#doing homework and/or sleeping is OUT making hs spreadsheets is IN

[hinotorihime]

so you know when you have a new hyperfixation and suddenly forget how to do or think about anything else? yeah ok so anyway it occurred to me that homestuck was popular right around the time when people were making "this is war" amvs for every fandom under the sun so i went to go check just for fun.

...three videos featuring Eridan as “the pariah” later i started making a spreadsheet.

so! under the cut are the actual stats here because i’ve lost control of my life i guess

the initial corpus.

i found a total of 26 homestuck "this is war" videos on youtube. of these, 3 are adaptations of the same comic; 5 are disqualified bc they don't appear to be assigning specific characters to the lines; and one wasn't actually an AMV. (disqualified videos are marked with an asterisk in the spreadsheet above).

of the remaining 18, 2 switch to using a full animation (not synched to match specific characters to lines) for only the third list of archetypes; 2 others skew my sample set a little due to being specifically dedicated to the ancestors and/or guardians.

“The Soldier"

there's not really an overwhelming preference for one person, but Dave and Equius show up frequently (4x each). "soldier" Equius is always paired with "civilian" Nepeta, which is very cute I think.

in this and all other pie charts, “other” groups all characters who appear in that spot only one time in the corpus.

"The Civilian"

as mentioned above, Nepeta is a popular choice, especially paired with Equius. pretty varied otherwise. note skewing from one instance of the same shot of Dave being used for both Soldier and Civilian. there's also a shot used of all the troll kids together.

"The Martyr"

no consensus on this. i'm actually genuinely surprised that The Signless/Sufferer didn't show up more here, it feels like that one's a gimme.

“The Victim"

poor Tavros.

"The Prophet"

there's some weird overlap here because Terezi and Redglare are so thoroughly identified with each other in both canon and a lot of the art that it can be hard to distinguish them. together, they make up good portion of the "prophets".

"The Liar"

this is so fucking funny to me. Vriska is nearly unanimous even if you don't count her ancestor in with her (there's only one instance in my corpus where the person shown is unambiguously actually Mindfang rather than Vriska "hero-worshipping LARPer" Serket)

"The Honest"

on the other hand, the spread is very wide for this one. there's a slight preference for Kanaya and/or The Dolorosa.

"The Leader"

you may think that assigning this line would be easy, and it is! there are exactly two videos that don't use Karkat or The Signless as "the leader", and those two are: 1. John 2. the beginning of a full section (non-character-synced) devoted to Alpha Dave and Rose.

"The Pariah"

I genuinely don't understand why Eridan is so popular in this spot. The two occurrences of Sollux confuse me even more.

the * in the chart is for the two full animations used: one of Alpha Dave and Rose, one of the beta kids watching John godtier.

"The Victor"

another wide spread with no real consensus. note that I didn't count the Alpha Dave/Rose animation as an instance of Dave, but I DID count a shot featuring Dave and Rose together. I also counted that Rose under “other” as a single instance of “Rose”, so the numbers might be a bit weird on this chart.

"The Messiah"

fun fact: when I was making the chart I accidentally typed "the gamzee" into the title.

this is another one where i was kind of surprised that The Sufferer only showed up once.

other fun trivia.

most of these videos were published fairly close around (right before or soon after) the time of Cascade, which explains the dearth of alpha kids: Dirk appears twice (both as “the soldier”), and someone who I think is Jake appears once as Dirk’s “civilian” counterpart. Roxy and Jane appear only in ensemble shots.

the most common concatenation of characters seems to be “the leader” as Karkat, “the pariah” as Eridan, someone from the 5x Showdown as “the victor”, and “the messiah” as Gamzee.

Davesprite appears three times: as “the soldier”, “the prophet”, and “the messiah”.

there’s a lot of love for the Exiles, as there should be

neither John nor Jade appear more than once assigned to a particular archetype.