April 2015

mod T im terrified of your homestuck knowledge

I don't really understand the update. Is it okay to recap or dumb it down please?

Okay, some backstory first.  The juju that gave John his retcon powers, we knew that it was Caliborn’s and it was destined to be used by him once as a weapon and then once against him.  Obviously John using it is against him.

So in today’s update we saw Caliborn get the juju and he used it as a weapon and then banished it to the furthest ring with the Ring of Void.  The weapon allowed him to take the souls of the Beta kids and trap them inside so they are effectively stuck in a house, homestuck if you will.

Then Caliborn beat up Jake, Jane and Roxy and had a most macho duel with Dirk and defeated him but Jake got back up and started to emit a bunch of Hope energy.

(Keep in mind that all of this is happening in the future so the kids aren’t trapped or beat up yet)

So there was foreshadowing that Gamzee was in lil Cal but was it about Arquiussprite being there too? was lil Cal always a dear friend to Dirk because a part of him was in there? what do you think?

Arquius had been hinted at by Doc Scratch. Doc Scratch was made from Lil Cal (so part of arquius). The Doc and Lil Hal speak very similarly and are both hyperintelligent. Also on page 005527 (sorry I’m on mobile and can’t link) Doc Scratch tells Rose to think of him as her human uncle and he participates in Equius’s signature “yes, no, yes, no” thing.

There is a more drawn out theory written by Bladekindeyewear a few years ago on the same topic that I would highly recommend checking out.

As for Dirk, he arrived with Cal, they’ve literally always been together. That was the only relationship he had until he met the other kids. You’d come to value a puppet as a friend too if that was the only type of interaction you had for years.

Ok so since Equius and ar sprite got sucked into cal and I guess became one soul ? Was that alpha Equius' soul? Because that means he is a part of lord english too??

Yes, most likely.

So wait, all of caliborns puppet show, hasnt happened yet right? Since he said he saw it on his screens. my question is, do his screens show him things from every timeline, or just the alpha?

Yes and Unknown.

TRACE I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE RECENT HOMESTUCK UPDATES: BY BRAIN DOESN'T UNDERSTAND, HELP ME PLEASE.

traceexcalibur:

Caliborn is, in essence, explaining the “final boss battle” the kids wage against him, which wraps up a number of longstanding mysteries of the comic

so here we go:

1. John, using his retcon powers, warps himself and the other 7 God Tier kids to go battle Caliborn, ambushing him before he becomes Lord English.
2. They fight Caliborn and Gamzee; Gamzee is cut in half in the ensuing fracas.
3. Caliborn activates the Juju he received upon completing his quest, the Homestuck Logo Thingy; it’s power traps John, Rose, Dave, and Jade’s souls inside it.
4. Caliborn uses the Ring of Void to banish the Juju to the Dream Bubbles, where Vriska found it. This completes a time loop in which John gets the retcon powers in the first place, only to later be sealed away in the very object that give him the powers.
5. The remaining four kids battle Caliborn.
6. Caliborn defeats all of them, but Jake’s hope powers activate and allow him to deal massive damage to Caliborn. Caliborn, angered but impressed, decides to rename himself Lord English.
7. Unfortunately, since Caliborn is basically immortal, the attack still only stuns him.
8. Arquius launches a sudden and unexpected counter-attack, ambushing Caliborn with robotic horses (as foreshadowed by Hussie here).
9. While Arquius holds onto Caliborn, Dirk uses his soul powers to trap Caliborn’s soul inside Lil Cal. Unfortunately, Arquius and half of Gamzee are also pulled into Lil Cal in the process, creating the horrible abomination known as Lord English.
10. Roxy tries to banish Caliborn’s soul forever by sending Lil Cal into the void, but this allows Lil Cal access to the multiverse, presumably because Caliborn had the Ring of Void. Lil Cal’s existence has always been a bit of an unexplained paradox, and this finally explains how he was able to appear in Dave’s nightmares.

where does this leave us?

• Lord English is continuing his multiversal rampage
• the Beta Kids are trapped inside the Homestuck Logo Thingy, which is currently in the possession of either Meenah or Aradia
• the Alpha kids are stuck on Caliborn’s planet without John to teleport them away
• the surviving Trolls, who did not come with the Alpha kids, are probably stuck with the Condesce, who is continuing her plan to complete the Alpha kid’s session and create a new universe to rule over
  

How did Gamzee get inside Lil' Cal? I just read the new update and everyone's talking about that, but I think I missed it

When Dirk stuck Caliborn and Arquius in Cal half of Gamzee got caught too. Caliborn didn’t say so in the naration so a lot of peps have been missing it.

Were Eridan and Feferi revived in the retconned timeline?

No

Wait. Is davekat canon?????

To the surprise and shock of many Johnkat, daverezi, and karerzi shippers everywhere, maybe.

technically tavrisprite is still canon, just in a different timeline/memory, right?

Yes, in the current timeline though were are left with just a Tavrossprite.

Ok I'm really confused now, why is it that Vriska is able to time travel/jump from session to session? I thought that only Gamzee could do that.

She has the megido time machine music boxes, probably got them from Aradia

Is davekat canon in <> or in <3 ??

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