#alpha human session

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Why is the ghost army only troll ghosts with no humans to be seen?

The Beta Trolls spent several weeks in their session, and the Alphas, years. With the Dave only looping about eleven times for a total of three days, trying to keep casualties to a minimum (Compared to Aradia's 1000 Timelines), and the Alpha Kids living in an inter session with not much confrontation, chances are there's just many many more Trolls than Humans. Also the ghost army was based originally on mind controlling Trolls and having the rest follow suit, so given how the mind control works, it makes sense for it to be mostly Troll Based. Also a good chunk of the Human Ghosts that DO exist were obliterated in Caliborn Enter.

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Tbh I thought it was Kankri; Aranea said he had many struggles as a leader.

Did she? I mean, Meenah was the one that found the Ruins, started the Session, and the main driving force that caused some of the major issues, and the one who brought the Session to an end with the bomb. Like honestly even if Kankri was the leader, it would be in the sense Jane was the leader, only in name, with Roxy being the MVP.

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Wait, how did Lord Jack happen in the post-retcon timeline if Gamzee never time traveled into the session's past? How did Jack get Cal?

Shenanigans. We really don't know but given I wouldn't put it beyond Vriska to fill in the Time Loops. She already created ONE overpowered Jack after all.

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if a party MUST have a Space and a Time player in order to do, like,,,, well, anything, was the reason for there being neither in the alpha kids’ session because it was Void? if so- shouldn’t someone with a bit of higher knowledge, like Callie, have known from the start that that session was going to fail somehow? ^^; my brain’s too small for this contemplation rn

But their Session wasn’t going to fail. Because the Beta’s Session fused with it, nullifying its Void status. Callie knew that ahead of time.

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So there are some things we know happened because we saw the results even though the actual event is never depicted, like Jake getting the Legendary Weapons to put in the time capsule, or indeed the B2 Frog Temple reaching earth. Are there any of these moments you wish we had actually seen properly?

I mean, those are very minor details, Callie mentions sending the codes for them to alchemize them later and we do see them MAKE the Warhammer, and the Frog Temple is as easy as having Jade shoot the meteor Skaia-wards, and we DID see Jane making GCAT in the glitched flash, so I’d say those are quite irrelevant!

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Hey wait a sec, doesn't the void ring make you invisible as one of its powers? That one anon got me thinking about rings, and i just remembered the ring that DD got from the condesce also could make him invisible. And it also made red miles, which means that is was in fact a queens ring. Doesn't that confirm the rings origin? Unless I'm remembering wrong.

The times we’ve seen the Ring has been as the Queen’s Ring, given by Condy. The only time we’ve EVER seen the ‘Ring of Void’ outside of the context of the Alpha Session was in Caliborn’s Masterpiece, when he used it to banish his filled Juju into the Furthest Ring... A power which Roxy demonstrated to have herself. In fact, Roxy also has natural invisibility and intangibility, which certainly tie the Ring with the name ‘Void’ on it with the Queen’s Ring that makes people invisible. Still its whole timeline is dubious, and there’s also the potential of it being the same ring that does different things depending on whether a Living person wears it or a Ghost puts it on.

Also at one point it’s Hussie who makes the Ring of Life appear around, and we have no idea how the Ring of Void got to Caliborn, keeping the Timeline deliberate confusing.

Remember, once more: Jujus are narrative tools. They’re Deus Ex Machinas. They’re authorial entities, inserted as McGuffins and Plot-Advancing Devices, that don’t always seem to adhere coherently or sensically to stuff in-Universe.

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Where did the rings of void and life come from? Could they have been the prior rings x-fold that had belonged to the queens?

Jujus are mysterious things with dubious origins. The Queen’s Rings from the Alpha Kid Session is assumed, but their actual journey, and even if they’re a single Ring or two different ones, is a mystery.

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I think you answered this before but what's the significance of the entry items?

It depends for each character, and yes I’ve done a big post about this before! But let me do a brief recap of them.

John’s eating an apple, loss of innocence, beginning of the journey, and in the Gnostic Context, it symbolizes Sophia reaching down to Humanity and giving them the chance to escape the cruel, material world.

Rose smashes a Bottle open, a symbol of Void, a symbol of her Mother, as well as symbolizing the beginning of a journey like how people smash bottles on a ship when it’s first leaving the dock. That’s a thing that happens right?

Dave’s is a game of patience, of waiting, until the Egg cracks and opens up. Again, beginning, but also the Gnostic Egg, to Create a World, you must Destroy one first. The shell of the egg is the world, for the chick to be born, it must destroy it. This is a direct parallel to the way SBURB works to create a Universe.

Finally, Jade has a piñata. While it’s not exactly indicative of a beginning like the rest, maybe because she’s already been dreaming in the game for a long time, she has to smash a symbol of her best friend, which parallels to the Kids having to stop Bec-prototyped Jack afterwards, and perhaps even her assimilation of Bec upon becoming God Tier. Of course she also has to do this blindfolded, like Rose’s Leap of Faith, she has to take a Blind Shot.

Jane evokes John’s entry process, but then there’s no Apple, indicative of a Void Session. Once everyone is together, they enter through Jake’s Caliborn Piñata, hinting on this being a Session that will smackdown with Caliborn at one point, as well as mirroring Jade’s process. And of course, Caliborn’s Collapse into a Black Hole is both because of a Dead Session’s extreme conditions and odd way of working, his Cherub Nature, and the general Destruction of Everything theme surrounding Caliborn.