Gamzee Makara { Human }

Gregory Makara, either being called Greg but usually everyone calls him Gamzee for some reason, he's had the nickname since elementary school so it's like a second name.

Above and beyond everything else, Gamzee strikes me as an ordinary kid in a lot of respects. He spent years repressing his emotional response and awareness of his situation through the use of sopor(a type of drunk mix) and devotion to his religion, and the second he lost his crutch and finds out certain truths about his beliefs he never wanted to know he completely flipped out. Why? Because he doesn’t know how to react and respond appropriately to those emotions. He’s an evasive creature, avoiding truth and smiling on despite all the bad in his life. He has trouble confronting, accepting and taking the blame for his mistakes and many of the occurrences around him. This is also applicable to his emotions in a lot of way, as is made obvious in the link above, not just visceral “scares”, as is it also applicable to his belief system, as seen here: miracles He’d rather not hear about the scientific stuff, evading it in favour of his own beliefs. He doesn’t like facing down what he doesn’t want to hear— he would rather remain ignorant to the uncomfortable truths of his life and in regards to those around him. In the same log he even evades an unfortunate truth that while he considers Karkat his best friend: invertebrother He knows that at this point Karkat does not consider him the same, and promptly changes the subject: it's chill :o(

Beyond that, he is also a clown at his core. He does things because he thinks they would be funny or hilarious in some weird way. That’s not to say he’s #1 constant prankster, but this is something that can’t be avoided. He is silly, creepy and weird. This counts even as sober(which is rare.)

1. Sober Gamzee is not a completely different character from Sopor Gamzee. He is the same person, with the same urges and tendencies, only he’s had a bit of a breakdown and he’s far more in touch with his emotions than he ever was before. He’s likely prone to mood swings, bitterness and possibly even self depreciation now, but judging from his behaviour in the highschool with the older kids, he’s still /very much/ a silly and laid back guy when he’s more stable.

2. Sopor Gamzee does not get offended by things. He will not get depressed because Karkat is being mean to him. He will not get depressed if anyone is being mean to him. He lets insults and taunts roll off his back without batting an eye.

3. Gamzee isn’t as dumb as people think he is. Does he avoid facts for the sake of his own ignorance? Yes. Is he socially inept? Yes. Is he dumb? Probably not. He has a good vocabulary and despite his nebulous grasp on grammar, he seems to have a pretty decent beat on his friends and things in general. Willful ignorance and capricious impulse does not equal stupidity.

4. It is heavily implied that he is empathetic towards his friends. There is a lot of evidence supporting this, especially in his early logs and even his later logs. He may not have the best advice, or really understand people enough to act on the empathy he has, but he tries: don't blame yourselfknock it the fuck backkarkat has no idea how to settle There is more in the other logs, so this is just a quick taste. Just keep in all of the advice he gives, it can be construed that he is suggesting solutions that he himself often employs when he is feeling down: Crack open a wicked elixir and hope for things to work themselves out. Ineptitude does not imply a lack of caring.

5. Karbro, Tavbro, Equibro, etc; Canonically, Gamzee doesn’t ever use any of those terms. I personally try to avoid them (though I use tavbro occasionally cause I think it’s cute), and stick to him usually not saying someone’s name to their face and sticking to bro/brother/man/dogg, etc. He only seems to mention people by name when talking about them, rather than to them. This is more of a personal thing though, and if you want to use the -bros or -sis, knock yourself out. There’s just no canon evidence behind them.

6. when sober, Gamzee has much more violent tendencies. He usually stays high or on some sort of drug due to his past family trauma and not to mention he's been subjected to abuse almost all his life which caused the violent out bursts, so that's why he stays high. The drugs keep his mind foggy, so that's why he doesn't plan on stopping out of fear of accidentally hurting someone or some thing. Plus, getting clean is a hard struggle he isn't able to completely over come it.

7. Even when Gamzee is sober, it doesn’t mean he can’t be calm. He's just not all happy.

8. Gamzee's close friends are Tavros and Karkat.

9. He will not go from high to sober at the drop of a pin. I think potentially it can be an interesting concept if done right, but he needs to be pushed and broken in some major way, such as the events in canon. Chances are there won’t be an opportunity for this to be done right, so best not to do it, especially if you want to stick to canon. It’s insinuated his transition from calm to sober was over a longer period, and with a lot of outside influences coming in to fuck things over.

10. Gamzee loves word play and often uses "silly" words. Such as "wicked, sicknasty, tight, legit, bitchtits, peeps, strict, fresh, ridic, tenacious, mucilage, sassed, noise, fraudulent, haps, sacred, sick, flagrant, grieve, blasphemer, front/fronting, ruckus, sickening, mirth, whimsy, righteous, riotous, contrivance, toothsome, heinous, mutinous, disorderly, desecration, horror show, salacious, reproach, raucous, delirious, salty, rebellious, lurid, grievous, unkind, uncouth, rude, shitbit, jovial, sprung, atrocious, amiss, scripture". Though he does use the word "mother fucker" a lot.

His appearance is pretty basic. dark chocolate brown skin with dark brown eyes, black curly hair, has a cat scratch scar across his face, black nails, has a death metal tattoo on his back and a in color tattoo of a Sea goat on a wave on his arm. He wears a purple tanktop, black jacket, black and grey sweatpants, and purple converses. He has his ears pierced into gages. Often seen with grey and white clown facepaint.

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