So.... he had kind of a massive, raging hard-on for everything related to the caste system. Part of it was that he was nobility, being a dark blue blood, but I think he really was just fascinated with everyone keeping to their own kind, low-bloods behaving properly.

[She snorted.]

Irony was, he had the sweetest, most playful olive-blooded troll as his moirail, and she usually kept him in line pretty good as long as Aradia wasn't involved. She was a rust blood, lowest of the low for the castes. So, he always thought it was blasphemous to be attracted to her and got real weird about it.

If folks could have ever gotten him to admit how stupid he was? He might have turned out ok. But he croaked before that ever had the chance to happen.

[Ironic, given that in another version of Asgard, Nepeta did indeed finaly get him to stop being quite so... Equius. It just took a year away from troll society.]