im curious: if a human/troll child could genetically, not ectobiology-y, happened, how would the naming work? would u just even it out and theyd have a five letter name? and how would they get the name, considering humans have run of the mill names while troll names are decided by whatever theyr lusus first says shortened to six letters? even if its not really a cut n dry answer, its still fun to thing abt uwu

Okay! So, let’s talk about Human/Troll Genetics, apparently this is a thing we’re doing here today. Upon further inspection of the Credits, I’ve noticed that the one Grub I thought was a Johnkat grub is actually a mix of Karkat and Kanaya! I haven’t been able to identify babies with Troll hair traits, nor grubs with Human hair traits, so that already puts into question the notion that Trolls and Humans are genetically compatible, I’d need to check the babies’ hair one by one and every Kid and Troll’s hair, post and pre-scratch, to check 100% sure if there’s any mix like that. BUT for the sake of this argument, let’s say they can indeed mix with one another, and they can actually have babies together without the Ectobiology process.

First of all, we don’t see any Troll-Human Hybrids, nor is the notion even mentioned once, the closest we come to this is Davepeta, with traits from Dave and Nepeta, and they’re a Sprite, so they don’t count. So chances are if Trolls and Humans can mix, their traits are a mix of both parents, but they can only be a Troll, or a Human. Now this makes things easier- If they’re a Troll, their names will be 6-letters long, if they’re a Human, they’ll be 4-letters long, because that’s how the comic arbitrarily names them and not because of anything specific. To be honest, I bet they could name them any number of letters, but shrug. This makes this question much more easily answer-able.

However, for our next question, the thing we have to answer isn’t who gives them their name- It’s how the family structures would work for these hybrids. Do Humans supply genetic material for the Mother Grub, who then births Humans along with the Troll Eggs? Or do Trolls/Humans get pregnant and raise the Humans or Grubs in a nuclear family environment? Would Lusii actually raise a Human Baby as well? Is there any possibility for Trolls to become pregnant or Humans to become pregnant from a Troll?

This is the kind of rabbit hole this kind of question leads you down to. So I’ll let you ponder from here.