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Aranea serket

For the post-scratch version of this character, see Marquise Spinneret Mindfang.

Aranea Serket

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Introduction Page First Appearance
AKA

Windfang, Kindfang, Mindfang

Title

Sylph of Light

Age

Possibly 9 solar sweeps/19 earth years [1]

Typing Style

Normal grammar and syntax. Replaces "b" with the number 8. Formerly used the number 8 to replace "eight" sounds only when angry or stressed; currently uses this "auditory 8" regularly. Multiplies letters and exclamation points by 8 sometimes.

Relations

Marquise Spinneret Mindfang - Post-scratch self
Vriska Serket - Dancestor
Meenah Peixes - Best friend
Porrim Maryam - Matesprit(?)(Separated)

Music

Elevatorstuck ♫
Cobalt Corsair ♫

[show] Pesterlogs
Aranea Serket is one of the pre-scratch trolls. She wears red shoes, white pointed glasses, and a blue longsleeved dress with a white Scorpio symbol. She has her hair at shoulder length and wears a necklace with the Signless' symbol. It appears that she is also older than the other troll players, having "lived" in the dream bubbles for so long that time has lost meaning to her.

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Aranea's first appearance
Within the A1 iteration of Sgrub, Aranea's role was the Sylph of Light. She is shown to have reached the god tiers, and has some kind of healing powers, to the extent that it's possible for her to restore Terezi's sight. Aranea spent three sweeps in a failed session, only to seek out Echidna for a way to reset the session, prompting Damara Megido to initiate the scratch. Aranea was then killed by Meenah Peixes, in order to not be completely rewritten by the scratch, and entered the dream bubbles that Meenah's A2 descendant created.

She initially appears in a black void, waving and smiling at Jake after he blacked out. Jake later describes her as both some sort of spidery vampire and the girl of my dreams; the latter is based on his fondness of blue ladies and spider girls.

Aranea talking to Terezi
Later, she introduces herself by name to Terezi after greeting her in a dream bubble posing as Vriska, and reveals that she is a version of Vriska's ancestor, Mindfang. She states that she is also Terezi's ancestor, though not quite in the way Terezi was picturing (alluding to the fact that she is one of the A1 ancestors, and therefore a predecessor of all the current trolls, though not their ancestor by troll definition). Aranea claims to have preceded Terezi's entire civilization by billions of solar sweeps - a metaphorical way of explaining she lived in the previous, pre-scratch universe, and has been watching the post-scratch universe from the afterlife.

Aranea as a fully realized Sylph of Light
Later, Aranea stops by Jake's dead dream self's house after he is knocked out. She explains to him the nature of her psychic powers, and how she has spent very little time studying Universe B2, because the gods have given her little access to it. Aranea attempts to be considerate towards Jake, and, as she can get a vague sense of humans' feelings, knows he has a flushed attraction towards her. This causes Aranea to go back to the subject of her psychic abilities, and how the highbloods on pre-scratch Alternia were kind and just to the lower classes. They enter a dream bubble containing the Wayward Vagabond, Dave, Rose, Kanaya and Karkat aggressing (or being aggressed by) Meenah. Aranea is put out with Meenah's antics, and exasperatedly relates the story of the Ancestors, much more briefly than she would like. Jake, confused, assumes that Meenah is the Condesce, proceeding to attack her, and prompting Aranea to wake him up, reminiscent of Vriska. Dirk's splinterself appears in the bubble, and he absconds with Roxy, but is unable to escape the bubble as she can. Aranea uses her psychic abilities to wake him instead. This allows Dirk to bring the B2 players together and enter the Medium.