Some Homestuck thoughts.
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snarp* Hahaha, Caliborn and Jake really were made for each other. This is the realization of the interspecies hatelationship which Karkat dreamed of having with John.
* Either Kanaya or Jade is going to help Caliborn win the game. Space is the only element doubled up in the post-scratch session, meaning that one or the other of them is superfluous there. Meanwhile, Caliborn's session is missing its space player.
Thematically, it should probably be Jade - everything's always Jade's fault! - but practically, it seems likely that it'll be Kanaya. The meteor's there, and there hasn't yet been any explanation as to why Doc Scratch took an interest in her. This could explain it.
* At some point, either Caliborn, Gamzee, or some other intruder into Caliborn's session is going to have to ectobio Caliborn, Calliope, and whoever/whatever their ancestors were into existence. Unless Caliborn and Calliope are, themselves, the result of a post-scratch session, in which casealt-Calliope did it herself or no, a dancestor probably did it, gosh why is Homestuck so complicated.
I'm assuming that at some point we get to see who their ancestors were. If there are always the same number of ancestors/backup players as there are actual players, there was only one cherub pair preceding them. This indicates that Caliborn's Freudian slip regarding "mating with" Calliope was, you know, definitely an actual Freudian slip, and their hate/hate relationship was just a normal part of the cherub reproductive cycle. It seems like neither of them consciously knew that, though Calliope should have had access to the information necessary to work it out.
* This doesn't quite mesh with any of that, but it doesn't seem impossible that alt-Calliope and alt-Caliborn are somehow alpha-Calliope and alpha-Caliborn's ancestors. We know both from Fedorafreak's texts to Nannasprite and Karkat's explanation of the Exiles that one meteor-bombarded planet can spawn multiple Incipispheres.
* It would 1) make sense, and 2) be funny if Rose either mis-aimed or was fucking with everyone, and the meteor's actually going to bust into Caliborn's session. Or into the hypothetical pre-scratch version of Caliborn's session. It would explain the presence of both the meteor and those JPEG artifacts. What else would Dave do upon being presented with a post-apocalyptic Earth?
If Rose mis-aimed, it's probably somehow because of Roxy's blackout of the session, given her ability to "flummox those with plans beyond mortal understanding." That pretty much describes Rose, right? If this happens, Dave might then be able to get them into the session anyway, by taking them back to Earth as it was much earlier in the timeline.
The other obvious alternative is that the meteor enters the post-scratch session as planned and then gets sent back to Earth through a Skaia-portal. Presumably it has Dave, at least, still on it, so he can tip off the post-scratch beta group as to the various things they need to be doing. He could then get back into the session by hiding in Dirk's apartment or Jane or Roxy's house just before they enter.
* It would be pretty awesome if Meenah and the Condesce met up and joined forces, given that they seem to have the same goal. On the other hand, they probably wouldn't actually get along, given that the only characters able to be civil to their alternate versions of themselves are Dave and Aradia, who are, not coincidentally, the Time players. The other characters who have met themselves have hated themselves, and Doc Scratch says that that's normal.
* All other foreshadowing aside, given Jade's fellow-Space-player example, there's no way Calliope and alt-Calliope will get along.
* What is going on with the post-scratch kids' denizens, anyway?
* The only element missing from the post-scratch session is Doom, and Sollux isn't quite dead. I wonder if he's somehow necessary?
* Either Kanaya or Jade is going to help Caliborn win the game. Space is the only element doubled up in the post-scratch session, meaning that one or the other of them is superfluous there. Meanwhile, Caliborn's session is missing its space player.
Thematically, it should probably be Jade - everything's always Jade's fault! - but practically, it seems likely that it'll be Kanaya. The meteor's there, and there hasn't yet been any explanation as to why Doc Scratch took an interest in her. This could explain it.
* At some point, either Caliborn, Gamzee, or some other intruder into Caliborn's session is going to have to ectobio Caliborn, Calliope, and whoever/whatever their ancestors were into existence. Unless Caliborn and Calliope are, themselves, the result of a post-scratch session, in which case
I'm assuming that at some point we get to see who their ancestors were. If there are always the same number of ancestors/backup players as there are actual players, there was only one cherub pair preceding them. This indicates that Caliborn's Freudian slip regarding "mating with" Calliope was, you know, definitely an actual Freudian slip, and their hate/hate relationship was just a normal part of the cherub reproductive cycle. It seems like neither of them consciously knew that, though Calliope should have had access to the information necessary to work it out.
* This doesn't quite mesh with any of that, but it doesn't seem impossible that alt-Calliope and alt-Caliborn are somehow alpha-Calliope and alpha-Caliborn's ancestors. We know both from Fedorafreak's texts to Nannasprite and Karkat's explanation of the Exiles that one meteor-bombarded planet can spawn multiple Incipispheres.
* It would 1) make sense, and 2) be funny if Rose either mis-aimed or was fucking with everyone, and the meteor's actually going to bust into Caliborn's session. Or into the hypothetical pre-scratch version of Caliborn's session. It would explain the presence of both the meteor and those JPEG artifacts. What else would Dave do upon being presented with a post-apocalyptic Earth?
If Rose mis-aimed, it's probably somehow because of Roxy's blackout of the session, given her ability to "flummox those with plans beyond mortal understanding." That pretty much describes Rose, right? If this happens, Dave might then be able to get them into the session anyway, by taking them back to Earth as it was much earlier in the timeline.
The other obvious alternative is that the meteor enters the post-scratch session as planned and then gets sent back to Earth through a Skaia-portal. Presumably it has Dave, at least, still on it, so he can tip off the post-scratch beta group as to the various things they need to be doing. He could then get back into the session by hiding in Dirk's apartment or Jane or Roxy's house just before they enter.
* It would be pretty awesome if Meenah and the Condesce met up and joined forces, given that they seem to have the same goal. On the other hand, they probably wouldn't actually get along, given that the only characters able to be civil to their alternate versions of themselves are Dave and Aradia, who are, not coincidentally, the Time players. The other characters who have met themselves have hated themselves, and Doc Scratch says that that's normal.
* All other foreshadowing aside, given Jade's fellow-Space-player example, there's no way Calliope and alt-Calliope will get along.
* What is going on with the post-scratch kids' denizens, anyway?
* The only element missing from the post-scratch session is Doom, and Sollux isn't quite dead. I wonder if he's somehow necessary?
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