Hiveswap/Homestuck vs. Friendsim musical canon
I talked about this briefly on twitterĀ but a handful of the characters in friendsim haveĀ ācanonā music that we donāt use because it doesnāt fit the mood of the route. A great example is Konyllās music.Ā
In Hiveswap Act 2 there is a significant interaction with her that I wonāt spoil, but it involves Azdaja as well. When you overlap their two songs, it becomes a full melody. (kind of like their trollcall card, two sides of one coin etc)
With characters like Remele, who have tracks made for them for Friendsim, it follows what Iāve been referring to as the establishedĀ āMusical Canonā in that the instrumentation choices are largely based on blood caste. Homestuck has a tradition of doing this whether it wanted to or not a lot of the time and I spent a great deal of time reverse engineering the existing canon to make hiveswap feel like it fit. A good example of this is something like Tagoraās and other tealbloods tracks being the only ones allowed to use harpsichord.Ā āBut what about Tri-ā shh!
anyway the established musical canon in hiveswap is something like: Burgundy: Synths/Percussion Brown: Trumpet/Horns/Brass Yellow: Chiptune ???: ???? Olive: Mallets Jade: Harps/Bells + Airy/Ethereal Sounds Teal: Harpsichord Cerulean: they justā¦ steal other castes instruments so its complicated to explain. Indigo: Overwrought and Orchestral Purple: Honks lmao Violet: At this point they are so individual that each one has its own musical motif Fuchsia: Whatever they want. none of these are hard rules so those of you out there doing fantroll stuff can just do whatever you want, this is just what we came up with.
July 7, 2018
