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Melior ✨️

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D: I am so sorry but in the time it took for me to get to this the link to your troll picture has expired, and I unfortunately don’t remember enough to recreate it.

Name: Demiti Melior.

I have no idea where Demiti came from, probably some generator, but Melior is Latin for “better” which ties into her personality

Given that you later introduce a snake lusus (and I kinda like it since it cements her as a treacherous social climber), how about the first name Kulkan, from the Mayan variant of Quetzalcoatl, “Kukulkan?“ Since Quetzalcoatl is a flying snake I feel it also cements her desire to be higher than those whose blood lands higher on the hemospectrum

Age: ~7 sweeps

Strife Specibus:halbardkind.

Mostly stemmed from me trying to find a slightly more unique bladed weapon to use, but she finds them “eleganttt anddd practicalll” due to the reasonably elegant appearance, showiness and grandness, and the multiple types of weapon head.

How about a handheld sickle? It’s curved, which works with the snake-y theme, and it’s also a farmer’s tool. Rather than show it off, it can be yet another indicator that Kulkan is not of higher blood (though it would be a GREAT weapon for a legislacerator!)

Fetch Modus: Etching Modus

Basically the pictionary modus, but the cards begin as small chalk slabs that the item is etched into instead of being drawn onto. Because carving is one of her only other interests

This doesn’t come up anywhere else in the bio, which isn’t automatically a hit against it. I kind of like a more whimsical one: a balloon modus, with each balloon containing a captcha card with an item. To retrieve an item, she has to successfully hit the balloon containing the item she wants. This is difficult because both her original and revised weapon are short-range, and it further cements her as someone who’s reaching upwards in the hopes of finding what she needs.

Blood color:Teal

Picked because it’s a lower mid blood to contrast her superiority complex

Symbol and meaning: Unfortunately not much backstory here. I knew my fantroll needed a symbol and I was doodling on some work. It may have been a letter from an alphabet I made up but I don’t remember. Probably just a doodle

Well, since we no longer have the picture that leaves me plenty of room to just make one up!

This is a weather symbol meaning “visibility obscured by smoke,” which I kind of like for someone who can never quite see the top due to all the toxicity they themselves create. It’s also curvy, like a serpent!

Trolltag: dreamyEpidemic

Came from a generator, and I was very fond of it. This was sort of before I had her personality solidified, so I’m open to suggestions

What about sinuousTufthunter? A snaky social climber.

Quirk:Repeatssss the lastttt consonantttt offff a wordddd severalll timesss

She had a snake S quirk (ssssort of like thisssss) for a while but I figure that’s probably terribly overused so repeated consonants were what I decided on

I like it! If I may suggest an alternate, maybe add a question mark to the end of her sentences? It’s a phenomenon known as uptalking? It means making the pitch of your voice go up at the end of sentences? It’s common when people try to parody valley girls?

Special Abilities (if any):Nothing, she’s very intelligent as most teal bloods are but that’s about it

Lusus: A giant spiny bush viper 2-3 times as long as Demiti is tall. Her lusus is pretty scarred up for reasons below.

Sort of a convoluted reason here. I really like spiny bush vipers, so I thought that may make a neat lusus. I often call them “little dragon snakes” which ties in to the most well known teal blood lusus, and her symbol makes me think of serpents or something similar.

I think that still tracks even with the invented symbol! If you want to go twee, you could slap a pair of bird wings on her to call back to Quetzalcoatl, but that may stray dangerously close to just Being A Dragon. I am, as always, tempted to spice it up by giving it two mouths like Slypher the Sky Dragon, which we see from Nepeta’s lusus is a perfectly acceptable way to make a lusus sufficiently weird that it’s not just a Big Animal.

Personality: She has a superiority complex despite being a mid blood, and she knows she’s a mid blood. If someone calls her out on it - often because they are higher on the hemospectrum - she will desperately find some other thing to be superior at. She’s vengeful, spiteful, snobbish, and generally unpleasant. The one or two friends she actually has are also victim to relentless teasing and insult based humour. She has very little regard for consequence or the feelings of people not extremely close to her.

Interests: Strifing, a lot. She really likes to fight. She and her lusus are covered in scars from constant “friendly” strifes. Aside from that, she likes taking things apart and trying to put them together into something else, and carving weird little things out of stone, wood, clay, ivory and pretty much anything else.

Hmmm. I like that she’s covered in scars, but I would like it to be from more than just sparring with her lusus; id she’s really as vengeful as you say, it’s possible that some of her scars are from standing up to people who are quick to retaliate! The hobby of pulling things apart seems a little sudden in this bio, but I’ll let it pass because she seems to also like verbally pulling her friends apart. The carving still doesn’t track for me; I might even accept that she goes deep-sea treasure hunting, since we are given clear visual indicators that gold is a sign of status among seadweller royalty.

Title: I actually haven’t thought a whole lot about that

I mean if you’d gotten to me a few years ago I would’ve said that her problem is not knowing her place and I would try to assign a class on the basis of that…but the hemospectrum is BULLSHIT so fuck that. As someone who wishes to climb the social ladder but does so through destructive means…I would say she could be a Bard of Hope (which unfortunately means she doubles up titles with Cronus, whoops).

Dream Planet:I have no idea, suggestions please

You didn’t mention a moon but I think she fits better with Derse than with Prospit; she’s a social climber, but she doesn’t feel she’s *destined* for greatness.

For her planet, as much as it pains me to repeat an attribute we’ve already seen in canon I definitely thing she should have one that includes Angels specifically because of the social climbing aspect and the reference to Quetzalcoatl. Maybe Land of Angels and Avalanches? LOAAA? It would be a land where the consorts are under constant threat and where travel is difficult due to many of the conventional land routes being blocked by fallen rocks, and it would be her quest to clear certain key paths so the denizen is reachable and able to exit from the core of the land.

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For the heck of it, a tentative idea for her ancestor:

The Huntress

She refused to go into the civil servant jobs typical of teal bloods, and instead took her bloodlust and became a highly skilled assassin. She was involved in many convoluted high-blood plots, and made a lucrative career out of it. Her assasinations were flawless: silent, efficient, unseen. It’s said her marks never knew she was there until her spear was clean through their chest. She grew so confident in her skill however that she underestimated the depth of one of the insane high-blood plots she was involved in, and underestimated her target. She was caught off guard and killed by the one she was sent to kill.

The Huntress is a very, very common ancestor name. It was even the ancestor name I came up with for my first fantroll! Furthermore, ancestors exist to either contrast or highlight the details of their descendant, so while I like her as an assissin you may want to revise the bio to match with what you’ve already written about Kulkan.

The Badinage (meaning “banter”)

An assassin who went uncaught for sweeps due to her cowardly method of murder; extracts of her lusus’s poison, secretly administered to her highblood marks in the guise of friendly teatime conversation. How dishonorable! Can she even call herself a killer with her smooth, unblemished skin, unmarred by combat? The elegance with which she carried herself brought her purchase in many top-tier social circles, which she exploited with a smile and her pinky held high. Her death was as dishonorable as her life; an outraged ceruleanblood discovered that her lover had been killed in such a manner and sicked The Badinage’s own lusus on her, leaving both her and the snake a bloody mass of scar tissue.

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There we go, fly at it, I have a tendency to write flat characters so feel free to absolutely tear this apart.

I think the bones of your character are very strong indeed!

I felt so bad that we lost your original sprite so I made you a new one!

Hair - this is heavily edited from one of fan-troll’s sprite sheets. I know it’s cliche for snake trolls to have curly hair but I love ti so much!

Horns - these are Callie’s horns from her headband turned sideways. It’s a perfect mimic for her new sign!

Bandage - this is from a tumblr that used to use the username uriman, but alas! they do not seem to be around anymore. I added a hole where he horns would poke out.

Eyes - I wanted to just fuck one of her eyes UP to show the damage from fighting with her lusus/other trolls. The other one is edited from a fantrollartroom template.

Mouth - once again from fantrollartroom! They look a little fang-y

Shirt - I went with the typical plain Alternian black shirt and added the new symbol in Terezi’s blood color.

Skirt - I used a combination between Kanaya’s skirt and fan-troll’s skirt. I mainly wanted it because the waves of the skirt mimic her symbol!

Shoes - I used fantrollartroom’s combat boot template and spruced it up a bit.

Anyway, thanks for your patience! I really enjoyed reviewing this troll!

Similarly, Savant means distinguished scientist, and Melior means the belief that things will be better.

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"Did you? Did she, or I?" There's an unmoveable force behind Estevan's words, his voice stone grinding against stone. "Or should we not hold others to the standards to which we hold ourselves? Anyone who does not resist them, Diago, is lending them their strength. Is complicit in all that they do. The Octavii are not just guilty—they hoist the entire Hierarchy on their shoulders. I would think that you, above all others, would have reason to hate them for that."

"And I do." The admission snaps out rawer than I intend, almost a snarl. I bring myself back. Calm. "But I can hate without it coming to violence."

"Hate is its own violence, my prince. Your only choice is whether to let it hurt them, or you." The older man considers. Sighs. "Very well. I'm not going to threaten you. But I'm not going to give up on you, either." He turns and steps back up onto the ledge, out of the water. "Have you ever wondered why the Republic attacked, that day?"

"Of course. All the time." I frown. "But we were the last ones to hold out. I assume someone in Military got impatient, and—"

"No." Estevan's face is covered in shadow again, but I can hear the conviction. "For an extra ten thousand pieces to prop up their pyramids, when they already had twenty million? No. All Caten had to do was sit back and let their propaganda take effect. You were there—you know it's true. Sooner or later, your father would have had to sign something, or face revolution. Maybe not right away. Maybe not for another five, ten years. But eventually." He crosses his arms, "So why do it? Why risk resistance, potentially having to kill the very people they wanted as Octavii? And then why kill your family?"

Because they fear what we know. One of the last things my father said to me as we fled that night through the palace's secret tunnels, after I asked him much the same thing. Something I've tried not to dwell on these past three years. He could have meant anything. And he never got to explain further.