I asked chatgpt

Yeah well I asked the plants, but they do not remember. The plants have asked the rocks, but the rocks do not recall. Even the rocks do not recall.

Whyyyyy are we here?

I wonder how the trolls would react to a human's sympathy and empathy. Because I'm an extremely empathetic person and will feel the emotions of people around me, which isn't really something that happens on Alternia... I imagine that some of them appreciate it, deep deep down, but others are just so confused and maybe disgusted by it. I don't know, just finished Tyzias on Friendsim and am sad. Wanna give so many long hugs :(

don’t worry, requests and asks are both open~

and omg i think about this so much!! i’m also a super empathetic person, so i totally relate to feeling everyone else’s emotions all the time! i wanna hug all of them so bad :((

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so this kinda ties in with mc being a “pale flirting whore” which is really funny to me. Humans are empathetic or at least sympathetic by nature, and we pack bond with anyone and everything, so we’re basically an idealistic version of a moirail to trolls! that is, if they’re not disgusted by us on surface level. which could happen.

as on earth, alternia also has unrealistic expectations and media portrayals of relationships, and considering the volatile nature of trolls, strong moirailegiances are hard to come by. that’s one of the reasons (in my mind anyway) it’s the most sought-after quadrant

sure, concupiscent quads are integrally important to troll society, but what these guys really need on this monster planet is THERAPY.

human is like Try Guys for aliens,

only they try the most boring things (to trolls) that are super weird to humans, like you said, soup bed for example

“hey guys, what’s up today i’m gonna be trying ‘Grubsauce’! maybe it’s some kind of gravy? let me read the ingredients and i’ll- oh...

anon you are speaking exactly my language and i thank you for once again opening these floodgates. and thank youu~!!💖

I love the thought of them being able to make noises in a range that humans can’t hear! especially low noises - i really like the idea of trolls having a lot deeper voices than humans (since i hc them to be so big) and it’d make sense for their growls and purrs to be at a low frequency as well!!

purring and bug-clicking are the most common troll noise headcanons i think(?) and i’m totally on board. If you know my blog that probably shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone skdjkd

my personal headcanon is that their noises differ slightly from caste to caste, alpthough i know biologically this doesn’t make the most sense but. i have my reasons. let me map it out for y’all:

(get ready for headcanon infodump)

Lowbloods (burgundy through mustard)

• A lowbloods biology is more engineered towards “peasant-work” so to say; getting their hands dirty and being more in tune with the organic ground-level part of society.

• Alternia wants the lowest casts to be out of sight, and out of mind for the most part really. So while trolls are naturally able to produce louder sounds than humans, lowbloods have evolved to be more on the quieter side. Forced submission in the way of silencing them by the state, un-natural selection, if you will. We don’t know if the same rules would apply without the tyranny.

• gold bloods are a bit of a grey-area here, slightly less mammalian than the rusts but not really noticeably so

• Their purrs and chirps would be more light and gentle sounding, easy to hear even with human ears, and not too distracting. tends to be more rumble-y

Midbloods (potentially lime, olive through teal)

• We don’t really have any information about limes concerning sounds, other than a soothing kind of quality to them? not sure on that one

• Olives! Olives are by far the caste with the most mammal traits, think about people like nepeta and konyyl - they’re built for wildlife survival and have many cat/lion like qualities

sure, all people within a caste are different, but i think you see where i’m coming from with this.

•Jades and Teals are where we get progressively more insectoid, although the jades are probably more insect-like than the teals. Teals have more outside input in their biology, small mammalian inputs to their dna; whereas jades are engineered to be stuck in a cave in the dark, following instructions and working like an ant colony.

• They would purr and chirp similarly to lowerbloods, but it would sound less gentle and more strong and almost (as if) intentional. Olives purr the most out of anyone, often not on purpose though. They have a tendency to let their content noises slip through without their permission.

Mid-High (cerulean and indigo blue)

• so this is interesting because there’s the whole nip-debate with the indigos, and they also drink milk which are obviously mammalian traits but i’ll get back to that ok

• Let’s look at ceruleans first. I don’t know what led me to this decision, but i always imagined them to be one of the most insectoid castes? Maybe it’s because of the the whole arachnid/scorpio thing, but i always thought the upper midbloods/lower highbloods would be the most insect-like.

• now back to the indigos, the uh. milk and nippie talk really does complicate things for me. I do believe they’re not as buggy as the ceruleans, but not as mammalian as the lowerbloods. PERSONALLY i don’t like the ‘trolls with nips’ thing. It just? doesn’t really make sense to me?? with their biology??? I don’t think they’d have bellybuttons either. But anyway. this is kinda off topic at this point but i’ve discussed this before

• Their noises and clicks would be louder and sharper, they don’t necessarily purr per se; they make little clicking and almost scratched up sounds. It’s a noise difficult to describe, something so inherently alien that you would have to hear it firsthand to really understand it - and even then you might not.

Purple

• For the purples i’m actually not 100% sure where they’d land on the mammal-to-bug scale, but their noises would probably be more unique, being in the middle of highbloods and seadwellers

• We know they Honk. like, honking is an actual sound they can make, not just a word they say. though probably both are possible. People have said this before me but i really love the thought of Karako honking with his actual vocal chords, and not literally enunciating the word “honk”

• That would definitely be a very interesting caste trait, and lots of fun possibilities to look into. that’s not why we’re here today tho so i might get into that in another post at some point

• Purples are generally more mammalian than their lower highblood-counterparts, often seen purring around their quadmates. Because of their caste and stature though, it doesn’t quite sound like purring but rather big lion chuffing, almost like a silent roar, vibrating through their bodies. The sound is very deep, almost too deep for the human ear to hear; but if you get close enough you can feel it reverberate through them.

Seadwellers (violet and fuchsia)

• Now fish, as you probably know, are not insects. HOWEVER. They are also definitely not mammals. i mean yes amphibians exist and the universe is a frog so we know that’s a thing but hush. So they are probably the furthest away from mammals, and they don’t posses any mammalian qualities either. It makes sense that they wouldn’t. cause... they’re fish.

• Seadweller noises are interesting, because aquatic beings make very distinct sounds, and they aren’t often heard outside of their aquatic environment. Could they make noises like dolphins? Could they sing like whales? Do they hum to communicate through vibrations in the water? do they make crustacean clicking noises?

The possibilities are endless!

• So i don’t think they’d purr, but some other people have theorized that they make little bubbly sound which is very cute. Also ear-fin flappies when they’re happy. that’s not really a sound though

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so on a scale from mammal-y to insect-y, it goes

Mammalian < olive - lime - burgundy - bronze - mustard - purple - indigo - cerulean > Insect

how’re we feeling?