Personality: Caliborn is many things: rude, crash, abrasive and violent. He doesn't try to be anything he isn't, the thought is absurd to him and is one of the many reasons why he hates his 'sister', Calliope. Where she would hide who she is, fake sentiments that are unheard of with their kind, he is the opposite and from the beginning you have no doubt just what kind of personality he has. He is a twisted young individual and endlessly motivated, he doesn't just make threats, he ultimately goes through with them. Caliborn also loves games, Calliope has said that her brother's love for games is far beyond the human's understanding of the word and it's true, he often starts jeering Dirk asking if he'd like to play a game (which is a callback to SAW, of course.)
Not only is he motivated, he is also clever, which we observe when he beats his sister at her game of choice: chess, by tricking her and switching the pieces and hiding them in a way that was technically not against the rules. That is another thing to point out, Caliborn is very strict when it comes to games and their rules. Despite his love of games, he is apathetic to sburb, only agreeing to play it as a means to escape, which also branches into a personal game with his sister. Sharing the same body with her, he needs to obtain her juju to ultimately win and take over their body as one, and thus escaping the dead planet they live on.
It also seems that Caliborn is impervious to pain, or it doesn't effect him like it would others. During his ultimate 'winning' over their personal game, he ends up chewing off his one leg that was tethered by Calliope's chain (losing a tooth in the process) but he takes it with a grin and proceeds to embed a robotic leg (that Dirk had helped him build) into the still bleeding stump. And once this is accomplished he proceeds to play the game and accomplish a lot with grim determination. What he really accomplishes though isn't the grand escape and fucking everyone's shit up like he wanted, no. He ends up on another dead-like planet, left in silence and with a lot of walking, leaving him to his own devices and thoughts. And when left to his own thoughts he ends up thinking very meta things and doubting whether his thoughts are his own or narrated by someone else, which only proves to confuse him further and grow frustrated.
Another aspect of his personality is something he (unfortunately) shares with his sister: he is also interested in relationships, but he finds it disgusting and pornographic at the same time. And unlike Calliope he tends to like the more tender and emotional side of relationships, like handholding and marriage, he often grows very flustered when presented with these images (that he 'forces' Dirk to draw for him often.) Speaking of Dirk, and Caliborn's hatred for anyone that isn't himself, he tends to show a 'liking' for the Strider, claiming he is the only bearable one of the other kids. Granted, we have never seen him interact with any of the others (in fact, when Roxy starts pestering him, trying to get Calliope to wake up, he just... walks away.)
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Not only is he motivated, he is also clever, which we observe when he beats his sister at her game of choice: chess, by tricking her and switching the pieces and hiding them in a way that was technically not against the rules. That is another thing to point out, Caliborn is very strict when it comes to games and their rules. Despite his love of games, he is apathetic to sburb, only agreeing to play it as a means to escape, which also branches into a personal game with his sister. Sharing the same body with her, he needs to obtain her juju to ultimately win and take over their body as one, and thus escaping the dead planet they live on.
It also seems that Caliborn is impervious to pain, or it doesn't effect him like it would others. During his ultimate 'winning' over their personal game, he ends up chewing off his one leg that was tethered by Calliope's chain (losing a tooth in the process) but he takes it with a grin and proceeds to embed a robotic leg (that Dirk had helped him build) into the still bleeding stump. And once this is accomplished he proceeds to play the game and accomplish a lot with grim determination. What he really accomplishes though isn't the grand escape and fucking everyone's shit up like he wanted, no. He ends up on another dead-like planet, left in silence and with a lot of walking, leaving him to his own devices and thoughts. And when left to his own thoughts he ends up thinking very meta things and doubting whether his thoughts are his own or narrated by someone else, which only proves to confuse him further and grow frustrated.
Another aspect of his personality is something he (unfortunately) shares with his sister: he is also interested in relationships, but he finds it disgusting and pornographic at the same time. And unlike Calliope he tends to like the more tender and emotional side of relationships, like handholding and marriage, he often grows very flustered when presented with these images (that he 'forces' Dirk to draw for him often.) Speaking of Dirk, and Caliborn's hatred for anyone that isn't himself, he tends to show a 'liking' for the Strider, claiming he is the only bearable one of the other kids. Granted, we have never seen him interact with any of the others (in fact, when Roxy starts pestering him, trying to get Calliope to wake up, he just... walks away.)