#condesce

[frigiddoctoratus]

youve COD to be KRILLIN me

[stinkysh-t]

theyre so besties

[sillybuhdilly]

FINALLY DREW GRIMBARK JADE AGUSHSUDSJOJCWDNFJODW I LOVE TS SO MUCH not to self glaze or anything.. 🥺🥺🥺

[horrorterrorsmakingart]

Day 4 Ancestor

Shellfie with the fam

[mickysmansion]

poorly drew the condesce as donald trump getting his ear shot

[kiriashini]

such bad quality cuz of small canvas ughh

plus my fav in hiveswap 1

and my fav in hiveswap 2

[typheus]

midnight christmas condy 👍

[signmind]

The claim that “trolls don’t experience sexism because they’re aliens” is a strange one, especially when you consider the jadeblood caste. As an entire caste that is exclusively female, jadebloods are also defined by institutionalised servitude.

On both Beforus and Alternia, jadebloods are expected to remain underground and dedicate their lives to tending the Mother Grub. This role is not optional; it is socially and politically enforced. At this point, many people will argue that this system is overseen by the Empress, who is herself female and stop their analysis there.

But that perspective ignores the broader power structure. If we continue examining Alternian society, we see that the dominant highblood castes, particularly the purpleblood clowns and the violetblood seadwellers, place many men in positions of real authority across the land. The clowns act as the highest governing land-dwellers, while the violetbloods are coded heavily around military power. The Grand Highblood in particular is portrayed as someone whose authority legislacerator and enforcers defer to. His execution of the violetblood Dualscar demonstrates that his power supersedes even that of the upper sea-dweller caste; if anyone from a lower caste had killed a violetblood, it likely would have resulted in their immediate execution.

Even the existence of a female ruling caste does not eliminate these dynamics. Fuchsia-bloods are also exclusively female, which might seem to undermine feminist readings at first glance, but the religious undertones complicates that assumption. A figure like the Condesce still ultimately serves higher cosmic powers such as Lord English. Likewise, Feferi is framed as serving the Horrorterrors. In both cases, the castes that are explicitly coded as female are also thematically tied to forms of servitude to male or higher authorities.

Isolation reinforces this structure as well. Both jadebloods and fuchsia-bloods are socially separated from the rest of troll society. Jadebloods are confined underground, while fuchsias are largely cut off from ordinary social life. Feferi, for instance, is shown to have extremely limited social connections, Eridan being one of the only consistent ones we see and the Condescension spent the majority off her time off planet. Because of this isolation, they are forced to rely on the surrounding castes to govern, which are castes dominated by men. If the Condesce is absent or operating elsewhere in space, the practical governance and enforcement of the empire falls to those same male-dominated castes.

While trolls may reproduce with whoever they want, that does not erase gendered divisions within their society. Their concept of gender may be alien compared to human frameworks, but it still produces structures of hierarchy and power that map onto recognisable patterns of gendered control.