Do you have any unusual headcanons or personal lore for Alternia or the Homestuck Universe?
A lot of my headcanons come from a reverse-hemospectrum fic called Hemostuck! Referring to the group of a given troll’s quadrants (and their quadrants’ quadrants) as a ‘clade’ doesn’t seem to be common, nor does the concept of two-person auspisticism that I buy into pretty heavily. If I thought I could get away with it, I’d totally have quadrant rings (quadrant-symbol-shaped, the color of your quadrantmate’s blood, worn on a specific finger for each quad) be a thing, as well as having to duel someone to red-court their moirail or black-court their auspistice.
Aside from that, here are a couple of headcanons that may well be uncommon:
I usually headcanon that everyone has an ancestor, and members of the same bloodline parallel each other for mystical reasons rather than just narrative convenience
for that matter, I do thing that serendipity exists, at least partially -- people who were important to your ancestor are more likely to have descendants that are important to you! Some quadrant pairings keep cropping up throughout history between two bloodlines! And so on. This concept is kinda useful to describe it.
Less uncommon, but: Fleet service isn’t mandatory, or at least not everywhere. It’s so strongly encouraged that almost no one realizes that it’s not mandatory -- and part of the way it’s encouraged is by conditioning young trolls to associate Fleet service with maturity, desirability, and honor. Adults who willingly stay on-planet are often looked down upon, unless they’re cavern workers.
I also believe there’s magic on Alternia! There I said it, I’m sorry. Mostly just because settings without any magic at all make me a little antsy, and I think it’s more interesting to have the possibility of ~something being out there~ especially in a setting that already has psychic powers, ghosts, glowing vampires, horrorterrors, FTL travel, and quasi-mystical bonds between babies and sapient animals.
The Demoness is often referenced as a symbol of death and/or chaos in media, and some people lowkey believe that she’s a Real Thing and the equivalent of the grim reaper
Uhhhh, otherwise my headcanon tag is here, my worldbuilding tag is here -- I’m a little too spacey to think of more things to feature, but thank you so much! This was a fun ask