#I am cradling some pieces of canon to my chest and I am gently depositing others in the ''no thank you'' bin lol

[splickedylit]

hey, i was just wondering what's up with those giant claw fingers you draw trolls with? and gamzee's with fins and gills even when he's a landweller? thanks!

bare face gamzee because I'm too lazy for clown paint tonight, avert your eyes lol The level of xeno I bother to put into troll drawings varies depending on my mood but here are some of the most common things I put in my art

The big claws just feel really fun--normal claws are plenty dangerous, but it seems very trollish if it's physically HARD to be gentle or nonthreatening with your hands--it's a physical effort to be careful, when your entire fingertip is a chitinous claw with limited flexibility. They're horn-colored because I like how that looks, lol.

peets.................

i just think they're neat........

Hair that trails down the back of the neck and down the shoulders/arms, especially as blood color gets warmer.

Trolls with worse nutrition or caretaking habits having paler/flakier horns and claws.

I like to give trolls pupils reflective of their lusii! Goat-eye Gamzee, slit-pupil Nepeta, cuttlefish pupils for Feferi, etc.

RE: Gamzee specifically, I started drawing him a long time ago with half-seadweller traits because of his lusus/sign, capricorn. So he gets long ears with half-fins and dud gills. Sometimes if I'm feeling spicy I try to draw him with digitigrade legs but I'm bad at those so I often don't bother

I have lots of thoughts about fun options for gender on alternia but suffice it to say I intentionally try to mix up which trolls have curves or don't, relative to pronouns. don't try to tell me these pansexual aliens have strict sexually dimorphic anatomy that determines their societally-acceptable gender, Hussie!!! don't come into my house and try that shit!!