#Sphinx Flinks

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Not entirely sure what she's looking at. Wierd day in the cavern

would you let her get a gander of you? a sniff perhaps? for this fuzzy little grub?

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Some misc doodles of Miyers with his best friend ever Sphinx ( @canisbeasts-ooc ) and working on Likyly's cullers again

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Half awake (more like…3/4 asleep) canine rambles about stuff that may not be canon (kinda? Sort of is??) to the character, but is fun for me to think about, and I kinda lose the point of what I was saying? so take everything with a large pile of salt:

Something that’s been bouncing in my thoughts for a little while has been that unofficial ‘Lil Cal Au’ Trench drew a while back. And Sphinx.

I think it’s fun to explore how Sphinx deals with the grief of her lusus as well as the hard to articulate feeling of realizing ottermom was never as good as she thought. I like how in this ‘au’ she’s kinda roped up in just the right moment to cause a lot of unnecessary damage. A bit after the session’s start, after the initial shock had worn off, after the first planning, and kind of right in that grey area of Somati and Ferics being missing while the others are still a bit busy with their own planet stuff, is when Sphinx kinda falls into her worst, I think.

She’s finally at a period where she doesn’t have to continuously push herself farther and farther to keep up appearances, so she kinda. Falters. She is grieving the loss of ottermom but there’s a slowly dawning and growing feeling, like a pit in her stomach, the realization of her having thrown sweeps of her life by trying to please someone who would never be satisfied, and not knowing where to go next. And, at least in the ‘Lil Cal au’, I imagine this is where that uncertainty really comes in. In canon, Lavendersprite is likely the one there to try and pick her back up, but in the Au? Something else gets a chance to pick at her.

I think this kinda intertwines well a bit with how much of Beforus’ culture (may be the wrong word..?) Sphinx has internalized. She’s pretty entrenched in the system as she can be without directly being cullee or culler. Her work explicitly includes caring for those that do not have a place for their own, often due to this culling system, the Lusii sanctuary. She learns to care and provide for these creatures, and has likely interacted with her fair share of cullers and cullees with stuff like pick-ups or drop-offs of Lusii. And, with that, it’s something that her ottermom finds acceptable, it’s something seen as befitting of someone of her caste. And she’s up there! And gosh does she try to live up to what she ‘should’ be! She tries her best to be helpful, to be reliable, etc. She plays a role of pseudo-culler to these beasts and I don’t think she explicitly realizes that until later.

This also plays a bit into her relationship with Respit. There’s no doubt that they love eachother more than nearly anything else in their lives. But, expectedly, there’s implications of a purple and a burgundy being together that I think sometimes puts a different light on their moirallegiance. I think Sphinx feels the need to protect him, a fair share of the time, and at times, to stand up for him when he doesn’t for himself. Neither are very adamant on attracting attention they don’t need, and Respit especially would prefer to fly under the radar. His first instinct to danger is typically to flee, and I think Sphinx knows this. Kinda similar to the Carillon, she wants to hold onto what is truly hers for as long as possible, she doesn’t want to lose Respit. I feel this can sometimes get tangled up through Beforus’ expression of hierarchy and Sphinx can come across as a bit overprotective of Respit when she thinks they’re in trouble. It’s ultimately this convoluted mess of care (among some other things) that leads her to being the one to take charge and kill Respit first for godtier. I think a big part of her, the one that loves and worries for her moirail more than anything, is concerned that anyone else would hurt him.

I think I’ve um. Lost the point of this post-

Something something a tiny bit back on track! A directionless Sphinx with a need for fulfillment, for purpose, for an empty sense of revenge she can’t fulfill, can very easily be swayed and her biases and intentions warped and used to hurt people pretty easily! Something something about ‘doing this for your sake’ ideas, especially with the more aggressive death of Respit

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Nnanntis

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Sphinx Flinks

Like half the mfs in godau

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Somewhat of a reference for the two trolls we’ve got so far! (along with me and Mod Chrysocyon as fake lusii!)

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Would anyone believe me if I said that Sphinx and Respit were originally meant to be kismeses?

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very... very glad.

lets all take a moment to be very glad that the most important character in Homestuck is Not in Two Time

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What if two critters could fall in love :]?

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If Sphinx was not a purple-violet cusp

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Hmmm, I’ll give you a fun fact for each of the sheep and fish

Sphinx: She Uses Trnqlzerkind

Respit: Used to hide in SheepMom’s wool as a grub

Stryss: She has a few wind chimes hanging around trees near her current hive

Lykoii: He still remembers how to juggle from his Clurch days

The Carillon: Terrible sloucher

The Botanist: Tried to learn the piano when he was younger, could never get it quite down

The Compiler: One of her favorite plants was the Oleander

The Confines: He really did love The Compiler.

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Arf Arf, thinking too much about the Carmine-Clownfish pairing-

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Kinda just woke up, but I’m thinking a bit about Sphinx and Lykoii’s relationship and such.

The two of them do eventually get to understand each other and heal, becoming probably one of the closest approximations to siblings these trolls can get, but I don’t really know if they would like each other at first if they had the knowledge they were practically alternate selves. Sphinx has spent so much of her life trying to please her lusus and be a troll that it could be proud of, despite that impossibility. Lykoii was the same until he was pushed too far and left her, that time period coinciding with his departure from the clurch as well.

I think both of them see each other as what ottermom would’ve wanted instead. Sphinx sees Lykoii as strong and independent, someone who has the decisiveness to make choices, something she struggles with, and something ottermom wanted. Lykoii sees Sphinx as someone friendly and who gets along with others, someone with drive and a clear set determination, things Lykoii has repeatedly failed to achieve.

They resent each other in a way. Sphinx, in retrospect, wishes she was strong enough to leave ottermom like Lykoii did, she wishes she realized sooner than she did that things were never going to end up good enough. Lykoii, meanwhile, wishes he was able to stay a bit longer, he wishes he had the same ability to bare it, along with other things, like Sphinx did, he still missed his mom, even if it wasn’t great.

They are very sad little cats sometimes but they eventually get some closure about it together.

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🌈 and 💙 for sphinx and respit (both emojis for both trolls)

is this how this ask game works?

Yea, you’re doing it right!

🌈 - Do you associate any colors with them?

Sphinx is associated with a pastel sort of purple while

Respit is associated with a kinda desaturated and dusty sort of red

💙 - Describe their bedroom! Is it personalized, unchanged? Messy, neat?

Sphinx’s room is technically pretty neat, as there is very little mess, but they have all sorts of trinkets and small gifts they’ve gotten over the years on shelves and little sentiments of those they’ve cared about spread all across her room. Their room is filled with bits and pieces of the people and things they’ve cared about, and boy oh boy do they care a lot.

Respit’s is a lot more barren in comparison. He does have some small things, mostly gotten from Sphinx, that add some touch though, like fairy lights around the edges or some silly poster from work about how 'mew got it!'. His does get a bit messier, and there are usually blankets strewn about near the pile he keeps in one of the corners.