time for all of us to find out exactly how wrong we are about fantroll alternia
Turns out trolls aren’t really warlike at all the twelve kids we saw were just outliers raised on violent movies
“average troll is violent” factoid actualy just statistical error. spiders vriska, who lives in a hive & killed over 10,000 trolls during her life, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Prediction: “Gem Harvest” will kick off an arc where we switch viewpoints to Homeworld and spend half a season following a new group of Gems we’ve never seen before and have no reason to care about. These characters will inexplicably become more popular with the fandom than the show’s core cast.
Man it’s a little surreal how most high school aus have the betas as popular kids, especially Dave? So many fics characterizing him as a charismatic jock (and also rich?? So many rich daves)
And I’m just sitting here thinking about these kids all being nerds that eat lunch in empty classrooms and Dave would totally be that weird kid that people only know through some well timed jokes during class but no one knows about and generally avoid due to his lack of emoting, deadpan sensibilities, habitual muttering and, let’s be honest, a little stonk. Dave is a kid that does his own laundry and has no one telling him to take showers, that boy stinks till around junior year.
On the flip side though, Karkat is so regularly characterized as a loner/loser archetype when in reality, in a high school setting, he’d be president of like 5 different clubs, demand to organize dances and be the best English partner cause he’ll just write the whole report himself, he doesn’t fucking need you. Like he’s not super well liked by the masses but he knows *everyone* and a lot of people come to him for so many things. He’d have more friends than all the betas combined and probably the trolls too.
Anyways tl;dr if allowed in a high school enviroment, the betas would be invisible nerds, Dave would be a dirty, painfully awkward, weird kid and Karkat is more involved and socially recognized than all these kids combined.
