#gold rule

[kabutoden]

BEHOLD, BUGSTUCK COMPLETE

click on the link to go to a spreadsheet with TONS OF ART (lots even not featured here. yay :) and also lots of lore!

ok so were you ever like 'huh i wonder how many morphs are stuff are in bugstuck and what buggy trolls who arnt the main six generally look like also wouldnt it be funny if there was like, a whole lot of dedication put into this, like seriously way too much effort' well STOP your QUESTIONS because i drew like 36 trolls and gave them all godtiers. they're broken into groups of a dozen (wrigglers, 13 year olds, and older teens) to help me with assigning them all classpects for fun. classpecting and related powers would be for an sburb au which isnt really relevant to their actual lives, but was cute and fun for me to think about. also, there's a couple extra siblings and seadwellers cus it felt weird to mention of trolls that didnt appear in my lore drops. also yellowbloods arnt unusually smaller i just screwed up my math and made 2 more 13 year old yellowbloods then i should so i kicked two of them into the older teen group, and as a result the lime and red milipede got kicked back. surely i will forever regret it. also you might say 'hey dont a lot of these trolls, even the ones who are 13 look pretty small compared how you did the cannon 12 cast' yeah. whoops. XD thats on me ill be real. wasnt supposed to do that i was just drawing and it happened. now marvel at the variation and distinctness in these characters designs idk

OK ENJOY! LOTS OF TROLLS!

[rowdydissonance]

I'm giving the littol bug toys for enrichment if that's fine

YOU ARE SO NICE!?!??! TO ME???? NICE TO ME AND KIND TO ME AND ALSO NICE AND KIND TO ME????????? enriching my babies my little guys my little sweeties my. most beloved little creatures...

i slam my first on the ground and say they hadta grow up fast.... they both didnt get to play with friends growing up...... ;_; BUT. youre so nice i gave them toys an drew them playin around. melosa's favorite toys are all noise gimmick toys--even though she's literally able to mimmick sounds and probably shouldn't need all this, she ABSOLUTELY ADORES silly noisemakers and instruments. It's what she takes as payment when helping trolls. They're kept in her sylladex (the shout sylladex).

Her instruments collection contains crash symbols, tambourine, bass drum, snare drum and trumpet. She’s actually pretty alright with the trumpet, but it’s super obnoxious. She also has a bike horn, a bunch of animal calls(bird, duck deer and frog), a hand clapper, rattle drum, giggle sticks, a whistle, and a slide flute. All are bug themed too!!

Claudi's favorite toys are GO GO GALAXY RANGER action figures. he LOVES super sentai, watching all the shows and knowing all the facts. its a pre-colony piece of media, but there's some trolls putting on an ongoing show down below. melosas likes playing along with him because her best friend is totally happiest when talking about his special interest. :) psychic powers are also the BEST for playing pretend.

[kabutoden]

Seadwellers!! The fuschia's a trilobite, red and lime deep-sea isopods, cyan sea scorpions, and the violets are a orphapina and two marella.

In the bugstuck universe, an all-ocean seadweller vacation planet happened to get a mother grub. Due to the limited genetic pool, viable eggs with extinct, hidden traits carried by seadwellers hatched. they intially planned to treat their new generation as servants, not realizing that every one of their sweet babies were little princes and princesses. the older generation calls themselves the kids 'aunties' and 'uncles'. they rebelled from the empire to protect their second generation, which promptly them off and grounded their ships so they've been messaging caeser.

the lime+red aquatic isopods caste (called peridot and ruby) hatch equally often, as opposed to the normal 1/8 chances for landdwelling isopods. without a jade caste, they were the original caretakers. the turquoise caste is all sea scorpions and is an ancient enemy to the fuschia caste that went extinct. violets were on either side of the war.

[kabutoden]

ok so this was the result of the poll i made. arguably the funniest result but still maddening. i rose up to the challenge and made a troll who's both a tealblood and a limeblood at the same time. or maybe they're two people? readmore vvv

hazmit is an individual with two brains. for whatever reason, they got their hands on a deceased, preserved limebloods brain when they were pretty young and that brain was still crackling with psychic powers--it managed to preserve itself by controlling a tealbloods body. in doing so, however, both of their identities got mixed up when bodysharing, so they now consider themselves to be a single person. ultimately, they don't want their second brain to be so isolated from them, so they're trying to figure out a way to integrate it into their body. this is why they lug it with them everywhere. a combination of experiments and psychic influence has is bleaching the orange in their horns lime green. they're a dobsonfly morph.

hazmit is a selfish person who prioritizes themselves above everyone else. some might argue that they only have the personality of the limeblooded brain that psychically badgered its way into the tealblood's body. but once, it was a tealblood who kept the brain of a dead grub, given by the jadebloods to be fed to their lusus, and obsessed over it, refusing to accept grief and let it die. it is hard to condemn their limeblood half for liberating themselves from containment by psychically possessing the nearest vassal. they were both children and the mistakes they made were painfully understandable, but they haven't grown from the brutal happenstance that formed themselves. they see the world as cruel and they want to be the ones in control.

in their mind, the lines between creator and creation have blurred, but their personalities aren't quite as seamless as they'd like it to be and they're aware of some splits and disagreements they have within themselves. as such they consider themselves to be one person, who's also in a kismesis type relationship with... themselves. again, hazmit is a wacky dude. whatever went horribly wrong with them cannot be peeled apart at this point.

as the heir of space, they layer two things to occupy a space at the same time, and they use this to keep both their minds in their brain. Essentially, they can ‘clip’ things into each other, which can create all kinds of bonkers physical effects or be used to seal something away within something else. they have become a physical embodiment of duality and contradiction.

[kabutoden]

Loved your take on cirava :3 think we could see one of the wonderful tired teal that is tyzias?

Gold Rule Tyzias. Tyzias is a member of the student branch of the Sufferer’s Scions, a diverse club of young trolls invested in caste equality. The Gold Rule colonies have always followed the sufferer’s teachings, circulated between helmsman by The Psiioniic—but Sufferers Scions believe more needs to be done. Their current most important issue is statistically disproving the myth of 'highblood rage' and instead showing anger effects all castes equally. They’re also setting up legal protections for limebloods as the caste enters the system, and always working on desegregation. The Scions on the main planet recently broadened jadeblood rights.

Tyzias specifically focuses on attorneys treating clients equally, and modifying certain laws. They work very hard to participate in activism on top of the normal intense workload Tealbloods have, so they're perpetually pretty tired. Their thermos is for keeping hydrated throughout the day, and they also carry leaflets for recruiting new club members and explaining legal changes. Scion members wear highlights of red to represent their cause.

[kabutoden]

TORMENT DEMON TAIKAL

WHAM!! BAM!! WACK SMACK SLAM!!! TATATATATATA-TORMENT DEMON TAIKAL!! ★☆

Are you looking to be battered? Run ragged, thrashed and tattered? Pummeled, bashed and splattered? Brutalized, pulverized or pounded to dust? Calling your local beatiator is a must!

Club shining and held towards the stars, Taikal’s the one bringing pain form afar, Pummeling felons for detestable deeds, Punishing villains and their immoral creeds!

TORMENT DEMON TAIKAL!! ★☆ Mutilate and clobber for the good of us all! TORMENT DEMON TAIKAL!! ★☆ Mistress of agony, ready to maul!!

Mutilating manglizing cutie Taikal, Thrashtergating, maimerizing perfect Taikal, She’s adora-ble!

Bat shining and held towards her heart, Taikal’s batter time is so soon to start! Respect our judge to do her judge’n Or prepare for a beaten’ n’ bludgeon!!! ☆

TORMENT DEMON TAIKAL!! ★☆ Obliterate and throttle for the good of us all! TORMENT DEMON TAIKAL!! ★☆ Metter of Agony, eager to brawl!

Crushing, smashing, beauty Taikal, Agonizing disciplining, loyal Taikal, LETS GO TAI-KAL!!

You had your chance, and now it’s too late~ Your fate is mine to terminate~

BEATIATOR TAIKAL!!!! A happy troll who carries her ancestor’s dangerous Kanabo and desire to act as a Beatiator, a roll in troll courts that keeps the peace by dealing out physical punishments to disruptive trolls and backs up legislaytures while they’re investigating. She likes bonking people over the head with her foam club during mock trials and is absolutely thrilled by her genetic responsibility, because wacking people is so much fun. She’s high energy and friendly, but also tormentous.

AKA, imagine if terezi had equius's confidence in the system and love for violence and was given a foam club and a set of rules to punish people. And she had a magical girl identity thing going on. Taikal is the happiest servant of justice. it is her.

[kabutoden]

i think these two are some of my top favorite fantrolls :) they're just so stupid cute. The boy with acne's name is Excell and the girl's name is Banana Junior 6000. She's the big, blocky CRT computer monitor you can see Excell riding around on in the first image--listen, people started making robot trolls oc, and hey robots can be ANY shape, even the shape of a banana junior from the old comic bloom county. I love that little guy :) so im stealing him for my fantroll. I DO WHAT I WANT!

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Excell's been obsessed with hunting for ghosts for a long time, and he repairs ancient, manual troll technology to do so. The tunnels between the gold city and school are creepy, abandonded, and a perfect place to look. Recently a device he brought back gained sentience, and he's so proud that a ROBOT can develop an identity and personality--though a lot of his friends have pointed out that Banana Junior's behavior is suspiciously more like a troll then a robot. Excell, eager to accept the robot revolution, denies their observations because Banana Junior is literally his best friend and moirail!?! He is dating that computer. It's because he respects its PERSONHOOD.

Excell might seem a bit like a nerd stereotype that you might disrespect but he has complete confidence in his own identity and interests and is a really solid dude. Super talented, too. I think he's pretty awesome, actually. He's also genuinely a very good friend. I like how i built his personality, kinda like a fun blend of concepts around Aradia and Sollux.

He's unfortunately wrong about Banana Junior--that's totally a spirit made of electricity possessing his computer, and toying with him setting off his electronics when he goes ghost hunting. Junior finds playing with Excell way more interesting then look into their own identity, which they don't really remember--they don't want the confirmation that they really are dead.

Fortunately, Junnye is actually still alive, just comatose after going through an intense surgery, the electric energy of her mind astral-projecting from her body. One day, Excell will help her confront who she is and travel back to her body, and they'll continue to live happily as partners.

[kabutoden]

my lil buggo Cirava Hermod? 🙏

its SUPER funny 2 me, somehow two people asked for the first hiveswap character ive done and both asked for the same one?? HAHAHAH. anyway i put them in gold rule because i like cirava and i want them to be happy. they still lost their eye, but whatever happened was a total accident; they're still living their best life as an absolute popstar/icon. theyre an """IT""" Troll, and totally beloved by a ton of the other teenage trolls in the school below. they'll sometimes sneak down to give secret live shows. that's TOTALLY AGAINST THE RULES, but that also makes it TOTALLY COOL. moistwave is called dampcore on the planet caeser.

i thought some more about voidrot in gold rule. the goldbloods have put a ton of money and research into treating it, and any trolls suffering from it can live lives pretty similar to those without. their inability to store and release energy is treated in two ways: first, an artificial organ is implanted to hold the energy, which is then regularly injected to maintain the healthy levels. The device at their hip is used to read their current energy level. (due both to immediate medical intervention and longterm treatment, the tissue around their missing eye is much healthier.) medical worm use is great for treating any remaining pain caused by the condition.