My favorite foursome to work with is the Fab Four; five, add Link; six, swap Link for Tyki and Road; seven, add 'em all together. Whenever I'm cross-concepting, I tend to pick one of these groups to focus on (partly for shipping reasons; you could argue for all six being paired with Allen, and there are many plausible and semiplausible cross-ships, and I'm an OTEveryone whore anyway).
Before I was thinking in terms of the game, I was thinking in terms of the troll haemospectrum! And so I did a lot of hemming and hawing and table-drawing and came up with this (summarised because I'm too lazy to make a whole new post for it):
Allen Walker -- widest probable range on spectrum located somewhere between the Peixeses and the Captors, narrowing to a mutant or a rustblood; I'm a little fond of him typing with Karkat's grey text and actually being honest about it--in a world of rainbow blood colors, how fucking weird would grey be? For less super speshulness, straight up troll red, somewhere around the Megidos, but human!Allen was born a mutant of a sort--it makes sense to transfer. For extra shits and giggles, add natural lusus-white hair.
Kanda Yuu -- widest probable range located either between the Vantases and the Captors or between the Maryams and the Makaras, narrowing to a rustblood or some type of blueblood; maybe some kind of horrible genetic experiment involving looking blue but bleeding/fighting/dying like red. Can you tell I'm indecisive.
Lenalee Lee -- widest probable range located either between the Makaras and the Peixeses or between the Leijons and the Serkets, narrowing to a seadweller or some type of high greenblood; can't decide whether psychic or not, for the flying and general trashing of shit. (Okay, no, probably psychic, if only telekinesis. Teal-y?)
Lavi -- widest probable range located between the Nitrams and the Pyropes, narrowing to maybe an oliveblood or a tealblood...probably like an oliveblood or some type of yellow/brown with less psychic power, or maybe just a touch too yellowy to be jade? Augh why can't I make up my mind about this dude.
Road Kamelot -- widest probable range located between the Zahhaks and the Vantases, narrowing to a seadweller or straight-up Tyrian, though it is tempting to make her indigo. Maaaaad psy.
Tyki Mikk -- widest probable range located either between the Megidos and the Captors or between the Zahhaks and the Amporas, narrowing to a psychically powerful brownblood or a subjugglator indigoblood; maaaybe just a STRONG blueblood with highblood rage issues, but that sounds more Skinn.
Howard Link -- widest probable range located between the Nitrams and the Serkets, narrowing to an oliveblood or a tealblood with an oversized helping of snootiness and buying into/catering to the haemospectrum-based social order, or at the very least the concept of strict social hierarchy and law and order and RRRUUUUURRRRRUUU.
(Note: I consider the spectrum less linear than circular, with Karkat as an intermediary representing the joining of the Tyrian and rust ends--both potentially powerful and badass, but with radically different lifespans/biology/social standing/what have you. Since I like colors and sorting things by rainbow order too much, I frequently draw maps of this including the kids and the cherubs.)
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wrt the "D.Troll-man"...
on 2013-Jun-21, Friday 03:28 (UTC)Before I was thinking in terms of the game, I was thinking in terms of the troll haemospectrum! And so I did a lot of hemming and hawing and table-drawing and came up with this (summarised because I'm too lazy to make a whole new post for it):
Allen Walker -- widest probable range on spectrum located somewhere between the Peixeses and the Captors, narrowing to a mutant or a rustblood; I'm a little fond of him typing with Karkat's grey text and actually being honest about it--in a world of rainbow blood colors, how fucking weird would grey be? For less super speshulness, straight up troll red, somewhere around the Megidos, but human!Allen was born a mutant of a sort--it makes sense to transfer. For extra shits and giggles, add natural lusus-white hair.
Kanda Yuu -- widest probable range located either between the Vantases and the Captors or between the Maryams and the Makaras, narrowing to a rustblood or some type of blueblood; maybe some kind of horrible genetic experiment involving looking blue but bleeding/fighting/dying like red. Can you tell I'm indecisive.
Lenalee Lee -- widest probable range located either between the Makaras and the Peixeses or between the Leijons and the Serkets, narrowing to a seadweller or some type of high greenblood; can't decide whether psychic or not, for the flying and general trashing of shit. (Okay, no, probably psychic, if only telekinesis. Teal-y?)
Lavi -- widest probable range located between the Nitrams and the Pyropes, narrowing to maybe an oliveblood or a tealblood...probably like an oliveblood or some type of yellow/brown with less psychic power, or maybe just a touch too yellowy to be jade? Augh why can't I make up my mind about this dude.
Road Kamelot -- widest probable range located between the Zahhaks and the Vantases, narrowing to a seadweller or straight-up Tyrian, though it is tempting to make her indigo. Maaaaad psy.
Tyki Mikk -- widest probable range located either between the Megidos and the Captors or between the Zahhaks and the Amporas, narrowing to a psychically powerful brownblood or a subjugglator indigoblood; maaaybe just a STRONG blueblood with highblood rage issues, but that sounds more Skinn.
Howard Link -- widest probable range located between the Nitrams and the Serkets, narrowing to an oliveblood or a tealblood with an oversized helping of snootiness and buying into/catering to the haemospectrum-based social order, or at the very least the concept of strict social hierarchy and law and order and RRRUUUUURRRRRUUU.
(Note: I consider the spectrum less linear than circular, with Karkat as an intermediary representing the joining of the Tyrian and rust ends--both potentially powerful and badass, but with radically different lifespans/biology/social standing/what have you. Since I like colors and sorting things by rainbow order too much, I frequently draw maps of this including the kids and the cherubs.)