Is it a coincidence that Jake and Jane were the only kids connected to the two most feared and destructive ruler ever? Jake inherited Lord English's last name because his grandmother rebelled against HIC AKA Betty Crocker and Jane Crocker is the heiress to Betty Crocker, AKA The Condesce. Not only that but both comes from the Alpha Universe
It was most definitely to keep us on our toes and speculate about what was going on in the Alpha Universe. Honestly, cutting away from the other kids and finding out young Nanna’s name is CROCKER and young Grandpa’s name is ENGLISH is an amazing way to keep the interest after rolling back to the start of their adventure. It gave us a solid idea of the main villains from then on and that they were going to be very involved in the story now.
He destroyed the hopes of the fandom to not have to experience a worse version of Eridan
Pfffft. Also technically he was supposed to face a great evil, using the power of Hope to destroy it, but it didn’t quite happen like that now did it. His own faith and hopes were kinda shattered.
i think he was pretty good at it, though? during the first act no one was able to get angry at him and terezi never suspected him for the murders, thinking that he should be protected instead
Yep, the act of consuming Sopor Slime is quite literally him destroying his rage, or at least muddling it.
Fun way to see Gamzee's use of Destroying through Rage in a passive sense, or rather, allowing Destruction through Rage: He slowly allowed Terezi to hate him so much she destroyed herself through her unending Rage towards him, despising everything he stood for but being powerless to resist against his shitty sodas, ventshaft honkings and awful remarks about her Blindness, to the point she was slamming gross warm Faygo left and right. Man, Gamzee was so awful in so many ways. Poor GO!Terezi...
There’s a lot of stuff Gamzee does that closely ties him to his title, indeed. What a dick.
If Doc Scratch was ectobiologised from Lil Cal, then how did the souls of Caliborn, Gam (yes, I'm calling half of Gamzee 'Gam) and ARquiusprite were transferred from Lil Cal to Doc Scratch? Does ectobiology also take and duplicate the component of an object/individual?
It was a manifestation by proxy, it’d seem like Caliborn can project his Soul through the Lil Cal doll, and in turn, through something made from the Lil Call Doll, such as Doc Scratch.
Can a passive player passively benefit themself without doing anything and can they also passively ruin their life?
Technically yeah? Yeah those could happen, but I can’t think of a specific example right now. Maybe a Sylph of Life just being generally in good health, while a Bard of Doom is just constantly having awful things happen to them.
Seer of Time: It have been a month since -The Bard- died... Bard of Doom: You know, right now I am alive. Seer of Time: Sometimes I still hear their voice.
If Sn0wman has both the Lance and the Whip, then she's both Aradia's and Tavros's exile?
Huh, true I forgot her cigarette holder doubled as a lance. DD was Aradia’s though- And he also talked to Tavros at least once. With 12 Trolls and not enough Exiles, it seems they sort of alternated and went back and forth sending messages.
In the alpha session, the reason that the midnight crew were killing the alpha kids dreamselves was that when they god tiered they wouldn't go to the battlefield?
Nah, they were just ordered by Condy. Although that’s a valid take on Condy’s thinking about dwindling their extra lives down.
He was, but Droog also talked to him after he couldn’t kill Vriska, told him he was making a mess. PM also sends a few messages to John once. Each kid is lucky to have an Exile to themselves, but the Trolls had 5 Exiles for 12 Trolls, it didn’t quite work as smoothly.
Because jade prototype her kernelsprite with bec and her stuffed dreamself, that is the reason she got dog ears?
Yep. When she ascended, she took traits from Bec because her ‘Dream Self’ was fused with Bec in the Sprite. Also thematically interesting, that the Witch basically absorbed her Familiar and combined with him.
Isnt it funny that of the two hope players we know of, one has multiple people pining after him and the other cant get even one?
We know three Hope Players, although both Amporas are pretty much equal when it comes to terms of romance. Curiously enough, while Jake has multiple people pining after him, this proves to be very much detrimental to him and leaves him an uncomfortable mess that shuts himself away from the situation, which only makes it worse.
if a Thief of Mind stole Denizen choices what would happen?
Stealing a Choice means more like, forcing things to go one way or another, rather than allowing people to choose. I don’t think you can quite apply it as in literally stealing the concept of a Choice. Unless you can find a way of how that could work.
Imagine: what if Gamzee had managed to prototype Equius just a little bit sooner, or if Dirk and AR had talked for just a little bit longer... we could have had Towelquiusprite.
Oh god that’d be the first thing he would go for wouldn’t it.
Is it bad that I've read so many classpect theories that my own personal classpect theories are starting to contradict each other
You’ve gotta stick to a set of ones! I used to stick to the Maid-Heir and Witch-Sylph pairings before landing on my current understanding of them, changing stuff and dismissing stuff you heard in the past as you improve is good.
What do you think would happen if you prototyped the two worst possible things pre-entry like Satan and Pennywise. Would the game even be winnable at that point?
I’m pretty sure Prototyping Gl’bgolyb was worse than those two and the Trolls still kinda won.
if Sylph and Maid are the Create classes, then could they create things from, basically, thin air? There'd be some aspect personalized flashiness to it, of course, like a Sylph/Maid of Light would probably create things in a flash of light, Void would likely be a sudden absence before something appears, breath would probably be like wind/air solidifying into the thing, blood would probably be like, a pool of blood coming from somewhere and becoming the object, so on and so forth
Depends on who they’d be, but yes, creation out of thin air could most definitely be a thing.
I think it might be Rogue of Mind actually, since they're taking the Denizen's ability to give a choice, in favor of giving the Denizen a choice, could be Thief too, either seems good at reorganizing, and I could maybe see a Witch pulling this off as well
maybe a thief of mind steals the consequences of the denizen’s Choice. either for their benefit or others’, Like if the player has to make a huge sacrifice in order to progress with their denizen, the Thief can come and take their place. But also taking all the positive outcomes of the choice too.
I mean, the Denizen Choices seem to be incredibly personal and have something to do with you- Sure you could try to do that kind of stuff but like… I feel messing around with The Choice itself may be detrimental to yourself on the long run, and not because of the risk of angering Big Potentially Snake-Like Monsters.
A Muse's job is to Inspire, right? As a "passive" / others-focused version of a Lord's Command. And Space is related to reproduction, like with Roxy and the Matriorb. What if the whole Trickster episode is the same beacon-like thing, but combined with Caliborn's juju equally? The green part of the lollipop Inspired in the kids the intense desire to have lots of kids, while the red part made them Command each other into Tricksterness. The only part missing is something associated with Time.
Space is related to Creation and Motherhood, indeed, but the thing about Trickster Mode is that its effect isn’t much of a combo of Calliope and Caliborn’s anything. We have a pretty solid grasp of what it does thanks to the split-frame we see of the Auryn within the Lollipop. It’s a wish-granting plot device- You lick it, all your problems go away for a while, you speak your innermost desires amplified a thousandfold, you do everything you want. It makes you an entitled, careless, creepy shitlord, but for the time you’re like that, you kind of don’t care about how you’re embarrassing yourself or making others uncomfortable. It removes inhibitions and makes that kind of stuff come to light- Which as a brief high in a situation where everyone is already or having fun, like the Rosemary wedding, could even be fun! But when they’re all having intense inter-personal drama and being depressed and captured and isolationist, it becomes an absolutely horrorshow.
When you think about it "Prince of (Aspect here)" could lead to some terrifying and/or downright confusing things happening. For instance a "Prince of Life" which seems like a devastatingly powerful combat ability. You could have a "Prince of time" which while "destroying through time" is understandable, attacking more times than you should and all that, but "destroying time" seems like it would be calamitous to any sense of continuity.
The Prince of Time, as I’ve said before, is just King Crimson, so it’s not quite that hard to understand. One thing to have in mind is that the Prince of Life can Destroy Life, sure, but if you take it as such a blunt, destructive power, you miss out on a bunch of other fun possibilities, as well as reduce it to a merely offensive killing Classpect! Sure it’d be good at killing- But that’d be pretty much all it’s good for if you focus on it.
I think I've come full circle at this point, I've taken the quiz like 7 times, with the first time being Rogue, a whole bunch of stuff in the middle, and I got rogue again as the last time
Why do y’all keep torturing yourselves, good God it may be because I spent way too much time making it so I’m kinda sick of it, but I can’t imagine answering 50 Quiz Questions seven times, golly.
If Hussie didn't tear off Doc Scratch's right leg, then Lord English would have had his right leg intact
Seems like iterations of Lord English always conveniently have one fang and one leg missing and replaced with golden counterparts- Look at Jack, he got his tooth clocked off by the Queen and then sawed off his leg to escape. Convenient.
What would a prince of hope do in a session? Other than depressing the hell out of other tho :p I hope you can answer :D <3
I’ve talked about them a little bit! Destroying Hope and Destroying Through Hope seems straight forward enough, from ruining people’s dreams to chasing a dream of their own and smiting everything that opposes them. In a Session though, that’s kind of a bit too vague, because there’s a lot of ways they could do stuff.
I don’t see why not, Time Travelling Devices are weird and, like the Scratch Constructs, have been shown so far to be music storing devices? But there’s only a limited amount of those, so I don’t see why it couldn’t be another music-related item.
Which life player would be good at making golems. Page, mage, or witch?
I’d say the Page may be the most likely perhaps? Even though the Maid or Sylph (Unlisted) would be the better options. Also I’d prefer refraining from calling all elemental Constructs ‘Golems’, a few Jewish friends of mine have expressed distaste at that, Golems are a tad more specific than that! Unless. You literally meant which Life Class would be the most likely to make an actual Golem, in which case uh. I thiiink my answer’d still be the same?
New headcanon: Equius was devastated by the destruction of Derse not because of the loss of his dream self, but because that was one of the few places he didn't break everything he touched
Was Equius ever stated to have woken up on Derse? The awakening is always prompted by something, either a kiss when you’re dead, or having an epiphany about your self and your life, stopping suppressing something. I’d say with him kind of. Still kind of following the Hemospectrum rules, he’d have yet to wake up.
Personally, I've kinda thought active/passive could also apply to internal/external usage. Like how Dave only used his time powers to time travel(internal) while Aradia used it to hold Jack at bay (external), or how Eridan blasted hope while Gamzee hulked out on rage
Hmm, that’s an interesting take, I’d have to look around for more examples to make sure what fits and what doesn’t! But yes the Active-Passive spectrum is kind of like the Yin Yang. You have a bunch of complementary and opposite concepts on each side, it’s not as easy as just “Offensive-Defensive” as Hussie mentioned in his Dream Moons post. So there’s definitely something to that.
is the "ectobiological siblings" thing an aspect of all sburb sessions where the players' species has some biological concept of siblinghood?
There’s a difference between Perceived Ecto-relatedness and Actual Ecto-relatedness. Even without the concept of family in any sense, some of the Trolls are still genetically related, they simply don’t care because Troll Biology is weird and pretty much already sort of accounts for that. They’re no different from the Humans, except once the Humans do get told they’re related in pairs things get a bit weird. (See: Freudian Slips, and Sprite^2 Shenanigans). That being said, while genetically related, whether two Ectobiologically related characters begin to act more like siblings or keep just being good friends, is up to them. They weren’t raised together in a family either way, after all.
If Lord English's Cairo Overcoat was Vriska's coat; which fit perfectly to Vriska then how come it's extra large onto Lord English? Did Stitch enlarge the coat when Kurloz brought it to him?
I mean if you Alchemize shit together you can also resize it. Otherwise, Stitch is a great tailor I bet he could help with that stuff.
How can Sn0wman turn invisible? Wait, I know: she has the Void Ring on her finger!!!
I doooon’t think she does does she? It’d have implications if she did. For all we know, it’s just another power given to her by Doc, I mean she’s already the embodiment of the Universe and if she dies, so does the Genesis Frog, I’d say mild teleportation is a kind of tame power in comparison.