She is believed to be the original troll, and is known to have created the seeds of a mighty civilisation in East Beforus. She’s credited as the prophetess, and wrote about beforus and alternia. She left writings predicting the rise and fall of beforus, as well as the creation of Alternia,and even predicted the influence of her bloodline throughout all of Troll History.
A great Actor and in many beloved Troll Movies (generally the flirtatious male in romcoms, his acting in Troll Footloose is who both Cronus and Rufioh based themselves off of), he was known as the most eligible bachelor on Beforus for his entire career. He had one ability that allowed his acting to surpass all others, imagining all his self consciousness as an outside force that couldn’t affect him. This allowed him to be free and act as anyone. This ability to portray anyone perfect earned him countless fans, all wishing to meet his various personas. Although he was able to wine and dine with the greatest of troll culture, he was still incredibly self conscious when with those he was closest to.
Both a famous game creator and stuntman (no one knows they’re the same person) he lives a dual life, not wanting his interests to get in the way of each other. He was coddled by Terezi’s beforan self for his mutation (which eventually becomes a secret Matespritship). He’s a prodigy both when it comes to his athletic career, pulling off stunts only possible with psychic abilities, and with his game creating, making incredibly deep MMO’s and RPG’s with incredibly simple code. His greatest achievements are creating the original Fiduspawn, and Troll X Games.
Once coddled by Kanaya’s pre-scratch self, his beliefs about coddling being a good thing were shatteredafter realizing that he hadn’t developed any social skills and hadn’t been treated as an equal,even being treated as an inferior in an unrequited black romance. He ran away, and eventually became an outspoken political opponent to Coddling and believes that those who would coddle are harming the development of lower caste trolls. Often inspires rioting with his anger filled speeches. As a first punishment, his sign was erased from history, being deemed too dangerous an ideal for future mutants. His own version of the Vast Expletive came when being escorted away by the Empress, and proclaimed a far more advanced world, where without coddling and unnecessary caution, an technological empire spanned the galaxy, his hate of coddling remains in Kankri to this day.
In a world with four different ways to experience romance, the citizens are bound to face confusion on who to flirt with and in what quadrant they should flirt in. This was a problem solved by the innovations of the Cupidess. She was the one who solidified the definitions of the quadrant system, and gave thousands of snippets of relationship advice. Not only that, but she even traveled the world, helping as many trolls as she could to find a quadrant that they could fill. She even once wandered into the camps of the cult of the Mirthful Messiahs, believing that they would be more accepted if they just embraced the quadrant system more. She even entered into a quadrant with The Mirthful… Although not much information is known beyond that. After that encounter, she retreated to her long abandoned hive, and carved all her knowledge about shipping and quadrants into the walls. Supposedly, this is where Meulin Leijon learned the art of shipping.
Possibly the biggest sponsor of coddling and the caste system, The Pamperer took in more mutants and lowblood than any other troll in history. This of course led her to develop plenty of new ways to coddle and pamper each troll she took in, leading to the way coddling is done today. However, having so many trolls to attend to is not necessarily easy, and often led to many of them not getting the highest standard of care. The Pamperer was known for her habit of neglecting the needs of many of the newer trolls who weren’t used to her coddling techniques. As more and more of her coddled trolls began to leave her and run away, she put more of her emotions into the few trolls that she could manage to keep, including some of the darker emotions. She engaged in several (possibly unrequited) black relationships, with the final being her relationship with The Critical, which ended when he ran away. This broke her, and made her unable to care for any of the other trolls she was supposed to coddle. Her life ended with her still having unresolved issues in both Black Romance and coddling, which still remain in her descendant, Porrim Maryam.
Living quite possibly the only other dual life as difficult as The Prodiigy’s, The Balancer keeps both her stunt life with Sollux and her career as a Legislacerator in perfect balance, even being able to go public with both lives without being thrown off her course. The most goal oriented troll on Beforus, she’s somehow able to keep both the scales of justice uncorrupted, fair, and balanced, while also being able to balance a skateboard on a tightrope hundreds of feet above the ground. She showed hundreds that with the right state of mind, even the most incompatible lifestyles can be brought together in harmony, and that no matter your limits (I.e. Wanting to be both a famous daredevil AND a seeker of justice) you can overcome the hurdles and find balance in life. Her descendant, Latula, uses this mindset whenever she’s having trouble with her own disabilities or whenever she’s having a hard time in her relationship with Mituna.
When your world spans hundreds of thousands of generations, history can become hard to keep track of all in books. So, one entrepreneurial highblood came up with a way to help out future generations as well as make her look good. She created the tradition of web keeping, or weaving a spider lusus’s webs into an incredibly durable record of Beforus’s History. However, this was no concise history, as the first troll to do it ALSO had a tendency to ramble on, as well as to… em8ellish her own personal history to say the least. Most early web records of history contain her scathing remarks on how she would’ve done better, as well as containing a bit of bias (a lot of bias) towards her own thoughts on said history. Nevertheless, without a record of history we are doomed to repeat it, and she started the proud tradition that carries on in her bloodline today, leaving a Young Serket immensely interested in recounting historical events to anyone who will listen.
While Alternia was far more technologically advanced (due to constant war forcing technological innovation) , Beforus had its own slew of masterful crafts. Most if not all of current day Beforus’ tech was pioneered and invented by the E%ploited, however, you’d never guess that based on the patents placed on each invention he made. This entrepreneur’s story is a tragic one, as all those he employed to help him make Beforus a better place ended up betraying him, and stealing his inventions. Indeed, the E%ploited was too trusting of his associates, and was doomed to die mostly unknown, with one innovation left to his name that no one had stolen from him, this being his writings on robotics. His curse of anonymity was passed to his descendant, as well as said writings, leaving the young Zahhak to finally bring proper recognition to their bloodline.
Not much is known about this mysterious religious figure, except his nefarious reputation and the cult he left behind. Whether he named himself after it or vice versa, the fact still remains that he founded the once violent cult of the Mirthful Messiahs. He was said to steal children from their lusii, subjecting them to thinkpan rotting materials (such as sopor slime and Faygo) until they saw what he saw; a future full of only miracles. He even once managed to convince the Cupidess to join his cult for a sweep, but she left after a horrifying sopor vision that she’d refuse to ever speak of. He was said to have had prophetic dreams of both madness and clarity, predicting the Vast Honk, and naming himself as both of the Mirthful Messiahs at one point. After his gruesome (cut in half from head to toe) death, the cult calmed down, but they’ve never shaken their sinister reputation, and are said to still be planning the destruction of all universes even now.
Once a beloved Troll actor, even starring in films with The Schmooze in his heyday, he began to fall out of popularity after Troll Harry Potter. He never had a serious roll after that, with critics (especially The Critical) calling his acting uninspired. His fall from grace is comparable to the human actor CHARLIE SHEEN, they even had the same Ultimate Failure, Foodfight. Or in The Wwashout’s case, Troll Foodfight. He was once revered by a young Cronus Ampora (his fall from grace even contributing to his later disbelief in magic) , but after the failure that was Troll Foodfight, not even the young sea dweller could justify his movies, and moved on to revering The Schmooze. The Wwashout’s failure in acting was passed on to Cronus, in the form of failure at romance in any quadrant.
Centuries of previous empresses came and left on Beforus without leaving a blip on the metaphorical radar. Sure, they kept troll society from falling apart, but they did nothing revolutionary. Her Grand Graciousness changed all of that. She took the lessons learned from saving endangered sealife as a child, and applied that to saving lowblood trolls as an adult. With her revolutionary coddling system in place, Troll society on Beforus began to be what it is today. Peaceful, kind, giving. While she was opposed by many of the highbloods (who felt as though they were being saddled with unfair responsibilities), she argued that their preferences did not matter, so long as the majority were safe and protected. She always argued that security and safety were more important than any of her citizen’s other needs. While the society still works today, it’s oppossed by many, including her own descendant.
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