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Terezi Pyrope, also known by her Trollian handle, gallowsCalibrator, is one of the trolls and is one of the main characters in Homestuck. Her associated zodiac sign is Libra (♎).

Initially the leader of the Red Team , Karkat Vantas convinced her to cede the position to him.

Concept and creation[]

Terezi's obsession with justice stems from her association with the constellation Libra, represented by the scales of justice; her fondness for dragons and their COLORFUL SCALESHS is also a pun on the constellation's symbol. Terezi's perfectly conical or triangular horns also bear a passing resemblance to the strings on either side of a classical depiction of a set of scales. Her dual association with law and mythical serpents may also allude to the concept of Draconian law, a term which could be seen as aptly describing the state of law on Alternia.

In ancient times, Libra was once merely seen as the claws of Scorpio, possibly referenced in Terezi's complicated relationship with caste neighbor Vriska Serket.

Terezi's blindness is a reference to the blind mythical figure of Lady Justice, often associated with the Libra constellation. Like many of the other trolls, Terezi is also heavily inspired by various popular comic book characters; the various cane weapons and scarlet sunglasses she uses as a blind, super-sensory lawyer are all similar to the iconic memorabilia associated with Marvel superhero Daredevil; though she has of course never heard of this Earth character.HS Her use of a DOUBLE-HEADEDHS Troll Caegar - with one side of the face disfigured - to measure out justice also evokes the gimmick of Batman adversary Two-Face: but of course Terezi doesn't know who that is either.HS Terezi's particular coin seems to depict the ancient Roman goddess Venus; the constellation of Libra is "ruled by" the planet Venus.

Terezi borrows her title of Seer from Kankri Vantas; Kankri's dancestor Karkat Vantas likewise borrows his Knight title from Terezi's dancestor Latula Pyrope. In addition to her family connection to the class, Terezi's torrid relationships with the Knights Karkat and Dave Strider may owe to the close relationship between knights and dragons in folklore.

Etymology[]

The name Terezi was first proposed by MSPA Forums user cashewSquared, and is the word for 'balance' and the name of the Libra constellation in various languages, derived from Persian tarâzu, meaning scales. Tiresias was also a blind Seer in Ancient Greek myth. Suggested by Dragoshi, a 'pyrope' is a variety of red garnet - from Greek pyro, 'fire' and ope, 'eyes', referencing her and her ancestor's red glare - in the pyralspite group.

The gallows in Terezi's trolltag refers to the apparatus on which "justice" is dispensed through hanging, which was the ultimate fate of her ancestor Redglare. Calibrator contains the word Libra within it; to calibrate is also to set something up through careful measurement, like someone would do using a set of scales.

Biography[]

Roleplaying[]

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Terezi's eyes after the "incident."

Terezi played Flarp as a member of Team Scourge alongside Vriska Serket, her name of choice for these sessions being Redglare, like her ancestor. Terezi viewed their team as a vigilante duo devoted to taking down bad guys. When Vriska harmed Tavros Nitram and Aradia Megido, Terezi disbanded Team Scourge, cutting ties with her former friend. With Sollux Captor's help, she then told Doc Scratch that Vriska had taken his magic cue ball. Scratch promptly and uncharacteristically flipped outHS and blew the cue ball up in Vriska's hand, destroying her left arm and ruining her vision eightfold.

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Terezi's view on Prospit and in her forest while sleepwalking.

Terezi's blindness is indeed real and was caused by Vriska in retaliation for the aforementioned incident. Vriska did this via a Psychic Double ReacharoundHS through Tavros and Terezi's Lusus . She used Tavros's ability to commune with animals to control Terezi's Lusus who would then speak to Terezi (as she was unable to control Terezi directly), forcing her to sleepwalk away from her tree and stare into the blinding Alternian sun, effectively burning her eyes and blinding her. At the same time, dream Terezi walked out on Prospit and stared into the heart of Skaia. Terezi's dream self awoke on Prospit, and her Lusus, still in its egg, used telepathy to teach her the skills to function without vision, by smelling and tasting her surroundings. This all happens in [S] Make her pay.HS In a conversationHS with Karkat, she says that her dream self's blindness is because deep down, she wants to be blind.

She stopped Flarping after Tavros' injury, the only type of role-playing she continues being chat-based furry roleplay with Nepeta Leijon, in which she plays a dragon who thinks nothing but of devouring everything in its sight. She seems to enjoy these sessions.[citation needed]

Hivebent[]

Though she is blind, Terezi can "smell" and "taste" colors. She makes references to being able to "smell" the text of others while chatting online, clearly confusing the Homestuck Kids. When using her computer, she has a fondness for licking her monitor (and chalk), and like all of the other trolls, a graphic symbol of her corresponding zodiac sign appears at the back. She was taught how to sense the world through scent and such by her future custodian.HS

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"Hero Mode" Terezi

She was to be the original leader of the Red Team; however, she surrendered the position to Karkat, probably out of understanding that the position was essentially meaningless.

Her Land has been revealed to be the Land of Thought and Flow. Her exile is Snowman. Snowman switched from Vriska to Terezi due to difficulties controlling Vriska as she was stubborn and refused to listen or acknowledge the orders. Instead, Snowman chose someone less stubborn and more creative. Terezi would then be tasked with the mission of exiling the Archagent Jack Noir, during a brief "conversation" between Terezi and Snowman, thanks to some chalk she keeps in her Sylladex. In time she and Vriska would carry out this mission.

Post-Hivebent[]

Terezi contacts Rose Lalonde after she enters The Medium and, rather than trolling her (though she claims to be 'hatefriends' with Rose), offers constructive information about the titles of each Sburb player and the voice of the exile that Rose hears. She mentions the fact that Earth is doomed no matter what, and that the exiles are responsible for restoring life. Terezi also knows about Agents but refuses to tell Rose about them, saying that it would be more constructive to talk in the future.

It was Terezi who first discovered the humans. She received a money transfer from Dave, which her future self had set up. Her interest was taken due to the large sum of money and the use of the numbers of the blind prophets, with Sollux's help she was able to backtrack the transfer. She takes an interest in the cool kid she discovers and decides to support him once he enters the Medium.

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Terezi advising Dave about god tier status.

After the Doomed Dave is killed by Bec Noir at his quest bedHS, she runs from the room in tears, seemingly very upset. During her broodings, the dead body of Tavros falls from the ceiling; he had been run through the chest with his own lance. A forensic analysis of the corpse with the help of three of her Scalemates leads to two of them being cast into the void, likely attracting the attention of a murderous Gamzee in the process. She concludes that the culprit was Vriska within seconds, but pretends that the results were inconclusive because otherwise she would have no fun with the process. In an attempt to revive him, she removes her glasses and smooches his corpseHS. Her glasses are soon after found by Gamzee, who uses them to contact Karkat, leaving the sole message of honk.

She is later found investigating the computer room, where she laments the loss of her forensics team and states how hard it is to investigate a murder with no body (referring to the bloody mess made by Kanaya's body). She then walks over to the horn pile, where she encounters Feferi's corpse. She declares it a textbook impaling, showing that she is still oblivious to the fact that Eridan also went on a murderous rampage. She also notices two puncture wounds on the corpse's neck, which match up with Kanaya's fangs, but she formulates a completely and totally absurd theory that it was Vriska, who had developed a taste for blood. She acknowledges that this really doesn't make much sense.

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The averted (doomed) timeline

While talking to Sollux after he goes blind, Terezi smells undead Kanaya approaching. She wakes up on the floor sometime later with a bandaged bite mark on her face. Realizing she has to stop Vriska, she leaves and discovers the bodies of Nepeta and assumedly Equius along the way. She leaves down a narrow corridor, captchaloguing the Homestuck Disc 1 along the way. Here, she discovers a torn page of Mindfang's diary stuck into the floor with Nepeta's claws. She goes to pick it up, but a trapdoor gives way underneath and she falls into the secret room found in Trickster Mode, which immediately becomes canon. Her fall is broken by a number of somewhat damaged scalemates. Someone's silhouette is darting ninja-style around the room, and a familiar face is also present. Terezi proceeds to investigate, starting the process by playing a selection of appropriate music on a gramophone. However, after realising there is some inappropriately vaudevillian cornball nonsense at the end of the selection, she moves to put the Midnight Crew record back in its wallet and discovers the Homestuck Disc 2 CD in there. Wondering what sort of music it plays, she puts it in the gramophone, which immediately scratches the disc in an uncannily foreboding way. She then reads the note, which aside from a familiar message written in Gamzee's purple blood, also sheds further light on the ancestors of Terezi and Vriska. This little taunt reminds her to get back on track.

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Vriska about to meet her end at the hands of Terezi.

She then leaves to confront Vriska with a coin flip deciding whether or not Spidertroll would go to challenge Jack, Vriska naturally uses her Thief of Light powers to rig the outcome so that she can. Terezi, fully aware that she would do this, prepares to stab Vriska as she turns to leave, since her abilities as the Seer of Mind allowed her to predict the consequences of Vriska going to fight Jack Noir. Vriska would have a chance of winning, but Jack would first follow her trail back to the trolls' hideout in the Veil and slaughter Karkat and Terezi personally, and presumably kill every other living troll on the meteor by blowing it up completely. Because of this knowledge, Terezi does stab Vriska, averting that whole timeline. Karkat arrives and the two embrace.

Act 6[]

A year into the three-year trip, Terezi is contacted by Aranea through the dream bubbles and helps her round up some of her friends. For a large part of Aranea's exposition, she is fixated on Dirk, probably for his resemblance to Dave.

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It looked something like this.

Further down the road, it is revealed that she and Dave are, or have been for some time, dating. Upon the arrival of the trolls' dancestors, she becomes jealous of how accepted and rad her dancestor, Latula, is. She then goes into an area reminiscent of her old forest to sulk, her dragon cosplay pulled over her head. Karkat finds her and tells her to be herself, that trying to cover up who she really prevents people from seeing someone beautiful. He leaves, and Terezi goes to follow him, possibly to thank him for his support. She finds only Meenah, who talks about her interpretation of Karkat going to help her fight Lord English as a proposition for the two to go on a date. She seems possibly surprised but appears to be ok with Meenah replying with a >:] after she says she likes her dragon costume. In Act 6 Intermission 5, Terezi is shown to have crashed from a Faygo binge, wearing only a scalemate hoodie, her underwear, and her shirt, holding her Pyralspite scalemate.

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Terezi's eyes healed.

Upon being woken by Karkat, Terezi reveals that she had her vision restored by Aranea at some point, a decision influenced both by her admiration of the trolls' dancestors at the time and by her kismesissitude with Gamzee. She came to regret the decision, however, as her blindness comprised a large part of her sense of self. Furthermore, it appears that her kismesissitude with Gamzee is not going well and that she feels trapped, however, she does not want Gamzee to end it, because she will feel as if she failed. She also reveals that she still feels bad about killing Vriska, even though she is aware it had to be done.

GAME OVER timeline[]

After the trolls arrive in the new session and are teleported by Grimbark Jade to separate planets, Terezi ends up with Rose on LOLAR. There, after complaining about her regained sight, seeing John, and at least sensing Gamzee, she alchemizes a red cloth using her sunglasses and Rose's scarf, which she uses to blindfold herself before going CLOWN HUNT1NG.

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Terezi attacking Gamzee on LOFAF.

She is not seen again until after Aranea kills Jade. As Jane tries to revive her, Gamzee ambushes her, only to be attacked by Terezi, who then engages Gamzee in a one-sided duel, slashing and stabbing him and crying because he won't attack her and is just standing there with a blank smile on his face.

When Aranea's mind control wears off of Gamzee, he tells Terezi to stop because she is hurting him. She drops her weapons, shakily apologizing for what she has done; Gamzee, however, flips the fuck out and begins to brutally pummel Terezi before seizing her and performing an "ATOMIC DOUBLE JUGGALO BACKBREAKER", slamming her head-first into the ground at incredible velocity and snapping the stone platform in two, causing Terezi to fall in, likely to her death. Ironically, this may have been foreshadowed several years prior by Dave's comic renditionMspa icon of her falling into the Kool-Aid Man. However, before she can fall to her doom, she is grabbed by Gamzee, who pulls her back onto the platform, then grabs her in a headlock, whilst glaring at Karkat and Kanaya and flipping them off.

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Terezi trying to use her powers as a Seer of Mind

After Kanaya and Karkat launch their assault on Gamzee, Terezi mourns over Karkat's death and manages to avoid the Condesce's beam of psiioniics. She launches at Aranea with the other half of her cane sword, but Aranea causes her to stab herself before she can strike. She then flings Terezi to the far shore of the lava lake. After a moment of recovery, Terezi rips the blade from her gut. Then she found Dave and Jade, put on Jade's R3D, SP4RKLY, 4ND D3L1C1OUS shoes, flew to LOPAN on her rocket wings and met up with John, Roxy, and the now-dead Rose. There she demands that John use his new powers to fix everything. After some initial side conversation regarding their fate in a doomed timeline, and how John would even learn to use his powers, they both decide to see their respective denizens, mainly because John refused to see Typheus unless Roxy agreed to speak to Nix. Upon witnessing John's and Roxy's awkward and fruitless attempt to bid each other farewell, Terezi forces them to hug each other properly so that they can both leave satisfied. After Roxy phases down to the core of their planet, John prepares to leave as well but is interrupted by Terezi calling him back over to talk about a plan on what to do if he successfully learns to control his powers. As neither of them knows what to do after that point, Terezi has the idea of using some form of Seer of Mind powers, implied to be unprecedented. This involves asking John to hold a specific phrase or image in his mind and tell her what it is, and then using her powers in connection to this phrase. After an observably intense effort, the process fizzle...s and stops, apparently without any results. This solidifies her lack of faith in her powers, and she asks John to leave her to die and go find his denizen.

However, after John learns to control his powers, he goes back to retcon this moment, and Terezi is surprised that her powers worked. After the John from the original timeline goes off to visit Typheus again, she writes a list of exact instructions for John to follow at specific points in time in order to change the outcome of events (appearing as password-locked pages at certain points throughout the comic). She then draws a forensic outline in blue chalk, keels over, and dies on her own terms after getting what she needs done.

Pre-retcon Terezi woke up in the Furthest Ring and walked through it for a while, remembering meeting Vriska and their early FLARP campaigns, before unexpectedly running into pre-retcon Vriska, also known as (Vriska), and embracing her.

New Timeline[]

In the new timeline created by John's retcons, John saved Vriska before Terezi could kill her. She becomes angry at John (thinking that he doomed the timeline by saving Vriska) and wants to see her alternate self's scarf that had John's instructions before John zaps away.

During the three-year meteor trip, Terezi and Vriska become close friends/partners-in-crime once again, as they are seen spending a lot of time together. They spend a good amount of timeHS discussing what Terezi's pre-retcon self meant about John giving Terezi his walletHS, and they eventually decide to upgrade Vriska's fetch modus using the wallet's captcha code. The two became moirails, as confirmed hereHS. Unlike in the old timeline, Terezi does not get her eyesight healed by Aranea, nor does she start a kismesissitude with Gamzee. After the meteor flight, Terezi is next seen sitting next to Vriska on the Skaia victory platform in front of the refrigerator containing Gamzee and a few dead trolls' body parts. After arguing with Vriska over whether it was right to not resurrect their dead friends (thus saving kernelsprites as "extra lives"), Terezi defers to her as the leaderHS. After John and Roxy arrive, Terezi talks to Vriska (where she almost confesses having feelings of some sort for John) and then to Dave. When Vriska allows everyone to choose who will fight which villain, Terezi decides to join Dave in fighting "Lord Jack", saying that *SOM3ON3* H4S TO W1TN3SS D4V3'S H3RO1SM, and also states that Dirk should join them when he arrives with the others (which he very soon does, much earlier than anticipated, thanks to Vriska teleporting him).

She flies out to LOTAK on Dave's instructions and tries to contact Vriska. She states her feelings and then proceeds to remember everything her pre-retcon self did, using her Seer of Mind powers.

In Collide, she helps Dave and Dirk fight Spades Slick and Lord Jack.

In Act 7, she seems to have completely disappeared. Despite being present on the lilypad, she is not shown in the new universe or any of the scenes involving Vriska or Calliope.

In the credits, she is shown to be searching for an unnamed person at the black hole created by the doomed Calliope. She also founds the Troll Kingdom with Karkat, Dave and Jade.

Personality and traits[]

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So delicious.

Terezi can be civil, flirty and derisive in her interactions. Her drive for justice results in some cruel actions, the majority of which she has been shown to be deeply affected by and regret later on. She is almost always grinning and in many panels, it appears as though she is cackling madly. From her conversations with the kids, Terezi's attitude differs depending on who she is talking to: she acts helpful towards Rose, dubs them 'hatefriends' and tells her about Sburb. This approach may be a part of her trolling of John by pretending to be helpful towards him (through insulting him and using a kind of angry politeness) and giving him advice that leads to his death in the alternate timeline. After John avoids his death, Terezi seems to have since shown remorse for her actions and claimed she felt awful for 'killing' him; even helping him through the second gate into the Land of Light and Rain to earn his trust. Her trolling of Dave has been bizarre but effective, causing him to completely lose his cool. She often takes images of Earth pop-culture characters she thinks are similar to Dave and (crudely) draws over the picture, claiming to make it look even more like him. It is worthy to note she may have had an interest in Karkat. During one conversationHS with Terezi, John jokingly said that Karkat was basically in love with you, and she reacted with surprise, asking him if Karkat told him that in confidence and even asking him to copy/paste the exact words, a road which John refused to go down. It has since been shown that they were most likely Matesprits.

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Terezi about to be blinded by the Alternian sun.

Like the other trolls, Terezi is able to access the kids' adventures using Trollian, but Terezi stays linear rather than skipping around because time shenanigans give her a headache, which may mean she was more efficient in her trolling than the others. Her overall tone of speech is reminiscent of Jade's speaking patterns.

She has a keen interest in law and justice, has studied Alternian law thoroughly, and holds a particular fascination for orchestrating the demise of the wickedHS, although that might not be why she caused John's death. The incident might have simply been a vain effort from her point of view, because in a conversationHS with Davesprite, she states that she knew John wouldn't die, as she could see him alive in the future from her timeline application in Trollian, and given that she felt guilty about the way John trusted her trolling, this is most likely the case. She also has more lighthearted interests like dragons or collecting plushies and scales to put on her walls. She has a habit of using chalks to draw on walls for use in her live-action roleplays, and later also uses them to communicateHS with the exiled Black Queen. Her favorite color appears to be red, saying that it is so decadentHS and the most delicious colorHS, probably contributing to her attraction to Karkat and to Dave, the two Knights.

Terezi is very interested in other people's blood color, but that may be more out of curiosity than hierarchy. Terezi's own blood is in the teal end of blue, keeping her out of the aristocracy's conspiracy games until she's over her head in Sgrub beings.

Terezi eventually admits that she has never felt truly complete, not even in her moiraillegiance with Vriska, and accepts that she probably never will.HS

Skills and abilities[]

Terezi has claimedHS to be able to smell lies.

Relationships[]

Vriska Serket[]

Vriska was one of Terezi's oldest friends. On Alternia they formed Team Scourge, Team Charge's FLARP rivals. Terezi wanted them to be L1K3 4 V1G1L4NT3 DUO D1SP3NS1NG JUST1C3, but instead, Vriska killed indiscriminately to keep her Lusus fed. During the Team Charge debacle, Terezi attempted to kill Vriska via the Cue Ball, but only managed to maim her. As revenge, Vriska performed the Psychic Double ReacharoundHS to get control over Terezi's unhatched Lusus. She made Terezi walk out of her hive during the day while she slept, and stare at the Alternian sun until she went blind.

Terezi once told Vriska she was grateful for being blind because it allowed her to bond with her Lusus as well as to, as she put it, 3XP3R13NC3 TH3 S3NSORY BOUQU3T TH4T 1 3NJOY 3V3RY D4Y. According to a conversationHS with Karkat, deep down she actually does not want to be able to see, which is the reason her dream self is blind as well, and spiting Vriska is just a bonus. After Sgrub, Vriska attempted to rekindle her former rivalry with Terezi, and competed with her through John and Dave. Even Dave, a human, called Vriska her kismesisHS, but Terezi denied this.

Eventually, the murders on the meteor led Terezi to confront VriskaHS. She'd seen that if Vriska went to fight Bec Noir she'd only lead him back to the meteor, where he would kill them all. When Vriska turned to fly away, Terezi stabbed her in the back. Terezi's guilt over this later contributed to her crippling depression, which led to her decision to let Aranea heal her eyes, and her extremely toxic relationship with Gamzee. After the events of [S] GAME OVER.HS, she tapped into her mind powers and gave John instructionsHS to stop her past self from killing Vriska by knocking her outHS.

In the new timeline, Terezi and Vriska spent most of the 3-year journey together. At one point they became moirailsHS, and though Terezi still struggled with depression and self-confidence, she relied on Vriska for reassurance. On her flight to LOTAKHS, Terezi expressed why she cares so much about Vriska. She revealed she always envied Vriska's self-assurance, even when it led her to self-destructive actions. She believes she relies more on Vriska than Vriska does on her, and that Vriska views her as weak and tragic because of it, despite Vriska never saying so.

After her confession, Terezi taps into her mind powers again. She has of a visionHS of pre-retcon Terezi waking up as a ghost and wandering the bubbles, eventually meeting up with (Vriska). They hold hands and hug, while Paradox Space cracks around them.

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Terezi, lying unconscious after being blinded by Alternia's sun.

Karkat Vantas[]

She never officially had a Matesprit relation with Karkat, and later tells Dave that her relationship with Karkat is sort of complicated. ThisHS conversation seems to imply that they at least had an isolated "moment" together, however it can be interpreted in a number of ways. She is later seen embracing Karkat on the roof of the lab after he sees her murder Vriska. One year into the trip to the new session on the meteor, Karkat implies in a conversation with his future self that he and Terezi are no longer getting along, which his future self blames on Karkat's attempts to create a kismesissitude with Terezi as well as a matespritship. It is possible, however, that Karkat was simply overestimating his own importance to Terezi in the first place. He does overreact fairly often, after all. In A6I3, a conversation between Karkat and Terezi (in which Karkat is trying to comfort her, and ends up calling her ALREADY BEAUTIFUL) suggests that they may have had a matespritship, which Karkat "fucked up". He then proceeded to call her a friend, and that he doesn't want friends to have self-esteem issues.

In the third part of the Act 6 Intermission 3 game, when the notoriously sexually aggressive Damara attempts to approach Karkat as he sleeps, Terezi threatens her, wanting to protect Karkat.

Dave Strider[]

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Terezi embarrassed by Karkat's freak out while in front of Rose and Dave.

Terezi originally noticed Dave when their future selves conspired to send a large money transferHS to past Terezi, which led the Trolls to notice the kids in the first place. They began interacting often, and Terezi became a sort of guide for Dave. When she guided him to his quest bedHS, where he was confronted with a doomed future Dave, it damaged their relationship. She even cried when Jack Noir killed doomed Dave.

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Terezi in Can Town with Dave and the Mayor.

During the 3-year journey, she and Dave, who she previously flirted withHS and had become close to, began to date. It is revealed in the second part of OpenboundHS and during this conversation during Karkat and DaveHS Terezi and Dave were in a relationship that stopped later due to her black entanglement with Gamzee. Dave's statement clearly implies that his and Terezi's relationship was flushed and that he was not okay with her "dating" Gamzee on the side, partly due to human relationship standards such as monogamy and partly due to general opposition to the concept of kismesitude.

Interestingly, both the people she has flushed relationships with are people who are associated with red. Karkat is the only troll to have red blood and Dave types with red text and is seen for most of the comic in his red god-tier outfit.

Gamzee Makara[]

When Terezi gets her copy of Sgrub, Gamzee is the first one of her friends she asks to play with her, although she says this is only so she can make a pun on how his name sounds like 'game'. She seems to be fairly fond of him, finding him amusing to talk to and mess with though she also states that she understands why Karkat hates him so much. While hunting Vriska after finding Tavros's corpse, Terezi comes across some of Gamzee's blood and adds poor sweet Gamzee to Vriska's list of murder charges. She seems legitimately upset at the possibility of his death, questioning why Vriska would ever hurt someone so 'innocent'. However, after learning that Gamzee had murdered two of their friends she develops a hatred for him.

In the third part of OpenboundHS Gamzee reveals in his conversation with Rose that he and Terezi have become kismesises, but are keeping it a secret from Karkat. By the end of their 3 year trip on the meteor, the relationship became extremely unhealthy, contributing to her depression and Faygo addiction, as was shown in her intervention with Dave and Karkat. At the end of the Game Over timeline Terezi confronted Gamzee and when he wouldn't fight back she broke down crying, asking him why NOW OF 4LL T1M3S YOU C4N'T BR1NG YOURS3LF TO R4ISE 4 H4ND TO M3, which suggests that in addition to the clear emotional abuse on Gamzee's side their relationship may have been physically abusive as well. She does seem to be fairly afraid of him, dropping her cane swords and shakily apologizing for attacking him after Aranea's mind control wears off and he asks her to stop.

After the retcon, she did not engage in a relationship with him as was shown in Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 5HS. Gamzee has shown interest in starting a pitch relationship with her, even going so far as to follow her through the entire meteor journey in an attempt to get her alone. The only thing that prevented the relationship was the presence of Vriska who stepped in to protect Terezi.

John Egbert[]

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Terezi as Redglare.

Terezi's interactions with John haven't been very constructive, as all she does is laugh at him, insult him, and threaten to kill him if they should ever meet, prompting John to consider changing his chumhandle. After his arrival in the Land of Wind and Shade, John was tricked by Terezi into taking a shortcut directly to the seventh gate, causing his death (in one timeline) at the hands of Typheus. This, in turn, caused the death of Jade in this timeline, as John was unable to transport her into the Medium in time to save her home from the meteor bearing down on it. As this timeline branched off from the main one, the trolls were unable to see it or know that it had occurred until Davesprite informed Terezi of it.

John and Terezi's interactions after the 3-year meteor journey have carried forward their former antagonism, as she still threatens to kill him. In the aftermath of GAME OVER she locates him and instructs him to use his retcon powers, while he encourage her to use her own. She sets up a series of points in her life for them to retcon, and John pulls controlled pranks on younger Terezi while also getting trolled in the process, causing them to grow a caliginous bond based on mutual respect.

In this updateHS, Terezi's says, "N3V3R N3V3R N3V3R T3LL [JOHN] 1 S41D TH1S BUT FOR 4 DORK, H3'S...HS", and doesn't finish her sentence. This heavily suggests that she has feelings of some sort for him, possibly mirroring John having (according to Karkat) a caliginous crush on Terezi as shown hereHS. She confirms her black feelings for John hereHS. She spends the latter half of A6A6I5 shit-talkingHS with them as Rose and Roxy observe, but laments that she doesn't know how to say that she is grateful for him saving Vriska.

Aradia Megido[]

Terezi seems to have gotten along well with Aradia since their FLARPing days. After Tavros's paralysis, Aradia confides in TereziHS, expressing feelings of guilt and blaming herself for Tavros's injury. Terezi consoles her, telling Aradia that she had been distracted by Doc Scratch as well. She also tries to talk Aradia out of trying to get revenge on Vriska, appearing worried that it would end badly for Aradia.

After her death, Aradia becomes far less friendly and communicative, so it's likely that she and Terezi don't maintain their friendship. Terezi and Aradia are never seen interacting during their session or on the meteor but have a conversationHS just before their journey to the new session. Terezi first agrees with Sollux about how Aradia's excitement about death appears morbid to everyone else, but goes on to say that it's not her fault, and says that 1 4CTU4LLY TH1NK YOUR WHOL3 D34TH F4NG1RL TH1NG 1S FUNNY 4ND K1ND OF CH4RM1NG >:] and that Aradia makes 4N 4DOR4BL3 H4NDM41D TO TH3 M4ST3R OF D34TH, in a CUT3 CH3RRY P1X13 3NS3MBL3. Her words are friendly and imply that she still finds Aradia likable, but the two don't appear to have remained close friends.

Sollux Captor[]

Terezi was good friends with Sollux, who originally chose her to lead the Red Team. Terezi often relies on Sollux's help for computer-related matters such as when she asked him to help her contact Doc Scratch and when she asked him to trace the money transfer from Dave. Terezi has stated that she thinks Sollux is cool (sometimes) and that he reminds her of Dave. After Sollux went blind he asked Terezi if she had any tips for him.

Other A2 trolls[]

Nepeta and Terezi are good friends because of their constant online role-playing together, and later voices wanting to revive her with a kernalsprite. It is hinted that Terezi may have red feelings for her. She was also on good terms with Tavros.

In Alterniabound, she is asked by Eridan to auspisticise between him and Sollux, but while flattered she refuses on Sollux's behalf. It should be noted that Terezi in the Post Retcon timeline views Eridan as a murderer who does not deserve to be brought back with a kernelsprite.

Aranea Serket[]

Upon first meeting Aranea, the two got along quite well with Terezi stating the two of them would have become good friends if they had known each other. Aranea offered to heal Terezi and restore her sight, which she gratefully denied. Later on Terezi changed her mind though and let Aranea heal her. This apparently contributed to Terezi's depression. After meeting in LOFAF, Terezi is extremely angry at Aranea, claiming that she talked her into restoring her eye-sight and that Aranea and Gamzee manipulated her together.

Lusus/Kernelsprite[]

Terezi's lusus sleeping

Terezi's unhatched Lusus

Terezi was not raised by her Lusus, as it had not yet hatched. When it hatched, the Doomsday Scale would tip and begin counting down to the end of their world.

The doomsday button bears a spirograph, as featured in Sburb.

Her custodian is a dragon—fitting since dragons have scales. After the start of the game, Terezi hatched the egg as the world was ending anyway. Unfortunately, the lusus was killed by a meteor immediately after hatching. Terezi eventually prototyped her sprite with the corpse.

After Terezi lost her sight, it was her Lusus, through communication during her sleep during the daytime, that helped teach her the skills to function without vision, by smelling and tasting her surroundings, much like the dragon. The species apparently is born without sight and must learn to function that way themselves.

Her Lusus also appears to have the ability to control Terezi in her sleep, as shown in [S] Make her payHS. Upon being prototyped, her Lusus does little more than greet or bid her farewell and giggle profusely.

Gallery[]

Merchandise[]

Terezi is depicted blindfolded on the "VIII: Justice" card of the Homestuck tarot deck. She also appears with the rest of the Red Team on "King of Swords", and with most of the pre-act six cast on "Five of Wands".

Terezi was one of the few characters made available as a plushie from WeLoveFine's now-defunct Homestuck store.

Trivia[]

  • Toby Fox's Undertale includes a rope-covered character named Pyrope, likely named in part for Terezi.
  • Terezi has been jokingly described as "Troll Jew[g]ish"; many years later, fellow teal blood Stelsa Sezyat was officially identified as such on her Troll Call introduction.
  • Terezi shares the ability to see the world through smell (as well as being blind) with Hastings, the large human-faced eel from Hussie's unfinished novel Wizardy Herbert.


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