2024-01-09 3:13:44 ¶ ●

I’ve noted before of course that the preoccupation with reproduction and breeding control on Alternia seems to echo the broader concerns re: these same issues on a cosmic level - trolls reproduce on a mass, quantity-over-quality scale so that those masses can be cut down into a small set of perfect soldiers, the same way Sburb seems to proliferate on a mass scale while only a few sessions succeed - so it makes sense that English and the imperial drone would seem to occupy similar “bogeyman” positions on these microcosmic and macrocosmic scales. and this idea that a living system requires a living manifestation of destruction to counterbalance itself is not without precedent in Homestuck itself; it could be said that malevolent cherubs serve this same bogeyman role on an intrauniversal level.

in which case I wonder if the echoes of Kanaya in Calliope go a little deeper than their shared green blood and godhood over space; do the (virginal) jade bloods counterbalance the (asexual) drones in the same way green cherubs balance out the red?