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Name: Asher
Are you over 15? Yep.
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IC Information:
Name: Li'l Sebastian | Lee Sang-joon
Canon and medium: Homestuck, webcomic at MS Paint Adventures
Age: About 3 | 11
Preincarnation Species: Robot built around a stuffed rabbit
Preincarnation Appearance: The bunny, not the weird grey guy/laptop,
Any differences: This time, he'll be an average-height, slight boy of mixed Korean descent with bleached-blond hair and an apparent penchant for cutesy animal-themed clothing. He wouldn't look unlike this, but obviously without the robot ears or red eyes. No pointy shades yet.
Preincarnated History: In the movie Con Air, Cameron Poe, a street-tough maverick with nothing to lose, fights his way through a menagerie of bad guys and vehicular wrecks in order to reunite with his loving wife and child and give the little girl a stuffed bunny.
Li'l Seb is that bunny.
In the Alpha instantiation of Earth in the Homestuck universe (it's a long story with a lot of weird timeline shenanigans), celebrity figure and media mogul Dave Strider received the bunny as a gift, presumably from his Hollywood friends. He put the bunny in a museum where, preserved for about four hundred years against the apocalyptic horrors waged upon the planet by the alien Empress who took over management, it remained until Dirk Strider, the last human boy alive, obtained it with help from his friend Roxy Lalonde.
Dirk then built the bunny into a small robot as a thirteenth birthday present for his friend Jane Crocker, who happened to live four hundred years in the past--so a contemporary of Dave's rather than Dirk's. Dirk sent the bunny back in time to her, where it served, as most stuffed animals are meant to, as a gesture of affection, an object of comfort, and a really badass combat-ready bodyguard who just happened to be totally adorable.
Dirk is kind of a weird kid.
He spent the next two and a half years with Jane and caused her no end of trouble, as small, mobile things tend to, but his most important period of life was a single day in the fall of 2012. Jane reactivated him to help her dodge her dad, move obstacles, and help her start playing a game that transported her and her friends from one universe to another.
After entering the Medium, where the game, SBURB, is played, Seb took orders both from Jane and Dirk's AI Auto-responder to help ensure that all the players got safely into the game. In so doing, he followed Jane to Derse, where he watched her get skewered by a final-boss attack called the Red Miles. Dirk then ordered him to save Jake, which Seb did by grabbing him and rocketing back to Jake's monster-infested island. He'd almost made it when a dragon knocked Seb into the ocean where he sank to the bottom and was lost forever until some unknown point in the far future when a group of temporally dislocated badguys picked his rusted, battered, but still-functional bunny body up. We're still not sure what he's doing with them.
The MSPA wiki has an abridged bio of Seb here as well as a chronology of the different bunnies further down the page. There are a lot of time loops, but mostly Seb isn't actually part of them.
Reincarnated History: Lee Sang-joon is the only child of Lee Jin-ae, a Korean-American custom clothes-maker who specializes in melting people's teeth off with cutesy wares. Jin-ae and her husband divorced after a short-lived and bitterly unhappy marriage that Sang-joon doesn't remember much of, and he grew up as half of a two-person household in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay while his mother worked her hands to the bone to support them. Jin-ae, tirelessly kind but not entirely pragmatic, always assured her son that things would be better once she opened her own store and had her own customers rather than continue working for her company. Sang-joon didn't disbelieve her exactly, but did his best to alleviate the burden of single-handedly raising a kid by asking his mom for little and running every little errand he could. Whenever she finished a project of her own, he'd model it for her without complaint, and if a commission was flawed or rejected, he took it and wore it to spare both his mother's feelings and the cost of clothes.
In this way, he came to prioritize his mother above all other interaction. While she worried a little that kids would tease him for always wearing the kitten-print T-shirts and fake candy accessories she made, Sang-joon decided he just really didn't care. He earned a reputation both as an aloof weirdo and a mysterious cutie at school, where he got B grades but was generally liked by teachers for his quiet, tractable attitude. He didn't have many friends, but girls who approached him to find out where he got that cute jacket found that he was polite and generous and always brought their requests straight to his mom, who would, more often than not, insist on making them something for free. Pursuing further interaction from Sang-joon was almost always a fruitless task, though. His mother always came first, and he rarely made time to see friends.
The unintentional advertising Sang-joon provided eventually earned Jin-ae a small following, which grew as she made an internet presence for herself and eventually blossomed into a business stable enough to provide for both her and her son, if she quit her job. After much deliberation, she did, and while money was as tight as ever, Jin-ae was happy doing the work she loved and being her own boss in the comfort of her home.
After modest success as an internet venture, Jin-ae was invited to open a real storefront at a subsidized cost as long as she affiliated with a group of other indy craftspeople--people she found she liked a lot and whose creative and industrious ethics she admired. The catch was that she'd have to move entirely across the country to Locke City. Dreamer that she was, her only hesitation was Sang-joon.
He, of course, responded to her tentative questions with, "Okay, let's go."
They moved to Locke City about a month before the new school year, and he's spent the last of his summer getting his room above the shop just the way he likes it and hopping all over the city to help his mom ready her store for opening day. He's been busy, but it's also helped him familiarize himself with the city on at least a physical level--he hasn't been following the news, so he's not really aware of recent 2pooky events.
Sang-joon does miss the Bay--he lived there all his life, and the people were at least familiar, if not friends--but his mother's happiness always comes first. Besides, he's found something exciting about having such a huge city to explore--and something frightening and fascinating about this strange memory he's acquired.
First Echo: While using a telescope early one morning a couple weeks ago to see if he could make out the Perseid meteor shower in the city, he experienced a weird sense of deja vu. While he didn't receive the memory itself, he remembered an all-consuming, unshakable, almost painful devotion to the girl he'd been tracking the meteor for: a girl named Jane. Sang-joon has no idea who she is or what she looks like or why he loved her, but even the mental echo of that dedication is as powerfully nagging as the string of numbers that's been stuck in his head since then.
Preincarnation Personality: What sort of person were they in their past life? Headcanon should be clearly marked in italics. This section is important, as it helps us gauge your grasp on the character, so spare no expense here.
GG: So then, are you saying Mr. Sebastian here was an ironic present?
GG: Relayed strictly for guffaws?? >:B
TT: Yes, but it's not that simple. There were many layers involved.
Any differences: You are encouraged to deviate from the original personality in three or four major ways, made to make their personality logical to the setting and their new history (which, by default, varies from their original life). If the personality does not differentiate significantly, or if the differences do not make sense given the rest of your app, revisions may be asked for.
Abilities:
Roleplay Sample - Third Person: Two StE test drive threads: here and here.
Roleplay Sample - Network:
[VIDEO - many months down the line]
[It isn't like Sang-joon to use video--as a generally savvy eleven-year-old aware of internet stranger-danger, he tends to stick to text, even if he's met many of the members of the Numbers Network already.
Any Questions? If you need to clear up any lingering questions or concerns, here's the place to do it.
Name: Asher
Are you over 15? Yep.
Contact:
IC Information:
Name: Li'l Sebastian | Lee Sang-joon
Canon and medium: Homestuck, webcomic at MS Paint Adventures
Age: About 3 | 11
Preincarnation Species: Robot built around a stuffed rabbit
Preincarnation Appearance: The bunny, not the weird grey guy/laptop,
Any differences: This time, he'll be an average-height, slight boy of mixed Korean descent with bleached-blond hair and an apparent penchant for cutesy animal-themed clothing. He wouldn't look unlike this, but obviously without the robot ears or red eyes. No pointy shades yet.
Preincarnated History: In the movie Con Air, Cameron Poe, a street-tough maverick with nothing to lose, fights his way through a menagerie of bad guys and vehicular wrecks in order to reunite with his loving wife and child and give the little girl a stuffed bunny.
Li'l Seb is that bunny.
In the Alpha instantiation of Earth in the Homestuck universe (it's a long story with a lot of weird timeline shenanigans), celebrity figure and media mogul Dave Strider received the bunny as a gift, presumably from his Hollywood friends. He put the bunny in a museum where, preserved for about four hundred years against the apocalyptic horrors waged upon the planet by the alien Empress who took over management, it remained until Dirk Strider, the last human boy alive, obtained it with help from his friend Roxy Lalonde.
Dirk then built the bunny into a small robot as a thirteenth birthday present for his friend Jane Crocker, who happened to live four hundred years in the past--so a contemporary of Dave's rather than Dirk's. Dirk sent the bunny back in time to her, where it served, as most stuffed animals are meant to, as a gesture of affection, an object of comfort, and a really badass combat-ready bodyguard who just happened to be totally adorable.
Dirk is kind of a weird kid.
He spent the next two and a half years with Jane and caused her no end of trouble, as small, mobile things tend to, but his most important period of life was a single day in the fall of 2012. Jane reactivated him to help her dodge her dad, move obstacles, and help her start playing a game that transported her and her friends from one universe to another.
After entering the Medium, where the game, SBURB, is played, Seb took orders both from Jane and Dirk's AI Auto-responder to help ensure that all the players got safely into the game. In so doing, he followed Jane to Derse, where he watched her get skewered by a final-boss attack called the Red Miles. Dirk then ordered him to save Jake, which Seb did by grabbing him and rocketing back to Jake's monster-infested island. He'd almost made it when a dragon knocked Seb into the ocean where he sank to the bottom and was lost forever until some unknown point in the far future when a group of temporally dislocated badguys picked his rusted, battered, but still-functional bunny body up. We're still not sure what he's doing with them.
The MSPA wiki has an abridged bio of Seb here as well as a chronology of the different bunnies further down the page. There are a lot of time loops, but mostly Seb isn't actually part of them.
Reincarnated History: Lee Sang-joon is the only child of Lee Jin-ae, a Korean-American custom clothes-maker who specializes in melting people's teeth off with cutesy wares. Jin-ae and her husband divorced after a short-lived and bitterly unhappy marriage that Sang-joon doesn't remember much of, and he grew up as half of a two-person household in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay while his mother worked her hands to the bone to support them. Jin-ae, tirelessly kind but not entirely pragmatic, always assured her son that things would be better once she opened her own store and had her own customers rather than continue working for her company. Sang-joon didn't disbelieve her exactly, but did his best to alleviate the burden of single-handedly raising a kid by asking his mom for little and running every little errand he could. Whenever she finished a project of her own, he'd model it for her without complaint, and if a commission was flawed or rejected, he took it and wore it to spare both his mother's feelings and the cost of clothes.
In this way, he came to prioritize his mother above all other interaction. While she worried a little that kids would tease him for always wearing the kitten-print T-shirts and fake candy accessories she made, Sang-joon decided he just really didn't care. He earned a reputation both as an aloof weirdo and a mysterious cutie at school, where he got B grades but was generally liked by teachers for his quiet, tractable attitude. He didn't have many friends, but girls who approached him to find out where he got that cute jacket found that he was polite and generous and always brought their requests straight to his mom, who would, more often than not, insist on making them something for free. Pursuing further interaction from Sang-joon was almost always a fruitless task, though. His mother always came first, and he rarely made time to see friends.
The unintentional advertising Sang-joon provided eventually earned Jin-ae a small following, which grew as she made an internet presence for herself and eventually blossomed into a business stable enough to provide for both her and her son, if she quit her job. After much deliberation, she did, and while money was as tight as ever, Jin-ae was happy doing the work she loved and being her own boss in the comfort of her home.
After modest success as an internet venture, Jin-ae was invited to open a real storefront at a subsidized cost as long as she affiliated with a group of other indy craftspeople--people she found she liked a lot and whose creative and industrious ethics she admired. The catch was that she'd have to move entirely across the country to Locke City. Dreamer that she was, her only hesitation was Sang-joon.
He, of course, responded to her tentative questions with, "Okay, let's go."
They moved to Locke City about a month before the new school year, and he's spent the last of his summer getting his room above the shop just the way he likes it and hopping all over the city to help his mom ready her store for opening day. He's been busy, but it's also helped him familiarize himself with the city on at least a physical level--he hasn't been following the news, so he's not really aware of recent 2pooky events.
Sang-joon does miss the Bay--he lived there all his life, and the people were at least familiar, if not friends--but his mother's happiness always comes first. Besides, he's found something exciting about having such a huge city to explore--and something frightening and fascinating about this strange memory he's acquired.
First Echo: While using a telescope early one morning a couple weeks ago to see if he could make out the Perseid meteor shower in the city, he experienced a weird sense of deja vu. While he didn't receive the memory itself, he remembered an all-consuming, unshakable, almost painful devotion to the girl he'd been tracking the meteor for: a girl named Jane. Sang-joon has no idea who she is or what she looks like or why he loved her, but even the mental echo of that dedication is as powerfully nagging as the string of numbers that's been stuck in his head since then.
Preincarnation Personality: What sort of person were they in their past life? Headcanon should be clearly marked in italics. This section is important, as it helps us gauge your grasp on the character, so spare no expense here.
GG: So then, are you saying Mr. Sebastian here was an ironic present?
GG: Relayed strictly for guffaws?? >:B
TT: Yes, but it's not that simple. There were many layers involved.
Any differences: You are encouraged to deviate from the original personality in three or four major ways, made to make their personality logical to the setting and their new history (which, by default, varies from their original life). If the personality does not differentiate significantly, or if the differences do not make sense given the rest of your app, revisions may be asked for.
Abilities:
- Robot body - Would be getting this one back in pieces, such as enhanced knees and ankles for more speed and jumping power, then metal lower legs, etc.
- Uranium heart - long-lasting power, at least in the Homestuck universe
- Bionic ears - swivel to catch and target sounds
- Swordplay - would use katana, ability is within skilled human range
- Super strength - Can lift an entire refrigerator (.gif warning) over his head, hold it there with one hand, bear its weight for a few minutes, and/or throw it through a wall
- Rocket boosters - Limited use (only used once in canon in a desperate emergency), probably capped by availability of fuel
Roleplay Sample - Third Person: Two StE test drive threads: here and here.
Roleplay Sample - Network:
[VIDEO - many months down the line]
[It isn't like Sang-joon to use video--as a generally savvy eleven-year-old aware of internet stranger-danger, he tends to stick to text, even if he's met many of the members of the Numbers Network already.
Any Questions? If you need to clear up any lingering questions or concerns, here's the place to do it.
