#eridan captor

[hydro-city-zone]

ALTERFALL: 2024 Recap.

As of last post, ALTERFALL's entire cast of Beta Kids and Beta Trolls have been revealed! Before moving on to any further details such as auxiliary characters (Guardians, Exiles, etc.), Alpha session characters or in-depth looks into the Beta sessions, let's recap - for those who joined partway, or are only joining now!

ALTERFALL is a Homestuck Kidswap/Bloodswap AU in which, due to a single in-universe change, many characters' upbringings are altered due to the landing locations of their meteors being switched. The in-universe event that changes the course of the story and the nature vs nurture approach to changing the characters in their new roles was inspired largely by Inverted Fate, which we definitely recommend to all UNDERTALE fans! Below the cut are some images detailing each character, and at the end a links will be provided to read more about them!

BETA KIDS

A group of four human teenagers who communicate online after meeting each other in a series of odd encounters. Together, they intend to play SBURB: a mysterious video game entrenched in conspiracies, hoping to dispel the wild rumors breeding in the depths of message boards, or at least to have some fun. Unbeknownst to them, the game truly is the catalyst for Earth's apocalypse, with the four of them being thrust into another world and given the task of creating a new universe.

BETA TROLLS

Twelve aliens and previous players of SBURB - or as it is known on their planet - SGRUB. Their gruesome home planet of Alternia has instilled within them all manner of quirks, prejudices and generally colorful personalities (for better or worse), but somehow, against all odds, they managed to succeed in their game and create the universe that birthed humanity. Despite this, these twelve have been trapped in their game session, unable to claim their prize of a new home and festering in their captivity. Connections have been established to the game session of the humans, however, and thus they have gained the ability to send messages to them... At any point in the timeline they so please.

POST LINKS:

Humans: John Jade Dave Rose God Tiers

Trolls: Patrons Aradia Gamzee Equius Tavros Eridan Feferi Sollux Nepeta

Misc: Correction Sprite Art Human Modus Descriptions

Chrono Tag

See you soon.

[askdesperado-rocketchairs]

tavros serket i must know… opinions on the fish people? (feferi and eridan)

[alterfall]

If any of you are interested in making another long behind the scenes yap for one of these characters, might I suggest Eridan? I just really like his design

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this was the original sketch i had done while we were doing beta troll concept art. his design changed a bit between then and now.

mostly i simplified his stupidly shape glasses to only feature one color instead of two, and decided not to give him bi-color eye shadow. it was just too much going on.

i don't remember the exact design philosophy i had going into Eridan... for most of the beta trolls, i started with the horns, trying to match them with their signs. Gemrius is the Hope+Derse gold sign that he ended up with, so i gave him those weird dual curved horns to match it. (funnily enough, Gemrius looks almost exactly like Pipia, the Derse+Light fuchsia sign. i wonder what horns for that sign would look like?) oh yeah, he also shares his sign with Cirava Hermod. there was bound to be some overlap with a few of those hiveswap trolls. Tyzias and Remele come to mind.

speaking of, i also remember looking at a lot of the hiveswap friendsim trolls while doing the trolls. the wiki has a page for each blood caste and they all have a list of members, so it worked well for getting a good look at the shared traits within each caste. Eridan proved difficult because almost all the golds we know of have those neon color-no pupil eyes. The only exceptions being Zebede and a background troll from the train.

from that i guessed that most golds have that neon eye gene, but not all of them. i'm not sure if it directly correlates to a gold having psionics... but i did take that into account when i gave Eridan the eyes he has.

Eridan doesn't have psionics, but believes that one day he'll unlock them. i gave him these weird neon-with-pupil eyes to visually nod at that. maybe his strange eyes *are* because his powers are latent? or maybe it means nothing and he just has weird freak eyes. either way, he's not shooting lasers out of his eyes anytime soon.

i don't remember what possessed me to give him his silly outfit, just that we didn't want the trolls in the upper end of the lower castes (so Eridan, Feferi, Karkat, and Vriska) to look *too* fancy or colorful. this is 100% the nicest thing he owns. mostly i think i just wanted him to look like he's trying to make you think he's cooler than he actually is.

i also can't talk about eridan without mentioning his god awful terrible to look at quirk.

CA: {a wizard's job is to vex c#ummps quickly inn fog;}

look at it. look at this beast on my floor.

this one was a group effort between us and the discord chat during a stream there. it's his original ww vv but flipped upside-down to be mm nn, H's become # because his sign looks like a #, and he always replaces full-stops with ; because he's never done talking. the reason it's always in {} because someone said, and i quote, "eridan looks like a curly bracket." i think they must've meant his horns???????? the reason he has so much going on is because canon Sollux has so much going on with his quirk.

one final design note to give about Eridan is actually about his gun. i called it the B.B. Gun Mk.II, but it's actually just a gun from the anime Symphogear (i couldn't find an image of her *actually using it* from the show, but i was able to find pictures of her goodsmile figure where she has them so just trust me on this).

funny enough, this was before i had watched the show, roxy just slid this sick 3d model someone made of it to me as reference and i went "oh boy! anime gun for the anime guy!" i guess he must have alchemized a pistol with some merch of Troll Chris Yukine from Troll Symphogear? i like to think that's a show Eridan and Feferi would both like.

welp, that's all from me on Eridan. i hope this was actually interesting and not just mindnumbing rambling. ^^;

-HCZ

[grriib]

Panel redraws I did for @hsprzine

[beescake]

paint a bunch of heads then struggle to fit them all on one canvas

[defstanis]

my fave trolls <3

[homestuckteam]

August's Patreon Illustration Provided by Hone

To see more bonus material as it’s released, https://www.patreon.com/homestuck

[otagoshi]

i love draw tiny

[pastabaguette]

the hood

[onlysushicat]

Its not perfect in any way but I really wanted to finish this, I started it a month ago lol

[hydro-city-zone]

FEFERI LEIJON

Lore under the cut

The rest of the au can be found here.

Anti-hemospectrum activist who wants to create a kinder, softer Troll society for wrigglers to come

Avid forum user, met Eridan on an anime message board

Head is full of fluffy ideals, naive at heart and still believes she'll become a magical girl some day

Eridan believes she will, on account of his own belief-against-odds that he'll develop psionic abilities

<) why don't trolls just t@lk to e@ch other inste@d of h@ving w@rs? 8:(

Coddles her Lusus like no other

Wielder of Tiarakind

Seer of Life

[aro-aceattorney]

ive been drawing a lot of trolls lately

[indigonite]

and so we return with a troll lineup on 2024

[grriib]

[weaselmcdiesel]

requests for a bunch of ships i did on my spam :3

[defstanis]

so I joined the erisol secret santa and this is my gift for @tempest-teacup!! It was a pleasure to draw these guys for you <333 Happy holidays!