#the fact a ghost ship can be spotted from a gold tooth is really something

[roxannepolice]

Getting stuff out of my system so maybe I can sleep. So obviously I loved The Giggle and loved the Toymaker, but as a Thoschei shipper I can't express how important it is to me how impersonal the Toymaker was about the whole thing and while my dreams of old men making out have not been realied, the ghost of the Master hanging over the episode really emphasised that. Like, welcome home cheater jokes are great and I was getting lowkey irritated by how both the fans and the writers were making ALL of the Master's actions about the Doctor.

But I was also worried that with a campy game loving villain that would also have a love hate obsession with and resentment for the Doctor, RTD would basically say behold the Master only +++ this obviously had nothing to do with CC giving the Doctor a literal speech about being better than the Master introducing a Dia de los Muertos villain that has soooo much history with the Doctor but is also soooo very powerful and then reiterating that the Master hates themself and only wants to be the Doctor but can't because of essentialism posing as existentialism. nothing whatsoever.

But no. Again, I am a bit tired of the Master being presented mainly as not-Doctor and I do think that if Ten didn't timelock the Tardis, they wouldn't have chosen their pet planet specifically, but compare Saxon's No. This is my turn. Revenge. Best. Served. Hot. to the Toymaker's cold Best of three. Compare the Master drawing pleasure from playing Satan the accuser about humans-turned-toclafane to the Doctor specifically because it's their pet species to the Toymaker being himself attracted to humans because of their nature sth sth Johan Huizinga sth sth homo ludens and play as the foundation of culture sth sth 2001: SO with bone and ball sth sth murder as kickstarter of culture and play as kickstarter of culture. Look at Ten's addendum of If that's what you want to the offer he makes the Master in s3, emphasising that he wants to understand what is it that the latter is after, and at Fourteen's certainty that the Toymaker really is only after games.

Don't get me wrong, I'm far from throwing monogamy at either the Doctor or the Master and they probably both made out with the Toymaker, both individually and menage a trois. But if after literal weeks of holding my breath for an actual cameo I leave the episode fully sated after a gold tooth and laughing sounds and people from outside my Davy Jones' Locker stuck ghost ship notice it too, then I'd say RTD did some really good job hanging the Master's ghost over the story. And that was not just to fan serve. It also made a point about the differences between those relationships.

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Homestuck Epilogues Theory

Alright alright, the Epilogues were A LOT of stuff, specially confusing! As 90% of Homestuck so it’s ok I guess.

Today I got stuck in traffic for about 1 hour and got some time to think about a few things and discussed later on with some buddies and we sorta crammed out this sorta of theory for what the epilogues are really about / how they’re playing out. (I’d like first to apologize, because I sucks at writing, I sucks at explaining and this is the first time I write down a fan-teory) So here we go, hope you’re ready for some babbling nonsense!!! (all under the cut because it’s LONG)

We know that both Meat and Candy happens at the same time and that thye both interact with the Canon session where LE is being faced, but since it’s also sorta of confirmed that Candy is like a “ghost” mirrored dimension that exist just because John had to make a choiche (therefore creating 2 paths) this is meant to be considered with the Meat closing.

Everything is just Skaia/Sburb trying to start a new session. (or restarting the first session this is up to debate)

I’ts known that the whole Homestuck happens because it’s the Universe creating a life cycle and reproducing, wich is a thing that our characters are trying to stop when they decide to live “out of canon”.

That’s why Dirk “has to be stopped” because by going off and starting up a new session would force everybody back into canon. But how’s he gonna start up a new session you may ask? Well since he reached his Ultimate Form he gained the ability to take direct action on the characters due to his Heart Aspect, as seen in most of Meat, and is explained on candy by U-Callie that he became a narrator. However  he can just narrate “on the spot” as clever U-Dirk is and knows his friends up to predict possible reactions he sure can’t predict on a larger scale... So how to fix this? How is it possible to know in advance possible outcomes? Well but with a Seer obviously! That’s why he manipulater Rose to Ascend to her Ultimate form and convinced her that she needed to transport her coscence in a robot, so he could have her under control (because I’m pretty sure that if Rose were in good shape and not consumed by drugs she would have recongized his narration and definately opposed) so U-Dirk would be able to plan and predict every outcome and becoming an inside narrator.

However as narrator he can just of course describe the situations and manipulate the characters thowards his planned outcome and we saw in Meat that some characters reacted actively to his narration by eiher commenting or totally ignoring him. With this we can understand that characters actually have a free mind and will, so how could U-Dirk pass over this incovenient? Well with the help of another Seer, of course! And what other seer is avaiable and already achieve its Ultimate Status?

TEREZI

U-Dirk managed to have John bring her on Heart C and we knows from Jade in Meat that Terezi is with John on Dirk ship and in Candy’s PT we get a confirmation of this with the presence of the red slippers on board. So with U-Rose under his control and Terezi’s help U-Dirk can now be able to plan ahead everything and shape the story as he will as an omniscent narrator.

SO THEN

How can him be stopped? Well simple, by U-Callie. In Meat’s PT she is in Jade’s body and consumed LE, gaining his powers, then open up a wormhole and flies trought it, followed later by U-Dave. We think they’re going in the new session and try face U-Dirk by modifying the whole universe against him using both U-Callie narrator’s voice, Jade’s and Calliope’s Space power combined with Dave’s and Caliborn’s Time power. Causing also a total and definitive cut of Candy’s ghost bubble with the rest of the canon-scope.

BUT but but but... bear with me a bit longer please.

By talking about the epilogue we kept feeling that something was “off” and “not right” and rereading with the U-dirk’s final intentions in mind, we realized that in the last part of Meat, where Dirk is in full control of the storyline he pays a lot of attention to John, and especially he insist to Terezi to bring him aswell.

So we asked ourself “why” several times and well, we re-read some parts several time and we’re pretty sure that John is not dead at all.

John’s story starts being narrated by Dirk after he get wouned by LA, so after thate everything it’s said, it’s said by Dirk, and it’s likely that some fact were invented or altered up to move every chess piece in it’s place. What is it off and untrue then?

LE poison

The poision gets acknowledged only when Dirk’s narration steps in and not when John get’s stabbed by LE’s gold tooth... wich being a prostetic part couln’t possibly transmit any poison at all. By making a quick check we never find any other talk regarding any Cherub’s poison and especially regarding that it would override a key game mechanic! On Earth C U-Dirk makes John belive that his death will be permanent and then forcefully and quickly kills him in the middle of a dialogue by narration and have his corpse captchalogued by Terezi almost immediately blocking the respawn.

His captchalogues body then is kept by Terezi wich is then also convinced to bring it with her on U-Dirk’s ship.

Our main guess is that so he couln’t be de-captchalogged and respawned, because John still have his retcon power, making him actually one of the most powerful characters. Keeping him in check then would mean for U-Dirk a clear way for his plan.

Another guess for us is that his retcon power could be of U-Dirk’s use later on, peraphs on a fight with U-Callie.

So well... those are our main thoughts! Our train of tought started actually with John’s death because for us it reeeeeeally felt off and then worked everyting above from there Hope you’ll find them interesting, and we’re really courious to see what yuo guys think, so let us know!!! And really, i suck at explaining and writing so feel free to ask me if some stuff aren’t clear and I’ll try my best.