January 2015

I was wondering, or just possible completely forgotten. Where is Aradia in the events leading up to [S]Game Over and [S]Game Over itself? Does she just stay in the dream bubbles?

Yes, Aradia and Sollux stay in the dreambubbles.

Are the kids and trolls planets already made before the game started? Or are they made when they enter the medium?

They are already made as seen on the Alpha kids’ planets where all the consorts had been dead of many years.

in a recent jade-featuring update, Jade mentioned the age of the lands! They simultaneously don't exist until they start the game and enter it, and yet they also are ancient and ever-existing. (p=008980)

You’re the only one to add a source, you win.

Why did Meenah and Aranea perma-die when Meenah blew up the alpha trolls?

They were killed as the Scratch was initiating so they didn’t have time to some back to life.

hey do you know how long the alpha kids were in SBURB?? was it only a year?

They entered On November 11th and the Beta kids arrived on the next April the 13th so they’ve been there about half a year.

Also in [s] Act 6 Act 4, Jack was counting the days on the wall in his cell and if you count them it’s 21 weeks and 6 days.  Which will take you from November 11th to April the 13th.  

Coincidentally, I just realized that 21 weeks and 6 days backwards is 612. Damn Hussie, you planned that really well.

I have a question: why does't John have an adult version? Like Mom, Bro, Poppop, etc. Jane's dad isn't John so yeah ._.

Poppop is adult John.

since it seems the leader of a session would be the one to create the other players through ectobiology (john for his session (and also the alpha session) and karkat for his session) would this mean that Meenah created those in her session?

No, Karkat created them.

What's the significance of the number 612?

It’s the arc number for Hivebent.  Like how 413 is the number for the Beta kids.

wait sorry i'm really dumb and this concept has confused me, how is it that only john and karkat have to do ectobiology? how did the baby meteors exist in the other universes without john/karkat's creating them? is it just skaia's portals, carrying the babies to a different game session from the original one?

When a scratch is initiated Skaia changes the portals that the babies go through so the babies only need to be created once.

I think Bro could have been saved. Why: Dave and Bro both had a copy of SBURB, but Dave ruined his and used Bro's copy (the one he got after their strife). So if Dave didn't spill aj on his copy, do you think Bro would have played and still be alive? (I told a friend this but she said,"Nah, Bro just would have done whatever the hell he wanted.")

Dave needed to lose his copy so that DD could steal it and eventually put it in the lotus time capsule which would send it back in time so that Jade could get the disks and play the game. So if Bro could have been saved, that’s not the way it would have happened.

Wait, I'm a bit confused in the "Attempt rare and highly dangerous 5x SHOWDOWN COMBO." Is Sollux deciding between having blackrom-redrom feelings for Gamzee, or is he determining if Cal's in blackrom with him or Redrom?

Sollux had a quadrant vacillation crush on Gamzee. It fits with his duality theme.

What happened with Jade's problem with falling asleep at random times? Did that disappear when she lost her dream self, or..? Ive been wondering about that a lot...

Jade’s narcolepsy was caused by Vriska testing her powers on humans.  While Vriska can control trolls she can only make humans fall asleep. 

what are the dancestors titles and which ones have been seen with god tier?

Kankri: Seer of Blood
Damara: Witch of Time
Rufioh: Rogue of Breath
Mituna: Heir of Doom
Meulin: Mage of Heart
Porrim: Maid of Space
Latula: Knight of Mind
Aranea: Sylph of Light
Horuss: Page of Void
Kurloz: Prince of Rage
Cronus: Bard of Hope
Meenah: Theif of Life

And they’ve all been seen god tier in mini-strife

i understand how in the kid's sessions, the kids only had to be created once, in the pre-scratch session, so they didn't have to be created again in the kid's post-scratch session; but I'm confused as to why karkat had to create the trolls; sence his was the post-scratch session, wouldn't they have been created in the pre-scratch session?

The lack of ectobiology in the pre-scratch troll session was one of the reasons that their session was doomed to fail.

Wait how did Sollux die??

He was killed once by the Vast Glub once and again by overexerting himself moving the meteor to the Green Sun.

i finished reading homestuck from beginning to end a while ago and only one thing really bugs me. everything in homestuck with loose ends always makes sense after a while but what about grandpa harley? how is he alive with a flying ship???? and where did he go after the scratch??? this haunts me and for the life of me i cant remember if that was ever resolved or not. how did he manage to stuff jade's dreamself and yet that always existed in the past??? grandpa harely confuses me entirely!!!!!!!

Time in the Medium is not the same as it is on Earth.  There are teleporters in the Frog Temple that go to Prospit and Derse. Mind you that the Frog Temple is on the island that Grandpa Harley owns. Therefore he was free to use the teleporters and go between Earth and The Medium at will.

Wait, Sollux was killed by the vast glub? But then wouldn't everyone else have dued too? Wasn't it something else?

No, Sollux was the last troll to enter. Everyone else but Feferi was in the Medium and out of the Vast Glubs range and Fuchsia bloods aren’t affected by the glub so he was the only one killed.

What would happen if a sburb/ sgrub player were to die on someone elses quest bed? Like if John died on Dave's quest bed or something.

Then John would be dead. 

Where is gamzee's dreamself? Is it dead, unknown, or I read somewhere that it was hidden? Idk. I can't find the info anywhere!

His dreamself was most likely killed by Bec Noir alongside all the other dreamselves.  But it wasn’t shown most likely to make Gamzee’s fake God Tier costume in Act 6 more believable.

the fandom now looks to you to find johns wallet

Last seen with Aradia long before Hivebent even started.

Hey factmaster! I've seen a few posts claiming Rose's sobriety is back on track as of the new update, but I didn't see anything like that. Like, at all. Where are people drawing this conclusion from???

Originally Rose is leaning on Kanaya because she was hungover

In the retcon timeline Rose is standing on her own so it can be assumed that either she never became an alcoholic or that she overcame it before arriving.

Can you explain the update? I don't get it...

Jade remembered that she was asleep and not dead.  Vriska has the power to put humans to sleep.  Vriska is still alive.  Vriska put Jade and Jane to sleep.

Sorry, I have a doubt about Null Sessions: how can they exist when in Homestuck we have a single "right timeline" system? For example, why is the pre-scratch trolls' session null? If they didn't succeed, shouldn't it be just a doomed timeline?

Null Sessions can be scratched.  Rose also explains that Null Sessions are fairly common here.

So idk if I missed this or something but why did Roxy disappear when she put on the ring if it doesn't have any effect on humans?

The Queen’s ring with prototyped orbs has no effect on humans.  But the post scratch Queen’s ring is a very distinct type of ring not normally found in Sburb sessions.  It is a Ring of Void which is usable by humans.

We were discussing this with a friend and we still dont understand, what causes that rose didnt get alcoholic?

My guess would be Terezi not being in an abusive relationship with Gamzee.  Without Gamzee keeping her secluded, Terezi would have been had the foresight to know what excessive drinking would do to Rose thanks to her Seer powers and been able to help Rose or prevent her alcoholism from happening.  Kanaya didn’t stop Rose from drinking because Kanaya didn’t know it would become an issue until it was too late.

I know you must have answered this question before but how do I find the passwords? I've been searching since that update and I might not be going far enough?

They are in the comic, to use them you have to type in Terezi’s quirk.  You can look here for a list of the passwords if like.

is Gamzee really dead after being killed by Kanaya? And also, is Aradia dead and if so how was she killed?

Gamzee is probably no longer dead and Aradia is not dead, she just prefers to live in the dreambubbles.

What is Aradia's relationship with Diamonds Droog? I'm really confused on this.

Diamond Droog was her exile and convinced her to kill Vriska.

could you do a quick summary of everything that's happened since ungigapause

GAME OVER: Everyone dies and John beats up Caliborn.

Terezi and Roxy survive, John shows up, Roxy goes to see her denizen, John goes to see his denizen and teleports his planet. then he goes back to before he left Terezi, Terezi gives him a list of stuff to change then dies.  John goes back and changes a bunch of stuff.  Now Vriska is alive, the Condesce is confused, Team Good Guys is winning, Retcon timeline John and Roxy are dead, Aranea never came back to life.  John teleported him, his planet, and original timeline Roxy back to the session.

That’s a rough summary.

Does it ever state canonically where in the world Rose lives? I know it does for the other 3 betas but I can't remember for Rose.

She lives in a secluded mansion in Rainbow Falls, New York.  I do not have a credible source for this though so feel free to reblog with one if anyone has one.

You're a lifesaver, Mod T!! On a related note, is Snowman the Black Queen from the same session Spades Slick came from (Karkat's session), or is she from Caliborn's session?

She is from Karkat’s session, yes.

Do ghosts age in the afterlife?

Nope.

How did VRISKA puting Jane and Jade asleep affect them? Did it make it so they wouldn't go evil?

It allowed the meteor crew to stay together since Jade didn’t get the chance to send them all to different planets.

Hi! When a player is in a session, do they only get their powers once they go god tier or do they develop once they start the game?

They develop them as they play through the game as seen with Terezi using Mind powers despite not being God Tier.

Why can Aradia choose to stay in dream bubbles? Can the other dead trolls do this or is it only her?

Aradia isn’t dead so she can leave the dreambubbles if she wanted.  The dead ghost people and trolls cannot leave though.

So wait, is the original Vrisks still in the dream bubbles, or is she gone now?

Original Vriska is most likely still in the dreambubble.  Hussie recent gave her a drastic makeover most likely to make it possible to distinguish the two Vriskas from each other.

Who is dead currently?

In the retconned timeline: All the prescratch trolls, Tavros, Eridan, Feferi, Equius, and Nepeta.