A bit? There’s a bunch of Classpects that could be described as Mom Friends really.
That is a hard one to answer! I don’t think I have a solid answer to it, actually, there’s some rhyme and reason to them but I wouldn’t be able to tell you 100% why right now. It may be some Archetypes Hussie planned or adapted, it may be references to things I haven’t thought quite yet. I’m sure knowing this is 100% certainly is one of the big keys to knowing what Hussie intended the Classes to be.
Oh yeah, a lot of active characters would die for their friends, but being selfish doesn’t exactly mean not caring about others. Selfishness as a positive trait just comes from ensuring you’re in a good shape to help those you care about. At her most Active, Rose went to exact revenge on Bec Noir, a very blunt and selfish thing to do, driven by her own motivation of revenge, even if it was for someone else, it clouded her judgement. Dirk struggles in how overbearing he can be and how he’s not exactly as good treating others as he is treating himself. On the opposite side, you have Roxy, who values others to the point of self-destructiveness. Selfishness and Selflessness aren’t uniquely negative or positive traits, and it doesn’t mean they ONLY think of themselves or of others. But they’re big tendencies. Jade tried to help everyone- But in turn she disregarded how her dead Dream Self may have felt, knowing only to trust herself for the task, and overwrote Bec’s entire self with Jadesprite, at which point she herself hated seeing how hopeless and selfish she was being- Because it reminded her of her own more negative traits. Jade has ALSO been extremely influenced by dreaming on Prospit, making her more passive than her Class would dictate.
There’s a lot of nuance and specificity to the Active/Passive divide.
That’s likely considered a crime. Given Highbloods just seem to be okay murdering Lowbloods by the Hundreds I don’t even think they’d have a Trial, they’d just get murdered right on the spot.
I mean, though… A leader in what capacity. You can’t just be a ‘leader’, you have to be a leader of something. Breath is all about chasing your own goals too, and I guess in some situation you COULD argue a Breath Player could have being a leader of some sort as their goal? But also remember the detachment. Maybe that’s what you mean. You don’t care about what you’re the leader of as long as you’re in a position of Leadership- That lack of commitment and just wanting the role would perhaps fit.
Although that sounds kind of an unhealthy reason to be in the role of a leader.
Yeah!
That depends on what terms this may happen on. If unprompted and having the dead Highblood being of an equal or higher caste, I could see there being legal complications. However we see Trolls can just sort of. Bet their lives in roleplaying games, so if it was like, a challenge of “the loser gets culled”, it’d be totally okay.
I’m pretty sure any Classpect could be a huge 8itch? Being mean or manipulative or abusive or whatever can likely fit any Classpect if you put enough thought behind it.
Depend on how they escape. I’d assume the easiest way would be through the Furthest Ring, but remember, there’s. Nothing. No landmarks, nothing to guide yourself with in the Furthest Ring. You’d need a Seer of some kind that was able to predict something, to have your Time and/or Space Players to dedicate a chunk of the Session merely to learn about the Furthest Ring, and some means of propelling some sort of ship through literal nothing. If you’re saying stumbling across a random Session? It may happen by mere chance. Or they could spend Millennia in the same location, unmoving, before crashing into a future version of their empty ship. Predicting the Furthest Ring is nigh-impossible. Navigating it for Trolls and Kids was a fluke. And don’t even get me started on the meta of John and Jade escaping by literally breaking the Fourth Wall.
They messed up the genetic code by missing one last frog.
Wait actually it was prospit not derse sorry
It’d depend on the goal, not the process. Why would you fuck up the Genesis Frog?
If it’s a Time Loop it’d make more sense for the Time Player, or at least instigated by the Time Player with the Bard being used for the process. Though generally it’s up to the Space Player in the end? Since they’re the ones messing with the frog.
Caliborn has a single quote which is literally him describing Act 1 in one quote.
Arbitrarily. Prospit/Derse don’t need to be split eventy.
Prospit, he woke up on Prospit initially, but Feferi’s smooch woke his Derse self up.
… Huh that’s true- Well, wait, no. Okay yeah given the 6-6 division Ectobiologically, he does fall under the Derse category, and when kissed he wakes up on Derse as his first Life, arguably his Main one. Howeverrrr, he woke up on Prospit first, which is why I called that his ‘main’ moon without any other consideration.
More of a Passive/Active leaning, respectively.
That’s what it seems.
Likely ships.
Huh, true.
They sadly don’t interact that much in the canon but what little they do they’re shown to be on friendly terms, but there’s this big fanon conception that they’re not friends or something or that they secretly hate each other? Shrug.
OH WAIT YOU SAID JOHN AND ROSE. I read that as Jade and Rose. Whooops. Yeah they’ve got some really fun interactions.
He actually has visible improvement to his art, even though he uses it for shitty stories.
As for the Lord of Breath, it seems whatever goals they’d have, they’d bind everyone ever to their cause, likely also unaware of it? Such a strong driving force that their decisions impact everything and everyone. Commanding all manners of wind and storms, the plot revolves around them… Motion and Freedom can be really interesting to command as well. Literally freezing people in place or figuratively leaving them stuck and outside the loop, or dragged back into the fray against their own will.
We don’t know anything about Tegiri yet.
Damara’s literally Troll Japanese, she’s not a Weeaboo. In fact she’s not even from the Lost Weeaboos, she only lived nearby.
Implied to be an adult, real age unknown, really just kind of a generic blank slate as a ‘stand-in’ for the player.
I doooo actually but I made it a while ago, so it’s a bit far back. I’ll see about fetching it later.
I have no idea, but most of them really? I just. Go to the search bar and type like. “Bard Mind”, and then Ctrl+F “Bard of Mind” to find the most relevant posts, and most of the time people ask me for a Classpect I find it there already.
SBURB had nothing to do with Kanaya’s, it’s likely just a part of their biology.
Yep.
We don’t really know if ‘dying’ is the trigger. It may be but shrug.
He’s a good boy that’s also a mess. But that describes like. Half of the cast.
To me she seems a bit more of a Knight, but I’m not 100% sure.
Sizes appear to be standardly Humanoid.
Depends? Wounds and other such things seem to disappear upon ascension, but think of Terezi’s Blindness- It’s technically a disability, but she heavily regrets seeing after getting healed by Aranea, I don’t think going God Tier would let her see again. Like… Someone who’s shy and doesn’t like their braces may get their teeth fixed, but if they’re confident about the look or don’t quite care, they may not.
Of course.
Scentception.
Classes aren’t gender-locked. At worst if there’s disphoria that’d be exacerbated by it, SBURB may just mildly modify the name, such as Prince -> Queen.
Only the main SBURB Session of a Planet needs to have any Ectobiology, since it’s the Session that sends out the Frog Temple, it needs to be played in the first place, so the Players are retroactively engineered. Not needed outside of main Sessions- Unless you mean Frog Ectobiology in which case, it’s necessary in every successful session.
If they did, they either didn’t decode it, or their Session was Void.
Alternia would’ve been razed by Meteors before the Trolls if anyone made SBURB before them and played a Session with a Reckoning.
Seems like the Frog Temple Meteor is always sent regardless of there being a Reckoning or not- But the Frog Temple is only on the Main Session and that usually also has the Reckoning in general. Seems like even without the Reckoning Skaia’s Portals pop up when Meteors Approach so maybe you can just. Artifically toss the meteors towards it.
I feel she’d love it.
Hard to say? Technically noooo because the Bubbles were made by the Horrorterrors for the Players of those specific Sessions, but also the Bubbles can emulate life- There was a projection of a memory of Dad, and all of the Lusii are sen around so like. It’s kind of confusing how that’d work. It’s implied WV dreams in the Bubbles, so maybe the adults and Ancestors would as well.
I. Mean they’re still words they need to be readable at the very least.
One of the things with Hussie’s narrative is that his work is complex, but it’s not nonsensical. It knows what it does, it knows where it wants to go, and it simply teases the audience about the journey to get to the destination. A few of Hussie’s actual writing advice is that, as long as you know what you’re doing and aren’t simply being confusing for the sake of it, people will enjoy complexity- They’ll love piecing together a carefully thought out narrative, and that kind of stories lend themselves to teasing the audience as well with arbitrary details you know they will analyze, while you’re just doing it for a joke or a reference.
Likewise, he also mentioned two really important things- He wrote Homestuck as a story he’d want to read, but didn’t exist yet. A purpose, a soul, is important for any work, even the worst piece of ficton, if presented with good intentions and trying to present something interesting, will be good. And- He wrote Homestuck as a stream of interesting events. As long as you make a story a series of interesting events, as long as there’s not just filler to get to a destination, making the journey as interesting as the destination, the fluidity of the story just happens by itself. As such, it didn’t matter if he jumped back and forth to tease people- Every moment had something to tell, and as such, Homestuck itself was something people enjoyed.
I don’t many follow other pieces of hypertext fiction avidly, so I wouldn’t know, but yes 17776 was great! Really though, hypertext or otherwise, as long as your story has a soul and you know what you want from it, it will draw people in. Hussie just struck a particularly juicy goldmine with his style, his knack for foreshadowing, and culture-remixing powers. Seriously though, he’s so good at incorporating elements of old and new cultures into his work.
Speaking of foreshadowing, that’s also a thing you can notice after looking at Homestuck for a while- He’s good at setting foreshadowing with figures, not with characters. Lord English is foreshadowed as far as Act 1, during the Title Intro with the narration pondering about a pupeteer in John’s life, something behind the scenes manipulating his life. Given Jade’s screen name has been gardenGnostic and the references to Light ever since Act 2, it’s notable that Hussie always had a Gnostic base for his story, but he didn’t make Lord English to begin with.
He just set up the idea of a Yaldabaoth-like figure to oppose the characters of the Comic, a role which, if I recall, was filled by Betty Crocker to begin with! But as the story evolved, he added complexity to it- And so, rather than make up new characters and tack them onto the story haphazardly? He made new characters to fill in the blanks he’d already set up. Allowing him to expand on the ideas he wanted to tell, while perfectly fitting his Setting.
That is a hugely impressive thing to do, and since it allows him to set up retroactive foreshadowing, a lot of things seem to have just been planned from the VERY start. And while many were? A lot of the more impressive ties were simply that. Figures. Concepts. Hussie is AMAZING at distilling characters and concepts into their raw basics- And through that, all he has to do is tease these concepts… And then fill the holes with more specific details that fit the mold of the story as it progresses.
I don’t really see her doing anything too Seer-y. Although if she was at any point, it’d speak of her relationship with Terezi above all else.
Oh yeah, that’d definitely be a thing lost in Translation with any language that uses any other system of symbols, and specially systems using syllables.
Just bodily traits. Arthour was human-ish and he granted some of the Underlings and the Royalty musculature and a moustache.