#troll sizing in general is so fun and whimsical

[soosoosoup]

Watermelon peck

[rocksanddeadflowers]

Giggling and kicking my feet NORDIC TROLLS!!!!!! To simplify, the troll is a mythical creature found all over in Nordic/Scandinavian folklore. They go way back, and were at a time interchangeable with giants, or Jotun, but they eventually became their own creature. Their sizes and shapes can vary extremely- from smaller than a human adult to as large as a mountain, from large extreme "ugly" features (they're often called ugly but the amount of old troll artwork I've seen just makes them look so cute and whimsical...) to looking almost completely human.

The most common and consistent traits are their immense strength, and their, well, lack of wit. Often seen as oafish and clumsy and easily tricked, but their size and strength is what poses the most threat. The best way to save yourself from them is usually to trick them; your best bet, if possible, is to trick them into staying out too long, as sunlight turns them to stone. (If you've ever read/watched The Hobbit, yes! Bilbo did a great job! Honestly when I finally got my mom to watch both trilogies with me we had so much fun pointing out all the Nordic culture weaved into it...)

Now specifically for this AU, I imagine that, to an extent, pretty much all the creatures and spirits of the forest are aware of the war that our trio were involved in. Meaning they already have a, lets say a distaste for the humans involved. Trolls already pose a threat to humans generally, especially the ones with a taste for human flesh. Now everything, trolls included, have personal beef with humans like Tim and Bertie, who served on the opposing side that did the most harm to these being's forests (and probably still wear the uniforms) makes this all the more dangerous for the two. Lyf is likely not viewed as an enemy or threat, but not exactly welcomed with warmth either.

Lyf is slowly starting to realize just how much danger Tim and Bertie could possibly be in if they stumble across the wrong characters. Trolls are very much the wrong characters. (Also, the light hearted jab about Tim stems from the stories of trolls being known to kidnap young, beautiful women to make them their brides. I think its a cute layered joke, meant to lighten the mood and reference Tim being very gender non-conforming in some fashion or another. It can also be interpreted as a reference to Thor being a giants' bride that one time, though I doubt Bertie realized that lol.)

Personally I like the idea of making some trolls empathetic. I do this for almost any group of fictional things that are readily antagonized, but also I watch Hilda a lot. (Hilda being an aesthetically pleasing, well written kids cartoon with character growth, and having both heavy fantasy and horror elements, and everything being Scandinavian, mainly the folklore, is just the show to heal my inner child.) So while I think this trio could easily run into a group of trolls that really pose no threat but scared them shitless regardless would be absolutely darling. Maybe the trolls even invite them to lay by the fire and share meals and stories (even if Lyf has to roughly translate all this, depending on the language barriers).

However, this doesn't mean there aren't any nasty trolls about.

Imagine they come across a group of trolls, the trolls not yet seeing them but knowing they're there. Lyf thinks its best if the boys stay behind and hidden while they try to talk to the trolls. Even if the trolls pose threat to Lyf, it's probably safer for all three to not know about Tim and Bertie, at least not yet. Things don't go very smoothly, and Lyf is grabbed by one in one hand, struggling to breath and get free. The troll that grabbed Lyf gets dangerously close to purposely ripping off Lyf's wings, like a young boy torturing a bug for his own twisted amusement. It threatens to loudly and happily, jeered on by the others in its party, and by now Lyf is panicking and close to tears.

Tim and Bertie are pissed and come out to attack. Attacking physically doesn't work great, since the trio are all disabled in some way with little arms to bear, but they pick up on playing distraction rather than actually fighting, and Lyf is roughly dropped. Soon enough, with the proper distractions and self defense, the sun rises and the trolls are turned to stone.

Sorry I know that was a lot but I am having Thoughts

Thinking about the war trio while traversing the wilderness, the light waning just looking for a good place to lay for the night, with Lyf freezes. Dread is clear on their features, ears back and wings taunt and tail flicking. They motion for Tim and Bertie to be silent, to back up, get low, anything just be unnoticeable. They try to ask what's wrong, what Lyf is afraid of, and Lyf has to admit it's not themself that they're scared for. There's almost certainly trolls down the way, and pose little threat to Lyf, but much danger to Tim and Bertie that upon noticing their presence Lyf felt ice go through their veins.

Tim and Bertie know next to nothing of trolls, really, but they listen and back away. Or course they're a little excited maybe? Mostly Tim. About Lyf being genuinely concerned about them. Besides, they don't know what exactly the danger trolls pose to them.

I just. Am thinking about trolls ..... Maybe Lyf is stuck interacting with them, and maybe they're really nice to Lyf but god Lyf is terrified of them finding Tim and Bertie, especially if the trolls know exactly what kind of humans Tim and Bertie are. Also maybe some teasing from Bertie later on after troll lore dump from Lyf saying "well Tim is the only one in any real danger since he's such a pretty lady" as a way to lighten the mood. Trolls .........

[bigskydreaming]

So I’m writing a short story in my Changelings ‘verse for a galaxy brain commission that was simply “Boyd gets a boyfriend.” Nothing wrong there. But it does mean I feel like I finally gotta nail down the full intricacies of Boyd’s magic, which is unnecessarily....extra, due to the existence of the Curse of the Specialist Snowflake that afflicts me. 

Like, I couldn’t just give him one physical change and one magic like most other Changelings, nooooooo, he’s gotta be the Zodiac Kid and have twelve completely different changes and magics, one for each sign and he changes throughout the year in accordance to the changing of the signs. Why’d I do it that way? Cuz I gotta, obviously. Hahahaha, shut up, me.

I mean, there was a point to it originally, like, his sister Alicia’s Change and magic is that she’s surrounded by ghostly versions of a bunch of her alternate universe selves at any given moment, and she can communicate with them and call upon their skills and is sometimes called Sibyl around town, so like, the common thread/theme of her and Boyd’s magic is like, an infinity of self, but also, by “there was a point to it originally” I also just mean I couldn’t settle on and pick what I wanted Boyd’s magic to be so I was like here’s a fun thing I could do, make up a reason for him to have even MORE options.

.....I feel like, potentially, this self-created problem I’m having could have been avoided somehow, but gosh, fuck if I can see how.

So most of Boyd’s magic is hammered down....

In his Sagittarius phase, he’s physically a centaur whose lower half looks like a night sky studded through with starfields and moving constellations, and his magic from November 23rd to December 21st is uncanny intuition, a kind of off-the-top-of-his-head divination. He just instinctively knows the answers to questions when he’s in his Sagittarius phase, the more specific the question the more accurate his answer. He doesn’t have context, he doesn’t KNOW how he knows the things that he knows, he just knows them. 

You ask him if you’ll meet someone who could very plausibly be the love of your life within the next week, and if he says yes, its absolutely, one hundred percent true and accurate.....but if you ask him then how can I find them, he might say well first thing you gotta do is get out of my face and stop bugging me, and then walk down the street and turn left.....and that too, would be absolutely true and accurately point you in the direction that answers your question but like, that’s all he’s got and you’re missing a few steps at that point. So. Its not an exact science or anything. 

There’s definitely tricks to maximizing the intel you get out of him when he feels like being hit up for intel and doesn’t just string you along to be a total troll. Which he is. Hence why he also spends most of December filling in all of Alicia’s large stockpile of crosswords and sudokus, as he just instinctively and whimsically knows what to fill in even if he doesn’t actually have a clue WHY the Mesozoic Era is the answer to 49 Down. Alicia maintains this is cheating. He maintains he doesn’t care, and answers 64 across with “Johannesburg.” Fuck if he knows why.

In his Capricorn phase, he sublets his apartment in Bordertown and takes a month lease on a place underwater in Sub Francisco.....as for this period he’s more of a classical merman, but also if a classical merman has goat horns. But like, whose to say they don’t? Have you ever met one? Thought so. His magic during this period is horns of plenty.....he touches something to one of his horns, and comes away holding two of that item. So it basically only works on things that can be hand-held, but other than that it could be food, physical items, medicine, etc.

In his Aquarius phase, he’s physically the same as he was when a normal mainstream human....except that his skin has a faintly translucent quality as if that of water, with faint stars spiraling in distant patterns in the depths of his slightly watery form. He’s not invisible or actually translucent, like you can’t see through him or even see his organs or anything....rather, its more like most of the time he just looks like normal, human Boyd, albeit wearing a lot of glitter for some reason....but then he turns and catches the light just so, and for a moment you can see how the light is shining THROUGH him similar to the way it shines through the surface of a body of water. His magic in this phase is based on Ganymede, the cup-bearer of the gods.....water he touches becomes imbued with healing properties. 

Like, he unscrews an ordinary bottle of Evian and reaches in with the tip of his finger, and whammo, you’ve got a healing potion whose magic will last until the last of the water is gone, even if its not used until after his Aquarius phase. Once he’s imbued a source of water with his magic, its a healing potion from then on out, which makes his shop a useful place to find healing magic year-round.....or at least until he runs out. You come into his shop even in late July, if he’s still got some healing potions lying around they’re as good as ever....but if he’s already out of stock, you’re out of luck until next year’s Aquarius phase rolls around, and you gotta go look elsewhere on Mercy Row for a healer in the meanwhile.

In his Pisces phase, he goes back to his Sub Francisco apartment as his physical Change here is that of a centaur-triton....kinda the classic ithyocentaur, but also he’s got kinda webbed-like wings spanning from his back.....its a whole thing. But a good look. His magic in this phase is ‘the perfect pair’....he cups his hands and forms a magical, elemental construct in the shape of a koi fish that’ll swim off in the direction of the perfect complement to something or someone. Like a personal, magical compass guiding him or whomever he makes one for to like, the magnetic north that exists somewhere as the perfect counterpart to an already present south pole. Whatever, this makes no sense and is super confusing, I get that. But it makes perfect sense and is not confusing in my head. Still just working on translating from point Head to point Paper without the concept getting lost in the translation.

In his Aries phase, he’s his ‘normal’ mainstream-appearing base form....but also he’s got golden wings and ram horns. And his magic is that he breathes fire. But its magic fire, and it doesn’t burn things it touches, it turns them to gold. Its a whole Golden Fleece thing mixed with a King Midas thing.

In his Taurus phase.....idk yet. I mean, bull horns seems a pretty obvious go-to motif, but haven’t decided for his magic yet. Mostly because @sunwukxng is a Taurus and he takes things like this juuuuuuuust personal enough that I know if I don’t come up with something good here he’ll decide its a mortal insult towards all Tauri and thus him as well, and he’ll declare a blood feud against me that shall last five hundred years. And he’s already got like, six of those in progress, so....trying to avoid racking up anymore.

In his Gemini phase, he splits into two selves, his physical self and astral self, so he’s basically followed everywhere by both his shadow and a spirit version of himself he can astral project elsewhere. And when his astral self goes through something, kinda like how there’s that idea that when a ghost passes through someone they feel a chill or as if they almost left their body for a second.....his astral self can kinda like....yoink other peoples’ astral selves out of their physical forms temporarily. Yoink is of course the highly technical, scientific term for the phenomenon. Obviously.

In his Cancer phase.....idk yet. Look, its hard to be classy and deep concept-y about crabs, okay? I’m sorry Cancers, but even in the original myths about the constellation the gods were like yeah, this crab constellation was a mistake, we just felt bad about Artemis kicking that one all the way up into the heavens after it pinched Orion, the only himbo she ever almost made a boytoy out of. A lot of other Zodiacs featured animals that had the common perception of being viewed as pushing the sun across the sky, so there’s maybe something there in that direction....idk yet.

In his Leo phase, Boyd mostly appears as his ‘normal’ base mainstream-human looking self....except he’s big in a way that is not exactly Giant Big (and there are a good couple dozen giant-sized Changelings living in Bordertown, so like, he isn’t officially anywhere near that) but he is possessed of a height and size that are nevertheless best described as Ridiculous. Like he’s bigger than the Strange Angel, but not as big as Teddy the Sun-snake. That means nothing to anyone but me. Whatever. Moving on. Anyway, in his Leo phase he also has a fiery red mane kinda....that’s threaded through with silver stars in the Leo constellation shape. His magic in this phase is his ‘roar of command’....basically, he can imbue anything he says with the force of his will, and thus like.....make inanimate objects do what he tells them. He’s like “Open sesame” and a locked door is like you got it, boss.

In his Virgo phase.....I am not entirely sure what he looks like yet. I’m pretty sure its mostly his mainstream-looking ‘base self’ but like.....with an unnatural charisma, but also something a little less generic than that. Needs a specific hook still, beyond just “I’m ridick pretty.” Like, he’s Sinqua Walls. He’s always ridick pretty. Its a thing. But his magic in this phase is like.....an aura of inspiration. He just sorta puts out a vibe that inspires people around him in various ways that are unique to the individual. 

He’s also way shorter than he used to be even before his Change hit, or like, shorter than he is in any of his other phases. Like, we’re talking five and a half feet max. Is there any reason for this whatsoever beyond me being amused at the juxtaposition of him going from his Biggest and Most Ridiculous Phase immediately to his Smallest and Most Ridiculous Phase? No. No there is not. Fear the deep profundity of my creative process, for it is deep and it tis profound.

In his Libra phase....I’m not sure yet what his physical change is, but I do know his skin has a scaled texture, and I know those aren’t the scales normally associated with Libra but there’s a point to it, its just......missing some ingredients still to totally make sense. But he also tends to wear a blindfold a lot of the time during his Libra phase because I know his magic here has to do with viewing things in terms of overlapping possibilities and potentialities, like, he looks at things and sees not just the way they ARE but also a whole bunch of different ways they COULD be, and his magic enables him to kinda tweak things from the way they are more towards one of those other possibilities, in a sense that’s all about ‘balancing’ things.

However, the sensory stimuli of all those potentialities 24/7 is honestly overwhelming and gives him serious migraines, so he mostly tries to rest his eyes behind some kind of blindfold most of the time and just take it off to focus on specific things in order to utilize his magic, and only a little at a time. This is probably the most technically ‘powerful’ of his magics in terms of both versatility and scope, but it takes a toll and he really tries to pace himself during his Libra phase or it just gets to be too much, really fast.

And then lastly, in his Scorpio phase, he’s got a whole scorpion tail and barbed stingers along the outsides of his arms.....but rather than lean into the whole ‘eww Scorpios are duplicitous and manipulative’ and also ‘eww scorpions,’ his magic here calls back to how scorpions are actually protective guardians in a lot of mythologies and folklore, and there’s also plenty of Zodiac lore about the idea of the Scorpio sign being all about uncovering truths at any cost, etc. So his magic here is another ‘liquid/mutable’ type and takes the form of venom from his stingers that’s almost like drops of amber.....and that have various properties aimed at uncovering truths and exposing lies and falsehoods. Like, elixirs made during his Scorpio phase are another highly sought ware at his shop, because depending on the venom concentration he places in each, they have different properties. Like, he’s got vials where just a drop placed in your drink or on your food will reveal if its been drugged or poisoned, or vials of elixirs that basically act as magical truth serum.....and then other vials where like, you splash a little of it on something you suspect to be an illusion or a magical disguise of some kind, and it’ll dispel the false magic and reveal what’s truly there. 

“What happens if like, I splash it in the face of someone I think is wearing an illusion disguise and it turns out they’re not and that’s really just what they look like?” A customer asks.

Boyd shrugs. “Then they’ll just be wet. And probably a little pissed, I imagine. That’ll be $49.95 please.”

“I thought you said it was $29.95!”

“That was before the Asked Stupid Questions tax was applied,” Boyd smiles placidly. “Will that be cash or credit?”

 Okay. So. Typing that all out cleared up some of that for me but not quite as much as I was hoping as Cancer and Taurus apparently still persist in Vexing me.

Hmmmm.

[consummate-deviant]

The Character of Android 17

What’s up, friendos? So, Android 17 has been the toast of the town in Dragon Ball circles lately.  Don’t get me wrong, that’s awesome and definitely deserved: the dude is unquestionably the MVP of the tournament of power, and if you try to say otherwise, I’ll… shrug and carry on with my day, I guess.  You do you, I ain’t your dad.

No, but seriously, go to any discussion forum or comment section these days, and you’ll see plenty of people talking about how great and cool 17 was, and how he’s definitely shone more than any other during the current arc.  I agree with the sentiment whole-heartedly, so we’re not here to discuss that, rather, I want to bring up some of the negativity that has come along with this newfound bump in fan appreciation.

See, where there’s hype, there must be backlash, and 17 has been subjected to plenty of that.  With every more popular member of team universe 7 to be eliminated before him, the number of people bitter at his continued presence grew.  This is fine, in and of itself, for the ‘not your dad’ reason I listed above, but there are two specific complaints I occasionally hear about 17 that I just can’t co-sign for you, and I decided to write this up to address them.  

The first is: “He’s not even the same character he was!  This guy doesn’t act anything like 17/has nothing in common with his DBZ incarnation”

the second is: “He’s boring/blank/bland!  He has no personality.”

Since I’m one of the five people worldwide who listed Android 17 as his favorite character ever since the good ole days of Z, I figure the least I can do is roll up my sleeves and share some of the reasons I disagree with the above, as well as express how I see his actions and arc.  We’ll go through the timeline of events he participated in, and see if we can’t parse together the delinquent he was with the chill park ranger he would become!

PART 1: A Reminder of the Android’s Origin and the Future Timeline

So, Android 17 was originally Lapis, a teenage delinquent who would often go out and rabble-rouse with his sister and his droogs, playing their rap music too loud, wearing pants with the waistband far lower than the waistband of pants should be allowed to hang in civilized society, and other stuff like that, I assume.

Unfortunately for the duo, Dr. Gero was about, looking for a team of teenagers with attitude he could convert into an armada of godless killing machines.  One might feel prompted to ask why Gero intended to create machines so powerful that he couldn’t control them uness they wanted to listen to his orders, but sought the demographic of humans statistically least likely to ever listen to what an old man has to say to them to be the vessels of those machines, but this isn’t an essay about Gero being a silly, silly man.

Rather, the salient point to take out of the backstory we’re given is that 17 and 18 started out with a chip on their shoulder and a lack of love for people or society.  We don’t get any info on their home life or their parents, but based on their choice of hobby, and the ease with which they were spirited away, we can safely assume there were no happy beginnings here.  From the moment they became relevant to the universe of DB they were already in a position to hate society; being kidnapped by a madman and turned into cyborgs specifically to vent THAT madman’s hatred of society only exacerbated this, resulting in a mixture that basically burned the world to the ground.

Fast forward to some time later, and humans are an endangered species, Gohan has been disarmed, and Trunks has been brought to the verge of death. We don’t really learn a lot about the personalities of the future incarnation of the androids.  They behaved like a pair of psychopathic children, destroying the world less because of any deeply held hatred or bloodlust, but more because it sounded like a fun idea and what else were they gonna do with their weekend?  They share some elements of their character with the versions of themselves who would be proper cast members, which I’ll get to later, but for the purposes of the story they were more of a force of nature than anything.

It’s too late for the future… but not the entire multiverse!  So Trunks head back to the past, but hold up, Jack!  Would his warnings prove accurate?

Part 2: Android 17 in DBZ

The first thing we learn about android 17 is that he’s a troll. Seriously, not only is he quite sardonic in his disposal of his stepdad, the first interaction he has with the Z warriors, his nominal enemies, is to beckon Krillin over to him, then abruptly stand up and frighten him.  No end game, no intent to harm, he just really wanted to screw with the poor guy.  He’s a gadfly who frequently says and does things for no greater reason than to see the reaction they provoke in others.

The second thing we learn is that he shares his future incarnation’s flippant, whimsical attitude, but to a less morbid extreme.  He makes short work of the assembled heroes, but treats it like clearing the arcade mode of a fighting game, stopping at the knockout and expressing a hope they may be more fun if he encounters them again. When 18 steps up to fight Vegeta, 17 reacts to it like a child whose sister beat him to calling dibs on the front seat during a car trip.

The third thing we learn is that he is one cocky little punk.  He refers to himself as the ultimate warrior on multiple occasions, brags constantly about himself, and treats the notion of anyone being his rival, much less stronger than he is, as a notion so ridiculous that it doesn’t even deserve his contempt.

These three traits are important because they remain central to his disposition even as a grown man, albeit to a far more muted and mature degree, even though his personality does change quite a bit during the ten years we don’t see him.  It may be tempting to say that being eaten by a bug man was what served to put a sock in his constant “I’m the best in the world” talk, and that certainly did play a role in who he became, but I would say his character started to change a little bit before that: during his fight with Piccolo.

The thing about 17’s strength is that it has nothing to do with martial prowess.  As a delinquent he certainly had experience in street fights, but he never did any formal training, or did anything that would require effort or discipline.  When Gero made 17 an android he made him so strong that he could crush anyone he encountered, but it was just that, raw strength.  It had no technique or prowess behind it.  

As the fight progresses, we see 17’s attitude toward Piccolo change subtly.  At the start, he’s just a toy to be played with, another level in his game to be cleared and forgotten about, but as it progresses Piccolo does something that 17 had never encountered before: he holds his own.  With skill and grace, he matches every move 17 has, blow for blow.  In the past 17 had had many fights as a bully and a thug, but this was the first time in his life he did battle as a warrior, and he liked the feel of it.  He expresses a kind of respect for piccolo as their fight reaches its end, even though it is couched in his trademark, planet-sized, ego.  It was an encounter that took the first step toward redeeming him, and setting him down the path we would see him walking in Super.

...and then a bug ate him… Yeah, it’s hard to stay arrogant after you’ve been eaten by a bug, so that helped too.  My big sticking point is that it’s often assumed that if Cell hadn’t screwed up the flow of events, the modern androids would have eventually became their future selves, but I think there’s a chance for their redemption even without Cell, provided at some point in time 18 meets Krillin and 17 fights the fused Kami-Piccolo.

Part 3: 17 in DBS and the Tournament of Power

Ten years pass, Android 17 is, if not in his thirties, pushing up close to ‘em for certain.  His personality is now quite placid, and he’s a family man, carrying on 16’s spirit by protecting nature, and carrying on the fire that Piccolo lit in him a decade ago by training constantly to improve his technique.  Now, I maintain that his character is still consistent, but does he BEHAVE differently now?  Of course he does.  Look, I don’t know how old you are, reader person, but I promise you, when more than a few seasons separate you from your teenage years, you will look back at who you were as a teenager, and the things you did… and you will cringe. Hard.  Heck, I’m in my thirties now, and I look back at the things I said and did in my early twenties and cringe, sometimes.  Growing older is a game of constantly realizing how ridiculous you used to be and hoping you’re less ridiculous now.

So yeah, he is more mature, but the three elements that are the center of his character are intact.  He is a merciless gadfly throughout his entire run in Super.  He exchanges affectionate barbs with his sister when he meets her daughter, he teases Krillin’s nervousness around him, despite expressing to Goku that he was fond of the man, and considered him his brother, and in general never openly acting like he took anything he encountered as seriously as he really did.

He still tends to treat everything around him like a giant game, made most evident by all of his interactions with Universe 2, but most of all with  Ribrianne and her Kamikaze Fireballs, playing the role they provided him with abandon and gusto- when Ribrianne accused him of being a villain from some kind of magical girl anime… he promptly starts hamming it up and acting like a villain in some kind of magical girl anime!

He’s no longer the loud mouthed braggart he was as a teenager, sure, but his faith in himself remains strong.  It’s just that it’s no longer childish, absolute arrogance, and instead has been tempered into a realistic confidence in his own abilities.  When faced with insurmountable odds, he remains calm and studies his situation carefully, never moving recklessly, but also never losing faith in his ability to eventually find a way to overcome the situation he finds himself in.

The tournament of power DOES introduce an important arc to 17’s character, though, and it’s a surprisingly subtle one.  Sadly, I’ve already typed up 2,000 words on the subject, so I’m going to go ahead and stop here for now.  This is how I perceive the character, and why I like him so much.  If anyone wants me to, I may type up the second essay on 17 I have rattling around in my head sometime, and reveal how 17 accomplishes something impossible:  makes JIREN an interesting antagonist.

[miss-m-winks]

because I’ll always enjoy drawing ocs in homestuck aus. I am working on a hiveswap fanart too haha. 

Brynid and Agundr are troll versions of @askmissbernadette‘s ocs (Brunhild and Agmundr) we like to plan out fun oc crossover aus but never actually do anything with them lol. That’s ok though, the planning out part is fun :D 

just because explanations are fun.

Saijak Nelayn is a deep-purple blooded troll, high enough on the spectrum to have some seadweller characteristics but low enough to be a part of the subjuggulator population. He lives on an island inhabited by a decently-sized group of other marine purplebloods, and while they have similar abilities to chucklevoodoo, their style is more like polynesian haka dancing. Because let’s be honest here haka dances are awesomely intimidating and the facial tattoos are incredible. The center horn on his necklace is from his old moirail who was killed. The other horns belonged to the trolls who killed his moirail. His lusus is an unidentified seal-like creature and his godtier is Bard of Void.

Agundr Agnars is another purple blood, lower on the spectrum so he’s not as aquatic. He is of a small but powerful group of subjuggulators known as “bozokers” (bozo/berserker) who are generally docile and not all that whimsical, but can instantly become recklessly destructive under the proper circumstances. No one knows what Agundr’s horns originally looked like, as they were broken off when another purple blood struck him very hard on the head. Because of that blow, Agundr also has hearing problems and is a bit slow sometimes. His lusus is a bear-like corgi and his godtier is Knight of... uh, undecided. 

Tamyle Ragash is a very large and strong blue blood.She bleaches her hair.  Agundr is her moirail, they go to the gym together frequently. She is also the kismesis of Mikkul. Tamyle is bold and has a strong sense of humor. She has a unique psychic ability that allows her to see the auras of living things. She lives on a mountainside with plenty of animals to hunt, so because of this she rarely has to kill other trolls for her lusus. Her lusus is a bison/snow leopard and her godtier is Rogue of Rage.

Zarina Jelani is a bit more on the blue side than other teal bloods. She has a lot of friends and secretly studies medicine so she can help them when they are injured. Injured trolls are easy bait for culling drones, after all. Zarina likes to dye the ends of her hair to match her blood color, but she has also been known to literally dye it in the blood of her enemies and also occasionally crafts horns into jewelry. Her lusus is a leopard tortoise and her godtier is Sylph of Mind.

Evelyn Haayik is a teal blood with a passion for wrestling. She also enjoys helping her friend Zarina with medicine. Evelyn is highly curious and has a strong sense of morals. She knows the world she lives in is seriously messed up and she would like to do something about it, but she just doesn’t know exactly what. Her lusus is a carnivorous camel and her godtier is Mage of Space.

Mikkul Jinder is a green blooded troll with a venomous bite. His venom is strong enough to kill a low blooded troll, severely incapacitate a mid-blooded troll (and potentially also kill them) but most high blooded trolls are only mildly affected by it. He is the kismesis of Tamyle, and he started this relationship by stealing her kill once and then insulting her smell. He has the ability to see colors in both smells and sounds, but a troll’s smell rarely matches their blood color. Mikkul is a quiet sort and prefers to hunt with a bow. His scarf is soaked in nice-smelling oils so he can block out undesirable colors if his senses are overwhelmed. His lusus is  a giant python, and his godtier is Seer of Breath.

Brynid Abjorn is a bronze-blooded troll who lives very high in a mountain meadow. She cannot commune with animals completely, but she has a great sense for their feelings and her singing influences their actions. Brynid’s lusus type is typically domesticated for farm work, but hers was feral and lead her into the mountains, so she enjoys a certain amount of freedom and runs a small farm of her own instead. She is very small and has very high dexterity.She is moirails with both Agundr and Tamyle, a three-way moirallegiance. The two highbloods were already moirails when they discovered her and instantly felt a need to protect her at all costs. Brynid also bleaches her hair since Tamyle showed her how. Her lusus is a cat-goat and her godtier is Maid of Heart.

Ollito Moruga is a strange troll. His blood color is in the range between fuchsia and rust, the forbidden connection between the highest and lowest ends of the hemospectrum. He is capable of living in the sea like a fuschia blood, but he is weaker like a rust blood, and suffers from a number of physical issues. He has poor eyesight, is extra sensitive to light, and he is leucistic. His blood color is usually culled on sight, but there are a small number of them living in deep cave systems, far away from the rest of troll society. Ollito loves mechanics and frequently tinkers with devices in his underground hive. He has accidentally tuned into Earth radio and found the latin american music channels, so he speaks some Spanish and calls his lusus “abuelita”. He is also the matesprit of Agundr, who found Ollito when his own lusus dug a hole too deep and caused Agundr to fall into Ollito’s cave system. Ollito’s lusus is a giant axolotl and his godtier is Page of Time

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