so let’s suppose the leg Dirk built to potentially puppet Caliborn around was really just a prefigure of sorts to the little puppet of himself he’d put in Lord English’s brain; and the puppet went rogue a la your Hal 9000 or your Terminator? I guess the question then is what Dirk’s initial intention for English could have been… are we to assume, in the way one often can assume patterns of Homestuck, that he was merely going through the same motions Vriska went through to create Bec Noir? or is such a base motivation as creating a villain to fight for himself beneath someone like Dirk…