🍍 : k so the things we know about eridan are: misplaced confidence, gender fluidity, and unbridled arrogance. with those 3 powers combined, uhhhh we have a kid who's riddled with anxiety about his looks and is constantly trying to look after himself while simultaneously not knowing HOW to do that. because his dad is a fucking seahorse. but he's very vain and definitely cares about how he looks. the thing is that he also has an avant-garde sense of taste, so for him, it isn't fashion if nobody has a mean thing to say about it.
if he had to change one thing it would be his height, prooobably also would love to not need glasses. (i chose to make them real instead of plano b/c i love the jinkies opportunities) eridan's like, 5'4"ish and some change, which is an average height for a 13 y/o human soooo that's what i went with. he wishes he were taller and i imagine when he hits his like, last growth spurth he just fuckin rockets up to the awkward gangly 6'2" asshole he's destined to be
🥭 : i'll be real i don't know what they've added to alternian lore (esp through hiveswap, since all ive seen of that is eridan's route in the friendsim) so i'm not sure if i'm accurate here. anyway:
i like to imagine that eridan was one of the few violet blooded seadwellers whose hive was predominantly on land (others being semi or fully aquatic with topside "vacation" home type shit), so he probably wasn't taken very seriously by any of his neighbors. that's probably why his friends are all relatively far away (i think gamzee is the closest outside of fef??)
as for the planet itself, he was/is very nationalistic and pro alternian conquest, but i like to think any sincerity in that died off when the planet was destroyed. the fact that he decided to destroy ALL of the trolls in a fit of rage tells me that in the end, he didn't care about troll society and its inherent superiority -- he just felt like an outsider and uses that shit as a crutch.
all this to say: he puts up a big stink about alternia but at the end of the day, he feels largely disconnected from it. he'd be happy anywhere so long as he felt like he was part of the in-crowd.
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if he had to change one thing it would be his height, prooobably also would love to not need glasses. (i chose to make them real instead of plano b/c i love the jinkies opportunities) eridan's like, 5'4"ish and some change, which is an average height for a 13 y/o human soooo that's what i went with. he wishes he were taller and i imagine when he hits his like, last growth spurth he just fuckin rockets up to the awkward gangly 6'2" asshole he's destined to be
🥭 : i'll be real i don't know what they've added to alternian lore (esp through hiveswap, since all ive seen of that is eridan's route in the friendsim) so i'm not sure if i'm accurate here. anyway:
i like to imagine that eridan was one of the few violet blooded seadwellers whose hive was predominantly on land (others being semi or fully aquatic with topside "vacation" home type shit), so he probably wasn't taken very seriously by any of his neighbors. that's probably why his friends are all relatively far away (i think gamzee is the closest outside of fef??)
as for the planet itself, he was/is very nationalistic and pro alternian conquest, but i like to think any sincerity in that died off when the planet was destroyed. the fact that he decided to destroy ALL of the trolls in a fit of rage tells me that in the end, he didn't care about troll society and its inherent superiority -- he just felt like an outsider and uses that shit as a crutch.
all this to say: he puts up a big stink about alternia but at the end of the day, he feels largely disconnected from it. he'd be happy anywhere so long as he felt like he was part of the in-crowd.