June 2016

Why does Aradia like ghosts?

She can hear their voices, probably got a few ghost friends

How jake got godtiered, was jake's dreamself alive?

Sacrificial Slab

Didn't the A1 session win the first time? So why'd they start contacting the kids? I remember Karkat saying something about creating Jack. Did he want to help?

A1 session was Meenah, and they lost. A2 trolls won but Bec Noir showed up and cut the door in half before they could enter the universe they created. And yeah, they kinda wanted to help mostly to try to get them not to make Bec Noir or to find a way everyone could get out alive

So why do some godtiered characters have wings? What do you do to get them or does it depend on the classpect?

It depends on your species

how do we know that karkat's group was the only one from alternia?

Because Sollux programmed the game

The alpha kids didn't have a battle field they had to use the beta kids battle field, if the alpha kids still had dreamselves and died on their quest beds would the have appeared on that battle field when jade put it in the middle of skaia?

No, because there would be no corresponding Battlefield Quest Bed for them to wake up on

Did the alpha kids even have quest beds? I vaguely remember something about them "only having one option"

They had planet quest beds, but no dreamselves to use them

how did john and jade escape the scratch?

They went through the fourth wall

did the sweet juju/trickster mode cause the deaths of the alpha kids and there for their god tiering?

No, they got blasted by Condy and Jack English while they were sitting on their slabs

I'm I right in saying the Medium is the space between universes? And that's the reason the trolls could reach the green sun from there?

The Furthest Ring is the space between Incipispheres which the Medium is apart of. All sessions take place in the same dimension.

How does someone snap out of Trickster Mode or Grimdark?

Grimdark is unknown, but Trickster seems to just wear off after awhile.

Trickster wore off? I thought Hussie put a stop to it because it was a shitty experience.

What happened to Casey?

She fought alongside Jake with her skeleton army. We don’t know after that

What was Grimdarkness meant to so anyway? Scratch said Roses Magic was actually the will of the horror terrors, and she went grimdark under their influence, but she was still mostly the same, and in control. Was it essentially a power-up?

Basically, just more than she could handle which is why she was talking in tongues

Is Calliope pronounced cal-ee-ope or cuh-lie-oh-pee?

Well the Greek muse is pronounced cuh-lie-oh-pee, but I prefer the other pronunciation.  Neither is wrong

My english is not very bad, I used Google Translator: If the Scratch does Skaia exchange portals of Reckoning, and Karkat who made Ectobiology experiments, such as the Pre-Scratch Trolls activated Scratch if they not did ectobiology experiment? Or did they?

They did not. Part of the reason they needed to Scratch was because they hadn’t made themselves.  In other word: They needed to scratch in order for them to be born

what days do you guys post submissions? :)

They are in a Queue, one posted everyday at 7pm (CDT)

Is it canon or fanon that Dave's full name is David Elizabeth Strider?

fanon

Is the Jade that makes trollsona's with Calliope and Jane in the vortex dreambubble from the doomed timeline (in which Davesprite and John die on LOWAS during their trip on the Prospitian ship)? Or is that Jade from the GAME OVER timeline and just hasn't realized she's dead yet?

The Jade from the timeline where Davesprite and John died (not a doomed timeline btw)

The beforus trolls have been dead for eons, watching their post- scratch selve's lives unfold. But Meenah acts like she only just died. When she first meets john in the dreambubbles, she asks him if they're in the afterlife and Aranea had to fill her in about her alternate self. Why is that?

Because she just got there

How is it that the Condesce could be present on both the alpha kids' earth and in their session? After she killed the handmaid did she travel to their universe or session? I would guess their universe, but then how could she get to the medium, especially before all the kids do? I cant think of any ways to enter the medium AND go back in time, and she doesnt seem to have her own time powers. Are there maybe two condesces, with the one in the medium being from the beta kids' earth?

There are teleporters to Prospit and Derse in the Frog Temple on Jake’s island which Condy had access to

how old are the alpha and beta kids when the webcomic ended?

16

I think this was asked before, but do all Tyrian (Fuchsia) blooded trolls have Gl'yb-THE SQUID THING as their lusus? It drives me crazy whenever I see a fuchsia blooded troll with a freaking narwhal.

Yes, all Fuschia bloods have Glubglub as a lusus.

Not all fuchsia bloods had the Gl'bgolyb. She was created by by Doc Scratch. so they would have had another lusus on Beforus

I should have specified, all Fuchsia bloods on Alternia had Glubglub as a lusus.

What timeline is Jane from in the trollsona dreambubble with Calliope and Jade? Is grimbark Jade from the dead Davesprite and John timeline? How is that not a doomed timeline, I thought the real one had all of them getting off at the other end and Jade going grimbark? Please help I'm way too confused by this -_-

From the Post-retcon timeline. Grimbark Jade was in both timelines.

The Space Players can teleport?.

No, that’s a first guardian ability

Can you find a pesterlog or page or flash or something funny to convince my friend to read Homestuck?

Are the Captor's eyes red and blue because of their psionics or because of their twofold vision?

Psionics

Is feferis lusus a horrorterror?

No, it’s the emissary to the horrorterrors but not one itself

If psionic abilities are caste locked why would Vriska phrase this the way she did: "she has a mix of telepathic a8ilities too, like mine, plus the animal communion kind more typical of 8rown 8loods." if brown bloods are the only ones capable of communing, why use the word typical?

All trolls have the genetic potential for all psychic abilities (see the Condesce) but the abilities do not naturally surface outside the castes they are associated with.

Do we know what age pupatation happens?

Young, not long after they are hatched.

In my AU with my partner one of my characters is a Knight of Space. Due to the two pieces would that player be working the frog by himself or would there be a class down the line to help them? If now, oh boy...

It was never stated that Knights have to help with frog breeding, as far as we know i’s just a coincidence that that happened in the two sessions we observed.

is go!jane and go!jake in the dream bubbles? why not if theyre not?

They are

when was it stated that alpha kids dont have any doomed timelines except game over?

Oh my gosh, I’m about to add this to the faq. It wasn’t stated but they didn’t have a way to make any until Dave showed up.

Why isn't Fef's lusus emissary /and/ a horrorterror? It looks like one of them. Is there some sort of difference between them?

Glubglub is barely a fraction the size of a Horrorterror, like super itty-bitty in comparison. And Glubglub was artificially created.

Who raised Terezi?

Terezi 

To me it seemed heavily implied that Kankri had a flushed crush on Latula based on their conversations in Openbound. Were there anything that specifically stated it, or was it just implied?

 “Even though Latula has 8een dating Mituna steadily for eons, it’s hardly a secret to anyone that she and Kankri have had complicated unrequited feelings for even longer. So really, much like their descendants.”

Excluding the Dancestors, did any charachter lose their virginity?

Well lets see, there was a group of hormonally charged teenagers stuck on a meteor together for three years, so I’m gonna say yeah, some kids probably lost their virginity.

What exactly is the red sun? And how are universes frogs? Thank you!

A Red Sun is a Supernova, aka a Star nearing the end of its lifecycle. As for why frogs, I answered that here

Holy hell, can Karkat be more useless? :(

Not to burst any bubbles, but can any of the kids be trans if we've seen them as babies (being the same)?

Okay smart guy, then you tell me, is this a boy or a girl and why does it matter:

Why couldn't Dave just use his time powers to go three years forward on the meteor??

Because then John and Jade would be old people and he’d still be 13

Technically speaking, isn't 4/13 the birthday of all the kids, beta and alpha?

Well if you want to go that route then technically speaking, none of them have actual birthdays since none of them were actually born

Is Doc Scratch's head supposed to be the white ball in pool?

Yes, he’s the Cue Ball in the Felt

actually a supernova is the explosion that happens sometimes when a star dies the red sun is a red giant

Right right, my bad, I think I learned that when I was in middle school like a decade ago.

Which dancestors lost their virginity?

Probably all of them. Kankri leads a relatively chaste existence yes, the keyword there being relatively

can i fight the homestuck?

Dave also was done with time travel.

That too

A real life baby doesn't work for an example. Stylistically the kids haven't changed, and the females are depicted with certain eyes. It's a bit odd that they've had the same hairstyle for 13-16 years though.

John was born with glasses, I don’t think we can take their baby forms literally

What is everyone's (or just the kids if thats too much) final age (act 7)? I have heard that the kids are only 16 and I have heard that they are 20 (and aged relatively similarly to the length of the comic itself) and idk which is true

Kids are 16 in comic, 20 in our time