September 2017

Can we say that Roxy is a good sniper? Or at least can in guns?

Given what we see her do in Act 6 Act 4, it’s safe to say she’s pretty competent with a rifle.

Hiveswap takes place in an alternate universe right? Or is like a prologue or some shit?

It’s a prequel spin-off. It canonically takes place before Homestuck

Canonically Joey and Jude would eventually die in the reckoning right?

Yeah, unless something happens later on in Hiveswap/Hauntswitch

Then does that mean Joey and Jude's nanny is mom Lalonde???

Yeah, Mom Lalonde is their babysitter

Are we sure that the Roxy in hiweswap is the same Roxy we meet in homestuck? If so did she babysit Jude & Joey before or after playing the game?

Roxy from B1 as in Mom Lalonde, not Roxy from B2, the one we met in Act 6 

in hiveswap, would it be considered a prequel or a sequel of homestuck? (i didnt notice a mention of specific year in the game, but im still assuming its a prequel?)

It’s set in 1994 (it mentions that several times in game not sure how you missed it) so technically it’s a prequel

Is it true that what's only truly canon is straight from Hussie? Like there's that discourse on Joey's sexuality, and some of the dev team decided to weigh in on the situation on twitter. Idk, I'm always confused.

Yeah, true canon comes either in the story or straight from the Hussie’s mouth. Anyone else is just stating headcanon.

I'm confused about the Dirk: Synchronize flash. I was told that Jake kissed Dirk's severed head to wake Derse!Dirk up, but Derse!Dirk was the one to wake Jake up to kiss his severed head. What was the point if Dirk was already awake?

Time shenanigans. Dirk had to wake up Jake so Jake could wake up Dirk so Dirk could wake up Jake

Could Jake/Grandpa's attraction to blue ladies have anything to do with ghost Nana being blue?

Unlikely since he was collecting blue ladies long before Nannasprite existed

so... my friend INSISTS that troll horns have some weirdly sexual purpose, and keeps claiming "the whole fandom knows this". is there ANY evidence or implication for this in canon or is he full of shit?

That’s fanon. I’m pretty sure that got started by the hordes of Hetalia fans that hopped onto the Homestuck ship back in the day since Erogeonous Zones are kinda a thing in that series.  

Is Dad's ridiculous strength because he's half ecto-godling, or was it just because he was manly?

I wouldn’t call it “manly” as both Dad’s had the expectation that John and Jane would eventually be able to do the same thing, leaving notes to them under heavy objects.

The source of his strength is more likely due to how much he whisks cake batter than it is from being half ecto child.

is it a requirement for sburb players to be ecto-kids?

Nope, the Cali twins weren’t

What's joey and judes relationship to jake and jade? I cant remember right now for the life of me

Jake is their father. Jade is their genetic half-sibling and adoptive niece

Who is Joey and Jude's mother¿

A. Claire

How did the whole jane trickster mode and dirk break up with jake happened in the new timeline?

the only difference is that Jake didn’t have Erisol to talk to and Fefeta wasn’t at Jane’s party set up. Jake still would have complained to Jane, Jane still would have gotten upset and ran home and made the trickster pop. The tricksters still would have been obsessed with getting married.

I've seen a lot of fanart and fanfic of trolls with weird tentacles as penis or vagina. Is there any information about how trolls sexual organs are or this is just fanon and they could have these organs like the human ones?

Troll genitals are pretty much not mentioned in canon. We get a few terms for them but not really a description of them.

So what's the plot of hiveswap anyway?

Joey and Dammek switch place, highjinks ensue while they try to get home

isnt one of the names for the trolls sexual organs nook? is that a thing

Yeah, trolls seem to you it in place of ass in certain phrases so that’s possibly what it means

did you enjoy playing the fist act of hiveswap?

I did! My computer isn’t super good so most of the cutscenes wouldn’t play correctly and it took awhile to get used to the “fighting” mechanics but other than that the game is so good! The art is gorgeous, the music is enticing, the dialogue is fantastic. Act 1′s story itself isn’t that long but it has a lot of replay potential with each item having a unique prompt when used on things, you’re always bound to find something new and something you missed before.

But it also bummed me out because it was so great that now I’m super excited to play Act 2 and that probably won’t be out for at least a few months,

I recently started rereading Homestuck and, well... Is the Egbert family white-coded and mildly racist, or am I reading too much into things like the usage of "octoroon" and the adulation of admittedly racist figures? On a related note, did Hussie later retcon out-of-comic John's mention of the Striders being white, or am I imagining it?

There’s a lot of not so great language used in the first few acts, for example I know the r-word gets thrown around quite a bit. But as Hussie learned and grew so did his characters and such language is used less and less as the story goes on.

As for the Egberts being white-coded, I think you’re reading too much into it or are making presumptions, or maybe I’m not reading in to it enough (I typically take story beats and character traits at face value).

As for your other thing, I have a general rule about not discussing character race, but the bit you’re referring to is still in comic

Why is it a thing that a troll's name has 6 letters in the first name and 6 in the last¿

The Hivebent Number is 612 so their are 12 trolls whose names are 6 letters.

i miss homestuck

Homestuck is still here, you can always read it again.

I read somewhere that there were references to Xefros being a Page in the game. Is this true? And if so where can I find the references?

I mean he has that feeble personality that pages are kinda known for having early on but I don’t think there’s anything else.

i always interpreted the number as their age, there were 4 kids that were 13, 12 trolls that were 6, and with calliope and caliborn were 11 and there were 1+1 of them

That too, there’s lots of interconnecting thingamajigs in Homestuck

Do we know what "tetrarch" means?

Tetrarch (n.):

1. one of four joint rulers.
   
2. subordinate ruler.
   

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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