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Character Name: Nepeta Leijon
Series: Homestuck
Gender: Female
Age & Canon Point: 6 solar sweeps/13 human years & Act 5-2 (high for spoiler):
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Entry position (Cadet, SeeD, Instructor, other): Cadet
History: Wiki LinkAbilities & Physical Abnormalities: Nepeta, as a troll, has tougher skin both figuratively and literally than a human does. Trolls are a race built on violence and fighting, in fact, one of the first things they must do when born is endure a series of obstacle to reach the surface of their home world. Most end up dying, so those that actually survive must have some amount of mangrit in them. That or be very, very lucky. Nepeta falls into the former category--she was able to withstand being stabbed three times straight through the chest and survive
before being brutally obliterated by Great Balls of Green Fire.On top of that she is a huntress. She lives in a cave with her Lusus, a playful, if enormous white cat. She hunts her own food, and as Terezi states "YOU K1LL B1G 4NIM4LS W1TH YOUR B4R3 H4NDS!" While her personality may indicate otherwise, if need be she most definitely knows how to fight. She is strong, and very swift, even by trolls standards. True to her more feline attributes, she has some heightened senses, particularly in smell and hearing.
Personality wise, despite her love of The Hunt, Nepeta is surprisingly kind for a troll. In the troll session of SGRUB Nepeta is the Rogue of Heart. This means she will likely get along with people much better than your average troll.
She also makes a smashing cup of tea.
Personality: When Nepeta is first introduced she seems like she is going to be someone unhinged. She's got a slightly vacant expression on her face, she's in a dark cave, there is blood smeared all over the walls, and animal carcasses strewn on the floor. In some regards this is perhaps true, but something that is very important to keep in mind is the fact that Nepeta is a troll.
Trolls as a general are a very militant race. Quite literally from the moment they are hatched from their cocoon they have to fight for their survival, and if they are weak then they die, something which is considered good. After all, if the troll is incapable of defending itself, then it deserves to die instead of adding it's weakness to the genetic pool.
This aggressive nature shows up in Nepeta in her hunting. Unlike most trolls Nepeta does not live in a hive, she lives in a cave, presumably isolated from most packets of civilization. This means that she has had to mostly fend for herself. Like most trolls, she has a lusus which is the troll equivalent of a guardian, but again, like most trolls, the troll usually ends up taking care of the lusus more than the lusus takes care of the troll. Her lusus was a large but startlingly friendly and docile cat named Pounce de Leon. So on top of caring for herself, she also had to care and hunt for her lusus. In this she was relentless and ferocious enough to take down large beasts with only her hands and teeth. Killing is something that Nepeta can do with ease, and under the right circumstances without remorse.
Thats about where the influences of her species end, and even that is a bit of a stretch since she outright states that she only kills them in order to feed herself and her lusus, and given the decor of her cave she probably uses as much of the body as she can. When it comes to animals she absolutely adores them, especially those of the feline variety. In fact some might say she loves them a bit too much and that her like for cuteness and cats boarders on the obsessive, and at times creepy. She acts very much like a cat in many aspects, pouncing on people, sometimes walking on all fours, wearing a fursuit (yes a fursuit) beneath her clothing, and trying to make as many cat puns as pawsible. Er, possible.
Nepeta is a rarity among trolls in that she is, well quite simply put, friendly. She likes to make new friends, loves to roleplay with others, and always tries hard to be kind to others despite what they might say to her. She dislikes confrontation as a general. If it's necessary, she will deal with it, but if not she'd rather just evade or ignore any skirmish, physical or otherwise. This sometimes makes it seem like she is stupid or oblivious since she doesn't address when people are being insulting, facetious, or passive-aggressive with her (which happens a lot, considering what species we're dealing with here) but it's just because she'd rather not address it. It isn't a stretch to say that to be able to do this, she must have a lot of patience as well.
This patience is further displayed in the fact that she is the moirail to who Karkat calls "THE ONLY GUY ON THE PLANET WHO'S A BIGGER ASSHOLE THAN ME." Of course this is Karkat saying this, so it's quite the exaggeration, but Equius can indeed be a handful. The role of a moirail is akin to a best soul-friend, but they must also act as the equilibrium to the other. In Nepeta and Equius' case she keeps him from getting to angry and keeping him from becoming violent as trolls on his side of hemospectrum are prone to do while he protects her and generally advises her on how to behave like a proper troll. It's a bit of a demanding job but she keeps to it, is absolutely loyal, and would want no moirail other than him.
One last prominent feature is how much of a romantic Nepeta is. She loves to see couples blossom, and actively 'ships' people she thinks would make good couples. In her case she had a shipping wall in which she drew all possible combination of pairings between her friends, and made comments on them, and kept track of the ones that were canon, so to speak. She herself has a rather large crush on Karkat, and while he is very aware of this in the discussions we have seen between them (which have been...two) she hasn't mentioned it or brought it up. She is very discreet. After all, no one would notice that giant picture she drew on the wall of them snogging.
For more on her personality and background you can check out
this post where I dissect all the scenes in which she is in. Unfortunately there aren't that many.
What are your plans for the character in-game? Mostly I want to flesh Nepeta out as a character more, since in canon she is simply filler. Considering the canon point she is coming from, a lot depends on if an Equius applies soon or not. If one does not, Nepeta is going to be faced with the prospect of living a life without her moirail which will definitely be a difficult thing for her to do. She'll likely be depressed for a good while before she is forced to pick herself up and become a bit more independent and maybe a little more subdued. Where she goes will largely be influenced by the people she meets and whatever happens in her new home. Either way she is in for a lot of development.
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