Canon Background: In Homestuck canon, the Dolorosa was the Ancestor of Kanaya Maryam. As a jade-blooded troll, she was part of a rare blood caste whose only duty was to tend to the Mother Grub, a monstrous being that lives underground on the planet Alternia. The mother grub gives birth to all trolls, combining their genetic material and laying thousands of eggs at once. It was while on an errand that she found an abandoned grub, and seeing no other chance for his survival, gave up her duty to raise him. He would become the Signless (later the Sufferer), and she would become his first follower.

After the execution of the Sufferer, the Dolorosa was sold into slavery, spending the rest of her life as the property of seadwellers. It is mentioned in Marquise Mindfang's journal that the pirate had a female lover, who is implied to be the Dolorosa, and if this is true she was later assassinated by Dualscar, mirroring the relationships that their descendants would have. Her journal would suggest that she showed this interest in the Dolorosa purely to fuel the kismesissitude that Dualscar felt towards her, but there is also speculation that she may have been a genuine matesprit prospect for Mindfang.

In an image of her she is shown to have yellow eyes, inferring heavily that she – like Kanaya and Porrim – became a rainbow drinker at some point in her life.