What the boyfrond said. Of all the dancestors, the ones that seem to have any real importance so far (that I have met) are Meenah, Aranea and Kurloz. I've heard that Kankri has some relevance, and Porrim is a little too well-developed to be just a one-shot, but most of them are just kind of there.
Plus, Roxy's sleepwalking indicates that at least one timeline's Nepeta actually ends up with one timeline's Karkat, which is lovely.
I think Ali means more 'why does Hussie spend time writing Cronus scenes when he could be writing adorable stuff about Nep and Equius'.
Which is understandable.
And Naney, there is the fact that Nepeta and Feferi got reduced to 'emoticons only' characters after the whole sprite business, which is certainly less than optimal uses of those characters.
So, restarted yesterday and played through the last segment of Dancestor Introduction Theatre, and now I'm on the part where Rose is drunk and realised that she has just become an auspistice. Oh my.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
It's weird; as the Lalondes got older, they become more like the other. Rose understood why her mother drank and followed her example, and Roxy stopped drinking because she wanted to clean herself up.
It is strange, but I am starting to like Caliborn in a very twisted way. He is a lonely, angry boy who hates everything and everyone, but at this point it is funny and somewhat pitiable rather than totally repulsive. His future self is utterly monstrous, but at this point he is merely a truculent pissant. The only thing that keeps his impotent flailing rage from being outright cute is that it sometimes actually causes damage—and without anyone to make him into a better person, well, look what happens...
So, you've probably gotten to the part where Hussie says that Gamzee never dies in any timeline whatsoever. With no explanation besides 'he's a clown'.
Given that Hussie spent most of A6I4 trolling Caliborn, I wouldn't be surprised if someone does find a way to kill Gamzee eventually, especially since Sollux said all the trolls would die.
Also, this is one of the funnest things in the entire work:
MARK MY WORDS. WHOEVER YOU ARE.
SOME DAY I WILL TRACK YOU DOWN. AND KILL YOU.
You already did.
LIAR.
It's true. It already happened in like the quasi-future.
UH. WHAT.
For someone who's supposed to be a Lord of Time, you really kind of suck at thinking 4th dimensionally.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
See, here's the thing. English is still the huge pissant that Caliborn ever was; it's just that English has power now. And that's scary on a meta-level, because you're not facing an evil overlord of a demagogue or even a god; you're facing a spoiled child who just wants to ruin everybody's fun.
Well, the difference is there, power aside, but it is simply one of never growing up or seeking to better himself. By never being forced to change, his obnoxiousness has festered into something unusually putrid. Add an incredible amount of power to the product of that kind of stunted growth and you get something unimaginably dangerous.
Do we know when in Gamzee's personal timeline he raised Caliborn/Calliope from grubhood? "Clown powers, lol" or not, Gamzee can't die before he does that.
Judging by the fact that the Calis were raised in the ruins of the meteor, one would think that it takes place after the point that we are currently at.
On a different note, I find it at once perverse and kind of cool that despite basically saying nothing onstage, Fefeta was actually kind of important. It's like Hussie decided to mock and annoy all of the obsessed Nepeta fans (and perhaps Feferi fans) while simultaneously throwing them an actual bone for once.
HOLY MACK-ER-EL CAN YOU S)(ITFUCKS JUST -ENJOY YOUR SPAC-E LIZARD PORN W)(IL-E I TAK-E A FUCKING PISS???
The whole cherub story is really cool, by the way. The random interlude with Nepeta and Feferi reappearing and donning pirate gear was a nice touch, too.
KARKAT: HOW COULD I STEAL SOMETHING FROM THE COMMON AREA? NOBODY ACTUALLY OWNS ANY OF THAT FUCKING FURNITURE.
KARKAT: THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED THE *COMMON* AREA, YOU ACCUSATORY PIECE OF FILTH.
DAVE: sounds like communism
DAVE: are you a communist or something
DAVE: actually that makes perfect sense what with your sickle and all
KARKAT: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??
DAVE: wait john has a hammer oh shit its all adding up
DAVE: when we arrive are you going to team up with john and seize the means of production
KARKAT: YOU APPEAR TO BE JUMPSTARTING A FACETIOUS DISCUSSION ABOUT SOME SORT OF HUMAN ECONOMIC IDEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK, WITHOUT HAVING THE SLIGHTEST CLUE THAT YOUR VEHICLE IS PARKED SQUARELY IN THE NOBODY GIVES A FUCK ZONE.
DAVE: im just saying
DAVE: first chairs what next
DAVE: see i am all about private property and pocketing dough
What makes that line particularly hilarious is that the Homestuck fandom really likes to use idiosyncratic shipping nicknames. So for months or years before that update, Karkat/John was widely known as "Communism".
I was aware of the latter facts but not the former. But that does put an interesting spin on casual yet bizarre statements like, "I enjoy cotton candy and strongly support communism," in certain contexts.
On a different note, I find it at once perverse and kind of cool that despite basically saying nothing onstage, Fefeta was actually kind of important. It's like Hussie decided to mock and annoy all of the obsessed Nepeta fans (and perhaps Feferi fans) while simultaneously throwing them an actual bone for once.
That was no bone. That was yanking the chain under the pretext that letting-the-chain-a-bit-loose-before-yanking-it = bone-throwing.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Which is understandable.
And Naney, there is the fact that Nepeta and Feferi got reduced to 'emoticons only' characters after the whole sprite business, which is certainly less than optimal uses of those characters.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Or metatext level 6. Metatext level 5 might be where Hussie trades the Kickstarter money for the ring.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
This is part of why I am not down with the clown.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Oh, and so as not to miss yet another opportunity for an appropriate soundtrack...
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I disagree.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I think the mutiny was more to set up Vriska's hissyfit rather than for the mutineers to have their own subplot.
And Fefeta....yeah, the transformation basically destroyed any sense of agency that either of those characters had.