It's a neat ship. I'm not a big fan of it but I don't dislike it either, and there is some AWESOME art of it from @ask-gorillaz.
It isn't canon in this AU. The only relationships in the band are Russel ♦ Stuart and Murdoc ♣ Stuart via Noodle. If Ace ever gets involved in this AU, Stuart ♥♠ Ace might get canonised.
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How does russels possession work in the apestuck universe? Is it the same as the gorillaz? What blood would Del be?
Del (Delvon Tipota) is constantly inside Russel's head, so any other rustbloods looking at Russel see a weird blur around him. He takes control of Russel mostly when he's asleep and doesn't project himself outside of the body as frequently as he does in normal Gorillaz canon.
Delvon is purpleblooded. He was the resident big guy who would hang around the lowbloods and shove around anybody who messed with them. He wasn't a subjuggulator and he didn't get used to any psionic abilities; he got a bit better at horrifying people after he died.
There's sort of an odd change in dynamic between them in this AU with Delvon having been born more well-off than Russel.
Russel's eyes flicker heavily when he's possessed; the other band members can tell instantly when he isn't home.
All the Gorillaz Homestuck AU (Apequest) handles and typing quirks
Demonstration lines taken from an interview with NME in November 2020.
Stuart Megdod
awkwardAmbiguity
Doesn't use capitals or periods. Bookends sentences with circles.
o i was really excited to finally meet elton john, cause we’ve been writing letters to each other for years o
Murdoc Baccha
gradualTenant
Rotates his lowercase Ts into Xs. Doesn't typically end sentences with periods. Occasionally emphasises with capslock. Makes all his emotes more upset by one stage (e.g. :) = :|, :| = :(, :( = >:( )
Good news doesn’x RESONATE, xhough, does ix, pal? Tixanic is famous cause ix sank and everyone drowned, nox cause xhey all drank sangria and played badminxon on deck
Russel Soriis
thresholdGraphic
Blacks out Is with #s. Perfect syntax. Tosses all that out and goes into all-caps walls of text while possessed by Del.
Wake up, my fr#end. L#fe w#ll resume, but not as we know #t. What was #s bur#ed. New parad#gms are r#s#ng from the ashes.
Noodle Fehdex
cometCrusader
Begins sentences with a little sword -/-- . Any pair of two letters that would ordinarily require dakuten or handakuten if written as a single hiragana character have them approximated with quotation marks/asterisks. Writes emotes sideways (e.g. :) = ^U^).
-/-- We live in ourselves. Lockdo"wn shows us for who we are. Everyone. I will travel aga"in when life returns. That is my quest.
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Thanks. His quirk was the first one I came up with. I believe in making fantroll quirks as Hussie-accurate as possible - they need to have meaning, they need to be relatively simple to read, and they need to be usable on a QWERTY keyboard without alt codes, emotes, or the Option key. His lowercase Ts are tilted so as to avoid resembling an upright crucifix, and his capitalisation emphasis was heavily inspired by the millennial-ish typing in the #FreeMurdoc campaign.
All the Gorillaz Homestuck AU (Apequest) handles and typing quirks
Demonstration lines taken from an interview with NME in November 2020.
Stuart Megdod
awkwardAmbiguity
Doesn't use capitals or periods. Bookends sentences with circles.
o i was really excited to finally meet elton john, cause we’ve been writing letters to each other for years o
Murdoc Baccha
gradualTenant
Rotates his lowercase Ts into Xs. Doesn't typically end sentences with periods. Occasionally emphasises with capslock. Makes all his emotes more upset by one stage (e.g. :) = :|, :| = :(, :( = >:( )
Good news doesn’x RESONATE, xhough, does ix, pal? Tixanic is famous cause ix sank and everyone drowned, nox cause xhey all drank sangria and played badminxon on deck
Russel Soriis
thresholdGraphic
Blacks out Is with #s. Perfect syntax. Tosses all that out and goes into all-caps walls of text while possessed by Del.
Wake up, my fr#end. L#fe w#ll resume, but not as we know #t. What was #s bur#ed. New parad#gms are r#s#ng from the ashes.
Noodle Fehdex
cometCrusader
Begins sentences with a little sword -/-- . Any pair of two letters that would ordinarily require dakuten or handakuten if written as a single hiragana character have them approximated with quotation marks/asterisks. Writes emotes sideways (e.g. :) = ^U^).
-/-- We live in ourselves. Lockdo"wn shows us for who we are. Everyone. I will travel aga"in when life returns. That is my quest.
Thanks! I actually intended for him to have a skirt as part of his outfit from the beginning; his pants were labelled in my files as an alternate costume, but somehow they made it int the original Apestuck post. He does enjoy being comfy, and with how unbearably warm Alternia can get, the skirt was an obvious choice.
I'm not at all proud of how I drew this panel. I did not realise that overweight hero mode trolls were immensely hard to draw because there weren't really any examples for me to reference. Russel didn't come out as round as I had hoped, and his legs ended up looking really strange. Also, Stuart's hands are just blobs. I'll probably redo it if I have time.
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Murdoc, as a limeblood who is also an angry dumbass, has a tendency to light Stuart on fire; the hole in his shirt is from one of these occasions. He does this with fairly regular frequency.
While Stuart and Murdoc are not in a relationship, they have slight mutual pitch crushes. The reason they do not get together is because it would utterly destroy both Stuart and the health of the band; Noodle auspisticises for them.
There are a few notable changes here from their teenager forms; Stuart's horn is uninjured and Murdoc is not discoloured. Russel and Noodle both have their hats for the same reason John was born with his glasses. Only Andrew Hussie knows that reason.
My only criticism is that Russel’s from a rich family so he def ain’t a rustblood /lh
I did consider it for a while, along with my friend who is also working on the AU. Russel’s connection to the supernatural has a significantly larger impact on his character than his familial background. Also, from what I know about weird canon tidbits, rustbloods are very tied into Alternia’s music scene. In the end, pragmatism won out, but it very well could have gone either way.
Here's what a fuschia Russel would have looked like:
Murdoc made all of the trolls higher than him wear his colour somewhere, so Russ finally gets that yellow hat. He also gets to be a little looser with the complexity of his outfit. He's Stuart's moirail, so his colour was incorporated too.
Honestly, thanks to this ask, I'm considering canonising it.
All the Gorillaz Homestuck AU (Apequest) handles and typing quirks
Demonstration lines taken from an interview with NME in November 2020.
Stuart Megdod
awkwardAmbiguity
Doesn't use capitals or periods. Bookends sentences with circles.
o i was really excited to finally meet elton john, cause we’ve been writing letters to each other for years o
Murdoc Baccha
gradualTenant
Rotates his lowercase Ts into Xs. Doesn't typically end sentences with periods. Occasionally emphasises with capslock. Makes all his emotes more upset by one stage (e.g. :) = :|, :| = :(, :( = >:( )
Good news doesn’x RESONATE, xhough, does ix, pal? Tixanic is famous cause ix sank and everyone drowned, nox cause xhey all drank sangria and played badminxon on deck
Russel Soriis
thresholdGraphic
Blacks out Is with #s. Perfect syntax. Tosses all that out and goes into all-caps walls of text while possessed by Del.
Wake up, my fr#end. L#fe w#ll resume, but not as we know #t. What was #s bur#ed. New parad#gms are r#s#ng from the ashes.
Noodle Fehdex
cometCrusader
Begins sentences with a little sword -/-- . Any pair of two letters that would ordinarily require dakuten or handakuten if written as a single hiragana character have them approximated with quotation marks/asterisks. Writes emotes sideways (e.g. :) = ^U^).
-/-- We live in ourselves. Lockdo"wn shows us for who we are. Everyone. I will travel aga"in when life returns. That is my quest.
It's fairly common for 2-D roleplayers to type without using capital letters. I've never used iscribble and never played Kingdom Hearts, so I sincerely doubt I'm the same person. Thanks for reaching out, though!
(This blog is my new one for the AU! I'm still @factual-entropy.)
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