Cerise - a deep to vivid reddish pink. It also has connotations with cherries and stuff. I liked how it sounded.
Koekje - Dutch for cookie/cupcake.
Blood colour: Redblood #B51D1D
Gender: Female
Symbol: A cake.
Personality:
(wow okay lets see if i can make this make any sense
the answer is probably not)
A peppy, perpetually grinning redblood, Cerise is always up for adventure! She can be excited very easily, just mention a few of her favorite things and watch her come to life as a bubbly, potentially frightening young girl, especially when her eye starts twitching. She's frivolous, rarely seeming to be entirely serious about anything, which... is sort of dangerous! But she's managed to not get herself culled yet. She likes pretty things, and makes enough beetles to afford some decent clothing. Baking zealot Cerise has dreams. Big ones. She wants to own a bakery in Four Fronds, home of the highbloods, best place to sell some goodies.
Cerise is rather open-minded regarding her personal morals, because she doesn't care about much of anything that doesn't directly involve her own well-being. She sees nothing wrong with partaking in a little cannibalism, or pulling cruel, nearly lethal pranks. Nothing is really sacred to her, and she'll do whatever it takes to come out on top. She's habitually cheeky, and very often says what's on her mind. However, she's not grossly reckless, and knows when she needs to cut that out, and will.
Cerise is not a clean troll. Her hive is a mess, with half of it devoted to managing baked goods (and that half being the only decent looking part). Her tables are often covered in garbage and leftover materials from her last baking session, and she usually cleans by just kind of... shoving it off the table. She's very disorganized, and most things end up just piling up in her hive until her lusus gets trapped under the trash. Cerise can have incredibly erratic thoughts, jumping from topic to topic in a conversation, connecting things together that make little sense to an outsider. This isn't to say she's "random", but rather, just kind of confusing to listen to sometimes. It mostly comes across as crazy, because Cerise is pretty unstable.
Young Cerise is a redblood with imagination, coming up with new things for her store, experimenting with her cakes often, making up new recipes to use and sell. Cerise isn't shy to try new things, and believes you should try everything at least once in a lifetime. Her experimental nature leads her to want to dabble in toxicology (although not really in a helpful manner), but currently, she's a bit young for much of that.
As a redblood, Cerise isn't the wealthiest. She steals about half of her baking ingredients, taking eggs and milk from local farms, and stealing sugar and flour from stores when the shop owner isn't looking. She can be an aggressive saleswoman, very persistent and occasionally physically violent with others.
Her hobbies include poison, especially when used in lethal quantities, a casual interest in death and mass murder, baking (of course) and pranks. Cerise really likes pranks, especially food ones like when she has a dozen chocolates but one is filled with a super hot, spicy filling that'll make you cry. Those are the best ones.
The "discreet" side of her business is also a hobby, selling "trick" goods, that range from putting your friend/kismesis on the load gaper for the night, super spicy sweets, to actually hospitalizing the intended target. Cerise will also take on "special" orders and make food out of troll parts, provided you give her the body.
Cerise isn't afraid to stand up for herself, even around a highblood, but she realizes that as a lowblood she can't get away with everything, and steals very sparingly from even midbloods, and wouldn't dream of taking something from a highblood. She's realizes it's stupid to risk your neck to make anything.
She can accept her fate as a lowblood, but Cerise never wants to be anyone's slave, and is determined to keep herself out of poverty with her career so she never has to rely on a highblood's "charity" to live, but that's just her, personally. She doesn't care if other lowbloods resort to that, or even want it.
Strengths: Energetic - When Cerise does anything, she does it with the boundless energy only a wriggler could appreciate. Everything is all or nothing with her, whether it's baking or taking a troll down.
Open-minded - Cerise won't be the troll to judge you for whatever immoral and horrible thing you do. You're into cannibalism? She's always wanted to try! You're a loyalist who wants to be the queen's butt buddy? Sounds fun, go for it. She doesn't really care what other trolls do if it doesn't affect her, so she's very open minded to the things other trolls do. Who knows, it might be fun to try things their way.
Candid - Cerise is not only open-minded, but an open troll as well. She doesn't like keeping secrets (why should she have to?), and she'll tell you all about her policies if you asked. She's rather sincere in her emotions as well, so it's easy to tell what she's thinking.
Assertive - Just because she's a lowblood doesn't mean Cerise is meek or unassuming! She's very strong willed, and very assertive. She'll stand up for herself and try to make you buy some stuff from her while she's at it.
Flaws: Careless - Cerise often walks the fine line between carelessness and recklessness, and this sort of behavior has probably gotten her in trouble more than once! She doesn't plan things out too well, and tends to just do whatever she likes.
Erratic - Cerise can be a bit unpredictable, since her thoughts tend to wander as she talks and she can jump from topic to topic. This can make her come across as being kind of crazy and eccentric.
Discourteous - Since she's incredibly disinterested in other trolls very much, she can be really rude to them. Disregarding their feelings, hopes, dreams, whatever! Her indifference can be really annoying, and her sass isn't exactly the best thing for her, as a lowblood.
Selfish - The only thing Cerise does concern herself about is Cerise Koejke. And if no one else will care about her, she has to at least care enough about herself to not get killed or something. Her dreams and goals all revolve around her, herself, and what she wants.
Weapon: Oversized knives. As a teenager she'll probably coat them in poison at times or something? But for her now her lusus fights all her battles!
Appearance: Got a picture right here ->
Cerise is short, slightly chubby young troll. She has very sharp teeth and two mis-matched horns, one triangular and the other shaped like a candle. Her hair is curled and rounded. She often has an expression of excitement, usually with a twitching eye. Cerise wears a short-sleeved collared shirt and a red skirt with a white petticoat. She has long white frilly socks and black mary-janes.
Home: New Hemisect City, on a streetside apartment near the ground level. She runs a bakeshop out of her hive, making cakes and cookies and other things, while also selling and delivering her bakery goods.
Lusus: A crocodile/caiman. She calls her Caima. (get it, Caiman Ma) Her eyes are huge and she likes to eat meat all the time.
Cerise adores Caima and would do anything for her lusus, often bringing her little meat snacks to eat. Caima isn't the brightest lusus and mostly just stares vacantly at things and then tries to eat things that aren't Cerise.
