#3238

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Most Beloved Wrestler Tournament

#3238

Chelsea Green

Megan Bayne

Voting ended onMay 5

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Nail File

My new nail file is easy to hold. There is no tight grip needed, No hand pain waiting for me after a handful of minutes. I wonder why it took me eight years to buy one. I wonder why I suffered for no reason. I wonder why that question applies to more than just nail files.

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[Dave] goes underground and discovers gold ruins. Before entering, he's interrupted by Karkat who uses a memo to warn both him and John about their involvement with Terezi and Vriska, telling them the scourge sisters are partaking in a dangerous game of rivalry fueled flirtation which has gotten both him and John killed at least once each.

Initially, I wasn’t sure we’d seen all four of these deaths - but on reflection, I think I can actually list them.

John was manipulated to his death by Terezi, creating Davesprite’s timeline.

He was also killed by Jack, as part of Vriska’s plan to turn him into a god.

Green-Suit Dave was killed as the result of Terezi’s game/experiment.

Red-Suit Dave was killed by DD, who was acting on Vriska’s suggestion to create Bec.

Bro is slain by his own sword, and the body is discovered by Dave later, who can't bring himself to retrieve the sword.

Bro's death is canon - but, at least for now, Davesprite's death is not. Hope is the thing with feathers.

[Dave] then goes on to make all the money needed, to buy all the fraymotifs, which are powerful battle techniques purchased from consorts, and to reach the top of his echeladder.

I’m interested in seeing these Fraymotifs in action – particularly the combined ones that we saw in John’s walkaround.

John appears to be getting a combination attack with each of his co-players. Based on what we know of their respective Aspects, I'll brainstorm some hypothetical techniques that match these names.

Ivories in the Fire [Breath/Time]: I'm picturing John and Dave's combination attack as a time-accelerated hurricane. The main problem with weather manipulation is that it tends to be rather slow; John's storms come out relatively fast, but Dave's help, he can bring them out instantly, firing gales off with the speed and precision of lasers.

Mixolydian Maelstrom [Breath/Light]: A maelstrom of light and wind sounds like something John and Rose would use to distract foes, rather than directly harm them. I think this could be a smoke-and-mirrors technique, summoning strobe lights and clouds of dust to confuse and disrupt large groups of enemies.

Fantasia’s Inhale [Breath/Space]: This sounds like some reality-bending shit. Maybe the Prospit siblings can warp space in a way that synergizes with John's normal fighting style. For example, they could lower the mass of any objects in their vicinity, allowing John's wind to launch much larger objects than normal.

With [Dave’s] massive reserve of grist accumulated in his travels and his more advanced torrenting capabilities, he allows Jade to alchemize some sophisticated equipment right away.

This is a good point that I didn’t catch at the time. The GristTorrent we saw in the comic has an extremely slow download speed, but Jade quickly had millions of grist to spare. Dave had to have a way to speed up the transfer.

[Jade] makes her entry item from the pre-punched card. A tree sprouts from the alchemiter, and a green Bec-shaped pinata dangles from a branch.

Oddly enough, Jade’s entry item spawned the same tree that John’s did. Rose and Dave’s items didn’t have anything in common, so it's just the Prospit siblings whose items share traits.

How typical is this phenomenon? Does it mean anything? With this comic, it's often difficult to tell.

As the clock ticks down to the CRITICAL EVENT, the most important character in Homestuck sits and watches this pandemonium ensue. And then, the second most important character in Homestuck positions a shitty drawing of himself in front of a typewriter and writes this recap.

Gamzee is now more important than Hussie, for whatever that’s worth. What the hell is going on with this guy?

[thewertsearch]

[Karkat] and his future self argue, and Jade mediates between the two and becomes angry and frustrated, and ceases the correspondence.

It’s implied that in Jade’s conversation with the Karkats, she inadvertently became their temporary auspistice.

Rereading that conversation, I now understand why auspisticism is a type of black romance.

John resolves to prototype with the blue doll, missing an arm and an eye, to deliberately disable Jack. But Vriska puts him to sleep before he can.

The blue doll is missing an arm and an eye - just like Vriska, both Jacks, and Troll Captain Hook. I still don’t understand the significance of these injuries, but there's clearly something important about them.

WV watches his death on the monitor and commands him to rise up. WV sees nothing except fireflies gather around John's body, while the Quest Bed glows. After the spectacle, there is no change. John's body remains motionless, and the monitor shuts off. WV believes John has died. And he is right.

John wasn’t healed on his Quest Bed. He was beyond healing. So he was reincarnated.

[Kanaya] eventually realizes Rose is the true author of the guide when she watches her destroy the gate above her house with magic.

I love that this is the moment that convinces Kanaya that Rose’s walkthrough is legit.

It’s poetic, really. The walkthrough's authenticity was confirmed by the last action Rose ever recorded on it.

Lord English can only enter a universe upon its death, at which point he travels back in time to an earlier point in the universe's lifespan to assume leadership of his gang of mobsters called The Felt.

I love the implication that on his universe-spanning mission of conquest, English always surrounds himself with the same gang of idiots.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, I choose to believe that they’re not even different iterations of the Felt – it’s literally the exact same chucklefucks every time.

Bec was created in a lab through ectobiology by merging the ghost slime image of grandpa's dog Harley with Rose's MEOW code. Scratch had a similar but yet unknown origin.

And I’d be shocked if one of his ingredients wasn’t a cueball.

I’m not sure what it was merged with, though. Clearly there's a humanoid in his recipe - likely a human or troll – but in lieu of facial features, there’s not a lot I can do to narrow it down.

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