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note (added xi/sixteen/xviii): this tutorial was written like 5 years before hiveswap came out, then it'south totally out of date on anything that is stated in hiveswap and I'yard aware of that! it was also a couple months before the beta trolls were introduced, so they weren't taken into consideration when writing this either! H O M Eastward South T U C Thousand f a n T U T O R I A L Dominion ane to making a fan troll: You NEED to have read the actual webcomic before creating an oc. Going off of what you hear and not what'south stated in the bodily webcomic is the perfect fashion to mess everything upward. Now, some vocabulary, for those not familiar with the "proper" terms. Somewhat Unnecessary Table of Contents: I- Blueprint I Blueprint And, a prickly topic, is colored streaks in troll's hair. Now firstly, you lot can't make the pilus predominately colored, which ways half or more. Information technology should, preferable, be rather small. The streak should be the same color as the troll's claret colour. Eridan'due south hair is the number one example of how to employ colored streaks, considering he is also the just catechism case thus far (forth with his antecedent). Now, equally information technology appears, troll wardrobes consist of mainly dark colors. Whether your troll's outfit is the nearly elaborate thing ever spawned or a tee-shirt and jeans, it should take some night colors on it. While Feferi wears a lot of bright colors, she still has some blackness on. At present, if yous want to have a rainbow color scheme on your troll, for god's/gog'southward/cod'due south/gpi's/ect.'s sake, don't over do it. People will be able to see, "Oh hey, cool, there'southward a rainbow theme,"but we don't want,"Oh god, my optics!" To successfully pull of a rainbow color scheme, y'all selection a main color so utilize the colors of the rainbow equally accent colors. As in, a crimson streak there, some yellow decals there, not having the stripes of the rainbow in every place you lot could squeeze them in. This goes with other schemes as well, but I've seen rainbow ane's mucked upward the worst. Use mutual sense, please. Also, it'south advisable to look upwardly some complementary colors, observe 2 principal colors, and find complimenting colors of the decals. Information technology volition turn out nicely that fashion. And on to the horns. First off, they have to be striped with orangish, light orange, and xanthous. That is how troll horns work. You can have painted pattern or something on it, but be sure to country it somewhere, or most people presume that it's natural. Horns past no means need to exist symmetrical (shown with Kanaya and Vriska) and you can take some creativity with them. From swirls to sticks, arrows to nubs, you and use practically and shape you wish. Just so warn you, though; you should at least have 2 horns and at most iv or five. Horns should not exist placed on the eye of the forehead (like a unicorn of any sort). They also shouldn't be longer than the troll's body, or any other insane size. If you're having troubles with your horns, I propose looking up some class of horned animal and basing it off that, or base it off the symbol you chose for your troll. Endeavour to avoid having horns exactly like a canon characters, though you tin can, information technology'southward non a big deal, really. Most trolls seem to have some form of large canines (fangs), at to the lowest degree larger than a human being's. This is just extra, and doesn't have to be followed, seeing as Aradia has relatively flat teeth. And nigh having some sort of animal theme (like Nepeta being based off a cat). Don't over do information technology. Y'all can have a lid with ears, sure. You cannot have actual ears. You tin accept a tail on your jacket or belt, that's fine. No existent tails. Painting animal features on yous (like footling whiskers, or other decals). Certain, that actually fairly creative. Having a snout? Bad dog, bad! II Themes. Now, a chiliad offender of theme overload would exist the "otaku" based trolls. Now, if you're troll had been on the internet and somehow found any form of anime and manga and became interested in information technology, that might brand sense. But, I dubiety they begin speaking Japanese and dressing completely in anime clothes. They would not have access to a lot of this stuff on their planet. Same goes for nearly stereotypes. They practice not take any "Hot Topics" on Alternia, and I doubt the company could co-operative across the paradoxical galaxy. Now, a good theme may exist a god/goddess, an animate being, colour, or something of sort. Just think: Be subtle. Don't have your troll dressed every bit the god and take the same power. Now, brute themes are a delicate subject. A good example would be Nepeta. Nepeta's theme is fairly obvious: cats. Then, per say, you want a wolf theme. So you lot base everything of of a wolf. Wrong. Yous see, Nepeta isn't only based off of a true cat. She'southward been based off many different things, not merely cats. Three Blood colors. Dark Red - Dark-brown - Yellow - Lime Green* - Green - Jade Greenish - Teal - Cerulean - Indigo - Purple - Violet - Fuchsia * To annotation, within Homestuck canon all lime bloods were extincted. They're a special example and near canon information is from Caliopee's oc so the accuracy is questionable. Karkat'southward blood, candy red, is not listed because it is a mutant colour and is not part of the hemospectrum. More than nigh mutants later. Now, you're troll should be fairly enlightened of the hemospectrum and their ranking on it. If a depression blood blatantly goes confronting the spectrum, they may exist culled. High bloods tin exist a bit more loose, but if they spend a lot of their time around low bloods, other high bloods may expect down on them. Mutants, time to talk most them. Now, having a mutant graphic symbol is a very fragile path to tread and information technology'south non to late, you tin run at present. No? Well then, proceed reading. If you don't have a mutant, I propose skipping this, it may get boring, and a lot is speculation. Links to more than info about the Hemospectrum in the Artist'due south comment. 4 Personality And for your personality, brand certain there is a reason for nearly everything, delight, if you practice nothing else, at least do this. Don't have some sad mopey troll whom tortures themselves for no reason. And don't make the reason stupid, like their lusus beat them or something. Lusus are animals with parental instincts towards their trolls, they practically live to care for their troll. A valid reason for being an "emo" stereotype would exist that they've tried to befriend society, but their creepy behavior scared everyone away, or maybe they saw someone who was actually this sad and depressed, and though it looked absurd, and so they decided to copy them. Though, I suggest staying away from all stereotypes in general. V Relationships. At that place are iv types of relatonships: matesprits, morails, auspistice, and kismesis. The showtime two are redrom, and focus on positive emotions, and the latter two are blackrom and focus around negative emotions. I advise looking these relationships else where, such as the MSPA Wiki, for a more in depth explanation. So, with all that in listen, you lot tin can outset filling your quadrants- Look. I see you there. Yes yous, the huge Eridan fan. Don't do it. Don't. Please don't. My hatred towards catechism relationships doesn't finish at romance. You SHOULD NOT KNOW, Be RELATED TO, OR Associate IN Any OTHER WAY WITH THE CANON CHARACTERS. Only don't do information technology! Be creative, geez! Now, y'all tin can freely make full your quadrants with boyfriend trolls, but you can only have one troll per quadrant (besides auspistice, which needs ii trolls and your troll). Half dozen Typing Quirk Seven Ancestors Ancestors are trolls that lived long earlier your troll and are very similar to your troll, having the aforementioned symbol and blood color. They tend to be nearly visually identical (only older, and usually with more elaborate outfits). VIII Lusii Lusii are a trolls caretaker. They choice a troll in one case they come out of the brooding caverns and have care of their troll for the rest of their life. The trolls also take to have care of their lusus, acting as a kind of zookeeper. Your troll should non be raised by another troll. This was specific to the Sufferer and is not a common occurrence. Miscellaneous. Delight, tell me if yous retrieve I've forgotten something, I'll be sure to add it in. I'thousand no expert on this, only I've researched everything I've put in this tutorial, so information technology should be fairly reliable.
Howdy, and welcome. I'll be list helpful hints for creating a fan troll for the serial Homestuck.
Melodramatic alarm aside, now permit's go on.
Trolls - If yous practice non know, get out.
Hemospectrum - The blood degree system which classifies the upper, middle, and low classes in troll social club.
Claret Caste - A troll's position in the hemospectrum.
Culled - Being killed for being "useless" or "wrong" in troll society.
Lusus Naturae - usually shortened to lusus; it's a troll's caretaker, to put it just.
Ii - Themes
III - Claret Colors
Iv - Personality
V - Relationships
6 - Typing Quirk
VII - Ancestors
VIII - Lusii
Now, for the sake of all that is good, use mutual sense. Delight, oh please use that mutual sense you lot were gifted with.
Now, all trolls take grey skin, yellowish scelra, black/grey pupils and irises, black hair, and at to the lowest degree two orange horns on their caput. If you interruption i of these rules, you lot should set it immediately. These are the genetic facts about trolls, and should not exist broken ever. You might think, "Gamzee has a white face up, correct?" That is face paint. "Blah apathetic, insert reasons here," No. All trolls accept the listed features, at that place's no getting around information technology.
Merely, on the topic of eyes, as trolls become older, their macula (The colored office of the eye) begins to fill with their blood color. So, if you lot brand an adult troll, they should have colored eyes. Also, at that place are trolls with oddly colored eyes, such as Terezi and Sollux. Each have a reason for their eye color, so if y'all want to have oddly colored eyes, you must have a reason. I.east., Terezi's eyes were burnt past the sun; Sollux'due south optics are virtually likely due to his powers, and it fits in with his duality theme.
Trolls' eyes turn white when they're dead (similar with dream bubbles or ghosts). The same might exist true for humans, though.
Though, colored streaks tend to be criticized past a lot of people regardless. Just a heads up.
Also, horns can be broken (like Equius' horns).
As trolls grow older, their horns abound longer (as shown with the ancestors). And then, have a troll's horns the right size for their historic period, every bit in a really young troll has modest horns, and an adult would take long horns (long and pocket-size in comparing to their horns as a kid/teenager).
Most trolls and groups of trolls have a theme. Information technology'southward a prissy way to find ideas for y'all troll. Merely, sometimes people tin can over-theme their character. And instance: Y'all theme your grapheme off of, per say, Egyptian civilization. So, yous blueprint them in Egyptian robes, face pigment, their lusus is a Sphinx, their hive is a pyramid ect ect. Try not to do this. Since Trolls are from a dissimilar planet, they probably wouldn't know much about any of our civilization. To successfully use an ethnic theme, you lot'd have a name from that language (within reason), maybe have parts of their outfit inspired by the culture, maybe a trivial bracelet or pattern, not anything "in-your-face obvious". People tin can accept a subtle hint, they don't need anything shoved down their pharynx.
So, be subtle, use common sense, and research. Don't practice a poor job researching your theme and base of operations your troll off of that. Poor research equals poor theme, poor theme could equal poor troll.
First off, let'south get this out in the open up: No rainbow bloods, no white bloods, no pink bloods, no transparent bloods. At present, if you're considered a mutant, fine, simply if at least Karkat's blood is kind of close to the bodily scale. No ane will correspond a vivid pink, a rainbow, or a transparent blooded troll. Ever. Keeping that in listen, now let's talk about the hemospectrum.
The range of bloods is fairly uncomplicated, and you should avoid deterring from these colors (In lodge of lowest to highest):
Now, equally you lot become college on the hemospectrum, the probability of that the troll is fierce rises. Low bloods are less violent, high bloods are more violent. That is not always the case, seeing as Aradia is fairly subversive, and Feferi is very nice and friendly.
Lower bloods are more probable to take some form of psychic powers (Aradia speaking to the dead, Tavros speaking to animals) and college bloods are generally stronger (Equius is the best example).
At present, in that location are some exceptions, similar Vriska having her powers, but don't over do it. Y'all can be a little out of range, seeing as Vriska isn't extremely high up on the scale, merely all the same. Use that ever so helpful mutual sense.
There are no blood colors between Violet (Eridan) and Fuchsia (Feferi) bloods. It was stated in canon, so violet is the highest blood aside from Fuchsia.
Feferi's blood (fuchsia) is the blood of high royalty, and having her claret designates the troll with it to exist the adjacent leader of the troll government, an empress/emperor. Exist careful when using this blood color, and, but to exist safe, I don't advise going higher up Eridan's claret (violet), but yous can if you desire.
A Troll's blood colour should exist shown on their shirt, unless they want to hide it, for some reason, such as beingness mutant.
Now, if your troll is a mutant, they had ameliorate not be proud of it. Mutants are culled, if they're non useful or if they do not get a lusus, I'one thousand fairly sure, so it's non the kind of thing you but allow the earth know. Both high and low bloods expect down on mutants, it they're hemospectrum-savy.
Now, to figure out how a mutant blood should act, accept Karkat and his ancestor, the Sufferer, as an instance. At present, seeing that the Sufferer was relatively calm and compassionate, and Karkat is a broiling ball of rage, mutant bloods don't have a specific tearing-ness like most on the hemospectrum do. That in mind, information technology'southward rubber to assume that the strength and psychic powers traits in normal bloods doesn't touch them either. It leads me to believe that they take neither psychic powers or big strength, seeing as Karkat had neither (to my knowledge), though this is merely speculation.
Now, trolls have a wide range of unique personalities, just like humans, only keep in listen that the troll race is naturally tearing. The amounts a violence has been stated many times in the spider web comic, and even Tavros got a lilliputian violent once (if y'all've read upwards to that signal, you should know). But, don't have a character that can be absolutely happy one 2nd, and a raving lunatic the side by side, information technology doesn't work like that. That personality has been done then much to death, it'due south funny how un-funny it is. A good personality is a consistent i. Such equally, you take a kind loving troll; She'll be kind and loving to most people, non a raving sociopath one-half the fourth dimension for no good reason.
Try non to exactly copy one of the catechism characters' personality, that's just silly.
Troll relationships are a complicated topic for near people, but I'll try to explain them hither. (And I'm sorry if I apply the incorrect plural or other tense of these words.)
Matesprits are essentially lovers, and this is the almost like man romance.
Morails are friends who look out for each other, it also involves the calmer one keeping the more violent one in a non-vehement state.
Auspistice is a iii-way human relationship. Just put, 2 of the trolls hate each other, and the third makes peace(Kind of) between the two.
Kismesis is two people with a dearest/hate relationship. In my opinion, this is the hardest one to explain. People ofttimes get kimesis dislocated with just being enemies, but there has to be a little scrap of allure (something like that...) *It is important to note, kismesis do not endeavor and outright impale each other, that would honestly defeat the point. They keep the other alive and so they tin can compete.
Never, NEVER pair your character with a catechism grapheme IN Any WAY SHAPE OR Class. It does not work like that. When the trolls were sent to the medium from their homeplanet, their homeplanet was destroyed, and so was everyone on it. And if you accept a relationship way before then, the canon trolls would be kind of immature, and you would be kind of creepy. And, if your troll is with other trolls(non canon ones) and is playing a session, that happens in a different timeline then the master troll's alpha timeline. It would take identify in the alpha timeline for your troll group, and thus, the canon characters would exist dead. A relationship with the catechism trolls just volition non work. Now, I could probably delve into paradox infinite, time travel, and the like, and discover a reasonable way to fit a character into the catechism characters plot, merely that would involve a lot of enquiry, and yous'd be in a doomed timeline, assuming Hussie's writing the alpha timeline, and in that location would actually exist no point in all this piece of work. No matter how difficult you work, over half the internet volition dislike your troll. And then please, no relationships with canon characters. Ever.
And then, have fun...
We all noticed that all the trolls take a sure fashion of typing, right? Most all trolls accept 1 of these, and your troll should to. Now, first affair, make information technology legible. You don't have to supercede every unmarried letter with something. And 2d, be creative. Don't just copy a canon's quirk.
And, information technology's squeamish to take something that relates to y'all grapheme's theme, like how Nepeta uses cat puns. Such every bit, I've seen coin orientated trolls replace an south with a $. You can base of operations your quirk off of a canon's, like having some form of leet speak like Terezi, or messing around with the capitalization of certain messages, such as Gamzee or Tavros.
Just before you tin even employ a quirk, y'all demand a Trollian Handle (literately, a troll chum handle). It should relate to your troll'southward personality and hobbies. For an instance, let's look at Vriska's handle, arachnidsGrip. The outset words relates, obviously, to her spider lusus and very, very obvious spider theme. "Grip" refers to how she has had a major paw in many events, holding a grip over them. Also, to her ability, which lets her take control of some other trolls. So, all yous demand to come up with a good handle is a decent premise and a bit of time and research (probably about v minutes). Simply please, for the sake of all that is proficient, don't use extremely long words in an attempt to make you lot handle sounds "cooler". It will backfire in the end, especially if you lot finish up misspelling your own handle. Just for your reference, this is exactly what I don't desire to see: recockulousHonorificabilitudinitatibus (and yes, those are real words). I will weep tears of blackness, liquid sorrow if I happen upon a name like this.
(The phrase recockulousHonorificabilitudinitatibus is at present belonging to Growleaf & co, for all intents and purposes, in case I, for whatever reason, demand this extraordinarily humorous phrase.)
An important thing to note: This is not the Trollian equivalent of a parent. It is not known if a troll's ancestor was even the one that gave the genetic traits for your troll. Overall, your troll shouldn't know a lot nigh their ancestor, unless they happen to find something from them, like Vriska did with Mindfang's journals.
Ancestors seem to normally accept an eight letter name, but seeing every bit Gamzee'southward ancestor broke this, it may non be a rule, though I do suggest using an eight alphabetic character give-and-take. You lot can use unusual spellings, shown with Sollux's ancestor, the Ψiioniic. Another thing pointed out is that Jadeblood and lower castes tend to take titles, while higher castes have names.
All of the canon ancestors seem to accept washed at least one really major event, whether it exist a direct influence (like the Condesce) or something less direct (like the Disciple). So, y'all should choice something for your troll's ancestor to have done. This could exist something along the lines of existence great at something, like a being a legendary blacksmith, or, if y'all accept plenty characters, yous could have them be part of a larger story.
Pattern-wise, the ancestors' outfits seem to be mainly based around their symbol, but, as yous tin meet with Dualscar, they tin vesture practically anything. Their colour schemes seem to have, at well-nigh, 3 colors. Black is the base color, and your antecedent's outfit should be at least half black. Then, they use their blood color and some other accent color (like the Summoner's ruby stripe things on his pants, of the seadweller's gold jewelry). Though, the Ψiioniic had red and bluish as his accents, due to Sollux'southward duality theme. Essentially, the antecedent should look like an older version of the troll.
An of import thing to bespeak out: Don't rip off a canon ancestor. Doing so would, firstly, be uncreative, and secondly, be boring. Be original! Exercise some research! Base of operations the ancestor loosely off of whatever your troll is themed effectually.
Relationships for the ancestors are pretty much the same as they are for trolls. One per quadrant (two for auspitice) and no canon characters.
Y'all could make your lusii any kind of animal, but it'd be more interesting if y'all did something creative, like mixed two animals together or gave it some kind of actress limbs. You lot lusii shouldn't be just a frog, but you lot could take the traits of ane, like creating some kind of frog/squirrel abomination.
Well-nigh of the time, trolls are based on animals, simply they could also be like Sollux'southward lusus and be based off of a mythological creature. Kanaya's lusus, a virgin female parent chow, is extremely rare, and you lot probably shouldn't requite your troll ane. It is also sectional to jade bloods.
Gl'bgolyb is a lusii attended to past the heiress and the empress, so unless your fuchsia blood has ascended to the position of heiress, do non have them intendance for Gl'bgolyb.
Jade bloods tend to become rare types of lusii, purple bloods, Gamzee's claret colour, accept semi-aquatic lusii, and violet and fuschia bloods (seadwellers) take aquatic lusii.
At present to cover broad and random things.
- Trolls are nocturnal. The sun is extremely powerful and is capable of called-for a troll'southward eyes out (run across Terezi).
- Don't over complicate your symbol. It should preferably exist made of lines and curves.
- Your name MUST have 6 letters in the first proper name and 6 in the last name. No exceptions.
- Do not give your troll a homo name. Do non. Don't do information technology, fifty-fifty if information technology's six letters. Look at the canon troll'due south names and tell me human names would fit in, I cartel you.
- Keep any special powers under command, no leveling cities on a whim. Endeavour to exercise something to this touch on; you have a super strong power, just information technology's extremely hard to use and you tin can't control it at all. Or; the motility doesn't practise much, simply information technology'south pretty easy to use.
- Trolls do non have siblings, so don't give them siblings.
- Accept a reasonable weapon and captchalogue organization. I don't similar seeing about 50 fan trolls with a miracle captchalogue. Try and make up something absurd.
- When figuring out your trolls age, those whom play the game are all effectually 6 sweeps (thirteen years erstwhile). Most adult trolls are off planet, keep that in listen.
- When picking a strife specibus, brand it interesting. A "Sharp pointy stick" kind has more potentially to be fun and annoying then the infamous "sword" kind.
- Also, I don't want to come across a whole roster of trolls with "dagger" kind, "sword" kind, "rapier" kind, "blade" kind, and "uber saber" kind. Don't abuse those poor adjectives.
- i sweep = ii.17 years.
So, have fun with your fan troll. There's some links in the artist's' comments box to requite you further help with your troll.
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