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[Idly dictated into the journal,]

It never ceases to amaze me with what people get to write, and what gets made into books. Some things just seem downright treasonous, but they still get bound, and bought, and read by lots of people.

I'm a little jealous to be frank. At home it could be pretty tough to get hold of books and things. Some of my friends couldn't even read so having books would have been moot.

[Rin is in the library today, which is not very surprising: the library is a good place to try and find her. Tad the Arcanine is hanging around lolling under tables and in front of chairs as she reads. Just now, she seems to be slipping a book into her carryall: the curious might get enough of a glimpse to see that she's making off with The Anarchist's Cookbook.

Open, of course.]

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...if you MUST knoww.

[Closing it, then flipping it around to show the cover.]

It's a book on political intrigue an' military conquests a this earth roman empire.

I'm pretty much done wwith evvery alternian document they got here regardin' that kinda stuff so I'm movvin' onto the ones about other cultures.

Don't you feel debased, having to resort to reading human history?

[Squinting.

what's her game now.........]

It's better than makin' convversation wwith people around here.

Military history is fuckin' awwesome. Evven the primitivve means a wwar earth has are a thousand times better than puttin' up wwith all a' these borin' fuckers.

All this evveryday convversation bullshit makes me wwant to tear my eyes out. It's the same fuckin' thing ovver an' ovver an' holds little vvalue in the long run.

[it's holding action! Relax, Eridan. B)]

But you're talking to me right now... maybe if you got better at making conversation it wouldn't be so terrible anyway.

[Implying Eridan can ever relax.]

Hey, I am fuckin' fantastic at convversin' wwith people.

Unless you're sayin' I'm not, in wwhich case I ask wwhy you're still talkin' to me in the first place.

Pity, I guess. [BUT NOT IN THE TROLLISH SENSE. Whoops.

Anyway she's moving on from that pretty much quick anyway. Rin raises her hands to the joint of her jaw, about the equivalent point on Eridan's face where his gills grow, and rests three fingers, not her pinkie and thumb, against both sides of her face.]

Hey, how come you have fronds growing on your face?

Wwhy the fuck wwould you pity me? You make it sound like I need you around or else I havve noone to talk to.

Wwhich is not true at all I h--

[what]

[what the hell is she doing..............]

THEY'RE GILLS!!

[Hee

hee. :)]

What have you got gills for, fishface?

I'm a sea dwweller.

I can livve underwwater an' on land, unlike most trolls wwho are stuck breathin' air for their entire cycles.

But I'm not a fish, I'm a troll.

[so it's his trollface, clearly]

Oh... how weird! I don't know of any other races like that... maybe butterflies, but I guess you don't metamorphose, huh? So not really.

For your information, wwe do.

[Putting the book down because clearly someone needs to be schooled on troll biology.]

Wwe start off as larvva, an' make a cocoon after wwe hatch. Then once it pupates wwe come out wwith limbs. Sea dwwellers are distinct from all the others cause wwe have gills an' purple blood.

Rulin' class an' all that.

But wwe don't become butterflies or somethin' stupid like that. If you'vve met Ara or Vvrisk, they're exceptions wwith their stupid fluttery wwings.

But your gills don't shrivel up and fall off when you hit a certain age, right? Or people who live on land don't up and grow them, so you don't really change like that. How unusual.

...no, they don't.

Just superior genetics really. Sucks for the others hatched wwithout them.

Oh yeah? And what makes you so superior besides having bits of you flopping around off your face, mister?

Wwell for one thing, trolls are physically stronger ovverall than most species, but highbloods evven moreso. More durable, stronger, things like that, physical superiority.

Then there's the matter a sea dwwellers bein' amphibious wwhich is one a' the most distinct advvantages evver an' the fact you couldn't tell is actually shockin'.

An' finally I'm a descendant a' one a' the most feared and respected trolls evver, legendary for his many conquests an' ruthless killin' a' all the lowwerbloods wwho dared rise up against the empress.

He orphaned so many trolls he became feared for bein' knowwn as the orphaner.

So I havve a lot backin' me up here.

Yeah, I can see how you're so well prepared to play nicely with others and be really popular with all your friends. "My great-great-great-granddad killed so many people they called him the orphaner!" That's like the exact opposite of an ice-breaker.

Though being amphibious is pretty cool.

Hey, on alternia vviolence isn't such a big fuckin' deal like it is to you humans. I'll havve you knoww he's greatly respected for his actions. If I said to any troll that isn't any a' the ones here I wwas a descendant a the orphaner himself they'd flip their shit.

Probably a thousand times fuckin' cooler than wwhatevver your ancestors havve evver done combined.

My ancestors are awesome, and they didn't even have to make a bunch of babies orphans to be awesome.

Anyway, the other trolls here seem like they have their heads on straight to me, at least Aradia and Nepeta do. [She doesn't know most of the others well enough to say... except perhaps Karkat, but Karkat is a special case.] So maybe if they're not flipping there shit, they have their own good reasons for it. I don't think senseless violence is so great anyway, I don't care if you're human or an alien.

[Okay whoa, whoa, no, he's gonna interrupt her before she can finish, sweeping the book off of the table with one arm, standing suddenly and slamming his hands against the table.

He has a look like someone just killed his best friend or something.]

Don't. You. Fuckin'. DARE speak badly a Orphaner Dualscar.

[She pops to her feet but quick after he does, momentarily looking startled with her eyes wide, then tilting her head and watching him narrowly.]

Badly? That's exactly what he did, isn't it? Make a bunch of kids into orphans.

An' you're talkin' about him like he isn't great for it. It's kill or be killed on Alternia, a' course you're not gonna get that cause you're just a human, but the fact he managed it for so long an' wwas so wwell knowwn for it is a thing he shouldn't be spoken badly for.

He subjugated land dwwellers for longer than most trolls evven livve.

He wwas a great wwarrior wwho wwas feared by the lowwer castes an' highly admired by those a' his owwn class, an' most importantly he wwas respected by evveryone.

[All the things Eridan, well, isn't.]

Havve a bit a fuckin' respect.

Oh yeah, and why was he doing all that? Scaring people just for his own ego? Because he was automatically better than they were just because he was born with fins on his face? There's nothing respectable about killing and terrorizing other people just because.

Back durin' those days lowwblood revvolts wwere many. Alwways had them tryin' a' take ovver somethin' or other.

Not to mention all the fuckin' pirates goin' around causin' trouble too.

A' course he'd havve to givve them a reason not to do it anymore, same as any other member a the aristocracy.

He wwas just the best at it.

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