#sdartu

Character Introduction: Líf Erling

Pronouns: Any

Age: ???? (Time travel complicates the matter)

Power: Temporal manipulation

So, Who Is This Guy?

Líf’s backstory is currently secret lore, but his whole deal as an adult pre-canon (well, pre-canon from his timeline) is that he’s a bit of an absentminded academic who is more interested in things like ancient coins and longbows than adventure and intrigue. Nonetheless, adventure usually finds him—there are a surprising number of life threatening incidents that take place around important historical artifacts.

Powers:

Líf’s powers are specifically temporal manipulation rather than time travel because he’s kind of OP. He can travel in time, but he can also stop and start time. Also he can see parallel universes/alternate timelines. Yeah.

Interaction With Canon:

Buckle up—this is where it gets complicated. In her (time) travels, Líf meets the mysterious and powerful Narrator while trying to get some ancient coins. Narrator already knows her, which isn’t too surprising seeing as she’s a time traveler—meeting in the wrong order is to be expected. After this first meeting, she starts running into Narrator here and there and the two become casual friends.

Then, one day, Líf travels far into the future, farther than they’ve gone before, and sees Narrator die. Shaken, they go all the way back in time and end up meeting and introducing themself to Narrator (for the first time from her perspective). They also make the decision to never travel past the day of Narrators death. Ever. Which essentially means that in the linear timeline they just disappear after canon.

Narrator and Líf run into each other throughout time and space, and from Narrator’s perspectives Líf is just—different—sometimes. She doesn’t know what the difference is each time she sees Líf, but it’s actually that in some meetings she’s interacting with a Líf who’s seen her die and in others she’s interacting with a Líf who hasn’t.

Eventually—and this is kind of complicated so I’ll keep it short—Narrator accidentally gains an omniscient being in her head called Underscore, and it makes her omniscient by proxy. She sees her death in Líf’s head, and everything changes. (Quick note--the tag for Narrator and Líf is #ragnarok!)

Two Short Líf Writings (by yours truly):

An Epilogue

Dust & Embers

Kan Komarov (he/him) is a 20-something (lets go with 22!) super-ish villain who has the power of telekinesis.

His dream is to act out his fantasies of being a dramatic comic book villain, complete with a cape and a sidekick! He's soon spotted by Vernon, who wants his assistance with defeating Narrator and taking her place. Kan believes that Vernon deserves to be a god, and worships him.

He's also friends with Kris, who he sees as his sidekick, and kind of treats pretty bad. He picked this up from Vernon. Vernon is pretty much just manipulating him, so hes also a dick to Kris, even though he just thinks that's how friendship works.

Kan also has a crush on Printz, and is constantly trying to get him to join the villains (which he eventually does, but it goes...not great). Despite this, he's more loyal to Vernon than anything, because he views them as More than the typical human, and therefore values their approval more.

Kan hates Rus. This is for a variety of reasons, though the most prominent one is that he opposes Vernon, so they're automatically an enemy to Kan. A more subconscious reason, though, is that Rus, at some point, actually cared for Kan's wellbeing, which Vernon barely did. It's sad! Kan also hates Narrator, mainly because he thinks that shes god, and that Vernon should be god instead. hes wrong on both counts!

That's the basic gist of kan, although he goes through quite a bit of development/changes over the course of sdau, udau, post-udau, and everything in between!

Misc facts:

- Used to be a cosplayer, returns to this hobby post-canon

- extremely online. enjoyer of anime, vocaloid, and porn

- in one of many (crack) aus, he's that worlds equivalent of jreg. he calls himself can.

- he cant lift matter that has a consciousness (animals/other people), but he can lift himself. dont question it

- dropped out of high school

- dyes his hair silver. he's naturally a redhead (brownish red but w/e)

- he's russian. he canonically knows and likes homestuck. post-canon, he streams with printz. he has awful impulse control and a sugar addiction