So there have been discussions of troll versions of celebrities. I'm thinking of working some into an AU, and I'd kill to see other people do the same. I'll gather up the ideas we've come up with so far later. Feel free to share more in the meantime.
cross-posting what I know I've said real quick also, the Thomas Sandrs I meant here is probs Beforan bc otherwise he'd be VERY DEAD but he like, still disagrees with culling as a concept because like--if he'd been culled he wouldn't have been able to like, make videos and stuff, he wouldn't have had much freedom he gets some of this idea from seeing culling as a thing in general, and some firsthand from his friends, at least one of them was culled for being a mutant. ....dunno which though OH WAIT NO BETTER IDEA--THOMAS SANDRS IS CULLED AND THEN MAKES FRIENDS WITH A GROUP OF CULLED MUTANTS TOO, AND THEY MAKE VIDEOS TOGETHER AND INTERSPERSE IT WITH THEIR FEELINGS ON CULLING AND WHY THEY'RE NOT HUGE FANS EVEN IF THEY "SURVIVED BECAUSE OF IT", AND THOMAS GETS FAMOUS FOR THAT AND HIS OTHER AMUSING VIDEOS AND HIS AUDIENCE STILL SPANS THE HEMOSPECTRUM
Would Jaykay Rowlin work better as a lowblood or a midblood? I'm kinda thinking of the real one's politics being... progressive for the nineties and not sufficiently updated, shall we say.
that's true...hmmm. olive maybe? ....or a jadeblood, possibly. how would her politics translate from here to there, I wonder?
Thoughts; maybe she would work better as a lowblood who was, in honour of the popularity of her writing, given some treatment to extend her lifespan so the highbloods could relate to her better. She means well, she's just a bit out of date and has sorta gone native with the upper classes now. It hit me that I don't know what he'd be like as a troll but Richard Dawkins is definitely a Prince of Void. As a scientist, he's ghosting the knowledge aspect of Light and destroying ignorance/obscurity of information, and he's trying to destroy massive social institutions through Void in the form of disbelief, but failing and thus "destroying nothing" because massive social institutions are a tad more resilient than that. And he would be so fucking pissed to be drawn into SBurb, it would be hilarious XD Still think Emilie Autumn is a Sylph. I wouldn't exactly call her a meddler like the two canon Sylphs, but she definitely has very strict and frankly sometimes weird ideas of how things should go, which is, yeah, kind of Aranea-like.
I think (at least Beforan) Emilie would work best as a mutant who was then given some sort of treatment to extend her lifespan or something like that--and now it's like, she doesn't really suffer from being a mutant quite so much as she did at one point, and she's a lot more revered than your average mutant and has more freedom and independence than she might have originally and has started to kind of become a little out of touch with what's going on and has been taking some of her freedom for granted and/or is still harping on things that aren't really quite as bad issue anymore? I do like her as a Sylph, though, ye I know like 1 things about Richard Dawkins and cannot comment, but that sounds fitting off what I've heard from others :P
Troll Brian Jacques is a brownblood who's sneaking recipes into his books so lowbloods can make decent food out of what's available and has food puns as a quirk. (I maintain the real one was knowingly trying to make vegetables sound delicious to children.)
I'm afraid Mr Rogers didn't really make it over here in the 90s so I don't know. Mellow and nurturing... male jade?
hmm. yes, I could see that. he's a male jade and he makes a show for wigglers and young trolls to try and teach them things! it's....probably slightly more violent than our version, because trolls and also because some important lessons on Alternia are probably things like "if something threatens you, stab it"....but I like to think it still focuses on some of the messages of positivity the original show had. like, y'know, "you're important" and all that jazz. and closeness with your lusus and the importance of listening to your lusus when you are a very young troll.
Also in my AU Neil Gaiman is still a human because he has a four-letter name, and Amanda Palmer and Emilie Autumn are smokin' hot blackrom rivals over their similar artistic themes.
Not real people, but Troll 2D is a yellowblood since they seem to have a running theme of eye-related weirdness; don't know if he should have yellow hair instead of blue. Noodle is a teeny tiny purpleblood.
