Also, in the same vain as my last post, if we assume that all of the kids were immortal from the start, that means one of the biggest plot holes in Homestuck could finally be explained.
But wait, you ask, if all the kids in Homestuck are immortal, why would Gamzee be special and be the only one who seemingly acts like it?
Well, Hussie touches on a lot of themes in Homestuck, some of them are mythical and storybookish, some of them are philosophical, and then some of them are religious.
If the idea of God tier is more or less a mindset, rather than a prize via a certain set of rules, then Gamzee resounds to me as someone who has been enlightened.
I will be the first to admit, I don’t personally know a lot about Buddhism, but I won’t discredit the idea of Hussie potentially looking into it.
When I scanned through pages looking for more info on it, I came across this:
You know what other theme is very closely related to Gamzee?
And what would be the cause, the trigger of this enlightenment? I think we all know the answer to that, at this point. Gamzee did not meditate like in the traditional sense, his enlightenment was a far darker contrast to what one would normally contend to the original phenomena.
Lil Cal enlightened Gamzee of his purpose, and who he really was.
The reason I chose the idea of enlightenment for him is due to one major mystery. There are never multiple dead Gamzee’s. For those who don’t know where I’m going with this, one of the major turn events of enlightenment, for some people, is Nirvana. “The End of Suffering… In this lifetime and all future lifetimes.”
I’m proposing the idea that Gamzee has reached this peak. And because of that he has already reached his potential as a God tier, and therefore is never “reincarnated” in the dream bubbles like everyone else.
But that’s not all, see, if we’re still talking about duality, there’s actually another side to all this. I think he is both enlightened, as well as being punished by the game. Gamzee didn’t come to this “mindset” of his own devices. Sburb is a game of natural growth, but he did not come to this state naturally.
Lil Cal isn’t a part of the game. Someone in the tags of my last post called Lord English a “virus” and I find it’s fitting. If the bad guy is Lord English, then Lil Cal is like a worm hole, a back door. Gamzee cheated the game by finding out the way he did.
This could explain why, if God tier is a mindset, he did not gain his garbs. He didn’t do it through Skaia, he did it against Skaia. Not to mention, he continues in the path of distancing away from Skaia. Gamzee is considered an antagonist, but the truth is, he’s not an antagonist because of the things he did to the players. He’s an antagonist because he had a major hand in trying to destroy Skaia.
Compare that, to say Rose or Aradia, who at some points both tried to act destructively towards Skaia. By destroying their planet, and all the like. Why were they not considered antagonists to Skaia? Well, in the end, both of them were merely rebelling against their roles. Rose tried to “destroy the game” while using one of the games major benefactors, The Elder Gods, to do so. In this instance, it can be compared to a child trying to rebel against their parents completely within the parents controlled boundaries.
There’s no mystery, and it’s expected.
But Gamzee is out of Skaia’s reach. Continuing the analogy of a parent, one way to look at the way Skaia treats Gamzee, is like a parent who cuts off inheritance to their estranged child after the child does something they disagree with. Gamzee is relying on his own knowledge and understanding of himself and his own continuous willpower to continue living against any odds.
That’s why he regenerates so slowly.
That’s why he had to make his own God tier garbs.
And that’s why Skaia doesn’t reward him with the promise of dream bubbles, when his will finally caves and he does eventually fall.
There is only one Gamzee, because he broke the rules. He found his purpose too early into the game, and Skaia doesn’t take kindly to it.
But he continues living because he saw the man behind the curtain before the book even began.