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golden guardian of ([personal profile] gabbie) wrote in [community profile] etcelsior2014-04-19 05:10 pm

fresh and funky


Welcome to [community profile] maskormenace's second
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[personal profile] axemeaquestion 2014-04-20 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
what happened out of curiosity?? not that rochelle would know obvs
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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2014-04-20 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
it's a bit complicated!

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.
Edited 2014-04-20 23:57 (UTC)
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[personal profile] axemeaquestion 2014-04-21 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
o damn

I only ever read the beginning of her canon so this is cool to know!
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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2014-04-21 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
homestuck gets steadily more ridiculous and more of a headache as you go on, so i totally don't blame you on that

sadly i only know l4d1 myself, since i had a roommate with an xbox back when that one came out
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[personal profile] axemeaquestion 2014-04-21 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
well tbh I read Problem Sleuth but idk if that counts

and that's okay! 2 is really good, though. 1 is amazing but 2 took everything that made it good and improved + polished it up 1000000%. and later on in the PC version they eventually moved most of the L4D1 maps to 2, so you can basically play L4D1 with all the improvements they made in 2.
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[personal profile] glowsferatu 2014-04-21 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
oh yeah, problem sleuth is pretty much a different story entirely. homestuck has a few references to it, like kanaya's chainsaw also being able to turn into a lipstick tube, but generally they're pretty separate

and i've heard that about l4d2, actually ended up watching a bunch of videos after you intro'd. looks like it'd be a pretty good time!
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[personal profile] axemeaquestion 2014-04-21 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
AW REALLY that's so cool!! Yeah, both games are really fun.