September 2017

i vaguely remember it mentioning somewhere that alternian battleships could go faster than the speed of light. s'that correct or am i misremembering?

The Condesce’s ship (the fastest of Alternia’s battleships) could go near lightspeed using only auxiliary power. So it is likely that all Alternian battleships could go at the very least that fast.

Wait is Jude a boy?? Or did I misunderstand the post about their quirks? (WHEN "HE'S" TALKING, over)

Yeah, Jude is a boy, he’s Joey’s brother as well as Pa and A. Claire’s son

I believe the blue lady paintings were in reference to Jake's feeling towards the Na'vi women from Avatar

The page where we first see Grandpa Harley’s collection of Cerulean Babes was release on November 11th, 2009 while James Cameron’s Avatar did not debut until over a month later on December 17/18th, 2009

Hey i have a question. I see a lot of people saying that Jade was alone at the shipp for 3 years, but like, didn't she had john, davesprite and the people from the worlds she owned? How much John's traveling time affected Jade from this new timeline? Also what happened with the john and roxy that were supposed to exist in this timeline? Sorry if this ask is stupid, its just that sometimes homestuck get me lost :?

Post-retcon John and Davesprite died relatively early in the voyage due to the deal pre-retcon John made with his Denizen. Sure Jade had all the consorts and like Nannasprite and stuff but it wasn’t the same.

Post-retcon John died when LoWaS exploded and Post-retcon Roxy was killed by Jane when she was under the Condesce’s control. 

How many years passed in the 3 year long journey when Rose and Kanaya had their epic stairway kiss?

That was during Year 2 so they had been on the meteor 2 years when it happened

just to clarify, theres no ectobiology in joey and jude's birth, right? they both emerged from someone's groin?

Yep, they’re both 100% home grown

If a player does not reach godtier but still manages to create their universe, does their lifespan remain the same or are they immortal? Because I keep getting super worried about Karkat but nobody ever talks about it.

It’s never mentioned whether players gain immortality or any addition to their lifespan upon winning the game.

It’s stated before Collide that Terezi isn’t immortal, but the trolls also didn’t technically get their prize so it’s unclear.

This might be a very obvious question since I haven't played hiveswap yet, but did grampa harley raise joey and jude?

Not really, he stops by occasionally but mostly raising them is left to a young Mom Lalonde

Is what happens in home stuck just a video game within the universe or did it actually happen in there universe?

It actually happened

hey mod t, what are your personal opinions on dammek? (more specifically what we've heard about him through xefros/joey so far)

He seems like kinda a dick, but a lot of trolls are so nothing against him yet. Base on the glimpses of his character that we get from Act 1, I already know I’m going to love the dynamic he’s going to have with Jude so I’m really excited for Hauntswitch

Dad's adopted too

There’s no evidence to support that

so like do Jude and Joey know about Jade? The other way around? Do we know yet? Do you have guesses? Thank you so, so much by the way for making those relationship charts, phew. 😊

Well Jade won’t land for over a year so they at the very least don’t know about her during Hiveswap.  Supposing that they both end up back home after the games, Mom Lalonde might tell them about her but Rose would have landed at the same time so she might not be their babysitter at that point. If she is still their babysitter then they probably would have meet baby Rose tho!

How old is Roxy during hiveswap?

She likely would have been in her early 20′s, we don’t know her exact age

Xefros mentions that all Rust Bloods have telekinesis, but I don't remember any other character with that power. Is this something new?

Aradia and Damara both have it

Isn't it more likely that dad is adopted rather than biological bc there's always only one "parent" shown?

I mean Nanna had a husband

Since )(IC / the Baroness was the one who raised Nana Egbert and Grandpa Harley by her own, it would mean they were living together for some years, right? Did neither of them (or anybody for that matter) knew in early life that the Baroness wasn't human? If so, how come nobody figured out? Did she disguise herself so nobody knew about her being a troll or something...?

Oh they knew. Nanna said upfront she knew the Baroness wasn’t human. 

When does Damara use Telekinesis? I cant remember seeing her use it.

That’s how Aranea was moving shit

so HIC was on beta earth, and died with the reckoning yeah?

She vanished long before their session began so it’s unknown

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.

How old is Roxy during hiveswap?

run-of-the-mil:

forgottenhsfacts:

She likely would have been in her early 20′s, we don’t know her exact age

wait, when is hiveswap set? pre or post suburb alpha kids?

It’s set in 1994 on pre-scratch Earth

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

Remind me, was there ever a definite answer given on "are vriska's powers just weak on humans, or are they just weaker trying to target someone is a different Universe"?

It just doesn’t work as well on humans, that’s why there weren’t any in her mind-controlled army

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

How common was Kanaya's blood color amongst trolls? i can't remember if she was of a rare cast, or the only troll of her kind.

Jade bloods are a rarer caste.

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

It's mentioned in the game that there's only 2 fuchsia-blood trolls ( the heiress and )(IC ), but there's been multiple heiresses. Does that mean the time the heiress come to age, she'll get killed??? I remember reading something like that in the comic; something about fuchsia-blood being murderous about their own blood color. (please excuse my poor english)

Yeah, upon reaching adulthood heiresses are expected to challenge the Condesce for the thrown, and Condy usually wins

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.