July 2015

Re: "if the Kings have sceptres then does that mean there is possibly a sceptre of hope and heart for the white and black king respectively in the alpha kids session?" You answered no but White Queen of Alpha Session has been shown with the White Kings' scepter on p=006500. Condesce probably has the Black's King's scepter.

Well I’ll be damned, I completely overlooked that. But regardless, no mention of scepters of heart/hope have been mentioned in canon. And at this point in the story if they haven’t been introduced they probably don’t exist.

Is Tavrisprite the same tavros that left (Vriska) army and fly away whit Nepeta, Feferi and Sollux or is he a new post-retcon one?

A new post-retcon one. If he was the same one he would have stood up to Vriska earlier when she was insulting him and Jape

wait im confused how does jasperosesprite whatever had a normal body and why are they flashing

They are a spritesprite which is why they have a normal body, and they belong to two players which is why they are flashing both colors

why did dirk make a foot for caliborn

He was probably bored, or wanted Caliborn to leave him alone, or he was just humoring Caliborn by playing along to one of his “games”

Why does rose fuse with jaspersptite even when he is fully prototyped?

Because Rosesprite wasn’t fully prototyped

Tavnep sprite, calling it.

I don’t think Jasprose would be cruel enough to make another troll sprite fusion. If anything Nepetasprite will either get prototyped with Jasprose or Gcat, but that’s just my opinion.

I personally want GCAT to prototype with nepetasprite

Same. It’d be a nice parallel to Jadesprite and then we might finally be able to figure out which of Jade’s powers are from her classpect snd which are from Bec

I cant remember why did john revive after grimdark rose and jack noir strife;shouldnt it be a just death?

No, he was blindsided, never got a chance to do anything more than take a battle stance. If he had charged at Jack and then got stabbed it would have been Just but since he got killed before he got to do anything is was neither a heroic or just death.

did it ever show what gamzee did to nepeta to kill her? i only remember him grabbing her hand and scratching his face with her claws but nothing more…

When Nepeta did that Gamzee had his clubs in his other hand which is what he used to kill her

Is it canon that trolls have yellow/orange fingernails?(Not with paint, just regularly.)

Yes.

Did Kanaya stay a rainbow-drinker even through the retcon?

Yes

In Karkat's first conversation with John from Karkat's perspective, John says: "EB: maybe you got what you deserved, you stutid fuckass! " and then says that "stutid" is an in-joke Karkat doesn't get yet. Do we ever see the origin of that?

The only other time stutid is used that I could find was by Terezi talking to Dave.  Dave and Terezi’s inside jokes are notorious for spreading, ever heard of jegus?

Have there been any canon conversations between Dave and Feferi?

Nope

In [S] Terry: fast forward to liv, a lot of people are saying that Andrew Hussie sang it? Do you know if this is true?

It is not true, it was performed by a Mr. Michael Guy Bowman

Is Tavorsprite only prototyped once? Why did he not prototype again with the button.

The button was too small

Do you think "the supreme puppeteer of unrepentant horseshit himself" is LE? Like he commanded her death?

It was Hussie

Can sprites use their godtier powers?

Yes

Why is calliopes trollsonas hair white when troll hair is black

Lime blood?

I thought her trollsona's hair was white because she's albino.

That is fanon, albino has not been said once in the entirety of Act 6

i thought her trollsonas hair was white because it was like a special snowflake anime oc... i dont remember it ever being confirmed that it was a limeblood thing

It wasn’t stated why her hair was white, lime blood was a guess which is why it was followed by a question mark.

Do trolls canonally have elf like ears?

Nope

A friend of mine said that Jade believed herself to be the Knight of Time before the original titles were given. Is that true?

I can’t find any evidence that Jade thought this.  Although following the theory of Classpect Inversion Jade did act more like her inverse, a Seer of Time earlier in the story.

is the grimdark = inversion theory true?? or just widely accepted fanon?

Grimdark can cause inversion like it did with Rose (making her act more like a Witch of Void) but since we’ve only seen one instance of grimdark we don’t know if it inverses the afflicted’s classpect every time.

Theory of Classpect Inversion? Oh, I'm curious! What is it about?

You can read the full theory here.  But in short, when a player is overly resistant to their role or if they are corrupted by an outside source then their role will inverse meaning that their aspect and class unofficially shift to their opposites. Light to Void, Space to Time, Witch to Seer*. 

*This can change depending on how you classify the classes into Active/Passive partnerships

What's this hope and heart sceptre theory I saw some people mentioning on your blog? Why hope and heart?

Because the Rings are of Void and Life which are Jane and Roxy’s aspects. Heart and Hope are Didk and Jake’s so, scepters.

Do you think that the reason that Vriska was treating (Vriska) like she treated Tavros and Jake was because (Vriska) inverted into a Page of Void?

Yes

Do you believe Eridan also canonically went grimdark? What causes one to go grimdark? And was Jade's grimbark also her going grimdark?

No, I believe it to be when one is under a great deal of horrorterror influence but that’s debatable, and I’d say no but some say yes.

I thought the trolls had elf ears in a few different cases. I'm not sure about when shit went down in act 5 but I know it was in the Vriska Instagram thing.

Those interpretations were done by fan artists and hold no canonical power over character appearances.

Are there also no canon representation of the trolls not having pointed ears? So therefore there is still a possibility and head canons with them being pointed aren't technically wrong?

Right, the whole point of the minimalist character design is to allow fans to give characters whatever physical traits they see fit. There’s is absolutely nothing wrong with headcannoning that trolls have elf ears, it just is not canon, that’s all.

Did jade bring Prospit from their session along with them to the new session?

Nope, just the player planets and the Beta’s Battlefield

Im p sure the sprites in the ministrife flash had pointed ears? 0:

Again, made by a fan = not canon

me and my friend were studying bugs awhile ago, and according to what we researched trolls should not have external ears at all, because they're arthropods and not mammals.

From a biological stand point you’re right, but this in no way diminishes the possibility of trolls having external ears, pointed or otherwise.

Could Roxy create Sacrificial/Quest Beds for everyone else to Ascend before going to the big fight, so they'd have more powers and stuff? I don't remember if they'd have to go through the learning process of their powers and all...

I want to say no, just from a narrative standpoint. But there’s no canon evidence to say she can’t.

couldn't you argue that because it showed in up in the comic, it's canon. if it isn't supposed to be interpreted as such, wouldn't hussie tell the artists he gets assistance from to draw characters a certain way.

There’s some many conflicting styles though and they can’t all be canon, so none of them are

does the light aspect attain to only good luck or luck in general? (good and bad)

Light is about Luck, Fortune, and Knowledge both good and bad

Is nepetasprite now in homestuck (as of 7:02, july 6th)? I have heard she is back , but did not see her last update.

Yes

im surprised nepeta didnt prototype with GCAT (although we could potentially have nepGCATavrosprite^2)

Didn’t everyone think nepeta and gcat were gonna be prototyped together. I don’t think anyone could have predicted this as anything other than a joke.

is there any sort of method to the act structure at all at this point? like is there a difference between the relevancy/significance of an act, a sub-act (like the second "act" in the act), a sub-sub-act, and an intermission?

Basically intermissions are a drastic shift from one part of the story to a very different part of the story. Sub-acts are essentially just a result of intermissions placed in the middle of an act rather than before or after one however this is only true of Act 6 sub-acts as Act 5 Act 1 acted more like an intermission. And an Act is just an overall section of the story usually each having their own beginning, middle and end.

Can you tag spoilers for the upd8 questions?

Dang it, sorry, yes I can do that

Excuse me, I was wondering if there's any canon explanation of why Terezi made John move around all those dragon plushies?

Yes, Terezi was pranking him

so is erisolsprite still alive somewhere?

With the recent reveal of Pre-Retcon Nannasprite, there’s a strong possibility that he is

What the heck was the whole "peachy" thing about? (I wasn't in the fansom when stuff went down so I have no idea what people were mad about)

I assume you’re talking about this from the Trickster Mode part of the story

Well it was originally

Which was supposed to be a joke about how the characters don’t have defined races but everyone always assumes they’re white, but a bunch of people got offended and complained and Hussie was like “Yeah, I can see what you mean” and changed it. 

So now Tavros is essentually screwed the fuck over for Vriskas bitchery

Yes, he’s probably gonna sprite-splode as soon as he wakes up

where did jake get the mouse from?

Vriska probably put it in his pocket

Wait if fefetasprite was created with nepeta's body, how did nepetasprite get made?

Fefeta was pre-retcon, post-retcon Fefeta never got made and so Nepeta’s body was still around

Have Nepeta and Tavros ever talked to one another? Just wondering cause they're not really talking in the recent updates despite knowing each other

They’ve had one canon conversation

I thought moving the plushies around was to cause minor but important changes in Terezi's behavior

TEREZI: 1 W4S 4LMOST C3RT41NLY FUCK1NG W1TH YOU ”  

Ain’t nothing but a lil’black flirtation

Did Hussie do a weird thing for the Nepetasprite update? I read the update last night at like 8 then and throught it ended at Jaseropesprite's foot in the corner then I went to read today's, i notice the go back button wasn't purple like I'd see the link...Or maybe I messed up?

I dunno man, it worked fine for me yesterday. 

so tavos's allergies were a mental thing?

No they were real. He just thought he that he was cured, it’s called the Placebo effect. It only lasted so long seeing as how literally a minute later he was sneezing again

Wasn’t solfef cannon at one point??

Yes, Erisolsprite confirms that Sollux and Feferi were matesprits