#it's easy to go ''oh troll pupation=human puberty'' but I don't like that

[birchbow]

Around what age do the trolls go through pupation?

I think it ranges over a sweep or two, starting a little younger with lowbloods just because they live way shorter lifespans overall, but by the timeline I've set up it seems like around 14-ish sweeps, at least for purplebloods. Like, a bell-curve in the 13-15 range, with the majority all going at once somewhere around the middle.

#ask time! #that's just what it's like to be 27 tbh #every color has their own bell-curve and they're all fairly close together but a rustblood would probably pupate like #a sweep earlier maybe on average. #it's easy to go ''oh troll pupation=human puberty'' but I don't like that #1. these are bug aliens from killplanet deathorb and I don't want to give them 1:1 life-cycles with humans #2. the weird reinvention of self that goes on in someone's twenties is much more interesting to me as a concept anyway #did I physically turn into mush and vanish into a cocoon when I graduated college and moved out of my parents house??? no! #but boy it sure the fuck felt like it #I came back out and I was the same person but my skin was tougher and my fangs were longer and not all the damage was fixed but #I at least had a new rebuilt body to weather my damage with #and I mean I was already writing a twenty-something Gamzee and I wanted to write pupation so it worked out haha