I think it would be possible, just very, very rare. It would probably be considered a mutation of a sort, so just make sure you don’t have a colony of low-blooded seadwellers!
…that sounds like a really odd reality tv show.
~PoB
I think your character (or another) could make alterations to it, perhaps, but it’d basically be the same in the beginning, yes.
~PoB
Sure! I’d be glad to do that. If you’d like to remain anonymous completely (or somewhat completely) you could send another ask with your email, or else we could talk back and forth via ask if you have your own tumblr :)
~PoB
So I thought I should make a quick post about this!
We’re really sorry for the lack of updates. We’ve both been really stressed out these past couple months, and haven’t had a chance/motivation to really do anything. I’m going to try to do some posts on the weekend, since I have no more school projects to work on! I’ll also definitely do some posts during April break.
Until then, submissions are closed. Feel free to still send asks, though! I’ll be trying to answer those as best I can.
No need to scrap it! If it bugs you, tweak them a little. Maybe change the name? Like, say it’s Maria (which would not be a good fantroll name but work with me) and theirs is Mari, you could make yours Marea! Or you could change the symbol to something relating to the constellation. For example, if you wanted to make a character related to archery, but obviously couldn’t do Sagittarius because of Equius, you could just make the symbol some sort of target.
Don’t worry too much about being similar to someone else’s fantroll! It’s good to have a unique character, but it’s also important to have a character that you’re fond of, or feel proud of. Keep trollin’ on!
~PoB
Hmmmm, well think about Nepeta! She’s a green blood and she can still tackle Equius, and she hunts too. I think it would be fine to have a STRONG green blood! So long as they have some sort of weakness to go along with it (emotionally, perhaps) it’ll be fine.
~PoB
http://animelover0613.deviantart.com/art/V-264133933
OK BASICALLY
THIS IS REALLY KAWAII?
I MEAN
just wow give me a second to collect these feelings
you really captured the simplicity of the lusus? I mean, lusii I are supposed to be pretty simplified almost… caricature like? except not ridiculous. just… simple. lots of white space and barely any detail. it’s so nice…
and aaaaAaaa her posture and the way she’s sort of copying her lusus’ movements
so good
AHEM on to the actual review
NAME: Arsata Vaalic
SWEEPS: 8 Solar Sweeps (17.28)
TROLLTAG: agresticPachyderm
BLOOD COLOR: Yellow
She honestly respects the Hemospectrum; she doesn’t converse much with highbloods. Not that she really converses with anyone that is. Wouldn’t even dare try and playing a mind game let alone steal from someone higher up than her, only lower bloods.
All fine! I especially like the trolltag. And I like the bit about her not wanting to mess with highbloods, too!
TYPING QUIRK: \pack my box with….. fiVe dozen liquor jugs/ Usually doesn’t punctuate things correctly, uses ‘…..’ to keep people waiting, especially when they’re in a big hurry to say something. Notice that there is specifically 5 periods. Encloses everything in dashes and capitalizes all of her Vs.
ahhh this is good! nice and unique, and easy to read.
wondering if there’s any significance to the little bits, though…
REFERENCE IMAGE/DISCRIPTION: ~see above~
Actually quite short at a whopping 5ft”3in. Doesn’t like her rather flat and pudgy looking nose.
waaaa <33333 really good
I love the way you phrased it with “a whopping 5ft 3in” hehehe
also her nose is perfect donut worry arsata we can be weird nosed buddies (even though people say I have a cute nose or something? w/e her nose is cute too)
PERSONALITY: A bit of a loner and prefers to do things on her own, but when she actually does try to get and know people she’s socially awkward and inexperienced in starting a conversation. That is though when she really does want to be left alone she is rather grumpy and snappy. Rather paranoid and talks to self when she’s alone, and a total spaz. Hates to be cold and loves when it’s warm out.
aaaaaaa good!!!
I’ve said in a lot of reviews that personalities like this, with a variations, of course, are really good for character development. things like the characters accepting that they are indeed loners and are okay with just having a few close friends, or over coming their shyness to meet new people… there’s so much you can do with this over the course of a story!
her being grumpy and snappy when she wants to be alone would also be a point of development for other people to understand that she needs alone time, hence making it more likely for them to be close friends?
just my thoughts on stuff like this!
While she attempts to make a living of stealing she tends to be too heavy on her feet and mess up most, if not all, of the time. Though she messes up, she is very cautions as to who she is stealing from and if she as a chance of succeeding at all. Has her own preference as to not steal from highbloods, which in her luck would probably result in her being culled.
ahhh I think you could elaborate on her needing to steal! does she steal because she enjoys it, does she steal because, being a lowblood, can’t afford FANCY ALTERNIAN VEGETARIAN FOOD (like, say, Equius) because her lusus is an elephant? does she do it to get back at people, but also to fend for herself and her lusus? there’s a lot you could do with this
maybe she is like robin hood…
*____*
but the bit about highbloods is good! again, I’m glad you remember to put little stuff like that in. it can make a huuuuge difference in how your character is portrayed.
While she may not be physically endowed she does have a nak for mind games and riddles, that and just fucking with people’s minds. She is usually accused of having suspicious intentions when doing things; that is if you consider having a shit eating grin on your face at all times as suspicious.
HAHHA
yES I KIND OF WOULD CONSIDER THAT SUSPICIOUS
I mean
a troll who won’t tell you the rules and who smiles all the time.
seriously
that’s pretty suspicious to me
also yes! I imagine, going with her loner personality, she prefers to avoid situations where she doesn’t really have control? like, if she can manipulate someone, not necessarily then and there, but she can do it, then she’s okay? but if someone is unpredictable or hard to read, that’s… a big no-no-.
INTERESTS: General mind games like Riddles and puzzles, while she also has an interest in rhyming, also adores To run. Likes to attempt and be able to steal; that and utterly fail at any type of progression in anything. Which is where the running comes in, after figuring out that if you failed you had to get away as fast as you could, she soon learned to like the feel of wind in her face, she may not be very fast but… That is until she falls on her face…
Omg… poor thing… well she shouldn’t be stealing in the first place but OW it hurts to fall on your face!
You can definitely elaborate on her love of riddles and puzzles. Maybe the rhyming too? But that seems like a sort of… secondary interest. She’s into it, but she’s not obsessed. Also. Is her favourite game like.
THE TRADITIONAL STORY SOMETIMES POPULARLY REGARDED AS HISTORICAL OF GRUBZA: A TUNIC WEARING TROLL’S WAKING FROM REST
because
that’d be
really great
haha, or any other troll versions of puzzle/riddle games
PROFESSOR TROLLTON and such
Always has enjoyed carving, weather she’s just carving wood or large masses like rocks. Her favorite thing to carve would have to be scenes of other trolls, things like profiles or a group of them. She almost uses this to make up for being so lonely. She has always been quiet about this certain hobby and doesn’t usually tell many about it. I mean it’s not like you tell someone that you just carved them into a rock, especially someone you don’t know.
whether*!
Also aaa that’s a cute hobby! Maybe she likes to make wooden puzzles like those trick boxes that you have to pull a certain way, or wood versions of tavern puzzles? That’d fit with the mind game theme, and also give a little uniqueness to it.
SYMBOL: Roman Numeral 5
ohhh! so that’s the reason for V and the five periods!
OTHER:
-STRIFE SPECIBI: Tuskkind. This consists of multiple uses of the Tusk of a dead Lusus, weather it is tied off on top of a spear or just used as a dagger. It used to be a spear for a long while after she found it easier to use, but after the tusk broke off of the spear she just started using it as a knife.
whether again*!
hmmm since you said she uses it as a knife it’d go under knifeKind! but other than that, I think this is good!
-FETCH MODUS: Rhyme Modus: items are categorized by how difficult it would be to rhyme that item with something. Items are arranged in least to greatest difficulty, as in the word cat would be in front of the word Phantasmagoria. In order to retrieve that said item a word that either rhymes or contains at least 5 if not all of the same letters would have to have to be said. This only works when it is directly asked for, preventing unfortunate accidents.
-LUSUS: Elephant
Her Lusus was always rather protective, but in his own way made things strenuous for her. He always hid things from her or made puzzles for her to follow. Hiding things, placing things in certain orders and then having to find the significance of the order, sometimes even leaving for a certain amount of days and making her arrange her own before he came back. While he would never forget how a puzzle would go, she would. Thus resulting in her having to do it all over again.
hmmm, so far it seems like all the lusii are the same gender as their troll? but this is fine until it’s confirmed in canon!
ahh, I’ve said it before, relationships between lusus and troll are my favourite, especially complex ones like this
this is good, otherwise, though!
She blames him for her interest in riddles and puzzles, that and messing with people’s minds. Not that that bothers her or anything, sadly we can’t say the same for the people she is playing the tricks on. Along with how she dresses, he never really cared for matching clothes so when she dressed herself she always seemed to look disheveled. It has gotten better today but she still looks rather unmatched.
-QUADRANTS: Empty
Would love to just have someone, a Moirail if anything. Someone to look out for her and for her to do the same. While she does like to be a loner it really does get lonely after most of your life.
-CLOTHING: While she is not interested In fashion she mostly wears the scarf to keep her neck warm.
this is all good!!!
okay so
I am really enjoying Arsata so far! There’s not ABSOLUTELY WRONG AND AWFUL with this bio, just stuff you might want to elaborate on! You’ve gotten a lot of good ideas down, now all that’s really left to do is explain the less obvious ones, and elaborate! You’ve got a pretty good balance here, though, and as long as you explain stuff later, either in the story or in a separate post, this is all good! The only thing you could maybe add to this would be her relationships. I know she’s a loner, but I’m wondering about how she feels about the trolls she’s okay/close friends with, the trolls she dislikes… etc.!
Oh, and stuff about SBURB or whatever the game is called in this version, is always welcome!
Thank you for submitting!
~PoB
==> Be the stupid scientist
hey,woah! You are not stupid at all! You are quite well educated, infact!
I CAN ALREADY TELL I AM GOING TO LIKE THIS
== Be the kinda-smart scientist
Ugh, fine whatever. You’re still smarter than Kinda.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS
this is a really great sprite
it’s nice and simple? but if you took away like, the horns, the symbol, and the face, I’m pretty sure I’d still be able to tell it’s this fellow!
that said… hmmm. I think you could definitely choose a better symbol for them! Maybe Scorpio fits their character, but… there are other symbols for scorpions, other symbols for poisonous things… it’s best not to use symbols that are in canon?
thetrollreview had some suggestions on alternative symbols if you like the theme of the one you have!
Your name is THEYDON RUCKS. You are a radical SCIENTIST who likes anything with SCIENCE. Go science! You always wear your fancy white LAB COAT everywhere, and are always prepared for some unexpected science. You’re a pretty fun guy,but you don’t really take insults well. You tend to OVERACT with HARSH WORDS. But you usually don’t mean it.Besides from SCIENCE, you also like ADVENTURE. It’s pretty fun to go out with some FRIENDS and SEE NEW WORLDS. You are 6.92 SWEEPS OLD. You’re almost 7 sweeps old, and you have to say, you are quite exhilarated and excited for the coming day.
Even though it’s not for a while. You are a brown-orange blooded LOWBLOOD, but that’s okay. You have a couple HIGHBLOOD friends, and they’re nice enough. For a bunch of ruckus-smucking-partying-idiots. You’ve never been to a HIGHBLOOD PARTY, but it sounds like it would be PRETTY FUN.
heeeeeeee
I like that they know EXACTLY HOW OLD THEY ARE going with the whole studious theme
also SCIENCE and ADVENTURE!
I like that!
mostly it seems science trolls like to stay in a lot to study? but I like that they love to see the world
also HIGHBLOOD PARTIES.,.,….
FIRST RULE OF HIGHBLOOD PARTIES, DON’T TALK ABOUT HIGHBLOOD PARTIES
seriously I’m imagining this super secret society of highblood parties and conspiracy theories on who spiked the punch or who switched the tunes
all good!
Your hive is a big dome with a PROJECTOR in the middle of the floor. There’s lots of STARS and GALAXIES on your ceiling, coming from the projector. It’s pretty cool. There’s also a room on the back where you and your RAGING ONE-CLAWED LOBSTER LUSUS sleep. Your Lusus’s name is METALLIFERIOUS. He’s a pretty cool Lusus. He looks after you and stuff, but he can be quite the rager when it comes to a messy hive. He’s been snapping at you for days now to clean it.
Oh well.
!!!
!!!
PLANETARIUM HIVE???!!??!
THIS IS REALLY GREAT?!??!
AND
RAGING
ONE CLAWED
LOBSTER LUSUS.
AND THE NAME.
THIS IS ALL
I CAN’T EVEN HANDLE THIS
Your Chumhandle is titaniumScientist. You don’t have many FRIENDS, to be HONEST. But that’s just because you hardly have TIME for things like PESTERCHUM. I mean really, there’s way to much RADICAL SCIENCE to be done around here!
Like maybe the ROCKET SCIENCE of getting your OUTRAGEOUS MESSY HAIR under control. Maybe one day you’ll EMBARK on that ADVENTURE in SCIENCE.
ahh, they’re a troll, so he would have a trolltag, not a chumhandle! just to clear that up! I do that all the time or I say “chumtag” and “trollhandle”. also, they’d use trollian!
that said, I think you could spice their name up a bit! perhaps…
titanicScientist or titanousScientist? both are related to titanium, but make it flow a little better. generally the first word is an adjective, and the second is a noun, too.
and, THAT said
probably they are perfecting the science of hair spray
donut worry your hair is really great you don’t have to change it
Not having very many FRIENDS is just part of that RECIPE FOR LONELINESS. None of your QUADRANTS are filled, and that makes you KINDA SAD sometimes. But with previously SAID SCIENCE, there’s far too much to do anyway. One of your FEW FRIENDS’S chumhandle is superflousRedundance. But you don’t really want to talk about her right now.
I like that trolltag!!! also wah, poor thing! I’m sure they’ll fill some quadrants and find some friends eventually
also I am now really interested in this SR… *___*
Your weapong of choice is a SCYTHEKIND.It’s kinda bright orange, and you find it KINDA COOL to dip it in SCORPION POISON before you kill something with it, seeing as you are a SCORPIO.
Hmmm, the weapon is fine, but you might want to change the bit about being a scorpio? Maybe they like to experiment with the types of metals they use? Maybe some of the scythes they use are really impractical, or fragile, but they use them anyway because they’re pretty *___* or because they have some sentimental value!
Your QUIRK isn’t really that special. You just add an extra ‘t’ and ‘y’ and CAPITALIZE all the ‘E’s’. But it’s one of the things you’re most SENSITIVE about. You don’t really like people MAKING FUN of the way you talk and or type. You usually respond with SARCASTIC RAGE and NOT-VERY-NICE-WORDS. But really, who fucking makes fun of the way someone talks? That’s just rude.
Hmmmm, the quirk is unique enough? but I don’t really see how it relates to their character! I mean, even simple quirks like Karkat’s relate to his general frustration with everything, Terezi’s to her childishness, and so on. If you submit something again, I’d like to hear an explanation for this bit!
btw,talk sprite.
Can you tell these are totally my first sprites for HS lol
I hope this turned out okay, I kindasortaslappedittogetherlol
OMG
THIS SPRITE…
IT’S GIVING ME A LOT OF…
FEELS…
okay!!! to conclude this
You have a good base here. There’s a lot you can expand on, and, as I said, some things that you could expand on if you change? His symbol, for example. You could still maybe relate back to scorpions and poisonous things, without it actually being the scorpio sign. Or if you change it completely, relating to metals or something! Go wild.
My only other real suggestion besides expand, expand, expand, is with the sprites? It seems like you used the brush tool with the second one (and maybe on the first’s symbol)? It’s not such a good idea to use it if you can help it. It makes it very hard to go back and edit things if you want to change the hair, or horns, or something, and suddenly
tons of tiny pixels…
if it got like that because you resized you can change that by selecting “nearest neighbor” under resample image, the last bit on the image size window
ignore that if you aren’t working with photoshop (or maybe photoshop cs??? idk how much it varies)
All in all, you’ve got a great start to a surely fantastic character :)! Keep on writing!
~PoB
Apologies for my absence! I came down with a rather bad cold, but I’m coming off it now!
((I…kind of wrote way too much for this. xD; I hope it’s not to irritating to read through it all, haha…
Donut worry! More might take longer (or less, depending), but it also means there’s less to ask you to add!
Anyway, pictures!
AAAA THIS IS REALLY FANTASTIC…
THEIR FACE… OH MY GLOB… AND THOSE HORNS…
also I really like the ears! they’re not really necessary, since usually ears aren’t included in a sprite, but THEY ARE REALLY FANTASTIC LOOKING HERE…
an older sprite that I should really redo
SO GREAT and fuq that earring is so cute
I can’t help it I love vests and earrings and goggles/glasses
aaaaa
and a crappy scribble that’s more accurate as per his clothing.
So yes, on to the actual troll! ))
== > Be the jittery, cautious scumbag
