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[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Vriska: We as a society need to do something a8out the fact that frozen pizza doesn't taste good

Kanaya: You're Supposed To Heat It Up First

[graviconscientia]

I didn't play the game that so many of you did. I don't wish to, either. It does not sound like much fun... But I AM so very curious about it.

[chaosmultiverse]

"I am telling you we need to fling that mug into space or something! It cannot stay here! Ask Rose she'd probably be able to tell you it's fucked up too." Terezi was wildly gesturing at the plain white mug on the table in John's living room.

"Jeez, I- Okay? I don't get why this thing is apparently so bad but I'll trust you have a pretty good reason." John wasn't totally sure but… He did really trust Terezi's opinion on things "...You didn't like, use your Seer powers did you?" He added.

"I did and… There is a honest chance of some crazy human with no eyes and bunny ears and some office worker showing up and grabbing whoever is closest to the mug and disappearing, sometimes there's others or it's just one of them but what I can see is there is literally nothing on our end we can do to stop or allow that to happen, and it seems radom what time period this happens, sometimes I see it at night or in a morning or a sunset." Terezi explained.

"...Okay yeah that's worrying, so we wanna get it away from everyone?" John asked.

"Yup."

"Why haven't we gotten the others to help? Jade could teleport it away or Dave could leave it on like, post life Earth C."

Terezi at this point grabbed the mug and was heading to the door "Because John, it's random when they show up if at all, and while sometimes they can be frought off it is up to chance of who shows up. If someone goes missing better me than Dave or Jade."

She got to the door, she didn't turn around, she didn't need to, she could smell the worried expression John was giving her.

"Either way, either I'll see you tomorrow or… Well let the others know what happened if I don't turn up. Later John."

And like that she left before John had the chance to reply.

[graciouscashlightener]

conservedlythunderous

D-> I think it was a festival of which she went to with 'you’, and Nepeta for that matter. But Dear lord, I suppose none of my lineage are safe from perspiration.

D-> But that’s a little e%cessive… I can’t recall the last time I had that much of an… outpouring issue.

D-> I will endeavor to set a better example of Zahhak fortitude.

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D-> Pyrope.

D-> You, or at least the you of which I am more familiar, has been a subject of note recently.

D-> Perhaps I should not be surprised to see you now in this system.

[ataraxianascendant]

[realswolestrider]

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[graciouscashlightener]

D-> Alright, Nepeta insisted I repeat this back verbatim. Though I am going to omit her usual chicanery involving meowbeast rhetoric.

D-> "Gobblebeasts are tasty, but are actually low-fat! If you really wanted to get stretched to your limits you should try hoofbeast!"

D-> Oh goodness is she really hunting those again? She promised me she wouldn't do so. We will have words about this later.

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[thewertsearch]

@manorinthewoods asked: Vriska and Eridan have now killed one person each. Tavros and Feferi's respective moons have been destroyed; as such, they cannot be revived via dream selves or the moon-crypt slabs. What do you think will happen now? ~LOSS (18/5/24) @manorinthewoods asked: Welcome to Murderstuck, aka Homestuck's version of Canaan House. Who do you think's going to survive this? ~LOSS (22/5/24) Anonymous asked: tavros and feferi are D----EAD! do you think they'll stay dead? you've already stated your opinion that there are death flags like crazy all over vriska, so do you think anyone else will die? if so, who? Anonymous asked: Now that the bodies have started to hit the floor, what's your prediction for who's gonna survive to meet the humans?

I'm actually doing to do something a little different this time, and analyze the situation primarily from an author's perspective, rather than an in-universe one. I had a lot of fun doing that with yesterday's Kanaya post, so I want to try it again.

Let's enumerate the remaining trolls, in ascending order of how likely I think they are to kick the bucket (😳) during Murderstuck.

There's no chance whatsoever that Sollux will die. His Doom prophecy is fulfilled, and if he were to die a third time, it would break his long-established duality theme. Plus, he'd have predicted it, and would have been complaining about it since Hivebent. He's fine.

Death flag score: 0/10.

We just got Aradia back. She's not even involved in Murderstuck, seemingly travelling to the Furthest Ring after being resurrected, so none of the murderers can touch her anyway.

Aradia is a powerful time manipulator who can freeze even the most dangerous enemies. It would take a lot more than Eridan and Gamzee to defeat someone who can stalemate Perfect Jack, and I predict that she'll survive the rest of the Act with ease.

Plus, killing her again so soon would feel really cheap. Been there, done that.

Death flag score = 0.5/10

Karkat and Terezi are too important to die.

This doesn't always guarantee a character's survival - A Song of Ice and Fire comes to mind - but ASOIAF kind of proves my point, doesn't it? Martin can throw all the Red Weddings he likes at us, but everyone still kind of knows that the really important characters aren't going to die until their arcs are complete. If A Dream of Spring ever actually comes out, Daenerys will still be around, and you can take that to the bank.

So no, I don't think Karkat and Terezi will be going anywhere. Now that Kanaya appears to be dead, they're undeniably the most important trolls remaining, alongside Vriska. And we'll get to Vriska.

Death flag score: 1/10.

I know it's weird to predict that an already deceased character won't die, but I wrote an entire post last night about why I believe this to be the case.

tl;dr: it doesn't make narrative sense for Kanaya to stay dead.

Death flag score: 2/10.

Now, we're onto the characters who I think might actually die.

Gamzee's still alive at the end of the countdown, so he'll at least survive the next couple of hours.

Certainly, his position seems rather precarious. His stated intent to wipe out the entire Veil will make him a lot of enemies very quickly - and based on the image above, he clearly gets into some sort of trouble. That scratch almost looks like it could be the work of Jack's sword.

However, I have a hard time believing the Most Important Character In Homestuck is going to die less than halfway through Homestuck. He's been saying all sorts of cryptic nonsense lately, and he strikes me as someone whose role in the story will expand even more than it already has. Gamzee is the one character on this list we know will stay relevant for the entire comic.

I don't think he's going to achieve his murder mission, of course. I think he'll probably be 'defeated' somehow, and expelled from the Veil by the surviving trolls, only to pop up again sometime later. There's still a chance that he'll be killed - but if he is, I'm 100% sure that he'll return in some form. Gamzeesprite would be even worse than Calsprite, in my opinion.

Death flag score: 3/10.

Yes, I still believe Vriska will die - but I don't know if she'll die in Murderstuck.

Scratch positioned her as someone who will perpetuate a monumental, large-scale mistake, and I don't think there's anything she could do on the Veil that fits the bill.

However, Vriska is more imaginative than I am. She could easily pull a trick out from up her sleeve that I didn't see coming - some terrible, horrible idea that earns all of Scratch's foreshadowing in one fell swoop. Vriska is known for her Incidents, and you never know when the next one is on the horizon.

Death flag score: 4/10.

There's not a lot tying Equius and Nepeta to the Veil, is there?

They don't have strong relationships any of the remaining trolls, and even among the B-team, they've barely had any prominence since we've left Alternia. Killing one or both of them would up the stakes of Murderstuck without introducing the narrative issues that, say, a dead Karkat would cause.

Plus, if one of them dies, then the other would immediately gain an incredibly strong motivation, and become a more prominent character overnight. I already like Nepeta - but a heartbroken, vengeful Nepeta hunting Eridan down across time and space? That's a fucking arc.

They could also both die, and return to the story from another direction. It hasn't escaped my notice that almost all the 'important' trolls are Prospit Dreamers, and the two Furthest Ring explorers are Derse girls. I've been wondering for a while now if the solution to the Veil's bloated cast is to split the trolls back into the Red and Blue Teams, with the Red Team joining the kids outside the session, and the Blue Team joining Aradia in the Ring for some secondary mission. I guess that implies Tavros will be resurrected, but there do seem to be hints that that might happen.

I don't want either of these two to die, but... well, killing them would raise a lot of interesting possibilities.

Death flag score (both of them together): 6/10

Death flag score (one of them) : 7.5/10.

Eridan is screwed.

Neither the story nor the trolls can allow him to ally with Jack and lead him to the Veil, and they'll do anything they can to stop him. I don't think anyone's inclined to show him mercy, either - Kanaya and Feferi were very popular.

I don't really see any way out for him. He has no allies, he can't Hopesplode everyone at once, and he's never shown himself to be particularly resourceful. I think if there's one troll practically guaranteed to be Murderstucked, it's him.

Death flag score: 9/10.

[chthonianconversationalist]

you should draw eridan crying because he dropped his ice cream (vriska slapped it out of his hand) ((only if you want to))

I loved this ask. I debated adding a bonus terezi, but i wanted to keep the soul of vriska bully eridan.

I enjoyed drawing him so pitiful.

Might revisit later to actually color.

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

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[mindfang-srevenge]

Homestuck Trolls and Which TMA Entity They're Most Aligned With: A List By Static, with the STRONG NOTATION that this is not a diss track, just a general summation of thoughts

Karkat— Extinction. He's the mutation that heralds the end of the world. He's the mutation that dooms the world. His existence inspires the fear of the end of society, and the question of how that society could rebuild.

Vriska— Web. A gimme. Spider8itch is gonna spider8itch. She's literally got manipulation powers that-- if she would use them correctly-- would constantly invoke the fear that her friends had no free will, and were just following her orders.

Aradia— End. She takes on the job of reaper for the entire universe, there's no way her very presence doesn't inspire at least the knowledge or vibes of death in her friends. She's the ferrywoman of this universe, and more than that, she's an archaeologist. She takes an active interest in the dead and the gone. This girl's unnerving, and I adore her for it.

Sollux— Desolation. A man who's had everything taken from him, and taken from him again, and taken from him again. First with Aradia's death at his hands, then when he's killed trying to get his friends into the game, then when he gets incinerated by Jack, then when he's blinded by Eridan, then when he gives it all up to propel the ship across the yard, then when he-- you get the point. Sollux continually inspires, rather than the fear of death, the fear of total and utter loss. It's probably something to do with the Doom aspect, y'know.

Terezi— Eye. She who knows all, she who 'sees' all. She's adept enough at this job to be able to trace both the past and the future, to understand exactly where things went wrong even if she doesn't have the power to fix it herself. Good at predicting outcomes. All of these are eye traits.

Gamzee— Stranger, both because of the circus aesthetic and because of the fear of the 'other' that he inspires. He walks like their friend, he looks like their friend, he even kind of sounds like their friend-- but is it really him? Are they supposed to trust him, especially after what he did? There's something wrong here, there's something wrong about him, and he's a Stranger aboard their ship.

Eridan— Slaughter. He's constantly fulfilling the trait of 'mindless violence', after all, whether he's killing landdwellers or shooting angels or even killing his friends. He shoots first and asks questions later. He's actively thinking about genocide at almost all times. This man is a menace.

Nepeta— Hunt, which feels a little obvious. She's the stalking purredator. She's constantly RP'ing as a creature that would like no better than to play a lovely little game of cat and mouse. If she got more screentime and/or things to fight, I'm sure we could see many more examples of this in-text.

Equius— Lonely. Nobody really seems to like this man? I mean, for obvious reasons- he's kind of a creep-- but he lurks on the edges of the friend group, moreso even than Gamzee or Eridan. If he didn't live immediately next door to Vriska I'm not sure anyone but Nepeta would know him. He probably speaks to his robots more than any other troll, and he doesn't seem to particularly want to speak to anyone but Nepeta? Every conversation is so stilted, so formal, almost as if he doesn't know how to talk to people even if he did want to.

Feferi— Vast. Look, as a seadweller, she's a little more connected to the depths than most-- but she also can't leave the depths, forcing Eridan to do her hunting for her. Her lifespan is implied to be near-endless, judging from )(IC's. She's trapped on all sides by endlessness.

Tavros— Buried. Much in the way that Feferi is trapped by an expanse both around her and within her, Tavros is trapped on the ground despite his wishes. He's buried at the back of his friend group, the butt of the jokes. He's also figuratively buried by his self-doubt, which feeds into his role as Page. I feel . . . incredibly bad for this man.

Kanaya— Corruption. It's the Fear most associated with the bringing of new life, which both as a jadeblood and the protector of the Mothergrub Egg, she's deeply in tune with. Her lusus is also a winged bug-thing (mothergrub, shut up). Kanaya herself is a parasite on the other trolls, because she's a rainbow drinker.

[graviconscientia]

That's the second tealblood I've seen in as many days. Hmm.

[interrogatormentors]

Hiii feferi hows the whole rebellion thing going for ya? How u feelin?

)(IIII! Kanaya's said I seariously s)(oaldn't be losing too muc)( time answering questions and suc)( but sometimes fins get SOOOOOO BORING w)(en all you )(ave to do is sit around and listen to everyone B--EAC)( AND MOAN!!!

I love my conc)(il, really, I do! )(OW--EV--ER... -Equius is almost as bad as -Eridan used to be befoar )(e up and L--EFT!!! It doesn't )(elp t)(at Vriska keeps prawnding at )(im, and Terezi is... w)(ale, Terezi aboat it!

I s)(oald be lucky t)(at I acs)(oally )(ave t)(em to conc)(fide in, t)(oug)(… People can be like, super intimidated wit)( just little old me!

If I didn't )(ave Tavros and Karkrab around as s)(rimple as t)(ey say t)(eir roles are—(((("just figure)(eads" my GLUBBING BUTT by t)(e w)(ale!))))—it'd be a LOT )(arder to be seallowed to do as muc)( as I already do wit)(out t)(em around!

Tavros reely, reely stepped up to t)(e role! And people R-E-ELY like )(im! Krabsnack seal fucking )(ates it t)(oug)(, w)(ic)( is S-EALARIOUS.

T)(ere's always moray I want to do but… w)(ale. I )(ave to be ready to fig)(t )(-ER, so. It's training and seaing )(ow long we )(ave to wait until we get an opportunaty to get )(er.