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hypertoxic) wrote2016-01-03 12:00 am
hypertoxic) wrote2016-01-03 12:00 am
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I guess you could say that. We aren't 8orn like humans are, we're hatched, and we're larva when we're that little.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
After we hatch we spin a cocoon to grow in until we pup8 into the 8odies we spend the rest of our lives in!
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Haha. Something dum8 like "I'll keep my digits crossed" or something. High 8loods like me would use what you called the human version, though.
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Larva? How cute. Like small slugs, or little maggots?
[ She obviously can't tell, but he legitimately finds this visual appealing. ]
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
Is variation in language along the hemospectrum common?
[ Careful Vriska, he's in full-on Discovery Channel Nerd mode right now. ]
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FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Hey, fuck you! Anyway, it's the latter. Slugs? Really????
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
You sure are curious today! Yes, it is. The lower castes tend to use dum8 terminology for a lot of 8asic things. Higher 8loods are more sophistic8ed than that!
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Though I wouldn't go as far as the sea dwellers do. They are mostly elitist jackasses.
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Slugs are pretty. Have you ever looked at a gastropod up close?
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
So the highest-ranked among your species live underwater?
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No???????? Who the fuck would stop and stare at slugs except for you, you freak. <3
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Yes. They are considered royalty on Alternia! The empress and her challengers are also sea dwellers.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Their fuschia 8lood is the most powerful on the hemospectrum, and is what gives them the right to rule!
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Or gave, I guess. Sorry, I got so caught up in all this I started referring to my planet in present tense without realizing it.
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FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
It was destroyed in that game, wasn't it?
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FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Yes. 8y a fall of meteors. I am certain many millions of my race died that way too, 8ut it doesn't really matter, 8ecause they would have 8een all killed anyway 8y Gl'8goly8 going 8erserk.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Although, I guess it is possi8le that someone from my set of universes could get recruited from another point on the Alpha Timeline, when Alternia still existed.
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It's likely. The CDC seems to like alternate timelines.
[ As proven by Billy, and most of the Avengers. ]
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
What is 'Gl'bgolyb'? (Did I spell that right?)
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Good point. Sollux was like that! I don't think anyone who's shown up here from my universes has 8een from precisely the same point as I am, actually.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
You spelled it right! Good jo8. ::::)
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Gl'8goly8 was Feferi's lusus. It is a massive creature that chooses only those of fuschia 8lood!
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Her voice was terri8le to hear, and capa8le of killing every troll in the galaxy if she raised it loud enough to emit the Vast Glu8!
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Which is exactly what happened, causing the near extinction of my race.
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You're all lethally sensitive to this sound? It's a particular frequency?
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
Some survived.
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Yes! One to which all trolls, 8ut no other species, are suscepti8le.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Actually, speaking of Sollux, that guy died from it. 8ut his weird duality thing kept him alive at the same time? It was 8izarrely convenient!
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
My friends and I were the only survivors, 8ecause we had already escaped into Sgru8. Just the twelve of us.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
At the start. A 8unch of us ended up dying, including me. As far as I know, there are only ........ six living trolls left.
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FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
Schrodinger's troll? How did duality keep him alive, exactly?
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
Six is enough to repopulate, if you aren't too fussed about consanguinity.
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FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Fuck if I know. Don't ask me to understand how his weirdo 8ullshit gimmick works!
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
W8, what? Oh. Right, I guess you wouldn't know. We trolls are naturally incestuous. I only kind of understand why it's such a ta8oo for humans.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
All our genetic material just goes into a 8ig slurry. None of us ever knows how we are rel8ed to other trolls. The closest we get are our storied ancestors!
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Kanaya was in charge of the whole repopul8ing thing. Not that I have any idea if she had any success with it.
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FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
The Kree keep large genetic databanks. We're created very selectively, so as to weed out the least desirable traits from the population while retaining high diversity and useful mutations via splicing: scales, wings, enhanced senses, etc.
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
Leaving one person in charge of repopulating a species seems counter-intuitive, though I suppose if you have a single large genetic container it's feasible. Did you ever see her again?
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FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Haha. We do natural selection the old fashioned way. There were loooooooots of ways to get killed on Alternia if you weren't strong or 8rave enough.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
If you're created selectively, does that mean there aren't very many Kree?
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
"A single large genetic container" is pretty much what happens! It worked for us for untold thousands of sweeps, anyway.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
No. In fact, the last time I ever saw her, she punched me in the face!
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
It was soooooooo cooooooool. <3
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There are over thirty billion Kree. The selection process is automated, left in the hands of our Supreme Intelligence and its ministers.
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
The point is to create soldiers strong enough that no 'natural selection' process is necessary. Our training is rigorous and the Shi'ar and the Skrulls keep us on our toes.
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
She sounds nice.
[ He 100% means it. ]
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Our Mother Gru8 does kinda sound like a dum8ed down version of your Supreme Intelligence. I don't even know how many 8illions of trolls there were.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
All of the adults were scattered in Her Imperious Condescension's fleet throughout the galaxy. Most of which we owned.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
8ut most of our species really does prize 8rutality a8ove almost all other things! If you couldn't keep yourself alive, you didn't deserve to 8e, and that was that.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Her Imperious Condescension always cared a lot more a8out conquering than, like, 8ettering us as a race or anything, lol.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Kanaya? Yeah, she was awesome! I miss her. I always got this sense that she was kind of pissed at me for some reason, 8ut I never knew why.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
And I never got to talk it out with her 8efore I died. I always kinda hoped I'd see her or Terezi again in the dream8u88les, 8ut I never did. ::::(
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FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
The Kree are expansionist, but we bring science, philosophy and culture to species that aren't at our level yet. We consider it doing them a favor.
[ aka colonialist bullshit but w/e ]
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
'Dream bubbles', did I read that right?
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Haha. We 8rought mass murder and eternal tyranny! So, you know, pretty different styles of ruling.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Actually, I found out the Condesce conquered a version of Earth. That was weird.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Yes! How do I even explain dream 8u88les. They're like pockets of reality made out of the memories of the dead!
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
For any living person to enter a dream 8u88le, there are some very specific conditions that must 8e met. I guess Fussyfangs and Terezi never found their way to mine!
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Well. Someone would say we bring the same. I suppose it's a matter of perspective.
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
That's convenient--or horrifying. Both? Or is that just me?
FROM: varr.noh@cdc.org
What conditions?
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No amount of perspective would make what our empress did seem 8enevolent! 8ut you're not wrong.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
It is definitely 8oth. I ended up in one myself after my death.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
Under one condition, they must 8e asleep! And they must either have lost or 8ecome their dream selves.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
The other condition is much more complic8ed. Dream 8u88les do have a physical location, 8ut they are impossi8le to reach without the guidance of very powerful seers, as well as a vessel that can 8reach the 8u88le's skin.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
That was the case for my friends that didn't die and a couple of humans who were flying around the Furthest Ring on a meteor.
FROM: serket.vriska@cdc.org
What I am trying to say, Noh-Varr, is that the game was so much 8ullshit.