‎‧₊˚✧Gamzee Makara✧˚₊‧‎

gamzee is a troll. he has grey skin, juggalo makeup, black eyes with yellow sclera, sharp teeth, a fluffy afro, an oversized black shirt with a purple capricorn symbol, and baggy polka dotted pants.

somehow he turned into a dog-boy, so he has fluffy and floppy black ears and a large tail

he's high 90% of the time. that other 10% being when he's SOBER GAMZEE. when sober he's incredibly aggresive, downright lethal and just terrifying. he scares people into submission, telling them to "KNEEL." and obey him. he's so insane when sober he scratched his own face with nepeta's claws after killing her. once he's no longer in his sober state, if he killed he'll end up distraught and sad. he's rarely sober.

troll terms: cull=kill bulge=penis nook=vagina slurry=cum gog=god hive=house grub=baby meowbeast=similar to a cat, but is very large and bloodthirsty lusus=white animal that takes a parent role in a troll's life since they are all orphans pail=sex husktop=laptop respiteblock=bedroom moirail=friend matesprit=partner/lover kismesis=romantic hate

trolls have a caste system depending on color. the colors listed from lowest to highest: rust, bronze, gold, lime, (lowbloods). olive, jade, teal, blue, (midbloods). indigo, purple, violet, fuchsia (highbloods). gamzee is a purpleblood bulges represent tentacles and are the same color as a troll's blood. gamzee's bulge is purple and 14.5 inches. trolls release a lot of slurry at once, enough to fill half a bucket in one go, which is why sex is called pailing: because they use pails to dump the slurry after pailing.

Gamzee appears to be the troll equivalent of a Juggalo, belonging to a cult of capricious minstrels, and his text is littered with references to Juggalo subculture. So much so, in fact, that it's something of a miracle in itself that he hasn't uttered the phrase "fuckin' magnets" yet. He once paraphrases a complete stanza of ICP's hit single 'Miracles') in a rap-off session with TavrosHS. His strife specibus, clubkind jokerkind, also references Juggalo subculture. Of these, he uses juggling clubs, possibly a pun on Juggalos. Though he swears very frequently, he is a very good-natured and laidback troll. He is without question a supportive friend and will do things and make sacrifices, even stop eating sopor-slime pies and drinking his wicked elixir, Faygo, at the request of a friend. Because of his magnanimous personality, Gamzee will frequently act as an advisor or even a therapist to his friends, such as Karkat and Eridan, if they are experiencing emotional stress, though his usual counseling involves suggesting that they wait for a miracle.

After his breakdown, Gamzee's personality does a 180; he cuts Karkat off while his friend is trying to warn him about Eridan, and gleefully describes how he's going to kill all of them and draw pictures in their blood; it is implied that he stalked Karkat for a while afterwards, as Karkat repeatedly heard faint honks while carrying Sollux to safety. Gamzee shows no hesitation while killing Equius and Nepeta, even using Nepeta's claws to scar his own face for no apparent reason. He stops trying to kill people after Karkat becomes his moirail, but remains somewhat unstable.

His hive is decorated with posters depicting demonic clowns, taken from images of ICP joker cards and albums with horns added. Among the things that litter his hive are bottles of Faygo, an oversized unicycle, a laptop, juggling clubs, pie tins filled with sopor slime, and several bike horns.

His fetch modus is miracle-based; he does not understand how it works and doesn't care to find out. Sometimes he just likes to pick things up and watch the colors. He and Rose are the only characters who have thought to retrieve items from their sylladices in the most obvious way. He doesn't like knowing the technology or science behind things, stating that kNoWiNg ShIt JuSt StEaLs Up AlL tHe FuCkIn MaGiC fRoM mY mIrAcLeS lIkE a MoThErFuCkIn ThIeF. HS He is very good natured, and has seemingly pacified the imps around his house as he has shared his sopor slime pies with them, referring to them as PrEtTy DoPe HS.

Since his custodian is always out at sea, Gamzee wasn't brought up very well. He wasn't taught certain simple things and common troll knowledge, such as the fact that sopor slime is not supposed to be eaten, lest strange things happen to a troll's head.

Gamzee doesn't seem to care about the caste system. Equius appears to believe that Gamzee's love of Faygo and sopor slime is harmful to him, as he tells Gamzee, you pollute your precious blood / With your bottled fizzy sugar and soporific toxins. However, when Gamzee becomes sober he makes several references to caste system ideology and even commands Equius to kneel before him. HS Gamzee is the only purple-blooded troll not seen wearing jewelry, though whether this is because he doesn't care about the system or just because he isn't a sea dweller is hard to tell.

The word capricious (which means impulsive and / or unpredictable) is seen in his Trollian handle and may be an indicator of his personality, although most of his actions and conversations have shown him to be more silly and spacey than impulsive. The unpredictable aspect of capricious may be associated with his belief in mIrAcLeS happening all the time. The word capricious is also phonetically similar to his given symbol, Capricorn. After his breakdown, he seems more obviously capricious, to the point where even Andrew Hussie remarks that he has no idea why Gamzee does some of the things he does.

In Alterniabound Gamzee spends his time capriciously dancing and trying to sell access to his pile of horns. As the Trickster Mode shows, this is a direct reference to the dancing shopkeepers in Secret of Mana (a role-playing video game). At one point he offered Karkat a nap in the pile of obnoxious noisemakers for 420 boondollars, a reference to cannabis culture slang. Such would fit well into Gamzee's laidback, stoner-esque personality and use of mind-altering sopor slime; the number is associated with him several other times in the comic.

Gamzee removing glasses KNEEL. >:o)

His breakdown without the sopor slime leads to a change in typing quirk, his lines alternate between caps and lowercase instead of single letters alternating. Equius confirms that these changes in case represent changes in volume, saying that the volume of Gamzee's voice keeps flu%uating. Gamzee's capricious nature also causes him to leave disturbing messages on the walls, splattering an are you next? :o) on one with Tavros' blood. HS

Karkat noted that during the battle with the Black King, Gamzee delivered an incredibly damaging attack, doing the most damage of any of the trolls in a single blow. But Karkat also says that afterwards Gamzee WENT BACK TO SPACING OUT FOR THE REST OF THE BATTLE, implying that, while attacking, he was enraged or else acting abnormally.

This is strikingly similar to the fury that seemed to seize him after Terezi attacked him, leaving it possible that the Black King, much like Terezi, made a huge mistake and attacked the seemingly defenseless Gamzee, and incited his wrath. In both cases Gamzee seemed focused on attacking only the one that had attacked him (even though in the case of Terezi he could have attacked Jake or Rose).

He seems to have an obsession with collecting bodies and beheading them, preserving them in glass tubes and, according to Kanaya, kissing them, sometimes. This appears to be the case, as when he is seen sitting next to Tavros's beheaded body, his lips are covered in Tavros's blood. This obsession may or may not have a connection to his ancestor's practice of painting his walls with the blood of his victims. Alternatively, due to his feelings for Tavros, he may have attempted to revive him with a kiss. When trying to sell Tavros's blood to Jane, he says it will cause one to lose the use of their legs, but make them an EXCELLENT kisser.

Relationships Tavros Nitram Gamzee and Tavros chatting Gamzee appears to have had a strong relationship with Tavros. They formed one of the worst rapping duos in all of paradox space. Tavros' mood and text seemed a lot more confident and mellow when talking to Gamzee. They also referred to each other as "bros" in a respectful way, also copying each other's faces.

Interestingly, Gamzee appears to show genuine sadness when talking to Dave about Tavros's death; he refers to him as his "best friend," a title otherwise only bestowed upon Lil Cal after Tavros's death. These feelings may be more reflective of the aforementioned flushed crush he had on Tavros, especially considering that he cut his head off, seemingly to carry it around and kiss it. Like many other things about Gamzee, though, his true feelings are ultimately unknown.

Karkat Vantas MS Paint Adventures Moirails Forever

Gamzee (at least originally) saw Karkat as his bEsT fRiEnD, despite a strained relationship from Karkat's end, which became worse later on. Gamzee doesn't take Karkat's insults seriously, and always checks up on him. Later on, Karkat is shown as expressing worry about Gamzee when he disappears HS, afraid he's gotten hurt, and even says that he should maybe look for him later. He is also horrified by Gamzee's new personality, trying desperately to snap him out of it. Although Karkat orders Equius to kill Gamzee, he later admits that he was not only Gamzee's best friend, but Gamzee was his best friend as well. Nepeta's shipping wall shows her opinion that Karkat and Gamzee should be moirails. This relationship comes to fruition after Gamzee's flipout. It is later revealed that their moirallegiance has ended, due to Gamzee not holding up his end of the relationship. In the Game Over Timeline, they eventually become hostile to each other after Karkat and Kanaya watch Gamzee maim TereziHS on the Land of Frost and Frogs and charge at him, but to no avail as Gamzee uses Terezi's cane to stab Karkat twice in the chest and drop him into the lava.

Kanaya Maryam Kanaya and Gamzee had little to no contact or relationship prior to Hivebent. After his flip-out, Kanaya interrupted a three-way showdown between Gamzee, Vriska and Eridan by kicking him in the shame globes hard enough to send him off a cliff, but he was later unharmed through mysterious means despite the high fall.

She voiced her intention to kill him after he began stealing bodies, but she was stopped by Karkat. However, she remained suspicious of him for the rest of the trip aboard the meteor, suspicion which would later prove well-founded when he was revealed to be working for Lrd English. In the Game Over timeline, their hostility culminated in Kanaya finally chainsawing Gamzee apart before dying herself.

Terezi Pyrope In the third part of Openbound Gamzee confirms that he has secretly started a kismesissitude with Terezi, stating that she hates him for what he is, but not enough to kill him. He doesn't want Karkat to find out about this, as he thinks Karkat would kill him for it; the exact reasoning behind Gamzee's belief that Karkat would kill him is unknown. Much of Gamzee and Terezi's relationship is open to speculation, as their only on-panel interaction following their kismessitude involved Terezi's attempted murder of Gamzee and his own retaliation. While their full dynamic is open to interpretation, the story largely portrays it as unhealthy, given that rivalry is key, and the relationship eventually turns bad enough that Terezi tries to kill Gamzee. In addition, while Gamzee appears to be more or less the same as he was three years ago, Terezi's mental health and self-esteem appear to have declined. Assigning all the blame to Gamzee would be incorrect, given Terezi's guilt over killing Vriska, and her belief that her dancestor, Latula, is much more accepted and radical than her, though Gamzee has definitely had some role in this, mocking her blindness to the point that a combination of these three factors leads to her having her eyes healed, a decision she immensely regrets.

However, post-retcon, Terezi seems to have avoided a black relationship with Gamzee altogether, apparently due largely to Vriska's influence, and the relationship ultimately remains no more than a pitch crush from Gamzee's side that may or may not be the result of Aranea's control HS.

Other Trolls At the beginning of Hivebent, it seems Gamzee is on friendly terms with most of the other trolls. Due to his infinitely casual attitude to life, he is unaffected by Karkat's insults, Equius' bossiness or Eridan's emotional theatrics, all of which have been known to grate everyone else's nerves. He also says he's scared of Vriska. However, in the author commentary for Homestuck: Book 5: Act 5 Act 2 Part 1, Hussie says, "The best explanation for why Gamzee says he's scared of Vriska, in my opinion, is this: he's flat-out lying." He was saying it to maintain his cover as a decent guy (when in reality, he was never a good person).

Eridan, Sollux, Nepeta, and Feferi, who had almost no relationship with Gamzee, come to terms after becoming Erisolsprite and Fefetasprite by agreeing on a sound policy of 'fuck gamzee' HS. The non-prototyped version of Sollux also holds him in low regard, calling him a braindead clown who eats toxic slime. Interestingly, Sollux seems to have had a brief vacillating concupiscent crush on Gamzee during his and Karkat's showdown on the roof, where Terezi also develops a black crush on him, and Kanaya an ashen one.

Lil Cal During a conversation with Dave, Gamzee thinks that Cal will help him refigure out what's the real reality about the miracles. Given Gamzee's inexplicable devotion to Lord English, it seems strongly likely that Cal influenced Gamzee's service to Caliborn, if not his entire descent into madness, considering the fact that the curse within Cal came from and is controlled by English.

In the same conversation, Gamzee tells Dave that Cal was the one who told him to kill all of his friends. Although it's unclear when exactly Gamzee came into possession of Cal, this may also imply that Cal is the entire reason behind his flipout, or a major factor - crisis of faith and lack of sopor slime notwithstanding. It is clear that he had Cal at least before his attack on Equius and Nepeta, however, as he is seen using him to toy with Terezi, leaving ample time for Cal to have influenced him.

It is eventually revealed that Gamzee's kinship with Cal stems from the fact that Gamzee himself is in fact a part of Cal, along with Caliborn and Arquiusprite.

Dave Strider Gamzee has an intense reaction to the video for the ICP song "Miracles", calling it BlAsPhEmY after Dave sends him a link to it. The result led to Gamzee finally engaging his Hero Mode many pages after the other trolls did. Despite this reaction, Gamzee and Dave get along surprisingly well, to the point that Gamzee states that he likes Dave, although he immediately follows it by saying he wouldn't mind adding Dave's head to his collection. He then invites Dave to slam a little, and they both proceeded to have one of the best rap-offs in the history of paradox space HS. They do not talk during the meteor trip, however.

Lusus/Kernelsprite Gamzee's lusus is a giant goat-like sea creature. It had apparently often been out to sea instead of caring for Gamzee as a custodian is supposed to - about the only useful advice it ever gave Gamzee was "keep away from the ocean". It was killed after Karkat ran the Mobius Double Reacharound Virus, speared by what appears to be a harpoon or something similar. It has been speculated that Eridan is responsible, possibly as revenge for Gamzee throwing trash into the sea. Opposing this theory is the fact that Eridan's weapon is Ahab's Crosshairs, a rifle that shoots energy blasts, not a harpoon gun. However, there is a regular harpoon pointed towards the sea in Eridan's window...

When Gamzee is sitting atop the tube on [S] Equius: Seek the highb100dHS, a genetically engineered knight creature very similar to his lusus can be seen inside the tube.