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why-is-it-always-autumn · 5 months ago

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The Beforan ancestors are so...

We know nothing about them. We know exactly who they were. Not one of them has ever spoken a single line in anything even canon-adjacent. Everyone can agree that He Would Not Say That. We know their full legal names. We don't know what anyone called them in adulthood. We can make some pretty solid predictions about their interpersonal relationships. We don't know which of them were even alive at the same time. We only know they exist because of a bunch of parodies of 2012 tumblr.

#homestuck #beforus #just fascinated by the way the structure of homestuck makes it really really easy to analyze these characters who are inherently absent #pre-scratch feferi is the only one whos so much as alluded to the rest are barely implied #but unlike say dad crockers mom we know for a fact that they existed and we can talk about them with canon support #we cant prove anything because again they are not discussed in canon but #we know they lived on beforus #we know that most if not all of them arrived long before the dancestors #(see post scratch handmaid for evidence of potential exceptions)#we know their 'role' was to prepare their descendants for sburb #we know they were cloned in an ectobiology lab on a meteor and karkat was there #(ig technically they appear on panel in that one image of karkat getting covered in grubs since that was pre-portal but...)#we know feferi was the empress #everything else we have to extrapolate from what we know about beforus #(and everything we know about beforus is extrapolated from interactions with 12 long dead teenagers who hadnt been on the planet for years)#and what we know about sburb/sgrub and what we know about the main trolls and the alternian ancestors #we have five different sources for seer/knight interactions that we can apply to the beforan karkat/terezi dynamic #we know who vriska is when she models herself after mindfang and we know who mindfang was and we know who non-mindfang aranea is so...#we know how kankri talks about his mutation and we know what happened to the signless and we know who karkat is and we know feferi #we can make some really good guesses!#we dont even know if adult tavros had wings

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