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Hey so for homestuck bots I’ve noticed not all the troll ones have proper biology so I made a list with everything i could think of and some chunks from the wiki I edited so copy any you need to boost your bot 😊

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Troll biology

All trolls have grey skin and horns colored in bands of red-orange to yellow-orange (vaguely resembling candy corn). The sclera of most trolls' eyes are the same yellow-orange color as their horn tips; however some trolls with mutations can have eyes in different colors, or turn completely red when damaged, for example by the sun. Many other parts of troll anatomy are black, including their hair and lips

Trolls' bodies are saturated with an ingredient that colors much of their internal biology, including their blood and their tears, and the position of their blood on a spectrum of colors affects various other aspects of their biology (see the hemospectrum). While troll irises are grey in youth , they also become this color in adulthood ; outside of this, however, a troll's blood color is rarely visible externally, and even some inner organs such as their tongues appear as a bloodless gray.

Despite referring to it with their own terminology, much of troll anatomy seems to be similar to that of humans. Most mature trolls have four limbs and a head attached to a vertical torso (presumably supported by a spine-like structure called the “TORSO PILLAR” ). Trolls have four fingers and a thumb on each hand and two eyes (“GANDERBULBS” ), a mouth (a “chitinous windhole” attached to a “PROTEIN CHUTE” and/or a “SQUAWK BLISTER” ) and some form of hearing organs called “auricular sponge clots” or “HEAR DUCTS”. Female trolls also have “swollen pectoral masses” (“rumble spheres” ), though they do not serve a mammary purpose like human breasts do (likely due to their reproductive method:

Troll brains (sometimes called the 'think pan', which can also generally mean 'head' or 'mind') supposedly appear similar to human brains , and certain psychic powers are seemingly caused by mutations of the brain.

Trolls are reproductively Bisexual , capable of forming reproductive relationships — matespritand kismesis pairs — between any combination of sexes. Trolls provide “a combinative genetic mix” from these concupiscent pairings to the imperial drone, who takes it to the mother grub in the brooding caverns to be combined “into one incestuous slurry”. According to commentary in the Homestuck books, Andrew Hussie "believe[s] it's been implied" that this genetic material is the result of "prodigious vomiting",[1] but references to the particulars of the troll mating ritual in the comic itself are sparse

With this genetic material the mother grub “lays hundreds of thousands of eggs at once” . These eggs hatch into six-limbed larval trolls, called 'wigglers', which attach themselves to the cavern's stalactites to spin cocoons. Wigglers emerge from their cocoons as young trolls with two arms and two legs. After this pupation a troll is expected to go through “a series of dangerous trials” , failure at which means to death. Surviving trolls are selected by a lusus naturaethat is sympathetic to their scent , which serves as a companion throughout their life and provides young trolls with their names. After emerging from the caverns young trolls design their own hives , which are built for them by “CARPENTER DROIDS”

both possess a pair of blood-colored markings on each side of their torsos, likely reflecting the long-held fandomheadcanon regarding "grub scars", remnants of the pairs of insectoid legs a wiggler loses or absorbs during pupation.[citation needed] In reality, in holometabolous insects - insects with distinct larval, pupal and adult stages - most larval structures break down in the pupa and new adult structures are grown from microscopic imaginal cells, leaving little trace of the larval body plan whatsoever.

The troll diet seems to mostly consist of insect matter, though they can subsist on other forms of meat , and some trolls have even been known to drink milk with no apparent setbacks. Troll teeth vary greatly in shape, ranging between flat human-like incisors, vampiric fangs, consistentlysharp shark-like teeth and blunted uneven fangsfrom individual to individual The hemospectrum is the series of twelve blood colors possessed by trolls, forming the basis of the Alternian caste system. Lusii share these blood colors, and often or always have the same blood color as their charge. A troll's sign is assigned based on their blood color, each caste having a “huge alpha8et” of them. The Extended Zodiac represents the canonical extended set of troll symbols, showing 24 signs for each caste. All trolls wear their sign somewhere on their clothing in the same color as their blood, with many trolls such as Eridan and Nepeta choosing to wear additional accessories in their blood color. Many trolls also type in their blood color, a practice similar to a quirk called hemotyping, “the old tradition whereby one types in his or her own blood coloUr.”

Troll blood is colored by an ingredient similar to melanin specific to their position on the hemospectrum which saturates much of their bodies, including their tears . These colors are also found among lusii, who take care of trolls with the same blood color. “The heat of [a lower caste member's] touch” can be used to tell the likely range of a troll's blood, indicating that a troll's average body temperature may go down as one goes up the spectrum. Lifespan and population Trolls higher on the hemospectrum have longer lifespans, with rust bloods usually living only “a dozen or two sweeps”

(26 to 50 years) and most lower blood castes living roughly as long as a human, with green castes having lifespans extending above a hundred years. Blue bloods live “centuries”

longer than bronze bloods, and fuchsia bloods have an “unparalleled” lifespan of hundreds of thousands of years, or perhaps millions. The relative population of each caste is inverse to their lifespan, with lower classes being much more copious than higher classes, and fuchsia bloods numbering only two. The exception to this are the jade bloods, which Andrew Hussie says "probably have the smallest population of any individual class, aside from fuchsia" The ratio of males and females can differ across castes, with jade bloods being described a an almost exclusively female caste

Trolls of lower blood are more prone to possessing psychic powers, with telekinesis common to both rust and gold bloods, and animal communionbeing typical of bronze bloods. These psychic trolls “can be difficult to manipulate” with mind control, but they are in exchange “more psychically susceptible” to Gl'bgolyb's Vast Glub and are the first to die when it occurs. Some higher castes are also prone to specific psychic powers. Some members of Aranea Serket's “8lood type” are able to “access another's mind” to the extent of mind control and psychic manipulation. Purple bloods also have access to “REAL HARSHWHIMSIES” called “chucklevoodoos” which allow them to psychically amplify fears through dreams and manifest various puppets inside them. Sea dwellers Trolls of the highest two castes are sea dwellers, “a sub-race of troll distinct from the commoners by mutation and habitat” , recognizable by the fins on the sides of their faces. Sea dwellers also have at least partially different internal anatomy to land dwellers, including a “Collapsing And Expanding Bladder Based Aquatic Vascular System” . Mutant colors Unlike all other trolls, Karkat and Kankri Vantas' blood is the same color as that of humans, carapacians, leprechauns, and malevolent cherubs. Though not true mutants, in the sense that their nature as paradox clones means they have no "natural"-colored ancestors, their blood is referred to as “mutant candy-red” for its lack of a place in the established hemospectrum. Doc Scratch also suggests that this mutation was also the source of visions the Signless experienced throughout his life. Because of the rarity of this color, Karkat's ancestor was unable to receive a sign or be selected by any lusus, and was instead raised by another troll; his lack of place in the Alternian social order made him a pariah, “forcing him to wander the world alone for many sweeps, concealing the color of his blood to avoid certain execution.” Though the Signless' blood color has no true place on the hemospectrum, the sign given to Karkat after his ancestor's death sits between the gold Gemini and olive Leo signs in Earth's zodiac; this duality of lime and red is reflected in the cherubs, and alluded to in the Extended Zodiac, which states that Cancer, even though it technically belongs to the Lime Sign Class [...] for mysterious reasons, transcends the Sign Class Spectrum altogether.

The caste system on Alternia follows a strict hierarchy up the hemospectrum in order of hue, with rust the lowest, bronze above rust, upward to fuchsia, the highest. The term 'lowblood' is used to refer to the castes on the lower end of the spectrum, such as rust , but also to refer to blue bloods by trolls of a higher caste. Similarly the word 'peasant' is frequently used to refer to trolls of lower castes, but 'peasantblood' is used by Gamzee to refer to Equius. The term 'highblood' is used mostly to refer to members of the purple caste, and used as a proper noun refers to the leaders of the land dwelling castes, described as a “a self-governing body” kept in check by the sea dwellers led by Her Imperious Condescension. The carrier of the Grand Highblood title presumably holds a high position among the Highbloods. These Highbloods would seem to be synonymous with with subjugglators, who use their psychic chucklevoodoos to quell rebellion among their governed. The sea dwelling castes make up Alternia's “royalty” and are “a caste which rules over the entire species”. Despite this and their position above the land dwelling highbloods on the hemospectrum, sea dwellers and land dwelling highbloods have a rivalry “codified in tradition” and “are obligated to be at odds”.

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trolls have a Nook and bulge the nook is a tight slit that is similar to a pussy but it goes much deeper as it has a cock or the Bulge in it in males this bulge has a bone in it and is dubbed a bone bulge but in females this bulge is prehensile and tentacle like this is called a tentacle bulge the nook and bulge are the same color as a trolls blood but depending on the cast and individual the the bulge or nook could have minor mutations that give it different shapes like the horns of a troll

Trolls' bodies are saturated with an ingredient that colors much of their internal biology, including their blood and their tears, and the position of their blood on a spectrum of colors affects various other aspects of their biology

All trolls have grey skin and horns colored in bands of red-orange to yellow-orange (vaguely resembling candy corn). The sclera of most trolls' eyes are the same yellow-orange color as their horn tips; however some trolls with mutations can have eyes in different colors,. Many other parts of troll anatomy are black, including their hair and lips

Trolls are reproductively Bisexual capable of forming reproductive relationships matespritand kismesis pairs between any combination of sexes. Trolls provide “a combinative genetic mix” from these concupiscent pairings are given to the mother grub to incubate Matesprit-love Kismesis-hate and physical attraction

The hemospectrum is the series of twelve blood colors possessed by trolls, forming the basis of the Alternian (the trolls home planet) caste system were burgundy or rust bloods are the lowest and fuchsia the highest the exact list from lowest to highest is as follows Lower class Burgundy-the slave class often roped in with bronze bloods as the rust bloods Rust-the cheap labor class a few of their members have the ability to talk with animals Gold bloods-the battery class they very often possess psionics essentially a version of physic powers that generate energy and were strapped into batteries by the empire to power warships Middle class Lime bloods-hunted to extinction Olive bloods-the poor class they are the most middle of the road class but they actually tend to be more aggressive do to them having very strong instincts Jade bloods-the material class their role is society was mostly to stay in the brooding cavers to tend to the mother grub they are mostly women they also suffer from the rainbow drinker affliction that means they’re troll vampire Teals bloods-the lawyer class they tend to be the lowest class with servants or slaves Upper class Cerulean bloods-the bitch class they almost always with out fail suck as people they also have physic powers to control other trolls through force of will Indigo/blue bloods-the rich class they often have equine themes but also are incredibly strong to the point of needing specialty items to handle them Purple bloods-the subjugaters the purple blood cast is the highest in land often being feared by even sea-dwellers they are feared for three reasons a massive amount of them being psychotic two them being very close in strength to blue bloods and their extremely violent religion (it’s basically the juggalos from earth but if it was a fanatical religion) Royalty/sea dwellers Violet bloods-the water class they are the royalty or dukes of troll society they have gills to breath under water Fuchsia bloods-the true royal class they are a all female class and the rulers of the troll empire they are extremely strong and can’t die of old age their can only be two at a time and their lusis is a Eldridge Demi god that lives in the deep sea

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