In the ot5, would they raise wrigglers together ouo? I loooove hearing headcannons bout these ;w;
Eventually, of course! Terezi and Dave are less into the idea, though. It’s mostly Nepeta and Jade who want to be parents, and Karkat is on the fence, because he’s unsure if he’d be a good father. Eventually, Nepeta, Terezi and Karkat would submit their material to the new Mother Grub and receive three wrigglers in return.
(The specifics of grub making is not well detailed, but I like to imagine that for each new troll, they are a near perfect genetic clone of one of their parents, with a few extra traits from that parent’s matesprit and kismesis, as well as maybe even one or two random genes mixed in from the slurry.)
So the three of them would each have a near-perfect clone of themself. And Jade is ecstatic about raising the grubs, while Dave is a lot more nervous.
Also, grubs are probably almost always the same sex/gender as their primary genes giver, but I’ve always loved to imagine Karkat with a daughter. So maybe the red-blooded troll is a girl, as well as the two others. So they’re raised kind of like triplet sisters.
As the triplets grow up, even Dave finds himself lavishing their little princesses with affection.
Karkat’s daughter could be named Karyna (meaning shell or a sea ship), Nepeta’s daughter could be named Kefyra (meaning cat), and Terezi’s daughter could be named Kalyah (meaning slayer of dragons).
Karyna, Kefyra, and Kalyah
Hahaha I kind of want to draw these little troll princesses now actually. They sound adorable
