The Depression

**The Depression** is a gang of street rats, skids, and good friends who live in the Nest. Their territory is in Disc 3, and their base of operations is Sky Hub. They are the sole export of the recreational drug, Druh.

## Trivia

* In a trailer for Etrian Odyssey III, the characters' names for Advanced Character Creation were named Terezi, Kanaya, Gamzee, Equius and Karkat, a blatant reference to the trolls of the same names. It's also worth noting that in the previous shot, the 'Zodiac' subclass had been chosen.
* With the exception of Karkat and, correspondingly, Cancer, the order of the trolls on the hemospectrum is the same as the order in which the zodiac signs cycle, i.e. Template:Color, Template:Color, Template:Color, Template:Color, Template:Color, Template:Color, Template:Color, Template:Color, Template:Color, Template:Color, Template:Color and Template:Color. In addition, this is exactly the same order of the trolls' trolltags on the ChumpRoll from top to bottom, as well as the transportalizers to each troll's section of the lab, shown in Alterniabound, with Aradia's sign beginning the cycle near the 11 o'clock position. Template:Color would fit between Olivebloods and Goldbloods, i.e. Karkat's position on the spectrum.
* After being asked if he was going to introduce another 12 trolls, Andrew jokingly declared all of the fantrolls canon. All of them. Yes, even the shitty ones.
	+ Previously, the stories of the ancestors were described as "troll fanfiction", which could possibly make them fantrolls.
	+ Eventually, two fantrolls truly did become canon thanks to two very generous backers of the Homestuck Adventure Game Kickstarter.
* Seemingly coincidentally, the trolls bear a strong resemblance to the Dremora from the *Elder Scrolls* video game series. Both races have grey skin, yellow eyes, shaggy black hair, and horns, both reside in a caste-based warrior society in another dimension, and both make use of the Daedric Alphabet.
* In real-world mythology, trolls turn into stone when exposed to daylight, mirroring the fact that only jadebloods are able to stand exposed in Alternian sun. In addition, trolls are sometimes considered to be a subset of fairies; the winged god tier forms may be an allusion to this.
* The fact that some trolls live underwater could be a reference to the fact that in a few traditional fairy tales trolls are known to live under bridges, which would usually cross over a river or some other body of water.
* The name Andrew Hussie would qualify as a troll name since it consists of two names each six letters long.
* Hussie practically confirmed on his twitter that all of the A1 trolls were 19 years old at the time of their death. He stated that clues in text point to this: the A2 trolls were all 6 sweeps old when they began Sgrub (the same is presumed to hold for the A1 trolls), and the A1 trolls' session was mentioned to last 3 sweeps; 6+3 sweeps = 9 sweeps, or about 19 years.
* All of the dancestors of the pre-scratch female trolls with long hair have short hair and vice versa. Damara and Meenah could be considered exceptions, however, they both have most of their hair above the shoulders. That makes it seem somewhat shorter.

## See also

* Troll terminology

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