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Meet Bass & Treble, the twin sons of King Trollex and Solo!
The two shared the same egg, being twins and all, though initially it was feared Treble didn’t make it because he didn’t come out of the egg nearly as lively as Bass did, but the pair of techno princes were both just fine in the end!
Bass is the spitting image of Trollex in a lot of ways. He’s the most eager to take up the mantle of tribe DJ, he’s super exuberant and lively and is all about party culture, but unlike Trollex who is more evened out and safety-conscious, Bass is out there, headstrong and ambitious, something that might prove problematic if he’s going to take the throne in the future. While the two have a lot of similarities, to compare him and Trollex, basically, in the beginning of TWT, where Trollex surrendered, Bass would have fought, which might not have been the smartest move in terms of keeping the rest of techno reef safe from further attack. He’s passionate, caring deeply about techno reef and finding new ways to party, but he can be rather single minded and has a hard time giving his 100% to things that aren’t fun, fun, fun. Part of this may just be youth, as I like to imagine a teen Trollex was a lot like that too. Ultimately he doesn’t mean to be selfish or ignorant, he’s a good natured guy who loves a good party and also loves to make friends!
Treble is… a bit of a hipster lmao. He’s very creative—I wouldn’t say even moreso than his brother, but Treble’s strong suits are in a lot more out-there ideas. He’s as proud of a techno troll as his brother, but he just expresses it in a different way. He’s down-to-earth, sensible, intelligent and more than anything, incredibly imaginative. His main problem is he suffers from a very defeatist mindset. His ideas do tend to be a bit out there, a bit avant-garde and might make quite the splash in the reef (pun intended), but he holds all of this very secretively and close to his chest under the assumption that no one is going to understand. In all fairness, the techno trolls really only do party in one way, so it’s a reasonable thing to assume his way of self-expression might be a bit divisive, but he never puts any of those ideas out there to begin with! Part of it is a bit of insecurity about his brother, too, who he thinks has too many of Trollex’s qualities to really warrant himself as part of the conversation when it comes to the reef’s future leadership, so again, he really doesn’t share his inventive ideas. Again, though, this is all in his head, which is Treble’s fatal flaw. He has a great head on his shoulders, but ultimately he spends a lot of time stuck in it and never focusing on reality.
Despite being very fundamentally different in personality, the brothers are very close—the entire family is! Solo and Trollex instilled into them from a very young age just how valuable love is and the two swiftly took after their fathers when it came to cultivating a loving environment. The pair balance each other out in a lot of ways, Treble pulling Bass down to earth and Bass coaxing Treble out of his head. Their differing personalities means that as they age, though, they both drifted to the opposite crowds when it came to their social lives. Despite being in very different cliques as teens, though, they always make time for each other and are ultimately one another’s best friend.
More art of these two to come, ideally with their dads too! I had fun designing them and ultimately decided to have them take after one parent in actual body structure and then take after the other in colors. So Bass, anatomically, shares a lot of traits with Solo—the dorsal fin, lobe shaped tail fins, and his gradient/dotty patterns—while taking after Trollex with his colors. And in the case of Treble, he physically takes after Trollex more—same patterns with pixels/arm bands, blocky tail fins, etc—and has colors more inherited from Solo. They were fun to design and took on a lot of different forms before the pair landed somewhere I’m happy with, hope you like them too! :)
