#but also thats what they are to me they represent the homestuck subcultures and now its like

[landoffreaksandfrogs]

I'm a cherubhead so I HAVE to hear what you did to them in the swap au. is caliborn still a turdburger but completely ineffectual now? did calliope girlboss too close to the sun? etc etc

so im definitely going to keep the themes of the cherubs characters, i.e. representing the fandom, but kind of like, theyre still not necessarily not still the things that they are.

caliborn is now the fandom's passion, but also somewhat their...all-encompassing presence in the early fandom days. constant bucket jokes, "let me tell you about homestuck," the fake stories where the cop read homestuck, their presence at cons. its passion! its a positive reaction to homestuck, but its kind of overwhelming and is "cringe." caliborn kind of struggles to treat the alpha kids as...other people, rather than characters. but he...DOES want to kind of push everyone into a "happy ending" and have everyone he ships to HOLD HANDS ALREADY.

on the opposite side, calliope represents fandom antipathy and criticism. shes always questioning WHY certain "writing choices" were made, even if in-universe these writing choices are simply. choices. that the characters around her made. deeply critical and humiliated by her brothers antics, her goal is not to destroy homestuck, but to make something *better* from its ashes. shes kind of like. the shame ex-homestucks feel. the thing with swap!calliope is that you do still sympathize with her on some level. shes frustrated and just *sad* that she cant let the story go. on some levels shes similar to alt!callie from canon, just angrier.

her "lord english" form (name pending) is a combination of AM (janes autoresponder), aradia, herself, and one other female troll who i havent decided yet.