April 2018

I literally just noticed the mspa blob face guy in your icon...

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I changed it for 4/13. I may keep it.

I'm surprised that vriska didn't bleed to death after she blew her arm off... How did she even survive that?

Equius seems to be pretty good when it comes to robotically fixing up severed, still bleeding body parts.

ASDGJSJkjdhakfsd ya fuckin,,, icon. just noticed it. its been like 3 days but i just got it and MAY I SAY. cutest shit, man,, gud jobe, 10/10 would blob man again

:0 appreciates the compliments.

I... I saw the face in your icon before you changed back... And convinced myself it had always been there... ?????????????

Nope. Only been there since 4/13.

Please keep the mspa face

:0 is not going anywhere any time soon, don’t worry buddy.

what aspects represents truth/honesty (whether the brutal kind or not), sympathy, kindness but on the flip side represents coldness, or intense apathy and nihlism. Please answer, thanks!

Oof, you can’t exactly pin-point a single Aspect for most of those things. Truth with an opposite in Nihilism fits well the Light-Void divide, but even then there’s also a lot that could fit Rage/Hope- Specially Rage with brutal honesty. Really my guess is as good as yours.

I want to play friendsim as well as support hiveswap but I'm a broke teenager :(

Yep, happens, even though it’s 99 cents if you just have no means to buy it yourself and don’t feel like telling your parents it can be a really big hassle.

What are denizens and what do they do?

They’re emissaries of Skaia, final bosses tailored to either the Hero’s Aspect or something else, meant to pose a challenge they must overcome with their Choice. Either to prove the grit and determination of the Hero, or, were they to fail, to test their Strength in combat. They rule over the Land and create the Underlings at the behest of the Dersite Agents, and stand as the Ultimate Challenge the Hero must overcome before reaching the Endgame and having to go face the Royalty. Or perhaps as the Ultimate Challenge AFTER defeating the Royalty? It seems going for the Denizens should be a step before going for the Black King, but you may actually be able to go do stuff with the Denizen afterwards.

Did lil cal become doc scratch? If he did how

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Is it confirmed that life players can only revive once per person, or is it just assumed? I know in canon they mentioned it but even they didn’t seem to know for sure,,

Jane’s powers grant her one resurrection per person. Her powers. No one else’s. Everyone’s Life powers are going to be different to a degree. Even the same Class.

How would a denizen be able to give you a Juju? Asking for a fansession

It’d just be there already.

So with the denizen? Or would I have to work it into the choice somehow?

It depends. Extremely customizable. Fan session. Really you can do anything.

What's the choice?

Literally a choice. Usually regarding something you have to do to prove yourself worthy to the Denizen or worthy of being helped to do something.

Okay thank you! The juju in particular merges all current existing versions of whoever touches it (excluding the dreamself). I'm using it to merge a character with a sprite prototyped with his lusus and doomed timeline self.

Isn’t that sort of what Sprite Squaring does? Dig into the Ultimate Self?

Is it okay for a player thats not a Light or Mind player to be smart and perceptive?? As a breath player i get things quite fast and like mental challenges sometimes but i read everywhere that they have to be airheads and idk silly? But i'm not! Am i a bad Breath?

Of course other Aspects can be smart and perceptive. It’s more about what you do with your smartness and perception. You may pick on really tiny details but miss the big picture for example, or know but not really care, and so on, which makes up for different kinds of relations to Aspects.

I once asked about how aranea was able to move stuff with her mind during s game over, and you said she was mind controlling aradias, which makes sense. I'm still confused on one thing, how did you know? Is this explained somewhere? I totally missed it and I want to go back and read it

Damaras not Aradias. And, we literally see it!

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could a creator of void destroy things? replace them with void, maybe?

I see them more disintegrating or splitting things apart rather than destroying per se, but yeah.

what was the reason aranea was able to control damara but vriska couldn’t control aradia? is it because she had stronger powers? or because kinda like you said before, different trolls=not exactly the same powers?

Vriska is 13 years old. Aranea spent millennia in the Bubbles. Also I’d assume Damara is more susceptible to Mind Control.

I mean kind of? It's not really though, I mean that it merges all living versions of oneself at a particular point in the timeline that you are in. So it would only merge the sprite and character, while still letting him godtier

It seems like a hyperspecific Juju that doesn’t serve much of a purpose except to be a Plot Device.

So basically, a well done Juju. :3c

Sbrub is a game so... Can we imagine that exists cheat code ?

Trickster Mode is kind of a Cheat.

what do you think about the Zine Aspects thing coming soon?

I’m excited to check it out.

Ardata's quirk is funny, she triples the 'i'

Yep. Three eyes.

In the Sburb and Sgrub logos what does the box with a part slightly removed represent?

Up to interpretation really. It seems like it coincides with the Session Leader, Karkat, John and Roxy, but then the Dancestor Session would break this having Latula rather than Meenah land on that square, unless the Alpha Session monitors are arranged differently. Some people also suspect it has to do with the way John gets unstuck from the story, and how Roxy goes back with him in the Retcon Quest, but that still leaves Karkat a bit to the side. The logo also shares the shape with the Treasure, and of course it’s also the gate you go through at the End to Claim your Ultimate Reward, so who knows how deep the rabbit hole goes with what it represents.

was rose able to use magic because of her aspect or class? or because magic was real??

Aspect and Magic being Real? I mean, Magic is real as shit as we all know, and Rose just has innate abilities. Also the Horrorterrors had an eye on her.

What’s the Zine Aspect thing?

It’s a FFBF-made thing where they’ll have artists draw stuff about the Aspects and arguably have some more in-depth detail about Aspects? I haven’t read much about it but that’s what I assume and given it’s official, I’m hype for possible Aspect ramifications, and implication of maybe a future Class Zine.

Thank you ^u^ I tried to make the juju seem kind of Canon, as to make it believable that it could be canon, or in the universe of the canon. That's why I asked you for advice on it!

Jujus are weird. Extra-canonical stuff in general like, you can do anything you want with it. There’s really few restrictions. If you want it to work a way, it just does. It just works.

I've been rereading HS, and I just got finished with A6A6A1. I've been wondering, is the reason why Game Over happens is that Caliborn corrupted not just how the comic looks to the reader, but the alpha timeline itself?

I mean, the only main reason why Game Over happens is that Aranea wanted to mess with the Timeline. It’s hard to say how things would’ve gone if she just. Hadn’t intervened.

Can you give some examples of Canon denizen choices?

Typheus gave John the choice to Master his Powers, or Die. Yaldabaoth gave Caliborn the choice of Undergoing an Impossible Challenge with becoming an unstoppable destructive conqueror as the reward for winning, or die to stop a danger like that at some point. Echidna’s Choice for Jade was to either carry every Denizen with her post-Scratch or, likely, to fight her. Echidna’s Choice for Calliope after she failed the Dead Session was to either exist forever in an unwinnable Dead Session, trapped, or die swiftly but have to spend an eternity waiting to End Everything in the Bubbles. Typheus gave the John from Davesprite’s Timeline the Choice of dying to fix the Timeline, or continuing to live on… Actually that tends to be a common Choice when it deals with Alternate Timelines. “You either live in this Doomed Timeline unable to do anything, orrrr you can Die now and get everything fixed through a Retroactive Butterfly Effect.”

Then there’s simpler Choices. Hephaestus offered Davesprite a Choice, to either fix his Sword, or fix… Something else. We don’t know what that ‘something else’ is, but it may have been either Himself or Bro. Less death-oriented than the others for sure, but still holds a strong emotional value, and a strong significance in the Timeline as Dave NEEDS the fixed sword so he can break it and cut Derse’s Moon with it.

Are there any specifications for what kind of lusi different blood castes get? And do they have to have a relation to their troll’s sign? (Deercat and Dammek, or Aradia and her Ram lusus for example)

Not necessarily? There are some apparent things so far but not too much, like. Aradia had Ram Mom and Xefros has a Sloth, both are Mammals so there’s that. On the other hand, Vriska has Spidermom and Ardata has a Tick, so Ceruleans may be more Insect-based. Tinkerbull and Deercat are hybrid mammals. There MAY be some pattern here, but we really. Don’t have enough examples yet to tell for sure.

Hey, when I get to a certain point in my fancomic, could you classpect the characters? It won't be for a while, but I would like to know in advance

Sadly, likely not? No one knows your own characters better than yourself.

so what happened to condy in the doomed timeline before recon? since she didn’t die?

We don’t quite know. She could’ve given up like Dirk or. She could still be there ruling over nothing and toying with the Carapaces.

do you think a lord of doom would be able to create a temporary afterlife like the dream bubbles for their players?

Heart or Life at most, Doom, not so sure.

Oh man sorry to but into someone else's line of questions about The Choice but your answer raised a whole bunch of questions for me. What did you mean dave had to choose to fix his sword and cut the moon? When was that talked about and what does it mean and what is known about it??? Did Dave and davesprite have this same choice? Or shoot was davesprite's to go back in time?

Everyone has different choices. Davesprite mentions to Jadesprite that Hephaestus gave him the Choice to fix something. Either the sword- Which was needed to cut the moon later on- or ‘something else’ which is left ambiguous. People have taken this to mean one of two things, either ‘fixing’ his Bro, as in potentially bringing him back, which would open a whole other can of worms with Dave’s relationship to him and recognizing his abuse- Or ‘fixing’ himself, as he’s the ‘other’, ‘fake’ Dave.

Will my denizen be Hephastus because I'm a time player?

Likely. It could be something else though.

Also, I have a headcanon that Elwurd's lusus is a scorpion, because so far both ceruleans seem to have arachnid lusii

Oooh, that could fit quite well. Hmmm… What would Remele have? She’s nautically themed and has weird eyes. Maybe a Mantis Shrimp? Do Crustaceans count towards arachnidness? … Are Mantis Shrimps Crustaceans?

I was rereading the part right before dave goes back in time and becomes a sprite. He says Rose might wake up first "without all that fuss" and make him realize he was awake the whole time. Is that like dirk, who had both his dream self and regular self awake? How come he realized and Dave didn't? What fuss did rose have to go through? Do you think it's similar to Roxy's sleepwalking? Then again, I thought that was a void thing.

Dave and Dirk are different, Dave isn’t aware of his Dream Self while he’s awake, rather… His Dreamself is just already active. Just like Jade. But he denies himself of noticing this, just like how John couldn’t see the drawings on his posters or Rose couldn’t see the MEOW code on her wall, Dave already had an active Dream Self but just. Didn’t know it. Who knows how long it took for Rose to wake up properly on Derse, for all we know she may have had to go physically to her Derse Room and smack herself on the face.

I have a friend in college that im suuper sure would be a blood player and, as breath myself its astounding how quickly he nullifies my overall detachment to things by saying the craziest (yet most accurate?) things about whats around us. Also hes in ALL the social groups, ALL OF THEM.

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But why did Dave have to cut the moon?

To send it into the Furthest Ring.

it was said in the comic that Space players are kinda destined for loneliness and have a lot of "space". So based off of that interpretation would a Knight of Space be the type to push away their friends or unintentionally create more Space between their friends and them becoming increasingly lonelier?

I mean, maybe they could serve Isolation like that, BUT it’s not all Space stands for. They can still serve Creativity, the Setting, Spacial Properties, First Guardian stuff…

sorry if this is rude or something but could you please elaborate on how a lord of heart could create a temporary afterlife but a lord of doom couldn't? my Doom friend thinks Heart would only be able to move/transfer souls rather than create a space for them, and I think they both would be able to but can't quite put it into words for Heart.

I feel this is associating Doom with Dying and, as such, with the Afterlife, but I feel Doom encompasses more the act of Dying than Death itself if that makes sense? Like… Limits, Ends, the domain of Doom is linked to these borders, whereas Heart deals with the Soul itself. Doom may be Death, but if you want to talk about the Afterlife, you’re moving to what comes After it, and there may be a divide there.

I feel like sheep would be time-bound, and other animals might similarly have an associated aspect, but I can only slightly justify this. Is this common in theorizing in homestuck?

I have never heard something like this in my life, but I am going to say Sheep are Hopebound because… Dreams and Caliborn using fluffy cotton to represent the Hope Bubble in his Masterpiece and that’s close enough to wool for me.

The Extended zodiac's secription "Hope-bound are positive, caring, and warm. At their worst they can be narrow-minded and selfish" does sound more like sheep than time does. I think You're right.

I love you can say that with a straight face and agree with Sheeps being bound to the concept of Hope.

I always thought a Lord of Heart would function the same way as Hades, basically. As far as dream bubble creation, feferi made them as a witch of life so it doesn't take someone as powerful as a Lord or muse to make them. I bet a doom player could create a similar space, due to the fact that most deaths are in doomed time lines. Perhaps not a dream bubble, but something else! Don't forget that people can combine fraymotifs, and work together to make something cool, even if one of them is doom!

But see, the thing is, Feferi didn’t create the Bubbles. She convinced the Horrorterrors to Bubble them up for her- If you want to physically create them yourself, you need to be as powerful as a Horrorterror is, which are described as basically one of the few things in Homestuck that are close to true Omniscience and Omnipotence. So it’d take a little bit more effort.

as a Prince of Life may I say: I do not suck at baking :). Also could a Prince of Life kinda heal through destruction? or even say, destroy with Life basically become some energized power level over 9000 murder machine?

Damn I got owned. Also, maybe? Likely.

How are the ancestors post scratch versions of the pre scratch trolls if they (ancestors) are older?? Isnt pre before and post is after-newest versions?? Like Ancestors made their history. How is that possible if they're post scratch? Did they scratch backwards or something? (Sorry if that doesn't make sense)

What you need my friend is a refresher on Simultaneity and the Scratch Mechanics. The Scratch is a hard reset- What comes ‘after’ isn’t a continuation, and what happened ‘before’ isn’t what happened chronologically before. If there’s a Scratch, the Universe accounts for it already. In the eyes of the Universe, there has always been a Scratch, and both Post and Pre Scratch versions of the Universe exist simultaneously, and disconnected from one another. The Timelines have no point of interjection between the different versions of the Universe. They just are two separate instances.

Sorry to keep bugging you!!!! Why did Dave have to send the moon to the furthest ring??

To fulfil Rose’s suicidal plan of trying to blow up the Green Sun.

Idea: Those of the Void bound path have problems with humility, both expressing it and accepting it about themselves.

It seems to be the opposite. Light is related to Fortune and Fame, whereas Void regards irrelevance. If anything, Lightbound characters would be the ones that aren’t good at being humble.

If trolls are supposed to have different horns from different signs, then how come Trizza has the same horns as Feferi, Meenah and Condy? Trizza isn't True Pisces.

The Peixes horns are pretty generic looking, no reason why they couldn’t have the same horn shape. Besides- Horns aren’t like symbols. Symbols are designs Trolls made to represent them, Horns are part of their biology. If it’s in the gene pool, shapes can just happen.

All known Rustbloods [Aradia, Damara, Handmaid, Xefros, Diemen, Fozzer and Marsti] have been Dersites so far

Huh. Curious.

Do you think each aspect could have a respective kink, or at least range of kinks?

I once tried to jokingly do a chart like this. I never finished it though.