i have created within me an elaborate series of off-planet colonies that are basically just troll college. You hated alternia? get ready for alternia 2, unless you got into one of the really good colonies that are cushy and low risk, in which case you contend with the unfathomable horror of monotony instead. in my mind palace my jade Ardehn gets into a predominantly teal-centric colony bc hes a vertician which is a troll mortician and wHY IS THERE A WORD COUNT ON ASKS NO you have to listen to me
BANA BANA BANAAA ive already mentioned before about teal high school which i find fascinating and funny to think about, i LOVE awful troll college. teal colony? TROLL MORTICIANS ur speaking my language i am listening
i have my own guys that do both the healing/dealing with death as the title medicullers but vertician is also fun to say
asked this over on the bird app, but!! i’ve been thinking a lot about my trolls adjusting to a new planet and its environment after escaping the empire off-planet, and their lives offplanet. made me curious to see some others too!!
so if you have any, show n tell me about your off-planet trolls, whoever aged off of alternia and went to work for the empire’s fleet, or ran away, or is assigned to some other colony planet, whatever etc!
kimquatz
process of drawing an OC:
- you design them
- you get attached to them
- their hair gets bigger without you realizing it
![Screenshot of a Retospring question and answer. An anonymous inquirer asks: "what's a headcanon you have that's unique to the tealblood caste? (can be xenobiology, culturally, socially, etc.)". The original poster answers as follows: "KIND OF HEADCANON but i feel some bits could just be outright canon extrapolating from what we see and hear about in hiveswap, but teals are one of the few castes that are more socially inclined to be close-knit, like it or not, with other members of their caste. they're one of the only ones that i imagine go to any sort of wider schooling institution all together since they're all enforced by the empire to join legislacerator/legislacerator-adjacent work and they're predisposed to LOVE gossip. even ones that try to be standoffish and isolated can't help but be a little nosy (rorzak and even valtra aren't exceptions to this, they can be just as bad as pyrroh when it comes to it). since it's sort of a 'everybody knows everybody' and 'teals talk' situation, the teal rumor mill is unmatched in quickly passing information down the network. the only other castes i imagine have a dynamic somewhat similar to this are jades or purples from being stuck in the cloister or from attending clurch [clown church] together respectively, but they don't have the 'watercooler convo' vibe the teals do imo."](https://64.media.tumblr.com/abe71b28c9e4e5758f4da22b98849400/9dbcb32d5f1da790-2a/s500x750/7effee726925058aa120dc502e696fd9989484c2.png)
ALTsharing one of my answers from my retrospring because i think about this every so often with tealbloods and think it’s so funny. the jade/teal car in hiveswap being a blame game trial act makes so much sense to me between their castes being a group of terrible gossips feeding off of the resentment and drama that is the jades and all that with one purpleblood throwing in fuel to the fire. tbh three of my top fave castes and theyre all a mess when you put them in the same room together
also just fun to include even accidentally when making my own teals because each of their jobs or roles bench on them being nosy as hell as a detective, secret agent, and Pyrroh (thief of void) each
kottkrig
People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it
You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u
legit regardless of how much i draw or gush over him, pyrroh is still pretty much a side character in my fantroll story i’ve been planning. first he was just some guy, now he’s support character at best to be a third party witness and upgraded to a circumstantial catalyst to whatevers going on between rorzak and valtra. his ‘guy who avoids the spotlight’ void ass behavior is part of why i want to toss him around and chew on him i think
pyrroh gummy so this isn’t just text rambling
whiplash seeing even my old dead and gone posts show up on my dashboard FJDKA
![a meme first panel is someone looking at some text that says "i write and create a new character" next panel the person blinks, and text next to them that says [three immersive daydreams later] final panel the person opens their eyes surprised to see text that says "they’re now way more important to the story than before and have a complex backstory because i like them too much"](https://64.media.tumblr.com/735008f7aee659c0e81e24e969c8fc9e/a3d658b3aa21f9fc-17/s500x750/bf32788e4eb5f706fa390924b3e5218e3c61d10e.png)
