Have a tl;dr theory about future bloodswaps/kidswaps happening!
Here, have a fan theory! In a very tl;dr nutshell: all the trolls and kids reunite post-scratch and we have bloodswaps and kidswaps. HOORAY!
If you want to know wtf I am on about, and are curious/interested in the rationale behind this conclusion, then I invite you to read the text below.
First of all, let’s start this off with a very simple list of certain facts we are mostly sure of, so far:
- 6 of the trolls were confirmed dead: Tavros, Nepeta, Vriska, Equius, Eridan, Feferi
- 6 of the trolls are supposedly alive: Aradia, Sollux, Karkat, Kanaya, Terezi, Gamzee (we don’t know what happened to him but he is seen contemplating the countdown when it reaches 0.00, and there has been no confirmation of his current status beyond Karkat saying he dealt with him)
Thus, this leads to a pretty even ratio of half of the trolls dead / half of the trolls alive. Karkat has mentioned to John that there may be a way for them to meet in person, after the scratch, by entering a completely different session in which they may end up meeting alternate versions of themselves. (*) This is where my theory starts.
When we consider the ratio of half of the trolls dead/half of the trolls alive, it doesn’t seem too far-fetched to consider that 2 of the kids will die while 2 of them will live, thus leading to the same half/half ratio. Given the last panel we’ve seen of Dave and how closely it resembles Jade’s right before her dreamself died, as is shown in this tumblr post, it’s also entirely possible that Dave will die– and given the surprise stabbity that happened in that dream bubble, it also seems entirely possible for Rose to have been killed by Droog, thus offing the Derse siblings for good and leading to the 2 dead/2 alive ratio I mentioned before.
(* You may be wondering how the hell this can work if Karkat told John they needed a Derse dreamer, and both Dave and Rose would be dead, but: Aradia is a Derse dreamer and she was very much alive the last time we saw her, so she could guide them through the ring and to their meeting point.)
Now, this leaves us with 6 trolls and 2 kids who could meet in person at a completely different/alternate session post-scratch. My theory is that they will not meet alternate versions of themselves, they will meet alternate versions of those who have died in their sessions, thus completing the 12 trolls and 4 kids once again.
For the sake of clarity, let’s call alternate-Sgrub session ALT-Sgrub and alternate-Sburb session ALT-Sburb. In this theory, the trolls who survived Sgrub are actually the same trolls that died in ALT-Sgrub, and the kids who survived Sburb are the ones that died in ALT-Sburb, which means that Tavros, Nepeta, Vriska, Equius, Eridan and Feferi will be the trolls surviving in ALT-Sgrub while Dave and Rose will have also survived in ALT-Sburb. This would mean that every troll and kid would be reunited in the end: the 6 trolls from Sgrub, the 2 kids from Sburb, the 6 trolls from ALT-Sgrub and the 2 alternate kids from ALT-Sburb.
Being alternate versions of the kids and trolls we are familiar with, these new characters could be, say, Rose Strider and Dave Lalonde– Seer of Time and Knight of Light, respectively– thus making the Breath + Time + Light + Space combo possible once more, after entering this new world. Likewise, blood swaps could be entirely possible within the blood colors we are still left with, which means that between Tavros, Nepeta, Vriska, Equius, Eridan and Feferi, we could have, say, brownblooded Eridan (Prince of Breath / Page of Hope), greenblooded Equius (Heir of Heart / Rogue of Void), purpleblooded Vriska (Thief of Hope / Princess of Light), and so on.
This meeting of “original” 6 trolls + 2 kids with “alternate” 6 trolls + 2 kids would make it possible for the kids to have Breath + Time + Light + Space together again, just like it would make the entire hemospectrum possible for the trolls once more, as well as joining Time + Breath + Doom + Blood + Heart + Space + Mind + Light + Void + Rage + Hope + Life all over again.
By reuniting all the troll players with the kid players– original and alternate– it would finally be possible to defeat Bec Noir once and for all.
…of course, this is only a silly theory. Knowing Hussie, he’s probably just going to flip Homestuck upside down and make us Come To Terms With It and move on with our lives, but it was still fun to imagine this whole thing.
Oh, and as one final DISCLAIMER of sorts: I actually haven’t followed any bloodswap/kidswap fanadventures yet, so any similarity between the alternate characters written above and any bloodswap/kidswap story that may have the same titles / blood color associated to those same characters is merely a coincidence.
