Video

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

[the video starts and you see Kanaya, a girl with gray skin, yellow eyes, and candy corn colored horns, don't be alarmed, that's what she's supposed to look like]

[her voice is clear]

Greetings. I appreciate that you have gone out of your way to rescue myself and, as I've seen, Tavros. Although I must point out that your efforts come a tad late, our world was destroyed quite some time ago, the fault being none but our own. I must question why only the two of us have been chosen, there are ten more, many of higher blood and higher importance than the two of us.

I must also point out that my collar seems to be the wrong color. My blood is jade green, not the yellow you have provided to me, I would like the mistake to be fixed at your convenience.

Comments

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

Humans tend to have a harsher view of killing. We hardly ever find it acceptable...except in war...but I don't really approve of it ever.

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

What if you feel your life is threatened?

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

I've killed people in self-defense, or to save my people, and I'm not very proud of it. But there are ways to go about things without killing.

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

If you so believe that.

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

Most humans do.

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

That's one of the major differences between our cultures.

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

So it seems.

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

Ah you should not be afraid of us. Some of us are peaceful.

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

Comforting I suppose.

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

Vriska can be dangerous but it is more likely that she will focus her energy on Tavros, who is one of the most peaceful of the trolls. You do not need to worry about me either.

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

. . .Tavros? That sweet little troll?

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

Yes. Her feelings for him toggle between red and black. [bitterness? there is no bitterness here, nope]

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

...Red and black?

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

Troll romance is different from human romance. Humans have just love, trolls have four quadrants. The quadrants are separated into red, matesprit with the symbol of a heart, the closest thing to your human love, moirail with the symbol of a diamond, which is parallel to a best friend or someone who keeps you grounded as your opposite, and black. Black is harder for humans to understand. It has kismisis, with the symbol of a club, which is the opposite of love, hate, but it is more of a romantic hate, then there is auspistice with the symbol of a club where a third party keeps two others from developing particularly red or black feelings for each other. Matesprit is red, Kismisis is black, Moirail is pale, and auspistice is ashen.

[pineandmaple.livejournal.com]

The...pale quadrant sounds interesting and I certainly know what it's like to be in the ashen quadrant? I think? The one who keeps feelings from going red...or...black? But um...romantic hate?

Is there a way for hate to be...romantic?

[grimauxilatrix.livejournal.com]

I am known for being ashen, many of my relationships fall into that quadrant. It's not as much romantic hate as it is... lust brought around by hate?