October 2017

Is Hiveswap Alternia different to Homestuck Alternia at all? By like, laws or the fuctionality?

Trizza runs a tighter ship than Feferi did so Hiveswap Alternia has a few extra laws and they’re upheld vigorously. But the culture and societal mindsets between the two are pretty much the same.

In hiveswap, won't trizza have to die so feferi can exist?

Maybe not in the game but Trizza will definitely die eventually before Feferi lands

Is jake allergic to peanuts or is that fanon

Both John and Jake are canonically allergic to peanuts

Hello! im not sure where else to ask this but, do you know if a session can have two players of the same class and/or aspect? if you dont know, thats petfectly fine! n thank you in advance! love this blog btw!

That’s never really discussed in canon. There’s an old theory I like that as player numbers increase the aspects splinter into more specific versions of themselves, or there could just be more classes and aspects that we don’t know about. And it’s entirely possible that classes and aspects can repeat within a party and we just havent seen a large enough group for it to happen.

Sometimes I randomly have thoughts that come from absolutely fucking nowhere, and one of them was "ancestral awakening" and I thought "hey that sounds like a Homestuck thing that I forgot about" so like. IS it a thing in HS that I forgot about?

Ancestral Awakening is the name of Vriska’s power up when she gets Mindfang’s costume

Ok so near the start of the series just after john prototypes the harlequin doll, he gives it a high five. ("Couldn't leave him hanging any longer") should this not have secondary prototyped himself with the doll like how Dave prototyped himself with the crowsprite?

There a couple theories as to why such as sprites may not be able to be prototyped with their player if they’re not dead/dying/doomed (Aradia and Jade were both dead before hand and the Dave that was prototyped was from an alt timeline so he was doomed)

Or that sprites just can’t be second tier prototyped with anything that isn’t dead/dying/or doomed. The only time we see a sprite being second tier prototyped with a non-dead/dying/doomed entity was with Rose’s sprite but that may be an exception since it was still had its kernel at the time.

early on in jake's introduction, when we learn that he has (had?) the puzzle fetch modus, it says that he has a mysterious really huge item in his sylladex taking up a lot of space. was it ever revealed what that was?

It was the remains of his house

During [S] Act 7, near the beginning, when WV and PM are standing at the volcano, a peace of flute music is played. I know it has been played multiple times throughout the comic, and is a early piece of hs music, but I can't figure out what it is from originally. Do you know?

This one took some looking into, but I managed to place its origin in Even in Death which was used in [S] Roxy: Sleepwalk, a slightly different mix of it was also used in [S] Act 6 Act 4

Could you explain Lil' Cal's timeline to me? I can't wrap my head around it.

Here’s a post that I wrote on it in the past.

And here’s graphic someone made explaining it

If you’re still confused feel free to ask again :3

So how does death for God Tiers work? I remember reading early on that, according to Karkat, someone thats god tiered can only die a heroic death, yet we have tons of Just deaths?? And a bunch of deaths that were cancelled (like with john when he and grim!rose were fighting jack). The subject just confuses me, since there's so many conflicting points.

A God Tiered Player can only die a Heroic or Just death. Heroic meaning that they died while protecting someone/something or while doing something generally heroic.  A Just death is when a player dies while they are corrupted or working against the goal of Sburb.

How are Nanna and grandpa (beta Jane and jake) way older than bro or mom lalonde? (This also goes for alpha Jade/john)

Because they landed in the 1910s while Bro and Mom landed in the 60s/70s-ish

Can you explain dirks splinters?? Like I never quite got what he was referring to, if possible please explain in detail

Dirk’s main self and dreamself can both be awake at the same time.

Lil Hal is a copy of Dirk’s mental self at age 13

Brobot and to a lesser extent, Lil Seb are robot versions of Dirk.

Brain Ghost Dirk is a version of Dirk conjured by Jake’s Hope powers.

So that’s 5 or 6 different individuals, all with a little piece of Dirk that can all be doing stuff at the same time. No other living person (aside from temporarily Time players) have that many versions of themselves running at once.

Has anyone died a Heroic death?

Jake, Dave and Rose did in GAME OVER and Post-Retcon Roxy did when she saved Rose.  Possibly Post-retcon John as well but no judgement was ever shown.

How exactly did Jade's grandpa retrieve her dreamself? Is it something unique to him/them or could anyone do it in theory? Would it be possible for trolls?

There are teleporters to Derse and Prospit within the Frog Temple, and since he was living on the island that hosted the Temple he could do to and from the medium as he pleased. So anyone could do it with access to the Temple.

Do you have any theories about the fate of Vriska/LE/The Army?

I believe that they all died or are stuck in some type of pocket-dimension or whatever inside the Black Hole, but there are definitely other theories out there.

When John was killed by Jack, why did he come back to life

John didn’t even have a chance to move before Jack killed him so the death was neither Heroic nor Just.

eridan... Shoot

He sure does

So if your death is neither Heroic not Just, the game just gives you another chance?

Yep, it’s conditional immortality, as long as you don’t die heroically or justly you just come back

do you happen to remember any mysteries that we never get the answer to? the only one I can think of is the Genesis Frog that appears to Jade when she's a kid and we never got the answer as to who sent it. (ps: I hope youre having a good day so far, thank u for all that u do <3)

There’s that. The mystery of where Liv Tyler’s weapons came from, we saw Jake get them out of the Lotus Pod but we didn’t see who put them in there. And as such the timeline of the Zillywho is incomplete.

The Zilly weapons were also kinda built up to be kinda super important and then most of them didn’t even get used once (the hammer, pistols and katana I think being the only ones). But that’s not so much a mystery as it is a dropped plot thread.

Kind of a dumb question. Ok, say you're a god tier and you were trying to coax a cat out of a tree. And while you were doing that, a truck slammed into you and you died. Would that count as a heroic death? Or does the death have to be caused because of the good thing you were doing?

I mean, maybe its just me, but I don’t really see coaxing a cat out of a tree to be a heroic action, more of just a nice thing to do. It’s Subjective.

What makes a death Heroic or Just

Doc Scratch:

“ One may be killed by opposing a corrupt adversary and die for a just cause, as through martyrdom, for instance. This would be heroic.
Or one may be subject to corruption, and slain by a hero.This would be just. ”

So, the Scratch changes the order of the meteor arrivals, got you. But does it reset the universe in the process? Like lets say I have the A aliens species and the B species. A plays the game but the decide to scratch, would that instance of the universe be deleted (and thus new copies of B are created) or just the A planet changes?

The original Universe still exists. The Genesis frog holds all instances of a Universe so both can exist at once. For the kids, the B1 Universe was in the Genesis Frog’s Right eye while the B2 somewhere else within the frog, presumably in its left eye.

Mediums however are erased in the event of a Scratch, that’s why the kids had to book it out of theirs asap.

are there any restrictions on Jake's sylladex? if it could store an item as large as his house without too much issue, it seems like it'd be the best option in every scenario

It does have a limit and you have to make everything fit together like puzzle pieces (it is the puzzle modus after all) so if you cant make something fit it’ll just fall out

Have we seen Jane's handwriting or just Nanna's because we seem to have every human's canon handwriting except Jane's... I think

We have not seen Jane’s handwriting, but it’s likely very similar to Nanna’s

What happened to seahorse-dad?

he died

During Openbound, when Meenah went around talking to her session's teammates, did we ever find out if any of them had god tiered? Besides Meenah, I think. And I mean just Openbound, not any of the alt timeline dead trolls that appeared in Ministrife, because I think some of them were god tiered.

Meenah and Aranea are the only ones from their timeline to have been confirmed God Tier

How do yall know so much and have links for everything? It's so impressive. You keep notes?

Nah, I just look it up each time.

Does Joey's inventory count as a sylladex? Is it ever referred to as such?

It does not count as a sylladex. I feel like a sylladex is referenced in a joke early on in the game.

While we're on the topic of Heroic/Just death, what was up with the "Lucky Br8k" thing that happened? I don't remember the specifics.

It’s implied that Aranea messed with the results somehow so that’d end up Just. The Lucky 8r8k being that she wouldn’t have to deal with Jade anymore 

what was aranea's actual plan regarding the pre retcon timeline? and what was the condesce's plan?

The Condesce was going to have the kids make the new Universe so that she could restart the troll empire in it

Aranea was going to stop the kids from making a new Universe so that Lord English wouldn’t come into existence.

So like... Who exactly were the chess people, and what was their role in the comic? IDK why, but they confuse me to no end

The Dersites(Black) and Prospitans(White) were in a war. The Dersites wanted to destroy Skaia and the Battlefield so that the players couldn’t create a new universe while the Prospitans were trying to defend it.

The Black King will always triumph over the White King. The players have to stop him before he accomplishes his goal or else they can’t win. 

They also help to spread the lore of their players and look after dreamselves until they awake

Did we ever figure out why Kurloz took Vriska's jacket? :o

Nope, but it was likely used as a component in LE’s Cairo Overcoat

Caliborn was born in the new universe though, doesn't that mean Condy's new troll empire actually happened and got destroyed by Caliborn's dad with the Canon fan trolls?

Nope, the kids killed Condy in Collide so she never even entered the new Universe. The Cali-dad just destroyed a planet that had some trolls on it, it wasn’t apart of a new troll empire

in one of the animations we see kurloz, gamzee, and meulin scheming. was there a reason for that? I don't think anything came of that

Just to show that they were scheming, that they were all on the same side (or at least the Makaras were)

Did Alternia have zombies near Kanaya's hive? Am I remembering that right?

it had some undead things, not necessarily zombies

just to be clear, a session *has* to have a Space player to succeed, correct? Also, do they ever say what would happen if a space player doesnt have a knight to help them?

Yeah, it’s the Space players job to make the genesis tadpole

and the “space player needs a knight to help” thing isn’t canon

Did we ever learn what happens when a dream bubble is destroyed with an alive person's physical self in it? Like if a bubble burst while the meteor was passing through it and everyone was awake?

The people passing through it would be fine. They can exist in the Furthest Ring outside of a Dreambubble so they would have nothing to worry about.

Thinking it over, a lot of canon/possibly canon ships seem to be prospit/derse pairings. Kanaya/Rose, Karkat/Dave, Terezi/Dave, Jake/Dirk. I guess John/Vriska doesn't fit but I thought it was neat enough to mention. Even Sollux and Aradia had a both/"none" moon affiliation.

Out of the 23 relationships that have been canon there have been 12 ships of Prospit/Derse pairings and 11 ships whose dreamselves were from the same planet.  So I wouldn’t exactly call it “a lot” it’s only half which makes sense.

did we ever find out the importance of the white circle with the curly cue at the end that calliope drew? this thing cdn(.)mspaintadventures(.)com(/)storyfiles(/)hs2(/)05098(.)gif

For future reference you can just send me the page number, you don’t have to do the whole url.

But it’s a sun. The sun being sucked into the spiral is white but it’s surrounded by Red and Green. Both the Red Sun and Green Sun had this happen to them so it could have been foreshadowing that

How can Joey travel to Alternia if the creation of Earth meant the destruction of Alternia through the Reckoning?

time travel

Was there a point to gamzee's potion shop? We're any of the potions used? Or was it just a really pointless gag?

Jane tries to sell them again to Kanaya in the GAME OVER timeline but mostly it’s just a gag

is it possible that aspects could be gender specific like classes? we've never seen a male space or light player, or a female breath or hope player.

I don’t think we have a large enough sample size to determine whether any are gender specific. Some classes were stated to be in story so it’s certainly possible.

So davekat is canon? :D

Yeppers

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

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

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