May 2016

Which pre-scratch trolls god tiered?

All of them in one timeline or another. Just Aranea and Meenah from their alpha timeline that we know about

How is Jade talking to Cali while sleeping? Do god tiers still have a dream self?

It’s her Dream Phantom. When someone without a dreamself goes to sleep a lil phantom of them pops up in the Furthest Ring where all the dreambubbles and ghosties are.

how did aranea and meenah die in their alpha timeline if they were godtier and their deaths werent just nor heroic?

They didn’t have time to regenerate before their session was rewritten by their scratch

Since Kurloz is a ghost, is his tongue healed?

No, he doesn’t want it back therefore he didn’t get it

What would happen if someone died on a quest bed that wasn't their's?

Then they’d be dead

why did a1 have a tumor?

The A1 trolls didn’t have a tumor exactly, they had a micro-sized tumor-like device.  As for why they had it  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, because they needed to?

What is homestuck?

Why is Jane shown dead in Terezi: Remem8er when her death is just is Game Over?

Because she was dead. Just death means stays dead

Sorry if this has been answered, but how did vriska's resurrection stop aranea from coming back to life and fucking things up? I know she ko'd jane and jade, but idk about aranea?

It was actually John that stopped that by taking the Ring of Life  before the Aranea-controlled Gamzee could get it

Do trolls in conciliatory quadrants sit on piles in canon or is that just a fanfic thing?

Equius and Nepeta did.  Sollux and Feferi did as well but what quadrant they were in is debatable.

Suppose someone died on a quest bed that didn't belong to them, but it was for the same Aspect. Like, if Vriska died on Rose's bed. Would they still ascend?

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why do trolls get wings when they god tier

“Metamorphosis is clearly a significant part of troll biology, and therefore ingrained in their mythology. They’ve got cocoons everywhere, and are often likened to insects through biological terms. The wings have nothing (we know of) to do with troll adulthood. But have a lot to do with their perception of what ascension should be, which is the culmination of a pupation process. Which is why some may look to fairies as an ideal, or rule them out as fiction on account of the ideal they represent. Ascended trolls in this game are essentially magical fairies.

Humans do not have a good analog for this though, and enjoy no biological upgrades. Only powers and fashion.”

Why arebt there any dead alphakids in the dreambubbles?

The only doomed timeline they had was Game Over

Your dreamself reflects who you are; Vriska got a new arm and eye because she wanted it, but Terezi stayed blind because she was happier that way. But what if someone changed their mind? For example, if somewhere along the way Terezi decides she didn't want to be blind anymore. Would their dreamself change to reflect that? Or is that not possible?

As long as their dreamself isn’t their mainself they can change it as much as they like. (See Jade growing and ungrowing multiple limbs)

when was it stated that alpha kids dont have any side timelines

It wasn’t stated, they didn’t have someone that could time travel to create any until Game Over

im p sure davesprites timeline was doomed too

Those are the Beta kids. Beta kids had a few doomed timelines

Why is the universe a frog, of all possible animals?

I answered that here dawg

are we exactly sure about that the betas that get sucked into the weapon are the alpha timeline ones?? the ones we see?? because if thats what it is then everythings just an infinite timeloop i see no happy endings here D:

oh! sorry, im constantly mixing up alpha and beta. my bad

No prob bob. It happens all the time

were there any actual explanation about the "ultimate selves"? i mean any foreshafowing stuff earlier in the comic or anything? i remember john talkin other selves in one upd8. it seemed like something important and it could be still (epilogue)

Nothing out right, but there are some examples earlier on like Jade and Jadesprite interaction, or Dirk comparing himself to Bro. Here’s a really good analysis/theory on ultimate selves if you’re interested. 

did the b1 guardians just knew about sburb?? i mean dad was the only one who seemed a little weirded out by everything. bro was splitting meteors and grandpa harley was going future into the medium...

Harley knew, he had the frog ruins that the game code comes from and owns the company the distributed it. Mom Lalonde worked for Skaianet so she knew. Dad probably had a vague idea based off the text Nannasprite wrote in 
Colonel Sassacre’s Daunting Text that got sent back with John as a baby.

Bro on the other hand, I’m not sure. maybe he’s just that cool, maybe Lil Cal told him about it  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is the earth that cherubs live in the same earth in act 7? They look totally different tho! Where did everyone go? Arent the kids supposed to be immortal at least? I apologize if this is of those things that ends up unexplained :/

Yes but billions of years in the future, and just because the kids have conditional immortality doesn’t mean the planet does.

Does Jade have the power to make objects levitate? Also, what are her powers reduced to since the destruction of the Green Sun

She can change the size and speed of things. Teleporting and Green Fire were her first guardian powers.

So who exactly created Sburb?

Skaia, unless you mean like the physical disk itself, then Skaianet.

No need to be rude i just wanted a better explanation than the one i got from google. You know, an explanation from the expert.

Oh you were seriously asking for what Homestuck was, my bad. I get people that ask jokingly all the time so I just assumed.

It’s an interactive webcomic about some kids that play a game but then some things happens, too many things, too many a bad things. And how they go about dealing with their problems and winning the game. You can find it at mspaintadventures.com

Did retcon stop vriska from becoming god tier in the first place in [s] wake??? i guess my question is why isnt endgame vriska god tier

She is, she just isn’t wearing her costume

@ the godtier thing, humans do have figures of superhumans (see the "über mensch" idea, angels, super heroes, anthroanimalistic gods, gods with extra limbs or supersized, gods made of metals and precious stones, and the overall aesthetical paradigm of beauty), so maybe it is singular to everyone, which would mean the kids didn't adscribe to any of those paradigms. That would also explain why Karkat's godtier form hadn't wings; as far as we know, he might have had different blood color though.

I dunno man, I just took the words outta the Huss man’s mouth

What happens if someone dies on a quest bed of a different aspect? Por example, when the alpha kids ascended the beds were "close" what would have happened if for example, Roxy had died in Dirk's quest bed?

She dead

What even happens after/during a doomed session?

Once someone travels back and changes it the timeline is erased, anyone still alive in it doesn’t get a ghost and is just gone.

Why did Areana go bad again and turn on everyone?

She wanted to make sure the kids didn’t win because if they didn’t win the cali-twins and by extension Lord English would never have existed

Cool! Are you like a writer of homestuck or you just really like it?

I’m just a big fan

What's the difference between a sacrificial slab and a quest bed?

That’s explained in the faq

Is it possible for a troll to have discolored wings (wings different from their blood color)? And/or for them to have no wings at all when their God Tier?

The Vantases have never been shown with wings while God Tier so no wings are possible. But everyone else’s wings seems to match their blood color

"She wanted to make sure the kids didn’t win because if they didn’t win the cali-twins and by extension Lord English would never have existed" but they did win so? what does that mean?

It means Lord English exists and the timeline is intact. Everything is how it should be.

By the way, it's not "matesprite", it's "matesprit".

Eh, you know what I mean

was becquerel ever able to shrink and grow objects?

no

WHOEVER THAT ANON WAS THAT SAID ARANEA "WENT BAD" FIGHT ME. I'LL KICK YOUR ASS.

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What exactly was the tumor?

It was a bomb, a very big, very powerful bomb that’s explosion became the Green Sun

What exactly are "ultimate selves"

Basically a combination of every self from every timeline

did caliborn's session create a universe or was his game only for him to become LE?

Only for him to become LE. One player sessions are very frowned upon.

People often forget Eridan agreed to a date with Cronus. Act 6 Intermission 3 somewhere, when Meenah and Vriska were supposed to fight. I can message proof if you'd like.

No need, I remember that very clearly. There were many a joke when Ministrife came out

The Beta Kids were all Jam Buddies
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would it technically be possible for the (troll) ancestors to be in the dream bubbles as ghosts? i mean since the dancestors were there and the condesce ended up in the session it seems that it might be??

Nope, bubbles are for players only

From the process of retcon-ing, didn't the retconed time line John die? And if he did, so the Roxy if the new retcon time line die too, since we don't see two Roxys around?

Yes they both died. John got exploded and Roxy got stabbed

Spades Slick thinks that Homestuck is for “little children who poop hard in their baby ass diapers”
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Did anyone ever actually tell Jade that she is Johns sister?? I can't remember and I'm very concerned about it.

She knows. She refers to him as her brother here.

Hearts Boxcars ate one of The Felts heads.

He ate eggs

What happened to pre retcon Dirk? Was he just like consumed by the glitchy game stuff because I don't remember a definitive death for him.

He gave up hope. He suffered a severe depressive episode and had an existential crisis so he had no motivation to continue. He didn’t die so he was most likely erased alongside the timeline.

Was there a specific (defined or whatever) reason Roxy's mum kept so many buckets in her house

I think we all know why

If it isn't too much, could you explain how the ancestors' stories related to their classpects? Some are obvious like )(IC "stealing" life, but the others I'm unsure about.

They don’t all exactly match up but here’s a rough go

Handmaid-Witch of Time: She did a lot of time travel and messing with the timeline
Summoner-Rogue of Breath: Taking Breath as being direction, he gave direction to others by leading a rebellion.
Psiionic-Heir of Doom: Taking an Heir as someone who becomes their aspect, he became a beacon of suffering as he was forced to a life of painful servitude. 
Signless-Seer of Blood: He saw glimpses of the Beforan society and attempted to give the same unity to Alternia
Disciple-Mage of Heart: I’m not too sure on this one so taking Mage as someone who guides by setting an example using knowledge pertaining to their aspect and Heart being Soul, she helped guide peoples beliefs for how they view themself and others?
Dolorosa-Maid of Space: Space being Birth and Creation, she took on the role of being the caretaker for a revolutionary
Redglare-Knight of Mind: Knight being one who exploits their aspect and Mind being Decisions and the Consequences of those decision, she was a lawyer, I think that’s pretty straight forward.
Mindfang-Sylph of Light: Honestly, I dunno man. The Light aspect is their since she could look into the all knowing cueball, but I don’t know how she fits Sylph, a healing class.
Darkleer-Page of Void: He has the void shadowing making him undetectable to First Guardians and the like, which Mindfang %ploits following the Serket tradition of being a dick to Pages and also the Page definition of providing others with their aspect.
Grand Highblood-Prince of Rage: He gets angry and kills people i.e. destruction via rage.
Dualscar-Bard of Hope: Dude, I have no idea. He didn’t really allow destruction of Hope or invite destruction through Hope so your guess is as good as mine
Condesce-Thief of Life: Obviously she’s killed a lot of people. Also she’s very old