The Highblood Rage Myth: BUSTED!
krazieleylines:
Okay, so we all know the myth.
The higher up on the caste a troll is, the more violent he or she is, right? Well, this is absolutely absurd. Just the fact that we got this information from Equius, the hemophobic lord, should have been enough of a clue, but I’m going to bust it anyway.
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He’s talking about Gamzee’s specific status as a purple-blood. This is in the blood, because he has the chucklevoodoos, the religion, and was designed via genetics to be a bit more insane than the average troll. I wouldn’t call this a myth, since every example of a Purple Blood we have seen has been… off kilter.
There is also a major culture of violence the higher you get on the caste system.
This was done because reasons.
Homestuck
Or as its known on Alternia:
“In Which A Boy Plays A Game On His Birthday With Three Friends That At First Seems Inconsequential But Later Proves To Have Catastrophic Consequences For The Earth In Particular And All Of Reality At Large, With The Original Purpose Of The Game Being Somewhat Construed By The Interference Of Another Universe Containing A Particularly Popular Alien Race Which Appear At First Glance To Be Vastly Different Than Humans But Despite Some Strange Ideas About Romance And Blood Color Are Basically The Same, All of Which Leads To A Beautiful Clusterfuck Of Time-Travel, Self-Completing Loops, And Strange Occurences Of A Spacetime Nature Featuring More Characters Than You’d Care To Remember, The Death of Most Of These Characters At Least Once And More Than Once For Majority Of These Character, Fifteen Unique Varieties Of Romance, Large Quantities Of Multicolored Text, Much Of Which Could Be Seen As Charming, Funny, Sad, Or Stupid, Deus Ex Machina Which Always Seems To Originate From One Character Or Another’s Active Desire To Do So, A Ventriloquist Dummy That Appears To House The Soul Of A Demon, Several Mass Murderers, Several Characters Who Are Not Mass Murders But Are Reviled As Such, Several Mass Murders Who Are NOT Reviled As Such, Bucket, Puppets Of An Extraordinarily Phallic Nature, Homosexuality, Pop Culture References That The Author Is Most Likely Making Up At This Point, Magic, A Discussion On Whether Or Not Magic Is Real Or Fake, The Literal And Actual Death Of the Author, And A Petulant Brat In Suspenders”
Mr. Strider, have you considered that what you actually dread is to have your urban rhythms exposed for what they truly are, which is, clinically speaking, just shy of ‘da bomb’?
