June 2016

is bro the one who wrote the game bro thing on sburb?

Nope

Why is johns land the land of wind and shade? How does it fit with his character?

Wind being both his Aspect and associated classical element (air), shade represents darkness to parallel Rose’s Light.

Can two trolls (that aren't ancestor/descendant) have the same sign?

It’d be incredibly rare, but possible. It’d probably be the closest thing to siblings that trolls would get.

Is it possible to ever go grimdark at one point and then later trickster or can you only ever be one?

You can only be one at a time, and you probably couldn’t go from one to the other. They’re kinda parallels so maybe the cure to grimdarkness (aside from death) would be the lollipop juju

What IS a drone? Is it another species besides troll?

They appear to be robots

Sorry but I kinda forgot what the deal with Consorts are, I feel like this is a silly question

They’re pretty much NPCs

How do trolls get their signs? Do they pick them or are they assigned? Does it depend on their lusus?

They’re assigned them in their youth

has the handmaid ever had anything to do with the other ancestors? or has her story always been "separated"?

She would timetravel to instigate events (just like her pre-scratch self) she never directly interacted with the other ancestors, except for Condy. But she probably meddled in their affairs

In a Void session the ring of the White Queen is the ring of life?

No

Did Problem Sleuth take place in any of the sessions we know about in Homestuck?

Problem Sleuth did not take place in the same universe as Homestuck

Was there any specific way to go grimdark other than to act morally wrong? Or did i hit the nail on the head?

Completely wrong actually. Grimdark deals with the power and influences of the Horrorterrors and their Eldritch Magic.

How did the trolls learn to read

They presumably have some means of education called “SCHOOLFED”. The word is used a few times throughout Act 5 in reference to learning.

how did john know that karkat was a boy in the "i am not a homosexual" pesterlog at the beginning of a5a2?

That was one of John’s last conversations he had with Karkat. John had talked to him several times before so he probably picked it up along the way.

how was the vriska that deployed the weapon alive? sorry these alt universes got me hella mixed up.

She flew there

would any ring bring people back to life, or would it have to be specifically from a session with no prototyping. (or am I competent wrong on both assumptions lol)

Only the Ring of Life can bring people back to life and The Ring of Life isn’t from the Alpha kids’ session, it originated with Hussie.

i thought the first thing karkat said pre-hivebent was to jade: back in like act 3, the "HEY, IDIOT. SO TODAY IS THE DAY YOU FUCK EVERYTHING UP" thing?? idk i might be wrong

Oh wait, what I said was the frist thing he said to John.  The real first words to come out of Karkat’s mouth are  CG: HI AGAIN, IDIOT.

homosuck wasn't an alt universe was it? wasn't it just a silly story caliborn made up?

Right, just a story

how do u remember all of this omg

I don’t. I look it up. At any given moment that I’m answering questions I’ll usually have at least two tabs open to mspa and one to the wiki.

this is like the third time ive asked this but i assume you just didnt see it. why aren't there lots of other people in the dream bubbles since there are lots of other sessions going on in the furthest ring?? theyre sburb players as well

The specific stable dreambubbles Fef had them make where only for trolls and friends

But, since there are infinite universes, couldn't homosuck be canon in one of them?

no karkat talked to jade first

And that’s what he said

hello hey, you must be hella tired of these kind of questions and this is not a subject i like either, but, on somewhere around act 5, kanaya sees rose and says "skin as pale as ghost"? doesnt this mean she has a canon race then? sorry im confused D:

No kids have a canon race.

About the dreambubbley thingy, is this also the reason why there are no alpha kids in the bubbles? do they ever wake up there when they go to sleep also? i cant really remember

There are no Alpha kids there because they had no doomed timelines (except GO),but they do dream there. That’s where Jake first met Aranea and BG!Dirk gave him a boner, it was very embarrassing.

is it cannon or fannon that lil cal fucked bro up?

Fanon supported by canon

so go!jane and go!jake are in the dreambubbles as ghosts? and could you source when was it stated that they have no other doomed timelines

Yes, and it wasn’t stated, they just didn’t have anyone with time travel capabilities until the Beta kids showed up to make doomed timelines

Wait. I thought there were only 48 signs. How would it be rare for two trolls to have the same sign?

There are far more than 48 signs, there are thousands. Trolls have a 48 sign horoscope tho, that’s where that number comes from.

Why is John's planet land of wind and shade like the wind comes from his aspect but why shade?

I answered this like two hours ago

Why does Calliope not take the Caliborn's queen in her game with him?!?!?! She could have easily won!!

After going through their chess game (both parts) I can confidently say, she never had the oppurtunity

Do you need time travel/Time heroes to make a doomed timeline? I thought anyone could do it just by screwing up the "path" of action.

The time player needs to go back and stop them from doing that though. If no one goes back and changes it then it’s not a doomed timeline, it’s the alpha timeline where everyone just so happens to be doomed

wait how did pm get to earth

Skaian Defense Portal, just like the other exiles

wait but wouldn't it be possible to use the lotus pod to go back in time to earth via the reckoning before the session and create/fix a doomed timeline even without a time player? I think it would be.

Possibly, if you could get to the Frog Temple which would be floating out in the Veil

how could vriska time travel when doing all of the things she did in the post-scratch session?

She had Aradia’s Temporal Music boxes

A time player isn't necessary for a doomed timeline to be created. There was a doomed timeline created where Terezi didn't kill Vriska, and Vriska went to confront Jack, with the alpha timeline still being the one where Terezi did kill Vriska, with no intervention from a time player.

That wasn’t a doomed timeline, that was a possible timeline that would have ended with everyone being doomed, completely different thing.

if a time player comes from a doomed timeline, are they automatically doomed? What happens if the version from the alpha timeline died, but a doomed version came in? Sorry if this doesn't make sense

Yes they’re still doomed even in the scenario you suggest

Would it be possible for someone to force their way into a session from the planet, or would the game have accounted for that already?

They could use the teleporters in the Frog Temple, but if a session is in progress all indigenous life on the players’ planet should be dead

What evidence do you have for it not being a doomed timeline, exactly?

It didn’t actually happen.

I know its never really addressed in canon, but do you think identical twin trolls would be possible?

I’m not sure, I don’t know enough about insect genetics

how

Specify

how exactly did the trolls find the kids, again?

Terezi had Dave send her past self money 

Can someone modify their dreambubble setting just by thinking about it?

To an extent

In your opinion, what are the best "scenes" (dialogue wise) in homestuck?

Anything involving Caliborn, Dave/Equius rap off, John/Tavros interactions, Davepeta, John/Terezi flirtations. Honestly I need to reread everything I’m sure there’s some gr8 ones out there I’m not remembering

Again, what evidence do you have that it never happened? Homestuck takes a lot of cues from many worlds theory, which states that when there is any probability of two outcomes happening, they both do, creating separate timelines. It's presented as a very real possibility that Terezi may not choose to stab Vriska, which would imply that there is a timeline in which that happens.

It’s presented as a timeline Terezi sees might occur, there’s no real evidence outside of that saying it didn’t truly happen but there also none supporting that it did.

What determines a troll and their ancestor? Like, how does a troll find out who their ancestor is? Are they related ectobiologically? Or by blood?

Most trolls never learn about their ancestor as they likely lived several hundred sweeps apart. Usually they’re related by blood but in our trolls’ case it’s ectoiology

why is mod t so rude...? people arent always all-knowing like you, why the attitude?

I sometimes have trouble with tone, feel free to let me know if my sarcastic nature is veering into the poopypants territory.

Does latula have a canon land?

No

If John can do the windy thing before he got God Tier that mean Caliborn can do the time thing and Calliope the spacy thing before they got God Tier or they can't because they are normal biology and not ectobiology?

It really depends on their classpect. Like Karkat shows traits of his title but you wouldn’t really classify it as a “bloody thing” because it doesn’t appear to be some sort of magic.

What are the limits of John's retcon abilities?

None really, he can go anywhere and anywhen and do whatever he pleases

Do all Derse dreamers have to go grimdark, unless they find a way to avoid it? And what are the ways to avoid it, other than... wearing shades???

No, Rose is the only character in Homestuck to go grimdark

About the ring of the black queen, didn't the condesce had it and that's why she can use chucklevoodos?

The Condesce never used Chucklevoodo and the ring she had was the Ring of Void

Didnt eridan go grimdark or just was that my imagination??

He did not go grimdark