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For the post-scratch version of this character, see Damara Megido (post-scratch).

Damara Megido was a rust blooded troll living on Beforus shortly before she and the rest of her session caused the Reckoning.[2]

She is the Witch of Time and the dancestor of Aradia Megido.

Concept and creation[]

Damara isn't "really authentic troll Japanese", but "fake troll Japanese."[3] She speaks in Japanese generated by running her English dialogue through Google Translate, intended to be evidently shitty to anyone who speaks the language.[citation needed] An in-game link provides a raw transcript of Damara's dialogue to be run back through Google Translate into English. (See Damara Megido/Translation)

Damara borrows her title of Witch from the Beta troll Feferi Peixes; this forms part of a chain of class swaps, with the A1 session having a Witch of Time, Maid of Space, Sylph of Light and Thief of Life, while the post-scratch session has a Maid of Time, Sylph of Space, Thief of Light and Witch of Life.

Etymology[]

Damara is named after the Damara, a breed of domestic sheep. The name was originally suggested by Beelzebibble for Aradia.

While Damara is the name of a Celtic fertility goddess [citation needed], the name could also be a play on the Japanese imperative word "だまれ", or "damare", which translates to "shut up", or any rude way of commanding someone to keep their mouth shut. It also alludes to her speaking with often rude language, albeit in Japanese.

Biography[]

Beforus and Sgrub[]

Before the Beforan trolls' 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 where 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 handle.

Damara was the Time player of the A1 session, and so her planet in the Medium (seemingly similar in appearance to the 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, ultimately causing Damara to snap: she paralyzed Rufioh from the neck down (prompting Horuss to build Rufioh a robotic horse body to compensate) and is implied to have also killed Horuss at some point.[citation needed] Eventually, she engaged Meenah in a duel which ended in Meenah's death, prefiguring both Vriska's death at the hands of Aradia (which again resulted in the god tier ascension of a Thief) and the battle between Meenah and Damara's post-scratch iterations.

Damara scratching

Damara after initiating the scratch

From here, Damara 8ecame a loose cannon, ar8itrarily showing up at key moments throughout the timeline to sa8otage us;[citation needed] the only moment she cooperated with the team was to initiate the scratch, which she was eager to help with.[citation needed] Before the resulting temporal energy could wipe the twelve trolls from existence, Damara and the rest of the team were killed by Meenah's bomb, ensuring their ongoing presence as ghosts in the Furthest Ring.HS

Post-scratch[]

Main article: Damara Megido (post-scratch)

Damara was rewarded for restarting her planet's history with a lifetime of servitude as the Handmaid to Lord English and Doc Scratch; though Aranea calls Alternia the chance to live out our wildest fantasies[4], and this role [stirring] up class warfare and [...] bigotry in whatever era she hauntedHS seems to align with Damara's interests over the course of the game, the young Alternian Damara was ultimately unhappy with her new lifeHS.

As a ghost[]

A Damara and Rufioh dressed as a couple from the Japanese Sailor Moon series are seen in the Ministrife.

Aranea used the psionic abilities of mind controlled Damara ghostsHS to influence the physical B2 session during her interference wearing the Ring of Life.

Two Damaras are seen participating in Vriska's army of ghosts, oneHS dressed in her schoolgirl outfit gathered around Meenah and Karkat Vantas as they rally to fight Lord English, and another in her god tier garb watching Karkat be downed by Lord English's attack in Collide. It is possible very few Damara ghosts participated into this battle thanks to their general loyalty to Lord English.

Personality and Traits[]

Damara bears a very strong resemblance to her post-scratch self during her time imprisoned by Doc Scratch - she wears similar if differently colored clothing, has the same bun hairstyle, and uses the same strife specibus (either Wand or Needlekind); this is acknowledged in-comic by Andrew Hussie, who remarks that he should never have freed her from Doc Scratch's care and that her teen delinquent behaviour is a product of being raised by a four foot tall asshole in suspenders, who's kind of like a creepy puppet uncle HS, though this was very likely a joke.

Damara peppers her speech with crude, aggressively lascivious remarks at any opportunity, even with Meenah (whom she possibly hates). It is uncertain whether she actually means her remarks as an honest invitation, or if she is simply taking advantage of the language barrier to mess with others without response. Between her ribald remarks, however, lies much fatalism and frustration. According to Aranea, Damara's personality took this drastic shift after repeated bullying from Meenah regarding Rufioh's betrayal, coaxing her from despair to a quiet, unyielding anger. When speaking with the kids, she seemed very kind and spoke in broken English with them. It is unknown whether or not she was just playing them to make them think of her as harmless, though. Damara is shown to have no qualms about locking her former matesprit's lusus in a chest, and it is heavily implied that she used her time abilities to meddle with her teammates in revenge.

Relationships[]

Rufioh Nitram[]

Damara was in a relationship with Rufioh until their relationship ended because Rufioh started cheating on her with Horuss. This event was the target of Meenah's harassment, which triggered a big change in Damara and she started to distance herself from her former friends. Rufioh does still confide in Damara details of his current relationship that he wouldn't tell others, and she seems to offer advice (albeit biased advice), though she still seems to play cruel pranks on him from time to time. They are on good enough terms that she will do favors for him if asked, as well as cosplay and play cards with him.

Meenah Peixes[]

Meenah, under the flimsy guise of being a "good leader" and "helping her team", heavily bullied and harassed Damara. She specifically targeted Damara's failed relationship with Rufioh, bringing her under even more anger and pain from the almost healing wound. At the same time Meenah was harassing Damara, "other forces" were said to be at play. We can only assume this is in reference to Lord English's influence. After Damara snaps and kills Meenah and cripples Rufioh, she goes on to be generally distant from her friend group.

Porrim Maryam[]

Unlike some of the A1 trolls, Porrim seems to hold some affection for Damara. She treats Damara as one might treat a friend in need, saying to her "We'll talk later," when the player approaches her and Kanaya as Damara in the third part of Openbound. Although seeming somewhat annoyed by Damara's intrusion, Porrim's comment implies that she cares enough about Damara to maintain some semblance of a friendship or at least an amicable relationship with her, which is more than can be said for some of her fellow A1 trolls.

Horuss Zahhak[]

The connection between Damara and Horuss is largely obscured, but Damara is said to constantly warn Rufioh of the weakness of his matespritship. Horuss is unable to have meaningful conversations with her, since he cannot understand her "lowblood speak". She frequently teases him with lewd, flirtatious remarks, and even offers to have sex with him although Horuss has trouble understanding most of it. She has also called him a freak at one point and it was heavily implied that she's killed him before.

Aradia Megido[]

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.

Terezi and Latula Pyrope[]

Latula Pyrope is well aware of Damara and her destructive tendencies, as she saw the need to threaten Damara to protect Mituna's sleeping body from her.

Terezi Pyrope is apparently also aware of Damara, as she similarly threatens her away from a sleeping Karkat.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • Both Damara and Aradia's full names can both be accurately spelt in Japanese, albeit in katakana (ダマラ メギド and アラディア メギド, respectively).

References[]

  1. Andrew Hussie. "clues in text suggest they were about 19" Twitter. February 26, 2013. Archived from the original on November 4, 2015.
  2. Openbound part 1.HS ARANEA: The Maid of Space was of course our all-important Space player and Stoker of the Forge, 8ut as you know, we never made much progress on the frog 8reeding front, or really any aspect of the game 8efore the reckoning.
  3. Openbound part 3.HS HUSSIE: You say stuff in Japanese, and when people who actually speak Japanese read it they probably laugh because the Japanese is so shitty. Sorry to burst your bubble Damara but the things you say started out in English, went through the google translator, and then out again so that it vaguely makes sense when translated back to English. So you aren't really authentic troll Japanese, you're fake troll Japanese.
  4. Openbound part 3.HS ARANEA: Which at the time, I thought sounded chilling. 8ut there's really two ways of looking at it. One is how the Scratch re8ooted our world into a state of pure chaos, culminating in the annihilation of our universe. 8ut on the other hand, we all got the chance to live out our wildest fantasies as adults on Alternia!
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