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Apocryphal Antithesis Spoilers under the cut!!
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Clockstopper vs Apocryphal Antithesis
Which is the better Homestuck track?
Clockstopper
Apocryphal Antithesis
Clockstopper From coloUrs and mayhem: Universe B By pixelseph and paradiddlesjosh Propaganda: "really wish someone woukd create a loop of just the first section of clockstopper before it gets suoer crazy" "ouhhhhh my god clockstopper"
Apocryphal Antithesis From The Felt By Clark Powell Propaganda: None submitted
I've got a bit of an odd situation. See, we picked up a Rage Player between sessions. Quiet guy, bit of an asshole at times, really his short swords. He keeps talking about his dream self doing paperwork on derse? And being surrounded by windows? And some overarching conspiracy to murder nobility or something? Our new Sage of Time, they were a Prince last game, said something about how the newbie had ecto-biological data from some "SS" entity in-game. I guess I'm supposed to fuck up our new player's ecto-biological cloning or something. I'm not happy about it, nobody's happy about it, this has not been a good time. All I know is, is that I don't think we're prepared to face off against a glitch dream-self that may or may not be a derse carpacian or something. ( How do you even god-tier that? I don't know, and our Thief of Rage is, well, raging about it. ) Do you have any advice? ... Also is it bad to be a Bard twice in a row? I don't mind being the Bard. But, if it consists of getting lost on the battlefield twice, and potentially missing the final boss battle (again), I'm going to be very annoyed.
Wear your codpiece with pride, soldier. And invest in a map.
Also I think I'm connecting the pieces. The "SS entity" is probably Spades Slick, the Scurrilous Straggler, the Sovereign Slayer. Jack Noir. Which would explain the player's dreamself 1) being confined to Derse, which is where Jack Noir lives 2) being confined to bureaucracy in an office, which is what Jack Noir does 3) doing weird murderous conspiracies, which is what Jack Noir does when he's not handling bureaucracy. Also wait hold on a fucking second, are you implying your Thief of Rage is like, The Son of Jack Noir. Did I read that correctly. Are you telling me your player shares DNA with Jack Fucking Noir. These asks are gonna drive me to drink one day.
I choose not to believe that your Thief of Rage is the secret lovechild of Jack Noir because briefly considering it caused me to curl up into a ball involuntarily for several hours. It was like an instinct.
In the event that your Thief of Rage is the secret lovechild of Jack Noir, I really wish that SBURB's coding didn't disable suicide, and also I legitimately don't know how his ectobiological code mixes with a player's in such a manner that their dreamself becomes him(???) but not the actual player. This is all bullshit, if this is true then good luck. You broke me, congratulations.
The much more likely possibility is Apocryphal Antithesis. Essentially, your Thief of Rage is missing a sleep ratio stat, and so their Dreamself is a distinct entity with its own agenda. I imagine that it's co-ordinating with Jack Noir to murder all of you, because that's typically what happens with Apocryphal Antithesis (the murder part, not the Jack collab itself). The good news is, if you're in a position to God Tier, just do it. Your Thief of Rage can't, y'know, by himself, but if one of you takes him behind the shack and onto his Quest Bed, his dreamself will automatically merge with him as he ascends. Indeed, even if it isn't Apocryphal Antithesis (I refuse to believe the other option), this might fix it anyway. If there's anything weird about your Dreamself, god-tiering is the "turn it on and off again" of solutions. Highly effective and simple and everyone should try resorting to that immediately.
Showtime Remix vs Apocryphal Antithesis
Which is the better Homestuck track?
Showtime Remix
Apocryphal Antithesis
Showtime Remix From Homstuck Vol. 2 By Gabriel Nezovik Propaganda: None submitted
Apocryphal Antithesis From The Felt By Clark Powell Propaganda: None submitted
APOCRYPHAL ANTITHESIS
Let me be clear. Let me be insanely clear. I know probably skipping Dead Shuffle will basically hinder my idea of what’s even going on in this story, since this is a sequel to that story. This one is basically the same as the past two versions of this story, with the same complaints about not being enough to hold my attention as the others. I will say, though, that this one does start off with an in-media-res prologue of Death talking to…something…that at least does pique my interest in the webcomic that will follow.
Well, it would, if not for the fact that it doesn’t seem like not much has changed or evolved even one fanadventure later. I think the fundamental problem is that, if you want to play around with the audience interacting with your story, you should know how to make that interesting. The audience, it turns out, might not be the best place for sourcing whole-heartedly story beats and interesting character things. It might, in fact, hinder it in some places. Anyways, that’s really all I have to say about this one.
Apocryphal Antithesis
Album: The Felt Composer: Clark Powell Leitmotifs: Endless Climb Characters: Itchy, Doze, Felt
The Apocryphal Antithesis
I am only a grain of sand; but even a grain of sand can get in your shoe and irritate you for miles.
– requiredSandstorm
The Apocryphal Antithesis is an uncommon phenomenon where dreamselves break away from player control, and usually attempt to replace their waking-self equivalents. AAs (as they are commonly abbreviated) arise from erased Sleep Ratio stats. This is usually due to a bug, but can occasionally be induced by thinking of one’s dreamself as a fundamentally different entity.
The dreamself and the waking-self share the same player ID. Therefore, only one of them will pass through the Door. This is usually not a problem, because the dreamself is almost always controlled by the mind of the waking-self. However, AAs know that this function of the Game will erase them from existence if the waking-self goes through the Door, and as such their near-universal murderous antagonism arises from their fear of death.
There do exist records of AAs that were neutral towards, or even cooperative with, their waking-selves. In all these cases, a strong rapport between waking-self and dreamself led the AA to disclose that the Door would kill them, in an attempt to work out a solution that would let both live. No such solution has ever been found.
The Apocryphal Antithesis Crossposted from A User’s Guide to the Apocalypse
A sample of Endless Climb at 2:01. The reversed version is worth a listen as well.