[ Player Name ] : Tricks
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pantsu[ Age ] : 22
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[ Character's Name ] : Marquise Spinneret Mindfang
[ Character's Age ] : 11 sweeps
[ Series ] : Homestuck[ Canon Point ] : Shortly after asking the oracle how she dies, so well before when she writes the journal entries Vriska reads in canon
[ History ] : http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Ancestors#Marquise_Spinneret_Mindfang[ Personality ] :Andrew Hussie, Homestuck's creator, mentioned a while back on his Formspring that Vriska would grow up to be very like Mindfang had she lived. Similarly, then, it's likely that Mindfang is much like Vriska - and in fact that much is obvious from her journals, which despite their fancy language are full of adventure and overconfidence and the kind of daring exploits Vriska glorifies and emulates in her own life. So, as this incarnation of Mindfang is barely into adulthood and thus significantly younger than she is in the journal entries that make up our knowledge of her, we can assume that she will be somewhat more similar to Vriska's mindset than she would be at an older age - self-involved but not quite sure of herself, overcompensating on her confidence and rash decisions, and still young enough to want to prove herself in some way.
Having established her similarities to Vriska, we must also of course discuss what makes Mindfang her own troll with her own personality - Vriska is, after all, a reflection of her ancestor and trying desperately to be like Mindfang, not the other way around. Mindfang is, in simple terms, a true Chaotic Neutral sort of person. As a pirate she lives for her own benefit and amusement, despising the rules of society and valuing her freedom from those restraints above anything else. Her own will and her own choice are everything to her, and though she spins complicated webs of intrigue to get what she wants, Mindfang's actions pretty much come down to "because I felt like it" in their motivations. Her whims are impossible to predict, and she leaves much to luck and fate, doing as she pleases and seeing where it takes her. Perhaps her actions aren't in her objective best interest, but being the agent of her own fate is what really matters to Mindfang, rather than letting someone else decide on it for her. She prefers to be the cause of events rather than affected by them, more plainly speaking.
As she is self-interested and of a higher and thus nobler shade of blood, it probably doesn't come as a surprise that Mindfang is rather classist - but her reasons are far different than many of those at her level. Mindfang despises lowblooded trolls and thinks little of using them for her purposes, that much is obvious from her journals; but what she fixates on is their lack of
will rather than their lack of status, as seen in her recollection of her trial at Neophyte Redglare's hands. This makes sense, for someone who places so much value on following her own will and choices. If a lowblood were able to resist her mind manipulation she'd have much more respect for them regardless of blood color, but most of them can't, leading her to think they're not worth their time beyond being used for her entertainment.
This isn't to say that she's all that fond of highbloods, either; Mindfang is classist in both directions. Lowbloods are weak and easily controlled, but although she can respect a lot more highbloods in that sense, she also finds most of them boring little workers for the imperial will, which she despises even more. Mindfang isn't getting into any revolutions anytime soon, but she certainly wouldn't be sorry to see the Alternian Empire toppled. Its laws don't prevent her from living how she wants, but it certainly restrains a lot of otherwise perfectly fine trolls in her view.
Of course, all this free-spirited, independent thinking means that Mindfang has pretty much no friends. She trusts no one and she can be trusted by no one. She always acts in her own self-interest, and she expects the same out of others as well at least when it comes to their survival versus hers. This in turn gives her a low view of redrom, which relies on pity and trust. Mindfang has no pity for anyone, considering their problems their own responsibility, and
certainly no kind of trust. Kismesis is the only kind of romance she has any interest in at this point, since it's a rivalry between equals; everything else is letting off steam to her. Of course, it doesn't help that she just found out that her matesprit in the future will kill her - it's made her particularly paranoid of and prejudiced against all red romance, since she now has justification for disliking it. In relying only on herself Mindfang has become a very solitary person, and though she'll always say that that's fine, it's really not healthy for her to live with no one but herself to talk to. She's never going to fully admit that even after living for centuries, though, and when she's so young she thinks there's nothing wrong with that.
[ Strengths/Weaknesses ] :Strengths:-Manipul8tion: Mindfang can bend the will of others, including huge crowds of others, to do what she wants them to. OBVIOUSLY this will be toned down and used with permission only. She also has more difficulty using it on alien species, though I'm not sure if she'd only be able to make them fall asleep like Vriska.
-Vision Eightfold: Mindfang can peer into all kinds of shenanigans, past, present and future, by using her seven-pupiled eye to look into the cueball Doc Scratch gave her. (It can also function like an actually accurate 8 ball.) Again this will be very restricted, or possibly non-present if it's too compromising to allow.
-Agility: Mindfang definitely qualifies as a quintessential thief, relying more on being light on her feet and skilled with her scimitar than on brute strength.
-Luck: This works for or against her. Mindfang's favorite weapon is her Fluorite Octet, a set of eight dice that make various things happen to an opponent, good or bad depending on how she rolls.
-Spiderwebs: No, she doesn't make them herself, gosh! But having been raised by a giant spider, what better netting or rope for her to use than her mother's, the one kind she won't stick to but everyone else will? She always has plenty on hand and is proficient in weaving them into nets or ropes for traps, last-ditch weaponry or quick escapes.
-Plotting: As a character who relies on cunning and quick thinking, she's always thinking at least a few steps ahead.
Weaknesses:-Luck: As previously mentioned, Mindfang's favorite weapon is one that relies entirely on lucky rolls. What happens when she rolls unluckily? She's left pretty open and vulnerable.
-Overconfidence: Like Vriska, Mindfang tends to blithely throw herself into things in her immediate interest, like revenge or wealth-gaining, but that can lead her to compromise herself and go too far.
-Strength: Mindfang has no chance at this. She's no slouch, but in a contest of brute force against, say, Dualscar, she'd almost certainly lose. She vastly prefers to rely on cunning, but sometimes her plans backfire.
[ Other Important Facts ] :Since she is younger, Mindfang won't be talking/writing as fancy as she does in the journals. Also I have worked out with James and Cnd that she already knows Darkleer and Dualscar c:
[ Sample ] : Dualscar has started snoring.
The utter
nerve of that asshole. It's just one more little poke at her, Mindfang knows. One more mockery he's making of her, showing just how little respect he has for how dangerous she might be. Sleeping next to someone he should consider a threat. Just one more way for him to show that he thinks that all she is is a little girl without the will to take advantage of a vulnerable moment.
The really infuriating part is that she
doesn't want to kill him for the slight. Well, she does, but then that would be too fast, and he knows that. This is his ship, and he's confident that she'll leave him mostly unscathed. What a complete
bulgesucker.
Well, she'll make sure he doesn't get his way. He's too confident by half, thinking she must need to slip away stealthily with only her life to show for it. She's fairly sure she can rip off his entire captain's cabin before she heads back to her own ship. After all, he's so helpfully just brought a new shipment of slaves on board. Dualscar never quite connects the idea that perhaps he shouldn't indulge himself so much when she's around...someday, maybe, it'll be a fatal mistake. Not today. Today it'll just be a humiliation.
Mindfang concentrates, finds those sad, impressionable little minds, and smiles to herself as she gets them to work.
[ Questions? Comments? Concerns? ] : 
