September 2017

there does seem to be a cutscene bug in hiveswap, so it might not actually be your computer! :)

Oh! Well thank you for letting me know : )

 I looked into it, there’s a subreddit of people sharing what worked and didn’t work for them so it you’re also having this might be able to help

Don't you feel like Alternia feels more... cruel in Hiveswap than the way they depicted it in Hoemstuck? The way they picture the relationships between lowbloods and highbloods makes it weird to think that the first 12 trolls would've been friends as they were in the comic. Maybe Xefros and Dammek do achieve something in the end of the game

Trizza makes it worse. She runs Alternia with an Iron Fist, she’s much more similar to the Condesce than Feferi ever was. Presumable after she gets killed things chillax a bit.

It's mentioned in the game that there's only 2 fuchsia-blood trolls ( the heiress and )(IC ), but there's been multiple heiresses. Does that mean the time the heiress come to age, she'll get killed??? I remember reading something like that in the comic; something about fuchsia-blood being murderous about their own blood color. (please excuse my poor english)

Yeah, upon reaching adulthood heiresses are expected to challenge the Condesce for the thrown, and Condy usually wins

How can the plot of Hiveswap happen? Didn't the Trolls featured in Homestuck create the human's universe when they played Sgrub, meaning the universe doesn't exist at to the Hiveswap trolls? Am I missing something?

The Machine that teleport Joey and Dammek also transports them through time.  While Hiveswap takes place in 1994 on Earth, on Alternia it takes place an undetermined number of sweeps before the start of Hivebent so possibly anywhere from 7 to 20 or more sweeps.

Could the heiress basically just lay low and not challenge )(IC or like do )(IC's powers let her find them or something?

Well all trolls get escorted off planet when they come of age and given how central a figure heiresses are, I’d think it’d be pretty difficult for them to run or hide

is it safe to assume trizza dies at the end of hiveswap?

Even if she doesn’t she won’t have much time after it

How does joey understand alternian in hiveswap?

Plot Convenience 

I always assumed that Alternian was identical to English when spoken, since the Trolls and Humans could each understand each other in Homestuck. Doesn't explain how Joey understands written Alternian, tho.

Well all the trolls typed in Alternian in Homestuck too. So this isn’t solely a Hiveswap thing.

Why does Trizza have a different symbol to Feferi and Meenah? did the Pisces symbol just seem out of place in the game?

Only descendants and ancestors share symbols. Trizza simply isn’t related to Condy or Fef

This symbol thing bothered me a lot too! How is she not related to feferi and meenah/condence if she's a fuschia blood and theres only max two alive at the time? Unless i dont understand troll genetics

She could just have a previous Fuchsia blood’s genetics that wasn’t the Condesce. Yes there’s only two at a time but there have been several dozens, if not hundreds over the years. Condy likely wasn’t even the first Fuchsia blood.

are you guys members of the hiveswap discord because god damn we could use your shit like every six hours

I don’t use discord. I can’t really do group chats.

So is it true that in the beginning there were only 3 different colors of blood a troll could have, but the number increased through mating or is that just fanon?

I’ve never even heard of that so it’s definitely completely fanon

when does the vast glub happen in terms of hiveswap? not for a good while, right?

Feferi hasn’t even landed yet so there’s a good several sweeps before it happens

has there ever been an example of a completely healthy kismestitude?

Maybe Eridan/Vriska or Mindfang/Dualscar, and I guess Karkat/Karkat if you want to count that.

Whatever happened to fonix?

they lost interest in this blog four years ago and blocked me two years ago so idk what’s going on with them now

ok but why Trizza has the same horns as Feferi and Condy?

Trolls can not be related and have the same kinda horns

aren't all fuchsias related, seeing as there can only be two alive at a time, therefore the gene that gives them the bloodcolor being fairly standard across bloodlines? even despite the other trolls mixing in. or is it some sort of genetic mutation that leads to a fuchsia being born?

Okay, All trolls are basically related since everyone’s juices just get mixed together. When I talk about trolls being related I mean like majority of genetic material, ancestor/descendant level related.

i know, i just feel like the fuchsia genepool is smaller, so having the same horns would make sense, especially if it's carried on the same gene as the blood color (which would make sense with the whole ancestor thing- your base traits are from a set of genes from your ancestor) ALSO its mentioned in canon that signs are assigned based on birth date, which makes me wonder if the blood colors hatch in a certain order?

I can’t find anything in canon saying they get them based on their “birth day”, just that each caste has their own large array of signs. If you can find where it mentions that signs are assigned base on birthdays please share.

Does Xefros' sign have a real-world equivalent, similar to the trolls signs being the zodiac?

I did some preliminary research but I can’t find anything on it. I think a lot of the newer trolls’ symbols are original

I'm confused how the vast glub has anything to do with Fef when it's the Condense's lusus???

It’s also Feferi’s lusus, and the Vast Glub happened in Hivebent it was while Feferi was preparing to enter the game

I forget, what is the vast glub again?

It’s a psychic attack that Glubglub does when it speaks, it kills pretty much every troll except Fuchsia Bloods

What was honestly the point of the Vast glub being a power? When would that have been a GOOD idea to use???

Well the Vast Glub is just the attack at its most powerful, lesser powerful version could be used to target lowbloods exclusively which made it easier to keep them subservient or to use as a last ditch effort if rebellions grew too out of hand.

You said that the Trolls weren't cannibalistic and that there were different kinds of grubs. I was always under the impression that all grubs were troll grubs and that they killed them en masse for food, cosmetics, etc. Do you have any examples or statements from the Trolls supporting your stance? Not saying your wrong, just wondering what I missed.

There are a couple different types of grubs.

Here we see an instance of a Grub used as a game

Sollux also has several grubs on his floor that he refers to as games

We can also assume there is also a type of Grub that is used as food, as we’ve heard of Grubsauce, Grubsteak, Grubloaf. We also see Grubpizza in Hiveswap as well as some unnamed grub food left out in Dammek’s hive.

And Then of course there’s Grubs as in Baby trolls and the Mother Grubs

did you know the /r/hiveswap discord is constantly shit talking you over dumb stuff like mentioning hetero ships? I thought you should know

Thanks but I really did not need to know that

i was looking at the family chart and it says grandpa harley is mom lalondes adopted father?? can i ask where that happened lol

Ah, yeah, that was me jumping the gun a bit. It’s canon that Mom was raised in Grandpa Harley’s Skaianet building and there was a some evidence pointing at her being raised by Grandpa Harley.

With the release of Hiveswap we see she definitely had contact with Pa Harley but we don’t really have any insight into her life or childhood. But given that we know she lived in the skaianet building even if Pa Harley didn’t have a hand in raising her, he likely had a direct influence on her during childhood.

do we know when the next hiveswap act comes out yet

We do not. Rumor has it on 11/11 but that’s just a rumor, no official date yet

Did we ever get any info on A) What the fuck Grandpa Harley was doing in the Medium B) How the fuck he got an entire spaceship there?

He went there likely to explore and get Jade’s dead Dreamself. He had to have gotten his ship there piece by piece, or he stole one from either Prospit or Derse and gave it a paint job.

how long were the dancestors dead

Time isn’t linear in the Furthest Ring. They all died at the same time but they showed up in the Dreambubbles at random. An example being that Aranea has been hanging around the dream bubbles for millions of sweeps while Meenah has barely been there one.

Do you have a picture of Roxy Lalonde calling Jane a tightass in text because I require this for insult reasons

Once here

Four times here

A few times, including a slight extended metaphor here

and another one here

Fun Fact: Tightass is used 15 times in Act 6. 12 of those are from Roxy in reference to Jane, 2 of those are Jane saying she’s not, and the last one is Trickster Jane calling Dirk a tightass.

The whole concept of "trickster" always confused me, even after I re read the comic. Do you think I can get a quick explanation

Trickster (n.) an Easter Egg from an early flash turned fandom obsession turned plot device to get characters where they needed to be

Ahh I have no idea if the other one got asked because fuck you tumblr mobile. If not, I'll ask the same thing, and if so, pls delete this one. Does gamzee say honk or does he imitate his horns?

that’s up to the individual reader, you can honestly take it either way

Okay. In Hiveswap Xefros at some point says that 'no Xceptions, there are no adults on Alternia' but like...I thought the ancestors and their whole legend that Scratch told us was on Alternia. Am I wrong or is that a plot hole?

You’re right, but that was all in the past. After the Summoner’s rebellion adults were banned.

Did Hussie ever actually declare Rex Duodecim Angelus canon or is that just something the fandom made up?

I can find no evidence that Hussie canonized it

Were baby trolls ever referred to as grubs? I always thought they were referred to as wigglers, and the fandom collectively decided to refer to them as grubs.

They are referred to as both grubs and wigglers in canon

So what ever happens to the universe a and b gang during hiveswap?

None of them have landed yet. Hiveswap is set in the past on both planets.

stupid question but do trolls say each other's names in their own quirks?

Yeah, as an example in [S] Past Karkat: Wake Up, Terezi uses 4R4D14, T4VROS, K4N4Y4, 3R1D4N when talking to those respective characters as well as using K4RK4T, N3P3T4, T3R3Z1, VR1SK4, G4MZ33 and F3F3R1 on multiple occasions 

So given the last few asks about when Hiveswap takes place.. even though it's considered epilogue, isn't it kind of a prequel in regards to the events that take place during Homestuck?

Yeah It’s a prequel, the epilogue is gonna be something different hopefully

how did vriska ascended to god tier?

Aradia beat her up, Tavros put her on her Questcocoon where she died and ascended

How did the alpha kids ascended to god tier?

They were killed by Jack English and Condesce while on their Sacrificial Slabs

Can you explain why dirk hates himself so much?

Mental Illness™

So was Rox's only power like... making boxes appear and turning invisible¿

She could make anything appear and could also turn intangible 

Wasnt it a quest bed? Where tavros was asked to put an end to her suffering but dint?

Quest Cocoon, trolls as a species didn’t have beds, they slept in Cocoons so their things were circle shaped and called Quest Cocoons until the rectangular Quest Bed

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

Quest Beds are located on the players’ planets and they need both their dreamself and original self in order to ascend

Sacrificial Slabs are located at the core of Derse and Prospit’s moons and the player only needs one of their lives left to use it

I know but it was a quest bed still she was laying down and the blood trickle down the stone wich isnt possible in a cocoon

Recap 3:

“[Vriska] instructs [Tavros] to take her to her Quest Cocoon, and to kill her…”  

So if a player ascended on their slab, but their dream sealed was still alive, would there just be two of the same person running around?

The self that didn’t die on the slab would die. We see this with Aradia. Aradiabot exploded when her dreamself died on the slab.

When did we learn about sacrificial slabs? I only remember the quest bed

We first see them with Aradia, then with Dave and Rose.

Calliope discusses them here

How did Aradia die on her slab?

That’s were her dreamself had been hiding the entire time, then Bec Noir killed her

Xefros says no adults on alternia so do we have an underage heiress running this place :0

Yeah, she’s 7 sweeps. A troll isn’t considered an adult until likely 8 or 9 sweeps

how many of the human characters have a confirmed race?

None

Is it ever said in cannon that Dave's middle name is Elizabeth? or was that the fandom?

100% fanon