October 2017

about your canon homestuck ships thing you forgot Mom Lalonde <3 Dad Egbert

oh my goodness you’re right, ill change that asap

So davekat is canon? :D

Yeppers

Ive heard a lot of people theorizing that hiveswap takes place a couple years before the start of homestuck, but that doesnt make sense to me. Namely, wouldnt the heiress be feferi? Or, if it was the A1 universe, meenah?

It takes place in 1994 on Earth and an unknown number of sweeps before the events of Homestuck on Alternia

Why is karkat <> gamzee bolted? I remember they were moirails before game so its not only pre retcon thing

It only happened pre-retcon, they weren’t moirails until Karkat pacified him after [S] Attempt rare and highly dangerous 5x SHOWDOWN COMBO

When did DaveKat become canon???????

[A6A6I5]

Wait davekat is canon? What happened?

They got all gay with each other, they just won’t admit it to their friends cause their too gay and shy

didnt gamzee talk about them being moirails before then?

I did a search for moirail and pale used in Act 5 and I can’t find any evidence

Why did Aranea take the ring instead giving it to Calliope? I think it was very naive from her.

Aranea wanted to change the timeline so that LE wouldn’t exist. She didn’t care about Callie at all

Dont young fushia bloods have to kill the adult or non-heiress fushias? i know that (at least) 2 exist "peacefully" at the same time (HIC and fef) but didnt fef have to cull another fushia before the events of homestuck? if so its quite possible the hiveswap young fushia was the one she had to cull

Fef didn’t have to kill anyone. Only 2 Fuchsia bloods are alive at a time. When the young Heiress reaches adulthood she has to fit the Empress to the death.

in the comic did Aranea say that Kankri had unrequited feelings for Latula or did the two of them both have feelings for one another?

Kankri’s feelings were unrequited

How is there only two fuschias alive at one time? Are they extremely uncommon, or do they cull any fuschia grubs that are born while there's already two fuschias?

They’re just that uncommon. There are fewer and fewer trolls in a blood caste as it gets higher on the hemospectrum so it would make sense that there’s only one or two of the highest

Hey I read a lot about how apparently Dave wears sunglasses because he got teased about his eye colour and that John canonically wears hair gel. But I can't find any pages that show that so are these just really popular headcanons or??

Neither of those things are canon.

how come Bec Noir shows affection for Jade (from the bec-part), but not John (from Nannasprite)

He doesn’t have any Nanna in him. Nanna was added to the sprite after John entered, the rings only use pre-entry prototypes because the sprites send their kernel data as soon as the player enters

In your FAQ you have a broken link to where Jasprose mentions Karkat being in a matespritship with someone on the meteor. They mention Karkat was rude towards his *desired* matesprite, and that it was no way to treat a "lady". And then Jasprose turns the conversation onto Nepeta. They were referring to Karkat's unrequited feelings towards Terezi.

Thanks for pointing out the broken link, I’ll get that fixed asap.

But I was refering the point a few lines later in the convo when Jasprose says 

 Besides, [Karkat] is involved with someone else now in that quadrant. He has moved on. And so have you!

Hey so you have a program that can search through all the dialog, right? Could you please check all the uses of the word "exploit" [ including exploits, exploited, etc ] and "serve" [ incl serves, served, etc ] in the comic? Very specific I know but it would be a great help! [ I'm working on a classpect theory ]

No program, usually just use MSPA’s built in search feature or readmspa.org but here are the pages you request, it would take me a million years to link them all so im just putting the numbers.

This is all from just Act 1-4

Exploit:

1969, 2233, 2348, 2442, 2745, 3139

Serve:

1964, 2153, 2266, 2321, 2594, 2785, 2903,2925, 2993, 3293, 3342, 3490, 3495, 3535, 3754, 3888

The John hair gel thing is in the first paradox space comic fyi so semi canon?

fair enough

I can't figure out how the treasure worked. Caliborn has it and the kids go fight him, then the B1 kids get trapped in there forever, but when do they go to fight him? And somehow while they're trapped in there it becomes intangible and John can reach in and change stuff? But he's still theoretically trapped in it? Vriska also uses it to fight LE so do the B1 kids get released and defeat him? The wiki says when caliborn sends a snap they go fight him but that doesn't make sense to me.

They credits were leading up to them going to fight Caliborn. The treasure can only be activated twice under very specific circumstances. The first time being to help Caliborn (him sealing the B1 kids in it) and the second time against him (when Vriska uses it). After Caliborn used it he sent it to the Furthest Ring where time is all weird. When John went to interact with it the circumstances of its use where not appropriate which is why he couldn’t actually touch it. And it is Unknown if the Beta kids got released from it upon it’s use against Lord English.

I'vE bEeN ScRoLlInG ThRoUgH YoUr mOtHeRfUcKiN MiRaCuLoUs gRuBlOg, BuT I KiNdA GoT A QuEsTiOn tO AsK Up iN AlL ThIs. HoW CoMe i dOn'T GoT NoNe oF ThOsE MoThErFuCkIn' BuBbLe gHoStS? i tHiNk i hEaRd sOmEtHiN' aBoUt mE AnD BeInG AlL Up aNd mOtHeRfUcKiN' cAuSiNg dOoMeD TiMeLiNeS AnD StUfF. i dOn'T LiKe tO ThInK I CaUsEd aLl tHaT ShIt. I MeAn lIvE AnD LeT MoThErFuCkIn' lIvE. :o(

It’s because Gamzee is effectively immortal due to plot armor bullshit. So basically Gamzee’s in doomed timelines don’t die before the timeline is erased so he gets erased along with it.

I Do Apologize, But I Must Counter Your Point About Calliope. Space Players, As I Have Seen And Experienced, Awake Early On Prospit. Calliope Is A Space Player, Thus Is Awake On Prospit Prior To Entering Her Session, Although That Situation Became Quite Perplexing. The Better Question Would Be, Why Her Brother Calliborn Could Enter. The Theory In Our Thinkpans Is That Because Of The Cherub Species' Nature, If Calliope Was Awake, Calliborn Had To Be Too.

Other players can wake early too. Dirk was awake on Derse for years and Jane also woke there before she played the game.

Can Roxy became invisible without Ring of Void?

Yes. She turned invisible and intangible in GAME OVER and didn’t have the ring 

No in gamzee and Karkat's first conversation they talk about being moirails. Karkat doing the pacification thing was part of them being moirails already

Okay I just read their first conversation, and Karkat spends the whole thing insulting Gamzee and telling him how much he hates him. That doesn’t sound very moirail-y to me

whatever happened to the aimless renegade and the white queen in the beta kids session?

They died in Cascade

How did the shitty Statues of Liberty and the ectolab get to Earth C? I know both of those things were on Caliborn's Earth/LOCAM. Does that mean that Earth C is LOCAM? Is that even possible?

Earth B is Earth C which eventually becomes LoCaM

In a "normal" game of Sburb, would the players normally do ectobiology/end up meeting with their alternate universe selves? Or was that happening in the kids' game just a result of the unique circumstances?

Ectobiology probably, Alternate Selves unique circumstance

Is it possible that Roxy's Mom could have had a relationship with pre-scratch Kanaya?

Doubt it, they lived very far away from each other in both time and distance

Did anything from Jade's outburst post dream self dying carry on through the rest of the story? Or was it just a singular outburst from built up frustration?

She became a little less nice I guess, a bit more aggressive and demanding of troll bullshit making them use passwords and stuff to talk to her. But it may have just been the stress of Sburb because it doesn’t show up in Act 6 outside her Grimbarkness

youve probably already answered this but in act 7 when vriska brought out the house juju and it started flashing in the beta kids symbols, is that because they were trapped in there??? did they get stuck when they went back to face caliborn after he threatened john in a snapchat??? if so ):

yes and yes

hey! i remember this one part where kurloz was dressed with maracas and a poncho but i cant seem to find it? did i imagine it or is it an actual thing in the comic?

That’s definitely fan made, I remember seeing it before as well but it wasn’t in the comic

This isn't meant to be a counterpoint but didn't Dirk wake up because of Jake's corpsesmooch? For that matter why was Jane awake?

Dirk’s dreamself was knocked unconscious and then woken up again by the corpsesmooch. She just was, it might have been related to  Jake’s dreamself being assassinated because she woke up during his funeral

where were sollux and feferi confirmed as matesprits? were sollux and aradia confirmed as matesprits or moirails?

Erisolsprite confirms it when they’re talking to Fefeta

Sollux and Aradia were never confirmed to be anything

During the fight with Caliborn, where John Rose Jade and Dave get sucked into the juju, did everyone else die or escape or is it just Unknown?

The Alphas beat Caliborn but we don’t know what happens after that.

Any reason why Roxy's mom had all those buckets? (doubting she had any chance at a red or black fling with )(IC)

It was probably one of her many middle finger moves against the Condesce

Hello! I don't think this has been asked, I'm sorry if it has been. But would a trolls ears/fins blush like some humans do?

That’s unknown, we don’t typically see the trolls ears in order to tell

We do however have a sketch from Hussie that showed Terezi in his regular style that had the long elfish ears!

I assume you’re refering to this sketch


but this sketch came out around the time of the trolls introduction and I can’t find another instance of Hussie-drawn trolls with ears so it may have just been a preliminary sketch or an aspect he dropped.  Hussie also has a tendency to draws ears kinda big shown in some of the Hussnasty style panels  so it might just be because of that.

Not directly related to this ask but as a disclaimer: I’m not saying you’re wrong if you choose to hc trolls with long elf-like or fox-like ears, but there is no certain canon about troll ears so please don’t use the lack of canon or the small amount of it to try and force people into headcanons.

wait, when have we seen troll ears? i thought they just heard out of their horns or something

in canon, drawn by Hussie, no we have not seen troll ears.  But guest artists will occasionally throw ears on them

Hi, you've probably answered this before but how exactly did Rose gain the memories from the Rose in Davesprite's timeline?

Basically she went to sleep at the exact moment the timeline was going to be erased so through some plot bullshit her doomed timeline dreamself merged with her alpha one thus she retained the memories

Can we make troll ears the new Official Homestuck Discourse™? This is so much more bearable than... Basically everything else.

Put what you Headcanon about trolls in the tags

Elf ears, Fox/Mouse Ears , Human Ears

Long Mouse-like Tails, Tails relating to their Sign, No Tail

Horns come out of the forehead, or Horn come from top/sides of the skull

Claw Like Nails, Pawpads on their feet or normal feet

Insect-like bodies or Mammalian bodies

Skin tinted blood color or Flat Grey (not counting blushing)

Vestigial Grubscars or Normal Torso

Everyone in the fandom and their mothers call Gamzee insane, but correct me if I was wrong: Wasn't he a genuinely good guy before Cal came around to f*ck sh*t up? He just wanted to chill out and talk with his friends and pray that Goat Dad would return, then Cal came along and made him 'insane'.

All I’m gonna say on the matter is his trollian handle is terminallyCapricious

Terminally (adv.): in a way that is predicted to lead to death; incurably.

Capricious (adj.): given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.