orphans do get culled on alternia right? im pretty sure thats canon, but no one else seems to acknowledge it... Vriska says once that if she didnt feed her lusus she'd starve and she would be culled for that so wouldnt that make it canon? or maybe it just applies to her bc spidermom is supposed to be a really hard lusus to deal with... so maybe it only applies to challenging lusi but i feel like whoever came up with alternian culling regulations wouldnt bother making that distinction...
If Vriska didn’t feed her lusus then her lusus would eat her.
Terezi never really had a lusus, and Gamzee’s was never around so I don’t believe orphans are automatically on the cull list
This isn't a question but kind of like a fact I just rediscovered: Mindfang didn't dump Dualscar, it was the other way around! So ye a h (Mspaintwiki is my source but you could tell me I'm wrong too. Please do if I am wrong)
That’s true, Dualscar did indeed break up with Mindfang, it was likely because Mindfang stole one of his slaves and then had the slave do some sexy stuff to her right in front of him
Is there a reason the beta kid's guardians seemed to know so much of what was happening when the world ended, and/or do you think hiveswap will shine more light on that?
Grandpa Harley owned and Mom Lalonde worked at Skaianet which is the company that made the Sburb Beta so that probably accounts for them.
Dad Egbert didn’t really seem like he knew much and was just good at rolling with the punches.
Bro Strider is an enigma.
I have a question, would Terezi be culled if her blindness was known? Or does her smelling ability make up for it?
She could function relatively normally and that’s good enough
Since there was a point about getting to name the Lususes (Lusi?) in Hiveswap -- did we ever learn the names of any of the Lususes in Homestuck? (Did any of them explicitly not have names?)
Well there was Tinkerbull, Punce de Leon, Aurthour, and Gl’bgolyb.
Not sure if you want to count Spidermom as a name or not
are the serkets the only highbloods who can mind control? are they able to mind control other high bloods? (like vriska mind controlling terezi)
They can control any troll with a weak enough will. Gamzee was controlled by Aranea, but Vriska wasn’t able to manipulate pre-Hivebent Terezi.
wouldnt itchy be the fastest?
Jade can move at near light speed, Itchy can’t go quite that fast
and the other two were not counting special Powers or Abilities which Itchy has
Pre-hivebent? Did she mind control terezi sometime later?
No, Terezi’s will power kinda fluctuates throughout the story so she might have been able to at one point. Like Pre-Retcon Terezi that was a fckin mess probably could have been controlled
Hey sorry for dumb question but is the hiveswap soundtrack located somewhere? Or is it just in game?
You can download it on the Homestuck Bandcamp
What's the deal with those blue lady paintings? Are they from something other than homestuck or are they just a weirdly specific homestuck creation? Hussie puts in so many easter eggs and references that it's hard to tell
Grandpa Harley just likes Cerulean Ladies, if there’s some other reference I’m not sure what it would be
i vaguely remember it mentioning somewhere that alternian battleships could go faster than the speed of light. s'that correct or am i misremembering?
The Condesce’s ship (the fastest of Alternia’s battleships) could go near lightspeed using only auxiliary power. So it is likely that all Alternian battleships could go at the very least that fast.
Wait is Jude a boy?? Or did I misunderstand the post about their quirks? (WHEN "HE'S" TALKING, over)
Yeah, Jude is a boy, he’s Joey’s brother as well as Pa and A. Claire’s son
I believe the blue lady paintings were in reference to Jake's feeling towards the Na'vi women from Avatar
The page where we first see Grandpa Harley’s collection of Cerulean Babes was release on November 11th, 2009 while James Cameron’s Avatar did not debut until over a month later on December 17/18th, 2009
Hey i have a question. I see a lot of people saying that Jade was alone at the shipp for 3 years, but like, didn't she had john, davesprite and the people from the worlds she owned? How much John's traveling time affected Jade from this new timeline? Also what happened with the john and roxy that were supposed to exist in this timeline? Sorry if this ask is stupid, its just that sometimes homestuck get me lost :?
Post-retcon John and Davesprite died relatively early in the voyage due to the deal pre-retcon John made with his Denizen. Sure Jade had all the consorts and like Nannasprite and stuff but it wasn’t the same.
Post-retcon John died when LoWaS exploded and Post-retcon Roxy was killed by Jane when she was under the Condesce’s control.
How many years passed in the 3 year long journey when Rose and Kanaya had their epic stairway kiss?
That was during Year 2 so they had been on the meteor 2 years when it happened
Here’s a breakdown of the Harley/Egbert relations separated into Biologically/Ecto-biologically and Adoptively for hopefully easier reading and understanding.
just to clarify, theres no ectobiology in joey and jude's birth, right? they both emerged from someone's groin?
Yep, they’re both 100% home grown
If a player does not reach godtier but still manages to create their universe, does their lifespan remain the same or are they immortal? Because I keep getting super worried about Karkat but nobody ever talks about it.
It’s never mentioned whether players gain immortality or any addition to their lifespan upon winning the game.
It’s stated before Collide that Terezi isn’t immortal, but the trolls also didn’t technically get their prize so it’s unclear.
This might be a very obvious question since I haven't played hiveswap yet, but did grampa harley raise joey and jude?
Not really, he stops by occasionally but mostly raising them is left to a young Mom Lalonde
Is what happens in home stuck just a video game within the universe or did it actually happen in there universe?
It actually happened
hey mod t, what are your personal opinions on dammek? (more specifically what we've heard about him through xefros/joey so far)
He seems like kinda a dick, but a lot of trolls are so nothing against him yet. Base on the glimpses of his character that we get from Act 1, I already know I’m going to love the dynamic he’s going to have with Jude so I’m really excited for Hauntswitch
Dad's adopted too
There’s no evidence to support that
so like do Jude and Joey know about Jade? The other way around? Do we know yet? Do you have guesses? Thank you so, so much by the way for making those relationship charts, phew. 😊
Well Jade won’t land for over a year so they at the very least don’t know about her during Hiveswap. Supposing that they both end up back home after the games, Mom Lalonde might tell them about her but Rose would have landed at the same time so she might not be their babysitter at that point. If she is still their babysitter then they probably would have meet baby Rose tho!
How old is Roxy during hiveswap?
She likely would have been in her early 20′s, we don’t know her exact age
Xefros mentions that all Rust Bloods have telekinesis, but I don't remember any other character with that power. Is this something new?
Aradia and Damara both have it
Isn't it more likely that dad is adopted rather than biological bc there's always only one "parent" shown?
I mean Nanna had a husband
Since )(IC / the Baroness was the one who raised Nana Egbert and Grandpa Harley by her own, it would mean they were living together for some years, right? Did neither of them (or anybody for that matter) knew in early life that the Baroness wasn't human? If so, how come nobody figured out? Did she disguise herself so nobody knew about her being a troll or something...?
Oh they knew. Nanna said upfront she knew the Baroness wasn’t human.
When does Damara use Telekinesis? I cant remember seeing her use it.
That’s how Aranea was moving shit
so HIC was on beta earth, and died with the reckoning yeah?
She vanished long before their session began so it’s unknown
Can we say that Roxy is a good sniper? Or at least can in guns?
Given what we see her do in Act 6 Act 4, it’s safe to say she’s pretty competent with a rifle.
How old is Roxy during hiveswap?
run-of-the-mil:
forgottenhsfacts:
She likely would have been in her early 20′s, we don’t know her exact age
wait, when is hiveswap set? pre or post suburb alpha kids?
It’s set in 1994 on pre-scratch Earth
Hiveswap takes place in an alternate universe right? Or is like a prologue or some shit?
It’s a prequel spin-off. It canonically takes place before Homestuck
Canonically Joey and Jude would eventually die in the reckoning right?
Yeah, unless something happens later on in Hiveswap/Hauntswitch
Then does that mean Joey and Jude's nanny is mom Lalonde???
Yeah, Mom Lalonde is their babysitter
Remind me, was there ever a definite answer given on "are vriska's powers just weak on humans, or are they just weaker trying to target someone is a different Universe"?
It just doesn’t work as well on humans, that’s why there weren’t any in her mind-controlled army
Are we sure that the Roxy in hiweswap is the same Roxy we meet in homestuck? If so did she babysit Jude & Joey before or after playing the game?
Roxy from B1 as in Mom Lalonde, not Roxy from B2, the one we met in Act 6
in hiveswap, would it be considered a prequel or a sequel of homestuck? (i didnt notice a mention of specific year in the game, but im still assuming its a prequel?)
It’s set in 1994 (it mentions that several times in game not sure how you missed it) so technically it’s a prequel
Is it true that what's only truly canon is straight from Hussie? Like there's that discourse on Joey's sexuality, and some of the dev team decided to weigh in on the situation on twitter. Idk, I'm always confused.
Yeah, true canon comes either in the story or straight from the Hussie’s mouth. Anyone else is just stating headcanon.
I know that this is a stupid point to ask about, but did Jake ever like blue ladies? I thought that was John's thing, which confused me. I could very well be remembering this totally wrong, though.
It was Jake’s thing. He kinda liked Aranea and had a whole section on his wall dedicated to blue ladies.
Although I can see why you’d think it was John’s thing as he’s canonically shown interest in more blue ladies than Jake.
I'm confused about the Dirk: Synchronize flash. I was told that Jake kissed Dirk's severed head to wake Derse!Dirk up, but Derse!Dirk was the one to wake Jake up to kiss his severed head. What was the point if Dirk was already awake?
Time shenanigans. Dirk had to wake up Jake so Jake could wake up Dirk so Dirk could wake up Jake
Could Jake/Grandpa's attraction to blue ladies have anything to do with ghost Nana being blue?
Unlikely since he was collecting blue ladies long before Nannasprite existed
so... my friend INSISTS that troll horns have some weirdly sexual purpose, and keeps claiming "the whole fandom knows this". is there ANY evidence or implication for this in canon or is he full of shit?
That’s fanon. I’m pretty sure that got started by the hordes of Hetalia fans that hopped onto the Homestuck ship back in the day since Erogeonous Zones are kinda a thing in that series.
Is Dad's ridiculous strength because he's half ecto-godling, or was it just because he was manly?
I wouldn’t call it “manly” as both Dad’s had the expectation that John and Jane would eventually be able to do the same thing, leaving notes to them under heavy objects.
The source of his strength is more likely due to how much he whisks cake batter than it is from being half ecto child.
is it a requirement for sburb players to be ecto-kids?
Nope, the Cali twins weren’t
What's joey and judes relationship to jake and jade? I cant remember right now for the life of me
Jake is their father. Jade is their genetic half-sibling and adoptive niece
Who is Joey and Jude's mother¿
A. Claire
How did the whole jane trickster mode and dirk break up with jake happened in the new timeline?
the only difference is that Jake didn’t have Erisol to talk to and Fefeta wasn’t at Jane’s party set up. Jake still would have complained to Jane, Jane still would have gotten upset and ran home and made the trickster pop. The tricksters still would have been obsessed with getting married.
I've seen a lot of fanart and fanfic of trolls with weird tentacles as penis or vagina. Is there any information about how trolls sexual organs are or this is just fanon and they could have these organs like the human ones?
Troll genitals are pretty much not mentioned in canon. We get a few terms for them but not really a description of them.
So what's the plot of hiveswap anyway?
Joey and Dammek switch place, highjinks ensue while they try to get home
isnt one of the names for the trolls sexual organs nook? is that a thing
Yeah, trolls seem to you it in place of ass in certain phrases so that’s possibly what it means