Well, now that I'm done, maybe I should do rankings.
PRE-SCRATCH HUMANS
John > Dave > Jade > Rose
Jade may be annoying at times, but I wasn't very fond of the direction Rose took during their session. Dark Rose just didn't cut it for me, whereas Jade started to grow on me over time. Dave is clearly above both of them and that's all that needs to be said on that matter. John is my favorite character overall, so yay him.
POST-SCRATCH HUMANS
Dirk > Jake > Roxy > Jane
I might be a little biased, but I just love it when writers can make characters gay without that being all there is to them. Dirk is badass first and foremost, and just happens to be gay and Jake needs to f***ing prepare himself for that s***. I do wonder if Dave's Bro is also gay, or if perhaps it's only because of the circumstances Dirk grew up in. Trolls don't have any concept of homosexuality, and Dirk was born in a time ruled by a troll overlord. Then again, Dave's Bro DOES have all those smuppets...
Oh, uh, got off topic there. Next is Jake, because he's pretty awesome too. Roxy is perpetually drunk 15/16 year old. Awesome. Jane's not bad or anything, but she's just rather bland compared to everyone else.
HUMANS COMBINED
John > Dirk > Dave > Jake > Roxy > Jade > Rose > Jane
Yep.
...POST-SCRATCH TROLLS? (this is post-Scratch, right?)
Tavros > Karkat > Vriska > Terezi > Equius > Eridan > Aradia > Sollux > Kanaya > Gamzee > Feferi > Nepeta
Objectively speaking, I know at the very least that Karkat, Vriska, and Terezi are better characters than Tavros. But still, best doesn't always equal favorite. I think Tavros has the best design (best horns, really), and I really like his personality.
After Terezi, it starts getting a little harder to rank the other trolls. A lot of them really didn't have a ton of screentime. Equius's superiority fetish is basically what lands him is spot, I think that's f***ing hilarious. Don't really have much to say about Eridan or Aradia.
Something about Sollux didn't particularly click for me, but he's still not bad. He's probably the troll that most deserved additional focus. Early on, I felt they were setting him up to be pretty important, but they never really followed through on that. I've already expressed some of my opinions on Kanaya, but upon reflection for these rankings, I realized she wasn't really bottom tier after all.
Gamzee being this low is probably an unpopular opinion, but I just don't care for the juggalo thing at all. Still, he does enough humorous things to push him over the last two (creating Tavrisprite almost pushed him over Kanaya, but eh...).
Feferi and Nepeta just didn't have a whole lot going on for them. Feferi also would've benefited from having more focus, and I would've liked her to take on more of a leadership role. That didn't happen, though, so oops. Down near the bottom she goes. I think Nepeta had the least screentime, and her personality basically boiled down to "likes cats".
I'm not going to rank the other trolls yet, since there's still not a lot to go on for them yet. Buuuut, I guess preliminary rankings would go Meenah > Aranea and undyingUmbrage > uranianUmbra. Personality trumps non-personality for both inequalities.
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