They were introduced at first as a group of twelve internet trolls, who often bothered the kids on Pesterchum before being revealed as literal trolls. These particular trolls are approximately the same age as the kids and are the protagonists of Hivebent, which is the first half of Act 5. Before maturity, they have dark gray irises, but these fill in with their respective blood colors as they age. This has been shown with the Condesce, but Sollux, the . Trolls' tears are also the color of their blood, but in a more diluted fashion. Trolls also have pointed teeth, yellow nails, black lips, and black hair. Their most noticeable features are the horns sprouting from their heads, which resemble candy corn (i. Young trolls have first and last names with six letters each, while older trolls tend to acquire adult names or titles, typically with 8 letters, although there are exceptions, such as Troll Will Smith (5/4/5), Marquise Spinneret Mindfang (8/9/8), the Grand Highblood (5/9) and Expatriate Darkleer (1. Mindfang's quirk). The 8 letter rule has been thought to not apply to Highbloods. Should mutation place a troll outside the caste system (such as Kankri and Karkat Vantas) they will usually lack a sign. Certain crimes could warrant stripping a troll of their sign as part of the punishment. Each troll's horns reflect their sign; for example, Tavros' (. Other qualities associated with the signs have also emerged, such as Nepeta's (. Some of these signs are yet to be seen, but it has been hinted that there will be a sign alphabet released. Some of the trolls are very bad at trolling; Tavros becomes so freaked out with Dave's sick fantasiesill beats that he blocks Dave, rather than the other way around. Eventually, the trolls inadvertently form a friendship with the kids. Adding their abbreviated trolltags to GG, GT, TG, and TT makes the 1. A, C, G, and T, the four nucleobases of DNA. While they aren't Sburb players, Hiveswap has been confirmed to take place on Alternia. The other trolls can be seen here. The people who relish this online freedom are called trolls, a term that originally came from a fishing method online thieves use to find victims. The Urban Dictionary Mug One side has the word, one side has the definition. Microwave and dishwasher safe. Lotsa space for your liquids. Trolls Release DateTrolls ToysThe species had a caste system where the higher caste trolls would aid and care for the lower (and more populous) castes. The heiress to the Beforan throne, Meenah Peixes, ran away from her duties and hid on the moon where she found a game. Just before the destruction of their race, she and eleven other trolls, inspired by the legacies of their Ancestors, played the game. However, their non- violent culture left them unable to handle the difficulty of the game. A lack of leadership and the presence of sabotage, as well as copious amounts of romantic drama, caused them to fail their session. Unbeknownst to them, their session was affected by a glitch caused by Lrd. English that had rendered the session unwinnable by preventing them from being born in their session. After three sweeps (6. They chose the latter, and thus activated the scratch, completely resetting the parameters of their universe, becoming the ancestors in the new incarnation of their universe. Before completing the scratch, Meenah, on the advice of the horrorterrors killed them all using a bomb with the same appearance as the Tumor, allowing them to continue existing as ghosts within the dream bubbles. As a result, Doc Scratch came into being. He shaped and manipulated the Alternian troll race into the warlike people they are, in order to mold the twelve kids into a group strong enough and cohesive enough to finish the game with ease. However, the twelve trolls who originally played the game would not be the ones to play it in the post- scratch session, but rather their Beforan ancestors would be the players, and they themselves would become their ancestors. After the initial events of the Sgrub session, the overwhelming majority of the trolls were killed by the Vast Glub, a psychic wave from Gl'bgolyb, a horrorterror- like creature that Doc Scratch provided to Alternia and was cared for by the heir apparent to the Alternian crown. The only survivors of the Vast Glub, besides the 1. Sollux's original body), are the Handmaid and the Condesce. The Handmaid later sacrifices herself to the Condesce, so that she can replace her as English's eternal servant. The trolls at first began to question the nature of their two- team structure when the Red Team's prototyping began to affect the Blue Team's enemies and vice versa. Then, because of a Mobius Double Reacharound, the two chains turned out to be joined together all along; therefore, one Prospit and Derse, one Skaia, one pair of kings and queens, etc. However, they have two Frog Temples for an unknown reason (however, Vriska mentions that the two teams may have been set up because Skaia was anticipating the trolls killing each other). The Boxtrolls is a stop-motion animated adventure from the makers of Coraline and ParaNorman coming to cinemas 12 September 2014. Trolls are a very large and monstrous (ranging from between 8 to 10 feet tall), and for the most part unintelligent (references are made about more cunning trolls. However, before they can leave the Incipisphere and enter our universe, thus winning the game, they are interrupted by the trans- universal rift that led Jack Noir to their session. They are forced to abscond to The Veil when the version of Jack Noir from the kids' session attacks them.
There, the trolls use their equipment to talk to the kids at any point in the timeline, even years before the story begins. They then begin a three year journey through the ring to get to the post- scratch kids' session. Aradia and Sollux choose to stay behind in the dream bubbles throughout the ring. During the journey they meet the ghosts of the pre- scratch Sgrub players, and see the destructive effects Lrd. English has had on the ring. They also learn that the Condesce, in English's service, took over post- scratch future Earth, and later entered the post- kids session and took over Derse. In the pre- retcon timeline, Gamzee Makara, who kept all of the dead trolls' bodies, attempted to revive all of them with sprites in the post- scratch kids' session, merging some of them together. Half the sprites created exploded from a conflict of personality, but Eridan and Equius managed to survive, albeit merged with Sollux's spirit and Lil' Hal respectively. In the post- retcon timeline, Vriska revived Tavros and Equius through sprites (combined with GCat and Lil Hal respectively), and later Jasprosesprite^2 prototyped Nepeta into a sprite as well, and she ended up combined with Davesprite, leaving Eridan and Feferi as the only fully deceased trolls in this timeline. Its been seen that, the universe created by the session does in fact have trolls in it, implying either the Condesce, or Kanaya who also plans on reviving them, succeeded. A number of them however are shown to be killed by Caliborn and Calliope's father. The universe is also the one where Caliborn is born, before he entered his own game session, and began spreading himself through time as Lrd. English. In an attempt to avert his existence, Aranea Serket, one of the pre- scratch trolls, revives herself with the Ring of Life, so as to take over the post- scratch kids' session and avert the creation of this universe. She fails at her goal and is killed by the Condesce, and ends up creating no more than a doomed timeline. She then combines all the genetic material into one 'diabolical incestuous slurry' (where the more dominant gene combinations, created by the strongest troll romances, rise to the top) and lays hundreds of thousands of eggs at once. Curiously a wiggler's eye color is the same as their blood color (although Sollux's wiggler eyes seem to be blue and red), while teenage trolls have grey irises. It can be assumed that this change is part of their drastic metamorphosis during pupation. For unknown reasons, a number of wigglers are culled (and their blood can be used to make paint). After they pupate, the young troll with their newfound limbs undergoes a series of dangerous trials. If they survive, they are chosen by a member of the diverse and terrifying subterranean monster population native to Alternia, frightening beasts known as a lusus naturae. This creature becomes the troll's custodian, behaving as a lifelong bodyguard, caretaker, and visceral sort of mentor, while the young troll must learn to function as a sort of zookeeper. Together, they surface and choose a location to build a hive, the Alternian equivalent of a house. The building process is facilitated by carpenter droids left on the planet to cater to the young for building. Psychologically, female trolls seem to be more aggressive than their male counterparts, though this could simply be a characteristic of the group of Homestuck trolls, not of wider troll society. Any potential physical differences in genitalia and secondary sexual characteristic seem functionally cosmetic (given that offspring can be produced by any gender combination), except for perhaps in terms of the actual mechanics of coitus itself. Arquiusprite has implied that trolls aren't able to lactate and that their breasts have a number of other significant biological purposes. Differences between the genders are also alluded to in Act 6 Intermission 3 by Porrim and Kankri, who mention (and argue about) gender equality. While Porrim claims gender plays a role in Beforun and Alternian civilization, Kankri says it is suspect at 6est and dismisses gender roles as pseud. Beforian trolls are unsure of the real role gender plays in their society. However, based on Porrim's seemingly incredulous response to Kankri's response, this may just be his personal opinion. In a discussion about reproduction Aranea stated that trolls reproduce bisexually while humans reproduce heterosexually, making it clear that she was referring to biological sex instead of gender and stating almost conclusively that trolls have two distinct biological sexes. This refers specifically to pairings between trolls and discounts the Mother Grub being the equivalent other sex, because if theoretically all trolls had a singular sex the modes of reproduction would instead be referred to as heterosexual. This lends credence to the theory that Mother Grubs are a bioengineered or symbiotic species and merely are a home for the gestation of already fertilized zygotes.
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