Did Dirk ever actually make the Janesponder?

They had time, and apparently they were still talking even while resenting each other about Interpersonal Issues. Maybe Janesponder is the real REAL team leader.

This thought brought to you by the Homestuck-Cyteen crossover in my head in which the Condesce is Ari I and Jane is Ari II. Who shall Roxy, Calliope, Dirk, and Jake be? What to do with the Warricks, other-Jane, the Catlin-Florian unit, and Denys?

BTW Cyteen is basically Complacency of the Learned if Rose was into hard SF.

It's this big impenetrable book with a zillion meandering digressions about a woman with a dual nature who's both the hero and the villain. She must rise up to take out the FOOLS who DARE to limit her grand vision.

Except that CotL is apparently more sarcastic about it. Cyteen takes itself super seriously.

The stuff about how the brain-doubles can never meet without causing permanent psychological damage - haha, Cherryh, Rose laughs at your charming naivete. It's so much worse than that. IT MAKES JADE TALK IN ALL-CAPS.

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othercat2:

Unless you’ve read Cyteen and/or Regenesis this will possibly not be relevant.

As a plottish idea.

If…

Arianne Emory 1=Ari Emory 2

then…

Her Imperial Condescension = Feferi Peixes

Though it seems to break down almost immediately. But! Ari 2 is pretty much a more velvet gloved version of Ari…

Oh man, I’m actually not the only person who thinks the Condesce is Ari I.

IT’S SO OBVIOUS PEOPLE.

(Crossposted from Tumblr.)

Homestuck update.

( Exposition Time, with Aranea and yeah, basically just Aranea. )