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Red Dead Virgo (RDV) is at its core an [[Alternate Universe Fic|Alternate Universe]] [[What If]] fic, asking "[[What If]] the trolls all had a different blood color than they do in canon?" The focus is on a Red Kanaya, who decided she simply couldn't hide her "mutant" blood color from her friends. [[Break the Cutie|This turns out to be a bad thing.]] However, the story jumps around a lot to several other trolls, all with different blood colors (shifted down five places from canon), and more importantly different upbringings. The characters are somehow [[In Spite of a Nail|similar to the way they were in canon]]...and yet [[For Want of a Nail|at the same time they aren't]]. A part of what makes the story work is the contrast between these [[Alternate Universe]] characters and their canon counterparts, and how much about them was nature and how much was nurture. This extends to most (pretty much all) of the relationships as well. Even SGRUB is a bit different, while remaining the same.

{{quote|"...you never read about any holy warriors who wore scrubby oversized shirts and rolled dice at their foes."}}

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Karkat to Kanaya, in "Full Circle". {{spoiler|But nobody said he was good at it}}. And even Terezi helps Kanaya avoid doomed outcomes... by mocking her.

* [[Resigned to the Call]]: This version of SGRUB forces some of the trolls out of their comfort zones. Vriska doesn't think she's cut out to be {{spoiler|a God Tier [[Knight in Shining Armor]]}} since she was a humble stuttering farmgirl all her life. Equius is horrified that he has both a lofty title (Prince of Space) and {{spoiler|the ''huge'' responsibility of ''creating the new universe''}} since he was a servile bootlicker before the game started. Eridan really doesn't like being the Mage of Time since dealing with [[Time Travel]] is so messed up. Aradia was an aloof and antisocial [[Smart Guy|smart girl]] before the game so she isn't happy that her new role is to be [[The Empath]]. Nonetheless, all of them try their best to fulfill their roles since they have no other choice.

* [[Satellite Character]]: Quite a few of the trolls (notably Aradia, Tarvos and Sollux) don't do much except chat with other trolls and remark on their lands and titles, but they at least get off better than Rose, Dave and John, who don't even get a ''single'' speaking line in the whole story - just a few offhand mentions. {{spoiler|[[We Hardly Knew Ye|And then they get erased by the Scratch.]]}}