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☐ Single
☐ Taken
☐ In love
☐ It's complicated
✘ I am the night justice is my true love
Setting: As an ancestor, Redglare was alive while Ancient Alternia was a thing, though it was quite the odd mish-mash of time periods. While they did have a space fleet (as she was alive after the Ψiioniic became the Helmsman) enlisting into hte conquering forces was still optional when she was alive (it became mandatory after the Summoner's rebellion). Adults that stayed planet-side were typically blue-bloods or higher who felt that the nuances of conquering were too far beneath them and opted for a cushier life with little chance of death or difficulty. Low-bloods who stayed planet side were either eventually made into slaves or treated extremely poorly due to their low status in the caste system.
Technology-wise, her era is a mash of space age and 17th century technology. While they do has a working space fleet, they do not have personal computers or tablet computers or even type writers. While robotic limbs are a thing (Mindfang obtains one from the E%-Patriate), they still use swords as a means of fighting. Rifles are uncommon and most are simply of the gunpowder variety, unless they are energy weapons like Ahab's Crosshairs. Ships that travel on the sea take after the massive ships of the early pirating ages of humankind, rather than the motorboats and yachts of the modern day.
Due to the innate bias of the caste system, the judicial and legislative branches of the law were stacked against the lower castes and whatever crimes they committed, however minor, were punished severely. Those of the higher castes are able to get away with much more, such as Mindfang's habit of piracy, without much fuss. The law of land-dwellers usually goes to go through a court system filled with teal-bloods, as they are stated to be the caste that mostly ends up being civil servants, and while teal-bloods are the middling caste and are not quite blue and not quite green, almost all still favor the side of the higher bloods as there is more in it for them on that side.
In addition to that, the law is also dictated by the Subjuggulators, purple-bloods with the highest blood-caste position a land-dweller can have. The Subjuggulators are lead by a single Grand Highblood and are manically religious, believing in their Mirthful Messiahs and awaiting the prophesied Vast Honk. They keep all below their caste in check with the implementation of chucklevoodoo, which allows them to discover and exploit the fears of anyone below their blood caste. The Subjuggulators are also capricious, killing on a whim whenever those who seek audience with them do not amuse them enough. Although sea-dwellers are above them in caste, if they want justice to be carried out properly upon those of a rich blood color, then they need to first seek audience with the Subjuggulators, who act as a buffer between them and the Legislacerators. This is necessary because it gives the teal-bloods and lower who make up the law system permission from a purple-blood to pursue prey of a higher caste than they are.
At the top of all this tomfoolery is Her Imperial Condescension, the empress of the entire troll race. She is the highest caste, being the only troll of tyrian blood in existence. She does, however, occasionally share her blood color with a single female troll every few centuries. These trolls are dubbed Heiresses and, when they come of age, must fight to the death with the current Empress in order to assume the throne. None of them have ever succeeded, and Her Imperial Condescension has been ruling the troll race since they first gained sentience. Due to her unique blood color the Empress has control over a vast monster that lives in the deep. It is called Gl'bgolyb or Speaker of the Vast Glub, which has the power to wipe out the entire race of trolls save for the Condense and the Heiress. She uses this power to keep the entirety of her race in line with the threat of annihilation.
It is due to her meddling that the caste system works as smoothly as it does. The delegates the duties of oppression to the Subjuggulators due to their penchant for violence and cruelty. They in turn give that power to the blue-bloods, who afford it to green-bloods and so on until none of the lowest castes can escape their oppression even though they are more gifted and more numerous.
The caste system is typically ordered like so:
Maroon, Mahogany, Mustard, Lime, Olive, Jade, Teal, Cerulean, Indigo, Purple, Violet, and Tyrian.
Those with low blood colors usually have psychic powers, but are highly susceptible to the Vast Glub as a result. Those higher on the cast are subject to excessive acts of violence and insanity, moreso than trolls normally are as a species.
There was once a troll who attempted to change all of this. He was a mutant with candy red blood, and due to his unique blood color, had neither lusus nor sign. He was known as the Signless and was found and raised by a jade-blood from the Brooding Caverns who abandoned her duties to care for him. In time he gained two more followers, a high level psionic mustard-blood and a somewhat savage but devoted olive-blood. These three, known as the Dolorosa, the Ψiioniic and the Disciple respectively, were his inner circle and his most devoted followers. He spread a message of peace and love to the troll peoples, implying that there was a life better than the constant violence and hatred they were living with and bringing upon each other. His message resonated with many and he took it across the ocean in the First Ship in order to spread it more.
However, his speeches eventually incited a cultural revolution which drew the attention of the Condense. She called for his head and he and his followers were captured. The Signless, tortured by red hot iron shackles, became the Sufferer and eventually died. The Ψiioniic was turned into the Helmsman and made to pilot the flagship of the Alternian force. The Dolorosa became the Slave and was stripped of her sign and spent her entire life as property of sea-dwellers. The Disciple escaped with the Leggings due to the pity of the E%ecutioner and spent the rest of her live writing the message of the Signless in caves. This was crucial to the preservation of his word and allowed it to survive in the foundation of a cult. This cult assured that when the next mutant blood that the Signless prophesied came along, that he would have a sign and a lusus of his own.
Personality: While Redglare does share many traits with Terezi, it is important to know that she is also her own person, and that she also lacks a lot of Terezi's innocence and charm due to her age. As she is centuries old, she does know a great deal about how troll society works, which means she cannot afford to have the same naive views as her descendant. Due to the way trolls age, she is only a Neophyte because of her relative youth in comparison to other teal-bloods, as well as her penchant for attempting to arrest, try and execute high caste criminals, which has held her back from advancing further in the legislacerating field. However, she doesn't mind any of this as she believes that the law should apply to all equally, regardless of caste status.
This idea came to her through the grapevine that was the Signless' words while he was alive, which she found out through unknown means. Redglare is not easily swayed to radical ideas, and while she is enamored with his ideals of equality for all blood colors, she does not believe in his ideals of a utopia or a permanent peace where murder never occurs. While she loves the idea of an equal law system, she is unwilling to allow high profile criminals to live. She doesn't believe in prison cells aside from their use in interrogation, and doesn't see them as long term prisons. Her beliefs in the Signless' teachings are there and do influence her, but are typically buried as far as she can get them to go. She is constantly wrestling with when she knows in her heart is right as a disciple with what she knows needs to be done in the eyes of the law. It has gotten to the point where she is selective about those she prosecutes, and while she adores the law, has also bee forced to acknowledge that what she has worked her entire life to uphold is also corrupted and twisted for the advantage of blue-bloods.
Carefully placed over that boiling pot of seriousness and loathing is what seems to be somewhat gleeful woman. While she does take her job quite seriously, Redglare also enjoys it. She loves mocking criminals while they are at their most vulnerable, and interrogation and the pursuit of criminals are both things she finds extremely fulfilling. She enjoys taunting her friends and enemies alike, though her friends can usually be sure she won't run them through. She is also extremely good with jokes and puns. This is mostly because one needs to have a good sense of humor in order to deal with the subbjuggulators, which she does very often. She enjoys drinking and and laughing, but it's all very controlled. She doesn't laugh unintentionally most times and keeps a careful reign on how she acts. Once the situation she is in gets out of her control or becomes unmanageable, she instantly goes from pleasant to business-like.
Redglare takes the law seriously and will do whatever it takes to get her man and whatever it takes to punish them. In her mind, the punishment should fit the crime and it doesn't matter to her how unreasonable it may seem. She does has a natural tendency towards viciousness because it's innate in her species and necessary for her job. She will not only resort to torture but will carry it out with a jovial air. While she prefers to leave such things as a last resort, she also finds them interesting to carry out. Killing is also not a problem with her as it is part of the job and, if she might say, the most satisfying part in general. Being a legislacerator, and a talented one at that, is one of the things Redglare has the most pride about.
Despite her position as a legislacerator, Redglare is not really an expert manipulator or even close to becoming one, so she's unlike Terezi in this sense. While she is very talented, she finds it to be a roundabout tactic that is less reliable than brute force. She doesn't see the point in manipulating wrongdoers because the law allows her to use force. All of her manipulation is actually passive and focused on making people perceive her as less of a threat than she actually is. She uses her understated title to convince the people she's after that she's not a skilled legislacerator, and she uses the perceived notion that she is loyal to the Alternian Empire to keep her superiors from finding out about her belief in the Signless' teachings.
Due to her blindness, Redglare had no real concept of personal space and boundaries. She knows what they are and that others have them, but doesn't really seem to care. Occasionally, when the person she's speaking with has some sort of authority over her, she will treat them with respect and respect their boundaries. However, if there is no reason to respect their boundaries, than she usually doesn't bother and smell them and even lick them until she's satisfied with the picture of them she has in her mind's eye. While she sees by taste and smell, she also sees by hearing and touch, and she relies on tactile sensation much more than Terezi does. She can feel the way air moves around things, and that allows her to pick up minute disturbances that most people would overlook. Her ability to form a mental profile of a person is above the thought of their personal level of comfort, and once she has an idea of what someone is to her senses, she never quite forgets it.
For Redglare, romance is not really an option and sex is simply a thing she takes part because it is enforced on Alternia. Romance is difficult for her to parse, and although she understands the mechanics she doesn't understand how to apply it to herself. She is so devoted to her work that she never really had time for it and was unable to engage in it properly due to her particularization when it came partners. She is unable to pity with affection properly (♥) because of her secret fraternization with the Signless' teachings, which she refuses to disclose to anyone. She cannot hate fully (♠) because her hate is for criminals and she has too much loathing built up for the justice systems corruption that a single person cannot compare. Without one to hate, there is no need for the mediation that would come with needing and auspistice (♣), and she isn't the kind of person who usually participates in any relationship with little emotional fulfillment involved. She refuses moirallegiance (♦) because, as the long arm of the law, she cannot be kept from risking her life or harming others as it is her duty to do both (and also due to the secret of her beliefs). However, there are always exceptions to this given enough time, especially in a place like Wonderland. It was simply not posible on her planet with the crowd that she was entangled in and due to her job. She is simply too gay married to Lady Justice.
entranceway application.☐ Single
☐ Taken
☐ In love
☐ It's complicated
✘ I am the night justice is my true love
Setting: As an ancestor, Redglare was alive while Ancient Alternia was a thing, though it was quite the odd mish-mash of time periods. While they did have a space fleet (as she was alive after the Ψiioniic became the Helmsman) enlisting into hte conquering forces was still optional when she was alive (it became mandatory after the Summoner's rebellion). Adults that stayed planet-side were typically blue-bloods or higher who felt that the nuances of conquering were too far beneath them and opted for a cushier life with little chance of death or difficulty. Low-bloods who stayed planet side were either eventually made into slaves or treated extremely poorly due to their low status in the caste system.
Technology-wise, her era is a mash of space age and 17th century technology. While they do has a working space fleet, they do not have personal computers or tablet computers or even type writers. While robotic limbs are a thing (Mindfang obtains one from the E%-Patriate), they still use swords as a means of fighting. Rifles are uncommon and most are simply of the gunpowder variety, unless they are energy weapons like Ahab's Crosshairs. Ships that travel on the sea take after the massive ships of the early pirating ages of humankind, rather than the motorboats and yachts of the modern day.
Due to the innate bias of the caste system, the judicial and legislative branches of the law were stacked against the lower castes and whatever crimes they committed, however minor, were punished severely. Those of the higher castes are able to get away with much more, such as Mindfang's habit of piracy, without much fuss. The law of land-dwellers usually goes to go through a court system filled with teal-bloods, as they are stated to be the caste that mostly ends up being civil servants, and while teal-bloods are the middling caste and are not quite blue and not quite green, almost all still favor the side of the higher bloods as there is more in it for them on that side.
In addition to that, the law is also dictated by the Subjuggulators, purple-bloods with the highest blood-caste position a land-dweller can have. The Subjuggulators are lead by a single Grand Highblood and are manically religious, believing in their Mirthful Messiahs and awaiting the prophesied Vast Honk. They keep all below their caste in check with the implementation of chucklevoodoo, which allows them to discover and exploit the fears of anyone below their blood caste. The Subjuggulators are also capricious, killing on a whim whenever those who seek audience with them do not amuse them enough. Although sea-dwellers are above them in caste, if they want justice to be carried out properly upon those of a rich blood color, then they need to first seek audience with the Subjuggulators, who act as a buffer between them and the Legislacerators. This is necessary because it gives the teal-bloods and lower who make up the law system permission from a purple-blood to pursue prey of a higher caste than they are.
At the top of all this tomfoolery is Her Imperial Condescension, the empress of the entire troll race. She is the highest caste, being the only troll of tyrian blood in existence. She does, however, occasionally share her blood color with a single female troll every few centuries. These trolls are dubbed Heiresses and, when they come of age, must fight to the death with the current Empress in order to assume the throne. None of them have ever succeeded, and Her Imperial Condescension has been ruling the troll race since they first gained sentience. Due to her unique blood color the Empress has control over a vast monster that lives in the deep. It is called Gl'bgolyb or Speaker of the Vast Glub, which has the power to wipe out the entire race of trolls save for the Condense and the Heiress. She uses this power to keep the entirety of her race in line with the threat of annihilation.
It is due to her meddling that the caste system works as smoothly as it does. The delegates the duties of oppression to the Subjuggulators due to their penchant for violence and cruelty. They in turn give that power to the blue-bloods, who afford it to green-bloods and so on until none of the lowest castes can escape their oppression even though they are more gifted and more numerous.
The caste system is typically ordered like so:
Maroon, Mahogany, Mustard, Lime, Olive, Jade, Teal, Cerulean, Indigo, Purple, Violet, and Tyrian.
Those with low blood colors usually have psychic powers, but are highly susceptible to the Vast Glub as a result. Those higher on the cast are subject to excessive acts of violence and insanity, moreso than trolls normally are as a species.
There was once a troll who attempted to change all of this. He was a mutant with candy red blood, and due to his unique blood color, had neither lusus nor sign. He was known as the Signless and was found and raised by a jade-blood from the Brooding Caverns who abandoned her duties to care for him. In time he gained two more followers, a high level psionic mustard-blood and a somewhat savage but devoted olive-blood. These three, known as the Dolorosa, the Ψiioniic and the Disciple respectively, were his inner circle and his most devoted followers. He spread a message of peace and love to the troll peoples, implying that there was a life better than the constant violence and hatred they were living with and bringing upon each other. His message resonated with many and he took it across the ocean in the First Ship in order to spread it more.
However, his speeches eventually incited a cultural revolution which drew the attention of the Condense. She called for his head and he and his followers were captured. The Signless, tortured by red hot iron shackles, became the Sufferer and eventually died. The Ψiioniic was turned into the Helmsman and made to pilot the flagship of the Alternian force. The Dolorosa became the Slave and was stripped of her sign and spent her entire life as property of sea-dwellers. The Disciple escaped with the Leggings due to the pity of the E%ecutioner and spent the rest of her live writing the message of the Signless in caves. This was crucial to the preservation of his word and allowed it to survive in the foundation of a cult. This cult assured that when the next mutant blood that the Signless prophesied came along, that he would have a sign and a lusus of his own.
Personality: While Redglare does share many traits with Terezi, it is important to know that she is also her own person, and that she also lacks a lot of Terezi's innocence and charm due to her age. As she is centuries old, she does know a great deal about how troll society works, which means she cannot afford to have the same naive views as her descendant. Due to the way trolls age, she is only a Neophyte because of her relative youth in comparison to other teal-bloods, as well as her penchant for attempting to arrest, try and execute high caste criminals, which has held her back from advancing further in the legislacerating field. However, she doesn't mind any of this as she believes that the law should apply to all equally, regardless of caste status.
This idea came to her through the grapevine that was the Signless' words while he was alive, which she found out through unknown means. Redglare is not easily swayed to radical ideas, and while she is enamored with his ideals of equality for all blood colors, she does not believe in his ideals of a utopia or a permanent peace where murder never occurs. While she loves the idea of an equal law system, she is unwilling to allow high profile criminals to live. She doesn't believe in prison cells aside from their use in interrogation, and doesn't see them as long term prisons. Her beliefs in the Signless' teachings are there and do influence her, but are typically buried as far as she can get them to go. She is constantly wrestling with when she knows in her heart is right as a disciple with what she knows needs to be done in the eyes of the law. It has gotten to the point where she is selective about those she prosecutes, and while she adores the law, has also bee forced to acknowledge that what she has worked her entire life to uphold is also corrupted and twisted for the advantage of blue-bloods.
Carefully placed over that boiling pot of seriousness and loathing is what seems to be somewhat gleeful woman. While she does take her job quite seriously, Redglare also enjoys it. She loves mocking criminals while they are at their most vulnerable, and interrogation and the pursuit of criminals are both things she finds extremely fulfilling. She enjoys taunting her friends and enemies alike, though her friends can usually be sure she won't run them through. She is also extremely good with jokes and puns. This is mostly because one needs to have a good sense of humor in order to deal with the subbjuggulators, which she does very often. She enjoys drinking and and laughing, but it's all very controlled. She doesn't laugh unintentionally most times and keeps a careful reign on how she acts. Once the situation she is in gets out of her control or becomes unmanageable, she instantly goes from pleasant to business-like.
Redglare takes the law seriously and will do whatever it takes to get her man and whatever it takes to punish them. In her mind, the punishment should fit the crime and it doesn't matter to her how unreasonable it may seem. She does has a natural tendency towards viciousness because it's innate in her species and necessary for her job. She will not only resort to torture but will carry it out with a jovial air. While she prefers to leave such things as a last resort, she also finds them interesting to carry out. Killing is also not a problem with her as it is part of the job and, if she might say, the most satisfying part in general. Being a legislacerator, and a talented one at that, is one of the things Redglare has the most pride about.
Despite her position as a legislacerator, Redglare is not really an expert manipulator or even close to becoming one, so she's unlike Terezi in this sense. While she is very talented, she finds it to be a roundabout tactic that is less reliable than brute force. She doesn't see the point in manipulating wrongdoers because the law allows her to use force. All of her manipulation is actually passive and focused on making people perceive her as less of a threat than she actually is. She uses her understated title to convince the people she's after that she's not a skilled legislacerator, and she uses the perceived notion that she is loyal to the Alternian Empire to keep her superiors from finding out about her belief in the Signless' teachings.
Due to her blindness, Redglare had no real concept of personal space and boundaries. She knows what they are and that others have them, but doesn't really seem to care. Occasionally, when the person she's speaking with has some sort of authority over her, she will treat them with respect and respect their boundaries. However, if there is no reason to respect their boundaries, than she usually doesn't bother and smell them and even lick them until she's satisfied with the picture of them she has in her mind's eye. While she sees by taste and smell, she also sees by hearing and touch, and she relies on tactile sensation much more than Terezi does. She can feel the way air moves around things, and that allows her to pick up minute disturbances that most people would overlook. Her ability to form a mental profile of a person is above the thought of their personal level of comfort, and once she has an idea of what someone is to her senses, she never quite forgets it.
For Redglare, romance is not really an option and sex is simply a thing she takes part because it is enforced on Alternia. Romance is difficult for her to parse, and although she understands the mechanics she doesn't understand how to apply it to herself. She is so devoted to her work that she never really had time for it and was unable to engage in it properly due to her particularization when it came partners. She is unable to pity with affection properly (♥) because of her secret fraternization with the Signless' teachings, which she refuses to disclose to anyone. She cannot hate fully (♠) because her hate is for criminals and she has too much loathing built up for the justice systems corruption that a single person cannot compare. Without one to hate, there is no need for the mediation that would come with needing and auspistice (♣), and she isn't the kind of person who usually participates in any relationship with little emotional fulfillment involved. She refuses moirallegiance (♦) because, as the long arm of the law, she cannot be kept from risking her life or harming others as it is her duty to do both (and also due to the secret of her beliefs). However, there are always exceptions to this given enough time, especially in a place like Wonderland. It was simply not posible on her planet with the crowd that she was entangled in and due to her job. She is simply too gay married to Lady Justice.
