KARKAT VANTAS'S FANTROLL REVIEW

IN WHICH A RISK IS TAKEN THAT IS ADEQUATE FOR A CERTAIN TROLL'S LEVEL OF SKILL AND A FANTROLL REVIEW BLOG IS OPENED. CONTAINS ONE GRUMPY TROLL AND ONE DRUNKEN HUMAN.

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What would be the requirements of taking over your blog for you?

((hmmmmm I'd like it if you had enough free time to run it, a lot of knowledge about the homestuck world, and know your way around OCs.))

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Are you dead? There hasn't been an update in a year, and I've got a fantroll that needs reviewing.

((i’m terribly sorry for the inactivity. this blog is basically on eternal hiatus because i’ve kind of fallen out of my homestuck phase. if anyone wants to take over the blog, contact me!

-mod u))

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((Wow, I haven't posted in here since like forever...

I've been super busy with school and whatnot, so does anyone want to take over running this blog for me? There's a form for submissions here, so just complete it and throw it into the submit box.

-Mod U))

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karkat roxy are you guys dead its been a month we need some signs of life. how do you read a blog's pulse

I DON'T KNOW. QUICK, SOMEONE, WHAT'S THE NUMBER FOR 911?

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Are the infrequent blog updates due to a lack of submissions and asks, or are you receiving them and just not getting around to reviewing trolls and answering questions?

CURRENTLY WE ARE UP TO OUR HORNS IN SUBMISSIONS, BUT MOD U HAS A CERTAIN ATTRIBUTE KNOWN AS "BEING A LAZY ASSHOLE".

WE'LL GET AROUND TO REVIEWING THINGS SOONER OR LATER.

PROBABLY LATER.

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Is it possible for anyone who wants to, to give design submissions instead of the entire info? I want to make sure I'm going to give background info to a proper-looking troll. Thank you!

IT'S PERFECTLY FINE WITH US.

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Is the whole "Your name is [x] and you [y]" format necessary when submitting a troll? I'll do one if necessary, but I'd prefer to just make a regular list about him since I'm bad at writing introductions like that.

IT'S FINE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT. AS LONG AS YOU GET THE INFORMATION OUT IN A COHERENT WAY, WE'LL BE FINE WITH IT.

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how do you feel about non-canon sgrub titles

((I guess they're fine, so long as they follow the one-syllable rule.

-Mod U))

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If we aren't versed in the art of spriting, or if our digital tools of trade are fubar'd, then would it be alright to submit our fantroll's info with a sketch of them instead?

SURE. THE SPRITES DON'T MATTER SO MUCH AS THE IMAGE/DESCRIPTION OF THE FANTROLL ITSELF.

WE MAINLY ASK FOR A SPRITE BECAUSE THEY'RE CONVENTIONAL, BUT OTHER MEDIUMS ARE FINE AS WELL.

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Is there any chance that mod positions will be available soon?

((Uhhhhh, maybe. I'll have to talk it over with our dear Roxy to see what she thinks.

-Mod U))

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could you give me a quirk idea for a troll with a cholerbear lusus? themes are blacksmithing, wearing armor, making traps, the number 10, and ofc, bears.

OKAY, FIRST LET'S THINK OF SOME THINGS THAT RELATE TO THEIR THEMES.

ARMOR: BULKING UP THEIR WORDS WITH A PREFIX AND/OR SUFFIX

TEN: FIGURE OUT SOME WAY TO INSERT IT INTO THEIR WORDS

TRAPS: IN ORDER TO DO MUCH FOR THIS ONE, I WOULD NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT TRAPS AND THEIR FAVORITE TRAPS.

BEARS: BEAR CLAWS? BEAR GROWLS?

THE FIRST THING I'M THINKING OF IS CAPSLOCK. THINK OF IT AS A SORT OF BASE.

(MY OPINION OF CAPSLOCK, AS YOU MAY SEE, COULD POSSIBLY BE BIASED. AFTER ALL, IT IS AS FLAWLESS AS THE PERSON USING IT.)

(AKA ME.)

OKAY, NOW DOWN TO BUSINESS.

FOR ARMOR AND TRAPS, THEY COULD USE K AS A SORT OF ARMOR/TRAP, ALMOST LIKE A PROTECTIVE LAYER OF SPIKES.

K THEY TALK LIKE THIS. K

NEXT, THEY COULD SUBSTITUTE 10 IN WHENEVER THEY USE O OR I.

K S10T10MES THEY TALK L10KE TH10S. K

BUT THAT MIGHT BE A LITTLE COMPLICATED TO READ. INSTEAD, IT COULD BE LIKE THIS:

K S0MET1MES THEY HAVE A 10DENCY T0 TYPE L1KE TH1S. K

REPLACING WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE TEN WITH 10 WOULD BE VERY BEFITTING.

WELL, THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR YOU RIGHT NOW.

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Magnus Cinesr

THE QUALITY OF THE SPRITING ON THIS MAKES ME WANT TO JUMP OUT A WINDOW AND INTO A PIT OF STARVING FERRETS. 

IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S REALLY GOOD. I ALSO LIKE HOW HIS BLOOD COLOR IS ONLY PRESENT ON HIS SIGIL AND SHOES, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT A YELLOWBLOOD WOULD DO ON ALTERNIA.

Your name is MAGNUS CINESR and you are a 6 SWEEP OLD YELLOWBLOOD, placing you at one of the LOWEST POINTS IN THE HEMOSPECTRUM. You don't seem to mind this though, in fact you're almost RELIEVED that you weren't hatched a highblood. The perks and privliges are sure great, but the jobs and the long lifespans sounds like a HUGE RESPONSIBILITY that you don't really want. You're pretty content being told what to do rather than giving all of the shots. You're not much of a leader type.

A TRUE LOWBLOOD.

Your lusus is a creature that is very hard to miss! At least in your small hive it is. He is a rather large RATTLING-SLITHERBEAST. He seems pretty intimidating considering he could easily SWALLOW YOU WHOLE, but you find him to be pretty MILD-MANNERED AND PLACID most of the time. This may be due to the fact that you keep your hive VERY COLD but you're certainly not going to heat up the place. Your SAMPLES wouldn't last an hour!

GIVING A LOWBLOOD A POWERFUL LUSUS ISN'T ALWAYS A GOOD MOVE, BUT TONING DOWN THEIR SKILLS IS GOOD. 

Samples of what you may ask? Why, MEDICINE AND VENOM OF COURSE.

You aspire to be an APOTHECARY, tinkering with DANGEROUS COMPOUNDS to bring cures to diseases all around! You would just ADORE that! Helping cure trolls would be cool but in reality you'd be the MASTER OF POISONS! Everyone's lives would rest in YOUR HANDS! Well, everyone who was your patient. You've successfully made medicines before, but nothing better than things for SINUS RELIEF and ANTIVENOM, the latter made from the poison from your lusus. You're working your way up the ladder to using more BOLD things for medicine. You don't find them that impressive but you've got the INTEREST of a few trolls around the hivestem you call your neighborhood, which will be good when you DO create something you deem worthy of attention. Or if you want to test something.

I LIKE HOW YOU ARE ACTUALLY USING THEIR LUSUS FOR SOMETHING. SNAKES TEND TO BE USED AS LUSII SIMPLY FOR THE BADASS FACTOR, BUT YOU DON'T WANT ME TO GOUGE MY EYES OUT WITH SPOONS.

You don't have many other hobbies, although you do enjoy visiting the trolls in the hivestem. They used to be so talkative and gave good feedback about your medicine. In fact, most of the trolls were pretty tolerable, especially the RATHER CUTE ORANGEBLOOD ON THE FIFTH FLOOR... But as of late they kind of IGNORE YOU. That's fine though. Not like it HURTS YOUR BLOODPUSHER TREMENDOUSLY or anything. You're a tough loner type with a huge chip on his shoulder.

Oh wait. That isn't you at all. 

HA.

You're generally not much of a fighter, preferring to defend yourself with your trusty SYRINGEKIND rather than go and pick a fight. You generally mean well but can come off as a little snarky and impatient, mostly because there are LOTS of dumb questions about you and your hobby and you hear WAY TOO MANY OF THEM, you mean JEEZ. APOTHECARY is easy enough to pronounce! You have LITTLE TOLERANCE FOR STUPID QUESTIONS OF ANY KIND, although you mind you manners when dealing with HIGHBLOODS. They don't mess around! You also can be quite CLINGY if you become particularly attatched to someone, like aforementioned CUTE ORANGEBLOOD. Too bad she isn't speaking to you for some weird reason. Man you wish you knew why!!

NOT EVERYONE LOVES HIM. GOOD, IT KEEPS THINGS REALISTIC.

You haven't said anything offensive to her, nor have you made her try out a new medicine. In fact you haven't tested on ANYONE in a while. The last person to test one of your medicines was well. YOU. And it didn't DO ANYTHING which was a real  bummer. Come to think of it, she stopped talking to you a little while after that. Your lusus was kinda avoiding you too..Maybe it made your breath smell bad.. Oh well, you'll just brush your teeth extra good before you venture out to go see her again.

DAMMIT, NOW I'M INTERESTED IN THIS.

Your trollian handle is  medicinalUnderling, and you rrrather enjoy injecting yourrr worrrds into otherrrs, although as oV late people haVe been ignorrring what you say.

I RATHER LIKE HIS QUIRK. 

I FEEL THE NEED TO COMMENT ON THIS TROLL AS A WHOLE.

THIS IS A VERY REALISTICALLY DONE FANTROLL AND YOU HAVE DEFINITELY KEPT HIS BLOOD STATUS AND THEME/S IN MIND WHILE CREATING HIM.

GOOD JOB. I DON'T SEE ANYTHING THAT YOU REALLY NEED TO ALTER HERE. FEEL FREE TO GO FROLIC ABOUT WITH HIM IN THROES OF ECSTASY. YOU DESERVE IT.

I AM SO, SO PROUD OF YOU.

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I had a joking idea after looking at how many Black Blood fan trolls there were in the world, and as an obsessed fangirl for the Plague Doctors and Bubonic or Black Plague, I decided to have created a sickly maroon blood dying from a troll version of the Black Plague? With the theory that it will change your blood darker and darker to black until you are simply dead. I based everything about him around the Plague Doctors and the plague in general, do you think it's cliche? :o

IT'S NOT CLICHE IN THE SLIGHTEST, ACTUALLY. YOUR IDEA IS ORIGINAL AND HIGHLY INTRIGUING. THE ONLY PROBLEM I SEE WITH IT IS THE FACT THAT THE IMPERIAL DRONES WOULD PROBABLY CULL ANY AFFECTED TROLLS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

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be the forgetful moron

Since this is an intro text there are inconsistencies that you may find that are caused by this being from the character's point of view.  Allow me to answer any premptive questions i think you may have.  

This troll was created for the purposes of a fan adventure taking place in an au where his group is the one who found sgrub and not the canon trolls.  

He cannot build lasers because he does not have the parts or money to buy them.  What he's really doing is building lasers as best he can (because he researches the shit out of them)  and his Knight of mind powers are filling out the rest.  it is my understanding that the knight of mind is able to manifest weapons and such if he has a firm enough grasp of how they function.  He is unaware of this, he just thinks he can build them.  When the lasers are not around him, they do not function.  

THIS SOUNDS THOUGHT OUT. I'LL KEEP IT IN MIND WHILE REVIEWING.

ALSO, THAT PUN WAS COMPLETELY UNINTENTIONAL.

The desert civilization artifacts are just replicas given to him by his Moirail, an Indigo blood whom was injured and had his arms ripped off.  

The swirly goggles were actually a monocle he found before he started actively digging .  It led him to his first vision that of a troll who could possibly be his ancestor.  His possible ancestor was a page of mind and left this trail of memores behind to lead him to sgrub.

HIS SPRITE LOOKS GOOD, BUT I'M NOT SO SURE ABOUT THE "VISION OF ANCESTOR" PART. IF HE'S A KNIGHT, HE SHOULDN'T BE GETTING VISIONS. THAT'S PROBABLY MORE OR A SEER OR EVEN MAGE SORT OF THING.

Your name is MUISTI OCULTA

You are a simple troll who lives in a series of tunnels underground built by your lusus.  As a result of this you enjoy SPELUNKING and digging deeper underground with the assistance of your pale guardian.  In the dark solitude of the cavernous undergrowth you sometimes experience BRILLIANT MEMORIES of the distant past, though you’re not sure if these are actually MEMORIES as much as SWIRLY HALLUCINATIONS.  You also have a keen interest in SCIENCE, particularly when it purtains to LASERS, your preferred tool of cutting into rocks to find new tunnels. 

AGAIN, I'M NOT EXACTLY POPPING OUT THE CHAMPAGNE BOTTLES WITH THE VISIONS THING.

I WOULD HAVE SUGGESTED THAT YOU PUT IN THE HERO OF MIND'S ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE WITH DREAM SPLINTERS, BUT AN ANCESTOR WOULDN'T BE ALLOWED INTO THE DREAM BUBBLES IF THEY DIDN'T PLAY SGRUB.

When things get tough in the underworld, you’re hardly to be found without your handy POLEARMKIND strife specibus.  It’s a common weapon of Cavelreapers, but that is mere coincidence as far as you are concerned.  You just like it because its reach gives you time to think before you have to attack or defend.  You enjoy thinking, planning and giving much thought to just about everything you do. You dislike BRASH CHOICES, especially after a close friend of yours lost their arms when better planning could have saved them.

THIS FITS IN WITH THEIR ASPECT NICELY. GOOD JOB; THE RABID WEASELS WILL NOT TEAR APART YOUR CREATION JUST YET. 

Being a GREEN BLOOD, just about the middle of the hemospectrum, you don’t really have any strong opinions one way or the other on the bloodcastes.  Your HUGE RAT LUSUS  cares deeply for you, constantly cleaning you with his tongue and chattering incessantly to remind you to do things like EAT.  He also helps you find new tunnels and even though your LASERS are faster than his teeth he’s still very effective.

I LIKE HOW THEIR LUSUS IS A PART OF THEIR TUNNELING AND UNDERGROUND THEME.

Your room is covered in ANCIENT DESERT CULTURE ARTIFACTS, you’re not entirely sure why but you’ve always been drawn to these gold laden idols and Pyramid shaped monuments. When you’re not digging you’re normally using your SWIRLY GOGGLES to chat with your friends, of which you have a few.  You’re not offensive or anything, but it seems that most trolls have trouble tolerating the way you speak.  

Your troll tag is misplacedMomento and your speech is preceded by your swirly eyed visage @_@.  Hmmm,You Speak In A Ponderous But Precise Manner… Joule Often Find Yourself Making Numerous Fluxing LASER Puns…  Your Clinical Speech Often Convinces People You Aren’t Interested So You Like To Show Your Smile To Assure Them You Are Quite Engaged @u@…

THE @ SWIRLY IS QUITE SUITED TO HIS GOGGLES. BUT IS THERE ANY WAY YOU COULD SPICE UP THEIR QUIRK JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE? THE UPPERCASE BEGINNINGS OF WORDS IS GOOD, AS ARE THEIR SMILE AND PUNS. HOWEVER, ALL YOU SEEM TO HAVE ARE EMOTICONS AND PUNS. YOU DON'T NEED TO ADD MUCH, PERHAPS FINDING A LETTER TO REPLACE WITH A @.

Info breakdown:

Name:  Muisti Oculta

Age:  7 sweeps

Height: 5’7” (without horns)

DOES HIS HEIGHT EVER INTERFERE WITH HIS ABILITY TO EXPLORE THE TUNNELS?

Blood:  Green (around nepeta)

Lusus:  Ratdad

Fetch Modus: Remembermmost:  Functions a lot like a rememberall, but not all the time.  The more important the item is the less likely it is is to work

Symbol:  Rune of Memory

Class and Aspect:  Knight of mind.  He has prenatural thinking abilities and a high level of intuition, but he refuses to listen to it because of the accident that hurt his moirail.  His journey is to overcome this and realize how powerful his mind really is.

THUMBS UP HERE. YOU'VE FIT HIS TITLE AND ASPECT INTO HIS PERSONALITY WELL.

Strife Specibus:  Polearmkind

Dreamer:  Prospit

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Psssst... Is anybody still here?

((Maybe. 

Unfortunately, I've been a little (y'know, just a tad) busy the past few months. I should be able to be on a little more after exams.

-Mod U))

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If our troll hasn't really experienced any "major past events" yet, is that absolutely required in a review entry?

NOT REALLY, NO.

((Mod U: Ahhhh, sorry for inactivity! I've been really busy with NaNoWriMo and stuff! As soon as November is over, I'm going to try to get this blog back up and running again. ;u; ))

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Talima Diginit

Your name is TALIMA DIGINIT your hobby is spending time with your lusus rabbitmom. You're very hard to annoy you're also not angry.(Most of the time.) You love anything to do with reading. 

woah now hold up lil mama

troll names usully follow a cool lil six letter by sxi letter format and her last name has seven

*usually

you might wannan fix that

You dislike when the other trolls around you start to fight. In fact you hate VIOLENCE it's self. You don't like to talk about the ACIDENT that had happened to you. 

also the anti-violence thign isnt that plausible; i medan a troll could probably not partiscipate in violence regulalsrly but their society would raise themn to condone it in some wya at the very least

*participate

**regularly lmao

but idk well see if you can pull this off here in a second

another thing to thnik about is the accident; it seems like material that could put her in the sue categrory and we dont wnant that!!

*category omg

You have taken up two of your quadrents already. You have filled up your red section to AEONIS LITRAS he's a very dear person to you. You've had strong feelings for him since you were a grub. Your grey section is filled to HERSHE LEITON he is also very special to you. You often have puzzle battles with him. You go to him when you have trouble with the other trolls. To you he's a real gentleman.

i dont think having only one other troll in the ashen quadrant works

you need three trolls to fill that quadrant, two that hate each other romanticllaly, and one that keeps them form killing each other or fightingn or w/e

*hahaha romanticlassy

*romantically omfg

**fighting

Your blood color is MAROON thus you have dreams of what is going to happen in the future. A doomed plot if you will. You sometimes get messages from your  ANCESTOR THE RADIENT. They're not very good ones either. Sometimes when you get thees messages you find yourself on the floor of your room crying.

makes sense that she has powers but i geuss i dont quite undrestand the whole thing with her ancestor? how/why does she get her messages and why do they make her cry sometimes? you might wanna either drop this or expand on it

*guess

**understand

also ancestor titles are usually eight letters long, but there have been exseptiosnd so it isnt too big of a dealio

*expectaiton

**expcestion

*fuck it

Your strife is of two swords you don't tend to use them but you train to as well as pointing them at the neck of danger whenever you can.

the way you phrased this makes it seem like she goes looking for danger, which is kinda contracdicktory to what was said earlier

*contradictory om

Your trollism name is danceofMaroon you chose this name because you believe in certain things where maroon colored blood will dance across white walls.

im getting some bells here

trolltags are only two words long for one, adn two i thing you should expand on this more

overall this troll seems kinda underdeveloped

for one, whats her theme if any, two, the way this seems to be going right now seems a bit cliche. i mean you didnt even expand on her apparent accident, and if we dont know what it was or how it afflected her, hwo do we know it was even necessary?? 

*affected

and i guess three im not sure you followed the submission guidlelines because there are quite a few missign pioeces of info here

*guidelines

**missing  

but idk i bet with some heavy editing you can make this great!! :3