Canon point: A little bit after him and the rest of the trolls arrive in the Veil.
Personality:
Gamzee's a chill motherfucker. He's just got to be going with where his hearts all up in, you know? Go with what he feels is right.
Think juggalo, with horns and face-paint, and a unicycle he can't even ride. Think the kind of guy you'd like to sit back and slam a wicked elixir with. Since he's calm almost all of the time, always aloof and friendly, he easily makes friends - if they're willing. While he's usually easy-going and chill, he doesn't like it when people are mean to his close friends; he's protective, you could say.
On Alternia, there's a caste system -- going from blood color, red being the lowest, purple bloods being the highest, seadwellers being the absolute highest. Think of the color spectrum. Highbloods have a higher chance of being violent and murderous. Gamzee's one of the highest land dwellers. He's also a descendant of the high subjugglators (think a group of crazy-ass motherfuckers that are extremely high-strung about the hemospectrum). So naturally, he should be quite aggressive -- but he isn't, not at all, and he doesn't care about the hemospectrum at all. He tries to be nice to everyone -- in every rank. Maybe that's all because of the sopor slime he eats -- sopor slime being the concoction trolls sleep in to keep away the nightmares (for lack of a better word) that all trolls experience during their daytime rest. Daytime, you might think? Yes -- trolls are night dwellers, as the sun on their planet is extremely dangerous. Only trolls -- like Kanaya -- can go out in the extreme rays. Why, you might be thinking, does he eat that stuff, when it so obviously is not for consumption?
Well, you could say it's because his guardian, his lusus, never was there to teach him how to act like a normal troll. Kind of like a dad -- except, this particular dad was almost always away, and when he did come 'home', he was only there for such a short time. Gamzee was neglected; and although it's not as if lusii are so very affectionate, he still lacked that contact, and those so very important lessons, one of them being don't eat the goddamn slime. Lacking all this, he did whatever he felt was right.
So that's pretty much all there is to Gamzee -- he's kind, calm; accepting and happy.
Wait, did you really believe there's all there is to him?
When Gamzee's off the sopor slime, when he's sober, it's a completely different story from the chill, relaxed, friendly juggalo everyone knows. He's violent, he's aggressive, and he demands respect from lowbloods -- you could say he's finally acting the way a highblood should, the way a subjugglator should. He isn't calm or kind; he isn't dopey and lazy; he's murderous in every sense of the word. He's completely wacked out; insane; crazy; the kind of crazy that decapitating bodies and setting them up in a weird display is fun. It's like a nightmare come true if you know him -- if you're close to him. No words sink through to him. You can't control him. You can't beg for your life, can't have that hope rise before it falls and sinks through to the earth. He's dangerous; completely and utterly, unless you're Karkat and your moirailing is able to calm him down.
Maybe, off the slime, this is his true self. Or maybe he's just snapped.
[ gamzee makara // homestuck ]
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Name: Karen
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Gamzee Makara
Age: 6 sweeps and a half ( 13 human years )
Canon: CANON
Canon point: A little bit after him and the rest of the trolls arrive in the Veil.
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