January 2015

Why did Dirk have to decapitate himself when he was already awake on Derse???

His Dreamself got knocked out and he needed it to wake up again immediately 

What was that MASSIVE thing in jakes puzzle modus?

The remains of his house.

i forgot, which death means they die for real, heroic or just

Both.  If the death is neither heroic or just then they return to life.

Can you explain the retconning to me? I was confused when I read about it.

Retconning is changing what happened in canon after the fact.  John is going back and changing parts of the story. And unlike time travel he doesn’t have to worry about creating doomed timelines.

Is that one about cleaning up vriska's block equius instead of kanaya? Sorry, it just seems familiar.

No, Kanaya was Vriska’s server player and cleaned up Vriska’s hive.

can you explain how john is his dad's genetic half brother?

Dad is the son of Nanna and some Mystery Suitor.  John is the biological son of Nanna and Grandpa.  They share one parent, therefore they are half-brothers.

What kind of weapon does everyone use for strifes? (Applies only to beta kids, alpha kids, and the 12 descendant trolls)

John: Hammer
Rose: Needle/Wand
Dave: Sword/ Half Sword
Jade: Rifle

Jane: Fork/Spoon
Roxy: Rifle/Fist
Dirk: Sword
Jake: Double Pistol

Karkat: Sickle
Aradia: Whip
Tavros: Lance
Sollux: Shuriken/ Psionics
Nepeta: Claws
Kanaya: Chainsaw
Terezi: Cane
Vriska: Dice/Sword when she rolls all 8’s
Equius: Fist/Bow/ Half Bow
Gamzee: Clubs/Whatever he wants
Eridan: Rifle/Wand
Feferi: Double Sided Trident

I was wondering, or just possible completely forgotten. Where is Aradia in the events leading up to [S]Game Over and [S]Game Over itself? Does she just stay in the dream bubbles?

Yes, Aradia and Sollux stay in the dreambubbles.

Are the kids and trolls planets already made before the game started? Or are they made when they enter the medium?

They are already made as seen on the Alpha kids’ planets where all the consorts had been dead of many years.

in a recent jade-featuring update, Jade mentioned the age of the lands! They simultaneously don't exist until they start the game and enter it, and yet they also are ancient and ever-existing. (p=008980)

You’re the only one to add a source, you win.

Why did Meenah and Aranea perma-die when Meenah blew up the alpha trolls?

They were killed as the Scratch was initiating so they didn’t have time to some back to life.

since it seems the leader of a session would be the one to create the other players through ectobiology (john for his session (and also the alpha session) and karkat for his session) would this mean that Meenah created those in her session?

No, Karkat created them.

What's the significance of the number 612?

It’s the arc number for Hivebent.  Like how 413 is the number for the Beta kids.

wait sorry i'm really dumb and this concept has confused me, how is it that only john and karkat have to do ectobiology? how did the baby meteors exist in the other universes without john/karkat's creating them? is it just skaia's portals, carrying the babies to a different game session from the original one?

When a scratch is initiated Skaia changes the portals that the babies go through so the babies only need to be created once.

I think Bro could have been saved. Why: Dave and Bro both had a copy of SBURB, but Dave ruined his and used Bro's copy (the one he got after their strife). So if Dave didn't spill aj on his copy, do you think Bro would have played and still be alive? (I told a friend this but she said,"Nah, Bro just would have done whatever the hell he wanted.")

Dave needed to lose his copy so that DD could steal it and eventually put it in the lotus time capsule which would send it back in time so that Jade could get the disks and play the game. So if Bro could have been saved, that’s not the way it would have happened.

Wait, I'm a bit confused in the "Attempt rare and highly dangerous 5x SHOWDOWN COMBO." Is Sollux deciding between having blackrom-redrom feelings for Gamzee, or is he determining if Cal's in blackrom with him or Redrom?

Sollux had a quadrant vacillation crush on Gamzee. It fits with his duality theme.

What happened with Jade's problem with falling asleep at random times? Did that disappear when she lost her dream self, or..? Ive been wondering about that a lot...

Jade’s narcolepsy was caused by Vriska testing her powers on humans.  While Vriska can control trolls she can only make humans fall asleep. 

Wait how did Sollux die??

He was killed once by the Vast Glub once and again by overexerting himself moving the meteor to the Green Sun.

i finished reading homestuck from beginning to end a while ago and only one thing really bugs me. everything in homestuck with loose ends always makes sense after a while but what about grandpa harley? how is he alive with a flying ship???? and where did he go after the scratch??? this haunts me and for the life of me i cant remember if that was ever resolved or not. how did he manage to stuff jade's dreamself and yet that always existed in the past??? grandpa harely confuses me entirely!!!!!!!

Time in the Medium is not the same as it is on Earth.  There are teleporters in the Frog Temple that go to Prospit and Derse. Mind you that the Frog Temple is on the island that Grandpa Harley owns. Therefore he was free to use the teleporters and go between Earth and The Medium at will.

What would happen if a sburb/ sgrub player were to die on someone elses quest bed? Like if John died on Dave's quest bed or something.

Then John would be dead. 

Sorry, I have a doubt about Null Sessions: how can they exist when in Homestuck we have a single "right timeline" system? For example, why is the pre-scratch trolls' session null? If they didn't succeed, shouldn't it be just a doomed timeline?

Null Sessions can be scratched.  Rose also explains that Null Sessions are fairly common here.

So idk if I missed this or something but why did Roxy disappear when she put on the ring if it doesn't have any effect on humans?

The Queen’s ring with prototyped orbs has no effect on humans.  But the post scratch Queen’s ring is a very distinct type of ring not normally found in Sburb sessions.  It is a Ring of Void which is usable by humans.

is Gamzee really dead after being killed by Kanaya? And also, is Aradia dead and if so how was she killed?

Gamzee is probably no longer dead and Aradia is not dead, she just prefers to live in the dreambubbles.

What is Aradia's relationship with Diamonds Droog? I'm really confused on this.

Diamond Droog was her exile and convinced her to kill Vriska.

could you do a quick summary of everything that's happened since ungigapause

GAME OVER: Everyone dies and John beats up Caliborn.

Terezi and Roxy survive, John shows up, Roxy goes to see her denizen, John goes to see his denizen and teleports his planet. then he goes back to before he left Terezi, Terezi gives him a list of stuff to change then dies.  John goes back and changes a bunch of stuff.  Now Vriska is alive, the Condesce is confused, Team Good Guys is winning, Retcon timeline John and Roxy are dead, Aranea never came back to life.  John teleported him, his planet, and original timeline Roxy back to the session.

That’s a rough summary.

Does it ever state canonically where in the world Rose lives? I know it does for the other 3 betas but I can't remember for Rose.

She lives in a secluded mansion in Rainbow Falls, New York.  I do not have a credible source for this though so feel free to reblog with one if anyone has one.

Hi! When a player is in a session, do they only get their powers once they go god tier or do they develop once they start the game?

They develop them as they play through the game as seen with Terezi using Mind powers despite not being God Tier.

Why can Aradia choose to stay in dream bubbles? Can the other dead trolls do this or is it only her?

Aradia isn’t dead so she can leave the dreambubbles if she wanted.  The dead ghost people and trolls cannot leave though.

So wait, is the original Vrisks still in the dream bubbles, or is she gone now?

Original Vriska is most likely still in the dreambubble.  Hussie recent gave her a drastic makeover most likely to make it possible to distinguish the two Vriskas from each other.

Who is dead currently?

In the retconned timeline: All the prescratch trolls, Tavros, Eridan, Feferi, Equius, and Nepeta.  

Are Sollux and Feferi still matesprits?

No

Where do all of the Beta Kids live? I know the general area, but after seeing your post about Rose in Rainbow Falls, I was wondering if the other kids had specific places like that?

John lives in Maple Valley, Washington
Dave lives in Houston, Texas
And Jade lives on a non-specified Pacific Island

If I remember right a lot of Eq supports said Gamzee only won because he tricked Eq with Tz's glasses. The retcon kinda disproved this :o)

Yep

Wait, John's dead?

retcon timeline John is, but original timeline John is still alive and will arrive in the retcon timeline shortly

would the Dad in the b2 universe be John's genetic son

Yes : )

Roxy basically said that John has a British accent.

Because she said he sounds like Jake?

How do you know Jake has a British accent?

Everyone just assumes he does because of his vernacular.

I'm a bit confused about the difference between the dancestors and the ancestor trolls. are the ancestors just adult versions of them in a different timeline. or is it their adult versions if they were to live on alternia?

The ancestors are the post-scratch version of the dancestors.

Just like Nanna is the pre-scratch version of Jane.

Did we ever find out what happened to the business man that entered the medium? didn't he die on a quest bed or something?

Yes! FedoraFreak ascended and became the Gent of Piss.

Jesus, how do you remember all of this? Do you have a council you consult on each ask? Because this is amazing, thank you for what you do here!

I just remember a good chunk of things but can’t remember it all. Some stuff is asked so often like the prescratch trolls lack of ectobiology or how the scratch works that I don’t have to look anything up to be sure of my answer, but for a lot of the question I do have to do some research.  Sometimes it only takes a minute, sometime I spend an hour looking into it so I can make sure my answer is right.  It varies.  And you’re welcome : ]

Did Calliope and Jake ever interact?

Twice   Canonically

Ok but is nepeta still dead??

Yes

Could you refresh me on what the recon time line is? I know it's a time line where Jade is alone fore three years across the yellow yard but not much else.

It’s the timeline where Aranea never came back to life, Vriska wasn’t killed, and Terezi never entered an abusive relationship with Gamzee.

Just asked about retcon roxy being dead ; she isnt dead, but wont her being alive along with Original!roxy affect the timeline? Or does voidey stuff eliminate that?

Retcon Timeline Roxy is dead.  Heiress Jane threw her stabby stick at Rose and Roxy jumped in front of it and died a heroic death. 

wait so does this mean that John and Roxy are both canonically dead?

No because original timeline John and Roxy will arrive in the retcon timeline when Homestuck starts updating again.

Where is the evidence and proof that retcon Roxy and John died? Just wondering.

In the stories that Jade and Jane told to Calliope in the last intermission.

why did the trolls stop pestering dave and rose after john was killed by his denizen for the first time? did they somehow stop existing as well?

The trolls stopped pestering Dave and Rose because after John died that timeline became a doomed timeline and the trolls could only see the alpha timeline in Trollian so they couldn’t contact them anymore.

what were the trolls lusus sprites protoyped with?

All the trolls sans Aradia only prototyped their sprite once and that was with their lusus.

did callie ever talk to the beta kids? (aside from jade)

Nope

Did anyone actually do Ectobiology for the post scratch session? How are Jane, Roxy, Jake and Dirk alive?

John made them.

Can you explain what made Jade psychic in the first couple of acts and how she lost it? That part has always confused me.

On Skaia the clouds showed the future.  Prospit’s moon would occasionally get close enough to Skaia that one on the moon could see the clouds.  Jade used to spend a lot of time asleep and awake on Prospit thus she saw the clouds a lot and knew certain events would happen.