I wanna say they came from an old comic or popular fan art which is the case of most fanon stuff, but I don’t actually know when and where it originated.
They’re supposed to be the scars left by the extra legs trolls had as wrigglers.
His change in height can probably be more attributed to the changes in Hussie’s artstyle over the years but it’s likely the god tier kids will age until they finish growing (early to mid-20s) then stop, but that’s not based in canon at all so don’t quote me on it
Caliborn was taunting John at the end of the Credits which makes Caliborn’s Masterpiece likely take place shortly after which is where the Beta kids get sucked into the House Juju
Yes, once in Act 2, once in Act 3, three times in Act 4, and they have a convo with Doc Scratch in Act 5 Act 2
It’s magic pajamas, they’d still fit
The Handmaid maybe since she travels through time, Condy and the Psioniic are definitely alive when hiveswap happens. Grand highblood, and Darkleer are unknown.
It takes place On Earth A (the beta kids’ Earth) in the 1990s and Alternia (the beta trolls’ planet) an unknown number of sweeps before the start of Hivebent
Old Homestuck Calendar where the month of March had Eridan in the classic March Eridan outfit
The most basic way I can explain it is that it’s a time loop. Jake needed to kiss Dirk so that Dirk would wake up so that Dirk could wake up Jake so that Jake would kiss Dirk so that Dirk would wake up so that Dirk could wake up Jake so that..yadaa yaddaa yadaa so on and so forth
A lot of the ancestor stuff was first talked about in Mindfang’s journal who as we know has a liking for the number 8. Presumably Hussie gave 8 letter titles because we were reading about it in said Journal and then the naming convention just stuck. But they all have names as well as their titles.
We don’t know much:
Vriska and Equius were neighbors
Fef and Eridan lived pretty close together and
Vriska, Terezi Aradia Tavros and Eridan probably met through Flarp,