so, trolls aren't raised by their biological parents, but by a lusus naturae, pretty much an animal from their world conditioned for the job. kanaya's was a mother grub, which looks like this. they're basically thirty-foot moths that serve as an intermediary in troll reproduction, basically incubators that the whole process is dependent on. when kanaya's lusus died shortly before their world was destroyed, she cut a matriorb out of its gut, which is pretty much an egg that will hatch a new mother grub, so that they can continue their species beyond nigh-extinction.
well, one of her friends destroyed the matriorb then killed kanaya. kanaya got better (and killed the former friend), but without it her race is effectively extinct. the grub that would've hatched from it would have been like a daughter to her, the way her lusus was her own mother.
so, of the two trolls in game, if karkat is the second coming of troll jesus, kanaya is the virgin mary (who's his not-sister instead of his mother, it's a weird analogy), except she was a thirteen-year-old gay alien with a passive-aggressive streak and a terrible sense of self worth who had the alien equivalent of a miscarriage before becoming a vampire. it's been almost four years, but she isn't anywhere close to being over it.
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so, trolls aren't raised by their biological parents, but by a lusus naturae, pretty much an animal from their world conditioned for the job. kanaya's was a mother grub, which looks like this. they're basically thirty-foot moths that serve as an intermediary in troll reproduction, basically incubators that the whole process is dependent on. when kanaya's lusus died shortly before their world was destroyed, she cut a matriorb out of its gut, which is pretty much an egg that will hatch a new mother grub, so that they can continue their species beyond nigh-extinction.
well, one of her friends destroyed the matriorb then killed kanaya. kanaya got better (and killed the former friend), but without it her race is effectively extinct. the grub that would've hatched from it would have been like a daughter to her, the way her lusus was her own mother.
so, of the two trolls in game, if karkat is the second coming of troll jesus, kanaya is the virgin mary (who's his not-sister instead of his mother, it's a weird analogy), except she was a thirteen-year-old gay alien with a passive-aggressive streak and a terrible sense of self worth who had the alien equivalent of a miscarriage before becoming a vampire. it's been almost four years, but she isn't anywhere close to being over it.
but yeah, complicated.