#joruna

World: Alternia

Name: Selefi Karnad (no meaning once again)

…Selefi is a reorganization of Selfie, so you could insert a bit of arrogance vibes in there to go along with her cocky attitude pre-Giving Up/Rebuilding Her Life. For a surname, can I recommend Joruna instead? As a reference to Jorunna Parva, the little bunny slug she has for a lusus!

Age: 6 sweeps at the beginning

Theme/Story: Selefi doesn’t have much of a theme besides a violet who feels too weak but has given up. Now she’s trying harder than ever to make up for it.

Alright, I think your big problem here with her is that you have a sort of waffling vision of where she is right now and what she’s doing. Why was she considered weak? And how is acting the same as all other highbloods always do “giving up”? 

SA and I were talking about this and we think the best way to neaten up this narrative is to say that BEFORE present time, she was Mean. One of the rat race. Trying to climb that social ladder and getting in highblood social spats, until some other highbloods fucked her up for it, not for being “weak”. 

Now she’s trying to rebuild from the crashing of her former lifestyle and become a better person/get out of the cycle of social stupidity so common to Alternian folks. Kind of like when you graduate to high school from middle school and realize all the cliquey bullshit and drama wasn’t worth it and you become a social hermit, but with more murder. 

SA also suggested that the seaweed thing to cope is interesting beyond a joke because of rage players turning to false hope in the form of substance dependency is something that we’ve seen previously in canon with Gamzee and sopor. “Choosing Stagnation over Actualization through Rage,” as SA put it. I’d say Tread Lightly w/ this because even if marijuana is one of the “less stigmatized” drugs, substance use of any kind is still one of those Caution: Approach With Compassion topics. 

Goals: Visual mostly. I like her outfit alright, but her sprite just looks… ew. But you can change her however you wish!

Strife Specibus: A spear with a long strand of seaweed as a ribbon on it. It somehow looks pretty.

Fetch Modus: I actually haven’t come up with one yet! Maybe you can help with this.

For some reason I’m imagining a Fashion Modus in like Cher Horowitz From Clueless style. Like, each item gets broken down into outfit pieces and she has to find the ones that match to get her item out! And if she picks a mismatch… there could be consequences. 

Blood Color: Violet.

Symbol and Meaning: Aquicorn, sign of the tempest

Handle: seaweedBunny

Definitely a little too on the nose. At least go for something a little goofier in the vein of CentaursTesticle. Like… bluntAggronomy. With blunt being… well, you know, and Aggronomy being a combo of Aggro and Agronomy. Thank SA for creating this beautiful pun with me at midnight. 

Quirk: ~ she usesssss ~~ many of these and sssssometimes slurs her wordsssss ~~

She’s not particularly snake-themed, so I don’t know if this fits quite right. Maybe instead you could frame her sentences with (\ bunny ears! /) to represent her lusus and maaaybe give her a drawl. If you wanted to be Really obnoxious about the seaweed thing you could do A=4, S=2, O=0. 

Special Abilities: Gills

Lusus/Guardian: One of those seaslugs who look like rabbits

Interests: She abandoned most of her older interests, but the ones now include target practice, smoking seaWEED, and fashion design and criticism. A lot of criticism.

These are pretty sparse. I do like the fashion critic thing, though! It could be something she picked up more recently if you wanted, something she’s trying to use to channel her inner pettiness. Can’t get into murder-rage highblood fights if she’s too busy writing takedowns of normie fashion on the internet. Since she abandoned a lot of her old interests, I can definitely see her struggling to find new ones. Maybe have her have lots of different hobbies that she half-started, but never got interested in. Just abandoned piles of new hobbie equipment crammed in her corner. 

Appearance: Selefi has a short dress with two straps that go up and attach to the front of band around her neck, same as in the back. Kinda seen better here.

Personality: Selefi’s a bit of a nasty troll. After being deemed a weakling by her fellow highbloods, her hive was raided and her lusus culled. She learned to get past this, and put up a fake personality, and act cocky and full of herself. She gets people mad at her all the time, she feeds off of that energy from people’s hate towards her. Selefi resents how she was when she was younger, wishing that she could have saved her lusus. But now she can’t. She’ll just follow the trends of being a bloodthirsty Highblood. She doesn’t really care anymore, and smokes seaweed to get her mind off it.

I won’t repeat what I said above since I already discussed the kinda discrepancy/mix-up going on here, but I will say that you should probably emphasize cocky behavior on her former life and write it as something she still struggles with now. Something she’s trying to get past, trying to recover from that old way of life and make up for how she used to be. She’s just here to descend into the ocean and CHILL. No one @ her she’s CHILLING. 

Dancestor: Rirana Karnad

Ancestor: the Unlikely Silencer: a feared censor and huntress who served the empress. She was later executed after it was found out she saved a rebel leader she was sent to kill, falling for him instead.

Lunar Sway: Prospit

I always do lean on Derse for fashion critic characters, but… I think the fact that her story is mostly about her own adaptation and change and going with the flow rather than trying to rebel overall definitely does lean her more towards Prospit than anything else, yeah.

Title: Thief of Rage

I dddon’t think this character is a Thief? If only because she doesn’t steal rage from other people. How does she take pessimism and chaos upon herself from others? How does she steal it away from them and make it hurts? It just doesn’t jive with her story. I think she may be an Heir of Rage, or if you want to go active then maybe a Knight? You’d have to do more writing around how she redistributes negative emotions for her own gain if you wanted to stick with Thief. 

Land: Land of Temples and Shadows: the angered and bloodthirsty shadows are guarding the secret entrance to meet the denizen, and Selefi must steal the anger and hate from them in order to win.

Definitely a little too straightforward. Rage isn’t just Angry, as we’ve seen expanded on in other ways. It’s pessimism, negative feelings all around, it’s restriction, limitation, it’s the desire for chaos, to uproot, overthrow, burn down without the building back up. Rage is Void and Space’s more belligerent cousin. You need a little less ‘just stealing the anger out of people’ and a little more Changing The Planet’s Cultural Landscape Into Fucking Bedlam

Her sprite, which I absolutely hate. You don’t have to change it but I would appreciate it! It was mostly made on a dollsim years ago. I just now realize that her actual horns and sprite horns don’t match. They look more like her sign. Oh no.

CD’s Design Corner: 

I’m writing this at 3 am so speedrun: I made her hair a little wilder because Troll hair ain’t ever styled so prettily, made her horns look a little more like her sign, switched her makeup to mascara (because the eyeshadow looked a little busy with the low bangs), shortened her dress, and gave her Seaweed Sandals, as well as cleaning up all the Artifacting. 

Thank you!

Thank you for submitting! I hope this was helpful! 

And then here’s the final result ^-^