#spotted: feferi

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quirks spotted: feferi peixes, eridan ampora, meenah peixes

3/27

i’ll krill you. you won’t resprawn. shrimpleton

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please draw more tavris sprite or even a feferi x nepeta 🙏 ur art is so gorgeous

[chromatic-symphony]

Silly style sketchbook dump :33

[maretriarch]

looking at my drawings like wow i really do ONLY draw women... cool! peak performance all wheat no chaff

[missbehavior0u0]

See the thing about Eridan and Feferi is they are a bit like sharks and dolphins. One of them is a lovely little smiley creature that makes chittering noises and does tricks and is overall very anthropomorphizable, and the other is a big nasty biting thing that you wouldn’t want in your entourage. Meanwhile Feferi is a nice young lady with sentiments about social justice that appeal to Homestuck’s exclusively (as far as I know) non-Alternian audience and very adorable mannerisms, and the other one is Eridan.

But then expert scientists start taking a closer look at the two species and start to spot some discrepancies with the general idea of what they should be. It turns out dolphins do all kinds of nasty things (ie: premarital sex, stockbroking, pyromania) and sharks are actually big softies who wouldn’t hurt a fly when you aren’t dressed up as a seal or making sensationalist blockbuster movies about them.

Similarly, upon closer inspection you realize that maybe Feferi isn’t really all that nice or even necessarily respectful towards lowbloods (re: conversations with sollux, VrIska, Jade) and that Eridan, despite having adopted his worldview because it puts him in a socially acceptable position of power, might not buy into those ideas and isn’t quite so awful or as much of a lost cause as first impressions might have him seem (re: conversations with Karkat, Gamzee regarding Sollux, requests for faulty doomsday devices, etc).

So naturally you as the reader get very excited about all these developments and start wondering oh boy oh boy, where will the story push these characterizations next, given that it’s already managed to tell us so much with so little? Who will remain true to their ideology, and whose will crumble? And then Eridan goes and does that. Sad! Oh well, there’s other tools of a genocidal regime to unpack. Sometimes the shark really is just a big nasty biting thing, and there’s nothing sinister lurking beneath the dolphin’s adorable trick.

But you, understandably, are a little pissed off by all this. You were eager to see all the secret nice and nasty bits of these characters come to fruition, and as the reader you’ve been denied your delectable prize. Plus, it seems not everyone has caught on to how things could have gone. So in your analysis you push things a bit, maybe to bring them justice or to make things clearer. Dolphins are actually murderous rapists who delight in stealing candy from small children, while your average shark is on par with Mother Teresa. Feferi’s plans for societal rehabilitation were tantamount to genocide. Eridan Did Nothing Wrong. And so on.

However, it’s important to settle on a few things at the end of the day. Bits of nuance are usually intended to make characters more similar rather than push them further apart. It might be more helpful to see what those similarities are pointing to and analyze them on that basis. Eridan and Feferi are both troubled little soldiers of a fascist state positioned very close to its head. Similarly, when all’s said and done, sharks and dolphins are both large marine predators with very sharp teeth who humans would benefit from not getting close to.

[relaxxattack]

Can you elaborate on what you meant with that ashen post? What do quadrant misunderstandings have to do with Eridan

oh my god, absolutely.

first of all, the fandom seemed to take eridan at his word when he said moirallegiance was a lesser romance akin to a friendzone; that's its own problem.

but in relation to blackrom: the toxic, horrible behavior that eridan displays in his flirting is often taken by fans to prove that kismesissitude is an inherently abusive, unnatural quadrant that the empire forces young trolls into. but this is incorrect.

as stated by multiple characters in-text AND by andrew hussie later: this behavior is not pitch at all. it's ashen flirting.

feferi calls out how transparent this bullshit is instantly. terezi, too, gets caught up in this when eridan decides to drag her into it, but she is also not having his shit. both of them read him for how fake he is. and that's not even going into how completely uninterested sollux was in this “rivalry”.

hussie, in the commentary, also states that eridan's obviously outrageous behavior is basically textbook for an ashen solicitation.

i feel that it's also worth mentioning that when eridan had a real kismesis, his relationship with her was amiable, and they even supported each other as teammates and allies in their campaigns. the second she gets bored of him, eridan starts pretending their relationship is volatile and going to “become murderous” to get kanaya to auspistize for him… sound familiar? 

and now here is what eridan looks like when he's actually pitch flirting. notice how despite his obvious assholery, eridan also tries to treat her with weird respect and pay her compliments? there's a noticeable difference between how eridan treats someone he actually has a pitch thing for and how he treats sollux.

eridan is intentionally going way over the line, to goad people into stopping him. i discussed this before in reference to vriska/kanaya/tavros, but trolls actually seemingly don't want their relationships to become unpleasant. they have an entire quadrant dedicated to intervening if they think a relationship isn't healthy. and the relationship going extremely toxic is attributed to a failure of auspisticism, not a natural facet of pitch romance.

this is what eridan's treatment of sollux is. it's unhealthy, by troll standards. which is saying something! it says that trolls have standards for blackrom; standards that make them think trolls like vriska, gamzee and eridan are going too far. 

so that's what my funny little image was trying to encapsulate. that fandom has such a blind spot when it comes to ashen relationships that it makes them misinterpret pitch romance as well. they forget that it's literally proven in-comic that trolls don't accept shit tons of toxicity as normal in their romance. (of course it gets a little more complicated when caste dynamics are introduced, but in the end other trolls still wish to auspistize in cases like terezi/gamzee.) 

ashen romance has a purpose, and people straight up refusing to acknowledge one of the four romances in the four romance system throws their perspective of the entire thing off balance.

[mcacomulada]

The trolls as insects (i might draw them later)

Aradia Megido - Maroon Ghost Moth (Elhamma australasiae)

Moths have been repeatedly portrayed as a sign of death. Also, their fluffiness matches the one of Aradia's hair XD. When I read this one's name it was inevitable (ghost???, maroon??, literally her oh my gooood).

Tavros Nitram - Question Mark Butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis)

Mostly based off of the Summoner and Rufioh having wings, I didn't want to make it a monarch butterfly because Tavros is in no way royalty.

Sollux Captor - Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

Pretty self explanatory, Sollux always had a connection (and obsession) with bees. They also sting, which is kind of a metaphor for the psionics.

Karkat Vantas - Seven Spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata)

Ladybirds are always seen as special, even though this instance is not a mutation per se, it's special and red. Also, ladybirds are commonplace pests (which is kind of what Karkat is to HIC).

Nepeta Leijon - Pale Green Assassin Bug (Zelus luridus)

I looked up some good bug hunters and I got assassin bugs, nepeta is the mightiest of huntresses, so it fits.

Kanaya Maryam - Green Headed Ant (Rhytidoponera metallica)

I was doubting wether to make Kanaya an ant or a silk moth, but ultimately, moths are a better representation of Aradia, and ants mimic jade-blood's function in troll society better. A part from being green, this species of ant apparently has a nice bite, which is representative of Kanaya's fierceness.

Terezi Pyrope - Ebony Jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata)

I am aware that the dragonfly pictured is male, just ignore that lol, headcanon the trolls as hermaphroditic (i will post about their biological cycle hehe). Dragonflies are said to be insect's best predators, Terezi is also a vicious and precise hunter, if not of other trolls literally, of outcomes and possibilities (she is intelligent, and a Seer of Mind).

Vriska Serket - Peacock Tarantula (Poecilotheria metallica)

Also pretty self explanatory, it's a blue spider, therefore Vriska Serket. Spiders in general are already a good representation of how she is percieved (with fear lol). Yea, simple explanation.

Equius Zahhak - "Pure Blue" Giant Flower Beetle (Mecynorhina torquata)

The strongest of bugs are beetles (among some types of ants, who are better described as proportionally strongest). This particular one is also pretty big and strong, and coincidentally presents this type of coloration.

Gamzee Makara - Purple-Winged Grasshopper (Titanacris albipes)

Originally was going to be a praying mantis, but the orchid mantis was just too perfect for Feferi. Locusts also have ties to religion and mythology, which was my main focus for finding Gamzee's insect (they have been, fittingly, a symbol of destruction for eons).

Eridan Ampora - Canopy Mosquito (Sabethes cyaneus)

Tbh, I based most of this decision off of the fact that Eridan is annoying (I don't hate him, it's just his personality, unfortunately). Also, mosquitos breed in water (at least that's what my parents always told me) which matches the aquatic theme.

Feferi Peixes - Orchid Mantis (Hymenopus coronatus)

Feferi is the troll I had the most trouble with. Originally I tried keeping up with the aquatic theme and had found Ranatra linearis, a stickbug that looks like a mantis and hunts little fish. I discarded the option because even though it was aquatic, the connections with Feferi kind of ended there.

I then tried to search for a bug that had "empress" in the name, and had chosen Megapomponia imperatoria, a giant as fuck cicada. It didn't convince me either though.

I chose the orchid mantis because, mantises are cutthroat, good hunters and pink as fuck. If that's not a description of the tyrian blood caste I don't know what is.

I wanted to make one of these drawing comparisons to different species of ants. There exist some cool af ants out there, I might do it.

[thewertsearch]

Anonymous asked: Well, welcome to what's known as Murderstuck! Enjoy your stay, and complimentary Faygo of 12 delicious flavors can be found in the fridge! Anonymous asked: Welcome to the murderstuck arc! @elkian asked: Allow me to be probably the 300th person to welcome you to Murderstuck lol… it's so interesting seeing your theories, because you get REALLY CLOSE sometimes, it's just that these kids don't do things logically [...] Your prediction for 'blood' re: the Trolls was spot-on. Never seen Murderstuck predicted that early. @sanctferum asked: "What a flash, is all I’ll say. This feels like the beginning of a new chapter, with Aradia revived as one of the most powerful Players, and Vriska choosing to do something she’s probably been contemplating for months." Oh, it's a new chapter alright. A chapter called Horrorstuck (or Murderstuck depending on who you ask). Haaaaaaave fun!! [...] @mimescantscream asked: I'm so giddy for you to enter this section of Homestuck. It is so good. :o] Anonymous asked: welcome to karkat vantas's terrible horrible no good very bad day Anonymous asked: this part of the comic is commonly referred to as murderstuck. what do you think of these developments from a narrative point? they've always kind of felt like a wild swing to me. not per se unexpected, but a bit odd

Time for Homestuck to become a slasher movie!

These murders certainly didn't feel out of left field. The comic has been stretching the tension out for a while now, as the clock runs down on a meteor full of violent, stressed-out aliens. I didn't predict an Eridan double homicide, but I sure expected something to pop off.

Murderstuck also serves an important narrative purpose. The trolls have been directionless for a while now, with only Karkat and Kanaya really committed to helping the kids. Vriska, Terezi and Tavros have at least been doing something, but Equius, Nepeta, Feferi, Eridan, Sollux and Gamzee have barely existed for the entire sub-Act.

Homestuck has a lot of characters, and some were bound to end up on the bench. A crisis like this will get everyone off the bench and back into the fray. This, in turn, makes the Veil more dynamic, and sets the stage for interesting character moments - moments which won't happen if everyone is just napping in their rooms, or whatever the B-team have been doing post-Hivebent. Fuck that - it's time for shit to go down.

[exactly10meowingkittens]

I need to see all your troll designs so badly!!!! I mean already in love with your feferi design I want to see what you’ve come up with for the others!!!

Here are my designs!! Some have been designed by my past drawing and some had go be thought on the spot!! There is reasons for certain choices,,, so ill explain them:

because everyone's horns are the same colour as there blood karkats horns have been crudley painted on grey to match his shirt,,, for whateva!! Sollux has bee related things because I thought it would be silly for him to be a "fake queen bee"... ,kanayas sign is not on her suit it is on her sleeve!! As it would be covered by her big collar!! Tavroses hair was dyed to represent a brown ljke bull,,,, also he has a bull ring,, however i didn't know how to show thay in the redesign!! Also kanaya and vriska have extra limbs,,, vriskas is to represent spider legs and kanayas grub limbs,,, aradia is on a ouja board because I thought it would be cool of she got around like that!!!! A good chunk are based on there lusus minus some!! Like eridan is based a tiny bit on his lusus which is why he has a seahorse tail whereas karkat isn't really so he stayed the same!!! The explanation is done!!!

[kabutoden]

Sorry if youve answered this before, but how do you chose the bugs to assign to each character ? Also they are all really cool and fun :3

Hi, I’ve explained this before but I’ll do it again! Last time I explained it was less specific to the character and more to the caste, so this’ll be a little different. I use the metaphors and associations of the insect to pick their species as well as their diet. I’m calling the species a troll mimics their ‘morph’.

Aradia: Fly. Associated with death. Detritivore. Tavros: Craneflies. Frailty, timidness, clumsiness. Thinking longhorn beetle might be a funnier pun though, so I might change it. Herbivore. Sollux: Bees. Construction, intelligence, connections to groupthink/hiveminds/psi. Herbivore. Nepeta: Caterpillar. It’s a pun. Herbivore. Karkat: Isopod. Highly social insect. Durable shell representing defensiveness/personal barriers, but also serving literal aspect of ‘thick skin.’ Detritivore. Kanaya: Hornet. Dangerous but caring parents, association with femininity. Omnivore. Terezi: Dragonfly. Good eyesight’s associated with clarity, though large eyes would also be easier to blind. Good at flying. Dragon pun. Carnivore. Vriska: Spider. Manipulative, association with femininity. Carnivore. Equius: Beetle. Strong. Omnivore. Gamzee: Praying mantis. Associations with religion due to unique praying pose. Carnivore. Eridan: Anolomacaris. Extinct skilled distance hunter. Carnivore. Feferi: Trilobite. Large curved spines, trident tongue, ‘ruler of precambrian seas.’ Detritvore.

All insects before Jade are herbivores or detritivores, and all insects jade and after are middle to highblood can hunt. This was to set up an intentionally antagonistic relationship between lowbloods and highbloods. It’s also a new way to play with themes in my personal work which are all about animal dynamics.

I mostly did the human kids as bugs as a joke, because they’re not aliens at all so its funny!! But I had a ton of fun with them so here we go again. I chose them off colors and gimmicks.

John: Spitbug. They’re bright green and gooey boys. Like ectoplasm. Rose: Rosy maple moth. Name association—also bright pink and yellow against their will. Rose wishes she was a cool goth all-black moth. Moths are associated with ‘seeking light.’ Dave: Assassin beetle/wheel bug. Have a gear shaped bump on back, large black eyes, efficient predators, some red coloration. Fits in with his expectations and pressures. Jade: Wooly aphid. They’re white, fuzzy, with rainbow wings. That’s so her.

Jane: Candy-striped leafhopper. Bright cyan with red highlights, food-themed name.Roxy: Pink-spotted cattleheart. Gorgeous pink and black coloring. Butterflies are nectar-drinkers, associated with celebration and inebriation. Kinda clumsy too. Dirk: Tiger beetle. They can move in bursts of motion faster than they can see. That’s flash stepping. Orange and black. Jake: Diving beetle. Dark green with orange highlights, explorers who go where other beetles cannot.

[rainbowspinch]

This is for the two people (@mxs-space and @impishthing I love you both thank you for encouraging me sending confetti to your mailbox as we speak) that wanted my Beforan Ancestor lore I’m sticking it all under the cut. Long ass post guys watch out

Also this stuff is incomplete lmao just so we all know. ANYWAY

All decided names so far;

Karkat: The Nexus, Nexus Knight Vanitas

Aradia: The Elegist

Tavros: The Pagewright, The Emergent

Sollux: The Conductor

Nepeta: The Mighty Huntress

Kanaya: The Sunkissed Palliative

Terezi: TBD

Vriska: Conqueror Chelicerae Mindfang

Equius: The Neighcent

Gamzee: Jongleur

Eridan: The March Huntress, March

Feferi: Her Radiant Marina

Rough timeline SO FAR

Aradia Megido - The Elegist

Elegist - the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead

The Elegist is something of a bad omen, recorded to subtly appear only when a tragedy is coming. Manifesting quietly into your peripheral vision as whatever’s about to happen to you takes root in your history forever. While there are rumours, all modern appearances or accounts of her came to a halt, as if she disappeared as mysteriously as she initially came. There’s no record of anyone catching a conversation to her, nothing accessible to the public eye at least, but the stories say if you can’t see her, you’ll hear the whispers of her familiars ringing in your ears.

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A very, very long time ago, long before Her Radiant Marina claimed the throne, there was a musician. She claimed the songs she wrote were shared to her by the voices of the dead. A recluse of sorts, but not by any means unfriendly. Despite her unusual disposition, she was regarded as kind and easy to get along with if you could overlook the weirder aspects of her. As a young adult, something transpired between herself and the current empress, and she disappeared. Angry and upset, our dear sweet musician took on a new calling. She swore to the empress that her face would be the last thing this planet ever sees. Billions of sweeps later, her tale and her warning is long forgotten.

Other notes:

-possibly made deals with spirits she shouldn’t have in order to live as long as she has.

Tavros Nitram - The Pagewright, The Emergent

Emergent - in the process of coming into being or becoming prominent.

Pagewright - ‘Page’ being from his class, ‘wright’ coming from ‘playwright’, a reference to his nature as a storyteller, and to the Summoner’s story being turned into a work of fiction.

The Pagewright was an avid traveller. He was a friend of the people, travelling from town to town, city to city, taking up tasks for others as he went. These tasks would often decide the direction of his journey, basing his trip on a parcel he was asked to deliver, or a recipe that was suggested to him only found in a certain place. His direction changes as flippantly as the wind, always treading from place to place on a whim. He developed a popular reputation as a nomad of sorts, and a lover of animals. His old logs of his travels far and wild are occasionally used as reference points for zoological study on now extinct forms of lusii, due to his mission to befriend literally any creature he came across. Despite his long travels, the truth was that the Pagewright had a home and a matesprite, both of which he always returned to. The gaps in his ventures were filled with love and home made cheer.

Modernly, the Pagewright is known for his stories. The traveller had a known soft spot for fiction of a fantastical kind, and would share and trade stories with many of the people from the towns he visited. After circulating and being retold for years and years, many of these indulgent fictional stories became the crutch for modern day fairy tales. His most famous story, however, was one he claimed was rooted in truth. He told the story of the day he lost his legs, and almost his life. The Pagewright, with an expression lost in thought, claimed he looked into the piercing eyes of Death herself. Despite the bizarre nature of the story, it developed into the interpretation of the Grim Reaper that many people know today.

Other notes:

-his matesprit is The Neighcent, the same gentleman responsible for crafting his legs.

-underneath his clothing he also wears a thin brace of sorts. His posture is insanely out of whack from spine damage and carrying his stupid god damn horns around

Karkat Vantas - Nexus Knight Vanitas, The Nexus

Nexus - a connection or series of connections linking two or more things.

Knight - Comes from his class.

Vanitas - Art term, the concept of human life and happiness as fleeting, short-lived.

The Nexus was a peacekeeper. When Her Radiant Marina was settling into her role as a ruler, he stood nobly by her side as both a personal guard and a dear friend. He stuck to her side, making sure she attended all her meetings and did all her Empress-ly duties, all that important royal junk. More importantly, The Nexus was a friend to the people. While his dialogue could often be less than professional, he was loved for his kindness and affection underneath. It wasn’t uncommon for him to resolve disputes between others, keep younger people occupied, or lend a hand wherever he was needed. The Nexus was incredibly popular with his people, and he loved them more than he ever could have imagined.

Sadly, all good things must come to an end. As Marina got older, she began to bring in the new culling laws. For the better, she said. To take care of them, she said. Like in many other cases, the people made into playtoys or coddled pets by these laws were angry, and began to push back. Then came the division, then the violence. While Marina scrambled to repair the damage from a distance, The Nexus tried to speak to her subjects face to face. Gathering small groups of her people together to speak to, condemning the senseless violence and encouraging them to come together. But the more he talked, the more he realised that they were right. In truth, would these laws not affect him too? In the end, is he not a traitor to himself to stand by her? Even now, while he tried to put her kingdom back together, she hid up in her palace, whilst he drew further and further from her. The Nexus was furious. Hand in hand with his people, he pushed back. He tried to negotiate with her, talk to her as one friend to another, but she wouldn’t budge. She insisted she knew best. The followers grew weary, the warmongerers grew impatient. It was one life for the freedom of hundreds more, they said. They used him as a symbol of their own. For the more peaceful, a symbol of mourning and revolt. For the others, a symbol of sacrifice and example. A gruesome display of rebellion. It was then that Marina stepped out into the light to make a move. She strapped the laws tight, herded the people in. And as history moved forward, her peace returned by force, she wiped the entire incident from the books, The Nexus and his sacrifice included.

Other notes:

-the symbol they ended up using to represent him was the symbol of infinity. ♾️

Eridan Ampora - The March Huntress

March - March is considered one of the best months to fish in, March Eridan

Huntress - Referencing their post scratch work hunting for Feferi’s lusus.

The March Huntress was,,,, a character. In the beginning, she was running fishing expeditions and dabbling in science on the side. It’s not really known when, exactly, she became so infatuated with the concept of magic, only when she started letting it seep into everything she did. It didn’t take long for her to abandon her fishing exports and scientific studies in favour of uncovering this magic she was so, so very sure existed. Tragically she was regarded as a nutcase and, frankly, a bit of a tool for being arrogant and dramatic about her claims. From studying, to actively seeking out magical items for herself, her fascination only grew with each step she took towards some true discovery. Slowly, her friends grew lost on her. She withdrew, disappearing from the public eye, being seen less and less until she was lost altogether. Lost in her work, lost in her spiralling out of isolation. A very long time later, however, she kind of just… popped into the public eye again. So long, that most of her reputation was now going unknown, save for those with longer life spans who lived to see her step into the light of day again.

Modernly, still living even in present day, she goes solely as March. A business owner, with a less than professional attitude but probably making more than enough money to give a shit. Running several small establishments that she often checks in on and helps out with, she remains highly regarded with her staff and regular customers. Despite her olden grievances, her fascination with magic isn’t lost. Many of her supposed ‘magical items’ are still kept tucked in her sylladex, these items she treasures greatly. Unfortunately these items are definitely cursed, and March is also definitely cursed as a result. It’s unbelievable how cursed she probably is. Held close to her heart is an ‘amulet’, a beautiful stone planchette rimmed in gold, hung on a rope chain. Always in her mind she hears the whispers. Always in her mind she hears them talking. And yet, till the day the world ended, she could not bring herself to let it go.

Other notes:

-March’s entire story was completely bullshitted on the spot because Cronus gave me so little to work with. It started with a ‘she owns a hot girl car wash’ joke and expanded from there

-It’s not actually a hot girl car wash though. Just a normal car wash. Cronus brings cars there to get them cleaned while she rambles to him about how magic is real and she can prove it. Then they go out to a field and she blows up his car

Feferi Peixes - Her Radiant Marina

Radiant - Reference to her jewellery and brighter colours, glistening

Marina - a specially designed harbour with moorings for pleasure yachts and small boats, ‘marine’

 Haven’t written out a full thing for her that I’m happy with yet, but HRM is our empress.

Sollux Captor - The Conductor

Conductor - the materials or substances which allow electricity to flow through them, a train crew member responsible for operational and safety duties, a person who collects fares and sells tickets on a bus.

My guy created public transport and we’re so proud of him

Other notes:

-he is almost entirely based on that One line of dialogue from pesterquest about being jazzed about public transport.

-he just fucking loves public transport

Alright that’s all gang thanks

[opalescent-apples]

Pixie Hollow Homestuck AU- Keep watch at the grave of cringe, lest it rise once more

Equius- Tinker Fairy. He builds weaponry for the fairies, but he also makes some useful tools. He has a fascination with crafting the small bows and arrows that the scout fairies sometimes use, but given his unusual strength, he keeps on breaking them. The other tinkers think he's odd, with the exception of Dirk who is also considered off-putting to too many of them. He finds kinship with Nepeta in this; they're both outsiders in their own group, though Equius is far more sensitive to the fact that he does not fit in. He often overcompensates by attempting to embody as much of the quintessential "strong, reliable tinker fairy" as he can.

Gamzee- Art Talent. He's discovered his means of expression were once enhanced by baking a strange substance, but it had horrible side effects. Luckily, after getting off of them, the bright murals and unsettling makeup he became known for improved in quality. Equius is still disgusted by the disorganization of his studio by the sea, and seeing him turn lost things into silly abstract sculptures instead of more classic fairy art didn't help. But Karkat sometimes visits to yell at him and help him out, and June likes to chat with him and bring him sour plums for paint. Jane and Sollux stop by, too. He's strange, but charming when you get to know him.

Eridan- Fast Flier. Now this is someone who's a little like Vidia. He definitely thinks he's better than everyone else and deserves to be the queen's lieutenant. He is not the fastest at all; June beat him pretty easily. Eridan has some trouble making friends, and is mostly hoping his loyalty is noticed by others. He kind of wished the new queen would be more like the old queen, making Pixie Hollow more of a threat and using Neverland as a strategic position for an empire. Now, though, he's not sure what to do.

Feferi- The New Queen. Once a skilled water talent with a soft spot for sea creatures, Feferi became the new queen after deposing the wicked queen. She would have been the new Water talent leader, but she's beyond that now and she nominated Krabcatch instead. She's planning to rule differently now, and is working to deliver seasons properly instead of manipulating them in order to plan takeovers of other lands. She's got her work cut out for her; it's exhausting. But she's got her friends!

[davekat-sucks]

I have my troll headcanons, and this is gonna be a long one, I’m doing all the Beta trolls. Also note these headcanons assume all characters survive and exist on Earth C.

Aradia Megido is trying to puck back up on the hobbies she abandoned when she became a ghost, and with her luck Earth has a vast archeological expanse of history and paleontology that Alternia destroyed to legitimize the Condesce’s rule, and to erase any mention of organized rebellion against the empire. Of course, history still existed, but is almost exclusively known by highbloods who have the class and age to study writing, own journals to write on, live long enough to document dozens of sweeps of their life history, and have less of a chance to get culled by drones controlling population growth. Reassembling Alternian history on Earth C is like finishing a jigsaw puzzle with the pieces hiding across the empty void of space. Aradia likes to search for fossils, but her interest in the dead and telekinetic connection with ghosts make her a professional paranormal investigator as well, she once snuck into a haunted house being filmed for a ghost hunters TV show, and was caught on camera. Her ripped clothes and ruffled hair from attempting a breaking and entering made her look like an undead troll.

Tavros thinks Pokémon is too simple and amateur for him, when in reality he’s mad he still loses in competitive matches in both card game and online game. He still likes the Pokémon anime! A boy who never grows up going on adventures against an organized crime syndicate trying to steal a powerful ally and nonverbal creature! Not to mention that the Ash character has friends to tag along on their perilous journey! When it comes to fighting with mythical magical monsters and complex bullshit with cards, Tavros has a soft spot for Yu-Gi-Oh, and Seto Kaiba reminds him of a troll that kept on meddling with him… and still does.

Sollux is possibly the best software technician on Earth C. He is an admin for a forum that discusses obscure desktop/master software. He obviously uses Linux and Gnu, and codes .ath viruses as practice for whitehat hackers to disarm. His Earth C hive is entirely themed by bifurcation. His curtains, his furniture, his goddamn toilet are themed by 2 colors. Karkat calls it ugly, Kanaya calls it creative. To cope with his psiionics and his loss of them, Sollux teamed up with Aradia, Karkat, and Feferi to code and design a walkie talkie that can talk to the recently deceased, this was also done so people could stop running specifically to him for predictions of armageddon.

Karkat is trying very hard to accustom himself to human culture, he has watched a lot of human film (mostly American, a few Fench and Soviet films and a bunch of Tokusatsu and Anime slop) to get why humans were like that, and if everyone was like Dave and Rose. He finds human film boring and generic, but continues to watch it anyway, to connect with the human way of life. He also follows John’s Youtube account… to leave hate comments, they don’t even attack John’s appearance or the points John makes about the film, it’s general allusions to how frustrated he gets watching John’s videos.

Nepeta has been banned from New York C’s central park zoo for scaring the bears at their enclosure and intimidating them into smashing the glass. Nepeta was allowed back in 2 years later when she promised she would not harm any animals because “it would be too easy to hunt them.” Nepeta is a professional huntress who is unique in that she doesn’t use firearms, she just catches the animal in her mouth and slices their neck if it’s big game like deer or wild boar. She meets her maximum bag capacity within a day. She is the scourge of human huntsmen and she is known as “the green lioness” to many.

Kanaya was able to pass on the duties of brooding cavern patrol once the first Jadebloods reached maturation after 9 sweeps. On Earth she was introduced to a new series of monsters and beasts after being accustomed to the animated corpses she’d hunt during the Alternian day and rainbow drinkers in her trashy teengrub erotica. Since she was always around Rose, a girlfriend and devout student of zoologically dubious, she became a cryptozoologist and eventually a bigfoot hunter. Her agility, strength, night vision, and rainbow drinker hearing made her perfect for hunting North America C’s most hidden animal. She would mostly stalk the rustling of leaves and moaning from the shadows of the forest to find it’s a human hiker or a bear, until she actually caught Bigfoot in an open Brush 30 miles West of Marquette C, Michigan C. Notably sightings were made days after Kanaya caught the creature, and after a week on news channels, talk shows, radio interviews, getting a nobel prize in biology and ecology, and getting a giant golden trophy called the “first big step” she now is treading westwards for possible other bigfoot sighted from California to Idaho. That is, when she can schedule it, she has a girlfriend she also wants to be there for. Of course, Rose has joined Kanaya on a few bigfoot searches to support her girlfriend.

Terezi IS the law. Professional trollcop and private investigator, she has her own TV show like that of Chris Hansen where she roleplays as different people, ranging from kids that pedophiles prey on to lone wolfs and depressed deadbeats that drug cartels search for to hire as peddlers and soldiers. Terezi’s strongest expertise is hunting down anti-troll hate groups, since she gets to be herself instead of roleplay as a human. She struggles the most catching anti-human troll groups and Neo-Condescites considering she has to fight against her own species, which have an easier time sniffing out if she’s faking her human archetype and some of them are super strong indigobloods.

Vriska haaaaaaaates how boring and fake human roleplaying games are. In FLARP you had real costumes, stat bats, real loot, month long continuous sessions, and dire consequences if you lose. To keep herself not bored she has become a practitioner of the extreme sport of rock climbing, since Vriska hated walking down and up all those stairs just to get to her lusus, and climbing a shear face would be more safe than slipping on those infernal steps! She also wanted one day for her lusus to watch her climb, as spidermom laud down in that pit of webs, too fat and loud to crawl up herself. Spidermom has been dead for sweeps now so Vriska still won. GET F8CKED FUSSYF8NGS!!!!!!!!

Equius was an unfortunate troll who got caught up in strange human subcultures, and that subculture was human hypermasculinity and “alpha” male mentality. He has a Youtube channel, Twitter, and Instagram dedicated to exercising routines, habits, and hobbies that make male trolls, humans, carapacians, and even denizens respected leaders in their community. Equius tried to co-opt My Little Pony as being masculine and sigma despite the protagonists being all colorful horses. Equius believes all of the protagonist ponies (the mane 6 as they’re called in fandom circles) each hold masculine traits that can correlate with the masculine archetypes in alpha men. Think how Twilight Sparkle exemplifies intelligence and planning, AppleJack has strength and stoicism, Rarity appreciates natural beauty and appearence, etc. Also they are horses, and Equius is frustrated that humans took the maned roarbeast (lions) and striped fangbeast (tigers) as the mascot of alpha males. Equius made his own personal gym in his hive because he was banned from all the gyms for excessive sweating and never cleaning up his station. He films fighting tutorials with his combat robots, but they all break in one punch, so Nepeta has to be invited for any successful demonstrations on how to demonstrate Equius’s fighting style and not break in one punch.

Gamzee is in a mental Asylum becaise of the whole murder thing and has only broken off from Lord English’s control for the first time in his life. He expresses himself by rhyming the GREGCLOUROIAN WICKED RHYTHMS for THE FROWNING MASSES to proselytize the NEW COMING OF THE DARKER CARNIVAL. After 5 sweeps in a straitjacket Gamzee was deemed sane and pacified, so he can finally start his real life. He immediately asked Tavros to start dueting some sick bars he wrote in the brig to bring forth the new prophesy of the evanjesters. Tavros agreed without hesitation. “Mike Club” and “Wild T” sell albums as the “UNHINGED PAGLIACCI TROUPE” and have gotten many a negative review as “the worst rappers in all paradox space” but in the end, built up a dedicated fanbase of clownfolk and followers of the true faith.

Eridan doesn’t go out much, if at all. He plays a lot of video games, grand strategy, roleplaying games, a few puzzle games. He feels mixed about First Person Shooters and asks for a good story in an FPS campaign. He sees himself as honorablenand only shoots with a reason, like how he killed lusii to feed G’bolg’lyb and stop the vast glub. He doesn’t want to shoot people because some authority tells him to! Honest! Ask Sollux and he’ll agree Eridan shot in self defense! And Sollux is still alive and happier that he doesn’t hear the boices ofbthe dead doesn’t he?! Maybe Sollux should THANK HIM FOR BEING CONSIDERATE. Sorry what was I talking about? Eridan does not regret a lot of things, but he will still talk about them when you bring them up to insist he does not regret anything, nope, he’s fine. He does hang around with the people, or rather, person he tolerates. Karkat. Everyone else are lowbloods that don’t like him because he’s better than them so they insult him and say he smells bad when that’s the natural smell of the ocean and they don’t understand how important he is, or Feferi who toyed with his emotions and left him for some bipolar mustardblood and avoided him after ALL HE DUD FOR HER AND WAS SO NICE TO HER AND SHE DIDN’T RECIPROCATE THOSE FEELINGS wait what was I talking about? Eridan insists he does not need help. He’s fine. He’s fine fine fine fine fin.

Feferi loves Spongebob Squarepants, it’s a match made in heaven, but she’s not obsessed with it. She still went far enough to paint her recuperacoon blue with the colorful flowers that dotted the oceans of Bikini Bottom. She is an advocate for saving all the coral reefs and has sued many companies with her nonprofit organization and vast personal wealth for spillover of hazardous chemicals into protected waters. Considering how often CrockerCorp gets into these environmentalist lawsuits, Feferi gets under Jane’s nerves. A lot.

Final thoughts. Eridan, Karkat, Nepeta, Vriska, Tavros, and Terezi (sometimes Sollux but he’s busy most of the time) all run a discord for roleplaying and video games. Eridan Karkat and Tavros like to play the Elder Scrolls series, Sollux likes to play the Fallout series, Vriska, Nepeta, and Terezi like both. Sollux tried to get Eridan to play Fallout: New Vegas once, but Eridan got bored after a few hours and thought the morality system was too simple. Between the organized disciplined and stable Caesar’s Legion or the corrupt incompetent bureaucrats of the New California Republic, or the selfish authoritarian Mr. House, or you thrusting the wasteland into chaos as you throw all 3 of the remaining lighthouses of civilization into collapse. Sollux has a let’s play channel but the only uploads on it are Nepeta’s playthrough of Postal 2 she shared on the discord server.

Karkat does a lot of human movie watchparties with his old friends to keep his trollian friends close enough that they don’t kill each other or wander off on this new weird alien world, and to his surprise they like some of the human films even though they are bottom of the barrel compared to peak alternian film. Each of the trolls favorite films are:

Aradia: Carrie (1976)

Tavros: Pokémon the First Movie (2000)

Sollux: The Matrix (1999)

Karkat: Con Air (1996)

Nepeta: The Lion King (1994)

Kanaya Maryam: Harry and the Hendersons (1987)

Terezi: Trolls (2016)

Vriska: Pirates of the Caribbean (2005)

Equius: Spirit (2003) and Fight Club (1999)

Gamzee: Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Eridan: Waterloo (1970)

Feferi: Atlantis the Lost Empire (2001)

Final fact: since films from the beta kids library still had a chronological year, the release year of films gets confusing, so to make up for it, films on Earth C are released on a separate calendar, the year on the Earth C Planetary Film Board is equal to current year (number of years after the original kids touched down on Earth C) plus 2009. Old Alternian films are hard to chronologically measure since they were made billions of years before April 2009.

This is a long one!

These are all amazing!

[animoogus]

actually, re: this post [x]

Please share your thoughts bc like. How bloody was it. Who even cleaned it. How often is it used. Do the humans even know it was a death bed.

[xxdeliriousbiznastyxx]

homestuck warrior cats au for funsies. sorting for this is based on thunderclan = fire, shadowclan = earth, and riverclan and windclan = water and air and then placing each kid and troll based on either their astrology signs element (trolls), their lands element (beta kids), or their relation to a beta kid (alpha kids). I'm also keeping the wacky eye colors since we like to have fun

THUNDERCLAN

Dave: Crowpelt, a black tom with one white paw, bright red eyes, and a scar across his chest (if Crowfeather didn't already exist in warriors, Dave would be Crowfeather)

Dirk: Cloudheart, a white tom with one black paw, bright orange eyes, and a scar across his throat

Aradia: Robinwing, a thick furred tortoiseshell she-cat with rust red eyes

Nepeta: Lionleap, a small pale gold she-cat with white paws and bright olive green eyes

Equius: Bluestorm, a large blue-gray tom with black toes and indigo blue eyes

SHADOWCLAN

Jade: Wolfpetal, a thick furred dark brown she-cat with bright green eyes

Jake: Oaktail, a dark brown tabby tom with emerald green eyes

Tavros: Sparrowcloud, a mousey brown tom with lame back legs and bronze-brown eyes (he's basically Briarlight)

Kanaya: Mothshine, a black she-cat with a white muzzle, belly, paws, and tail tip and jade green eyes

Gamzee: Grayface, a large dark gray tabby tom with light gray face markings and purple eyes

RIVERCLAN

Rose: Rosedew, a silver she-cat with dark gray stripes and bright purple eyes

Roxy: Shadowfoot, a dark gray she-cat with black stripes and pink eyes

Karkat: Crabclaw, a small mottled brown tom with gray eyes

Vriska: Spidereyes, a mottled blue-gray she-cat with a lame front left leg, a cerulean blue right eye, and a missing left eye

Feferi: Goldenfish, a golden she-cat with fuchsia eyes

WINDCLAN

John: Hareflight, a gray tom with white spots, white paws, a white tail tip, and bright blue eyes

Jane: Sweetbreeze, a gray she-cat with a white tail, white ears, and cyan blue eyes

Sollux: Beepelt, a golden tom with black stripes, a red right eye, and a blue left eye

Terezi: Lizardfang, a white she-cat with gray stripes and red blinded eyes

Eridan: Whitespot, a brown tom with a shock of white on his forehead and violet eyes

[vikkirosko]

Hi! Can I request another part of male Condesce and Purple Blood Reader who is his matespirit but was secretly with Signless and his group?

After her meeting with MSPA reader and his troll friends, she walk along the beach near her hive and find grub male Feferi.

Knowing that this grub is the direct descendant of Condesce, she is aware that if Condesce sees him, he will kill him on the spot, not waiting for him to grow into adulthood. So, she takes the little grub in her hive and hide him just in time before Condesce come in her hive.

The two have tea together, Condesce telling the story of how he had fun fighting and killing this heir, while reader is listening, panicking internally of what will happened if Condesce find the little grub. Thanks!

♓️ Male!Condesce ♥️ fem purpleblood!Reader headcanons The Young Heir 🐙

You would never show it, but dealing with young trolls has tired you. That's why you decided to take a walk on the beach near your hive. The sound of the water calmed you and your thoughts took you far away from your home planet until something caught your eye. This something was fuchsia color. When you got closer, you saw that it was grub. You couldn't believe that the heir to a huge empire was just left alone on the beach, but you understood that you couldn't leave it like that

You took grub to your hive, intending to take care of it while you were on Alternia. You knew perfectly well that this kid was a descendant of your matesprite and that if he saw him, he would kill him without the slightest hesitation. He always killed the heirs, and such a kid would definitely not be able to defeat him. That's why you had to hide him, in the hope that this baby would not die. You hid grub in your room, making him an improvised cradle there, and just in time, because someone knocked on your door

It was Condesce. The fact that he came to you meant that he had finished his business, but it also meant that you were on very thin ice. You couldn't let Condesce find out that you hid the heir at your place. You were not afraid of your own well-being, even if he had killed you, you would not have resisted, ready for death for many years, but you did not want him to kill the young heir. You were hoping grub wouldn't make any noise and Condesce wouldn't find it

You made him tea and listened to how he fought with the heir and how he had fun getting rid of him. While he was telling you, you could feel the cold in your insides. You were scared. You weren't so scared when Condesce found out that you were helping the rebels, but now you had a real panic inside. You've been waiting for the moment when Condesce leaves your hive and you can exhale with relief

When he left, you hurried to grub. He was sleeping peacefully and you felt calm. You didn't know how to be and how you could take care of him, so you had to find him lusus. Someone who will not allow Condesce to harm the baby and who will take care of him when you fly away. You had about another week and you should have spent that time usefully