Okay so I know dirk and caliborn both have the strongest denizen, the one who shows up for players who are natural warriors and really strong. But I didn't realize Jake's denizen, abraxas, was implied to be the really weak one karkat had? For some reason, I thought jake was supposed to be a really good fighter, and was just letting Vriska bully him. Is Jake actually weak? How is abraxas tied to the cherubs if calliope had echidna? I'm also confused about jake lol. What is he

Jake is strong, and so is Karkat. See, here’s where the lore with the Denizens starts to get deep- Yaldabaoth is the ‘strongest Denizen’, for ‘natural-born warriors’, but both his Name and his Title suggest otherwise. He’s the self-proclaimed God of All Monsters, and taking into account the Gnostic roots of the name Yaldabaoth, he is a False God. A cruel, false creator, who creates a flawed reality with suffering and death. Abraxas, on the other hand, is the True God. Yaldabaoth holding dominion over the Material World, the World of Darkness, but Abraxas being the God of the World of Ideas, of Light.

It’s NOT explicitly stated that Karkat had Abraxas, however if he suspects he had the ‘weakest Denizen’, it would make sense for his Denizen to be the opposite of Yaldabaoth, and that can only be Abraxas. This simple statement actually has some interesting ramifications, specially because we know, Abraxas, the True God, wouldn’t merely be ‘the easiest boss’. There’s definitely something more to the arbitrary selection of Yaldabaoth and Abraxas, and it likely has to do with their Choices, and the Roles of those who are assigned these Denizens. The prophecy of taking LE down befell Jake’s shoulders, Karkat was allowed to lead his people in the new World, and while both of them have shown themselves to be very capable in combat, they are also… Emotional boys who love their friends and struggle with a lot of bullshit. So there’s more to them than we’re told directly by the characters.

Now, Calliope may have had Echidna because she’s a Hero of Space, but the mere fact Caliborn is the Yaldabaoth of Homestuck immediately ties Calliope, her opposite, to the World of Ideas. Where Caliborn is a cruel, manipulative asshole, Calliope learns love, compassion, creativity… He abhors his sister’s creations, and even when he himself learns to draw, he uses it to make a flawed, awful version of the events of the story, while Calliope draws romantic fanfiction and stories where everyone is happy and not fighting. And just like that, Calliope herself is cast into the darkness of the Furthest Ring, barely in contact with those she cares about, while Caliborn has full, 24/7 surveillance of the characters of the story, and is insidiously present and manipulating every last bit of the story.

It’s Alt Calliope, at the end, that tears down this awful reality to Collapse upon Lord English, while Callie lives on in the new World. Lord English is trapped in the reality of his own design, his own Time Loop. Fixated on creating a world of destruction, on causing as much death and suffering as he can, while the protagonists escape into a Universe which holds the very symbol of Light within it, just like the Sun at the beginning of Homestuck. Caliborn embraces the ideals of a Yaldabaoth, and becomes the single most oppressive force in Paradox Space. On the other hand, Calliope embraces creativity, ideals, and it’s a version of herself that puts an end to the Yaldabaoth’s World of Darkness. However, I don’t think this quite ties her to Abraxas- I am not, by any means, an expert when it comes to Gnosticism, but if anything she seems more akin to Sophia, or even Christos, providing a means of escape from Yaldabaoth and to the World of Ideas.

In either case? By design of their duality, the Cherubs are both related to Yaldabaoth and Abraxas, even if Calliope had Echidna herself, and the fact that Jake had Abraxas is no coincidence. There’s… Really so much symbology with their entire Arc, but I would need to dig really far through conversations and panels to get everything, so yeah.