June 2015

are john and jake related?

Yes, Jake is biologically John’s father.

Can I ask for a little clarification of the Dirk/Roxy Jane/Jake not being related? Why aren't they ectosiblings like Dave/Rose John/Jane were? I'm a little confused here.

Dirk, Roxy, Jane, and Jake are clones of their pre-scratch selves while John and Jade were made with Jake and Jane’s ectoslime and Rose and Dave were created by mixing Roxy and Dirk’s ectoslime

(Sorry for the bother and if this is annoying to deal with but) why do the humans consider themselves to have a one-way biological relationship (alpha kids --> beta kids) rather than the trolls do with dancestorship, seeing the other as both their ancestor and descendant (beforus kids <---> alternia kids)? Aren't they ectobiologically the same, despite the trolls' different manner of breeding?

Yes, this is a cultural matter. In troll culture they don’t have parents, there is no direct line of biology for them to follow. It also has to do with troll genetics, while it’s easily seen that each beta kid is made from two of the alpha kids with the trolls it’s more difficult.  We don’t know the specifics of the trolls’ ectobiology but it’s entirely likely that each one of Meenah’s group of trolls could have been made through a mixture of three trolls, or even a mixture of all the trolls with the one that contributed the most genetics sharing the symbol. There are other theories about troll ectobioloy out there but overall troll biology is much more complicated then human biology.

Yo ! Quick question: which beta and alpha kids are related? As in, if you ship John x Roxy or Jade x Dave or something like that, it is okay, right? Or not? THANK YOU ❤️

Here’s a quick chart I made that’s probably confusing to read

But honestly guys, you shouldn’t worry about incest in your Homestuck ships considering that every troll is related.

aren't the betas somehow also the alphas' biological parents too, or something? i was pretty sure the parentage went both ways due to ectobiological shenanigans

Not genetically but John technically created all the kids so he could be considered the Large Father.

So how did Jane have kids with Jake and Roxy with Dirk?

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wait that chart is actually weird to me. there's no line connecting jane an jake or roxy and dirk. does this mean the Alpha kids are not considered siblings?

The Alpha kids are not related at all.

the wiki says that in the B2 universe, the roles are reversed (dave and rose are roxy and dirk's parents, poppop and grandma english are jake and jane's parents). it's under "ectobiology", click "post-scratch" above the diagram at the bottom

They are their “parents” socially since they arrived earlier, but not genetically.  Like how the Ancestors are technically the spawn of Karkat’s group.

When does it say that the Beta kids beat their Black King?

They didn’t, Bec Noir killed him and started the Reckoning early

So Dad is the offspring of Nana and some dude she married right? So how does Dad exist in the Alpha timeline if Jade never birthed him?

First off, Nanna is Jane not Jade. And to answer your question, Dad Crocker is the son of Poppop, post-scratch John.

Are the rings of life and void the same ring? If not how was the ring of life created? I know the void ring came from the alpha kid's session but I can't remember where the life ring came from

The Ring of Life would be the White Queen’s ring from the Alpha kids’ session

So when Calliope was telling Dirk that she read about him in texts, what texts did she mean? Page 006464.

It was a journal written by Rose. Gamzee took it, voided out every mention of himself using Equius’s blood and left it for her.

Hey, what's with all those kernelsprites roaming around? How did they appear? And will there be enough to revive all the dead characters?

The kernelsprites belong the the Alpha kids. In the post-retcon timeline Tavris, Fefeta, and Erisol sprites were never prototyped so there were 3 empty ones. Vriska prototyped Tavros in one of them so now there’s Tavrosprite, Jaspersprite prototyped dead pre-retcon Rose and himself in another, and the third one is still empty but it probably won’t be for much longer.

is the red and black dirk-like robot boy an actual canon character or was he just made up because it's boring to draw a pair of glasses when you want to draw AR?

It was popular humanized AR in the fandom that worked it’s way into one flash.

when did alpha bro leave dirk? i mean how old he was?

Dirk’s Bro died a couple hundred years before Dirk landed on his meteor…

Why are porrims eyes Bright yellow when she died, but everyone elses are white?

It’s because she’s a rainbow drinker and her eyes turn yellow when she lights up

So question, when condy had all of her powers in the GO!timeline, did she somehow just have them? Or did she get them by taking position of the black queen and wearing the ring which gave her the powers of whatever the kids prototyped?

This is in the faq my friend

If Callie died on Jade's quest bed, would she god tier? Or does it have to be her own, not yet used, or specifically a quest sarswapagus?

Even if you can use a Quest Bed that isn’t your own, you’d still need a dreamself to use it which Calliope does not.

how long has jane been crockertier?

No more than a couple hours.

Why exactly are things between Dirk and Dave so awkward currently? Is it their personalities, the situation or...?

This is tough to explain.  Dave has mixed feelings towards his Bro after reflecting on all the abuse and hypermasculine life style he made Dave lead which he explained a couple weeks ago. Dirk is just awful at talking to people in person, plus it was only a few hours ago that he realized how shitty he’d been towards Jake in their relationship.  Basically both parties are insecure and not sure how to approach one another.

This is a really bad character analysis. Dave and Dirk are not characters that I can go on and on in detail about their mindsets and the reasons they do things. So I apologies for that. 

When in the timeline did Aradia God Tier? I thought her dream self was on a sacrificial slab in the center of Derse but Derse blew up when she was still Aradia bot right?

Yes and Aradiabot exploded when her dreamself died and ascended

So you know how Lord English is an amalgamation of ARdirk, cal, gamzee, and Caliborn? Well it seems like Jasperosesprite is the making a quad monster just like him. What do you think of the connections?

I think the running Cat/Horse dynamic is going to come into play (Rose had a cat and a horse)(Nepeta and Equius)(The repetitive appearance of cats and horses)(Roxy and Dirk).  LE has Equius and AR in him who both enjoy horses so it makes sense that an opposing force would have cat lovers aka Jaspers, Nepeta, possibly even Gcat composing it.

Do trolls actually have pointed ears or is it just a popular headcanon?

Popular headcanon

Besides Nepeta who would you want to be revived and why? Everyone, but me, is hoping for Nepeta. I personally am hoping they revive Eridan. I want him to get another chance at life. He was a bad guy for a while but so was Virska but she went back changed everything to make herself a Savior and better seeming then she really is. Like she thinks shes good enough to take on English, by herself. I just want Eridan to get another shot.

Well, Equius is already alive again, kinda, for the moment, and he’s really all that matters.  I dunno man, I think the original Jaspersprite and a Nepetasprite mix would be kinda neat. But it’s probably gonna end up Nepeta and Gcat in that final kernel.

I can’t believe Vriska (Vriska) made it into canon, it is my favorite Homestuck meme.

Hello! You're blog is awesome! Could you explain the Vriska (Vriska) joke? please tell me it's not just Vriska making out with herself. Thanks!

I just reblogged a post with the original source material of the meme !

Hey, sorry to bother you but the faq link in the description doesn't work on Tumblr for Android :/

The thing about people saying they can’t get to the faq because they’re on mobile is silly. Just open a browser and go to forgottenhsfacts.tumblr.com/faq

All smart phones and mobile devices have browsers.

How did Rose and Dave god tier if they didn't have dream selves anymore?

They used their Sacrificial Slabs which don’t require dreamselves

Could you put a link to where Dave, "Reflects on all the abuse and hypermasculine life style he(Bro) made Dave lead?" That like... speech thing, Couldn't really find it and... Sorry?

Here ya go friend

ok so this is unrelated to... p. much everything but i read "I've really turned around on horses." as "I'm really turned on by horses" and now i'm concerned and confused

Why would someone initate the scratch, if they don't have a way out such as suicide like the Beforus troll or what John and friends did

Because they were gonna die anyway so might as well do something good.

is sollux's lisp a canon thing or just a popular headcanon?

It’s canon, it says in his intro that he speaks with a lisp

Why does Jasrosesprite^2 want to bring Nepeta back? Not that I dont love Nepeta, im just curious.

Nepeta and Jaspers talked a lot

Was it ever explained how Terezi was able to sense Brain Ghost Dirk?

Brain Ghost Dirk is a figment of Jake’s mind and Terezi is a Seer of Mind and thus could see him

Weren't Kanaya and Vriska moirails when we first met Kanaya?

Yes, Yes they were. But Kanaya had a flushed crush on Vriska and broke off their moirallegiance when she saw Vriska kiss Tavros

I keep seeing people talk about some Vriska (vriska) meme, and even though I've been in the fandom for a long time I've never heard of it. Could you maybe explain?

It is the best meme

OHMY GOD FGHSF1!! DID YOU SEE HUSSIE REFERENCE VRISKA (VRISKA)?!?!?! SENPAI HAS NOTICED YOU!!!!!!!!

I mean he also did John and (John) so either he wasn’t purposefully referencing the meme or he’s been planning it for a while. Either is plausible.

If the dreambubbles are only for the players why Vriska mentions that they should go to see a dreambubble of a version of John who never entered the game?

Let me rephrase, dreambubbles are only for those who are destined to play the game. That John was but didn’t get the chance and so he still gets in.

I've heard people say that The Rogue Class is the most important Class at Endgame, any reason why this might be?

I dunno, prolly cause Roxy (ie a Rogue) is the last chance at reviving the troll race by being able to steal a matriorb from the void. Other then that I can’t see why.

why did meenah like "wake up" in the dream bubbles so much later than all the other beforus trolls?

Time works differently in the dreambubbles

what happened to the (JOHN) from when john learned to control retcons?

What happened to the version of John who never even played the game at all?

Obviously he died.

I haven't had access to a computer all this week and until Sunday, is it ok if I read without seeing the flashes?

The character selection screens are the only flashes that we’ve had recently and have no real content so you should be fine if you read the upd8s aside from that.

Is there two Mayors now?

No, there’s only one

What about the possibilities if jasperrosenepetasprite^3

I doubt it, the green of Jake’s sprite doesn’t match well with Jasprosesprite’s current color scheme.

If Nepetasprite becomes a thing how probable is neptavsprite^2 happening?

very low

What are the chances of feferisprite?

Probably pretty bad. Green isn’t fefeta’s color

hey so i think nepeta is coming back into revelancy... maybe even Fefeta in general...

I dunno, Fefeta wasn’t really relevant last time, they were mostly a joke character. So even if Nepeta comes back she still might not be relevant.

is it possible for there to be more than one of each aspect in one session?????

That hasn’t been specified. But there is a theory I’m partial to suggesting that as the amount of players increases the aspects divide and get more specific.