Could the heiress basically just lay low and not challenge )(IC or like do )(IC's powers let her find them or something?
Well all trolls get escorted off planet when they come of age and given how central a figure heiresses are, I’d think it’d be pretty difficult for them to run or hide
is it safe to assume trizza dies at the end of hiveswap?
Even if she doesn’t she won’t have much time after it
How does joey understand alternian in hiveswap?
Plot Convenience
I always assumed that Alternian was identical to English when spoken, since the Trolls and Humans could each understand each other in Homestuck. Doesn't explain how Joey understands written Alternian, tho.
Well all the trolls typed in Alternian in Homestuck too. So this isn’t solely a Hiveswap thing.
Why does Trizza have a different symbol to Feferi and Meenah? did the Pisces symbol just seem out of place in the game?
Only descendants and ancestors share symbols. Trizza simply isn’t related to Condy or Fef
This symbol thing bothered me a lot too! How is she not related to feferi and meenah/condence if she's a fuschia blood and theres only max two alive at the time? Unless i dont understand troll genetics
She could just have a previous Fuchsia blood’s genetics that wasn’t the Condesce. Yes there’s only two at a time but there have been several dozens, if not hundreds over the years. Condy likely wasn’t even the first Fuchsia blood.
are you guys members of the hiveswap discord because god damn we could use your shit like every six hours
I don’t use discord. I can’t really do group chats.
So is it true that in the beginning there were only 3 different colors of blood a troll could have, but the number increased through mating or is that just fanon?
I’ve never even heard of that so it’s definitely completely fanon
has there ever been an example of a completely healthy kismestitude?
Maybe Eridan/Vriska or Mindfang/Dualscar, and I guess Karkat/Karkat if you want to count that.
Whatever happened to fonix?
they lost interest in this blog four years ago and blocked me two years ago so idk what’s going on with them now
ok but why Trizza has the same horns as Feferi and Condy?
Trolls can not be related and have the same kinda horns
aren't all fuchsias related, seeing as there can only be two alive at a time, therefore the gene that gives them the bloodcolor being fairly standard across bloodlines? even despite the other trolls mixing in. or is it some sort of genetic mutation that leads to a fuchsia being born?
Okay, All trolls are basically related since everyone’s juices just get mixed together. When I talk about trolls being related I mean like majority of genetic material, ancestor/descendant level related.
Does Xefros' sign have a real-world equivalent, similar to the trolls signs being the zodiac?
I did some preliminary research but I can’t find anything on it. I think a lot of the newer trolls’ symbols are original
I'm confused how the vast glub has anything to do with Fef when it's the Condense's lusus???
It’s also Feferi’s lusus, and the Vast Glub happened in Hivebent it was while Feferi was preparing to enter the game
What was honestly the point of the Vast glub being a power? When would that have been a GOOD idea to use???
Well the Vast Glub is just the attack at its most powerful, lesser powerful version could be used to target lowbloods exclusively which made it easier to keep them subservient or to use as a last ditch effort if rebellions grew too out of hand.
do we know when the next hiveswap act comes out yet
We do not. Rumor has it on 11/11 but that’s just a rumor, no official date yet
Did we ever get any info on A) What the fuck Grandpa Harley was doing in the Medium B) How the fuck he got an entire spaceship there?
He went there likely to explore and get Jade’s dead Dreamself. He had to have gotten his ship there piece by piece, or he stole one from either Prospit or Derse and gave it a paint job.
how long were the dancestors dead
Time isn’t linear in the Furthest Ring. They all died at the same time but they showed up in the Dreambubbles at random. An example being that Aranea has been hanging around the dream bubbles for millions of sweeps while Meenah has barely been there one.
Do you have a picture of Roxy Lalonde calling Jane a tightass in text because I require this for insult reasons
Once here
Four times here
A few times, including a slight extended metaphor here
and another one here
Fun Fact: Tightass is used 15 times in Act 6. 12 of those are from Roxy in reference to Jane, 2 of those are Jane saying she’s not, and the last one is Trickster Jane calling Dirk a tightass.
The whole concept of "trickster" always confused me, even after I re read the comic. Do you think I can get a quick explanation
Trickster (n.) an Easter Egg from an early flash turned fandom obsession turned plot device to get characters where they needed to be
Ahh I have no idea if the other one got asked because fuck you tumblr mobile. If not, I'll ask the same thing, and if so, pls delete this one. Does gamzee say honk or does he imitate his horns?
that’s up to the individual reader, you can honestly take it either way
Okay. In Hiveswap Xefros at some point says that 'no Xceptions, there are no adults on Alternia' but like...I thought the ancestors and their whole legend that Scratch told us was on Alternia. Am I wrong or is that a plot hole?
You’re right, but that was all in the past. After the Summoner’s rebellion adults were banned.
Did Hussie ever actually declare Rex Duodecim Angelus canon or is that just something the fandom made up?
I can find no evidence that Hussie canonized it
Were baby trolls ever referred to as grubs? I always thought they were referred to as wigglers, and the fandom collectively decided to refer to them as grubs.
They are referred to as both grubs and wigglers in canon
So what ever happens to the universe a and b gang during hiveswap?
None of them have landed yet. Hiveswap is set in the past on both planets.
stupid question but do trolls say each other's names in their own quirks?
Yeah, as an example in [S] Past Karkat: Wake Up, Terezi uses 4R4D14, T4VROS, K4N4Y4, 3R1D4N when talking to those respective characters as well as using K4RK4T, N3P3T4, T3R3Z1, VR1SK4, G4MZ33 and F3F3R1 on multiple occasions
So given the last few asks about when Hiveswap takes place.. even though it's considered epilogue, isn't it kind of a prequel in regards to the events that take place during Homestuck?
Yeah It’s a prequel, the epilogue is gonna be something different hopefully
how did vriska ascended to god tier?
Aradia beat her up, Tavros put her on her Questcocoon where she died and ascended
How did the alpha kids ascended to god tier?
They were killed by Jack English and Condesce while on their Sacrificial Slabs
Can you explain why dirk hates himself so much?
Mental Illness™
So was Rox's only power like... making boxes appear and turning invisible¿
She could make anything appear and could also turn intangible
Wasnt it a quest bed? Where tavros was asked to put an end to her suffering but dint?
Quest Cocoon, trolls as a species didn’t have beds, they slept in Cocoons so their things were circle shaped and called Quest Cocoons until the rectangular Quest Bed
What's the difference between the slab and quest bed?
Quest Beds are located on the players’ planets and they need both their dreamself and original self in order to ascend
Sacrificial Slabs are located at the core of Derse and Prospit’s moons and the player only needs one of their lives left to use it
I know but it was a quest bed still she was laying down and the blood trickle down the stone wich isnt possible in a cocoon
Recap 3:
“[Vriska] instructs [Tavros] to take her to her Quest Cocoon, and to kill her…”
So if a player ascended on their slab, but their dream sealed was still alive, would there just be two of the same person running around?
The self that didn’t die on the slab would die. We see this with Aradia. Aradiabot exploded when her dreamself died on the slab.
When did we learn about sacrificial slabs? I only remember the quest bed
We first see them with Aradia, then with Dave and Rose.
Calliope discusses them here
Do you think it would be possible for an adult troll to still be on Alternia? (Like, obviously in hiding 'n stuff.)
I supposed so
Is there any clue what would happen if a god tiered (via quest bed) player died on their sacrificial slab?
Probably nothing, they’d just come back to life
has it ever been explained in any HS canon *WHY* the condescension orders adult trolls off-world? and is it ever explained how business and the education system work without adults to operate them? or are we waiting for hiveswap to save us
She spread out the adults so that it would be more difficult for them to start any more rebellions. Businesses are run by kids, we don’t really know much about their schools.
So, about the "people don't understand ectobiology" thing. I agree, however, I remember this one conversation between Dirk and Jane, in which Dirk implied that he knew something about her and Jake that would make them incompatible (the implication being them being related), and Jane said she didn't want to know? Did I just imagine that, or was it referring to something else that I didn't catch?
I just did a very casual perusing through all of Jane and Dirk’s convos and I can’t find anything that would imply that.
I definitely recall a conversation between dirk and jane where he implies that she is related to jake biologically
I even checked her convos with Lil Hal, I can’t find it, so it probably doesn’t exist
It's 2017, and people still think Jake and Jane are genetically related. :\
I mean, I know ectobio is complicated and stuff but come on guys, we’ve been over this so many times
What is lil cal at all?
He is a puppet and a juju, a comfy soul vessel
who ascended in the slab and who ascended in the quest bed ?
Bed/Cocoon:
John, Jade, Vriska, Meenah
Slab:
Aradia, Dave, Rose, Roxy, Jane, Dirk, Jake
Aradia beating vriska and then vriska ascending to god tier was after or before they get into the comet? I cant understand when she apeared and killed tarvos in the timeline... and why did tarvos tried to kill her?
It happened before they got to the meteor. Tavros tried to kill her because he had just got his legs, was feeling confident and was tired of her shit.
why is fannon dirkjake so much batter than cannon dirkjake?
Fanon ignores the many, many flaws of both
character
so then how was )(IC able to extend life with her touch (like how she extended the helmsman's life with her touch, explained by doc scratch)? is this a hint at meenah's thief of life abilities, or just something fuschia bloods somehow have?
Yeah, it’s a hint towards her being a Thief of Life, a lot of the ancestors show traits of their pre-scratch selves classpect
What would happen if a person who's dream self was dead, died on their quest bed? Would they just not ascend?
Yea, they’d just die
Where are the kids from? Like state, I’ve always been curious
John lived in Maple Valley, Washington State, Dave lived in Texas, Rose lived in Rainbow Falls, New York and Jade lived on an island somewhere in the Pacific.
someone said that page and prince are incompatible classes and thats why dirk and jake didnt work out, is that true?
I mean page is an incredibly passive class and prince is like the second most active so that might be why people think that but canonically it’s not one of the reasons they didn’t work