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[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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