this is probably an incendiary bomb of a thing to say but it's deeply funny to me that fantrolls are like the one OC type i'm aware of that are just fundamentally unable to escape the property they came from. Like people make fan OCs of like every fictional species that has ever been depicted - this site has a whole cadre of yinglets running around and I'm pretty sure I never see the word 'val salia' mentioned in relation to them - but I've never in my life seen anyone manage to make a troll OC that wasn't inextricably caught in the intricate web of absurd rules that homestuck has established. No one tries to transplant them elsewhere. Why would you. Absent context they're just weird grey guys with horns
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in reply to @MOOMANiBE's post:
current theory is that if you want to migrate them you make them a tiefling instead
meow < (just realized a really funny character concept would be a tiefling or something like that who would have like a running gag hinting that they used to be a fantroll out-of-universe but never actually were, but there are like deliberate homestuck "residues" attached, like a 6 letter name and surname for instance)
ah like my friend who turned their ponysona into an anthro winged unicorn (totally different)
my character kuraine, now umbra, used to be a grey-skinned demon girl (an OC I made in city of heroes) that i was constantly asked if she was a fantroll and at the time i was like what the fuck are you talking about & then once i knew what that was i was like do you see any orange horns??
anyway it got annoying enough that she's just b&w panda cat thing & my "oc self" just has normal horns lmao
i've seen a few people who post yinglet art give credit to val salia for creating them
Being clueless to yinglets yet deep in the lore of Homestuck, my assumption is that HS is still too much of a cultural crater to ignore in these circles. Everyone who knows fantrolls knows HS, and thus it is difficult for them to create an explanation that does not link back to the primordial lineage of MSPA. Like in a wider context when someone doesn't get a reference that is primarily from HS I find it easiest just to say "It's a Homestuck thing" and allow the other person a clear chance to opt out of asking for further details.
The way HS is self-intertwined in its writing means that it is incredibly difficult to explain any single part of it in a short and clear statement. It's either too complicated or linked to [2d6] different spoilers that will make you hesitate to diminish the experience of a potential future Homestuck fan.
