Oh, it's quite alright. Don't feel stupid. I didn't figure it out for a while. SierraDawnV2 posted over a year ago. They 'fill the buckets' With their own, hmmm, like their own blood colors InvaderQue said: link all questions will be answered. Shassie said: It's merely their term for mother grub or having sexual intercourse with one another.
If you don't fill the Drone's buckets, you get culled. You can get culled for so many fun things in troll society. A mother grub looks like this , only pregnant.
And with no Kanaya on top. Well, the stronger the bond of a pair of either kind , the more likely it is for their genes to be passed on in the resulting brood.
If your bond is weaker, your traits are probably going to be recessive. And that is all you never wanted to know about troll reproduction. Being confused by troll relationships is one thing we do have in common though. A reasonable human translation would be the concept of a soul mate, but in a more platonic sense, and with a more specific social purpose.
Trolls are a very angry and violent race. Some are more hot-tempered and dangerous than others, to the extent that if left to their own devices, they would present a serious threat to society, or even to themselves. The moirail is obliged to pacify the other, to function as the better half. Furthermore, romantic intentions of a more flushed nature can often be mistaken for paler leanings, much to the frustration of the suitor.
But some pale pairings, as the one above, will be strikingly obvious to all who know them. That would have been a great point for a transition out of this illustrated sociological study, but ok, if you insist. You should be an expert on all this by now anyway. Later our troll hero would try to explain this to our human hero, attempting to convey all the nuance of troll romance through a nearly verbatim recitation of the preceding excerpts.
He would try to describe how rich and textured the troll romantic comedies were compared to the one dimensional schlock of our human cinematic counterparts.
But would they succeed before the imperial drone came knocking with his thirsty pails at the ready??? Yes, they would. He would just go on and on and on about that garbage. Yes, the romantic landscape is rife with false starts and miscues and infidelities, red and black. How do I explain buckets to my girlfriends sister???? In the Candy Epilogues , Gamzee refers to Vriska 's nipples.
Some trolls have colored streaks in their hair that reflect their blood color. Eridan 's hairstreak is also shown to be natural as he is portrayed with the hairstreak as a grub. When the Handmaid receives an electric shock we can also see that trolls have a very human-looking skeleton.
When troll eyes are bloodshot, they appear as an orange color regardless of blood color, as the flesh of the eye is the same color as troll horns.
Trolls, in Hussie's official artwork, do not have visible ears that are similar to human's see Hussnasty Mode. However, it can be assumed that they do have ears of some sort as they are humanoid and can hear. Sea dwellers have fins on the sides of their heads though whether they are in essence webbed ears or separate organs is unclear. Xefros Tritoh alludes to sea dwellers having webbed fingers in Hiveswap: Act 1 , but this is never seen in any of their appearances.
Troll teeth are sharp, often protrude beyond the lips in a fang-like manner, and usually grow back after being knocked out, a trait displayed by both Equius and Gamzee. The appearance of the set of teeth can vary from troll to troll too, with some having completely even teeth, to others having bigger teeth in the upper or lower jaws.
Some trolls also have big canines, like Kanaya and Vriska, with the rest being rather small. Apparently higher castes have sharper teeth.
While trolls are humanoid and possess generally human proportions in nearly all depictions, and while Homestuck's often stylized art direction makes direct comparisons of size difficult, the few comparisons we do see seem to show that the Condesce , a fully grown and ancient adult troll, is significantly taller than juvenile or even young adult trolls.
Excluding her horns, she is 1. This could make the Condesce effectively a giant by human standards, and in Collide she appears anywhere up to twice as tall as the Homestuck Kids. It is unknown if this larger-than-human stature is shared among all adult trolls, is determined by blood color or by the Condesce's extreme age, or if it is something unique to the Condesce herself although she only appears slightly taller than the fully-grown Handmaid.
It is speculated by some that trolls' horns serve as erogenous zones they are not made of bone, as shown by the troll skeleton above , but the only canon basis is Karkat's claim that it would be typical Gamzee behavior to fondle his horns, and even this instance has the alternative explanations of mere reference to Gamzee's semi-constant state of glassy surrealism, or the horns being Gamzee's actual honking devices. However, this could simply be a matter of personal space, as in real life, horns are often made of hard keratin.
A popular fan theory appeared to be confirmed in Hiveswap Friendship Simulator: Volume Eleven , as Mallek was shown with two pairs of blue markings on the sides of his torso. These have previously been drawn by fans and referred to as "grubscars", which are left behind due to the loss of limbs during the pupation from wiggler to troll. Lanque was also shown to have similar markings in Volume Eighteen.
However, Barzum and Baizli Soleil do not have these scars on the respective parts of their bodies, so the canonicity of these features is unknown. In both Hiveswap Friendsim and Pesterquest , Trolls are frequently depicted without noses, even though Human characters in Pesterquest are drawn with them.
This, however, is stylistic, as Terezi Pyrope has referenced having a nose on multiple occasions, and Mallek is depicted within Friendsim with a nose ring. Many biological troll qualities seem to relate to their place on the hemospectrum.
A troll's lifespan, for example, increases with their place on the spectrum - burgundy bloods, the lowest caste, seem to live for only a dozen or two sweeps , while higher castes potentially have lifespans stretching for centuries. The Condesce , as a fuschia blood, has a stated lifespan of potentially hundreds of thousands of years. In addition, the higher castes seem to have more physical strength, while lower castes tend to have powerful psychic abilities, although castes higher on the spectrum may also display significant psychic abilities and immunity to mind control.
Yet more hemocaste quirks include the two pairs of horns seemingly possessed by all gold bloods as opposed to the usual single pair , and of course the gills of high-blooded sea-dwellers. Some afflictions seem to be caste-specific; Folykl Darane possesses voidrot, a condition seemingly unique to Goldblood psionics.
Presumably, the aquatic trolls with high-caste blood have a different physiology than other trolls, which allows them to live underwater and accounts for the finned, gill-like structures seen on either side of Feferi 's and Eridan 's jaws. The troll aristocracy uses human terminology for things that lower-class trolls identify with something more descriptive but less clear to us humans - for example, a burgundy's "ablution trap" is a "bathtub" to a blue-blood; this may be a reference to U and non-U English.
As such, there's probably a similar parallel for troll anatomy - chitinous windhole and protein chute, for example, may correspond to the windpipe and esophagus, respectively. Trolls of different blood hues have been hinted by Mindfang and later by Kankri in Openbound to have different standard body temperatures, with lowbloods having higher temperatures, and highbloods having lower temperatures.
This probably alludes to blue being associated with cold, and red with warmth. Romantic relationships amongst trolls are built around hate and pity and are stated to be really, really confusing. Trolls are said to have the same word for "friend" and "enemy", although what this means exactly is unknown, as trolls are almost always shown speaking English, with the exception of Damara. Trolls tend to cluster together naturally. Dave states in the epilogues that trolls cannot eat onions.
Through Scratch 's manipulation, the trolls of Alternia are a nocturnal, aggressive and war-like race. Trolls are keen on such things as galactic conquest, legislaceration, subjugglation, the arbitrary execution of children, and kangaroo courts. The kids' only real contact with trolls is a group of twelve juveniles, but through them, they begin to see that the trolls can also display friendship, kindness, and cooperation.
They come to understand that despite their dire circumstances, trolls are just as understandable and capable of virtue as the humans are. The group is not altogether free from the fighting and murder that were commonplace on their home planet, however. Vriska believes that this was in the cards, to begin with, and blames Karkat for imposing an unnatural restraint over a group that should've been at each other's throats.
According to one of Andrew Hussie 's Tumblr posts , the trolls' lusus gurgles some incoherent blabber, and the closest six-letter first and last names are assigned to the trolls. The 12 trolls featured in Hivebent, however, are actually all paradox clones , as Karkat Vantas performed the same sort of ectobiology as John did in the kids' session. Because of the troll mating and reproductive process, an ordinary human household cleaning bucket is seen as something obscene, the trolls reacting as though the kids had left pornographic material lying out in the open when one is spotted.
Polish or touching the horns of a troll also seems to be something obscene, because of Stelsa Sezyat 's reaction to that. The vast majority of adult trolls are off-planet, serving some role in the forces of ongoing imperial conquest, besieging other star systems in the name of Alternian glory. The culture and civilization on the homeworld are maintained almost entirely by the young. As such, an Heiress may enforce the rule of law on the planet in the absence of the Empress , prior to her periodic return to kill off such challengers before they can threaten her ultimate rule, although the degree to which individual Heiresses tend to or are required to do this is unknown.
While Feferi as Heiress in Homestuck was not seen at that point to be actively exerting much control over the planet, during Hiveswap 's time period Heiress Trizza Tethis enforced a strict and active authoritarian rule and maintained a cult of personality around her. Trolls are challenged from birth to prove their strength, having to conquer many trials before acquiring a lusus, and ensure the race stays at its peak. They are jaded towards violence and for the most part unsentimental about individual lives.
They do not typically bury their dead. A number of the trolls exhibit similar behaviour and characteristics to their lusus; Karkat is irritable and defensive, Tavros is sensitive and completely harmless, Nepeta is a deadly predator but happy and cute, and Vriska is a danger to everyone around her.
Trolls sleep within recuperacoons filled with sopor slime. Sopor slime is a slime that is helpful during sleep but should not be eaten. The slime helps ease the terrible visions of blood and carnage that plague the dark subconscious of their species. Gamzee Makara is shown to eat sopor slime and make it into pie. Hiveswap Friendsim has shown that sopor slime has minor healing properties, primarily on minor burns and cuts.
Trolls with disabilities such as blindness are culled on both Alternia where they are killed and Beforus where they are adopted by a troll from higher on the hemospectrum and coddled.
Trolls can have many different blood colors, ranging from dark red to a more deep fuchsia, covering nearly all of the rainbow's colors. This is referred to as the hemospectrum and serves as the basis of a complex caste system.
For trolls blood color sometimes dictates their life, as seen in Hiveswap teal bloods have to pursue careers similar to lawyers and attorneys, while jade bloods seem to only live in the caverns, though there seems to be only proof of those bloods experiencing those specific jobs, other traits for specific blood colors can affect their choice in career, as well as their place in the hemospectrum, for example, a rust blood can never have a suitable job in most, while a fuchsia or violet blood may have a chance to have, any career they may want.
While it is unknown if this is still the case of adult trolls elsewhere in the interstellar empire, recreation is an important part of the lives of young trolls on the Homeworld. Many activities are combative and dangerous, continuing the Alternian tradition of brutality that ensures that the species in its post-Scratch incarnation remains ruthless and warlike.
In Homestuck, many trolls are shown to engage in extensive Flarp campaigns, which can often result in injury and death. Furthermore, the popular stadium sport of arena stickball , as introduced in Hiveswap , incorporates player deaths into its gameplay tactics. Beyond these, other potentially less hazardous pastimes exist. Tavros is a fan of a mixed media card game known as Fiduspawn , which involves battling monsters that hatch out of balls.
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