User:Cookiefonster/pre-scratch trolls biographies

I've had the idea to edit the pre-scratch trolls' biographies to remove Aranea's word-for-word exposition and instead rephrase it; some of Aranea's exposition is either redundant with what's written, joking, or other commentary. Here's what I plan for each of them to look like:

Damara Megido
Before their Sgrub session, Damara was a member of the Lost Weeaboos, a guild of tree-dwelling troll otakus living in secrecy in the forest. It was here which she met Rufioh Nitram, and the two eventually entered a flushed relationship, one which ended bitterly for Damara when Rufioh ended up cheating on her with Horuss Zahhak. Despite being deeply wounded by this, it wasn't until Sgrub that she performed an acrobatic fucking pirouette off the deep end.

Damara was the Time player of the A1 session, and so her planet in the Medium (which bears a strong resemblance to Aradia's Land of Quartz and Melody) housed the session's scratch construct, the Cardinal Movement. In her efforts to rile up the team, Meenah Peixes took to harassing Damara, particularly on the subject of her former relationship with Rufioh, which ultimately caused Damara to snap. Now feeling thoroughly vengeful, she paralyzed Rufioh from the neck down, causing Horuss to build Rufioh a robotic horse body to compensate; it is also implied by her that she may have killed Horuss at some point. Eventually, she engaged Meenah in a brutal duel, in which she ultimately won and killed Meenah in revenge, this being the cause for Meenah's god tier ascension; it does not appear that Damara was also killed and ascended during this fight, or at least Damara herself would not say if she did.

From here, it is implied she began using her time powers to wreak havoc on the session, appearing at various points to sabotage everyone's efforts. The only time she cooperated with the team was when they needed to initiate the scratch, which she performed gleefully. Before the scratch could take effect, Damara was killed along with the rest of the team by Meenah's bomb, ensuring their survival as ghosts in the Furthest Ring.HS 6897

Although Damara gleefully performed the scratch because she said that after the scratch everyone would get what they deserved, all her Alternian self got out of the reboot was a lifetime of bitter servitude to and  as the Handmaid, though it is possible that at that point, utterly corrupting troll society would have been something she wanted her future self to do, therefore fitting the description of her "wildest fantasies."

At some point in the afterlife, Damara seems to have met Aradia in some capacity, as Aradia appears to be familiar enough with Damara's behaviour to express relief at Meenah not seeing any resemblance between the two. It appears that Terezi Pyrope is also aware of Damara and her destructive tendencies, as she saw the need to threaten Damara to protect Karkat's sleeping body from her.

Rufioh Nitram
Much like his dancestor Tavros, Rufioh is a fan of Fiduspawn. According to Meenah, he was born with his wings (or rather, sprouted them upon 'puperty' [sic] i.e. pupation.) Rufioh calls himself a for it, and according to Aranea, he was an outcast due to it as well. For these reasons, Rufioh admits that he does not have high self-esteem, or not nearly as high as those around him think he does. To avoid the unwanted and negative attention, he went to live in the wooden village, with tree huts and rope ladders, with people who would accept him, known as the "Lost Weeaboos". Or as Rufioh put it, he followed his lusus into the woods instead, where he met Damara and presumably Horuss as well.

He was romantically linked with Damara, as well as Horuss at the same time (albeit in secret). Finally, Rufioh broke off the matespritship with Damara, who eventually turned to tormenting him. Rufioh mentions to Meenah one instance in his matespritship with Damara where she left him unable to walk or move, and was so injured that Horuss had to build him a temporary mechanical body (shaped like a horse). This is a callback to Equius stating he wanted to give Tavros a in HS 4692 (Alterniabound).

When asked about how he got his normal body back, Rufioh says that some complicated sequence of events, he died, and then Horuss kissed his head back to life,

Interestingly, despite his own admitted lack of bravery, Aranea mentions he was the most romantically successful of their team (an anti-Cronus) and also the most liked of their team (an anti-her). Meenah even goes as far as to say he was the only one who was. During his team's session of the game, he did not ascend to god tier, finding the prospect of killing himself too heavy to face.

After he and his teammates were all killed by Meenah, he continued dating Horuss in the afterlife on and off, and at some point, he met his dancestor Tavros, as indicated by Tavros's remarks about how "Rufio was real all along".

Mituna Captor
Aranea says that before his accident, Mituna was a very powerful psychic who had numerous visions of bleak outcomes which he had much to say about, but nobody took him very seriously. At one point in their session, he over-exerted his psychic powers to save his team from some mysterious looming threat, which led to his brain damage. Kurloz was the only person who witnessed his accident, and since it is near impossible to get information out of either of them, the specifics of the incident remain unknown. It is also unknown if Mituna ascended to god tier during this time, a fact which he himself seems uncertain of.

At some point before the pre-scratch trolls were all killed, he started dating Latula, and he also has been moirails with Kurloz for a long time, according to Cronus who describes their moirallegiance as "longstanding".

As with the rest of their team, he was killed by Meenah Peixes to ensure that they "survived" in the form of ghosts in the Furthest Ring instead of being completely wiped out by the scratch's reset. He remains both matesprits with Latula and moirails with Kurloz.