to the final battle with their denizens before they get their ultimate power.
Unless they die on their quest bed and ascend into God Tier.
Which requires some backing up to explain-- every player has a real self and a dream self. A god tier is basically when the dream self takes over for the real self, after the real self's death. The dream selves live on one of Skaia's two moons: Derse, or Prospit. Derse being the home to the black army, and Prospit being home to the white army.
I hope I've kept you up to this point.
Time & Reality
In Homestuck, in addition to SBURB's weird mechanics, time is very fluid and circular. If something is meant to happen, it will, or otherwise the timeline will die. Time's circularity means that John can create his ancestors by copying them from time slime, and then create himself and his friends based on the clones he made of his ancestors. And it's completely reasonable that he'd send them back in time to take their place in the alpha timeline. Or the trolls, another species playing "SGRUB" can troll the kids at random points of time, or even backwards.
Death is another weird thing in SBURB. So, each player potentially has two lives. And then they have a life as a ghost self oh the edge of reality and space. And yes, their ghost lives can be killed! And they can find treasure and affect the story, which is rather convoluted and strange. They can also be visited via dream bubbles-- literally falling asleep and waking up wherever the ghosts are as you’re asleep.
You know who else can affect the story? The Author, via his fourth wall, and other interfering shenanigans. No joke.
LORD ENGLISH
And behind this, behind every event is a Demon master of time. He's such a master, that he set a trap for his own return... and he's already back. Except for how he's a stupid, sexist kid in the alpha... beta... you get the point, in the timeline that the kids are in. The goal of the group is to stop his return, so that they can restore their planets which were destroyed by meteor showers... and also repopulate their respective species. That is the end goal of SBURB, not a congrats screen. But the very real lives and continuance of the species and the planets.
That is the world of Homestuck, one man's creation that's out to rival 50 years of canon, with multiple writers, in Dr. Who.
Personality: John’s an average kid. He’s cheerful, generally optimistic, and pretty much an open book, especially when compared to his friends. His favorite things in life are stuff that most people would shrug off, but John finds his shitty movies, his stupid pogo-ride, and his fantasy fulfillment fun. It gives him a lot of joy to take simple things and enjoy them, even when it gets him the derision and scorn of his friends.
His main motivation for wanting to play sburb is to use it as a chance to play with his friends—he doesn’t really care that it’s highly rated on GameBro magazine, just that all four of them can play at the same time and have a grand adventure. Though, in the end that grand adventure grows to probably a lot more than John was actually imagining… But he rolls with it.
Things don’t tend to get John down for a long while, though he does show some nervousness at things he doesn’t understand—nervousness to outright temper tantrums, though those are more reserved for when he feels he doesn’t actually have enough to do (such as riding on a ship for 3 years straight). And he is capable of being pretty sad, but it’s honestly hard to keep this kid down.
Given that he’s a pretty optimistic and average kid with average intelligence and a pretty open mind, he tends to approach most things with a “what the hell, why not?” attitude. It leads to randomly creating clones of yourself, and challenging a monster that is 10 times more powerful than you are because a troll said to, or even dying because a troll said to (did I mention that he’s pretty trusting? Because he’s really trusting).
John calls it like he sees it. And if he doesn’t know what to call it, he’ll probably make something up on the spot.
Due to the wacky nature of his world, and the nature of life and death in Homestuck itself, John is likely to take an “oh, okay, cool” approach to being in a realm between life and death. Mostly, because he has done it before! From the dream bubbles, to the land between living and death. So, it would be no big deal to him.
Appearance: Be the hero
Abilities: John is the heir of breath! A play on the… saying? Breath of Air. He has windy powers! Among his abilities are: Flying, blowing things out, creating gusts of wind, turning himself into the wind and other unknown things that John has yet to figure out.
He fights with the hammerkind strife specibus, so basically he can equip hammers as weapons, and he has the hammer of Zillyhoo right now.
He also has a Sylladex, which sounds like a Pokedex, except it’s more frustrating and confusing to use, and only stores random crap that John feels like grabbing and placing on a captcha card. The sylladex is limited to how many blank captcha cards John has, and by the ways John has of retrieving things from his sylladex. He can’t just go in and grab whatever he wants-- he’s limited by the first and last cards in a row.
The sylladex is unique in that it can be weaponized. All he has to do is fill it up, and then put one more item in. The sylladex will then eject, with some amount of force, whatever he had left in there.
Gaming conventions, ah.
Inventory:
John has a lot of random crap in his sylladex-- mostly cans of shaving cream, and shoes. Otherwise, he just has his hammer and the clothes on his back. Oh, he also has a portable computer that he mostly uses for pesterchum… as useless as it might be now.
Suite: I’d like for John to not be roomed with Mako (WO-1D) or Ellie (WO-3B).
In-Character Samples:
Third Person: John had passed on the carriage ride-- though he did think it was pretty nice of the Emperor to offer (even if all she’d done was explain to him something he already knew was possible). But he just didn’t really feel like riding a horse thing. Not yet, anyway, he’d ask later for a ride, if he could. But otherwise, he set about flying.
Flying straight into the barrier, which was probably not his smartest move. But then he did it again, just to test whether or not it was a fluke. And a third time, just in case the first two might have been flukes too. And it was then that he knew: this bubble wasn’t like the other dream bubbles. This bubble was lonely and wouldn’t let anyone that got sucked into it leave.
That sucked. He was on a turtle’s back, without his friends, and without even the company of Nick Cage in any of his movie glory. But especially without him as Cameron Poe. And he didn’t even have his crazy ass friends anymore to keep him company.
Jade hadn’t even tried to attack him in like 30 minutes.
He sighed. This was lonely. This was what it felt like being the last man standing, even if he was far from the last man on the turtle. But it was the simple thought of being alone, with none of the people he’d known most of his life at this point.
Oh.
He drifted back to the ground, and pondered what to do. As he wandered the city, it only took seeing someone on a console maybe three times until the idea came to him, like an angel in the city of angels.
Internet cafes.
Network:
hello! my name is john egbert and i have a very serious question.
so i heard about the whole life and death thing and while that kind of sucks, i was wondering what do people do for fun around here? see i was in the middle of an important game, there was definitely some life or death struggle going on there.
but now i’m here and i’m lacking the best dvd set ever!!!! even the internet is kind of lame, seeing as it is not in the least bit portable or mobile.
so does anyone have any good movies made after 2009 or 2010? i feel a little deprived since the end of the world and i would like to broaden my horizons.
please and thank you :D
also if you are one of my friends, well fancy seeing you here, seeing as this dream bubble is kind of possessive if you know what i mean.
Name: Raina
Age: 25
Contact:
Game Cast: Mako | Legend of Korra, Ellie | The Last of Us
Character Information:
Name: John Egbert
Canon: Homestuck
Canon Point: End of Act 6, Act 5.
Age: 16
Reference: John Egbert at the Wiki
Setting:
SBURB
In the world of Homestuck, the kids seem like your average set of young kids. They use a program called "pesterchum" to pester their friends via the internet. They maintain blogs, or knitting. They watch Nick Cage movies. They excitedly wait for a game known as 'SBURB' that's supposed to be all the rage. However, it's SBURB that throws their entire world into something straight out of a movie. SBURB, for all intents and purposes is a very real MMO that obeys very basic gaming conventions: you have boon dollars and boon bucks for in game currency, and various forms of "grist" which is used to sythesize items... which you use a punchcard and reCAPTCHA based system to create.
Your main enemies are imps, and there is a war between what looks like the white and black sides of a chess game. Your goal is to save Skaia, the planet where the battle is happening, and the white chess pieces from their inevitable defeat.
Sound complicated yet?
Because I haven't even gotten through the loose grasp on time, death, and the very fabric of reality yet. But let's start simple, with mechanics unique to SBURB.
SBURB requires a client player and a server player, the server player has the ability to interact with the client player's environment, which is necessary for getting into the game world. And when I say "environment", I literally mean their home becomes sort of like a Sims household. The client player can build, deploy game items with needlessly complicated names, and move existing items around. The goal is to get into the game before the clock winds down, and the client player is hit with a meteor, which is game over. Besides that, client players have a kernel sprite that they need to merge with something-- John chooses to merge his kernal sprite with a clown doll, and once more after arriving in the game with his grandmother's ashes.
Well, okay, he didn't choose that, it kind of happened.
What's prototyped before entering the game informs the forms of enemies-- so John's imps look like clowns.
Theoretically, each player forms a daisychain of server and client players. And each player has their sprite guide, leading them to the final battle with their denizens before they get their ultimate power.
Unless they die on their quest bed and ascend into God Tier.
Which requires some backing up to explain-- every player has a real self and a dream self. A god tier is basically when the dream self takes over for the real self, after the real self's death. The dream selves live on one of Skaia's two moons: Derse, or Prospit. Derse being the home to the black army, and Prospit being home to the white army.
I hope I've kept you up to this point.
Time & Reality
In Homestuck, in addition to SBURB's weird mechanics, time is very fluid and circular. If something is meant to happen, it will, or otherwise the timeline will die. Time's circularity means that John can create his ancestors by copying them from time slime, and then create himself and his friends based on the clones he made of his ancestors. And it's completely reasonable that he'd send them back in time to take their place in the alpha timeline. Or the trolls, another species playing "SGRUB" can troll the kids at random points of time, or even backwards.
Death is another weird thing in SBURB. So, each player potentially has two lives. And then they have a life as a ghost self oh the edge of reality and space. And yes, their ghost lives can be killed! And they can find treasure and affect the story, which is rather convoluted and strange. They can also be visited via dream bubbles-- literally falling asleep and waking up wherever the ghosts are as you’re asleep.
You know who else can affect the story? The Author, via his fourth wall, and other interfering shenanigans. No joke.
LORD ENGLISH
And behind this, behind every event is a Demon master of time. He's such a master, that he set a trap for his own return... and he's already back. Except for how he's a stupid, sexist kid in the alpha... beta... you get the point, in the timeline that the kids are in. The goal of the group is to stop his return, so that they can restore their planets which were destroyed by meteor showers... and also repopulate their respective species. That is the end goal of SBURB, not a congrats screen. But the very real lives and continuance of the species and the planets.
That is the world of Homestuck, one man's creation that's out to rival 50 years of canon, with multiple writers, in Dr. Who.
Personality: John’s an average kid. He’s cheerful, generally optimistic, and pretty much an open book, especially when compared to his friends. His favorite things in life are stuff that most people would shrug off, but John finds his shitty movies, his stupid pogo-ride, and his fantasy fulfillment fun. It gives him a lot of joy to take simple things and enjoy them, even when it gets him the derision and scorn of his friends.
His main motivation for wanting to play sburb is to use it as a chance to play with his friends—he doesn’t really care that it’s highly rated on GameBro magazine, just that all four of them can play at the same time and have a grand adventure. Though, in the end that grand adventure grows to probably a lot more than John was actually imagining… But he rolls with it.
Things don’t tend to get John down for a long while, though he does show some nervousness at things he doesn’t understand—nervousness to outright temper tantrums, though those are more reserved for when he feels he doesn’t actually have enough to do (such as riding on a ship for 3 years straight). And he is capable of being pretty sad, but it’s honestly hard to keep this kid down.
Given that he’s a pretty optimistic and average kid with average intelligence and a pretty open mind, he tends to approach most things with a “what the hell, why not?” attitude. It leads to randomly creating clones of yourself, and challenging a monster that is 10 times more powerful than you are because a troll said to, or even dying because a troll said to (did I mention that he’s pretty trusting? Because he’s really trusting).
John calls it like he sees it. And if he doesn’t know what to call it, he’ll probably make something up on the spot.
Due to the wacky nature of his world, and the nature of life and death in Homestuck itself, John is likely to take an “oh, okay, cool” approach to being in a realm between life and death. Mostly, because he has done it before! From the dream bubbles, to the land between living and death. So, it would be no big deal to him.
Appearance: Be the hero
Abilities: John is the heir of breath! A play on the… saying? Breath of Air. He has windy powers! Among his abilities are: Flying, blowing things out, creating gusts of wind, turning himself into the wind and other unknown things that John has yet to figure out.
He fights with the hammerkind strife specibus, so basically he can equip hammers as weapons, and he has the hammer of Zillyhoo right now.
He also has a Sylladex, which sounds like a Pokedex, except it’s more frustrating and confusing to use, and only stores random crap that John feels like grabbing and placing on a captcha card. The sylladex is limited to how many blank captcha cards John has, and by the ways John has of retrieving things from his sylladex. He can’t just go in and grab whatever he wants-- he’s limited by the first and last cards in a row.
The sylladex is unique in that it can be weaponized. All he has to do is fill it up, and then put one more item in. The sylladex will then eject, with some amount of force, whatever he had left in there.
Gaming conventions, ah.
Inventory:
John has a lot of random crap in his sylladex-- mostly cans of shaving cream, and shoes. Otherwise, he just has his hammer and the clothes on his back. Oh, he also has a portable computer that he mostly uses for pesterchum… as useless as it might be now.
Suite: I’d like for John to not be roomed with Mako (WO-1D) or Ellie (WO-3B).
In-Character Samples:
Third Person: John had passed on the carriage ride-- though he did think it was pretty nice of the Emperor to offer (even if all she’d done was explain to him something he already knew was possible). But he just didn’t really feel like riding a horse thing. Not yet, anyway, he’d ask later for a ride, if he could. But otherwise, he set about flying.
Flying straight into the barrier, which was probably not his smartest move. But then he did it again, just to test whether or not it was a fluke. And a third time, just in case the first two might have been flukes too. And it was then that he knew: this bubble wasn’t like the other dream bubbles. This bubble was lonely and wouldn’t let anyone that got sucked into it leave.
That sucked. He was on a turtle’s back, without his friends, and without even the company of Nick Cage in any of his movie glory. But especially without him as Cameron Poe. And he didn’t even have his crazy ass friends anymore to keep him company.
Jade hadn’t even tried to attack him in like 30 minutes.
He sighed. This was lonely. This was what it felt like being the last man standing, even if he was far from the last man on the turtle. But it was the simple thought of being alone, with none of the people he’d known most of his life at this point.
Oh.
He drifted back to the ground, and pondered what to do. As he wandered the city, it only took seeing someone on a console maybe three times until the idea came to him, like an angel in the city of angels.
Internet cafes.
Network:
hello! my name is john egbert and i have a very serious question.
so i heard about the whole life and death thing and while that kind of sucks, i was wondering what do people do for fun around here? see i was in the middle of an important game, there was definitely some life or death struggle going on there.
but now i’m here and i’m lacking the best dvd set ever!!!! even the internet is kind of lame, seeing as it is not in the least bit portable or mobile.
so does anyone have any good movies made after 2009 or 2010? i feel a little deprived since the end of the world and i would like to broaden my horizons.
please and thank you :D
also if you are one of my friends, well fancy seeing you here, seeing as this dream bubble is kind of possessive if you know what i mean.
