Sopor slime is a relaxing ooze [that] helps assuage the terrible visions of blood and carnage that plague the dark subconscious of [Karkat Vantas’] species found within a troll’s recuperacoon.
Like beds found on Earth, the Alternian recuperacoon lends its image to a troll’s Quest Cocoon. More broadly, cocoons are symbolic of transformation from one form into the next, hence the appearance of wings on a god tier troll’s body.
