#actorstuck

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D-d-d-d-d-d-d-Dave….

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Actor/TV Show AU

This au won the poll, so its post will be first, followed by the streamer au, and then the other two if I feel like it.

The premise is exactly like it sounds. Homestuck is a live action TV show, and everyone is human. Correct age was important to the directors, so all the actors playing the kids and trolls are between 13 and 16 at the start. This is more of a loose collection of headcannons, since I imagine having 16 teenagers running around on set to be a fun premise. Some of my ideas are after the keep reading thing. If someone reads this and wants stuff about a specific character/wants to contribute something, please send me an ask!

It was Nepeta’s idea to do the cat puns, and it kinda spread to a majority of the trolls having some kind of pun. The writers decided at some point to just write the lines normally, and have the actors edit in as many puns as they can, because they’re better at it than the writers. There is a ‘pun club’ weekly so everyone can work together on it. 

 Equius sat firmly on the belief that his character would NOT do puns for most of filming, but Nepeta managed to convince him and the writers changed some stuff so he could do some puns before his epic death scene.

In the take they ended up using, Kanaya didn’t actually kick Gamzee between the legs. This is because the very first take she did it(with Gamzee’s permission) and did it so hard they had to stop filming for a bit.

Despite a few of the troll's actors having dark hair, all of them wear wigs and makeup

This means their call time is usually a few hours earlier than the beta kids, since they don't have to sit through as much makeup

During Eridan and Sollux's fight, Eridan's wand actually broke on the first take. Even with a replacement, it took a few takes to get back into the mood of the scene.

Karkat and John took AGES to get through the Greetings Worthless Human Convo because both of them kept laughing

There’s a sort of ARG when Caliborn takes over the narrative where the production team says that the files for the new season's trailer got corrupted but they wanted to have it out on time anyway. Nice big foreshadowing for Caliborn

If the trolls thought their makeup took a long time, just wait until the cherubs come along. I’m not sure if it’s sfx makeup or motion capture with the little dots but either way it’s tedious

Caliborn and Calliope are actually played by one person with a really good vocal range.

Doc Scratch's head isn't CGI. It's literally a big helmet. The actor cannot see a thing. All of his lines are dubbed over later because they're muffled from the helmet.

I imagine Scratch is played by a really famous/recognizable actor and the funny part is besides the voice you can hardly tell. Because you can't see any of him. Helmet gloves and suit leave nothing exposed.

Jake has the most ad-lib lines that have made the final cut.

Dave actually laughs really easily. His cool guy exterior took a lot of practice to master

Bro is actually played by the show’s stunt coordinator, as a nice cameo

Kankri does not so much ad-lib as he does roll with a certain topic while being as pretentious as possible. His script is mostly stuff like Kankri: rant about ethics of [insert topic]. He's just really great at improv

To make Game Over feel more authentic, Jake was given a god mic(which they edited out later) to say his lines when he's all powered up. Problem is once they finished the scenes Jake still knew how to rig the mic to have the reverb and stuff. Cue random stuff being said into the mic by anyone Jake manages to tell, which is most people.

There exists many, many videos compilations of behind the scenes footage taken by the kids, mostly of them messing around.

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more Actor Au :]

[botgal]

I just found your actorsuck au, and while I'm not sure you are still into homestuck, do you have any more headcanons about it???

Oh I’m still into Homestuck alright~For you, friend anon, some more Actorstuck headcanons of mine.

- Equius and Horuss don’t actually sweat a ton. It’s all special effects from colored water. Either sprayed on them just before a scene, or released from little things just out of sight of the camera. It’s awful. Wet socks everywhere.

- There’s a special pot of soothing herbal tea for Kankri and Karkat in the break room. It’s to help their constant sore throats. It tastes awful, but is one of the only things that helps.

- Kanaya helped design all their clothing and costumes for the set. She had fun designing the God Tier robes.

- Vriska actually HATES spiders. It was a major test of her acting for her to get into the whole webs and spiders thing.

- Terezi has special edible candy chalk for the scenes where she has to lick it up from whatever or eat it. One time someone forgot to get the candy chalk and she took a big bite out of a piece of normal chalk. The reaction went about as well as you’d expect. (BLUH!!!)

- Eridan loves the scarf but hates the cape. When posing for the big stand off scene between him and Vriska on the ships, he stepped on the end and fell off into the water. She ended up jumping off her ship into the water to help him out because his cape got caught on some stuff below the water and he couldn’t get it unstuck without help.

[xxskaterzzforlifexx]

GUESS WHOS BACK AFTER A POWEROUT

i was grinding on a setstuck/actorstuck I wanted to make myself, the design is shit but I haven’t eaten anything okay

i have so many ideas for actor jade My god

i need to get something to eat damn

[xxskaterzzforlifexx]

Question regarding ur actorstuck au—you seem to have John and June as two separate people. Were you envisioning it as the character transitioning but not the actor, hence needing a recast?

Tell me your vision

Yes actually!

In this Au, the CHARACTER is the one transitioning, not the Actor.

I try to seperate the characters from the actors, not to the point of just… being absolutely different, but I do try.

Though the idea of the Actor, Nathan/Natalie transitioning while as their roles, and the studio rolling with it as the character could also as well, is an interesting concept I rrreally want to explore

Actorstuck hasn’t been on my mind for quite a while now, and now that you’ve brought it back to my attention, and now that I’ve looked at my old actorstuck stuff, it definitely needs a redo of it.

[botgal]

More fun stuff from the ‘Homestuck is a TV show/Movie series where all the characters are voice actors, a.k.a. actorstuck.

- Director Hussie gives all of the actors their scripts in their characters’ typing quirks. The human actors are fine. The troll actors were ready to throw things at him. Especially the Pyropes, Mituna, Gamzee, Kankri, and the Peixes.

- Doc Scratch’s lines were printed out in white ink. Not even on dark paper. When he got his script his lines were literally just printed out in white ink on white paper. He uses a tablet to read over his lines for this purpose.

- Roxy and Mom both got tired of drinking just colored water whenever they had to ‘drink’ on set, so they convinced the prop guys to put fruit juice into whatever container they were supposed to be drinking out of instead. They sometimes go back to water depending on how hot it is.

- John actually loves cake, and adores trolling his fans by going to different cake shops and food blogging about it just to watch the backlash on social media from them screaming about it.

- Vriska is the only one of the glasses wearing trolls on set that actually needs them. Everyone else who wears them just uses fake prop glasses. Likewise, Jake is the only human who actually needs his.

- Latula actually learned how to skateboard for her role, even though she didn’t get to use it all that much on camera. Mituna cannot skateboard for crap and uses that to his advantage by being his own stuntman so he can realistically fail miserably.

- ‘Bro’ accidentally hit Dave and knocked him down for real during one of the takes of their fight scene (this was the take they used in the final cut). They both played it off until they were called to ‘cut’, at which point Bro immediately threw down his weapon and started panicking, asking Dave if he was alright. Dave was fine, but it took Bro several minutes before he calmed down and stopped crying about the whole thing.

[botgal]

AU where all of Homestuck is some sort of tv or movie series where all the trolls and humans are actually trolls and humans, but they’re all just actors dealing with the bullshit lines they have to do..

Karkat yelling himself hoarse for all of his lines and constantly needing to take lozenges and water and stuff because he keeps straining his voice in character.

Mituna just getting frustrated over all his lines being so nonsensical so he just bullshit ad-libs more than half of it into gibberish nonsense, yet it still makes the cut.

Supreme pun characters like Nepeta, Horuss, Feferi, and Meenah collaborating because they’re just told to read the scripts and force in as many puns as they can think of.

Eridan and Cronus constantly struggling with their wwavvy vwawvy accents being kept in place while they’re talking. (ws and vs are hard. it’s hard and no one understands)

Dave having to stop constantly because he keeps losing his stoic face and voice from so many of the lines he has to say. Same with Jake who constantly mocks his own character when not on set.

Gamzee tripping over his own lines because he’s getting the way his words are pronounced screwy because he talks so weird.

Damara actually speaking Japanese and she sometimes just speaks Japanese off-set to screw with people and they aren’t sure if she’s flirting or just messing with them in character.

Fucking Kankri having to memorize entire monologues of text when he speaks and having to stop because he’s just so done with so much of what he has to say. Plus deals with the same voice exhaustion problems Karkat does.