☤⛎️Calliope⛎️☤

Calliope has a very polite, cheerful and friendly demeanor, and she tries to be helpful where she can although she is cautious about revealing too much information about herself due to her situation. She seems to be quite creative and is a writer and a talented artist. Similar to how the trolls were based on common internet archetypes, Calliope is based on the MS Paint Adventures fandom; Andrew Hussie has referred to her as the obnoxious fandom avatar character. She spends a large part of her time writing fanfiction and drawing fanart of the other Homestuck characters and self-inserting her trollsona, Callie Ohpeee, whose name is made to fit trolls' 6-letter names (which mirrors Vriska's spidersona in Alterniabound), into the stories. She often seems to think of her friends as characters in a story rather than actual people and seem to live vicariously through her imagined adventures with them. She also has a thing for wild speculations about the story, making up crazy theories HS out of every detail HS , often ending up failing HS miserably HS .

Her self-esteem is quite low and she considers herself ugly, wishing to be more like humans and trolls, and especially feeling jealous of her ability to experience flushed romance (since she, being a cherub, can only have caliginous feelings). Her usually cheery mood can become defeatist and sometimes cranky when faced with problems, especially those relating to Caliborn, but she usually stays quite polite even when in a bad mood.

Calliope generally uses British English. This ties in with her lime blood, since "limey" is a common slang term for British people. In addition, the alternate spelling of some words (e.g. armor; armour, color; colour) lends itself to a higher instance of the letter "u" than in American English. It also ties into her resemblance to Lord "English". It should be noted that she doesn't always use British spelling where it wouldn't result in an extra "u": for instance she uses “maneUver”, “hemo-”

Early life Upon losing his mating battle HS , Calliope's father searched for a dying star in whose orbit might be a planet suitable for laying an egg on. This egg contained the “wiggler” HS which would “pup8” into a humanoid form inhabited by the personalities of both Calliope and her "brother" Caliborn. That cherub infant was quickly taken up by Gamzee Makara, HS who sealed the pair within a single room in a meteor complex[citation needed] which had landed on the planet long ago using a pair of unbreakable juju chains. HS

Throughout their lives, Calliope and Caliborn's personalities take control when the other goes to sleep or when they are called by name HS - they can, however, seemingly write their own siblings' names without issue. HS Before entering their sarswapagus for sleep each "night", Calliope makes sure to shackle herself with the juju chain marked with her sign, which only she can open, and then opens it again next time she wakes up; meanwhile, she is always trapped in her room by the juju chain bearing Caliborn's sign which he places on their other leg. HS

Calliope is one of the Ancient Greek mythological Muses, who also gives her name to an instrument often associated with carnivals and circuses. Like her brother Caliborn, Calliope also has an eight-letter name starting with the name Cal.

The name first appeared in Hussie's work as the first volume of Whistles, The Starlight Calliope, which touched upon similar themes of dark clownery. "Cal" and "Calliope" are also the names used to represent the masculine and feminine sides of the intersex protagonist in the 2002 novel Middlesex.

Also like Caliborn, Calliope is unique in having a handle with an acronym consisting of just the letters UU; in RNA, this letter represents the chemical uracil, just as the other chemicals in DNA are represented by the letters G, C, A and T. By Calliope's own account, uranianUmbra comes from her attraction to the planet's “UniqUe rotation” HS , which has a “very nice [...] topspin”; in billiards, the spin of a ball is called its "english".[3] There was also another Muse named urania, and uranian came to be an early name for members of homosexual and gender non-conforming subcultures. An Umbra is a shadow, particularly the darkest black part of a shadow; in psychology, a shadow is an unconscious or unacknowledged side of one's own psyche, further hinting at her body-sharing. she shares a body with her brother, Calliborn, as so they switch in their sleep, when she sleeps he wakes, when he sleeps she wakes and so on, Calliborn is more angry, psicopatic and crazily unreasonable than her

The cherubs' birthday and age are never touched upon in the comic; Andrew Hussie has, however, suggested that the patterns established in the comic would indicate they were born on the 11th of November and are 11 "units" old.[1] Cohen Edenfield has further suggested that, thanks to Earth C's larger sun leading to a longer orbital period, 11 Earth C years are equal to 16 modern Earth years, making the cherubs the same age as their human friends.

For the doomed god-tier version of this character, see Alternate Calliope. Calliope is a cherub living on post-scratch Earth, long-since abandoned by humanity. Thanks to an obsession with the troll race, Calliope initially implied that she was one, to the extent of dressing up as a "trollsona" named Callie Ohpeee. In truth, she is in fact a lime blood, just not the kind of lime blood found on the troll hemospectrum.

Calliope's handle is uranianUmbra (UU), and her sign is Ophiuchus (☤), the serpent-bearer.

Caliborn - "Brother" Gamzee Makara - Temporary adoptive father Two unnamed cherubs - Parents

Normal pUnctUation, usually British spelling of words; only capitalizes the letter U, and occasionally full words when flustered. HS Emoticons incorporate U, e.g. ^u^, u_u, and :U, and occasionally tildes, e.g. _u and :u. Surrounds actions like “<kisses!>” HS with angle brackets, and uses asterisks for emphasis. HS HS Sometimes multiplies letters or punctuation by 11. HS

In her conversation with Dirk she talks about her "brother" who is supposed to be her client player, although she has offered to be his client instead. She stresses that he is not her brother in the sense that humans would understand it and they do not even have the same blood color - although they still have a genetic similarity. Calliope's dream self was killed by Caliborn. He promised not to kill her if Dirk plays a “GAME” with him, however in a “TWIST ENDING” he revealed that he had their session's Jack Noir kill Calliope before the said game (at least from his temporal perspective). It is also mentioned that Caliborn would like to get his hands on Calliope's Juju (just as she would like to do with his, for that matter HS ).

Roxy Lalonde Calliope is very fond of Roxy, and confides in her during the final moments of her visibility into Roxy's session. Calliope reveals to Roxy her name, title, and race, and even gives her some fan art of a Trickster Mode Roxy. She admits to Roxy how beautiful she finds both the human and troll races, and how insecure she is about her own appearance, even going so far as to say that no one would even kiss her as a means of revival as a result. She seems taken aback by the notion of a flushed relationship, due to her race's standpoint on the matter, but does not seem to object much to pale relationships.

Trivia Her shipping habits may also be a reference to the cherub Cupid who causes people to fall in love. One HS of Calliope's conversations with Jane is an antithesis of Karkat's conversation HS with Jade (as well as the one HS between Kanaya and Aradia). Calliope, Caliborn, and Karkat have all sworn off "hemotyping" and use custom grays which differ slightly from the more common RGB-defined grays. In the hex code of Calliope's color, the 6's from Karkat's color are replaced by 9's (#626262 becomes #929292); Karkat's symbol is an inverted 69. Calliope's suit possesses red '9's as cuff-links, linking her with Karkat's Ancestor, The Signless. 92 is the atomic number of uranium. Uranium is naturally silvery grey, but in some forms appears bright green, similar to the two colors of Calliope's chat symbol and also tying with Calliope being a lime-blood. This also ties her in with Jade, as both are Space players who are associated with uranium. This also makes a connection to Becquerel, who happens to be a First Guardian like Doc Scratch. Karkat Vantas' typing color is directly in between that of Calliope and Caliborn's. Calliope's chat client begins and ends with cheering, which is different from Pesterchum, Trollian, and Bettybother which begin and cease with pestering, trolling, and bothering, respectively. Caliborn's swaps cheering for jeering. Calliope's fake horns look quite similar to the horns in the poster of Gamzee's introduction page HS . Oddly enough, the poster immediately left of that depicts a clown with horns that curve identically on both sides, resembling a "U" shape as a result. This could be a complete coincidence, but knowing Hussie, it's unlikely. In the event that he planned this bit of imagery, it's worth noting that the image on the right is "The Ringmaster" of Juggalo mythos, and the one on the left is "The Carnival of Carnage." The former is the Dark Carnival's judge of souls, and the latter is a carnival in which cyclical punishment for wrong-

The closeup of Calliope's and Caliborn's eyes are the same closeup of Lil Cal's eyes with different colors. Her holster and gun are identical to the ones in Doc Scratch's possession. Unlike other ghosts, Calliope's body has completely black eyes compared to the white eyes of others. Her troll disguise, however, has white. This may be unique to cherub ghosts. Even though they share a body, Calliope's tongue is white HS while Caliborn's is black HS . Calliope's weapon is also white HS while Caliborn's is black HS , another reference to the yin-yang theme. Calliope has joined the growing list of characters to reference The Wizard of Oz HS . Calliope is left-handed HS . Calliope's name is a play on words to what is known as a Space-Time Calliope. This is also a play on words to how she and Caliborn use the Space and Time Aspects, respectively. Calliope's name may also be in refrence to the musical instrument the Calliope seeing as the greek goddesses which she gets her class from the Muses have divine authority over Music. Using Calliope's blood color, aspect, and lunar sway, her extended zodiac sign can be determined to be Cango, sign of the opus. Alternatively, using her speculated birthday for the sign class, her extended zodiac sign can be determined to be Scorgo, sign of the crusader.

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Calliope takes the appearance of Caliborn as they both share a body. She has the head of a green skull and has light green cheeks. In her troll cosplay, she has the appearance of a girl with white hair, skin, and wiggly horns.