Gamzee Makara

### Age

introduction: 6 Alternian solar sweeps/ 13 Earth yearscredits: Unknown, older than 16 Earth years (Shown living in the future with Caliborn)Epilogue: 16 Earth years at the startEpilogue - Candy: 32 Earth years at the end

## Professional Information

### Family

The Grand Highblood - AncestorKurloz Makara - DancestorSea-goat - LususCaliborn/Lrd English - Temporary adopted sonCalliope - Temporary adopted daughter

## Relationships

### Family

The Grand Highblood - AncestorKurloz Makara - DancestorSea-goat - LususCaliborn/Lrd English - Temporary adopted sonCalliope - Temporary adopted daughter

### Allies

Bard of RageterminallyCapriciousHONK FRIEND., the clown guy

## Credit Thanks To

### Source

https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Gamzee\_Makara

## Do I Claim Ownership?

### Do I own said character?

No

**Gamzee Makara**, also known by his Trollian handle, **terminallyCapricious**, is one of the trolls in Homestuck. His associated zodiac sign is Capricorn (♑) and his horns resemble those of a goat.

He uses purple as a text color, and used to type with each letter alternating case, which (like most things) annoyed Karkat. After sobering up, his lines alternate between all caps and all lowercase. Gamzee's blood and text colors are the least consistent out of any of the characters in the comic, which may be an intentional tie-in to his theme of capriciousness.

## Etymology

Gamzee was named by Alyssa after the forumgoer Gammy, as well as "Gamze", which is a Turkish name meaning "dimple" or "coquettish look". Coincidentally, Gamzee sounds similar to the word "Gämse", which is German for *Chamois*, a European goat-antelope.

Makara is the Sanskrit counterpart to the Capricorn sign, as well as referring to a mythological Hindu creature with the hind legs of an aquatic creature and the forelegs of a terrestrial one (much like the Greek Capricorn). This land-sea duality could be taken to represent Gamzee's highblood status among the land dwellers (and his lack of care about caste when he isn't sober) as well as his own dual nature. His last name might also come from a breed of goats called "Markhor goats" whose horns have a similar shape to his. Makara is also the Arabic word for 'deceit' or 'a scheme', fitting given that he was shown scheming with his dancestor Kurloz. Makara can also be translated to "dragon" in Sinhala. It could also come from the Scottish word Makar, which means bard. In Bangla, Capricorn translates to Makara. Makara may also have roots in the MassKara Festival, an annual celebration that takes place in Bacolod, Philippines during which dancers parade through the streets, dancing and wearing elaborate masks which may be a reference to Gamzee's association with clowns.

## Biography

### Hivebent

Gamzee played Sgrub as part of the Red Team. His lusus was harpooned in the ocean next to his hive and died, and was later prototyped into his kernelsprite. He was seen hanging with Karkat and their Jack Noir on his planet.

In most doomed timelines, Gamzee sobers up and goes on a murdering rampage. In one of these, he makes part of the code to create their first guardian, which is retrieved by an Aradiabot.

During the fight with the Black King, Gamzee does more damage to it than any of the other trolls, with the possible exception of Vriska who lands the final blow. Later, the trolls reach their Ultimate Reward before being suddenly interrupted.

### Post-Hivebent

Upon Jack's arrival, Aradiabot transported the trolls to the same meteor Karkat had created them in, where they found a computer lab.

Gamzee hadn't had much to do or say since then. He charged people boondollars for a lovely nap on his horn pile, or danced around capriciously. That is, until he ran out of sopor slime pies, he stared into the eyes of Lil Cal following his angry departure at Dave mocking his religion, and in his mentally vulnerable state came to the conclusions that:

1. sopor slime was destroying his brain (likely to be true),
2. he is a descendant of the High Subjugglators (true),
3. he is both of the messiahs of his own religion (controversial),
4. he has to kill everyone (highly troubling),
5. and paint pictures with their blood (terrifying).

With his ability to interfere with dream selves, he manipulated the Dream Rooms of Dave and John to implant Lil Cal and a clown plush resembling Jack Noir respectively into their dreams. This would ultimately lead to John's prototyping of the harlequin doll. According to him, this made the kids' session terminal, possibly true as Jack used The Miles on their universe, and Gamzee was partly responsible for his uprising through a complex series of events including placing the dolls there.

Karkat, at this point, regarded Gamzee's declaration as the current greatest threat facing the surviving trolls, even more so than Eridan's rampage. In a conversation with Dave, he mentioned that he made friends with Lil Cal after Tavros's death, and that Lil Cal is the one who told him he should kill all his friends. Since the reveal that Lrd English uses Lil Cal to possess people, this is likely to be true.

Gamzee waited for Equius on a large container holding one of the many genetic abominations that could be found around the lab. He was finally acting the role of a highblood troll, though Equius was confused by this as he believed it to be Terezi, because Gamzee was wearing her glasses. They had a rather short conversation, which involved Gamzee calling Equius **peasantblood** and shooting him in the leg with a bow and arrow to make him kneel. Gamzee strangled him to death with the bowstring, causing Nepeta to leap out of hiding and attack him. Gamzee grabbed Nepeta's hand, broke her wrist, apparently held her in midair, and scraped his own face with her claws. She died offscreen.

Before he was able to confront Vriska and Eridan, he was interrupted by a glowing rainbow drinker Kanaya, who kicked him in the ~~groin~~ bone bulge so hard that he was sent flying out of his shoes and off the lab floor. Afterwards, he left some of Vriska's personal possessions and his blood near Nepeta's corpse, to deceive Terezi into believing she had killed them as well. He led her into a trap, which made her fall into the music room, and proceeded to constantly screw with her using Cal. He left a note written in his blood, similar to Bro's note to Dave, that spited her into a duel with Vriska. He somehow found time to collect the bodies of Eridan, Nepeta, Feferi, Equius, and Tavros and cut off their heads, then set up a mock jury table with the heads (the bodies were placed in glass tubes), called order to the court with his warhammer and proceeded to observe the scourge sisters' meeting. Judging by the brown blood seen on his lips, it is assumed that he kissed Tavros' severed head. He left Karkat a note as well at some unknown point between the two previous events, using a combination of Terezi's typing quirk and his own, that lured him to the roof where Terezi stabs Vriska.

Shortly after Vriska's death, he resurfaced and confronted Karkat, Terezi, Sollux and Kanaya, wielding the Warhammer of Zillyhoo. Terezi, the other hand, was most assuredly pitch for him, while Kanaya's feelings were, as to be expected from her, ashen. In full circle of quadrants, Gamzee was stopped by Karkat's moirailing by shooshpapping (though he took the liberty of calming everyone else the motherfuck down first so that they don't instantly try to kill him), which resulted in an affectionate hug between the two.

In [S] Cascade, Gamzee was seen messaging Doc Scratch on Vriska's Husktop, saying **that's all motherfuckin done white texted bro. NOW WHAT?**; Scratch's unrevealed reply caused him to ask Scratch **AND JUST WHAT THE MOTHER FUCK IS IT that we motherfucking are?** to which Scratch then answered with [**S u c k e r s .**]

### The three-year journey

He comforted Karkat over Sollux's death before he hid on the meteor with his and Vriska's bodies. One year later, he continued to remain in hiding with only Karkat knowing his location. Another year later he was seen talking to Rose Lalonde, revealing that he had begun a kismesissitude with Terezi. Ghost Kurloz and Meulin assembled him a fake god tier outfit, so as to somehow aid Lrd English. During an Easter egg in Openbound part 3, Hussie mentioned that Kurloz, Gamzee, and English were all "in cahoots". Kurloz also alluded to the idea that English is in fact the idol of his and Gamzee's religion. Gamzee was later seen in Ministrife with his full ~~god~~ cod-tier outfit on.

Although he wasn't murdering anyone, he was very mean-spirited. He made fun of Terezi's blindness, which partly lead to her fixing her sight, regrettably so. Karkat also revealed that Gamzee had become increasingly pious and self-involved, believing the B2 session was a way to fulfill his role as a subjugglator. This eventually led to the end of their moirallegiance. Gamzee had never talked to Dave while on the meteor; however Terezi's relationship with Gamzee led Dave to break up with her.

Gamzee got ahold of Aradia's (or unlikely Damara's) timetravelling gear and, after he joined the new session, went to the point Jane arrived on her planet. He asked if she would like to have him as her guide and tried selling her potions (later confirmed to be just troll blood). Then, he opened his mysterious fridge and revealed the conserved bodies of Vriska and Tavros. He threw them into Jane's kernelsprite, which created Tavrisprite. Tavrisprite exploded out of self-loathing, sending Gamzee flying. He also did this with the other alpha kids' kernelsprites to create Fefetasprite, Erisolsprite, and Arquiusprite.

Roxy Lalonde theorized he was working for the Condesce, and that he was filling up their kernelsprites so they couldn't revive their ancestors, but later Jane, under the Condesce's control, did not seem to have any knowledge of his intentions. After some Trickster Mode shenanigans, he sent Lil Cal to Jack Noir through the Courtyard Droll, which led to Jack being possessed by Lrd English. He hung around on other planets at some point, which angered the recently arrived Kanaya and Terezi.

Under Aranea's control, he took the Ring of Life from John's room and slept in a refrigerator before John could find it. In his dream, Gamzee gave her the ring, which revived her. It is unknown how long she had been controlling Gamzee. Later, still under Aranea's control, he fell out of the sky and restrained Jane before she could bring Jade back to life, but was kicked off of her by Terezi. Terezi then angrily stabbed him many times, which he did not respond to.

When Aranea's control over Gamzee was broken by Brain Ghost Dirk, the pain from the attack appeared to register; he briefly begged Terezi to stop, speaking in his long abandoned original quirk, before he flipped the fuck out, released a gargantuan **HONK**, and punched Terezi in the face whilst cavorting, apparently in a state of incredible rage.

Gamzee proceeded to brutally beat Terezi, still enraged. A horrified Karkat and Kanaya witnessed the scene and resolved to attack him. Gamzee countered Karkat's attempt and threw him into the surrounding lava, presumably killing him. Kanaya's attempt, however, was not countered in any way. Gamzee merely stood there as she split him in half with her chainsaw, although she was vaporized by the Condesce moments later. (One half was smiling and the other frowning, representing Tragedy and Comedy, much like his main emoticons).

### New Timeline

In the new timeline, John directly helped Terezi figure out that Gamzee was behind Nepeta and Equius's deaths, and for the entire sequence of events up to encountering Vriska he is tied up with a horn stuffed in his mouth, thus preventing him from doing any more unfavorable behavior. During the meteor trip, he was set free, but the presence of Vriska prevented any of his speculated outside entanglement.

Gamzee did not start a kismesissitude with Terezi in this timeline, largely due to Vriska's intervention. However, he still got his fake god tier outfit.

Vriska took his place in many of the tasks he performed in the old timeline, including the alpha kids' prototyping. Gamzee was locked up inside Jane's fridge, along with some of the trolls' bodies, at the victory platform where everyone else was. Other characters have stated that they plan on dropping off Gamzee on Earth in the future so that he can raise the cherubs.

The fridge he was contained in was eventually moved to LOMAX to be used as a makeshift table by Jasprosesprite^2. During the events of Collide the fridge was repeatedly knocked around the session by Cans eventually arriving on LOTAK. The fridge remained on LOTAK until Lord Jack was decapitated which resulted in a black hole, somehow taking Gamzee, Crowbar's crowbar and Yaldabaoth to future Earth.

### Cherub universe

At this point of the narrative, the events of the retcon were still years to happen and it was common thinking that the Gamzee from the old timeline would come into future Earth (and he could have been, had he not been sliced in both timelines). As Yaldabaoth entered the planet while it joined the Medium, it is unclear whether Gamzee was thrown to an earlier point of the timeline or used his own time traveling gear to move back.

Gamzee was seen when the cherub egg that would later branch into Calliope and Caliborn crash-landed on Earth. He set up the chains that would confine them to their room. He also presumably provided them with their jujus and food, as well as his own husktop, which contained a copy of Sburb.

He was encountered by Caliborn after Earth entered the Medium and requested to become Caliborn's guide. An awkward stare-off ensued, and Caliborn abruptly gunned him down with his firearm, revealing that his god tier outfit was fake. Gamzee survived the assault somehow and dragged himself over to the MSPA command tower, where he gave Caliborn a power hub after getting shot again.

When Caliborn asked Hussie how he survived, he said that Gamzee's status as a **hilarious, rascally clown** (as well as being ~~the most~~ really important) made him unkillable, stating that he is **notoriously difficult to kill for reasons that basically don't make any sense**. He was later seen healed from all the bullet wounds as well.

Gamzee accompanied Caliborn throughout his quest in his dead session, providing him with the crowbar and giving him advice. He also retrieved Dirk's Lil Cal and Lil Sebastian for him. As Caliborn gathered more servants from his session, he began to ignore Gamzee increasingly.

In Caliborn's masterpiece, Gamzee is sliced in half during the fight between the B2 kids and Caliborn, presumably by Dirk's blade. One of his halves was absorbed into Lil Cal, along with Arquiusprite and Caliborn, when Dirk attempted to destroy Caliborn's soul.

## Personality and Traits

Gamzee appears to be the troll equivalent of a Juggalo, belonging to a cult of capricious minstrels, and his text is littered with references to Juggalo subculture. So much so, in fact, that it's something of a miracle in itself that he hasn't uttered the phrase "fuckin' magnets" yet. He once paraphrases a complete stanza of ICP's hit single 'Miracles') in a rap-off session with Tavros. His strife specibus, ~~clubkind~~ jokerkind, also references Juggalo subculture. Of these, he uses juggling clubs, a pun possibly on Juggalos. Though he swears quite a bit, he is a very good-natured and laidback troll. He is without question a supportive friend and will do things and make sacrifices, even stop eating sopor-slime pies and drinking his wicked elixir, Faygo, at the request of a friend. Because of his magnanimous personality, Gamzee will frequently act as an advisor or even a therapist to his friends, such as Karkat and Eridan, if they are experiencing emotional stress, though his usual counseling involves them waiting for a miracle.

His hive is decorated with posters depicting demonic clowns, taken from images of ICP joker cards and albums with horns added. Among the things that litter his hive are bottles of Faygo, an oversized unicycle, a laptop, juggling clubs, pie tins filled with sopor slime, and several bike horns.

His fetch modus is miracle-based; he does not understand how it works and doesn't care to find out. Sometimes he just likes to pick things up and watch the colors. He and Rose are the only characters who have thought to retrieve items from their sylladices in the most obvious way. He doesn't like knowing the technology or science behind things, stating that **kNoWiNg ShIt JuSt StEaLs Up AlL tHe FuCkIn MaGiC fRoM mY mIrAcLeS lIkE a MoThErFuCkIn ThIeF.** Vague allusions to his strange horns were made, which turned out to be the bicycle horns strewn on his floor. Sometimes he accidentally steps on one and scares the shit out of himself. He is very good natured, and has seemingly pacified the imps around his house as he is sharing sopor slime pies with them, referring to them as "pretty dope".

Since his custodian is always out at sea, Gamzee wasn't brought up very well. He wasn't taught certain simple things and common troll knowledge, such as the fact that sopor slime is not supposed to be eaten, lest strange things happen to a troll's head.

Gamzee doesn't seem to care about the caste system. Equius forces himself to suppress the urge to order Gamzee around because he has **no right to be disappointed by [his] conduct**. He also appears to believe that Gamzee's love of Faygo and sopor slime is harmful to him, as he tells Gamzee that **you pollute your precious b100d / With your bottled fizzy sugar and soporific to%ins**. However, when Gamzee becomes sober he makes several references to caste system ideology and even commands Equius to kneel before him. Gamzee is the only purple-blooded troll not seen wearing jewelry, though whether this is because he doesn't care about the system or just because he isn't a sea dweller is hard to tell.

*Capricious* means impulsive and/or unpredictable, so this may be an indicator of his personality, although most of his actions and conversations have shown him to be more silly and spacey than impulsive. The fact that *capricious* means unpredictable would go along the lines of how Gamzee believes in **mIrAcLeS** happening all the time- also, in thesauruses, it is seen as synonyms with arbitrary (which means "whimsical, chance") and eccentric. The word *capricious* could also refer to his given symbol, Capricorn, which is phonetically similar.

Gamzee spends the Alterniabound Flash capriciously dancing and trying to sell access to his pile of horns. As the Trickster Mode shows, this is in a direct reference to the dancing shopkeepers in *Secret of Mana*. In one such instance, he offered Karkat a nap in the pile of obnoxious noisemakers for 420 boondollars, a reference to the cultural marijuana reference of 4:20. Such would fit well into Gamzee's laidback, stoner-esque personality: His name can be translated from Turkish as "janed", or high from smoking pot. The number is associated to him other times in the comic.

His breakdown without the sopor slime leads to a change in typing quirk, his lines alternate between caps and lowercase instead of single letters. As noted by Equius, his volume **flu%uates**, implying that he speaks calmly every other line while YELLING ON EVERY OTHER MOTHER-FUCKING LINE. Gamzee's capricious nature also leads him to leave disturbing messages around the walls, splattering an **are you next? :o)** on one with Tavros' blood.

Karkat has noted that during the battle with the Black King, Gamzee 'flipped the fuck out' and delivered an incredibly damaging attack to the Black King, doing the most damage of any of the trolls in a single blow. Karkat also notes afterwards, that he **WENT BACK TO SPACING OUT FOR THE REST OF THE FIGHT**, implying that, while attacking, he was enraged or else acting abnormally.

This is strikingly similar to the fury that seems to have seized him as a result of being attacked by Terezi, leaving it possible that the Black King, much like Terezi, made a huge mistake, attacked the seemingly-defenseless Gamzee, and incited his wrath. It would also make sense that such a rage would be targeted towards the one who sparked it, as he would only have attacked the Black King in his theoretical first rage, and he seems to be focusing on Terezi in his second, not attempting to attack Jake or Rose despite having ample opportunity to do so.

He seems to have an obsession with collecting bodies and beheading them, preserving them in glass tubes and, according to Kanaya, kissing them, sometimes. This may be more than a suspicion, as when he's seen sitting next to Tavros's beheaded body, his lips are covered in blood. This obsession may or may not have a connection to his ancestor's practice of painting his walls with the blood of his victims. Alternatively, due to his feelings for Tavros, he may have attempted to revive him with a kiss.