pet peeves about bloodswaps
- maroons being dead. aradia was dead because sollux was manipulated into killing her, you’d be surprised to find that not every maroon-blooded troll hatches already dead as a ghost.
- i don’t actually have anything for browns because i never see it. maybe having wings when that’s a rufioh-specific mutation?
- yellows being red/blue themed, automatically having psionics, being rad coders and gamers, and/or having a duality theme. the last few things are sollux-specific, not caste-related. second of all, not all yellows are psionics, and psionics come in a wide variety of colors, not just red and blue. if you wanted to play sollux, then you should have just done that.
- olives using catpuns. that was a leijon thing, and furthering that, i see nepeta players all too often oversaturating their puns. nepeta... doesn’t pun a whole lot, nor obnoxiously. the troll you’re looking for is meulin.
- limes existing. there’s not enough of that, honestly? you’d think there would be but i rarely see lime bloodswaps hell i barely know any ocs. but also, karkat existing in this point in the color wheel instead of the front. because he’s a mutated lime. sorry folks, that’s canon confirmed.
- jades being fashionistas. this one is the absolute worst and usually gets an unfollow for a lack of creativity. that was a kanaya thing, and it was even stated that it was an unusual hobby even among jades. trolls don’t typically care much about fashion. swapping into a jade and suddenly having your troll have kanaya’s specific interest is... well, if you wanted to play kanaya, you should have.
- teals having red eyes. that was because terezi was blind, damage from being caught in a cycle of revenge. on the same topic of teals, having your teal be interested in law so intrinsically was a terezi thing too. like most teals are slated to become legislacerators, but the scalemates and mock trials and hangings were definitely a terezi thing. so is eating chalk and being fascinated with red. stoppit.
- ceruleans being associated with spiders and eight. the vision eightfold thing is a scorpio thing specifically, which is fine if you gave them vriska’s lusus and the scorpio sign instead. i don’t have much more to comment than this, maybe the mind control thing. that’s rare among highbloods.
- indigos.... you know i’ve never seen an indigo swap to have a peeve honestly.
- purples being clowns. this even applies to your ocs, just because you have a purple doesn’t mean you have to be a clown, ESPECIALLY considering the mirthful messiahs is a niche cult that was literally founded by lord english as being the messiah. ok yeah granted, all of the hiveswap released purples were clowns, but the text says this isn’t a castewide thing. furthering that, every purple having chucklevoodoos. that’s also inaccurate, because it’s explicitly stated that chucklevoodoos are only taught to subjuggulators.
- violets having capes and hair stripes. this is an eridan thing. even the entire ampora line doesn’t have hair stripes, it’s just eridan. it’s a mutation specific to him. let him have that. capes are, again, a fashion statement. while not explicitly stated it’s pretty obvious he dresses differently from the other trolls, and it seems to be a him-thing rather than a thing among violets. even cronus dresses fairly normally, save for wearing white instead of black.
- fuchsias having fish puns. it’s bad enough that people often oversaturate feferi with puns but almost every troll that gets turned into a seadweller magically seems to get nautical puns and it’s... uncreatively gross. that’s what actually spurred me to write this thing, seeing an indigo horuss with fins using fish puns. magic anons that change caste and you start writing your character with fish puns is even worse because there’s absolutely no logic behind it.
- mutants proudly displaying their color or mutation. they’d die. that’s it, they’d die. this obviously depends on circumstances, but on alternia standard, your troll would be culled if they were not hemoanonymous. On beforus too, but culled has a different meaning. earth aus or post-game aus dont count on this one, because mutants don’t matter there, they can do what they want safely. on that note, mutant-blood swaps all being crimson instead of exploring another color.
- i’m also not a fan of castes that deviate from the 12 main (including lime, excluding mutants.) colors. even if you use different shades, troll blood is not bright, it’s dull. if it’s bright, you’re a mutant, and cullworthy on your home planet.