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In honour of 4/13, I present to you my thoughts on what the survivors would be like as trolls, compiled from previous brainstorming sessions:

Wilson: His hints of an upper-class or upper-middle-class upbringing make me think cerulean; he’s not beefy enough to fit in with the higher highbloods and too snobby to be, say, a yellowblood. I don’t think he’d have any mind powers though, he’d be more like Mallek or Elwurd. There was a time when I thought he could be a tealblood for basically the same reasons I gave for cerulean, but Hiveswap Friendsim showed that the two centremost midblood castes have significantly more regimented lives than the castes directly above or below them.

Willow: Probably an urban lowblood; I like the concept of her having fire powers, which could probably be wedged into any blood colour below green but makes the most sense for a psionic yellowblood or maybe right on the brown/yellow boundary (we do have a Homestuck-canon example of a yellowblood with more brownblood-like psionics in Zebede, so the reverse might be an option).

Wolfgang: He comes across as a working-class country bumpkin in canon but his powers are straight out of the high blueblood playbook, which is difficult to place. He might fit in as a rare male oliveblood given that Konyyl is also huge and buff and can punch through walls, although as far as I know even really buff olivebloods aren’t on the same level as STRONG bluebloods.

Wendy: I can’t see her as anything but a redblood with all the death stuff she has going on. A necropath, to borrow the term from ceescedasticity‘s no-sburb fanfics. She and Abigail are still twins, but not psychically conjoined like the Soleils (I am of the opinion that that was only possible for them because of wacky purpleblood psychic powers); they may have hatched from the same egg, though. Some misfortune befell Abigail when they were ~5 sweeps old, and her fairly powerful ghost is following her sister around.

WX-78 is still a robot but, like, a robot with horns. (The horns also work as antennas!) There was some grisly and needlessly detailed speculation about them having blood anyhow, possibly taken from other trolls, but I’ll spare you that. Mostly they’re the same as they are in canon.

Wickerbottom: …I really want her to be a psionic yellowblood who can throw lightning around with her brain, but if she’s older than about 20 in human years (and it’d be very disconcerting for her to be the same age as everybody else) that’d probably result in her being stuffed into a helmscolumn and Spaceship Wickerbottom is not exactly what I was looking for. I did float the idea while I was brainstorming this that she’s a technician in the Fleet who since childhood has been hiding the strength of her psionics and hacking the official records accordingly; however, it would be a lot simpler if she was a teal or jade archivist. Her hatchname was Wicker but her adult title is The Librarian. (Yeah, yeah, it’s nine letters, fight me.)

Woodie: He’s easy to place – he’s a brownblood who lives in a forest and has a huge semibipedal beaver monster for a lusus – but I don’t know how to work the werebeaver into it more directly. Maybe he like… astral projects into his lusus involuntarily when the moons are both full, either instead of or in addition to communing with animals in a more standard brownblood fashion.

Wes: A Wholesome Purpleblood. He excels at chucklevoodoos and circus tricks, but sucks at fighting physically even compared to trolls much lower on the hemospectrum. Which is just as well because he’s not interested in casual murder anyway.

Wigfrid: Oliveblood would make a lot of sense, for similar reasons to Wolfgang. She could also be the high blueblood in this scenario. It wouldn’t even be implausible for her to be a purpleblood since they combine theatrical performance with violence in a vaguely similar fashion.

Webber: Has horns that look like his headlegs. That might pigeonhole him into being a yellowblood since they all have at least partially doubled horns, although I very clearly and distinctly see him as having animal communion powers rather than telekinesis, which is more of a brownblood thing. It’s extremely strong and compelling towards invertebrates, but when used on other creatures it‘s at best feeble and at worst causes them to fly into a rage and attack him. Most mammalian wildlife has the latter reaction, sometimes before he’s even consciously tried to use the power. His lusus is essentially a spider queen; he thinks of her broods of giant six-legged spiders as his siblings, and they’re the first to come to his aid.

Winona: Olive seems logical given her very working-class attitude and lack of flashy powers in DS canon. Moirails since wigglerhood with Charlie, who’s the same blood colour but about a sweep younger; it seems like the closest equivalent to sisterhood for trolls’ lack of family ties, unless I wanted to put in another set of monozygotic twins.

Maxwell: I put him as a tealblood pre-Friendsim, but for the reasons I outlined in Wilson's entry, cerulean might be better if I didn't want the troll version of him to be railroaded into law school as a young man. Having said that, I immensely enjoy the concept that in the troll version of the Don’t Starve magic system, the Nightmare Monarch’s avatar automatically turns into a tyrian-blooded seadweller no matter what blood colour they had before. I also enjoy the concept that post-throne he still has the fins but his blood’s changed back to normal and now he's effectively a mutant.

Walani: I could see her as a brownblood since she’s very fond of animals. She lives on the coast and is one of the few lowbloods who likes the ocean, possibly because she has a posse of marine life and the occasional amphibian that’d fuck anyone up if they tried to start something with her on the beach. Her lusus could be something like the Tiger Shark or a Crocodog.

Warly: The only actual seadweller here, although he leaves off the usual seadweller arrogance (except occasionally when confronted with a culinary abomination). Wants to travel the oceans, meet interesting sea creatures, and cook them.

Woodlegs: An elderly and frankly insane cerulean pirate who might have just stayed on Alternia on his pirate ship when all the adults were ordered into space hundreds of sweeps ago. If this is indeed the case and he’s roughly contemporaneous with the Summoner, both his age and his ability to evade the authorities are squarely in “how are you still alive” territory. He’s very good at what he does, even though he has no idea what century it is anymore.

Wilbur: A monkey lusus whose troll charge died long ago. He just kind of wanders around Alternia doing whatever he wants, often accompanied by ordinary Alternian monkeys who gravitate to his natural leadership.

I have no idea how to incorporate Wilba or Wormwood, I don't know Wheeler and Wagstaff well enough yet, and I don’t think Wortox would be very different (he’s not from Earth or the Constant in the first place).

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