WTF Is Leprechaun Romance???
Jan. 23rd, 2026 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abyssal_sylphSO in case you don't know: leprechaun romance is a joke-detail about the leprechauns/the felt from Homestuck. Basically what we know about it is that;
Which first of all: how is reproducing homosecually diffrent from reproducing bisexually??? Honestly the bisexual reproduction makes sense if trolls were moss or fungus like, but they're not, so I have no clue what this realistically could mean (besides gender but that makes even less sense let's be honest here).
Call me Aranea, but I'm obsessed actually! I wish Homestuck had an actual explanation for leprechaun romance. Because part of the fun of the Homestuck media is the quadrants romance system. It's the way it explores how diffrent characters would find eachother important. Honestly we were robbed more fun by the fact this seems to be a joke on the quadrant shippers! Jokes on you hussie I ADORE making aliens/non-humans more wacky!
- Leprechauns have 9 (sub)types of romance.
- They're expected to get into troves, which is when a relationship has 3 romance (sub)types.
- It's seemingly build around love, pranks & jappery.
- Leprechauns reproduce homosexually.
Which first of all: how is reproducing homosecually diffrent from reproducing bisexually??? Honestly the bisexual reproduction makes sense if trolls were moss or fungus like, but they're not, so I have no clue what this realistically could mean (besides gender but that makes even less sense let's be honest here).
Call me Aranea, but I'm obsessed actually! I wish Homestuck had an actual explanation for leprechaun romance. Because part of the fun of the Homestuck media is the quadrants romance system. It's the way it explores how diffrent characters would find eachother important. Honestly we were robbed more fun by the fact this seems to be a joke on the quadrant shippers! Jokes on you hussie I ADORE making aliens/non-humans more wacky!
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Date: 2026-01-23 06:00 pm (UTC)Homosexual reproduction would make sense only with some variable that allows two same sex people- er, leprechauns? to have a different sex child. I'll gladly get into genetics with you at some point but for now let's assume there is a way for that to happen for one or another reason.
NOW as for the 3x3 grid where they're expected to have at least three romances, may I introduce you to the idea that they need to fill it like individual numbers in sudoku? As in, there can not be a repeat in any individual row or column? This gives you many possible combinations and would explain why they need all 9 types!
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Date: 2026-01-23 06:19 pm (UTC)or!
It's said in canon that diffrent troves have diffrent levels of fertility. This could mean that troves can be any combination of 3 or more sub-romances, but that sudoku-like troves are the most likely to result in a child. This would explain why trove needs to be at least 3 & why some are more desirable.