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If you're confused about anything please ask, thank you! If you need a review I think I'll be better helping personally instead of jotting everything down here. Fantrolls aren't the easiest kinds of characters to make, so don't feel bad for wanting or requesting help! <3

.: Mutants:.
Mutants are a pretty tough subject. Go ahead and make one, but please try not to overdo it. Contrary to popular belief, being a mutant does not instantly make your character interesting.
Mutants are trolls with unusual or odd DNA that cause them to be extremely different. A slight difference, such as Sollux who has four instead of two horns, doesn't usually get a troll culled.
( On a side note, culled means to separate from a main population. During Beforus, this meant to stick the mutant with a highblood to take care of them like Dolorosa did with Sufferer. When Beforus became Alternia, it meant to be eliminated. )
Somebody defying the extremely respected caste system, the line of bloodcolors that reveal your status as peasantry or royalty, will be culled on sight. It takes some smart thinking to survive as a mutant, and it also takes a smart lusus. I'm not sure how settling where the hive would be was decided, but I do know that Sufferer bred a lusus for Karkat who would rescue him from Brooding caves before he was found out for being a mutant and culled.

.: List of differences between high and lowbloods:.
- The bloodcolor above indigo makes a troll a seadweller. Anywhere indigo and below is a landdweller.
- The lower the blood, the less likely the troll will have sharp teeth. Aradia has human teeth, Vriska has fangs, and Gamzee has his teeth sharp to the point. So its rarer for lowerbloods to have sharp teeth but that doesn't mean they can't have sharp teeth.

.: Age:.
On Alternia, years aren't called years. They're called solar sweeps. So, how old is your troll? A preferred age is seven or eight sweeps. Eight sweeps means you need your kismesis and matesprit quadrant filled so that you can fill two separate pails, one for each, and hand them to the drones during drone season or you'll be eliminated. For those of you who don't know, trolls are a little immature about pails not for the reason you're thinking. Sure, they're dirty, but its also a frightening reminder that if they don't get down with two other quadrant mates they can die. Ages nine sweeps and above are found and placed in the alternian military to serve The Condesce. Troll's eye color goes from grey to their own blood color at eight sweeps.  
Here is an extremely useful age calculator:
miffthefox.info/mspa/sweepcalc…


.: Empresses:.
An empress is the highest bloodline known, fuchsia. This bloodline is known to contain only females, the dominant gender on Alternia. A side note, females are more aggressive and violent than males tend to be. This is mentioned during a conversation between Karkat and Tavros about Vriska, and how Tavros shouldn't play 'girl games' meaning dangerous, risky games. It is also noted that trolls are insect based, most female insects being dominant and pretty scary.
Gl'bgolyb is a hybrid between a horrorterror and a cuttlefish, with white skin like all lusus. In an AU ( Alternate Universe ) where your fuchsia blood exists, their lusus would not be Gl'bgolyb, its a little tricky but it'd be a lusus mix of a horroterror and another sea creature, making it the strongest and deadliest lusus to exist.  
For you guys out there who want your own session of sgrub, Feferi and Gl'bgolyb and the ability to commute with Horrorterrors are the reason that dream bubbles exist in the session. Not all sessions will go the same though, yours might not be able to have dream bubbles. That's alright yo.

.: Blood and the Caste System.:.
It is said that there exists only 12 bloodcolors, discluding Karkat's mutant blood and including the extinct lime blood. This is a rule a few people can go by if they want, but if you do decide to go off line, don't brighten up your bloodcolors. Here is the 12 bloodcolors in order from lowest to highest:
Maroon, Brown, Mustard, Olive, Lime, Jade, Teal, Cerulean, Blue, Indigo, Violet, Fuchsia  

Lowerbloods are said to more easily obtain psychic powers. It is confirmed by Porrim that jadebloods are rainbowdrinkers.
Limebloods are banished to exist for a reason unknown.

Indigo bloods tend to have semi-aquatic lusus.

The lowbloods live further into land, farther away from the sea the farther away their bloodcolor is to royalty. As the bloodcolors gradually go up, so do where they live. Gamzee, being very close to sea dweller blood and having a half aquatic lusus, lives very close to the shore.

Eridan is a rare exception but very rarely will a seadweller live out of water.

Jade bloods are rare to be hatched. Kanaya is the rarest case to exist. It is rare that she can stand out in Alternia's extremely harsh sun and survive and not be blinded, its rare that the mother grub took Kanaya up to care for on her own.

.: Naming a troll:.
A troll is canonically named by their lusus. Their lusus makes noises in whatever way possible. Maybe they can't make any noises with their mouth? Maybe they'll fart or clap their hands or paws or flippers or something, maybe they'll breathe heavily. Naming a troll is some tricky business sometimes. You want it to sound good, right? The best way to choose a name for your troll is to check google translate and translate words related to your troll (ex. fish - peixes ) into foreign languages. Another good way to name a troll is to pick out parts of a lusus's scientific name. Yes, the names do have to go by 6x6
Lusus: Eri-dan
Lusus: Amp-ora

.: Quirk:.
A quirk is a weird way trolls type, or little habits they have during typing. Always, they'll relate to the troll somehow. I'll give some canon examples:
--EXCITED! A part of Feferi's quirk. The E must be capitalized. The two dashes behind the E and the E resemble a trident, her strife specibus.
:33 < *ac types like this because she loves to rolepurrlay and is very involved with her lusus!*

.: God Tiers!:.
A space player, who always has 'frogs' in their land to breed, gets assistance from a knight to breed. ( Ex. Jade and Dave, Kanaya and Karkat )  
A troll will end up doing what their future class and aspect suggests before they achieve god tier. Prince is the class meaning destroyer, and his aspect is hope. Eridan, the Prince of Hope, destroyed hope for the future of trolls by destroying the Matriorb inside of the Mother Grub.
Kids CAN NOT have wings. Trolls have butterfly/insect-like wings because they are creatures that closely associate with insects. c:
I prefer if I was asked about this personally to seek out a god tier and explain it.

.: Mother Grubs :.
Some pretty basic stuff. The Mother Grub is a moth-like jade blooded insect that is given troll genetic material, and is the mother of all trolls. Inside of her is a matriorb, which can hatch another Mother Grub to continue the process of laying troll eggs.

.: Quadrants:.
Red Quadrants:
Matespritship - Redrom feelings, lovey dovey and pity for another troll.
Moirailligence - Pale feelings, best friendship meant to care for eachother through and through.
Black Quadrants:
Kismetude: Blackrom feelings, anger and rivalry towards another troll. To be a little more specific, there is a difference between being awful and kismetude. Being awful consists of destroying the other troll's property, killing their lusus, insulting their lusus, dragging unnecessary trolls into the kismetude, and killing the partner in the blackrom relationship. Actual blackrom consists of heavy makeouts, scratching, biting, glaring, hissing, and competitiveness.
Auspisticeship: Ashen assistance. As important as moirailligence and only necessary when a kismesis is obtained, this ship prevents cheating and dragging other trolls into the kismetude and consists of three trolls. Two being the kismesis, one being the auspistice, making for auspisticeship. This prevents harm from reaching any other trolls or beings around them, and keeps the hate from spiraling out of control.

.: Lands and God Tiers!:.
You know how Dave is Knight of Time, right? At least one thing in their land should relate to their aspect, this being Time for Dave. Gears are in watches and clocks and all that fancy stuff.
I assure you, you don't need to ask me to prove anything further, every land can relate to the player's aspect.
Nepeta, Rogue of Heart, Land of Little Cubes and Tea. Her land also makes up the initials LOLCAT. Tea soothes the heart. Tiny cubes go in the tea.
Aradia, Maid of Time, Land of Quartz and Melody.
Quarts is found in some watches, and some clocks have a melody that comes around every hour. Fancy stuff!  

.: Weapons and Strife Specibus:.
Weapons are some pretty special things. It can be powers, it can be stabby things, things to hack away at things, things to shoot things, things to just knock out things or crush things and fatally damage them. I think the best thing you can do for your troll's strife specibus is make it specifically theirs. You know how canon characters strife specibi all have specific designs and patterns and colors to them? Yeah, that! My personal favorite is Karkat's original sickles. The second I see them I know its his, and not just a pair of sickles. Also note they way  a troll uses their weapon can be special too. Karkat only uses one sickle at a time.

.: Lusii:.
A lusus is a parent for a troll. A single one that is either on land, semi aquatic, or fully aquatic based on bloodcolor. Trolls don't always get along with lusus, in fact, its rare. Naming a lusus personally is also rare. Three out of twelve canon trolls have their lusus named. Tinkerbull, Pounce de Leon, and Gl'bgolyb. A lusus chooses a grub from the brooding caves that resembles them the most, including bloodcolor.

.: Fashion, colors, and hair:.
Did you know a troll can get culled for wearing too much color in Alternia? You're going to need alot of blacks and greys. Its okay to have colors, just don't overdo it. Be careful with hair color, and try to check that you're not overdoing it in your set of characters. Eridan is the only troll out of twelve in his session group to have color in his hair, so you shouldn't find hairdye in a troll's hair alot. Please keep in mind that a troll can be really cool without hair dye.

If there is anything that I forgot that isn't on here or anything that you're looking for a little bit more explanation on, or maybe even opinions, go ahead and ask! Thank you <3
Homestuck/trolls (c) Andrew Hussie
Tutorial (c) Cuddle-beast
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Do you still do the fantroll/kid reviews? If so, I'd like to have a troll of mine reviewed.