Meant to finish this pick back on 4/13, but I am lazy and drawing is hard.
>>45787
>we had a very interesting discussion about troll reproduction back on halfchan before the jannies nuked it
I remember this one. Here's the screencap for it
technically its from 2 threads.
>How would horns, blood color/caste traits, psychic powers work for them?
I think their skin-color would be varying intermediates between grey and their human parent's skin color as you would expect, likewise with their eye color. I suppose the sharpness of their teeth may also be like this?
For their horns, I think because only one parent has horn genes it would be a case where either they inherent the horns or don't, but for those that do they grow to the same length as their parent. I imagine they'd be the same shape as well, after all trolls share the same horn shape as their ancestors who they share the majority of their genetic makeup with.
While the size and shape of the horns would be the same, the coloration of them may vary similar to skin color, assuming troll horns are made of Keratin as humans also have Keratin. As for psychic powers, its hard to say. Are they purely biological in nature, or magic like how cherubs work? We don't have any examples of psychic powers in nature to compare to.
>Do they begin as babies or grubs? Does this depend on the mother's species?
Having it depend on the mother's species seems like the natural choice. Though if the headcanon is that the trolls used to reproduce differently before evolving/having the mothergrubs introduced, you could say they had live young and that the grub genes come from the mother grub. Might be less interesting though.
>Would female trolls lay eggs or give birth to live young?
As mentioned above, you could have it either way. I do like the idea of female trolls laying eggs, as it would be reminiscent of John Carter Martians. This would be a fitting reference since trolls are humanoid aliens able to reproduce with humans.
If you went with that, I guess that means they technically couldn't "get pregnant" since Oviparous organisms don't have a womb otherwise they wouldn't be laying eggs in the first place.
Grubs are roughly the size of a human baby, so I suppose the egg would grow to that size before being laid meaning a female troll would still look "pregnant" before laying the egg
but you'd only care if you have a weird fetish for that. I don't know if its hypothetically possible for a hard shelled egg to exist inside a womb, but that would seem counter-intuitive anyway.
>>45848
>I believe it's said that a baby can be made from the genetic material of any two trolls and the Mother Grub.
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