May 2015

What's gog and jegus?

Jegus was a typo made by Dave here, fans in their bucket phase use it all the time and have the characters say it frequently in comics even though Jegus has only been used 18 times in canon, 4 times by Vriska and Karkat, 3 times by John, Dave and Terezi and once by Feferi.

Gog has a similar story only drawn even more out of proportion as it’s only used 3 times in the story, twice by Terezi and once by Dave

in act intermission 2 how did feferi and eridan get on the meteor?

The meteor was passing through a dreambubble.  Those were dead Eridan and Feferis.

Are bulges canon?

What exactly are you asking?  If you’re asking if trolls have bone bulges then yes, it’s been referenced many times.  But if you’re asking if troll bulges are the little tentacle doodad seen so often in fanart, then no, that’s not canon.

Apologies if this has been asked a 100 times already, but has the four letter first name thing for the humans ever been explained, or is it just apart of the 413 thing?

Yes.  The kids’ first names are 4 letters long and their last names are either 6 or 7 letters.  6+7=13   The human naming scheme is a reference to the arch-number of homestuck 413.  Similar to how at the beginning of the story it was about 4 13-year old kids.

Question... What is currently happening in homestuck? I'm confused about the updates.

The meteor crew rescued Jake, Jade and Jane from the Condesce.  And now they’re waiting for Arquiusprite to free Jane from her tieratop before they go over battle plans so they’re taking this brief moment of down time to just talk with each other.

Why was Feferi easily killed and Gamzee was waaay harder cause fef is the highest of the high bloods. Is it the clown thing?!

Feferi was hit with a highly concentrated Hope powered blast.  While Gamzee is usually just hit with bullets or knives which don’t cause nearly the same amount of damage.  Also he’s a clown and you can’t keep down the clown.

hey so i was wondering, with vriska keeping gamzee at bay now and doing all of the time traveling, does that mean that nobody was around to raise caliborn and calliope? or is this something that is unanswered and needs explaining now

Gamzee will still get it done.  Caliborn only exists post-retcon so everything that’s happened to him wasn’t effected by the retcon.

What happened to the other Great Weapons Li'l Seb was carrying? (The Needles of Zillywair and what not.) I know they were created by the Tricksters, but what happened to the specific three that were being carried with the Warhammer by the bunny?

You mean Liv Tyler (different bunny) the one given to John that had the warhammer of zillyhoo.  The other three weapons it had weren’t trickster weapons

Since when does Caliborn only exist post retcon? I thought he was present before that

Caliborn is from the future of the Alpha kids’ timeline, his existence is dependent on them creating a new universe explained by Aranea here.  In the Pre-retcon Game Over timeline everyone dies and they never create a new universe so Caliborn never hatches.  And yes he was present early in the story before the retcon happened but he was always in the far off future.

when dream bubble God-tier Fef revived the mayor before the 3 year meteor journey. why didn't she revive the others, for example, nepeta, sollux, etc. given that she had the power to do so. sans the whole sprite thing. this always bothered me and the upd8s only respurred this questions.

That would be because WV wasn’t dead, only fatally wounded. Feferi doesn’t have the ability to revive the dead.

In the Descend Flash, during the part where Jack and Bro are fighting, why does Bro stab his sword into the Beat Mesa?

Bro is trying to initiate the Scratch which is caused by physically scratching the Beat Mesa.

How do you remember the page links for the different questions people ask you?

Most of the time I remember key phrases used in those conversations pertaining to the ask and search mspaintadventures for those phrases. Or I check the wiki to make sure.

I can't seem to remember... did Beforan trolls have multiple quadrants as well? Or was that just due to the violence of Alternia? Now kismesis has been explained I think they probably would have, but I'm not sure.

Yes the Beforan trolls had the four quadrants as well. They have stated in multiple flashes that they experience the full four types of troll romance. 

What would have happened if the trolls had gone through the door?

They would’ve found themselves in the kid’s universe.

If jades grandpa was dead while she was still a baby how did he find her dead dream self and have it stuffed while riding a big ship in prospit? This question has been eating me alive.

Grandpa used the portals found in the Frog temple on his island to enter the Medium sometime before he died and before the session started. Because the Medium’s timeline started when John entered, Grandpa was sort of traveling in the future. He took Jade’s dream body back through the portals to Earth and stuffed it. 

How does one get sent to a dream bubble after death? Like do you have to be a player of sburb/sgrub to go to a dream bubble after death since the ancestors weren't

Yes the dream bubbles are only for the ghosts of dead sburb/sgrub players. Meenah just sort of appeared in a bubble after she died. 

Why Did Some Alpha Trolls Like Mituna Kurloz And Meulin Not Heal After Death? (A Theory Is Fine If You Cant Find An Answer)

When you die and come back as a ghost your non-fatal injuries sustained in life don’t heal. 

Was Latula blind before she died?

No Latula was never blind.

hey what about a maid of blood? or hope? breath? which one is the best?

Each godtier title can be powerful if you fulfill your role correctly. In terms of raw power I’d say Hope is your best bet. 

What happened to the doomed!timeline davesprite?

His fate is unknown. 

If injuries don't heal, then how come Tavros' ghost could walk?

He had robot legs before he died so that may have carried over to the after life.

Something's that's always baffled me... if Jade's grandpa was shot while she was young, who stuffed and mounted him?

Either Jade or Bec but it was most likely Bec since a young Jade probably couldn’t have brought herself to stuff her own grandfather.  

While dead and partially a sprite, Aradia blamed herself for her death. 

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How did Glubglub (Fef's Lusus) die?

Feferi’s lusus was implied to have been killed by a meteor after she released the Vast Glub. She then fell into Feferi’s kernel sprite and was prototyped. 

What're the different kinds of session? I know doomed and dead sessions are a thing, but what else?

There are three kinds of bad sessions: null sessions, dead sessions, and void sessions. An example of a void session is the Alpha kid’s session. A void session is when nothing is prototyped pre entry. This means the battlefield cannot evolve and grow and the session will go on forever because the Black and White king’s war will be an eternal stalemate. 

what are all the ships that have become canon?

Right now the canon ships are as follows:

Terezi <> Vriska

Punk!Vriska <3 Meenah

Mituna <3 Latula

Meulin <> Horruss

Spades Slick <3 Ms Paint

Nepeta <> Equius

Kurloz <> Mituna

Rose <3 Kanaya

Do they have to die on the quest bed or does their corpse have to end up on it

Either one. Jade died and was placed on her quest bed shortly afterwards and she still ascended. 

how did karkat, as a post-scratch troll, do the ectobiology to create the post-scratch trolls and the pre-scratch trolls?

Karkat created 24 paradox clones consisting of his group and Meenah’s group. They were then sent back through the portals, twelve would become ancestors and twelve would become Karkat and his friends. 

is it ever mentioned in canon how karkat's ectobiology is more complicated than john's? is it not just that the beta trolls are actual clones of the alpha trolls?

The beta trolls are not clones of the alpha trolls. Karkat created 24 trolls during his ectobiology. Trolls are usually conceived when the Mother Grub combines adult troll reproductive liquids and then lays many eggs all at once. Karkat may have had to do a similar process but with paradox slime for 24 people.

In this new timeline, Rose and Kanaya are still a thing, right? Rose still had drinking problems and Kanaya still helped her with all that, right? Then what's the deal with Kanaya and Sollux when John gets there? Is it just her being nice? A different quadrant? Nothing at all? Or 'to be revealed'?

Rose and Kanaya are still together in this timeline judging from the way their interactions are. Kanaya was holding Sollux’s arm because he was blind, they’re just friends. 

how do you get to your sacrificial slab?

Sacrificial Slabs are located in the center of the moons of Derse and Prospit so just go there once you enter the Medium. 

I forget. Did jade have any knowledge prior that kissing dave would bring him back to life? Or was it all in the heat of the moment?

Yes Jade knew his dream self would be revived. 

Could you explain the vast glub? Like when it happened and what it caused?

The Vast Glub was a psychic shockwave released by Feferi’s lusus that killed every troll in the galaxy except the trolls with fuchsia blood who are Feferi and the Condesce. The Vast Glub was released right before Feferi’s lusus died. 

Is there a canon explanation to *how* Gamzee killed Nepeta? I need it for a theory I'm working on.

Gamzee clubbed Nepeta to death with his Deuce Clubs. You can see her blood on his club during this flash.

Do you have the first memo that was made by Karkat?

Here you go.

Why did the condense destroy the derse moon?

The Condesce destroyed the moon so Dirk and Roxy could ascend to godtier.

did Roxy actually have a crush on Dirk or was that a friendly/notsofriendly joke?

Yes Roxy does canonically have a crush on Dirk. She states that she loves him on this page. 

can you ascend to the god tier if your dreamself is dead? is it also possible if you haven't completed the echeladder, or are these things not elaborated in canon?

Yes, you can ascend to godtier if your dreamself is dead, you just have to use your Sacrificial Slab and not your Quest Bed. Everyone who has gone godtier has reached the top of their echeladder but it has not been stated outright if it is a requirement to ascend.

which players (classpect wise) are vital to a successful sburb/sgrub game? for instance it seems you always need a player of space for the frogs?

A session needs one Time player and one Space player.

what's the scratch and how did it affect the timelines?

The scratch is a release of temporal energy that causes Skaia to switch which portals the meteors go through. It results in a reset universe and a switched set of players. The scratch was always necessary for the alpha timeline so it didn’t affect any other timelines. 

So, if the Karkat actually created the Pre-scratch versions of Meenah, Mituna, Porrim, Kurloz, Latula, etc. then what would be the origins of the ancestor's post scratch iterations, such as The Condense, The Psiionic, The Dolorosa, The Grand Highblood, Redglare, etc? Were they just born from the mother grub? Are they actually biologically related to the Hivebent trolls at all?

The Pre-scratch trolls and the Ancestors originated from the same wrigglers just like how the the Alpha kids and the Beta guardians are the same baby.

How did the beta trolls besides Feferi survive the Vast Glub?

All of them sans Sollux had already entered the game and since the medium is in a different dimension they weren’t affected.

Why were trolls all over Gamzee after he went sober? Apparently Sollux felt kinda flushed, Terezi caliginous, Karkat pale, and Kanaya ashen. And why didn't he accept any of these advances (other than Terezi)? Also, since this is kinda the topic, did Gamzee have Terezi kill Vriska to eliminate a blackrom rival? Thanks babe, keep up the great blog <33

Sollux felt both flushed and pitch for Gamzee because of his duality theme (although his initial feelings may have been caliginous since Gamzee just killed two of his friends). Terezi felt caliginous for the same reasons. Karkat felt pale because he wanted to pacify Gamzee to calm him down. Gamzee did accept Karkat’s pale solicitation. Gamzee manipulated Terezi into killing Vriska possibly so that he didn’t have to deal with her himself. 

homestuck kids werent born, does this mean they dont have bellybuttons?

Since they’re paradox clones then no they probably don’t have bellybuttons. 

is fefeta mute? if so why

Fefetasprite is not mute she just never speaks directly in the narration. Roxy mentions that she spoke with her all the time here.

Uh... I can't recall... Who exactly is dad Egbert or were we ever told?

Dad Egbert is John’s dad, the guy with the pipe and hat who baked a lot.

So Roxy was taken care of by her neighbors when she was a baby, but how did dirk survive? I don't think lil cal can raise an infant

Nobody raised Dirk, he was on his own from the start

So this is something I've been confused about for a while. Who is Lord English? Like I get that it's Caliborn grown up, but didn't we see Mr. Vanilla Milkshake turn into him in [S] Begin Intermission 2?

On this page we see that Arquiusprite, half of Gamzee, and Caliborn are sucked into Lil Cal. Doc Scratch was created ectobiologically from Lil Cal and a white cue ball. So when he died Lord English emerged from his body as a fusion of those three guys. 

Hey when dirk was talking about the future and stuff and said something about the Baroness, what person was he referenceing?

The Baroness is the Condesce

when did terezi ascend to god tier?

She did not.