2023-09-18 7:00:53 ¶ ● ⬈

lime-bloods:

> long been intrigued by the fact that Terezi and Latula’s lusus/es seemingly have the same suite of powers as Sollux, those being laser vision and psychic precognition (Terezi’s lusus dreams about a “MYTH1C4L L1TTL3 P1NK MONK3Y” called a “baby”: she has no way of knowing this, but the egg can tell the future)… actually it only occurred to me the other day that the reason this species “remains blind until maturity” is almost definitely because as adults their eyes are deadly weapons, which we find out another thousand and a half pages later. so just like Sollux is, these dragons are very much Scott-Summers-Cyclopses!

> now that I really think about it: as of Hussie’s print commentary, if there was ever a clear idea as to who exactly Terezi’s “blind prophets” were going to be, it’s gone now, and the remaining dregs spell out “it was probably just some psychics” - and while it’s absolutely true that there is a straightforward correlation drawn in Homestuck between blindness and prophecy… Terezi’s blind prophets, specifically, had to have been dragons, right? her whole life was shaped by the tutelage of this blind, fortune-telling creature; who else would have taught her the “numerals of the blind prophets”?

also to keep in mind: Sollux Captor’s name meaning “sunlight capturer” versus Pyralspite as a creature whose gaze is openly compared to the rays of the sun (Mindfang being blinded by the dragon prefigures Terezi’s blinding by the daylight sky) by the use of the Texan sun motif in Seer: Ascend:

…and then the third piece, which I had totally forgotten until right now as I write this; Scott Summers’ powers are also solar-fueled??

Sollux’ name is a really interesting case because the record suggests it’s basically the one character name, save Jake’s, that Hussie created completely on his own: there were suggestions for the character to be named “Castor Pollux”, but it was seemingly the author’s decision alone to rearrange the letters into something that so transparently has the word “captor” in it. makes you think!