when mama was moth

ксюхаха

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rip gamzee, you would've loved 'hate bein' sober' by chief keef

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I guess because most Homestuck readers are american. So for americans it's very easy to associate Equius with native americans, because that's probably the first reference point they have in their minds when it comes 'boys who wear their hair long'. That being said yeah I think interpreting him as persian or even turkish is just a better choice. Both of these nations had large burgeoning empires which fits well with Equius' caste based psychological issues.

exactly ! but even from an american viewpoint, there's nothing even remotely native about him aside from long hair and love for horses (which is a trait commonly associated with native americans, yes, however everything is contextual and you can't claim equius to be a certain race based off of these two characteristics)

not to mention he's also a privileged enough racist, who tries to separate himself from the lower class as much as possible, while still acknowledging that highbloods have power over him (do we remember persians comparing themselves to arabs on the internet, calling the latter group 'dark' or 'uncivilised' and stating that they're nothing alike? yeah)

so no, in my mind he's not native, as it doesn't fit his caste nor does it explain certain psychological aspects well enough

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never understood why people hc equius as native when there's so much to interpret as him being persian

1. not white enough to be viewed as such by european white people, but white enough to be racist to everyone else

2. weird behaviour and ovesexualisation of everything can be explained by growing up around islamic culture

3. his last name is literally zahhak, which is a character from persian mythology

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If marble hornets was in hunger games, brian would win. and I believe it would be him and no one else because:

(coming from someone who doesn't know a lot about hunger games)

1. even though tim is strong and capable of winning, he's far too unstable and lacks subtlety

2. jay is careless and not very strong physically. and even though he's smart, that wouldn't help him much and he'd probably be one of the first people to get eliminated

3. alex is far too aggressive and his strategy would be killing everyone, which would only be efficient until someone stronger killed him

i think brian would win because he's the smartest mh character and his strategy would include finding a blind spot and hiding (like wiress did), stealing food (unnoticed) and presenting himself as socially inept and uninteresting during interviews by only giving simple and boring answers to get rid of unwanted attention.

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actually, Jay is also one of the smartest mh characters, but people constantly downplay his abilities and call him stupid for being reckless, which is. yeah.

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Brian is the smartest Marble Hornets character, in this essay I will

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They'll never make me hate you, Jay Merrick !!

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lukewarm take I don't mind some fanon creepypastas existing as characters of their own

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