‎‧₊˚✧Equius Zahhak✧˚₊‧‎

equius is a troll. he has grey skin, sharp teeth with a couple missing, black eyes with yellow sclera although they're covered by shattered rectangular sunglasses, he has shoulder length jet-black hair, pointed ears, orange horns although the left is shattered and is a nub now and his right is shaped like an arrow, a black tank top with an indigo sagittarius symbol, fingerless gloves, grey shorts with black striped pants underneath, and soccer shoes although he plays no sports.

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). equius is an indigoblood and looks down upon non-highbloods/high midbloods, and basically worships people of the purple, violet, and fuschia castes due to them being higher than him in the hemospectrum.

bulges represent tentacles and are the same color as a troll's blood. equius's bulge is indigo, 14 inches, and very girthy. 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.

Equius is a complicated and initially disturbing troll. He is a firm believer in the blood caste system, believing one should respect those higher than them and be personally disgusted by those who are lower (such as those on the Red Team). He believes one is not only allowed, but obligated to boss around anyone who is lower-ranked than them and to accept and obey orders from anyone who is higher-ranked. He believes "highbloods" should act with elegance and authority and "gutterbloods" should act with crass and submission, and most importantly, highbloods and gutterbloods should not fraternize. Any deviation from this pattern (such as Gamzee and Aradia's actions) flusters him greatly. He tries ordering highbloods to order him around, but notices the contradiction. He tries to keep up with many aristocratic practices, and has dabbled in slam poetry (mostly about his strange fetishes).

He likes to (and is brilliant enough to) build robots, intending to destroy them in bouts of rage. He builds a pair of robotic legs for Tavros, a robotic arm for Vriska, and an entire indigo-blooded robot body for Aradia. However, his actions are also referred to as misanthrobopy, as he finds pleasure in dueling the robots he builds in brutal cage matches, often losing teeth in the process (though they usually grow back). Broken robot parts are piled on his floor. The technology he uses to build his robots is very similar if not identical to the technology used to build Jade's dreambot and augment John's bunny, as well as the technology Dirk uses with Brobot.

He has an appreciation for fine Alternian musclebeast art, depicting extremely muscular and well-endowed beasts displaying their brutish strength. The posters on his wall are actually part of an old and respected Alternian tradition, despite their outwardly disturbing appearance. The posters themselves are taken from ironic art reviews made earlier by Andrew Hussie. Some have also appeared in the Jandrew Edits he co-creates.

Equius has a tendency to quickly fly into a rage about practically everything. He is only able to express his rage by building robots, setting them to "Kill Mode," and smashing the shit out of them with staggering quantities of violence. In a pinch, other acts of destruction will do, such as when Aradia throws a bath tub through his wall to calm him down. He also gets profusely sweaty when placed in compromising situations, or when flying into said rage fits. According to him, he would probably be far more dangerous if he didn't have Nepeta as his moirail to keep him subdued.

Equius angry over spilled milk STRONG.

Equius is freakishly strong, and has trouble controlling his strength; under his touch, bows snap, glasses break, and his exceptionally strong lusus bruises from little more than a gentle pat. This enrages him further. As a result of his strength, he has never successfully fired a single arrow. Broken bows and arrows litter the floor of his room. He has acquired a near-fetishistic obsession with breaking them, similar to Vriska's obsession with smashing magic 8-balls. Nepeta misconstrues thisHS as simply sucking at archery.

He seems to enjoy the concept of domination, admiring his own strength, as well as the clout that his blue blood gives him over the lesser blood colors. However, it would seem that he would prefer to be dominated by the few trolls that occupy a caste higher than his own, or by anyone lower-classed who acts with a manner refined enough that it confuses him. He even went so far as to make an artificial heart which pumps blue blood for Aradia.

He likes games, but only if they are serious important games with high stakes. He has no interest in Flarp, and forbade Nepeta from playing as well. This may have saved her from being eaten by Vriska's spider lusus. While alone with Nepeta, however, he will begrudgingly accept to engage in more frivolous antics (horsing around, if you will).

Relationships Nepeta Leijon Equius cares deeply for Nepeta, so much so that he kept her from joining Flarp games and perhaps getting hurt, despite her protest. The two initially squabble often, but grow closer to each other, and eventually find each other's quirks endearing. At one point Equius attempts an entire conversation with Nepeta in roleplay form, and they have the most poignant and heartfelt feelings jam in paradox space history. HS Their relationship is the iconic moirallegiance and is perhaps the single most straightforward and uncomplicated troll relationship among the entire group. Their relationship is alluded to in their quirk prefixes (:33 < and D -->). If one combines the less-than and greater-than signs they form a diamond, the symbol of moirallegiance, <>. Equius' moirallegiance with Nepeta may be based on the good compatibility between the Sagittarius and Leo astrological signs.

Aradia Megido Equius has an obsessive crush on Aradia and created a robotic body for her upon request (complete with artificial passion for him programmed onto an artificial heart that pumps indigo blood). But this may have been Vriska's idea to begin with, as stated in the pesterlogs, fantasizing that in that way she could be considered a blue-blood and he could be with her romantically. Later on, he was upset about how Aradia had become his superior (being his server player and thus in control of his physical environment) but then took perverse pleasure in being dominated by her, even ceding the leadership title to her. HS His relationship with Aradia is hard to define, like much of troll romance, but his feelings tend to lean more towards the flushed quadrant. They were, however, together romantically. In the Ministrife, Aradia notes that Equius is courting a plurality of her robotic doubles in the afterlife, plausibly against her will, and mentions that she never should have kissed [him] that time it was such a mistake :( most likely separating her non-Aradiabot self from him for good.

Other trolls Gamzee about to kill Equius Gamzee gets ready to kill Equius with a bow he just broke.

Most of Equius' qualms with the other trolls concern acting above or below one's rank. He questions how a troll like Gamzee, whose purple blood—a color historically associated with royalty—is a tier above Equius' indigo blood, could act so crassly, while Aradia, who is of the most abject, verminous bloodline of all, can conduct herself with (in his opinion) poise and grace, casting doubts upon the practicality of the system. Equius becomes flustered and apologetic when a highblood like Gamzee accepts an order from him without question. Judging from this conversation, Equius seems to have a complex, unconventional fetish for being whipped into a state of contrition for his impudence. Equius's desire to be put in his place is what ultimately led to his downfall. Equius could possibly have saved himself easily, but he was killed because he would rather uphold the caste system, feed his own fetish, or perhaps uphold a pacifist idealism (as he shows towards the idea of killing an animal) than save his own life. The trolls he is in romantic relationships with (Nepeta and Aradia) represent the signs Leo and Aries, which along with Sagittarius make up the fire signs of the Zodiac.

Despite his obsession with those considered above him in rank, Equius seems to greatly dislike Eridan, with Karkat even stating that Equius insults the seadweller somewhat frequently. Equius at first cites Eridan's blood color, stating that due to their disparity as landweller and seadwellers, they are to always be feuding, but later admits his advances make me uncomfortable, making it clear there is a more personal (if negative) relationship between the two. It is unclear whether this claimed landweller and seadweller feud would extend to Feferi or the other fuschiablooded trolls, or is strictly limited to violetbloods.

His relationship with Vriska is also deeply rooted in his 'traditions', with him constantly treating the ceruleanblood as if she is a threat to be kept at arms length, as he claims he believes bluebloods should behave with each other, while also coordinating with her to benefit his own means. He generally considers himself to be better than Vriska, and seems to have no qualms about putting her in her place when she angers him by trying to read his mind, or about doublecrossing her in order to take charge (though he later surrenders this leadership to Aradiabot).

Equius seems to have a negative relationship with Karkat, calling him a tactical midget with a short fuse, a foul mouth, and paralyzing insecurity over the color of his blood and outwardly rejecting his leadership. But later, when Karkat calls on him to deal with Gamzee and Eridan, he seems to be more neutral towards the troll, and even does as he asks. Though interestingly, Equius doesn't seem to grow flustered at being ordered around by Karkat in the same way as he does with Aradia and Gamzee, even though he directly acknowledges that he does appreciate the debauchery inherent in receiving an order of such gravity from a rogue-blooded foulmouth. He appears to be recognizing that he should be enjoying this, rather than actually enjoying it. This implies that, despite Karkat being even lower than Aradia, he does not enjoy the idea of being bossed around by him quite as much as her, though this could perhaps be simply due to his uncertainty of the actual contents of the order, with him showing an aversion to the idea of having to raise a hand to the highblood.

Lusus/Kernelsprite Aurthour Equius's Lusus, Aurthour.

Authoursprite Aurthour, after prototyping.

Equius's Lusus, Aurthour, is a muscled centaur with udders and a nice mustache. He serves as Equius's butler, offering him cold glasses of nutritious lusus milk, presumably among other things. He resembles a creature from one of the author's older works, Humanimals. Equius considers him to be one of the strongest lusus species in existence, the only one suitable for raising him and his absurd strength. Even though Equius tries to be as gentle as possible with him, his strength causes Aurthour to bruise incredibly easily, leading to a prominent black eye. Aurthour is also, according to Equius, the best there is at butlering