#troubl3

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~* your biy got fucking ground3d

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TEREZI: 1F 4 SUP3RV1LL41N S41D

ARANEA: "You won't kill me, that'd m8ke you just like me."

TEREZI: 1 WOULD S1MPLY S4Y "NO 1T WOULDNT 1D B3 S4V1NG M1LL1ONS OF P3OPL3" 4ND TH3 V1LL41N WOULD S4Y

ARANEA: "8ut you'd 8e dooming yourself. Could you really live knowing you're a killer?"

TEREZI: 4ND 1D S4Y "W3LL 1D C3RT41NLY H4V3 TROUBL3. 1LL PROB4BLY B3 V3RY S4D 4BOUT 1T. D3F1N1T3LY 4 LOT TO UNP4CK." 4ND TH3YD S4Y

ARANEA: "So, you won't do it."

TEREZI: 4ND 1D S4Y "OH NO 1M ST1LL GONN4" 4ND TH3YD S4Y

ARANEA: "What?"

TEREZI: 4ND 1D S4Y "YOUR3 4 SUP3RV1LL41N R3SPONS1BL3 FOR COUNTL3SS D34THS 4ND Y3T H3R3 YOU 4R3 D3SP3R4T3LY TRY1NG TO B4RG41N FOR YOUR L1F3. YOU W4NT TO L1V3. WH1CH M34NS YOU C4N 34S1LY L1V3 W1TH YOURS3LF 4FT3R B31NG R3SPONS1BL3 FOR COUNTL3SS D34THS"

TEREZI: "1 ON TH3 OTH3R H4ND W1LL 4T TH3 V3RY L34ST H4V3 TR3M3NDOUS D1FF1CULTY W1TH 3V3N K1LL1NG JUST ON3 P3RSON 4ND 4T WORST M1GHT JUMP OUT 4 W1NDOW R1GHT 4FT3R 1 DO 1T. TH3 V3RY N4TUR3 OF TH1S WHOL3 CONV3RS4T1ON 4BOUT WH3TH3R W3 4R3 TH3 S4M3 H4S PROV3N TO M3 W3 4R3 V3RY MUCH NOT TH3 S4M3 4ND 1 4M C3RT41N K1LL1NG YOU TO S4V3 M1LL1ONS 1S TH3 MOR4LLY CORR3CT D3C1S1ON H3R3." 4ND TH3YD S4Y

ARANEA: "What?"

TEREZI: 4ND 1D S4Y "G3T K1LL3D, 1D1OT"

VRISKA: Hm. If a supervillain said,

ARANEA: "You won't kill me, that'd m8ke you just like me."

VRISKA: I would simply say, "Get killed, idiot!!!!!!!!"

[thewertsearch]

GC: 4ND FOR MY FR13NDS, TO PROT3CT TH3M FROM TH31R T3ND3NCY TO UND3R3ST1M4T3 TH3 POW3R TH31R CONFUS1ON H4S OV3R TH31R F4T3 GC: TO K33P TH3M OUT OF TROUBL3, D4V3 >:] TG: is that what you were doing just now GC: M4YB3 1 W4S! GC: YOU N3V3R KNOW, S33RS 4R3 NOTOR1OUSLY CRYPT1C 1N TH31R W4YS

They might not even intend to be cryptic.

If you have a class which lets you intuitively understand a certain Aspect, then you're probably going to have trouble explaining your viewpoint to those who lack your advanced insight.

GC: 1 KNOW TH4T YOU W3R3 ON TO SOM3TH1NG WH3N YOU S41D LUCK W4SNT 1NVOLV3D W1TH TH3 CO1N FL1P […] GC: […] LUCK 1S 4 V3RY R34L TH1NG! GC: FORTUN3 1S TH3 3SS3NC3 OF L1GHT, 4ND 1T SH1N3S ON THOS3 WHOV3 M4ST3R3D 1T

Light is the aspect of luck, then. Vriska's abilities now make perfect sense - and come to think of it, so does the name of her Land.

What is treasure but a fortune, waiting to be found?

GC: BUT 1 KNOW SOM3TH1NG MOR3 1MPORT4NT TH4N TH1S GC: 1T 1S 4 B1G S3CR3T GC: M4YB3 TH3 B1GG3ST 4ND MOST 1MPORT4NT S3CR3T OF 4LL GC: LUCK DO3SNT 4CTU4LLY M4TT3R >8]

For all her posturing, Vriska's luck manipulation has a rather limited scope. Sure, she can make bad things happen to people, but those are still Alpha Timeline events. Her 'luck' doesn't change fate - it facilitates it.

It's decisions that can change fate, careening you into a new, more dangerous timeline. And Terezi is the master of decisions.

[pesterloglog]

Terezi Pyrope

Act 6, page 7939-7949

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GC: BUT 4T L34ST 1 TH1NK 1 UND3RST4ND TH4T NOW

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gallowsCalibrator [GC] ceased trolling arachnidsGrip [AG]

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GC: my 3mploy3r h4s prov1d3d m3 w1th 4 h1v3 4nd 4 purpos3 qn d34th. p3rh4ps 1t 1s t1m3 th4t 1 show my 4ppr3c14t1on. th3 troubl3 1s, 1 dont h4v3 4 m34ns of do1ng so. 1 c4nt 3x4clty off3r to c4ptur3 som3body for th3m. my sk1lls w3r3 n3v3r m34nt to b3 us3d for h3lp1ng som3on3, 4s much 4s pun1sh th3m. th4t m4k3s 4 conundrum for m3 now th4t 1 n33d to do som3th1ng n1c3 for 4 ch4ng3.

[bloodbagcutesy2112]

h1y4! 1m h3r3 to c4us3 no troubl3, just to 4sk a f3w qu3st1ons. my names r3z1, y4 m1ght know m3. 1 1nh3r1t3d your t1tl3 on 4lt3rn14st1ms, w3ll, th4t w4s b3for3 1 w4s rud3ly r3mov3d by th3 m41n mod (mod n3p3t4, th3 old n3p3t4 you kn3w qu1t wh3n sh3 h4d h3r br34kdown), 4nd 1 w4nt to 3xpos3 th3 mods on th3 4ccount for wh4t th3y r34lly 4r3. d1rty ly1ng 4bus3rs.

now you m1ght b3 4sk1ng yours3lf "so why is she coming to ME? i quit alterniastims so long ago!" b3c4us3 1 know you h4v3 a h1story w1th th3 m41n mod 4nd poss1bly h4v3 th1ngs th4t would h3lp 3xpos3 th3m to th3 public (th1s 1s both 4n 3xpos1ng of h1m 4nd 4lt3rn14st1ms.) you c4n r3m41n 4nonymous 1f you so w1sh!

1f you 4r3n't w1ll1ng to sh4r3 th3 1nform4t1on, th4ts ok4y too! h4v3 4 n1c3 d4y!

[translation:

hiya! i here to cause no trouble, just to ask a few questions. my names rezi, ya might know me. i inherited your title on alterniastims, well, that was before i was rudely removed by the main mod (mod nepeta, the old nepeta you knew quit when she had her breakdown and i want to expose the mods on the account for what they really are. dirty lying abusers.

now you might be asking yourself "so why is she coming to ME? i quit alterniastims so long ago!" because i know you have a history with the main mod and possibly have things that would help expose them to the public (this is both an exposing of him and alterniastims) you can remain anonymous if you so wish!

if you aren't willing to share the information, thats okay too! have a nice day! ]

Hi. I appreciate the ask, Miss Rezi. You’re correct, I do have quite a history with this account. I even temporarily left when me and the main mod were still friends. I quickly regained my title, however.

The main mod and I were friends for at least three to four years prior to this. Every time, it ended with me blocking them, since they were abusive. They gaslit me everytime we met into thinking that they had changed. About the second time we met, we started dating yet they convinced me it was one sided. After that, they stopped talking to me for about two or three months, only to come back to let me know they had ran off and started dating my crush at the time. This time when they came back into my life, they hit me up saying they had changed. I foolishly decided to believe him, fully knowing nothing good could come of it. I gave them my address so they could send me things, and they gave me theirs so I could send them things. Now, they’ve been sending me anon hate. Saying I look like I “get off to corpses”, saying I look “acoustic”, and at one point, saying they’d “break into (my) your house and rape (me) you so hard”. I turned off anon asks for that reason, but me and my friends send each other anon asks in character for our role plays, and I figured I was safe. I think yours was the most pleasant thing I could have expected when I found an anon ask in my inbox. Also, yes, I have their address, and I am fully prepared to report them to the police if their harassment continues.

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[passtheglassofass]

There are patented plants that are illegal to propagate.... what the fuck

[bedglaring]

😳 😳 😳 😳

Send 😳  to send my muse a very unintentional nude!

> Redglare spent a good minute coughing up water that she nearly choked on when she opened up her messages to see not one but FOUR pictures of Wendy in suggestive positions. Her face was completely flushed teal. Sweat dripped from her brow because she couldn't keep herself from examining the images closely, occasionally looking over her shoulders to make sure nobody could see what she was looking at before replying. She didn't want anyone seeing her searching up how to save images.

GC: not to s4y th4t your3 not b34ut1ful or 4nyth1ng, but 1 dont r3c4ll 4sk1ng for your body on d1spl4y! >80

GC: my poor bloodpush3r 4lmost burst out of m3. 4t l34st g1v3 m3 4 W4RN1NG n3xt t1m3!!!!

GC: 1s th4t r34lly wh4t your k1nd look l1k3? 1ts so... so SMOOTH. 1 c4n s33 why so m4ny h4v3 troubl3 k33p1ng th31r h4nds to th3ms3lv3s 4round you.

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~* i wish i could kill p3opl3 without g3tting into troubl3

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GC: 4ND ON3 D4Y GC: YOU W1LL T4K3 OFF THOS3 DUMB GL4SS3S 4ND L3T M3 G3T 4NOTH3R SN1FF 4T YOUR 3Y3S [...] GC: 1T 1S SO S3LF1SH OF YOU TO K33P TH3M COV3R3D UP GC: 4ND TH3 L4M3 S3CR3CY SURROUND1NG 1T 1S ONC3 4G41N R3M1ND1NG M3 OF 4 C3RT41N YOU KNOW WHO >:|

I feel like it's a little unfair to characterize Karkat's anxiety about his blood color as 'lame'. He was literally hiding it to stay alive.

TG: can you see in my dreams GC: NO >:[ TG: too bad TG: last time i promised rose id take off my shades and look in the sky for some reason

Oh, right. I'd actually forgotten about this - and I hoped that Dave had, too. Hopefully his psychic resistance will be a little better than Rose's.

TG: so i guess i have to summon davesprite too GC: Y3S [...] GC: TO B41L YOUR STUBBORN SP3CT4CL3D BUTT OUT OF TROUBL3 4G41N [...] GC: WH3N YOU 4R3 4SL33P, SOON 4 HORD3 OF V3RY POW3RFUL MONST3RS W1LL 3M3RG3 FROM TH3 RU1NS GC: TO D3F3ND TH3 TR34SUR3 YOU H4V3 STOL3N

Can't he just time travel away, though?

I guess if Davesprite can handle them, there's no reason not to kill them here. We could always use more Grist.

DAVESPRITE: oh looks like you got caledfwlch [...] DAVESPRITE: i think its welsh DAVE: what are welsh things doing in this game

My best guess is that Sburb integrates its seed world's culture into its mythology. After all, we also seem to have Greek gods floating around, and this sword quest is obviously a homage to Arthurian legend.

DAVE: is this thing as pointless as i think it is or do i need it for something DAVESPRITE: tactically yeah its a downgrade since its what i used to make caledscratch which is obviously way better

Wait, seriously? That's a bit of a bummer.

I do wonder, though - is Caledscratch really a strict upgrade to Caledfwlch, in every respect? More broadly, is alchemy exclusively additive, or does it occasionally erase a useful trait from the original item?

I mean, the Hammerhead Pogo Ride is a worse pogo ride and a worse hammer than its ingredients. Maybe Caledfwlch has properties that its descendant lacks.

DAVESPRITE: and your snoop snowcone swords probably even better than that so yeah you got options DAVE: fuck it ill just power through the rest of the game with the SORD…..

I can't even begin to describe how much I'm here for this.

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Terezi Pyrope

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TEREZI: W3LL

TEREZI: TH4T W4S PR3TTY FUCK1NG STUP1D

TEREZI: F4LL1NG 4SL33P H3R3 1S JUST 4SK1NG FOR TROUBL3

TEREZI: NODD1NG OFF L1K3 TH4T UND3RN34TH 4N 4RBOR34L 4MBUL4TOR

TEREZI: WHO KNOWS WH4T COULD H4V3 H4PP3N3D

TEREZI: Y34H 4LR1GHT, 4LR1GHT

TEREZI: G3T OFF MY C4S3 4BOUT 1T ALR34DY

TEREZI: 1TS NOT L1K3 1 D1D 1T ON PURPOS3

TEREZI: W3R3 JUST LUCKY TH3R3 1SNT 4NY W1ND 4T TH3 MOM3NT

TEREZI: 1V3 3ST4BL1SH3D TH4T TH1S 1S WHY TH3Y MOV3

TEREZI: TH3 4MBUL4TORS 4R3 PL4NTS IN THE STR1CT S3NS3, BUT EXH1B1T LOCOMOT1V3 B3H4V1OUR DU3 TO TH31R UN1QU3 CONSTRUCT1ON

TEREZI: TH3 M41N BODY OF THE PL4NT CONS1STS OF A N3TWORK OF HOLLOW, TUB3LIKE GROWTHS THROUGH WH1CH 41R M4Y TR4V3L

TEREZI: TH3S3 N3TWORKS 4R3 SO SOPH1ST1C4T3D TH4T TH3 SH1FT1NG PR3SSUR3 1NS1D3 TH3 TRUNK 4ND BR4NCH3S C4N C4US3 TH3 3NT1R3 PL4NT TO UPROOT 1TS3LF 4ND B3G1N "W4LK1NG", PROV1D3D TH3 COND1T1ONS 4R3 R1GHT

TEREZI: TH1S PROC3SS, WH1L3 M4J3ST1C, C4N H4V3 DR4ST1C 3FF3CTS ON TH3 PL4NTS SURROUND1NGS

TEREZI: TH3 CONST4NT SH1FT1NG OF TH3 SO1L CR34T3S L4RG3 CR3V4SS3S 4ND R4V1N3S 4LMOST 1NST4NTLY, R3D1R3CT1NG W4T3RCOURS3S 4ND 4LT3R1NG TH3 L4NDSC4P3 OV3R 4ND OV3R W1TH 34CH STR1D3

TEREZI: HUP!

TEREZI: ...

TEREZI: OH?

TEREZI: WH4T H4V3 W3 H3R3

TEREZI: 4 STR4NG3 CR34TUR3 S33MS TO H4V3 B3COM3 TR4PP3D 1N TH3 SH1FT1NG T3RR41N

TEREZI: HOW3V3R, 1T S33MS UND1STR3SS3D BY TH3 D4NG3ROUS S1TU4T1ON 1N WH1CH 1T F1NDS 1TS3LF

TEREZI: P3RH4PS 1T C4LLS TH1S PR3C4R1OUS PL4C3 1TS HOM3

TEREZI: HMMMMMM

TEREZI: 1T S33MS MY 1NV3ST1G4T1ON OF TH1S B1Z4RR3 PL4N3T H4S ONLY JUST B3GUN

TEREZI: ...

TEREZI: 1 WOND3R WH4T TH3Y T4ST3 L1K3 >:O

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HS^2 bloggin’ mainline 2020-05-31

Mainline upd8 before the June break.  More Terezi!  That should put me in a better mood. (1 edit (2020-06-01) since posting)

> CHAPTER 10. 1 WOND3R WH4T TH3Y T4ST3 L1K3

Wait, fuzzily waking up seeing the new planet?

Wait, why is the site background still black?

Wait, is this one of the new alien race members just created?

That would explain the chapter title.  (Especially if they were part plant, but Terezi would say that regardless, when you think about it.)

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Coming more into focus.

> ==>

Oh!  Back to the normal background.

TEREZI: W3LL

She’s not the one seeing this, so is this an alien perspective or does Rose’s visual processing take a while to turn back on post-warranty-breach?

> ==>

Huh?  It WAS her point of view?

So this:

--is just an attempt at rendering her smell-o-vision?

I know her sense of smell is supposed to be amazing, but this is MARKEDLY less paint-like than previous depictions of her smell-o-vision.  See for comparison:

Was this an intentional difference in clarity? Laziness? Her scent-vision being sharper?  They’re practically making us feel like her eyes are healed again, which would be disastrous, and not something even Ultimate Rose should necessarily be capable of.

(I’m inclined to give them less credit than usual today, though, so a poor visual choice most likely.)

TEREZI: TH4T W4S PR3TTY FUCK1NG STUP1D

Hate-screwing Rosebot?  Why?

I guess it’d leave you sore.

> ==>

TEREZI: F4LL1NG 4SL33P H3R3 1S JUST 4SK1NG FOR TROUBL3

Oh.  Are the new races - or their precursor “experiments” running around?

> ==>

TEREZI: NODD1NG OFF L1K3 TH4T UND3RN34TH 4N 4RBOR34L 4MBUL4TOR TEREZI: WHO KNOWS WH4T COULD H4V3 H4PP3N3D TEREZI: Y34H 4LR1GHT, 4LR1GHT TEREZI: G3T OFF MY C4S3 4BOUT 1T ALR34DY TEREZI: 1TS NOT L1K3 1 D1D 1T ON PURPOS3

Is Terezi talking to her other selves or something?  Or another brain ghost?

TEREZI: W3R3 JUST LUCKY TH3R3 1SNT 4NY W1ND 4T TH3 MOM3NT TEREZI: 1V3 3ST4BL1SH3D TH4T TH1S 1S WHY TH3Y MOV3 TEREZI: TH3 4MBUL4TORS 4R3 PL4NTS IN THE STR1CT S3NS3, BUT EXH1B1T LOCOMOT1V3 B3H4V1OUR DU3 TO TH31R UN1QU3 CONSTRUCT1ON

Ooh, moving trees.  Nice.

TEREZI: TH3 M41N BODY OF THE PL4NT CONS1STS OF A N3TWORK OF HOLLOW, TUB3LIKE GROWTHS THROUGH WH1CH 41R M4Y TR4V3L TEREZI: TH3S3 N3TWORKS 4R3 SO SOPH1ST1C4T3D TH4T TH3 SH1FT1NG PR3SSUR3 1NS1D3 TH3 TRUNK 4ND BR4NCH3S C4N C4US3 TH3 3NT1R3 PL4NT TO UPROOT 1TS3LF 4ND B3G1N "W4LK1NG", PROV1D3D TH3 COND1T1ONS 4R3 R1GHT TEREZI: TH1S PROC3SS, WH1L3 M4J3ST1C, C4N H4V3 DR4ST1C 3FF3CTS ON TH3 PL4NTS SURROUND1NGS

I know you like to eat them, but when did your analysis of plantlife get so clinical?  Do you have Aranea blabbing in your ear or something?

Oh.  OH, wait.  They have a Command Station.  Is Rose communicating with her remotely via that, and Terezi is just Dave-like vocalizing everything Rose punches into the terminal?  Then that would be Terezi arguing with HER out loud.  And the sudden transition of talk to “I’ve established that this is why they move.” is very Rose-sounding.

> ==>

That lil’ “hup” pose to jump over the gap Terezi’s making is adorable.  Also, those are bad failed experiments y’all have created and you should feel bad, Rose and Dirk.  (Rose is definitely to blame for this spider-bunny nightmare.)

TEREZI: HUP!

Hup

TEREZI: 1 WOND3R WH4T TH3Y T4ST3 L1K3 >:O

They look like they’d taste like bee spiders with inedible stuffing throughout.

Trolls do find grubs of most sorts appetizing though.

> ==>

TEREZI THOSE ARE NO REASON TO BE HAPPY

> ==>

Yeah, beautiful field-shot aside I feel pretty bad for that creation.  Looks miserable.

> ==>

Now they’re just mashing up consorts.  Are they TRYING to populate the planet with weird garbage for the final products to eat?  (Or fight? Hard-troll-childhood style?)

> ==>

THAT THING IS NO REASON TO LOOK SO HAPPY EITHER REZI

Gosh, at least she’s having fun though.

> ==>

You’re ignoring Onionsan, Terezi

> ==>

I wonder what lazy name this Horsisaur has.

Fun abandoned. Survival instincts fully engaged. Terezi runs.

She throws backward sniffs over her shoulder as she tears through the scrubby cling of the planet’s undergrowth, catching fractured impressions of exactly what has decided to chase her. A shuddering, 20 foot monstrosity that somehow seems to both scamper and glide, like a centipede, rustling like foliage as it moves, as if an entire goddamn forest is bearing down on her.

Between the game and Alternia, you shouldn’t be TOO rusty at this, right?

The problem with using smells to navigate the world is that the unfamiliar can be difficult to parse. Every whiff over her shoulder gives her another blurry glimpse of what this beast is.

Yeah, smell is a little slower on the pickup than sight.

Rose shared her books with Terezi when she was on the ship, and her favorite by far was the compendium of the zoologically dubious. Everything contained inside was just so unbelievably unlikely. This creature appears to be a combination of all of them.

Really? What we see of it doesn’t look THAT weird.  But we only see about half of it from this angle, so.

--Twisted ankle?  Come on, you’re not THAT rusty.

> ==>

It’s fear, pure and simple. Unsurprising, when being menaced by a monster, but it also doesn’t last for more than a second. A cold flame that instantly burns itself out, and all of a sudden she is just deeply, impossibly, indescribably tired. Down to her bones.

You’re already giving up??!?

Honestly, she really has no right to feel this... this fatigue. This crushing embrace of endless struggle. Terezi Pyrope has not had an easy life by anyone’s standards, but so much of her thirteen or so sweeps has just been standing still. Waiting. Huddling blind and half dead in her recuperacoon, the sopor burning the hideous mess that the sun has left her eyes, alight with a hatred so layered and intense that she couldn’t make sense of it.

Dammit, do we have to go SO EXHAUSTINGLY DEEPLY into EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER’S PTSD?!??

It was horrifying--that pain or fury--but also, admittedly, very boring. Then there were the sweeps on the meteor, the endless, gelatinous stretches of time in the chaos of the outer ring, searching for... Vriska, ostensibly, but also maybe just for a chance to dry up. To disappear. Go extinct.

Terezi doesn’t know if it’s an attribute of her aspect, or the sheer psychic damage of spending so long in the company of two humans with god complexes. Maybe it’s just an inherited symptom of being conscious. But sometimes it feels like none of them are going to get out of this, alive or dead.

Fuck, apparently we are.  These writers don’t know how to let up.  Can’t we get a little more retroactive dwelling on how FUN some of their lives up til now were?  And then... maybe NOT only do that to contrast with how depressed they are now??  There was SO much delight in Homestuck amidst the hardship, and if you’re going to show us more of the hardship you have to show us more of the delight, too, or everything just gets pointlessly dark.

--ah, Rose redirected the command console to point to the monster and stopped it that way.

ROSE: I am devastated to report that those are really more vines than tentacles, and even worse, they aren’t mine.

Pff.

...Poking fun at the terminology for Patron Trolls, at this late date of all times.

TEREZI: D4V3 4ND 1 H4D 4 LOT 1N COMMON B4CK TH3N, OR 4T L34ST 1T F3LT L1K3 W3 D1D ROSE: As I have come to understand it, for a while at least, we were all being steered in the right direction by a debatably benevolent force. ROSE: One imposed on us by the game itself, even if we had yet to enter it. TEREZI: ... ROSE: You don’t believe me. TEREZI: NO, 1 DO TEREZI: 1T SOUNDS 1NCR3D1BLY DUMB AND UNL1K3LY BUT SO DO3S 3V3RYTH1NG 3LS3 TH4T H4PP3NS TO 4NY OF US

Terezi, don’t you know at least half as much about Skaia as anyone else here? Isn’t that what she’s talking about?

TEREZI: SO YOU 4R3 DO1NG TH3 S4M3 TH1NGS TO TH3S3 CR34TUR3S TH4T SOM3 OTH3R CR34TUR3S D1D TO YOU 4ND YOUR FR13NDS ROSE: I suppose that is a fair assessment. Although we were not our own creators. It was John who— DIRK: I hate to break up the recap episode, but we need to deal with this situation before it gets out of hand.

Wait, she’s talking about the Exiles?  Terezi TOLD Dave about the exiles helping them.  SHE was the one who told us how that worked!  Although I guess you could chalk her questions up to her not knowing one of those “terminals” was involved.

TEREZI: 4ND HOW 4R3 YOU H3R3 4NYW4Y? DIRK: I have administrative privileges. TEREZI: YOU H4V3 4DM1N1STR4T1V3 PR1V1L3G3S TO MY P4LMHUSK DIRK: Yes.

Was Terezi dictating to her palmhusk earlier?  Why was she talking for Rose’s part of the conversation earlier, but not now?  Was that a mistake?  Or did Rose switch off the terminal, despite her apparent confusion with the terminal now???

Opinion of HS^2... dropping... keep it together stop judging the comic so hard... NOT dropping off in quality... shh brain! Shoosh!!!

(Seriously though, don’t put ANY asks in my inbox about HS^2 dropping off in quality, even as much as I’M starting to complain.  Gotta keep my hopes up to keep enjoying myself as I keep going.)

ROSE: Don’t let it get to you. My father has a habit of appearing in places he’s not wanted.

You’re seriously just CALLING him that now?!??

DIRK: I was saying that we should get Terezi down from there before continuing our mining of the core themes in our personal narratives.

Ah, that’s why you used the terminology.

DIRK: I was saying that we should get Terezi down from there before continuing our mining of the core themes in our personal narratives. ROSE: Of course. I’ll take care of it. DIRK: Appreciate it. TEREZI: 1 W1SH YOU WOULDN’T DO TH4T WH3R3 1 C4N S33 1T DIRK: Do what? TEREZI: TH4T TH1NG WH3R3 YOU G3T P3OPL3 WHO 4R3 NOT M3 TO DO WH4T3V3R 1T 1S YOU W4NT TH3M TO TEREZI: M1ND CONTROL

Oh, damn.  That was a creepy order, then.  And is Rose STILL not wise to it?  Can Terezi and Dirk just TALK about the narrative control IN FRONT OF ROSE and have her not recognize it because of said control??? :C

TEREZI: WH4T TH3 FUCK 1S GO1NG ON DIRK: You can make more boots. TEREZI: 1M NOT T4LK1NG 4BOUT TH3 BOOTS, NOOKBR34TH TEREZI: 1 MEAN TH3 M3N4G3R13 FROM H3LL DIRK: Well, we’ve encountered a couple bumps along the road. TEREZI: YOU DONT S4Y

This is fun, but I can’t help but notice that Rose has completely stopped talking.  Fuck having Dirk flaunt this even harder just ups the creepiness even more.

TEREZI: YOU GUYS R34LLY SUCK 4T TH1S DIRK: Yeah, agreed. TEREZI: ... TEREZI: WOW, TH4T W4S MUCH L3SS P41NFUL 4ND LONG-W1ND3D TH4N 1 W4S 3XP3CT1NG 1T TO B3 DIRK: What was? TEREZI: CONV1NC1NG YOU TH4T 4LL OF TH3S3 "D3S1GNS" TH4T YOU H4V3 COM3 UP W1TH SUCK SH1T TEREZI: 1 THOUGHT YOU WOULD T3LL M3 TH4T 4LL OF 1T 1S P4RT OF SOM3 "GR4ND PL4N" TEREZI: TH4T TH3Y SUCK ON PURPOS3 OR SOM3TH1NG L1K3 TH4T DIRK: Well, it is a part of the grand plan. And they do suck on purpose. DIRK: But not on my purpose. DIRK: It’s Rose. She is remarkably bad at this. Voluntarily. TEREZI: DO YOU M34N TH4T SH3 1S TRY1NG TO S4BOT4G3 4LL OF YOUR GR4ND CR34T1ONS TEREZI: OH POW3RFUL GOD PR1NC3? DIRK: No, she’s playing the game. That part hasn’t been a problem. DIRK: I mean she is just making incredibly nonsensical decisions and refusing to back down, even when I up the ante to preposterous levels. DIRK: You should see some of the shit she’s come up with. I’m pretty sure I watched a vagina on legs walk by this morning. TEREZI: 1 DONT TH1NK 1 S4W TH4T ON3 DIRK: Despite her initial resistance, Rose has gone completely feral. TEREZI: YOU M34N TH4T SH3 1S H4V1NG FUN DIRK: Yes.

You loosened her morals so she’d be conscience-free to go full zoological playground, and she’s GOING full zoological playground.  What did you expect?

TEREZI: 4ND WH4T 1S WRONG W1TH 4 L1TTL3 B1T OF FUN YOUR H1GHN3SS? DIRK: Nothing. I got absolutely no problem with having a good time while we see to the boring and altogether completely frivolous task of seeding the future of this planet. DIRK: But she really TEREZI: YOU 3XP3CT3D H3R TO B3 TH3 ON3 TO HOLD YOU B4CK, 1NST34D OF TH3 OTH3R W4Y 4ROUND DIRK: No, that's not it. TEREZI: YES, 1 TH1NK 1T 1S 1T

What?  “Holding her back”?  How did this suddenly become about Dirk’s insecurity at his ectobiological skill?

DIRK: By project, do you mean that I expect Rose to be too much like myself? TEREZI: NO, 1 M34N TH3 OPPOS1T3 TEREZI: YOU 3XP3CT H3R TO B3 B3TT3R TH4N YOU TEREZI: YOU W4NT H3R TO PR3V3NT 4LL OF YOUR WORST T3ND3NC13S. TH3 W4Y 1 US3D TO W1TH VR1SK4 WH3N W3 W3R3 MO1R41LS

--Oh, you meant hold them back from going TOO FAR.  I see.  And also, the way Terezi and Vriska were “moirails” is the WORST example, and thus quite fitting to relate to this situation.  For their brief pale stint, Terezi never really STOPPED Vriska from doing ANYTHING. She just supported Vriska, while Vriska spewed some flattery Terezi’s way... and then proceeded to do whatever the fuck she wanted. Sometimes without telling her.  It was an AWFUL example of proper moirallegiance, as I covered in the above link.

Dirk wouldn’t know about that, though.  And neither does Terezi, apparently, unless she’s just not admitting it.

(EDIT: Also, Rose never had the slightest chance of ever holding Dirk back like she might have wanted because DIRK MIND CONTROL OVERRIDES HER EVERY TIME SHE HAS RESERVATIONS. The only way a moirallegiance can work at all is if the one being held back is WILLING to listen. Dirk has deliberately and continuously suppressed Rose's ability to even THINK about dissuading him from literally any course of action.)

TEREZI: YOUR3 3XP3CT1NG ROS3 TO C4TCH YOU WH3N YOU GO TOO F4R TEREZI: SH3 1SNT GO1NG TO DO TH4T, 1 DONT TH1NK TEREZI: 1N F4CT, 1 TH1NK SH3 1S MOR3 L1K3LY TO GO TOO F4R TH4N YOU 4R3 DIRK: What makes you say that? TEREZI: 1 DONT KNOW TEREZI: JUST 4 F33L1NG, 1 GU3SS. 1 M1GHT NOT B3 4 GOD-MODD3D DORK 1N COSPL4Y, BUT 1M ST1LL A S33R TEREZI: 4ND 1 H4VE SP3NT W4Y MOR3 T1M3 W1TH TH3 TWO OF YOU TH4N 4LMOST 4NYON3 ELSE, WH1CH 1S 1NCR3D1BLY D3PR3SS1NG TO TH1NK 4BOUT

Guh.  A real pair of villains.  Is that REALLY why you brought Rose, Dirk?

TEREZI: 4NYW4Y, 1F YOU DONT L1K3 TH3 W4Y ROS3 1S DO1NG TH1NGS WHY DONT YOU JUST NOT-M1ND CONTROL H3R 1NTO DO1NG 1T TH3 R1GHT W4Y TEREZI: PROBL3M SOLV3D DIRK: I’ve made the decision to freehand this one. I’m not planning to influence Rose’s decision in any part of the contest. Otherwise it’s too easy, and barely worth doing at all.

Obviously.  And you can’t argue her down the normal way because she was NEVER someone to listen to someone like you in a direct confrontation without any misleading subterfuge.  You would’ve had to Doc Scratch it.

DIRK: So you’re saying you want me to mind-control Rose. TEREZI: NO, 1M S4Y1NG TH4T 1 TH1NK YOU 4R3 4 COW4RD TEREZI: P3RH4PS 1 W1LL T3LL H3R TH4T YOU H4V3 B33N WH1SP3R1NG YOUR STR4NG3 L1TTL3 1NC4NT4T1ONS 1N H3R 34R OV3R TH3 L4ST F3W SW33PS TEREZI: L1K3 4 CR33PY W31RDO DIRK: No, you won’t. If you were going to, you would have already.

Are you talking about the narrative mind control or are you talking about something else?  Something weirder?  Because calling them “strange little incantations” sounds like he’s been doing some creepily Doc-Scratchy grooming to her like how Doc kinda rage-controlled the trolls to write his genetic code on their walls in their most vulnerable moments.

DIRK: Unless you think I’m still projecting my "image" of what I think Rose "should" do, and she actually won’t give a shit. TEREZI: NO, 1 TH1NK SH3 W1LL B3 CONFL1CT3D TEREZI: UNL3SS YOU M1ND-CONTROL H3R NOT TO B3 DIRK: Not mind control. TEREZI: WH4T3VER!

And that’s just it.  Rose WOULD have been very conflicted about MUCH of this if you hadn’t used your narrative control to override all her inhibitions.  So instead you get the version of her who would have gone with your plans without hesitation, which is the WORST version of her.  And she doesn’t even have a choice to be better.

Alright, that’s the end of the upd8.  See y’all!  Maybe a bit after the commentary goes up for this (already has for the Influencers bonus) I’ll cover the commentary on both this and the bonus, but that’ll be in at least a few days.  Ciao

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