Name: Vanitas "Vanis" Strider; Not his real name of course, this is just his human name. His
real name ((and title)) is Gamzee Makara the Grand Highblood Subjuggalator, Heir to Her Imperial Condescension of the dead planet Alternia, and Capricorn, a Chosen of the Highblood Crystal. but it's not like anyone here needs to call him that. He prefers to be called Vanis [[not Van, not Vani, and definitely not
Strider, Mirthful Messiahs forbid...]]
Age: 12 Sweeps [[In human years, that would be around twenty six years]]
Height: 6'3"/6'6"
Weight:102lbs/165lbs
Description/Image: 
Alias: Wildcard
Occupation: Mercenary-for-hire
Origin: Gotham City
Parentage: The Former Grand Highblood Subjuggalator of AlterniaRank: Intermediate
Status: Neutral Hero(?)
Personality: Whatever Vanitas thinks, he'll make sure that he sticks with it whatever other people say. If he sets his mind on something, practically no one can persuade him otherwise. It's one of his many flaws, but it is also a part of his 'loyalty' aspect. Once you've earned his trust, you can be sure that he'll be loyal to you forever, until you do something to make him lose that trust of course. His loyalty is surprisingly fierce, despite the fact that he's a bit of an a*****e even on his good days. Vanitas doesn't usually think twice before diving head first into a situation which could probably get sticky fast. Then, he just uses luck to get out of it alive. He's brave, but his bravery often gets him into trouble because he doesn't think first. It's the same when he talks; sometimes his brain just isn't connected to his tongue when he's speaking. It's also due to the fact that he isn't human, and he often thinks his race is superior to humans because of his blood colour [[Since his race operates based on a Blood Caste System]].
Vanis adopts an easygoing attitude towards everything. He doesn't usually care about consequences and stuff like that and just goes with the flow. He doesn't get bothered easily and casually flips off anyone or anything that would annoy him, or disrupt his 'peace'. However, he is also dominantly sadistic and violent; if something grabs his attention that turns his bloodlust on, he'll hunt it down to the ends of the earth, rip its' face(s) off and strip its' bones clean until he's satisfied.
Skills: Close combat and melee-weapon combat. Enhanced physical abilities to an extent.
Tactics: Whether Vanis is at an advantage or not, he likes to taunt and goad his opponent. He figures that if he can get them angry enough, he'll win anyways.
Gadgets and/or Weaponry: A Subjuggalator Club which he's named Capricorn, ironically; it is made of Alternian Iron, which is pretty much the equivalent of an Earth diamond in hardness, only in metal form.
Powers: Natural Subjuggalator Powers [[These are the powers he is born with, just because he has Subjuggalator blood in him]]
【Innate Capability】 - Ability to naturally have skills and/or knowledge typically earned through learning [[Only applies to Subjuggalator Powers]]
【Healing Factor】 - Ability to heal rapidly and with greater finality from any injury; the rate of recovery varies from character to character. Can sometimes result in the slowing of aging and immunity to illnesses and other defects.
【Bloodlust】 - The instinct inside all Subjuggalators. The ability to tap into a rage so fierce, the Subjuggalator will be immune to all pain inflicted on them for a limited time. However, he/she will not be able to tell friend from foe; if it's alive, it won't be for long.
【Superhuman Strength】 - Ability to have a level of strength much higher than normally possible given their proportions.
【Superhuman Endurance】 - Ability to have a higher resistance to one or more forms of damage before being injured as well as the ability to exert ones self in an activity indefinitely without becoming tired and/or survive for long periods of time without consumption or water.
【Superhuman Agility】 - Ability to react faster than a normal human and to possess greater flexibility and with higher/farther jumping capacity.
【Superhuman Senses】 - Ability to have a level of strength much higher than normally possible given their proportions.
【Superhuman Speed】 - The ability to move, run, fly, react, think, and sense at speeds much faster than a normal human. Those with this ability also have accelerated brain activity which allows them to process sensory information so fast that everything seems to be moving in slow motion while the user moves at normal speed.
【Wallcrawling】 - Ability to adhere to solid surfaces, including walls and ceilings.
【Gliding】 - Though his Subjuggalator self has wings, they aren't made for flight. He can only use them to glide from a limited height, because the wings themselves aren't very strong.
Superhuman Powers [[Powers he gained by touching the Highblood Crystal]]
【Telepathy】 - Ability to read the thoughts of, or to mentally communicate with others.
【Shifting】 - Ability to shift between his Subjuggalator appearance and his human appearance only; he can't 'shift' into anything else, unfortunately.
【Dreaming Nightmare】 - Ability to tap into an unsuspecting victim's mind and draw out their deepest, darkest fear and use it against them; or make a person's thoughts take physical form in front of them. Unless the person has mind barriers up, or has a strong will, Vanis can do this to almost everyone.Weaknesses: He can't using Dreaming Nightmare on someone who had strong mental barriers; He doesn't have eyes on the back of his head, so no matter how strong he is, if he's surrounded or trapped, it'll be quite difficult for him as well. He, like the others of his race, is also weak to Alternian gold, which his people used to use to enslave others.
Likes/Dislikes: N/A
Bio:Life on AlterniaVanis was born on the planet of Alternia, in the main living area Hivebent, home of the Trolls [[or at least, that was what he was taught the name of their race was]], as Gamzee Makara. He never even heard about earth until his 6th Sweep [[when he was around thirteen years old]]. He grew up in a society that was much like past human society; using a caste system. Their caste system was different from humans though; it was based on the colour of their blood, hence the name Blood Caste System. The highest rank there was belonged to The Condesce; Her Imperial Condescension, she was called. His father belonged to the third ranking nobility, the Indigo bloods, and he was the leader of Her Imperial Condescension's secret army, the Subjuggalators.
The Subjuggalators were feared and revered as one of the strongest armies in the whole of Alternia's history. Back in the day, when the Alliance was a whole bunch of kingdoms impersonating old Earth, they took everything from them. And like back then, there were clowns and jesters that the kings kept for entertainment. And these people, they got into everything, every working part of the parliament and the regents, everything. They were assassins and thieves and spies, and no one
knew. And then the war started all those years ago, and the jesters, because they knew everything about
everything, could get in with the higher ups, tell them things, convince the kings they were
needed. Since then, Subjuggalators were placed on pedestals and practically worshipped.
Gamzee, being the only son of the general of the Subjuggalators, was trained hard so that one day, he could take his father's place. No one ever asked him if he wanted it or not; they just assumed that he would be able to take on the responsibility when it came. Truth was, he didn't want to be a Subjuggalator at all. He wanted to be normal, have normal relationships and have normal friendships but his blood didn't allow it. With the Subjuggalator blood running in him, it was instinct for him to be cruel. Violent.
Deadly. He was a born killer, a natural predator.
Her Imperial Condescension had no children, and she took a liking to Gamzee when she was visiting the Subjuggalators one day and saw him take down a dozen grown Trolls twice his size with incredible ease. She named him the Heir and took him in, much to his father's pride. She brought him to the Highblood Crystal, and when he was forced to touch it he gained powers that transcended his normal Subjuggalator ones, being given the name Capricorn as he was one of the 12 Chosen of the Highblood Crystal now. His life worse now, Gamzee felt increasingly pressured. It didn't help that he had struck a friendship with a young Rust blood Troll named Karkat Vantas; the son of the Sufferer. First of all, Rust bloods were the lowest of the low in the Blood Caste System; even lower than Amber blood Psiionics who were practically slaves, because having red coloured blood meant the blood was mutated in some way. Secondly, the Sufferer was the icon against all the noble-blooded Trolls stood for. The Sufferer promoted peace; the nobility, the Highbloods, supported war. Karkat and Gamzee were close; best friends, the better half of the other. In Troll language, they were Moirails; closer than brothers but less than romantic partners. It was impossible for it to work, but they were willing.
The Condesce had a habit of travelling out to the other worlds and try to conquer them until the Troll empire had spanned almost their whole galaxy. But her habit would also be her downfall. While she was out on one of her travels, the Sufferer's followers rose up in rebellion against the Highbloods. It was in this rebellion that Gamzee killed his father, taking his title as the Grand Highblood Subjuggalator. The Condesce, believing Gamzee to have perished and Alternia lost, decided to destroy it and leave for good. While Gamzee would have been content dying on the perishing world with his Moirail and everyone else who had opposed the Condesce's tyrannical rule, Karkat would hear none of it, forcing the Alternian prince into an escape pod and ejecting him out into an emergency escape wormhole. Gamzee never saw his Moirail, or any other Troll from Alternia, again and he believes them all to be dead.
Starting on EarthThe wormhole took him from the Beforus galaxy and spat him out into the Milky Way, a million light-Sweeps away [[and since a Solar Sweep is the equivalent of 26 Earth months, if you do the math, that's quite a long way indeed]]. The escape pod was caught in Earth's atmosphere and hurtled down into an empty field far, far, north of Gotham City. When Gamzee finally wrestled his way out of the escape pod, he was still in shock of standing in the middle of a different world. Everything was new and wrong and he would have freaked out if he were anyone else.
But he wasn't just anyone else; he was Gamzee Makara, the Grand Highblood Subjuggalator, Heir to the tyrannical Imperial Condescension of the dead planet Alternia, and Capricorn, a Chosen of the Highblood Crystal, and he was too proud to be 'freaking out'. He stumbled his way towards the closest human settlement, a farm, and after about an hour of watching the strange beings [[to him, at least]], he decided that he couldn't approach them the way he was now. For some reason, because he had touched the Highblood Crystal, he was able to change his appearance once; and he chose to shift into a human form. Because of this, he can now only change between human form and Subjuggalator form.
He approached the elderly couple living in the farm, appearing as a human being, and they took him in, seeing his ragged appearance and ripped clothing. While living with them, Gamzee learned many things about the humans, and about the new powers that he had gotten through the Highblood Crystal. He found that he had gained a level of adequate telepathy but very weak telekinesis, abilities only the Magenta bloods had [[even though he had gone through so much, he still remembered his status as an Indigo blood]], which is how he learned so many things without having to ask [[there was also the internet, but don't even let him get started on that topic]]. Once he decided that he had known all there was for him to know about living on Earth, he departed from the couple.
Gotham CityHe moved down south, towards Gotham City, when he met a group of travelling entertainers; a circus. He realized that he could blend in this way; Subjuggalators had previously been clowns and jesters [[albeit also spies and assassins]] after all. Here, Gamzee introduced himself as Vanitas Strider, Vanis for short [[taking on the elderly couple's surname as a sign of gratefulness towards them, and altering his Moirail's surname Vantas as his given name]] and became a "clown" in the travelling circus
Cirque Du Rire [[Circus of Laughter]]. However, once they reached Gotham City, he quickly departed without a word and none of them would know where he went.
He had no intent of becoming a superhero or anything, but he didn't really have a purpose in life. His Moirail and home planet were gone, his people and nemesis were dead; there was really nothing to keep him going on, except his Moirail's last words to him; which were to live. He would always feel alien in this world, but he would try, and live the life Karkat never had the chance to try.
He spent the next few years of his life as a bit of a secret vigilante, a bit of a questionable Robin Hood figure whom everyone that saw him [[or his silhouette at least]] said he had the figure of the devil. He figured it was his horns that gave people that idea. He was ruthless and violent, but that was because that was all he had known his entire life; though becoming part human tamed him slightly, so he wasn't really as bad. His lifestyle was a little bit destructive, and he got into fights with humans even while in human form. As a human, he became a bit of an addict, perhaps taking a liking to dangerous human substances [[alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, etc.]] a little too much; but it wasn't like they could kill him.
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