[ooc] Application

[deadpanlife]

Your Name: Mori
Contact:
AIM: forestofsleep
Plurk: forestofsleep

NAME:
HANDLE: passiveSampler
TITLE: Mage of Life
PLANET: Land of MOSS and WILDERNESS
MOON: Derse
AGE: 7 sweeps
QUIRK:
no capitals except for proper nouns, but does not capitalize "I"
no periods
always starts a new line for a new sentence
replaces l with |
no smilies
rarely uses !
STRIFE SPECIBI: Billhookkind
FETCH MODUS: Tree
RELATIONS:
  ♢ - Samsra Sukana
  ♥ -
  ♣ -
  ♠ -
BLOOD COLOR: #d42323
POWER: Plant empathy. Allows him to encourage plant growth to optimum conditions, depending on other factors. Theoretically allows him to retrieve information from plants, but it's usually so alien and incomprehensible that it's useless.
SYMBOL:
LUSUS: Bloody huge horned crawlbeast (which is to say, giant atlas beetle)
Abilities:

Is...actually not that great a fighter. Can defend self from wild beasts, but is runty enough that he can be overpowered fairly easily. On the other hand, he runs like the goddamn wind. He also has a strong resistance to natural poisons, on the account of having to taste-test a lot of the plants he gathers for food and accidentally poisoning himself fairly often. Able to make medicine and extract poison from said plants.

Personality:

Kaprao is, in simple terms, not a very good troll, both in the internet sense and as a member of the species. He is this tiny bundle of nerves, anxiety and quiet passivity, giving the vague impression that if he could, he would be anywhere but right here in front of whoever it is. As a naturally introverted and withdrawn troll he’s coped rather badly with how violent the culture and environment can be on Alternia, and instead of toughening up he’s mostly chosen to withdraw deeper into himself. Aggression is strangely absent from him; he’s uncomfortable with the idea of just beating things up, let alone actually killing them. Probably because it’s hard to really want to when he’s personally seen the light on the other side far too many times for it to be comfortable.

Thanks to some traumatic first experiences at attempting interaction with other trolls, Kaprao has a huge dose of social anxiety, and a phobia of highbloods. He expects in-person interaction to go badly; knowing for sure he’d be judged and he can’t really imagine anyone liking him. He can barely stand talking to another troll in person by himself; in a group situation he’d rather fade into the background and listen to what the others say. Moreover, he has a crippling phobia of high bloods -- being in the mere presence of one is enough to send him into a panic attack, and he will do everything in his power to remove himself from the situation. He expects culling will be on the itinerary the longer he hangs around with them.

However, Kaprao doesn’t hold anything against the hemospectrum despite everything, if only because he’s resigned to his apparent fate to be pushed around by everyone, and because he’s generally too busy being afraid to really be angry. It’s just how things work. More than anything else he wants to be left alone, but really he's just waiting for the day things go really badly and he won't be so lucky to survive it.

Unsurprisingly, being a package of neurosis and nerves has left Kaprao’s self-esteem crushed. He doesn’t have a high opinion of himself or his capabilities, and he downplays whatever he is good at because he feels that they’d be useless in troll society anyway. The grim realization that he will almost certainly die before reaching adulthood, coupled with his apparent inability to be all the things that makes a good troll (even when he actually tries) further feeds into his poor confidence and fatalism, and it keeps looping. It only grows worse when he compares himself to his huge, aggressive lusus -- as much as Kaprao loves beetledad, it’s pretty obvious they don’t seem to fit together in the least, and Kaprao believes his lusus had chosen the wrong wriggler.

That said, online he seems much, much calmer, since it’s not like they can murder him through the screen. He's pretty dry and deadpan and can come off as long-suffering compared to some of the less well-balanced (or less depressing) personalities in the group.

History:

Kaprao lived with beetledad in a cave in the middle of a forest, mostly for the runty troll's protection. Did not meet many trolls there, and the few times he did he got tormented by a group of highbloods, nearly got killed twice and had to be saved by his lusus, and got chased around the forest at some point. Now avoids meeting other trolls like the plague. He would really like to be able to gather and grow his plants and herbs and experiment with his cooking in peace.

INTRODUCTION:

Your name is KAPRAO OCIMUM. You are interested in PLANTS and their MEDICINAL USES, because you acknowledge this is useful to know when you live alone with only your GIANT HORNED CRAWLBEAST lusus. You frequently venture out into the DEPTHS of the FOREST you live in to gather more plants. It's a good thing you're interested in them too, since they're generally the ONLY FOOD you ever get. Your lusus is pretty stingy when it comes to meat.

To be honest you are kind of a WIMP and can't quite hunt down the various MURDERBEASTS that reside there, and spend just as much time gathering RUNNING AROUND FOR YOUR LIFE. But you suppose it's a good thing since it means most other trolls tend to leave your dwelling alone. You also like to engage in COOKING, if only to make mealtimes a little less bland.

Your trolltag is passiveSampler and your speech is frank|y kind of boring.