- For the post-scratch version of this character, see Mituna Captor (post-scratch).
Mituna Captor is a gold blooded troll who lived on Beforus shortly before he and the rest of his session caused the Reckoning.[2]
He is the Heir of Doom and the dancestor of Sollux Captor.
Concept and creation[]
Andrew Hussie describes Mituna as a “Mega Man Sollux”[3]; Sollux' themes on the Toby Fox albums Alternia and AlterniaBound both use samples from the soundtracks of the Mega Man series,[citation needed] possibly leading to Mituna's helmet borrowing from the Mega Man character's iconic design. His helmet also bears more than a passing resemblance to that worn by the Mother 3 character Claus; more broadly, his wearing of a helmet references his post-scratch moniker, the "Helmsman".
While Openbound's Bubblr gimmick broadly parodies the microblogging platform Tumblr, where much of Homestuck's readership was based at the time, Mituna's speech is uniquely styled in a way resembling the YotsubaB style found on some 4chan boards; 4chan's Comics and Cartoons (or /co/) board also used to host a devoted section of the Homestuck fanbase. Mituna's personality fits with many stereotypes of 4chan users as lewd and abrasive.
Alongside the deaf Meulin Leijon and mute Kurloz Makara, the idealistic Mituna could be seen as one of the proverbial three wise monkeys who "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil".
Mituna borrows his title of Heir from the Beta troll Equius Zahhak; this forms part of a chain of class swaps, with the A1 session having an Heir of Doom, Page of Void, Mage of Heart and Rogue of Breath, while the post-scratch session has a Mage of Doom, Heir of Void, Page of Breath and Rogue of Heart.
Etymology[]
Mituna was a name suggested by Archaemic for Sollux. It comes from "Mithuna", the Sanskrit name given to the Indian astrological sign corresponding with Gemini; "mithuna" is a couple engaged in Tantric union (or "maithuna"), as opposed to a pair of twins as in the West, possibly lending to Mituna's lewd personality.
Biography[]
Mituna was one of the players in the “three sweeps” long [4] A1 session; it is unknown if Mituna ascended to the god tiers during this time, a fact of which he himself seems uncertain.[5] 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. Aranea gives a short biography of him:
- “The Heir of Doom was once a powerful psionic. [...] He had much to say when it came to warning us a8out the path of doom and destruction we were all headed for, 8ut no one took him very seriously. 8ut one day he lost all those abilities when he 8adly overexerted himself. It's hard to get any specifics from him, 8ut indications are that he applied every last 8it of energy he had toward some great act of heroism, saving us all from some looming threat. Not only did his exertion permanently 8urn out his psychic a8ilities, 8ut it left him somewhat... er. Incoherent. [...] The entire incident is shrouded in mystery. From his limited and scattered accounts of what happened, it seems very likely that Kurloz was with him at the time, as the only eye witness. And of course it's impossi8le to get any relia8le information out of him. I guess we may never know, sadly.”
Mituna's accident and subsequent brain damage mirror his life across the scratch, as well as the life of his dancestor; all three Captors were forced to save one or more of their peers through a great exertion of their psionic abilities, at a great physical and psychic cost. While it is not at all clear what the Beforan Mituna's sacrifice entailed, it may well have involved moving a craft at high speed as with the Condesce's flagship and Sollux' meteor.
Personality and traits[]
Like his dancestor, Sollux, Mituna has a dual personality, which was either caused or worsened by the brain damage he suffers from. He alternates between aggressive and abrasive with Meenah and Cronus Ampora[citation needed] - employing foul language against those complicit in the fuchsia-down blood hierarchy[citation needed] - and more more meek and apologetic when talking with Cronus or Kankri Vantas alone - refusing to anger at Kankri's down talk of his “pers9nality and existence”[citation needed] or Cronus' verbal and physical harassment, instead displaying distress at the latter and repeatedly asking for it to stop.[6] Occasionally Mituna swaps rapidly between these moods.
Some Mitunas as they appear in the ministrife, including ghosts wearing both gold and purple pajamas.
Also like Sollux, Mituna dreamed on the moons of both Prospit and Derse, possible alluded to by Mituna's proximity to a dream bubble set depicting a half-gold and half-purple bridge.[image?]
Mituna skateboards like his matesprit Latula. In order to counter his own clumsiness, he wears a bulky helmet with a dual-color visor reminiscent of Sollux's glasses. He also wears a tight yellow and black bodysuit that matches Latula's outfit. Under his helmet, he sports messy hair that covers his eyes. Mituna likes slam poetry, which he tried to show Cronus before he interrupted him by breaking his skateboard.[7]
Relationships[]
Latula Pyrope[]
Mituna has been in a matespritship with Latula for eons.[8] The two wear matching bodysuits and partake in similar "rad" interests like gaming, skateboarding and 1337 speak; where Mituna's theme music is a variation on the GameBro theme ♫, Latula's is the GameGrl theme ♫.
Kurloz Makara[]
Kurloz is Mituna's moirail, and is theorized by Aranea to have been the sole witness to Mituna's incident.[9] Cronus spreads rumors that the symptoms of Mituna's brain damage disappear when he talks Kurloz, no doubt thanks to Kurloz' chucklevoodoos.[10]
Cronus Ampora[]
While Cronus hints[11] that the two were friends before the accident, Mituna is now more often than not a target for Cronus' harassment.[citation needed]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- A behelmeted character with Gemini signs printed on either side of his headgear is one of the key characters in the 1990 British graphic novel Mauretania.[12]
References[]
- ↑ Andrew Hussie. "clues in text suggest they were about 19" Twitter. February 26, 2013. Archived from the original on November 4, 2015.
- ↑ Openbound part 1. “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.”
- ↑ Openbound part 2. “HUSSIE: Mega Man Sollux has some problems. He falls down and stuff and talks on a 4chan background, because of 4chan. But in spite of that, he's brave and does his best and everyone loves him. Also no one can read a damn thing he says. His quirk is the least legible of all quirks, with Damara's coming in at a close second.”
- ↑ Openbound part 1. “MEENAH: when youre stuck in a busted session for three sweeps without much to do you figure some stuff out about yourself”
- ↑ Openbound part 2. “MEENAH: you ever get god tier tunaboy” / “MITUNA: WH4H47” / “MITUNA: N0G3” / “MITUNA: M4Y83 1 M347” / “MITUNA: 1 D0N7 D0N7”
- ↑ Openbound part 2. “MITUNA: 1 W4N7 7H47 Y0UR H4ND 70 N07 83 0N MY 80DY PL3453”
- ↑ Openbound part 2. “MITUNA: H3Y 8R0 W4N7H0 H3R3 S0M3 57HL4M P037RY 1 M4D3” / “MITUNA: H3 JU57 8R0K3 MY 5K4T3 804RD 1N H4LF 4ND W4LK3D 4W4Y”
- ↑ Openbound part 1. “ARANEA: Ok. Even though Latula has 8een dating Mituna steadily for eons, it's hardly a secret to anyone that she and Kankri have had complicated unrequited feelings for even longer. So really, much like their descendants. Aaaaaaaand, we're done! Here you go.”
- ↑ Openbound part 2. “ARANEA: No. The entire incident is shrouded in mystery. From his limited and scattered accounts of what happened, it seems very likely that Kurloz was with him at the time, as the only eye witness. And of course it's impossi8le to get any relia8le information out of him. I guess we may never know, sadly.”
- ↑ Openbound part 2. “CRONUS: [...] and i vwouldnt dare to intrude on your longstanding moirallegiance vwith kurloz, and not because he scares the shit out of me either. that just really seems to vwork, you and him, doesnt it? i dont get a peep out of him of course, not evwen if im super nice and compliment his hideous hair, and obvwiously i receivwe nothing but disgusting horseshit out of your mouth evwery time you open it. but you seem to bring good qualities out of each other, no? is it true, the rumor that you are actually lucid vwhen you talk to him, instead of behavwing like a babbling, vwertigo stricken imbecile?”
- ↑ Openbound part 2. “CRONUS: i really feel like youre one of the only people i can open up to about my feelings. i guess it really does help to confide in someone vwho basically lacks the ability to repeat vwhat you say vwith any clarity or coherence, or evwen understand vwhat you said in the first place.” / “MITUNA: Y0UR3 571LL 70UCH1NG M3 4ND 1 D0N7 UND3R574ND WHY 7H15 15 H4PP3PP1NG” / “CRONUS: but truth be told, i alvways felt that vway about you before you evwen started havwing, vwell, your issues. vwe alvways had a good thing together, didnt vwe?”
- ↑ Graham Johnstone. Slings & Arrows. Archived from the original on May 20, 2022.
