June 2016

when was it stated that alpha kids dont have any doomed timelines except game over?

Oh my gosh, I’m about to add this to the faq. It wasn’t stated but they didn’t have a way to make any until Dave showed up.

Why isn't Fef's lusus emissary /and/ a horrorterror? It looks like one of them. Is there some sort of difference between them?

Glubglub is barely a fraction the size of a Horrorterror, like super itty-bitty in comparison. And Glubglub was artificially created.

The condesce has Scorpio's troll abilities?

yes

Who raised Terezi?

Terezi 

To me it seemed heavily implied that Kankri had a flushed crush on Latula based on their conversations in Openbound. Were there anything that specifically stated it, or was it just implied?

 “Even though Latula has 8een dating Mituna steadily for eons, it’s hardly a secret to anyone that she and Kankri have had complicated unrequited feelings for even longer. So really, much like their descendants.”

Why does Doc Scratch turn into a dead puppet when hussie shows up?

“I guess… I guess he is just a limp lifeless puppet when I am around. Like a reverse Calvin and Hobbes kind of thing. That is… That is a little disturbing.”

How did Jade revive if she dies off her quest bed??

Recently dead bodies placed on their Quest Beds can still go god tier. 

Where's the page where were told buckets are used for reproduction purposes?

Here.

Sollux programmed the game originally, but then did it make it's way to the dancestors even though they played before?

The pre-scratch trolls found the game on Meenah’s pink moon

What's the difference between Grimdark and Grimbark? Is it just that Condy was controlling Jade?

Grimbark is a pun on Jade’s dog characteristics and being controlled by the Condesce. Going grimdark is when you’re influenced by the power of the Horrorterrors. I think I’ll add this to the faq.

Where did "hopy shit" come from?

Here

how long is a sweep?

2.16 years. 

What was up with those lanterns in Janes planet?

The lanterns reflect the state of the alpha kids’ dreamselves. 

Wait who else was playing on earth? Unless you meant the alpha kids?

There were other kids on Earth who attempted Sburb but they were all killed by their meteors. 

so what happened to all of those other sessions on earth? i know it isn't exactly an accurate way of putting it, but was the beta kids' the only "successful" session?

Yes. 

So, it says that lusii are native subterranean creatures. Does that mean that they meet their charges in the caverns or do they have to go out and find some random monster to tolerate them?

“The eggs hatch into young larval trolls which wriggle about to locate a cozy stalactite from which to spin their cocoons. After they pupate, the young troll with his or her newfound limbs undergoes a series of dangerous trials. If they survive, they are chosen by a member of the diverse and terrifying subterranean monster population native to Alternia. This creature becomes the troll’s lusus, and together they surface and choose a location to build a hive.”

is trans roxy canon or fanon?

I’m kinda miffed that the phrase “headcanon whatever you like” is used so often pertaining to transgender characters because that implies that there’s a canon answer which there isn’t. So how about this, interpret the character however you like. Trans Roxy is a very popular interpretation of her character. 

I have for a while wondered. Is there even Lusii on Beforus? I only recall seeing them mentioned as creatures on Alternia??

Yes, the Beforus trolls had lusii. 

Did Kanaya become a rainbow drinker because Karkat revived her?

No, the metamorphosis she went through was a Jadeblood thing, not because she was revived by a Knight of Blood. 

Excluding the Dancestors, did any charachter lose their virginity?

Well lets see, there was a group of hormonally charged teenagers stuck on a meteor together for three years, so I’m gonna say yeah, some kids probably lost their virginity.

What exactly is the red sun? And how are universes frogs? Thank you!

A Red Sun is a Supernova, aka a Star nearing the end of its lifecycle. As for why frogs, I answered that here

Holy hell, can Karkat be more useless? :(

Not to burst any bubbles, but can any of the kids be trans if we've seen them as babies (being the same)?

Okay smart guy, then you tell me, is this a boy or a girl and why does it matter:

Why couldn't Dave just use his time powers to go three years forward on the meteor??

Because then John and Jade would be old people and he’d still be 13

Technically speaking, isn't 4/13 the birthday of all the kids, beta and alpha?

Well if you want to go that route then technically speaking, none of them have actual birthdays since none of them were actually born

Is Doc Scratch's head supposed to be the white ball in pool?

Yes, he’s the Cue Ball in the Felt

actually a supernova is the explosion that happens sometimes when a star dies the red sun is a red giant

Right right, my bad, I think I learned that when I was in middle school like a decade ago.

Which dancestors lost their virginity?

Probably all of them. Kankri leads a relatively chaste existence yes, the keyword there being relatively

can i fight the homestuck?

Dave also was done with time travel.

That too

A real life baby doesn't work for an example. Stylistically the kids haven't changed, and the females are depicted with certain eyes. It's a bit odd that they've had the same hairstyle for 13-16 years though.

John was born with glasses, I don’t think we can take their baby forms literally

What is everyone's (or just the kids if thats too much) final age (act 7)? I have heard that the kids are only 16 and I have heard that they are 20 (and aged relatively similarly to the length of the comic itself) and idk which is true

Kids are 16 in comic, 20 in our time

That baby is obviously an attack helicopter. check ur privilege cis scum haha i have no life

How dare you call me, a trans, cis. check yourself b4 you wreck yourself brosky, I will end you

What is the opposite of hope?

If you’re talking aspects then the theorized opposite aspect to Hope is Rage. 

Even though Jade's teleportation ability is because she is part first guardian, couldn't a space player probably learn teleportation since the whole aspect of teleportation has to do with spacial characteristics?

They probably could. Roxy used teleportation and she’s a Void player so it makes sense that a Space player could also have that ability. 

is Latula also blind? And if so did they say why?

Latula isn’t blind, she can’t smell. 

Couldn't the walkthroughs Rose was referring to have been from sessions in other universes? Hers was able to transcend universal boundaries.

The website she was looking at was on an Earth server. The server she sent her walkthrough to was the one in the Furthest Ring

I see a lot of art of Davesprite with bird arms (kinda scaly with talons) so I was wondering, is that canon or just a really widely accepted headcanon? Thanks!

Just an interpretation of his appearance. 

did they ever say why equius' horn was broken, I'm blanking out!!

It was most likely broken during his fights with all his robots but we’ve been given several different scenarios in Paradox Space comics. 

In the timeline the Dave that became a part of Davesprite was from, Terezi tricked John to get killed so he couldn't get Jade into the game which resulted her to be killed by a meteor and so she couldn't prototype Bec into the sprite and therefore preventing the very existence of Bec Noir, right? So was there a timeline where the beta trolls' session was succesful due to the lack of stabby first guardian dogs? Or am I missing something?

Nope, that doomed timeline didn’t affect the trolls at all. Because if no Bec Noir showed up and stopped them from winning then TZ wouldn’t have ended up getting John killed and stopping the creation Bec Noir, so basically if there was no Bec Noir then their would be a Bec Noir, ya dig?

Isn't the opposite of Hope = Doom and opposite of Rage = Heart?

It’s not entirely confirmed in canon so think what you like. But the most popular theorized dichotomy is:

Heart = Mind
Life = Doom
Hope = Rage
Breath = Blood
Light = Void
Time = Space

Does Karkat's god tier have wings?

Not that we’ve seen

Isn't Kankri celibate? I thought he spoke about that.

He claims to be, yes

Your desires affect your dreamself? When is that shown? Could someone over-do it (Lazer eyes, different height, more limbs)? Does it still work if your dreamself is your alpha self (main self is dead, revived)? Or is it only while naturally dreaming?

It’s shown here and also when Terezi was talking about how her dreamself was blind because she wanted it to be

But if only the beta kids successfully create a universe and that universe ends up being Caliborn's then it all just loops around. The game is pointless. Nothing new is created. It all just happens over and over again.... that's really depressing.

Thus is the nature of Paradox Space

What would a tier list of all the sburb players look like? Obviously LE/Caliborn would be triple s

Based on their effect on the story overall, probably something like this:

Is kissing boys illegal

Yes, but that’s not why those Strider boys are in trouble this time

Wait so did Feferi create the dreambubbles, if not how did the dreambubbles come to be?

She negotiated the special dreambubbles to be made

What happens to trolls' lusii after they reach adulthood and leave the planet?

They can go with, seen when Redglare and Mindfang still have their lusii

How did the green moon of Alternia show up?

Doc Scratch