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[Fandom OC] Marquise Spinneret Mindfang | Homestuck | Reserve | 1/2
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CHARACTER
Character Name: Marquise Spinneret Mindfang
Canon: Homestuck
Timeline: After her death at the hands of The Summoner [She'll look like a 40yr old human]
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: N/A
Personality: Mindfang believes she is the best.
Like no one ever was.No, but in all serious, she believes she is the best, and she shows that opinion. She's cocky, arrogant, and mocks and belittles everyone. At times she believes she has a right to things and the fact that she is aware of her ability to manipulate the wills of others doesn't help with her belief. Even when she falls she gets back up and continues to be cocky, though she does recognise that she has underestimated her oponent. There's no changing her. You can cut off her arm and she'll just get back up proclaiming that now it can be a fair fight.
At the same time, Mindfang has another side to herself, in which she shows that she can care. She does care. Despite mocking Dualscar for his own quirks and flaws, she did care as she feels she was broken hearted when he broke of their relationship. She also cares when her slave (Assumed to be The Dolorosa) is assassinated, despite the fact the woman was of lower blood than Mindfang, as well as a slave. She felt that their relationship could have moved into a red romance, and seemed to have a genuine interest in the woman despite controlling her will a large amount of the time.
Mindfang also relishes competition, to the point that one of the biggest flaws she found in Dualscar is that she felt he did not challenge her enough. This competitive streak, or need to have a rivalry doesn't mean that she is content with losing though, she simply wants the excitement it offers. And when the chance of competition escapes her, she is disappointed, even if in return she has won. Despite it being necessary for her survival, she regrets causing Redglare's death, believing that the other woman could have offered her a challenge that she had been missing.
And she can be sensible, and at times, she accepts her fate. She accepts the cards that the game of life gives her, and then she plays them to the best of her abilities, occassionally with a little bit of 'cheating'. At the same time, she's careful, careful enough to pay her own bounties off after she commits her crimes, which can only encourage those higher than her to overlook her. And when told her matesprite will be the one to kill her she accepts it.
Another thing that makes Mindfang different is her lack of interest in the blood caste system. She's not about to go charging out and spreading The Sufferer's words, but Dualscar says she tends to encourage red romance between herself and lowbloods, something which disgusts him. She also becomes aware that her destined Matesprite will be a lowblood and she accepts this, deciding she will pursee that relationship anyway, where as she could have avoided it completely if she had wished to.
As the ancestor of Vriska Sekret, it is impossible not to notice the similarities between Mindfang and Vriska. They are genetically matched after all. However, whether this just means that many of their traits are shared by those of the same shade of blue blood, or that Vriska modelled her behaviour on Mindfang or that it’s just a coincidence is unknown. But while Mindfang and Vriska have similar personalities they differ, both due to a difference in life situations and the fact that Mindfang is much older than Vriska. As a whole Mindfang is more mature than Vriska, not as childish or pushy.
History: We are only ever given a brief history of Mindfang's life, only covering a small period of it. The higher the blood colour the longer the lifespan, and as a blueblood Mindfang would natural have a long life. It is unknown how young she was when the Signless had his rebellion, and how old she was when the Summoner killed her.
Created in an ecto lab by Karkat Vantas many years in the future, she was originally sent back to a universe we'll call Troll Universe 1 or TU1 for simplicity. There her name was Aranea Serket, and much the same she was a blueblood with strong psychic abilities with the sign of Scorpio. She was however a bit sweeter, something that came naturally in a much more peaceful Alternia.
Then everything changed when
the Fire Nation attackedAranea and 11 of her friends played a game called Sgrub. Something went wrong in the game, and with Alternia destroyed with the start of the game there was few options left to them. Unable to find the strength to kill each other or themselves they took the only option left to them. Scratch the game, and begin a new universe, where their race would later play the game, after being in an environment that would help them win it.And it was into that universe that Mindfang arrived. Crashing onto Alternia she never made her way through the cavern trials, but she still somehow found her way to a lusus. The rest of her wigglerhood was pretty uneventful, passing much like any other.
It was until a few sweeps before her second puptation that something changed. Taken on as a protégé by Doc Scratch her mental capabilities were honed to a higher level than she may have reached natural. However she had and still has little respect for her 'teacher' often referring to him with scorn and sarcasm. When she felt she had learnt enough she stole his all seeing cueball and ran away home.
Returning to Alternia she took to the seas and worked her way up to the top of a ship, through use of cunning and mindcontrol, manipulation and murder. Eventually she became a captain, and it was then she began to make a name for herself.
It was also when she first came to the attention of Orphaner Dualscar, a seadweller devoted to the Empress. Instructed to find and halt her their first meeting ended in a fight and Dualscar being given the scars he was named for. It was also the start of a kismesissitude that would cause huge destruction to the sides of each party. While their hate changed towards the end (with Mindfang growing bored of Dualscar and annoyed that he was turning red for her) it was a near perfect black rom at the start.
She paid little attention to The Signless and his rebellion, spending her time on the seas, building up her ships to a fleet, and granting herself the title of Marquise because 'It sounded nice'. She may have agreed with the idea that blood meant nothing, but there was nothing to gain from the Signless so she let it follow it's natural path into failure. After all, it wasn't her fight.
Her closest contact with the Signless's group was through the Dolorosa, who after her adoptive son's death was sold into slavery and bought by Dualscar. It was on his ship that Mindfang saw her and whether it was was simply to annoy Dualscar or because Dolorosa actually caught her eye, Mindfang stole her and took her as her own slave. Fond of red romances with lowbloods, it didn't take long for Mindfang to begin her wooing of Dolorosa, albiet forcing the relationship through her mental control. Through the time they spent together Mindfang developed some actual red feelings, considering a future with the other female. However, it can be assumed that any feelings The Dolorosa had were created by Mindfang or the result of Stockholm Syndrome.
Stealing his slave and then flaunting her choice of a lowblood over him was the final straw for Dualscar. Killing The Dolorosa, either by his own hands or making sure his sign was left, his kismesissitude with Mindfang fell apart and he turned to the Grand Highblood, handing over sweeps of information about Mindfang and her crimes against the Empire. If he couldn't have her no one could.
Unfortunately doing this resulted in his death. The Orphaner wasn't very good with jokes, and The Highbloods weren't prone to letting bloodcaste be an excuse for no sense of humour. Dualscar was killed, and the Grand Highblood's only action against Mindfang was to send a novice neophyte after her.
Her sources telling her Redglare's coming and having already foreseen when her true death would come lead Mindfang to be cocky. She ignored the possibility of Redglare being a threat and didn't look into her cueball to see the future. In return lost an eye, an arm and had her armada burnt down by the Neophyte and her dragon. She was dragged to trial, but it was there Redglare made her own mistake. Lowbloods were allowed into the stadium where the trial was held, and this gave Mindfang the perfect opportunity.
Using her abilities to control lowbloods she used them to pull Redglare into the stadium, strangling her with the noose meant for Mindfang. The lowbloods got blue blood, of a sort, and Mindfang got freedom. All she had to do was take out his Honourable Tyranny, a fight she look forward too, gloating that the removal of one arm would "permit a fair fight". It's implided that Mindfang slew him, a being at least a hundred times her own size, whilst suffering from blood loss, new blindness in an eye and only own arm.
Free or not, Redglare had destroyed all that Mindfang had, the fleet of ships under Mindfang's control ashes in the sea. But ever an optimist Mindfang shrugged that off, deciding to leave the seas behind and stare towards the skies. Finding Redglare's dragon was an idea she contemplated, before moving on to take care of more pressing issues.
The Expatriate, as she called him, was also known as Darkleer, a blueblood just higher than Mindfang who had disobeyed the orders of a highblood and failed to execute The Disciple. This act had brought forth some admiration from Mindfang, and it was enough to gain help from her in escaping the wrath of the Highbloods and finding a hiding spot. In Mindfang's eyes he owed her a debt for that, and with his skill in robotics it was Darkleer that Mindfang went to to gain her robotic arm.
Her time with Darkleer was spent recounting her tales, and considering what to do next. Again the dragon came to her mind, but with her vision eightfold destroyed Mindfang had no way to ask the cueball of the possibilities. Contemplating a technological method to to mimic her natural eye she eventually rejected the idea, acknowledging that the knowledge of the future came with a price. Her thoughts moved on, to the prophecy of her death and The Summoner.
She made her decision then. Her worst choice may have been to ask the cueball of her death, and to know who would cause it but rather than run from her fate she would meet it with open arms and anticipation. Perhaps through The Summoner she would gain control of Pyralsprite. Either way she decided to leave the cueball with Darkleer and place a map with her journal to it's location with a warning of the damage it could also do. All that was left to do was wait, as she knew that the Summoner's low blood caste would mean many sweeps would pass before his arrival and rise to rebellion.
Not one to simply sit around and brood with Darkleer (for one it would drive her completely insane and not just partially) Mindfang set off, shedding name and sign and becoming The Wanderer, a cloak covered blueblood who very few knew about. That didn't mean she let her true names fade in the wind, The Wanderer making sure all recalled who Marquise Spinneret Mindfang was.
It simply gave her a disguise to use to uncover information that she could later use to aid the Summoner's rebellion. It was a fruitful set of sweeps for her, information wise, and it also allowed her time to repair the damage done by Redglare, and learn how to deal with the changes she now had, with her vision altered. It was a time for personal growth, her attitude still as outwardly cocky as always, but Mindfang paying more attention to details and plans than running on blind luck. It had failed her before after all.
When whispers began to blossom of the rise of the Summoner Mindfang shed her disguise and made her way to his side. Their first meeting was a tense one, but a slow trust began to form between them as the information she gave him proved correct time and time again. And slowly trust began to turn red and they fell into a matespritship. Based in pity, it was a messy relationship, similar to that of the Signless and his Disciple. They were both rough, almost feral trolls, often giving impressions of a kismesis relationship through their physical actions, but he was also one of the few trolls who could calmer her.
Her time with him was an enjoyable one, a final adventure for her. Through him she did gain the skies, and she was reintroduced to Pyralsprite, though the dragon still maintained a hate for Mindfang's hand in Redglare's death. The Summoner was forced to tear dragon and spidertroll apart quite a few times to stop one from killing the other. But Mindfang was happy, even though she was closer to her death than ever. She told the stories of the Signless to the Summoner, and helped him strengthen his rebellion.
Mindfang played a high role in his rebellion but while the Summoner may have trusted her, his followers didn't. She was a blue blood, and the rumours connected with her name didn't help her in gaining trust, even if she hadn't controlled a lowblood since beginning her relationship with the Summoner. It was clear something would happen, either Mindfang would leave or The Summoner's followers would.
It was then Mindfang played a card she had held close to her chest, telling the Summoner of the prophecy of her death. Initially attempting to reject this he came to accept it, and they both knew it was the easiest way to make sure he kept his followers. A plan was made, and a bloody battle was had. And in the end Mindfang found herself on the ground, torso impaled by the Summoner's death, a wound not even she could live through.
And so Marquise Spinneret Mindfang met her death.
[Fandom OC] Marquise Spinneret Mindfang | Homestuck | Reserve | 2/2
Strengths
Physical; Mindfang is seen to have and incredibly high pain tolerence as well as the ability to withstand substancial blood loss. Redglare's removal of her arm doesn't seem to slow her, despite the amount of blood loss she suffers and the lack of any medical attention she gets.
She is also apparently incredible strong as she takes on and defeats His Honourable Tyranny, a monster far larger than her size, whilst suffering from blood loss and missing a limb. She actually considers it to now be a fair fight.
Her new robotic limb also lends to her strength, as the limb does not tire and does not bleed. I also imagine it'd be stronger than her biological arm.
Psychological; Quite cunning and a very big manipulator, Mindfang possess a quick and clever mind. She's had years of practice in seeing the possible courses of actions, and her kismesisittude with Dualscar only increased that skill.
Her biggest mental strength of course, is her ability to control the minds of those weaker than her, but more of that in the abilities section.
Emotional; Nothing seems to ever truly effect Mindfang. She's had many red romances, and a few black, and she prides herself on coming out on top of all those. She's lost plenty and yet she still remains her cocky self.
Weaknesses
Physical; Her robotic arm is both a positve and a negative. Yes it is stronger and cannot be harmed in the ways a flesh one could. But gears can also become jammed and broken, and if a wire comes loose then it can easily become a huge problem. There is also a slight amount of pain caused by it daily, where metal meets the flesh of her shoulder. Her shoulder can easily become sore.
Also thanks to Redglare, she has a massive blind spot on her left side, due to that eye's blindness. This can prove to be a problem in battle, but over the years she has learnt to work with it and compensate.
Psychological; Mindfang is cocky. This has in the past caused her problems, as she can be prone to underestimating a threat or overestimating her strengths. Yes she defeated His Honourable Tyranny but there was a lot of luck in there, and it could have easily been her death there.
Her blindless has also meant the loss of her Eightfold vision, meaning she lacks her ability to see into the cueball and see fates, as well as anything else.
Emotional; While she puts on a good facade, Mindfang has lived a long time. She cares, as seen with her mourning over Dolorosa's death, and her going out of to make sure her descendant knew who she was and giving her access to things that would give her a bonus in life. It's even obvious with her decision to find The Summoner and be his matesprit, even though she knows it will mean her death. Heck she even misses Dualscar in her old age though she'd never ever admit it.
Simply showing these feelings means showing weaknesses in Alternia Society.
Abilities: As a troll Mindfang is much stronger than the average human, and as a pirate, Mindfang has her fair share of fighting skills, which are generally in sword play and the use of her dice, the Fluorite Octet though she does poses other combat skills and plenty of experience in using them. She is also a talented manipulator and thief and has some skill in hiding things, seeing how she stole Doc Scratch’s cue ball and then successful kept hidden from him with the help of Darkleer.
In a skill that only she and her descendant have been shown to have, she is also talented in manipulating others through the use of mind control, and seems to be much more skilled at this then Vriska, which is probably due to her age. This power appears to only work on those of a lower blood than hers, as well as only on weak willed people. It is also reasonable to assume she has the skill to read minds. She also possesses Vision Eightfold, with one of her eyes being dotted with seven pupils. By focusing with this eye she seems to possess a sort of X-Ray vision which she used in the past to see into Doc Scratch’s magic cue ball. This eye is however apparently delicate, as Mindfang goes blind in it after meeting the dragon Pyralspite’s gaze.
Her pre-scratch self Aranea also shows that she possesses a skill in empath, an ability I feel Mindfang shares, as she is seen a few times picking up on the emotions of others, such as her slave's nervousness and Dualscar's quadrant flipping into red for her. It may just be that she's an excellent reader of people or that others are just very obvious with their emotions but Aranea's information lends credence to the idea.
As for more physical items, she also possesses a robotic arm, made for her by Darkleer after its loss in hers and Redglare’s battle.
Relationships to Canon Characters:
The Signless, The Disciple, The Psiioniic; Mindfang seems to be aware of these three at least, though not involved with them. It is implied that she was already of an at least adult age when their rebellion occurred, and knows of their fates.
The Dolorosa; It is implied in canon that the slave Mindfang stole from Dualscar was the Dolorosa, as Mindfang found something curious about her blood.
Dualscar; Her long time kismesis, and Eridan's ancestor Mindfang's relationship with Dualscar is likely what inspired Vriska to attempt a black romance with Eridan. By the time of her own death Dualscar is long dead, and her feelings of hate and disgust have faded into nothing but brief memories that she refuses to reflect on.
Redglare; Initially dismissing the Neophyte due to her age, Mindfang ended up loosing both an arm and her eightfold vision to Redglare and her dragon, quickly reassessing the woman. She would have made a beautiful kismesis, but alas, to live Mindfang had to ensure Redglare's death to make an escape and used the lowblood who had come to watch her trial to kill the other female.
Darkleer; After the loss of her arm Darkleer was the one who made her the robotic attachment. It is implied she had some sort of trust for the male, as she left her all seeing cueball with him, knowing there was some sort of void that made it impossible to be noticed by it's original owner. She also seems to have been his only outside contact after her failed to kill The Disciple and let her escape.
The Grand Highblood; Until Dualscar brought her to the attention of the Grand Highblood she hadn't seemed to had a run in with him. That however could have simply been part of Dualscar's protection. Even then when he did retaliate it was with a novice neophyte.
Her Imperial Condescension; It's likely she got under the skin of the Empress or at least attempted to as many of her plunders would have been from royal ships. And it is also likely that Mindfang didn't care or respect the Empress on blood alone, as she shows little regard for the hemocaste anyway, and then later sides with rebels.
The Summoner; Her long fated matesprit, and her eventual killer. She waited many sweeps for him, and even whilst knowing her fate, still went to find him when the time was right. Not much on their actual relationship is discussed, but it is my opinion that she felt a deep red, even though their quadrants got slightly mixed at time in their displays.
Vriska Serket; Her descendant, whom Mindfang went out of her way to give better chances of success by leaving her her journals and a map to find the all seeing cueball. Mindfang is whom Vriska tried to model herself after, in personality, actions and romance, though it often got twisted along the way.
Aranea Sekret; Her post scratch self who Mindfang is yet to meet. It is unknown is Aranea's abilities as a Sylph of Light were passed onto Mindfang after the scratch. Mindfang does have an extraordinary amount of luck though.
Doc Scratch; It's implied that Mindfang spent some time of learning under Scratch's influence and that he helped to shape her into what she became. She also stole his all seeing cueball from him, allowing her the ability to see fates and futures.
First Person:
Oh how I loathe clocks.
Tick tock, tick tock, almost annoying of the old Doctor's voice.
8ut I doubt this game would be of interest to him. An annoying fool yes, but his games tend to have a 8it more action then a slow and 8oring train ride and some 8ad weather.
There's also the fact I haven't seen his meddling for sweeps.
Not to mention I still recall dying. My, whatever this qu8nt place is, they fix you up well, don't they? You can't even see the gaping hole that should 8e in me.
8ut alas I'm not in the mood for fun and games. So what is this place, and why am I here and not enjoying the peace and rest I hear comes with death.
Third Person:
She had known for sweeps how it would all end. More than sweeps. Generations of lowerbloods had come and gone while she possessed this knowledge, moved from shock that someone so young in comparison to her, someone so low would be the one to cull her. As a wiggler she had entertained fantasies of living forver, living so long that she would meet her descendant face to face and together they would be brilliant because she was brilliant, so how could anything that was hers not be the same.
And then as she grew, the fantasies of forever died, but the idea that it would be an extraordinary long life remainded. She was amazing, one of a kind with skills so few possessed, especially in her blood caste. She would carve a legacy across the land, in swords and bloods and all would know the name Mindfang, lusii would tell their charges of the dreaded pirate queen.
In her youth she had been a fool, though the first to call her that would have lost a tongue and then all other body parts in whatever way seemed most painful and entertaining at first. But only a fool would want to know her future, only a fool would ask something all seeing her fate, ignoring that she would then have to live with what she saw.
Denial is a process. There is anger. (At first she took it out on oppossing crews, half thinking if she built herself tall enough she could never be killed) Refusal to accept (He was so low, and she would be so old, so beautiful, so perfect how could he be her end) And then some others, they didn't matter to her.
Acceptance comes last. Acceptace was easy all those sweeps ago, after taking a hard knock. Acceptance was easy when you hadn't lived the life, hadn't met and fallen so deep for your killer. If she was a fool in her youth then she was only a bigger fool in her age. To think that dying would be easy, leaving him and his love and warmth would be simple.
There's a hole in her heart to match the one in her chest. The pain she feels from the physical wound is nothing in comparrisson to the regret and pain in his eyes. Her own widen as she falls and he catches her, blue blood on black hands, brown blood from cuts she made in the patomime of a fight they planned smearing on her cheek as he holds her close. Her tongue has always been quick, quick to mock, quick to manipulate but she can't seemed to make it work and too soon the world is going dark and it all just breaks, a tear rolling down her cheek as he presses his lips to hers as if that will take it all back, if that will fix the hole she made him make.
But this is no wiggler's tale, where a kiss wakes the princess from her sleep.
Mindfang is no princess. She is blood on her hands and lives ruined and revenge and pain. She is manipulation and greed and death. She's a pirate, unworthy to be woken by a kiss.
The Page's kiss does not breath life into her.
ACCEPTED
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