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Not quite as involved on paper as it was in my head, but I am content, given how rusty I've gotten !

Happy 413, my lovely fellow Stucks

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A little Signless grub for a fic I'm working on He is a fierce and mighty hunter

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Purple Sign and Kanny are unreasonably pretty and I am jhgbfjahgfbehjfy

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i mean... if we want a feral daddy GHB - we need to feed him even more, but if dont, we can.. save some lives? i guess?

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So, a while ago I posted about how certain miscommunications would lead to Signless becoming the Alternian Cupid/St. Valentine-figure (which, in turn, would become twisted into the Cupid that Earth knows), but I couldn’t figure out how arrows would fit in. Well, I’ve come up with a few ways.

First off is the fact that the Signless was shot with an arrow as he was dying in the heated manacles. This could obviously be remembered/misinterpreted down the line—the version of him remembered only as a facilitator of various flushed and pale hook-ups (given people misinterpreting the symbolism of calling him a cardinal in Stella’s song), assuming he was killed because the higher-ups disliked that so many of those hook-ups were from extremely disparate ends of the spectrum and he was therefore killed so that he would stop doing that (which is pretty much what happened with the historical St. Valentine, actually). No mention of the blood color thing, and it isn’t really “that” subversive down the line? In fact, that story might even be an official sort of cover-up by the government as to what really happened that day, and they might even encourage the story.

Down the line, the symbol of an arrow stuck in a heart (or diamond) might be among one of the more popular ways to make it clear to an ex that you’ve broken up—and it might even be used as a quick sort of “John Doe” letter when it comes to the adult exile thing—it’s something you either send to an older ex who joined the fleet sweeps before you did as a way to let them know you’ve moved on, or it’s something the older party would send to new exiles when they reach out looking to rekindle the relationships. It’s probably also a common Easter egg in movies that get sent back to the pre-adults still on planet—graffiti on walls, for example, with the arrow in a heart/diamond between the two signs signifying the people who were in the relationship.

Then, of course, when it comes to Earth and the way certain stories got twisted around, the arrow in the heart became seen as a good thing, as that is the way that cupid actually got people to fall in love.

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The other explanation is that Kankri’s favored weapon (on both Beforus and Alternia) involved arrows. Hear me out: there is a common joke in the fandom that Kankri’s strife specibus is “triggerkind,” and that he uses guns to fulfill that. But what if, instead, he used a crossbow? Those have triggers, too, and I feel like it would help to improve his character and how subversive he was to troll culture—especially on Alternia.

I feel like his cullers on Beforus would have been Bluebloods at least, probably the same caste as Equius. There was a strong implication, given some of what Equius says, that the bow and arrow were the traditional weapons favored by his caste. So, I think it would make sense that they were seen as part of the epitome of “culture” and “class” on Beforus as well, meaning that it would have been what his cullers used. I see no reason why Kankri wouldn’t have been allowed a strife specibus—it seems like they automatically come with a sylladex, and there is no reason why he wouldn’t have one? I mean—even if we take the whole “babying and coddling” thing to extremes… babies still have possessions, and like to hold things. He would have had one.

But as far as weaponry goes… well, it’s likely that would have been more monitored, but I can also see Kankri being a little sly and manipulative as to what he chooses? Like… he would tell his cullers that he wants to use a bow of some sort because he “looks up to them so much” and “admires their work” or whatever. Because of the flattery the agree, but they say it has to be a crossbow because it is “easier” to use, and—going back to the whole coddling thing—they don’t want to put him under too much stress or make him too disappointed since he would likely be “too weak” to pull back the string on a recursive, or that those are harder to aim or something.

At the same time, though, Kankri’s use of a bow—any form of a bow—when that is traditionally a blueblood-caste weapon is a form of proof that blood really doesn’t actually matter that much, since he, a mutant (though he probably wouldn’t use that word) can use one.

And it is the same sort of reason that Signless!Kankri chose the bow. First off, he would have a far greater need for a weapon in general considering the state of Alternia. Even if he wasn’t necessarily using it against other trolls, he would still need to help his group get food (and would probably go on hunting dates with Meulin). His use of a bow, then, is proof yet again that blood color doesn’t mean anything, since here he is, a mutant, effectively wielding a weapon favored by the higher classes. The fact that Stella also uses a non-typical weapon for her blood caste probably helps—she is a yellowblood, but uses juggling clubs.

Now, there probably is less of an outright “rule” about who is allowed to use what type of weapon on Alternia—with possible exceptions being the tyrian trident—but there would definitely be social stigma. Stella can get away with the clubs in part because she actually uses them to juggle sometimes, which amuses the higher castes, and the fac that she procured them specifically in a vengeance quest probably gets her some leeway—though it also continually gives people the wrong impression about her black quadrant. There is also the fact that she wouldn’t really be showing off the clubs that much in general? If it came to a fight… well, if it was a big brawl people might not be paying attention to the wielders themselves in favor of tracking and dodging the weaponry, and the fact that she can actually use the clubs effectively probably scares some people off on principle—because the decorations on the club imply that it belongs to a different caste, so her using them means that she either somehow managed to defeat their former owners, or they were a gift and she has friends in high places who would take umbrage to her destruction.

As for Kankri and the crossbow… well, again, he probably isn’t using it on trolls directly most of the time, but my earlier explanation for it still stands. As well as my earlier explanation for why his being remembered as the Alternian Cupid/St. Valentine became entangled with arrows.

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