#beta troll session

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Do you ever wonder what the planets the trolls got are like? We see snippets of them through out the comic, but unlike the humans we see a lot of the land. Sometimes I'm just so fucking curious to know what's the deal with all these brains floating in Sollux planet or are those rays of light dangerous/harmless on Kanaya planet? It may not be relevant to the overall plot but it's certainly tickles my imagination a whole lot. Nevermind world building I wanna talk about PLANET BUILDING/SOLAR SYSTEM BUILDING. 🤩

Mood, worldbuilding and thinking what their quests were like and how everything went is just fun. :3c

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Hey, Wak, what would you describe as a completely normal, average game of Sburb? -FG Anon

The Troll Session. Other than not being able to claim the reward in the end, they had a pretty average Session overall.

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how would you think a healthy sburb session would be?(if there even is one)

The Troll Session was a good Session except for the fact they couldn’t claim their reward and Kanaya and Karkat didn’t find the last frog! Like, they actually DID do as they were supposed to.

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Why is the ghost army only troll ghosts with no humans to be seen?

The Beta Trolls spent several weeks in their session, and the Alphas, years. With the Dave only looping about eleven times for a total of three days, trying to keep casualties to a minimum (Compared to Aradia's 1000 Timelines), and the Alpha Kids living in an inter session with not much confrontation, chances are there's just many many more Trolls than Humans. Also the ghost army was based originally on mind controlling Trolls and having the rest follow suit, so given how the mind control works, it makes sense for it to be mostly Troll Based. Also a good chunk of the Human Ghosts that DO exist were obliterated in Caliborn Enter.

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So Dersites all hate frogs, this is shown by the Trolls' session Black Queen's refusal to wear the prototyping ring. However, in the Rex Duodecim Angelus fan animation, the Black King didn't mind the frog prototyping and even attempted to use the frog tongue to his advantage. Does that mean the Black King didn't mind the frog protoyping?

Queens are vain, the King’s the Last Stand, gotta do what you gotta do.

Also, RDA is a fan-animation, but yeah.

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Do we know if the trolls completed their planets quests? Are quests a part of getting to the denizen?

Arguably, with the potential exception of Tavros, they implied none of the Trolls actually completed their Quests. The Quest is simply a series of trials meant to help you grow as a person, ending with the Denizen’s Choice- Given that they killed the Denizens without listening to them, none of them finished it.

Tavros is a potential exception because Vriska mentioned being surprised Tavros actually took down his Denizen- And given he actually gave a shit about the Puzzles in his Land, there’s always the chance he just talked it out with Typheus rather than... Beat him in combat.

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I know right! I also wondered about Dirk! And I'm wondering if like, any other troll got either of the two special Denizens? I can sort of imagine one of the Megidos getting Yaldabaoth, or Tavros getting Abraxas.

Karkat got Abraxas, but as for Yaldabaoth, if anyone, I may say Gamzee could’ve gotten him, or maybe Equius at most, hinting to them being part of Lord English’ composite Soul.

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Why did the trolls sprites die?

Same reason everything else in the Troll Session died. They were getting up to the very end after an unbeatable boss to cross into the Universe they made when Jack attacked. They were thrown immediately into the Veil, and couldn’t return to their planets. Jack then proceeded to destroy them one by one, so they didn’t have a chance to reunite with them.