#trollkin

[oldschoolfrp]

Runequest: Creatures of Glorantha, set of 25mm miniatures sculpted by Bob Charrette for Ral Partha, with box art featuring the dark troll, warrior dragonewt, walkatpus, and dragonsnail (I see no signature; CB Gorby and Tony Orzech contributed some of the art for other sets in this series)

#Runequest #Ral Partha #Glorantha #dragonewt #walkapus #dragonsnail #dark troll #troll #trollkin #octopus #monsters #giant snail #fantasy miniatures #miniatures #Creatures of Glorantha #Bob Charrette #Robert Charrette #Robert N Charrette

[citizenoftmrrwlnd]

stimboard for: mituna captor (homestuck) with gaming stuff, slime, and soap cutting in a pallet of red, blue, and yellow with the red+blue being transparent

x | x | x x | x | x x | x | x

#💫stim #💫for you #💫blue line | queue! #mituna kin #mitunakin #mituna captor kin #captorkin #captor kin #homestuck mituna kin #kin request #kin care #fictionkin #kin stuff #homestuck kin #trollkin #troll kin #homestuck troll kin #hs troll kin #hs kin #hs mituna kin #hskin #alienkin #homestuckkin #alien kin #cw homestuck #cw sharp objects

[vulcankin]

Quirk Mimicking

What is a Quirk?

Quirks in the context of Homestuck (and especially trolls) are a distinct way of typing that expresses the personality, interests, and individuality of a, well, an individual.

For trolls in particular, your quirk is as much a natural preference in speech as it is a traditional action related to troll culture. It’s as important as hemotyping (typing in a particular color, typically and traditionally the color of your blood/hemocaste) or the choice NOT to hemotype/go hemoanon.

While humans may naturally type in a particular manner, or choose to express themselves through a particular color medium, it often does not carry the same cultural connotations as a troll’s hemotyping and quirk usage.

For these reasons and others (comfort, habit, etc) dropping or breaking quirk can range from a little weird or awkward to upsetting or anxiety inducing for a troll.

On rare occasions [x][x] a troll will either drop or partly drop quirk for MAJOR emphasis or to show something is very important to listen to.

Quirk Examples

Sollux Captor:

TA: iim not 2ure why, but ii thiink iit2 liike...

TA: fulfiilliing 2ome requiirement for a true prophet of doom.

TA: iin order for the vii2iion2 two be riight, that ha2 two happen, and the uniiver2e wiill make 2ure iit wiill.

Sollux’s quirk has various elements.

First and foremost, he never uses capitalization unless for emphasis or when typing out his nicknames for people, and he only capitalizes those when in a good mood. There is a distinct lack of emojis or emoticons, outside of rare occurrences/duality puns. His speech is very straightforward and short, being sent in multiple pieces. This shows important aspects of his character such as aloofness, bluntness, and a lack of care for convention.

The use of double ‘i’s, his replacement of “to” or “too” with “two”, and ‘s’s with 2s are all both personality aspects and tradition aspects of his quirk.

The traditional reasoning is that they are a reference to his sign, Gemini, which is similar to the roman numeral 2.

Personally, they have a number of meanings. His dual colored eyes. His bipolarity. Referencing binary in connection to his skills with programming. His vision twofold.

He also types in traditional hemotyping for his bloodcaste, typing in gold.

Combined, these aspects all show parts of who he is, without needing to explain them, and make his unique mark in interpersonal communication.

After he dies his quirk changes (no double ‘i’s, no 2s, no ‘two’s; instead all ‘o’s are 0s) to show that he’s now “0kay” and no longer associates with his prior traits. However, his hemotyping remains gold.

Nepeta Leijon:

AC: :33 < *ac twitches her friendly whiskers at ct*

…-…

AC: :33 < i can tell you like to play games, d33p down you are a guy who likes to play games! 


AC: :33 < i can smell a guy who likes to play games from so fur away with this nose, you have no idea X33

Nepeta’s quirk is slightly more focused around her external connections than Sollux’s, but still expresses her individuality.

The header of her quirk is “:33 <”, which references her catlike nature/affinity, as well as having two mouths like her cat lusus, Pounce de Leon. This carries over into her emojis as well.

All of these relate two her sign, Leo, as relating to big cats.

Nepeta also does not use capitalization, and often does not use most ending punctuation. However, she makes liberal use of exclamation marks, comma and emojis. Her sentences tend to be compound, rather than short and simple. She uses cat puns whenever pawsible.

She also frequently roleplays in her speech, having a personal interest in it, and uses asterisks to denote roleplay actions.

Together, all of these things show her personality as creative, high energy, and fun-loving.

She also types in traditional hemotyping standards using her blood color, olive.

Karkat Vantas:

KARKAT: AND AFTER A BREAKNECK WARP SPEED JOURNEY IN WHICH MY BEST FUCKING FRIEND *EVER* PSYCHED ME OUT INTO THINKING HE DIED *YET A FUCKING GAIN* BY EXPELLING LITER AFTER GRUESOME LITER OF GRUBSAUCE FROM HIS EVERY ORIFICE

KARKAT: WHAT DO I FIND HERE?

KARKAT: WHY, IN ADDITION TO A PAIR OF HUMANS DRAPED IN CIRCUSWEAR AND ALL THEIR FLIPPANT GIBES LOCKED AND GODDAMN LOADED

The main aspects of Karkat's quirk are the use of all-caps, run on sentences, general aggressive tone, and explicit language/gratuitous insults. He also types hemoanon, or in a light grey color that does not represent or reveal his blood color.

Asterisks are used sparingly for emphasis, and he occasionally "whispers" in parenthesis.

Karkat's quirk trends slightly away from the traditional, instead breaking tradition.

Use of hemoanon color typing is both a purposeful and practical rejection of Alternian tradition, to keep his mutant bloodcolor a secret and prevent himself being culled.

It can be argued that his all-caps, aggresive speech is "traditional" in keeping with his ancestor's rage in his final moments as well as his Vast Expletive, however it would be unintentional as Karkat is unaware of his sign's meaning/who his ancestor is.

More so, it's a representation of Karkat's generally heightened emotional and defensive state- usually angry, irritated or panicked. Living life under constant threat of death, he tends to the aggressive/defensive in his behaviors and speech. He is also constantly thinking of things that can go wrong, have gone wrong, or how much things/himself suck(s), and therefore has a habit of venting and speaking in a very ranting-like manner, even in general conversation.

What is “Quirk Mimicking”?

Quirk mimicking is a phenomenon in which a troll (or occasionally a human) will either purposefully or subconsciously adopt quirk traits/habits from another troll.

Similar to mimicry among humans, there are two basic forms of quirk mimicry among trolls- negative mimicry and positive mimicry.

Positive Mimicry

This most frequently happens between quadmates/couples (moirails and matesprits in particular), but can also occur between close friends.

Positive mimicry can latch onto any aspect of another troll’s quirk (or a troll latching onto a human’s typing style) but does *not* include mimicking their hemotyping.

This does not mean completely changing their quirk to match another’s, but more often incorporating small bits of each other’s quirk into their own. It can also be expressed by slipping near full into another’s quirk when in a particular mood state or when saying something in particular associated with that individual.

Examples:

When Sollux and Feferi are matesprits, Sollux occasionally uses fish puns in his speech regardless of who he is speaking to.

Eridan also often uses fish puns when speaking with Feferi, but only with her.

Adjacent:

While not part of quirk mimicry itself, quirk matching is a related phenomenon when two trolls in a quadrant together alter their quirks purposefully to match each others.

The main example of this is in the moirallegence between Nepeta and Equius.

The beginning/“header” of Nepeta’s quirk reads “:33 <“.

The beginning/“header” of Equius’s quirk reads “D - - >”

When the ends of these headers are put together it forms “<>” or a diamond, the symbol used for moirails.

Negative Mimicry

There are many nuanced aspects to negative mimicry.

For humans, negative speech mimicry is typically repeating what someone said in a nasty tone, or mocking someone’s speech patterns.

And while this can also happen in trolls, that’s not quirk mimicry in particular.

Much quirk mimicry is psychological in nature, with one troll mimicking another troll’s quirk in a way that a partner or close friend would, while knowing fully that they are not close enough to do so.

In this way, it’s being done purposefully to both make the other troll uncomfortable as a form of taunt or emotional harassment, almost in a gaslighting or sleezy sort of manner.

This sort of negative mimicry can also happen accidentally, though this is typically with other species outside of trolls, in a manner that is intended to be positive.

If a human (or cherub or otherwise) that a troll was not close enough to tried to mimic them in order to match their energy, or be cute, or thinking it’s something more casual like picking up a friend’s turn of phrase-

The troll they’re mimicking can experience the same negative effects/emotions from that mimicry as they would from a purposefully malicious troll negative mimicking.

(There are occasions where trolls who are very close with other species do appreciate mimicry from their friend/partner, namely when they are close as two trolls would need to be to mimic.

This can be seen with Vriska appreciating John picking up her penchant for 8 vowels and exclamation marks. [x])

***Please note this is not a complete explanation of quirk mimicking in its entirety, just a general overview.

***This is based on the experience/memories of me and a few other trolls (kin and fictive alike.) This may not be accurate for all.

#sol says a thing #homestuck #quirk mimicking #quirk #trollkin #homestuck troll kin #homestuck trolls #homestuck analysis #homestuck kin #long post /

[losergendered]

ID: four nearly identical flags with 8 stripes. the first two stripes are reddish orange and orange, the third stripe is divided vertically into the colors of the hemospectrum. the rest of the stripes are black, muted purple, and deep royal purple. the third stripe of the flags on the right are blurred into a gradient, and the flags on the top row have a black circle with a white alterhuman symbol on it centered on them. END ID

Rainbow Drinker (Homestuck) alterhuman flags! (Not a jadeblood-exclusive term/identity/flag!)

pt: Rainbow Drinker (Homestuck) alterhuman flags! (Not a jadeblood-exclusive term/identity/flag!) /end pt

For anon!

#apologies for the big text. i was having trouble parsing the post w the long id and the short definition #rainbow drinker #alterhuman #alterhuman flag #trollkin #liom #troll alterhuman #mikeys terms

[edgewrightworth]

ugh i miss having horns and claws and being able to chirp and having sopor and sharp teeth and

#trollkin #fictionkin #otherkin

[nekrofager]

Trollskog

#nekro.art #oc.sona #troll #trollkin #changeling #dabs

[peixesbling]

Hey again! May I please have a doodle of Karkat Medigo (Damaraways)?

This is what I looked like!

Your style is amazin!! I really loved t)(is one and wanted to do it earlier but I couldn't find t)(e time but finally )(ere it is, hope you like it + no toolbar drawn all on online Mspaint !! 38D

#kin help #kin blog #kin stuff #otherkin #fictkin #homestuck kin #kin care #nonhuman #TROLLKIN #bloodswap #damara ways #ms paint #mspaint doodles #👑♓ ! kin doodles #kin doodles #Karkat Megido

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Privateer Press - Trollkin Runeshaper by Jay Axer

#Privateer Press #Trollkin #Runeshaper #antasy #Art #Jay Axer

[otherkinotd]

Today's otherkin of the day is Waha, who is trollkin 👹

#lanfeust #lanfeust waha #trolls of troy #trolls of troy waha #trollkin #troll kin #monster kin #monsterkin

[fuvkin-feral-kins]

*rattles the bone bars of my tiny cage made of bones*

#despite all my rage #i am still just a kin in a cage #bones #creature #monsterkin #dark kintypes #zoblinkin #goblinkin #trollkin #golemkin #gnomekin #unseelie faekin #mischievous sprites #zombiekin

[continuousascendant]

Hey so I thought I would share the swaps from my Equius Leijon (Meulin ways) timeline also since the way classpects change in swaps is usually the same (Except sometimes not) I did them based on what felt right for my own swap classpect Trolls: Sollux Megido (Damara ways): Witch of Doom

Kanaya Nitram (Rufioh ways): Rouge of Space

Terezi Captor (Mituna ways): Heir of Mind

Travos Vantas (Kankri ways): Seer of Breath

Equius Leijon (ME!!!! Also Meulin ways): Mage of Void

Karkat Maryam (Porrim ways): Maid of Blood

Gamzee Pyrope (Latula ways): Knight of Rage

Feferi Serket (Aranea ways): Sylph of Life

Aradia Zahhak (Horuss ways): Page of Time

Eridan Makara (Kurloz ways): Prince of Hope (The swap was with another Prince so this Eridan is STILL a Prince of hope)

Vriska Ampora (Cronus ways): Bard of Light

Nepeta Peixes (Meenah ways): Thief of Heart Kids: John Lalonde (Roxy ways): Rouge of breath

Jade (Jace?) Strider (Dirk ways): Prince of Space

Dave English: Page of Time

Rose Crocker: Maid of Light

#homestuck #homestuck kin #homestuckkin #homestuck trolls #Trollkin #bloodswap #bloodswap kin #homestuck bloodswap #kidswap #kidswap kin #homestuck kidswap #fictionkin #fictionkin community #fictionkind #Otherkin #otherkind #otherkin community #Otherkinity #sollux #sollux kin #sollux megido #sollux megido kin #kanaya #kanaya kin #kanaya nitram kin #terezi kin #terezi captor kin #tavros kin #Olivedash

[citizenoftmrrwlnd]

stimboard for : terezi pyrope (homestuck) with bright/neon stuff and paw stims in teals and reds requested by 🪶🥀anon

x | x | x x | - | x x | x | x

#💫stim #💫for you #💫blue line | queue! #🪶🥀anon #cw food #terezi kin #terezikin #pyrope kin #pyropekin #terezi pyrope kin #trollkin #troll kin #homestuck kin #homestuck terezi kin #hs terezi kin #hskin #hs kin #homestuckkin #alienkin #alien kin #cw homestuck #cw eyestrain #kin request #kin care #fictionkin #kin stuff #fictionkin stimboard

[minisandmonoliths]

Getting into Warmachine Hordes with these Trollbloods. Absolutely love the look and vibe of the minis in that game; will I enjoy playing it though? I'll have to find out.

#hordes #war machine #painting miniatures #mini painting #Troll #trollbloods #trollkin #troll bloods #Warmachine

[warcriminalsupreme]

He's only a lad :((

#dnd #trollkin #troll #druid #oingo boingo #only a lad #redraw #digitalart

[blogunderthebridge]

U another troll? 👉👈

oh, oops, I don’t know how long that message has been sitting in my inbox, but I HAVE been following you for quite some time!  I assume this question was asked shortly before or after I started following you, so I apologize for taking so long to respond.  (I don’t hop on the computer very often and usually use Tumblr on my mobile phone, which doesn’t show notifications for messages like this.)

I guess the question of what, exactly, I am is due to be brought up again, since I’ve been thinking about it recently anyway.  I used to identify as an otherkin troll/changeling, and even though my inner personal identity hasn’t really changed much, the community I’ve found has had an influence on the words I use to describe myself.  I’ve been part of the Goblincore community for a bit and have seen myself as interchangeably a goblin, orc, and troll.  Nowadays I tend to think that they’re all really just facets of the same type of creature, ogres and gremlins included.  I mean, after all, we’re all fae, right?  

As always, it’s a delight to meet and talk to other trolls.  <3

#ask #otherkin #trollkin #goblincore #goblinoid

[nekrofager]

Commission for @soontobehotwings my absolute beloved of his DnD character and my DnD Npc. They r lovers. I love them.

Commission Info

#nekro.art #commission #dnd #genasi #fire genasi #troll #orc #yes its techically an orc but I hombrewed them into troll kin cuz i love scandanavian trolls #and i hate trolls portrayal in most fantasy media #trollkin #anyway i love my bestie ill fucking bite him