2023-05-07 19:42:38 ¶ ● ⬈

lime-bloods:

> i was going to make a whole post about how you can’t talk about the final frog mystery without also asking what the hell this light was; but that’s literally just the light of Skaia, isn’t it? Prospit doesn’t normally have clouds like this; what we’re seeing is Jade’s earliest memory of an eclipse, where Prospit’s moon rakes through the prophetic clouds of Skaia. that lotus spirograph she’s looking at is the same one that appears in the doorknob-bubble to a new universe and under the doorway platform, in the universe’s throat sac and even on Homestuck’s final page, the heroes having entered one. as @mmmmalo points out, it’s also the “SEED” of a lotus time capsule, making its symbolic value as a vessel for life obvious. but most obviously, that spirograph is what’s at the heart of Skaia. that’s what Jade is being drawn to, here, which explains the attendance of Prospit’s natives as well.

> so, knowing that this is Skaia showing her a vision, supposedly Jade’s statement that she “saw something in the light” takes on a more crucial meaning? does the question become “what was Skaia showing her?”

> or are the specifics of the dream not important - did Skaia lead Jade here just to wake her up before she could get close, so she would find the frog waiting for her in the waking world? there is a dramatic irony at play in this flashback sequence; when the frog suddenly dies in Jade’s arms, framing makes it obvious it was cooked to death by Becquerel, but Jade makes no comment on it, seemingly unaware, seemingly not finding the detail of how the frog died important. here, Jade is totally at the whims of not just one but multiple narrative forces operating on levels completely unfathomable to the mind of such a little girl, leading her to a seemingly inconsequential frog just so it can die and she can make clones out of its ghost. the question once again becomes who sent the frog; with Skaia waking her up and Becquerel making the kill, who is the third co-conspirator?

I also can’t help but wonder, if the frog flashback is supposed to be Jade’s first eclipse, are we supposed to interpret the rather eventful eclipse that happens in 2009 as history having come full circle? does the frog dying in the young Jade’s arms somehow prefigure John in her arms, and her frantic attempts to shake him awake and save him from death?