homestuck beyond canon upd8 - the baby is LORE
note: as before i will refer to CC as dagger
this was a pretty huge update so I'm gonna talk about it topic by topic rather than going through it.
first the nymph history aspect
i cant believe rose blatantly plastered her aspect symbol everywhere first of all. if we have a light player this session its gonna make for some interesting observations from the players, especially if one of the omega kids (ESPECIALLY IF ONE OF ROSES DAUGHTERS) is a light player.
so, what I got from this worldbuilding/lore spiel was that there was a "wave of apathy" spurred on by foretelling the meteors that caused an abandoned orphan who grew up to want to "assimilate" the entire planet into her in order to preserve them in the wake of mass extinction.
i didnt get this while reading initially but this mass of wraps seems to be an extension of this character after she assimilated thousands of people into her.
whats more interesting to me is how this incident was resolved in delitritan history. im not sure if the playtoriate has been mentioned before but it sounds like the main satyrical governing institution compared to the council of high prophets for the nymphs. still not sure if the exemplar really is dirk or a satyr in dirk's image but we'll see.
"the neptunian golem of a certain long excommunicated enchantress" is interesting to me. ill have to like compile all the info weve gotten abt nymph and satyr history up to this point but this reminds me of either the uni-nymph or the nymph who worked with the satyr tyrant to almost cuase the extinction of life. maybe these events are linked even.
funny the baby is you reference har har. but more importantly if she can still see into the future its probably she saw dagger being an important player in the future session and brought him down into the deep because of that.
this line feels incredibly sinister to me. even though we get the answer of dagger being forced to defend her from intruders using spells that destroy what he loves. it feels like theres a bigger under current of abuse/harm here, but I maybe reading into it too much.
and now. onto dagger and TC
i think its important that even before TC reveals his (?) very flagrant reading of dagger's private rp, he is justifiably upset with the amount of spyware (or well, scryware) on cha.OS that tc is using.
the last time we got an omega kid patron (i think up until entering the session the omega kids are gonna act like patron trolls), vrissy ended up using TC's account to talk to ly'lac first before switching to her own. i doubt tavvy is doing that here, so instead the implications is that tavvy is with TC and is witnessing TC and dagger's clusterfuck of a convo right then and there . thats probably pretty awkward
not sure if im right abt this or not but I think TC seems to think the spying is completely okay if the person being spied gets to do it back.
very fascinating convo honestly. TC is motivated by this ideal of striving towards a better future, of being free. and to a degree thats admirable. but dagger is a little bit right as. in the end, the planet will end up dying in order for the game to proceed.
actually, an interesting thing abt that is that maybe it can be revived thanks to exiles? the way sburb is in homestuck proper is obviously very jank thanks to jack and LE but to me it seemed like every single universe that sburb is played in are supposed to still end up repopulated through the exiles possibly using ectobiology. (side tangent over)
but back to dagger and TC, "there aint a prophecy or tech thats gonna give me wut i want" is really depressing. imagine being trans in a world where it seems hopelessly impossible.
god, TC is so. fucked. like he wants to do the right thing but he also does not seem to care for people's boundaries and thinks that it doesnt matter if hes being supportive and helpful abt it all. he's also very overbearing in this log in trying to get dagger to conform to his ideals, even by trying to appeal to daggers own desires.
to a degree theres a tiny kernel of truth in what hes saying, dagger will probably end up meeting CT. but TC is rushing this whole thing too fast and not caring for dagger's feelings or beliefs in the process.
ultimately dagger is right to be mad. especially with something as private as that.
TC isn't obviously evil. but this is homestuck. everyone's a little imperfect.
on a side note, ive been seeing people say that TC is transfem. im not sure if I fully see it or understand the reasoning, tho I think a transfem satyr is probably likely considering HS has always had a gender balance? but to a degree as a tfem myself id love to see this. and also because of yuri.
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