HOMESTUCK SCIENCE
Since it’s 4/13 and I’m a massive fan of science I decided to get scientific with troll biology, more specifically with their blood and why their bloods are different colours and what effects that and maybe the diets they have to have to sustain that.
Starting at well, red bloods, the first and lowest blood group unless you count mutants, which in this case we are. The red blooded trolls also known as rust bloods are the trolls that are kind of the closest to humans in the way their blood is, it’s evidently high in iron which is what oxidises in our blood and makes it red giving the red bloods their nickname, as iron rusts as it oxidises. Even blood can rust over time, if there is a high iron amount.
This means there diet will be a lot like our, but with plenty of greens like spinach or some kind of equivalent mixed in to help keep that blood nice and healthy.
Next are the yellow bloods, now this one was tricky as I wasn’t sure how a creature with blood that has a high sulphate concentration could exist then I remembered this is sci-fi and also we can’t really expect anything with aliens. RULE NUMBER ONE WITH ALIENS! EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED! So these guys would probably stink if you cut them. What would they have to eat to stay healthy? Well probably lots of eggs, garlic, dried fruits, dairy and maybe a few supplement pills.
Now Green bloods, so jade bloods and olive bloods what do they have in common? Well their blood contains a heck of copper, this what gives it that beautiful shade of green like jade (I don’t have a biased) and gives them like the red bloods a pretty varied diet though they will have to eat a lot of red meats like beef, so Nepeta has that down with her hunting animals.
Blue bloods are high in, well actually it’s hard to place what the blue bloods would be high in, as it could silver which can corrode and oxidise blue, but I think it’s a mix of copper and silver as teal is kind of put in this caste but not completely, there’s a lot of cross over like this. It may be a mix of Copper Sulphate and Silver Dioxide within their blood that gives it the varied shades. What do they have to eat to stay healthy? Well pretty much the same as the green bloods, with some salmon, sweet potato and lentils thrown in for good measure.
I’m going to through indigo bloods in with purples and fuchsias because what makes up these guys, is all kind of the same really. See the purple bloods being the highest caste, especially the sea dwellers are potentially an interesting mix of all of the bloods, though the sea dwellers like have some nitrates thrown in for good measure. See, the human body contains all the metals found within trolls, we just happen to have a lot of iron. However if everything was in perfect balance, be it one way or another you get different shades of purple as liquids mix together and so on, therefore the fuchsia bloods, the ruling class of troll kind have a perfect balance within their bodies. So these trolls get to eat whatever they want really, at least in healthy amounts.
DISCLAIMER: I am not a scientist or biologist, these are merely theories based on my own findings of metal oxidisation, chemistry and biology. I have studied chemistry and biology, but I have a much higher understanding of physics. This was for fun.
HAPPY 4/13
