I can see an AU where she lost the protection of her lusus and hid out as a lowblood being interesting, sure. Or any reduction of her bubble, really - say if Eridan died or sulked or something and she had to feed her lusus herself. But they have to be established to be taken away.
If you were to go for an actual lowblood thing, I think you could do it one of two ways: 1) A character who behaves like Feferi but is a lowblood, which would be boring, and in many ways a different character. 2) A character who behaves as Feferi would if she'd been born a lowblood instead, which would probably be unrecognisable. And, in a different set of ways, a different character. I think I disapprove of this in general.
I could see a 1) being decent for Eridan, though he doesn't particularly interest me as a character.
Well, why? Feferi's character isn't largely based on her blood type - it's easy to assume her basic personality would be the same (the two lowest blood characters currently weren't exactly grim and miserable kids) and probably her views on the hemospectrum not making anyone better than anyone else. She would be Feferi minus the bubble.
Eridan, though, just goes from a guy who hates people different than him and has society's blessing to a guy who hates people different than him and doesn't have society's blessing, and either continues to try to commit genocide or gets killed by someone for trying. Fandom has amply plumbed this concept and they've yet to find anything besides the chance to go on about Eridan's tragic and noble suffering.
But that's my problem. The bubble is what makes her interesting. Losing it would be a good character development because it's so central to her, but never having it makes her a rather generic lowblood.
A lowblood Eridan would probably be more along the lines of a guy sitting on top of an enormous nuclear cache who spends all his time organising resistance meetings as a pretext to socialise, all the while convinced of his determination to wipe out the highblood oppressors.
But she's not a typical lowblood in attitude either. She's the only one in the cast who's interested in social reform and generally the most revolutionary in outlook. Her lusus is interesting, but it's not the only interesting thing about her.
And why would lowblood Eridan have a nuclear cache if he's a lowblood?
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Date: 2012-04-04 09:03 am (UTC)If you were to go for an actual lowblood thing, I think you could do it one of two ways:
1) A character who behaves like Feferi but is a lowblood, which would be boring, and in many ways a different character.
2) A character who behaves as Feferi would if she'd been born a lowblood instead, which would probably be unrecognisable. And, in a different set of ways, a different character. I think I disapprove of this in general.
I could see a 1) being decent for Eridan, though he doesn't particularly interest me as a character.
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Date: 2012-04-04 01:43 pm (UTC)Eridan, though, just goes from a guy who hates people different than him and has society's blessing to a guy who hates people different than him and doesn't have society's blessing, and either continues to try to commit genocide or gets killed by someone for trying. Fandom has amply plumbed this concept and they've yet to find anything besides the chance to go on about Eridan's tragic and noble suffering.
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Date: 2012-04-04 04:00 pm (UTC)A lowblood Eridan would probably be more along the lines of a guy sitting on top of an enormous nuclear cache who spends all his time organising resistance meetings as a pretext to socialise, all the while convinced of his determination to wipe out the highblood oppressors.
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Date: 2012-04-04 05:23 pm (UTC)And why would lowblood Eridan have a nuclear cache if he's a lowblood?