Random Musings
So I just saw This Pyropes Fanart(It's Gr8: Plz Look at It) and, for whatever reason, THIS was the time that, thinking about them, it occurred to me that there's something Really Interesting going on with their names like:
We know that Terezi, at least, claimed Redglare as an ancestor, and Latula sees her as an alternate version of herself, and they're obviously all "related" in some sense as their culture defines it because 1)they all have the same symbol and 2)they all have the same type of lusus. But Terezi and Latula have "Classical" names and Redglare has a "English" one(And HALF of the Ancestors do, now that I think about it: Dualscar, Mindfang, Highblood, Redglare, Handmaid, Darkleer).
I don't really know what to do with this other than to point out that:
canonically by the time of Karkat and his crew this "English" linguistic tradition seems to have been excised from Troll society, and
with the exception of the Condesce it seems to have been a middle- and upper-class thing? Like: all of the "lowblood" ancestors have latin-derived titles(we never learn their names) and the "English" naming starts at Teal.
Which is interesting cuz I've typically headcanoned "Classical" elements in Troll to be historically upper-class and the "Vulgar/English" elements to be historically low ala our own society, but this naming thing seems to suggest it might be the other way around(of course there could have ALSO just been, like, an era where having "land-dweller" names was fashionable)? So when the trolls say something partially "Vulgar" like thermal hull instead of the wholly "Classical" Refrigerator, they're trying to be Fancy???
