2017-09-09 5:43:39 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

lime-bloods:

> so how do you think troll social issues intersect with their interactions with alien races enslaved within their empire?

> are aliens with brown blood treated as brown blooded trolls are? teal blooded aliens? purple or violet blooded trolls?

> are aquatic races treated as waders? how aquatic does a race have to be before they are considered one? how are non-troll aquatics treated by aquatic trolls versus land dwelling trolls?

> how are aquatic races with non-royal blood colours treated?

#okay but trolls are SO PROUD and as a whole believe themselves to be better then anyone else #(obvs not applying to individual trolls) #(just like as a unit trolls r proud bc of the empress) #so ANY alien would be lower then the lowest rust blood and maybe even mutants #besides werent aliens killed as soon as possible to make room for troll colonies #like i LOVE the idea of trolls and aliens coexisting but no not a chance #*points at alpha earth in dirk and roxy’s time* (via @aquatariuswriter)

i beg to differ!

troll pride isn’t necessarily inherent to their being; it’s based on traits and on otherness. trolls pride themselves on having traits that make them good, and hold themselves over other beings who have traits seen as bad. a higher blood typed troll says the hemospectrum, or their personal blood coloour, makes them better than other trolls; land dweller nobility are simply obligated to be at odds with royals because they are of the sea dweller race; they talk of physical ideals for those of higher bloodlines and how certain things are unbefitting of other bloodlines.

of course, like I said to viridian-trolls, it is unlikely to think that, for the most part, a troll could ever see an alien as equal or greater to them, or even equal or greater to the troll race as a whole; but if we know trolls hate certain traits and like other traits, does it not follow that an alien with good traits ranks higher to a troll than another troll with bad traits? an example even exists in canon; we know equius doesn’t like sea dwellers, which are other trolls, but does love musclebeasts, which are a non-troll species they share the planet with.

on a final note, there’s no evidence to suggest alien races are immediately subject to genocide as soon as their planets are absorbed into the empire; the process is referred to only as ‘conquering’ and she is described as having the power to kill ‘millions’. there is no doubt many, many aliens die under alternian colonialism, but nothing suggests that they are entirely wiped out. considering the empire has a total of 1 reproductive hub for the troll race itself, i’ve no doubt aliens are very valuable as slaves to them.

the case of future Earth-2 is far from rule-defining; remember that when the Condesce arrived there, she had no other trolls with which to populate the planet. she was working from scratch. earth wasn’t a colony world; it was an attempt to rebuild a home she had lost.

what’s more, it’s very clear that she made an active attempt to rule over the humans as subjects, even selecting an heiress among them and trying to make them reproduce the same way as trolls did. she never exacted deliberate genocide on humans; they just died off as a result of attempts she made to rule them, like modifying them to mirror the troll blood type system. while it’s true that we’re not really given a justification for her melting the ice caps and flooding the planet over her rule, it is pointed out to us back in Act 5 that the Condesce’s usual participation in colonisation was very brief. the ordinary process didn’t involve the condesce beyond greeting; ergo, the Condsce didn’t even have any experience doing what she was trying to do.

i realise that my ‘final note’ has consumed well over two thirds of the total post and i apologise for that LMAO but i hope i got my point across