the article’s gracelessly coughing into its fist about the male crab and then going on to swiftly change the subject aside, :
But what if this is how Troll reproduction actually works?
THIS IS THE SHIT I’M TALKING ABOUT??? WHY AM I BEING TAUGHT CONVOLUTED, UNCOMFORTABLY NSFW FIC WORLDBUILDING IN A CLASS
I wonder if drones would be unparasitized trolls, then. Un-altered. SOME probably squeak through, resistant, from the Mother Grub’s overtaxed, infected reproductive equipment, ready to serve the Hive. Meanwhile the Mother Grub would be endlessly producing, under parasitic influence, weaker or “worker” susceptible grubs, as vessels for the parasites. Visible troll “genetic lineages,” such as they are, would be parasite-based on an unchanging “troll” template–the carried parasites are selected for and against as normal while out and about in their ornery host, and then loop back in again thru the slurry fed to the Mother Grub to combine out and express new variations and traits (psionics, sun resistance, blood color, body conformation, temperament). Maybe that’s why, like some fungi, it’s important for two trolls to combine their slurries before transport–an obligate 2N intermediate stage for the parasites.
ANYWAY I also like this because it makes troll slurry really, really, really gross. I guess human spooge is already kind of gross since there’s living wiggling cells with flailing tails in it but our sperm are pretty tame compared to “MULTICELLULAR PARASITIC ORGANISMS MIND-CONTROLLING YR TROLL BF/GF TO BE STARFARING AND SOCIAL, ALSO THEY HAVE MINISCULE YET UNSETTLINGLY STABBY GENETIC-MATERIAL-INJECTION APPENDAGES AND IN ALL LIKELIHOOD GO FOR YOUR PORES.”
YES. And this can get even squickier combined with the troll-bulge headcanon?
THE PARASITIC IMPERATIVE ALSO EXPLAINS WHY THEIR EJACULATE IS SO COPIOUS ssssssince all the infectious organisms/parasites I know about so far basically go hard on the R-strategy
I feel like all of this is going to get even more horrifying somehow when you consider their reliance on biotech.
And how does this interact with the rainbow drinker fungal headcanon?
Trolls being extremely sought-after hosts by a bewildering variety of Alternian parasites!!! (Ties into Alternia just being really frigging dangerous for Trolls in general!)
OH GOSH! And another thing about this that just occurred to me: this headcanon can easily makes human-troll hybrid babies possible, though again; kinda squickily 😐 I’m not really a fan of human-troll hybrid headcanon’s personally, but it’s occurred to me now and I just can’t not share the possibilities u_u
… this is significantly more horrifying and more complex than my theories and i LOVE IT
I somehow missed this post on its first round in 2015 and I’m not gonna make that mistake twice.
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just moving along like everyone else 