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 Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 1:46 pm
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Name: Twista Whirll
Blood colour: Yellow (#b38600)
Pronouns: She/Her
Symbol: a tornado
Profile:
Generally, Twista is a calm, content, and peaceful troll, one who enjoys making others happy. She's all too pleased to go with the flow of whatever situation she may find herself in, following the lead of others around her without much second thought. She is extremely easily influenced by those around her, not just in decisions but also in emotions. If she can tell someone she's with is getting frustrated or angry or sad, her mood darkens to match. Once she starts getting swept up in negative emotions, though, she has trouble managing them. It's an all too easy step from sullen glares to full-blown anger, and the only way she's ever been able to work through anger is to explode with it, usually by picking up the nearest thing to her and throwing it at whatever she's deemed to be the source of the problem. Thankfully, if nothing eggs her on, her tempers are short-lived. She just needs to get it out of her system, and then she won't even hold a grudge.
She's spent most of her childhood with her lusus at the farmhive out on the Plains, doing chores to keep the area tidy and learning everything about the world that Moom can teach. They don't have a full-fledged farm, because that would be an awful lot for one little kid to handle, but there's a little garden where she's able to grow at least some of her own food. Other than that, she's taken to some hobbies here and there. She plays the flute, for instance, and she likes making colorful little wind spinners to go around the hive, which sometimes she even manages to sell at market for spare beetles to save up for her very own vespa one day. She collects fun posters to look at and especially enjoys the tourism ones, the better to fuel exploration daydreams with!
And, of course, she is always preparing for the Big Storm. As best she can tell from what Moom's said, the coming Storm is something everytroll has to be prepared for! There's no real way to be sure when exactly it will hit, and it's possible that doing the wrong thing like not listening to your lusus or hogging all of the good vegetables or bothering highbloods can even make it come faster. It's for this reason that she keeps a storm cellar stocked up and ready, with her recuperacoon tucked safely underground. She'd be in a lot of trouble if the Storm came during the day and caught her asleep in her hive, after all!
If bothering highbloods is a Storm summoning offense, then sticking to the Hemospectrum is obviously an important part of being prepared too. Twista hasn't given it much thought beyond that, and has had little reason to consider that she might be getting the short end of the stick, caste-wise. Highbloods are fascinating, after all, in a kind of exotic and unreachable way from her vantage out there on the farm, and tend to evoke the same kind of awe as general sightseeing does. It might be fun to be friends with some, if they have time for a yellowblood, but she tries not to get her hopes up too high when she goes into the city!
Strengths:
Prepared - Twista knows full well how important it can be to be prepared, thanks to her fear of the Big Storm. Keeping the storm cellar tidy and well-stocked has become a big part of her routine, one easily applied to other tasks as well. There's no knowing what she'll find when she ventures out into the world, but if nothing else, she will never be without the basic things she needs to survive.
Agreeable - Twista is very much a people pleaser, and so she strives to do what is asked of her. This is one troll that can be counted on to not make the decision to rock the boat or rebel against the way things are, and for a royalist lowblood, that's about the best way to be to stay safe.
Flaws:
Expressive - Twista's inability to contain or conceal her feelings about situations is a very risky trait for any lowblood to have. All it would take is one temper tantrum around the wrong troll, one object thrown at the wrong target, and she'd be in a lot of trouble that she might not be able to breeze her way through.
Compliant - Going with the flow is all well and good when it's going the right way, but sometimes the crowd doesn't have your best interests in mind. Choosing to follow the lead instead of thinking for herself has a high chance of getting Twista into situations she's not equipped to handle.
Weapon: Meteor hammer
Appearance: what a cutie, and more ref though maybe no streaks in the bun just yet!
Home: Plains. Twista has a cozy little farmhive out on the plains. She has several kinds of wind chimes and spinners around the hive, but the most notable addition to the place is the air siren that stands off the side of the building, taller than the hive itself. Although her home is well-furnished and nice to spend time in, she keeps all her important things (including her recuperacoon) in the storm cellar in her back yard and sleeps there during the day. Just to be safe from the bad weather that might come through the area!
Lusus: That's a cow alright, one affectionately called Moom by her charge. Moom does her very best to teach Twista how to be a good lowblood, from a willingness to work to a resourcefulness to prepare for life's troubles. She never did quite get the hang of discipline, however, and her attempt to substitute in a different measure of control for Twista's tempers eventually got blown up into the Big Storm story she tells Twista so frequently. Maybe there is one coming, Moom doesn't know, but it keeps Twista doing what she needs to do, so who cares either way?
She spends a lot of her own free time lazily grazing around the farmhive and dispensing advice or ominous warning as needed. When traveling, however, she also gets a bit carried away, either overwhelmed or excited by seeing new places. This leads to odd exchanges of almost tag, where lusus must keep up with troll to keep her safe, but troll must frequently hurry to catch up to or find lusus to stay safe. Weirdly, every time Twista loses track of Moom, she turns up in the strangest places. Twista's still getting into the habit of looking up when especially lost.
The two are easy-going enough that they usually get along well, but every once in a while, they get frustrated with each other and have fights. These usually work out to about the same end result. Twista's temper gets set off, Moom gets annoyed once she starts throwing things, and that's that. If at home, Moom will just pick her up and drop her into the storm cellar to cool off, reminding her of the Big Storm for extra oomph before going back to what she was doing. If not, well, time to go home. If she's not cooled off by the time they get there, it's the same thing anyway.
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