May 2015

Would the term "rust blood" refer to Tavros and Aradia or just Aradia? I think Tavros has been called one too but im not sure

Just Aradia I believe. Tavros is referred to as a brownblood

Oh I was being lighthearted and stuff as well whoa. Sorry that you thought I wasn't being that. It's all cool always, it's a cool webcomic and I'm glad that this blog is here and you're helping people understand stuff. (Heart)

Well, I’m glad you weren’t actually mad. We appreciate that you enjoy the blog and thank you.

do we know which ancestor genes were combined to create the main cast of trolls? like how roxy+dirk = dave+rose, but with trolls?

Karkat’s group were clones of themselves and their genes were all combined to make Meenah’s group. So, Karkat + his friends = Meenah + her friends. Specifically who contributed to whose genes hasn’t been stated in-comic.

So was Lord English's juju in a dream bubble? Or was it something vriskas' group was passing through in their dream bubble?

No, it was in the Furthest Ring in a dream bubble. 

I was wondering, how did John's dad and Rose's mom end up on Prospit?

I don’t think they ever went to Prospit but they were brought to the Battlefield by Jade’s grandpa on his ship during this flash.

Lusus Naturae is Latin for Freak of Nature
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I have a question. Let's say a player lives in an apartment complex and has to transport their house to the medium. Do you think the whole building would be transported along with all the people in it?

No, Dave lived in an apartment and no one else entered with him

Is Jasprosesprite^2 technically a 3rd tier sprite? Because Jaspersprite was prototyped twice. And Rosesprite was prototyped once.

I guess, kinda?

In an ask a while ago, I asked what would happen if Rosesprite and Jaspersprite combined, and now it actually happened and that's crazy!! What do you think is gonna happen ???

Roxy’s Post-retcon dead body is prototyped then all the sprites have an orgy hug fest = Roxtavjasprosesprite^4 and then they’re gonna get mixed with Calliope and the Ring of Life to form Lord English’s benelovent counterpart.

where did the derse moon symbol come from on jasprosesprite^2?

Maybe from Rose being a Derse dreamer, maybe from the Eldrich Doll used in Jaspersprite

actually the jasprospap thing is just two teirs because its a sprite being prototyped with a sprite, which just so happened to already be two prototyped. the squared is because the name has to account for all parties involved in a sprite, since one of them already had sprite in the name its shorter to say "sprite^2" than "spritesprite"

Yeah

What if two people were in close proximity to each other when entering the medium? Or other people were near the sburb objects (Totem Lathe, Alchemiter, ect...), like Dad was when john entered the medium?

They would come with, see: all the Alpha kids entering together.

So it has been confirmed that you can prototype a sprite with a sprite, do you think that JASPROSESPRITE^2 has legs because a player was prototyped?

I dunno man, maybe? sprite layering mechanics are gonna be a pain in the butt to figure out.

Also to extend on the previous anon asking about the aprartment thing, Sollux also lived in an apartment and he was the only one who went as well

TaRquiusprite^2. Tavrosprite + ARquiusprite new theory.

That’s a fun idea but ARquius has to stay ARquius so that he can become part Lord English.

would troll jane be a mutant cause her blood is light blue or is Hussie telling us not to care about the hemospectrum at this point?

Hussie has said that there are more colors in the hemospectrum than the 12/13 we’ve seen

Since this might actually become relevant now that all of the beta kids have been prototyped with their respective animals: what animal did you say John was associated with again?

Bunny

Wait when was John prototyped with a bunny

He hasn’t, it’s just a theory going around since the other Beta kids have been prototyped with their associated animal.

Im very confused... I was reading the updates and... Tavros and Rose are sprites??? How did Tavros sprite happen?!?! I though it was Tavrissprite???? And... Rosesprite...?? Sorry for the bother... I hope you dont mind telling me where i am very confused at.. If you dont mind ((or u can ignore this message..)) anyways thank you :33

In this retconned timeline only Tavros was prototyped in Jane’s kernel sprite so Tavrissprite didn’t happen. Roxy buried GameOver!Rose on Lowas and Jaspersprite dug her up and prototyped her in Roxy’s kernel sprite.

when did dirk kill himself with the sendificator?

At the end of this flash.

you know the imperial drones isn't there a rule if they don't give up genetic material they will kill the troll on site and may you put a link to which pages thats on

The Imperial Drones are mentioned here.

What did Echidna ask Kanaya to do that was impossible?

Kanaya hasn’t revealed that yet.

What made the lime bloods go extinct? Was it Condy or did they eventually die out??

Calliope mentions here that the lime bloods were all “hunted to extinction” so they may have been killed off by Gl'bgolyb by order of the Condesce. 

When did Sollux & Feferi get together? Did Feferi always have feeling for him and he decided to be her matesprite?

Feferi mentions that they’re in a quadrant in this flash and Erisolsprite refers to one half of himself as being her former matesprit when speaking to Fefetasprite on this page. It’s likely that they only became matesprits after sgrub had begun but the details of their relationship and how it started aren’t shown in-comic. 

Hmany pre-scratch sprites hitched a ride on IIowas into the alpha timeline?

Probably just the one, but maybe more, we’ll find out

"sprite layering mechanics are gonna be a pain in the butt to figure out." Well I'm a pain in the butt so maybe I could help. When inanimate objects are prototyped first, they are represented with a symbol. When animate or deceased creatures are prototyped first, they appear as themselves with a ghostly lack of legs, this also applies if they are prototyped second. With the X2 sprite combo it became complex enough for legs to appear. 1: symbol 2: ghost 3(maybe 4?): full body. Simply speculation.

This take on it does make some sense. Hopefully sprite mechanics will be revealed in more detail soon.

Why did Dirk kill himself?

Dirk sendificated his head in the past to Jake so he could kiss the head and wake up Dirk’s dream self. This allowed Dirk to get Roxy and Jane and bring them to Jake’s house so they could all enter the game together.

as shown in the beginning of homestuck a single layer of prototyping results in a still useless sprite, so why is tavrosprite not like this, is it because he is a sentient being? this would explain becsprite and also applies to rosesprite

It may be because he’s a sentient creature. Becquerel is sentient and so is Rose so that may be why they’re a full sprite and not a floating circle. The harlequin doll and the crow Dave accidentally prototyped were also both prototyped pre-entry so that may be why they were a floating circle for a while.

as shown in the beginning of homestuck a single layer of prototyping results in a still useless sprite, so why is tavrosprite not like this, is it because he is a sentient being? this would explain becsprite and also applies to rosesprite

forgottenhsfacts:

It may be because he’s a sentient creature. Becquerel is sentient and so is Rose so that may be why they’re a full sprite and not a floating circle. The harlequin doll and the crow Dave accidentally prototyped were also both prototyped pre-entry so that may be why they were a floating circle for a while.

Actually the sprite were a circle pre-entry because they still had their kernel. Once entering the kernel hatches and sprite grows its tail. There are certain exceptions for this such as Becsprite being a first guardian and Jaspersprite being double prototyped pre-entry. The Alpha kids’ sprites kept their kernels because they weren’t prototyped. Once prototyped the kernels left which is why Tavrossprite and Rosesprite have their full forms
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(Psst, snartled is probably talking about the time Dirk let the glitches get to him. It was sort of unexpected. He did it because he couldn't save Jake in the doomed timeline right?)

Because he couldn’t save anybody, he wasn’t there when his friends needed him and he couldn’t handle it.

I was going back to read some old scenes of homestuck and I had some issues because of the retcon stuff so I was wondering if it's still possible to read homestuck with preretcon stuff or is the comic itself altered to only retcon ?

The story in its entirely has changed with little oil and hands spread throughout it. The points that John travels to and messes with stuff have two paths and you can only read the post-retcon path of you have the password from later on in the story.

I'm not sure if anyone has asked this before but, why do trolls get wings when they go god tier??

Because trolls are an insect based race.

Hussie explained on his formspring (before the Summoner was revealed I believe) that trolls gain wings as their godtier because in their culture it's universally accepted that godlike beings would have wings. They grow wings as part of their vision of achieving literal godhood. Humanity does not have a universally accepted idea of what a god looks like and so human players do not change appearance to fit their idea of a god.

sorry if this has been asked before, but i'm not quite sure how the alpha kids got into their planets - i thought sprites were what initiated the location change?

No, Sprites influence the Battlefield and underlings.  Breaking the cruxite artifact is what initiates the location change.

Do you believe Bro was under the influence of Lil Cal? I don't believe so because of his shades? Since eyes are the door way to the soul, maybe the Striders closed that connection off with their shades so they couldn't be influenced?

I don’t believe he was being controlled, but he spent a lifetime with Cal so I doubt he escaped influence entirely even with his shades.  Being influenced by Cal didn’t cause his abusive tendencies as Dirk has been shown to possess a few of them himself and his Cal was empty, but it likely did enhance them and make them worse.  However, even if Cal influenced his behavior that still doesn’t excuse the abuse he put Dave through.

What was the abuse bro/dirk showed?

Well for starters he literally would beat the shit out of Dave all the time. Dave grew up surrounded by plush puppet porn for pete’s sake. Dave had to hide food in his room. That’s just the first few things to come to mind but there are more.

i was reading prev asks and im sorry if this has been asked before, but considering the summoner has wings (and idk if rufio does or not its been ages since my last reread) would he have been considered a god to trollkind? or because of his low blood caste would they just been like "nah, youre scum mate" and dismissed him? has this ever been answered in comic or by hussie?

Rufioh had them too. But the Summoner was definitely revered. He lead a rebellion after all so he had to at least have some type of charisma. I’m sure if he had been a highblood he would have been seen even more as a god figure.

Where do First Guardians come from and is there any reason for their existence? Does their basic purpose have anything to do with Doc Scratch being a servant of Lord English?

First Guardians are created in Sburb through ectobiology, their purpose being to protect their assigned planet and to oversee its growth.

Sorry if this was asked before, but what panel was jack noir prototyped into bec noir?

That would be [S] Jade: Enter

Where does the name Jackspers Noirlecrow come from?

That was Bec Noir before Bec, it was mostly a joke.

Jack+Jaspers= Jackspers
Noir+Harlequinn+Crow= Noirlecrow

What happened to Mituna and why are the the other dancestors avoiding the question

The others don’t know exactly what happened except for Kurloz who was there.

He greatly overexcerted himself in an act of heroism saving everyone.

How did John get to the meteor where he created the paradox clones, how did he get back to LOWAS, and where did his visit to LOLAR fit into this?

While John was on Lolar he found an island and on that island there was a transportalizer which brought him to the meteor in the Veil where the found the ectobiology equipment. After this his dream self woke while Prospit was being destroyed so his main body fell asleep in the ecto lab. The Aimless Renegade finds him and puts him on rocket board and he crash lands on Lowas. 

On the subject of Mituna and his accident, there's a lot of different headcanons for what he did. So out of curiosity, what do you personally think he did?

I’m partial to the theory that in order to protect his friends he wrote the ~ATH code so that English couldn’t enter the universe and to give his group more time to figure out how to beat him and then was manipulated by Kurloz into blasting the server it was held on into the Furthest Ring so it would be where it needed to be to make a stable timeloop.

Mituna has been said to be lucid around Kurloz so Kurloz could just be fucking with his mind all the time except for when they’re alone together so that he doesn’t tell anyone what Kurloz did.

It's notable that out of the three kid strifes, Bro is the only one who physically hit Dave. John's dad offers him cake and Rose's mom offers her a pony and sips of alcohol, but neither of them try to hit their child. Only Bro did that.

Why do only the orange bloods or uh, brown bloods gain wings without going godtier?

It’s a mutation that Rufioh/ The Summoner had and possibly Tavros too

So what did dirk do that was similar to bro

Dirk sent Brobot to “help” Jake become better at fighting but it ended up being an uneven power balance that Jake expressed on several occasions that he didn’t like. Dirk himself said he was trying to make Jake more tough which probably what Bro was trying to do with Dave but it ended up being this abusive bizarre behavior that wasn’t helpful or okay at all. Bro played a bunch of weird mind games with Dave which made him very uncomfortable and Dirk also does this to Jake. So all in all Dirk has some manipulative tendencies that he needs to work on. 

wasn't Dirk's Lil Cal the same one as Dave's Bro's Lil Cal, since it was on the meteor with him? So they both could've been at least partially influenced by it, though it's hard to say.

Two of the same juju can’t exist at the same time so Dirk’s didn’t have any souls in it like Bro’s did.

Do we know why Jasper's secret was?

He whispered MEOW to Rose. This unlocked a genetic code in her mind and she spent years subconsciously writing it on her bedroom walls.

Time for the most important question there is: When will the Homestuck map update?

I dunno, Hussie’s been busy, I’m sure he’ll get to it eventually.

Why is it so hard to get tiger?

Because hunting tigers is illegal.