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Character Name: Gamzee Makara
Age: 16
Canon: Homestuck
Canon Point: [S] Game Over
Character Information: Here.
Personality: The troll race had been painstakingly forged for sweeps to ensure future generations would become hardened, violent, ruthless, and vengeful beings. Where most excel with the sharpened wit, cunning, and resourcefulness needed to hold their own is where Gamzee Makara falls flat on his ridiculously clownish face. He is infinitely more interested in planting himself on the seashore and marveling at nothing in particular than putting his thinkpan to better use like some of his more intelligent friends. But that’s okay, because you always gotta be motherfuckin’ going at what your heart tells in you.
To put it more plainly, he differs greatly from their culture’s norm for a plethora of reasons.
Gamzee is commonly referred to as the “joke character” of Homestuck, existing only to serve the purpose of comic relief, plot progression, and not much else besides that. He is a blatant parody of human Juggalos, having a strong interest in clowns, circus equipment, Faygo, and painting his face similar to the members of the Insane Clown Posse. His speech patterns are so outrageous, and his sentences so grammatically confusing, that it sometimes takes two or three re-reads to actually understand what he’s trying to say. His dialogue is also steeped in gangster dialect, utilizing slang such as “dog”, “dope”, “peeps”, “bro”, etcetera. He has a particular affinity for the phrase “motherfucker”, and any variations thereof. He uses clown puns less often, but uses clown-nosed emoticons and “honks” to punctuate his thoughts. Gamzee will honk like a bike horn when he’s excited, when he’s scared, or basically to express any emotion. He loves to rap, which is referred to as “Alternian slam poetry” on his planet, although he tends to be pretty terrible at it. Along with being the troll equivalent of a Juggalo, Gamzee is also often likened to a hippie or pothead because of his laid-back, peaceful attitude and for his addiction to an Alternian substance called sopor slime. Sopor originates in trolls’ beds, called "recuperacoons", and surrounds a troll as they sleep, ensuring that they are not plagued by horrific nightmares. It is not to be ingested, and young trolls are normally warned of the brain-damaging effects of eating sopor slime. Gamzee however, on account of a very irresponsible custodian (which I will touch on later), was never taught the dangers of taking sopor internally. He enjoys baking it into pies, which he eats on a regular basis. Such ignorance has resulted in an addiction to the substance’s hallucinogenic and sedative properties, leaving Gamzee on a constant, mind-numbing high. Because he is constantly stoned, Gamzee has a great deal of trouble paying attention, and will often space out in the middle of conversations, or get distracted by things like bright colors or flashing lights.
Gamzee is extremely lax, and spends most of his time sitting outside his beachside dwelling, waiting for his custodian to make an appearance. Trolls are raised by enormous, white beasts called lusii. A normal troll/lusus relationship would resemble a strange, familial partnership. The young troll tends to their lusus, much like an animal trainer or zookeeper would any large animal under their supervision. In turn, the lusus looks after and raises their charge, teaching it the life lessons and living habits needed to survive. Unfortunately, Gamzee’s relationship with his lusus is strained at best. Gamzee happens to be near the very top of the hemospectrum (which is the troll equivalent of an old-fashioned social class structure - one’s place at the top or bottom of the social hierarchy is determined by the color of their blood), making him what’s known as a “highblood”. The very top rungs of the hemospectrum are reserved for sea-dwellers, which are finned trolls that reside mostly underwater. Since Gamzee is the highest-blooded land-dweller on the hemospectrum, his lusus is appropriately a seagoat, who is able to survive both on land and underwater. That being said, Gamzee’s lusus chose to spend a majority of its time at sea (save for a few sparse visits), leaving Gamzee behind for most of his life. Despite all of this, Gamzee makes it a priority to sit by the water’s edge night after night, keeping an eye out and waiting for any sign of his lusus coming to check up on him. He seems unfazed by the fact that the goat rarely shows, and is always optimistic that, maybe this time, he’ll be able to catch sight of him!
This naïveté and childish optimism carries over to a lot of other parts of his personality. He is eagerly and readily available if any one of his friends has a dilemma, and will go out of his way to help resolve it - even if it means sacrificing something of his, or altering his own behavior in some way. (He once agreed to stop eating sopor and drinking Faygo just because he was asked to. It later turned out to be a miscommunication, but the sentiment is still there.) He enjoys listening to problems, and encourages friends to open up to him so he can give his two cents on the situation. Any situation. For example, in this pesterlog, Equius is having trouble trying to get a handle on his severe, and slightly disturbing, masochistic fetishes. Equius lives to be dominated and chastised by trolls higher than he on the hemospectrum, of which Gamzee fits the bill. Gamzee is one of the few highblooded trolls who don’t value their higher social rank, and hold other trolls “below” them in contempt. He says that he doesn’t “know if [he] know[s] how to be like a better motherfucker than any other motherfucker.” This creates a problem for Equius, who tries to get Gamzee to indulge his fantasies by pleading with him to adopt a harsher demeanor. Gamzee complies, but is awful at bossing Equius around. Gamzee’s awful at pretty much everything he does, but he puts his whole heart into it anyways.
His willingness to aid friends in need, coupled with his atrocity at performing anything more intellectually demanding than laying in the sand, ensures that the advice he does end up giving is sub-par, to be extremely generous. This is painfully apparent in a different conversation, this time with Eridan. Gamzee insists on trying to help him out in Karkat’s stead. Eridan is having relationship troubles, and the only advice Gamzee provides is suggesting that Eridan “just kick back and motherfuckin snap into some rude elixir and maybe get your wicked zone on.” Eridan recognizes Gamzee’s advice as useless, and the conversation quickly deteriorates.
This brings us to another point which should be mentioned: Gamzee takes criticism extremely well. If someone has a problem with him, he’ll accept it and move on. He’ll ask if there’s anything he can do to make the relationship better, and if there isn’t, he doesn’t hold it against the other person. However, he is also quite persistent, and doesn’t seem to understand that because someone has told him they don’t like him, that probably means that they don’t want to talk to him any more. He’ll keep blabbering on like nothing happened. Even though Karkat berates and grows increasingly annoyed with him, Gamzee still refers to him as his best friend, not caring whether or not that friendship is reciprocated. Blame ignorance, indifference, or both, but any and all insults directed towards him slide right off, while he keeps that lackadaisical grin plastered all over his face. Just because he’s inattentive to a fault, even going so far as to forget the title he was given in the game, doesn’t mean that he’s completely clueless. He was extremely curious about Sgrub during Hivebent, and was trying to find out more about the game in every one of his pesterlogs. He seemed genuinely excited to start playing, and his enthusiasm continued throughout their session.
His endless optimism and awful advice stem from the deep-seated faith he has in his religion. Gamzee is a part of a cult that believes wholeheartedly that, one day, a new, utopian planet will be born. Led by his laughing, clownish lords – a duo which he has dubbed his “mirthful messiahs” - everyone will live out the rest of their lives on the paradise planet in endless celebration. His religion also places heavy emphasis on the reliance on miracles to solve both major and minor conflicts. Gamzee is so enthusiastic about this, that most of his dialogue is peppered with references to miracles – waiting on them, praying for them, believing in them, etc. - much to the dismay of his conversational counterpart. He truly believes in the spiritual and miraculous properties of Faygo, and of fistfuls of glitter he calls his “special stardust”, which he throws into his face every time he prays for a miracle. Because of his devotion to miracles, and believing so fervently in the unexplainable, the only thing that really seems to upset him is when people try to explain away his beliefs. If he believes something is a miracle, he doesn’t want to be told otherwise. He doesn’t want someone to explain the inner-workings of a piece of technology, or why a bottle of Faygo hisses when you crack it open. They’re just miracles, plain and simple, and one shouldn’t try to dissect them. Rocking the foundation of his religion is one of the fastest ways to upset this otherwise docile young troll.
It is the complete annihilation of his religion that is a major factor in Gamzee’s mental breakdown.
It would be utterly deceiving to say that Gamzee is harmless, despite everything just said about his calm, peace-loving ways. Although, during Sgrub, he had preferred to split pies with his enemies instead of fighting them, he did say that he had fought at least some of them before they’d all settled down. Karkat mentions in one of his memos that Gamzee carries out one of the most powerful attacks against the Black King at the end of the game, and how unexpected an attack of that caliber was coming from Gamzee. So, we know there’s some power he has hidden away, whether or not he’s completely aware of it is another question. Regardless, he becomes fully aware of many things after Dave sends him a link to the ICP music video for “Miracles”. This makes Gamzee insanely furious, shattering everything he thought he’d believed in, leaving him distraught and directionless. Gamzee’s actions after his introduction to the video contradict everything he used to stand for, and everything he used to believe.
Gamzee did not snap solely because of the video (although it was a large contributer). He was also becoming more and more lucid as he ran out of sopor slime. He had made mention earlier in the game about how it had been “ages since [he] had a good pie.” As he neared sobriety, he was more susceptible to provocation, and his mental state was becoming more and more unstable, even if he didn’t realize it. Highbloods are known to be more violent and ruthless than other trolls, and it seemed that the sopor Gamzee would ingest kept his anger and bloodlust at bay.
After the video, Gamzee disappeared from the lab, only making contact with Karkat later to taunt and antagonize him. As Gamzee talked with Karkat, he explained how he’d come to realize that he himself was actually the gods that he had worshipped previously. Both of the mirthful messiahs, he said, were inside of him, and it was his duty to kill everyone left on the meteor.
Gamzee is worlds apart from himself when sober. He becomes a manipulative, homicidal monster that enjoys toying with his victims before finally offing them. He seems to become very intelligent, even managing to turn Terezi’s steadfast investigation on its head so she wouldn’t pin the murders of Nepeta and Equius on him (which he was entirely responsible for). He instead tampered with the evidence and used his newfound powers (to be explained!) to lead Terezi to believe that Vriska was to blame for the murders of their friends, and even for the murder of Gamzee himself. He is extremely delusional for believing that he is not one, but two omnipotent entities, hell-bent on destroying everyone he deems unworthy. While sober, the mirthful messiahs manifest themselves in the way Gamzee speaks, having him calmly speak one sentence, then maniacally scream the next. He takes the blood caste system very seriously in his insanity, ordering Equius to kneel before him. When Equius hesitates, Gamzee shoots an arrow into his leg, forcing him down on his knee. Gamzee gets ridiculously overpowered in this state, snapping Nepeta's wrist with a flick of his own, and being able to take on many trolls without injury. It is widely disputed whether or not Gamzee’s sober or high personas are his “true” self, whether or not eating the sopor calms him down enough so he can be who he really wants to be, and not the ravenous killer his blood makes him. When he entered a moirallegiance with Karkat, Gamzee’s rage seemed to have been quelled for the time being. He was definitely not the same troll he was in the beginning of Hivebent, but his murderous rampage had come to a screeching halt.
After that, Gamzee is seen working for the evil cherub Caliborn (assumed to be a younger version of the game's final boss), although it is never explained why. Caliborn treats him like absolute shit, even going as far as bludgeoning him with a crowbar and obliterating him with a machine gun. Interestingly enough, even though it is revealed that Gamzee's new god tier outfit is a fake, he still does not die from the wounds Caliborn inflicts on him. Hussie himself attested to Gamzee being immortal, though didn't give any substantial reason for it. It is then revealed that Gamzee was there to witness the birth of Calliope/Caliborn, and raised them himself. We don't know if he did this of his own free will, or if he was being puppeted by someone else. More on that later.
Back on the meteor, Karkat reveals that Gamzee broke off their moirallegiance himself, after being absent and distant for quite some time prior. For three years, Gamzee had hidden himself away in the vents on the meteor, keeping himself isolated from almost everyone. He is seen having a conversation with Rose, and watching over Karkat while he sleeps. In Gamzee’s conversation with Rose, he reveals that he and Terezi have been in a secret kismesitude. This is definitely troublesome, Gamzee admits, because Karkat would be severely upset if he found out about their tryst. Assuming this conversation takes place while Gamzee and Karkat are still together, but Gamzee is being his usual absent self, one could almost conclude that Gamzee, despite his actions, still cares about Karkat’s feelings. Gamzee, to me, has a key quote in this conversation, where he says, "SHE ALL GETS HER HATE ON OF ME QUITE UNDERSTANDABLY, SEEING AS TO WHAT A VILE PIECE OF CLOWN ASS TRASH I'M ALL IS." Whether or not he was being facetious here is unknown, but if we take his words at face value, they definitely indicate strong feelings of self-loathing, which is even more interesting.
It is revealed that Gamzee and Terezi's relationship is extremely unhealthy. According to Terezi, Gamzee makes her feel awful, taunting her and making fun of her inability to see. She ends up so wrapped up in and manipulated by Gamzee, that Karkat ends up finding her passed out in her underwear, covered in Faygo. She says she is so unhappy with him, but she doesn't want to leave him because she doesn't want to feel like he doesn't want her anymore. This personality is highly unlike the self-reliant, confident Terezi we used to know. It's obvious Gamzee has done a number on her. Later, she accepts Aranea's offer to regain her eyesight, which later proves to be a huge mistake. It is inferred that she did so because Gamzee's taunting got under her skin and made her feel self-conscious.
Even later on, we are shown Gamzee being under Aranea's mind control, acting as her personal servant and helping her perpetuate her own agenda. As it was when Gamzee was apparently being mind-controlled by Lil Cal, we aren't sure how long it has been since he first fell under her spell. It could be that everything he's done since meeting her during the timeskip has not been of his own volition. This is what was talked about earlier when I mentioned raising Caliborn and Calliope. What makes Gamzee such a confusing character is not only the convoluted timeline he insists on going through in canon (back in time, forward in time, anything but linear), but the fact that we don't know at any point when he is or is not in control of himself. We can know what Gamzee does, or where he is in time, but we can never be sure of who he truly is, because we just don't have enough information yet. The most accurate way to deduce his personality is to take his actions with a grain of salt, and focus on the times when he absolutely was in control of himself.
For instance, Aranea relinquishes her mind control for a split second after Gamzee delivers the ring to her, and he explodes in a fit of angry confusion, not knowing where he is or what he's doing. We only get a few sentences out of him before she shuts him back up because his yelling begins to irritate her.
In recent updates, Gamzee was seen in an altercation with Terezi amidst the chaos of many other players fighting for control. Karkat, now seemingly furious with Gamzee's antics, rushes and tries attacking him, only to be stabbed by Gamzee with Terezi's sword. Gamzee is shown with red eyes as this happens, indicative of his rage state. Shortly after Gamzee dumps Karkat into a pit of lava, Kanaya follows up the attack and slices Gamzee vertically in half with her chainsaw, (presumably) killing him.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
☠ Addictive
☠ Cantankerous
☠ Dissociative
☠ Hysterical
☠ Impetuous
☠ Moronic
☠ Resilient
☠ Self-Confident
☠ Unorthodox
☠ Vulgar
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? N/A (Re-app, was nymph.)
Opt-Outs: Vampire, Naga, Goblin, Minotaur, Arachne, Troll
Roleplay Sample:
[Gamzee looked a little neater than usual, stepping cautiously through the poppy field. He'd actually never been up here before, but he felt like it would be the best place to get this over with. It was a sedating atmosphere, and he was feeling a little more relaxed, carrying something quite heavy in both of his arms.
[He was moving slow enough to be easy to catch him. In a place where the grass didn't grow quite as tall, he crouched down, settling the large object in his lap. If you approached, you'd be able to hear him speaking to it.]
...ain't been much fuckin' available to you as of motherfucking lateness...
[His tone was apologetic, and the few poppies he'd managed to pick were placed in the... pocket... of the object.]
...good enough reason for it, to all be at perfectly mother fuckin' real with your ass...
[It was a pair of severed legs, sawed off at the waist. Brownish, coppery blood congealed at and stained most of the upper half, while the still-frozen pants clung to their mottled skin. Gamzee continued pushing the flowers into the pockets, through the belt loops - anywhere he could find - as some sort of romantic gesture???]
...things have just... I dunno. Been up and getting all kinds of harsh on the redness front, you feel me? I'm all to be motherfuckin' meaning, with the you what's got the top half all connected still. I ain't no brother to get his judge on of what part's being all missing from fuckin' where, but I got it all shoved in my pan now what carryin' on two of these motherfuckin' dealings ain't some noise what be fucking proper, or some shit like that. You know?
[Running his hand down the side of one of the thighs, he let out a long-suffering sigh. Was he... breaking up with a pair of severed legs!?]
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Character Name: Gamzee Makara
Age: 16
Canon: Homestuck
Canon Point: [S] Game Over
Character Information: Here.
Personality: The troll race had been painstakingly forged for sweeps to ensure future generations would become hardened, violent, ruthless, and vengeful beings. Where most excel with the sharpened wit, cunning, and resourcefulness needed to hold their own is where Gamzee Makara falls flat on his ridiculously clownish face. He is infinitely more interested in planting himself on the seashore and marveling at nothing in particular than putting his thinkpan to better use like some of his more intelligent friends. But that’s okay, because you always gotta be motherfuckin’ going at what your heart tells in you.
To put it more plainly, he differs greatly from their culture’s norm for a plethora of reasons.
Gamzee is commonly referred to as the “joke character” of Homestuck, existing only to serve the purpose of comic relief, plot progression, and not much else besides that. He is a blatant parody of human Juggalos, having a strong interest in clowns, circus equipment, Faygo, and painting his face similar to the members of the Insane Clown Posse. His speech patterns are so outrageous, and his sentences so grammatically confusing, that it sometimes takes two or three re-reads to actually understand what he’s trying to say. His dialogue is also steeped in gangster dialect, utilizing slang such as “dog”, “dope”, “peeps”, “bro”, etcetera. He has a particular affinity for the phrase “motherfucker”, and any variations thereof. He uses clown puns less often, but uses clown-nosed emoticons and “honks” to punctuate his thoughts. Gamzee will honk like a bike horn when he’s excited, when he’s scared, or basically to express any emotion. He loves to rap, which is referred to as “Alternian slam poetry” on his planet, although he tends to be pretty terrible at it. Along with being the troll equivalent of a Juggalo, Gamzee is also often likened to a hippie or pothead because of his laid-back, peaceful attitude and for his addiction to an Alternian substance called sopor slime. Sopor originates in trolls’ beds, called "recuperacoons", and surrounds a troll as they sleep, ensuring that they are not plagued by horrific nightmares. It is not to be ingested, and young trolls are normally warned of the brain-damaging effects of eating sopor slime. Gamzee however, on account of a very irresponsible custodian (which I will touch on later), was never taught the dangers of taking sopor internally. He enjoys baking it into pies, which he eats on a regular basis. Such ignorance has resulted in an addiction to the substance’s hallucinogenic and sedative properties, leaving Gamzee on a constant, mind-numbing high. Because he is constantly stoned, Gamzee has a great deal of trouble paying attention, and will often space out in the middle of conversations, or get distracted by things like bright colors or flashing lights.
Gamzee is extremely lax, and spends most of his time sitting outside his beachside dwelling, waiting for his custodian to make an appearance. Trolls are raised by enormous, white beasts called lusii. A normal troll/lusus relationship would resemble a strange, familial partnership. The young troll tends to their lusus, much like an animal trainer or zookeeper would any large animal under their supervision. In turn, the lusus looks after and raises their charge, teaching it the life lessons and living habits needed to survive. Unfortunately, Gamzee’s relationship with his lusus is strained at best. Gamzee happens to be near the very top of the hemospectrum (which is the troll equivalent of an old-fashioned social class structure - one’s place at the top or bottom of the social hierarchy is determined by the color of their blood), making him what’s known as a “highblood”. The very top rungs of the hemospectrum are reserved for sea-dwellers, which are finned trolls that reside mostly underwater. Since Gamzee is the highest-blooded land-dweller on the hemospectrum, his lusus is appropriately a seagoat, who is able to survive both on land and underwater. That being said, Gamzee’s lusus chose to spend a majority of its time at sea (save for a few sparse visits), leaving Gamzee behind for most of his life. Despite all of this, Gamzee makes it a priority to sit by the water’s edge night after night, keeping an eye out and waiting for any sign of his lusus coming to check up on him. He seems unfazed by the fact that the goat rarely shows, and is always optimistic that, maybe this time, he’ll be able to catch sight of him!
This naïveté and childish optimism carries over to a lot of other parts of his personality. He is eagerly and readily available if any one of his friends has a dilemma, and will go out of his way to help resolve it - even if it means sacrificing something of his, or altering his own behavior in some way. (He once agreed to stop eating sopor and drinking Faygo just because he was asked to. It later turned out to be a miscommunication, but the sentiment is still there.) He enjoys listening to problems, and encourages friends to open up to him so he can give his two cents on the situation. Any situation. For example, in this pesterlog, Equius is having trouble trying to get a handle on his severe, and slightly disturbing, masochistic fetishes. Equius lives to be dominated and chastised by trolls higher than he on the hemospectrum, of which Gamzee fits the bill. Gamzee is one of the few highblooded trolls who don’t value their higher social rank, and hold other trolls “below” them in contempt. He says that he doesn’t “know if [he] know[s] how to be like a better motherfucker than any other motherfucker.” This creates a problem for Equius, who tries to get Gamzee to indulge his fantasies by pleading with him to adopt a harsher demeanor. Gamzee complies, but is awful at bossing Equius around. Gamzee’s awful at pretty much everything he does, but he puts his whole heart into it anyways.
His willingness to aid friends in need, coupled with his atrocity at performing anything more intellectually demanding than laying in the sand, ensures that the advice he does end up giving is sub-par, to be extremely generous. This is painfully apparent in a different conversation, this time with Eridan. Gamzee insists on trying to help him out in Karkat’s stead. Eridan is having relationship troubles, and the only advice Gamzee provides is suggesting that Eridan “just kick back and motherfuckin snap into some rude elixir and maybe get your wicked zone on.” Eridan recognizes Gamzee’s advice as useless, and the conversation quickly deteriorates.
This brings us to another point which should be mentioned: Gamzee takes criticism extremely well. If someone has a problem with him, he’ll accept it and move on. He’ll ask if there’s anything he can do to make the relationship better, and if there isn’t, he doesn’t hold it against the other person. However, he is also quite persistent, and doesn’t seem to understand that because someone has told him they don’t like him, that probably means that they don’t want to talk to him any more. He’ll keep blabbering on like nothing happened. Even though Karkat berates and grows increasingly annoyed with him, Gamzee still refers to him as his best friend, not caring whether or not that friendship is reciprocated. Blame ignorance, indifference, or both, but any and all insults directed towards him slide right off, while he keeps that lackadaisical grin plastered all over his face. Just because he’s inattentive to a fault, even going so far as to forget the title he was given in the game, doesn’t mean that he’s completely clueless. He was extremely curious about Sgrub during Hivebent, and was trying to find out more about the game in every one of his pesterlogs. He seemed genuinely excited to start playing, and his enthusiasm continued throughout their session.
His endless optimism and awful advice stem from the deep-seated faith he has in his religion. Gamzee is a part of a cult that believes wholeheartedly that, one day, a new, utopian planet will be born. Led by his laughing, clownish lords – a duo which he has dubbed his “mirthful messiahs” - everyone will live out the rest of their lives on the paradise planet in endless celebration. His religion also places heavy emphasis on the reliance on miracles to solve both major and minor conflicts. Gamzee is so enthusiastic about this, that most of his dialogue is peppered with references to miracles – waiting on them, praying for them, believing in them, etc. - much to the dismay of his conversational counterpart. He truly believes in the spiritual and miraculous properties of Faygo, and of fistfuls of glitter he calls his “special stardust”, which he throws into his face every time he prays for a miracle. Because of his devotion to miracles, and believing so fervently in the unexplainable, the only thing that really seems to upset him is when people try to explain away his beliefs. If he believes something is a miracle, he doesn’t want to be told otherwise. He doesn’t want someone to explain the inner-workings of a piece of technology, or why a bottle of Faygo hisses when you crack it open. They’re just miracles, plain and simple, and one shouldn’t try to dissect them. Rocking the foundation of his religion is one of the fastest ways to upset this otherwise docile young troll.
It is the complete annihilation of his religion that is a major factor in Gamzee’s mental breakdown.
It would be utterly deceiving to say that Gamzee is harmless, despite everything just said about his calm, peace-loving ways. Although, during Sgrub, he had preferred to split pies with his enemies instead of fighting them, he did say that he had fought at least some of them before they’d all settled down. Karkat mentions in one of his memos that Gamzee carries out one of the most powerful attacks against the Black King at the end of the game, and how unexpected an attack of that caliber was coming from Gamzee. So, we know there’s some power he has hidden away, whether or not he’s completely aware of it is another question. Regardless, he becomes fully aware of many things after Dave sends him a link to the ICP music video for “Miracles”. This makes Gamzee insanely furious, shattering everything he thought he’d believed in, leaving him distraught and directionless. Gamzee’s actions after his introduction to the video contradict everything he used to stand for, and everything he used to believe.
Gamzee did not snap solely because of the video (although it was a large contributer). He was also becoming more and more lucid as he ran out of sopor slime. He had made mention earlier in the game about how it had been “ages since [he] had a good pie.” As he neared sobriety, he was more susceptible to provocation, and his mental state was becoming more and more unstable, even if he didn’t realize it. Highbloods are known to be more violent and ruthless than other trolls, and it seemed that the sopor Gamzee would ingest kept his anger and bloodlust at bay.
After the video, Gamzee disappeared from the lab, only making contact with Karkat later to taunt and antagonize him. As Gamzee talked with Karkat, he explained how he’d come to realize that he himself was actually the gods that he had worshipped previously. Both of the mirthful messiahs, he said, were inside of him, and it was his duty to kill everyone left on the meteor.
Gamzee is worlds apart from himself when sober. He becomes a manipulative, homicidal monster that enjoys toying with his victims before finally offing them. He seems to become very intelligent, even managing to turn Terezi’s steadfast investigation on its head so she wouldn’t pin the murders of Nepeta and Equius on him (which he was entirely responsible for). He instead tampered with the evidence and used his newfound powers (to be explained!) to lead Terezi to believe that Vriska was to blame for the murders of their friends, and even for the murder of Gamzee himself. He is extremely delusional for believing that he is not one, but two omnipotent entities, hell-bent on destroying everyone he deems unworthy. While sober, the mirthful messiahs manifest themselves in the way Gamzee speaks, having him calmly speak one sentence, then maniacally scream the next. He takes the blood caste system very seriously in his insanity, ordering Equius to kneel before him. When Equius hesitates, Gamzee shoots an arrow into his leg, forcing him down on his knee. Gamzee gets ridiculously overpowered in this state, snapping Nepeta's wrist with a flick of his own, and being able to take on many trolls without injury. It is widely disputed whether or not Gamzee’s sober or high personas are his “true” self, whether or not eating the sopor calms him down enough so he can be who he really wants to be, and not the ravenous killer his blood makes him. When he entered a moirallegiance with Karkat, Gamzee’s rage seemed to have been quelled for the time being. He was definitely not the same troll he was in the beginning of Hivebent, but his murderous rampage had come to a screeching halt.
After that, Gamzee is seen working for the evil cherub Caliborn (assumed to be a younger version of the game's final boss), although it is never explained why. Caliborn treats him like absolute shit, even going as far as bludgeoning him with a crowbar and obliterating him with a machine gun. Interestingly enough, even though it is revealed that Gamzee's new god tier outfit is a fake, he still does not die from the wounds Caliborn inflicts on him. Hussie himself attested to Gamzee being immortal, though didn't give any substantial reason for it. It is then revealed that Gamzee was there to witness the birth of Calliope/Caliborn, and raised them himself. We don't know if he did this of his own free will, or if he was being puppeted by someone else. More on that later.
Back on the meteor, Karkat reveals that Gamzee broke off their moirallegiance himself, after being absent and distant for quite some time prior. For three years, Gamzee had hidden himself away in the vents on the meteor, keeping himself isolated from almost everyone. He is seen having a conversation with Rose, and watching over Karkat while he sleeps. In Gamzee’s conversation with Rose, he reveals that he and Terezi have been in a secret kismesitude. This is definitely troublesome, Gamzee admits, because Karkat would be severely upset if he found out about their tryst. Assuming this conversation takes place while Gamzee and Karkat are still together, but Gamzee is being his usual absent self, one could almost conclude that Gamzee, despite his actions, still cares about Karkat’s feelings. Gamzee, to me, has a key quote in this conversation, where he says, "SHE ALL GETS HER HATE ON OF ME QUITE UNDERSTANDABLY, SEEING AS TO WHAT A VILE PIECE OF CLOWN ASS TRASH I'M ALL IS." Whether or not he was being facetious here is unknown, but if we take his words at face value, they definitely indicate strong feelings of self-loathing, which is even more interesting.
It is revealed that Gamzee and Terezi's relationship is extremely unhealthy. According to Terezi, Gamzee makes her feel awful, taunting her and making fun of her inability to see. She ends up so wrapped up in and manipulated by Gamzee, that Karkat ends up finding her passed out in her underwear, covered in Faygo. She says she is so unhappy with him, but she doesn't want to leave him because she doesn't want to feel like he doesn't want her anymore. This personality is highly unlike the self-reliant, confident Terezi we used to know. It's obvious Gamzee has done a number on her. Later, she accepts Aranea's offer to regain her eyesight, which later proves to be a huge mistake. It is inferred that she did so because Gamzee's taunting got under her skin and made her feel self-conscious.
Even later on, we are shown Gamzee being under Aranea's mind control, acting as her personal servant and helping her perpetuate her own agenda. As it was when Gamzee was apparently being mind-controlled by Lil Cal, we aren't sure how long it has been since he first fell under her spell. It could be that everything he's done since meeting her during the timeskip has not been of his own volition. This is what was talked about earlier when I mentioned raising Caliborn and Calliope. What makes Gamzee such a confusing character is not only the convoluted timeline he insists on going through in canon (back in time, forward in time, anything but linear), but the fact that we don't know at any point when he is or is not in control of himself. We can know what Gamzee does, or where he is in time, but we can never be sure of who he truly is, because we just don't have enough information yet. The most accurate way to deduce his personality is to take his actions with a grain of salt, and focus on the times when he absolutely was in control of himself.
For instance, Aranea relinquishes her mind control for a split second after Gamzee delivers the ring to her, and he explodes in a fit of angry confusion, not knowing where he is or what he's doing. We only get a few sentences out of him before she shuts him back up because his yelling begins to irritate her.
In recent updates, Gamzee was seen in an altercation with Terezi amidst the chaos of many other players fighting for control. Karkat, now seemingly furious with Gamzee's antics, rushes and tries attacking him, only to be stabbed by Gamzee with Terezi's sword. Gamzee is shown with red eyes as this happens, indicative of his rage state. Shortly after Gamzee dumps Karkat into a pit of lava, Kanaya follows up the attack and slices Gamzee vertically in half with her chainsaw, (presumably) killing him.
5-10 Key Character Traits:
☠ Addictive
☠ Cantankerous
☠ Dissociative
☠ Hysterical
☠ Impetuous
☠ Moronic
☠ Resilient
☠ Self-Confident
☠ Unorthodox
☠ Vulgar
Would you prefer a monster that FITS your character’s personality, CONFLICTS with it, or EITHER? N/A (Re-app, was nymph.)
Opt-Outs: Vampire, Naga, Goblin, Minotaur, Arachne, Troll
Roleplay Sample:
[Gamzee looked a little neater than usual, stepping cautiously through the poppy field. He'd actually never been up here before, but he felt like it would be the best place to get this over with. It was a sedating atmosphere, and he was feeling a little more relaxed, carrying something quite heavy in both of his arms.
[He was moving slow enough to be easy to catch him. In a place where the grass didn't grow quite as tall, he crouched down, settling the large object in his lap. If you approached, you'd be able to hear him speaking to it.]
...ain't been much fuckin' available to you as of motherfucking lateness...
[His tone was apologetic, and the few poppies he'd managed to pick were placed in the... pocket... of the object.]
...good enough reason for it, to all be at perfectly mother fuckin' real with your ass...
[It was a pair of severed legs, sawed off at the waist. Brownish, coppery blood congealed at and stained most of the upper half, while the still-frozen pants clung to their mottled skin. Gamzee continued pushing the flowers into the pockets, through the belt loops - anywhere he could find - as some sort of romantic gesture???]
...things have just... I dunno. Been up and getting all kinds of harsh on the redness front, you feel me? I'm all to be motherfuckin' meaning, with the you what's got the top half all connected still. I ain't no brother to get his judge on of what part's being all missing from fuckin' where, but I got it all shoved in my pan now what carryin' on two of these motherfuckin' dealings ain't some noise what be fucking proper, or some shit like that. You know?
[Running his hand down the side of one of the thighs, he let out a long-suffering sigh. Was he... breaking up with a pair of severed legs!?]