#general tidbits

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Hakari Tidbits

To take my mind off the impending doom of this upcoming week, I decided to write up a few tidbits about my snake-y ninja cinnamon bun.  This is a mixture of non-kink and kink related stuff to endear folks to this lil wannabe stoic that much more.  :P

Hakari

Hakari very seldom ever transforms into his true Saurian form.  It often manifests in the heat of battle, or extreme distress or anger, which is very rare since Hakari practices meditation frequently.

Hakari’s only tried alcohol once in his life.  After performing well during one of his practical exams, his grandmaster offered him a glass of wine.  The young ninja took a single sip, went wide-eyed, thanked his grandmaster for the drink, slowly rose to his feet, excused himself, and immediately rushed to rinse his mouth.

Hakari was once severely disciplined by his former clan for setting all the chickens loose, knowing they would just be killed and eaten if he didn’t.

Incidentally, part of the reason for that, on top of his inability to take another life, is because birds are actually Hakari’s favorite animal.  To him, they’re the cutest, most beautiful creatures on the planet, and the sight of them tend to warm his heart.  (Hence his “Disney Princess” moment in Chapter 1.  ‘XD)

Hakari’s stomach is incredibly overactive.  It tends to gurgle a lot if he’s anxious or nervous, and it’s INCREDIBLY loud if he’s hungry.  The former makes him a little nauseous, while the latter just makes him incredibly embarrassed.

Hakari has never been in a relationship before and as such, doesn’t know how to react whenever anyone flirts with him or dares to call him handsome or, Gods forbid...CUTE...just that his cheeks tend to go miiiiiiighty red when you do.  :P

Hakari hates being referred to as cute because, well, he’s a ninja, and ninjas are NOT cute...unfortunately, one way to NOT disprove being cute is to get blush-y and anxiously tug up your mask to hide how hard you’re blushing from being called cute.

Hakari may be a stoic, but he is veeeeeeery easily flustered.  Comment on his looks, rub his belly, tease him in any way, and he will shrink up anxiously. 

Hakari would rather die than admit it...but he is a HUGE cuddle bug...though, in fairness, he doesn’t actually realize that he is.  Again, he’s never been with another person before in any intimate capacity.  So he doesn’t realize how affection-starved he is or how instinctively he is drawn towards the physical warmth of others.

Incidentally, if he IS cuddling in his sleep, it’s one of the few instances where you will see him sporting the most docile smile imaginable as he slumbers peacefully.

For as embarrassed as Hakari gets if he ever unwittingly overindulges around Nara or others, having his bloated belly rubbed immediately subdues the young ninja, relaxing him ten times over as he slumps back and becomes putty in Nara’s hands.

Whereas some people love going to the spa, Hakari actually just loves being in the sun.  If he’s alone, he’ll remove his upper body armor and undersuit, leaving his torso completely bare and just bake in the sun.  His Saurian anatomy prevents him from getting sun burnt or anything more serious.  He literally can never be in the sun for too long.

Funny enough, after he’s sunbathed, it’s NARA who becomes the cuddle-bug because Hakari’s body absorbs sooooo much warmth.  XD

Hakari’s mind is constantly in flux despite his meditation and his stoic demeanor, making him prone to having nightmares.  Whenever Nara senses this, she’ll gently rub his back to calm him down. 

Hakari has actually never played a video game in his entire life...soooooo, you can imagine his face when Nara showed him Mortal Kombat XXV for the first time.  >:)

Hakari doesn’t get the hiccups often, but when he does, they are embarrassingly high pitched and frequent, rocking his entire body each time, much to his dread and everyone else’s amusement.  :P

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I found a nice article about wizards.

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A post about gnostic themes present in Homestuck. Fairly comprehensive.

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Another approach for defining class archetypes: movie posters. Though most explicit with John's reenactments, characters in Homestuck carry out various degrees of role modeling based on the media they consumed. Naturally, this should tie into their role in the story. I know there are already numerous posts to this effect scattered around Tumblr about various, so I'm going to gather what I can find and assemble posts for characters left untouched. This will be a one month project, I think.

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"Flip" is a buzzword for both Mind and Life, but the context varies for each.

As Terezi's two-face jokes and an eponymous glitched flash indicate, "flip" is associated with a binary choice in the Mind spectrum, or else the presentation of that choice.

When used with Life, though, "flip" is used to indicate alternation from one side to another. Most recently, Condy did this with an noted flip of the Ring of Life, switching Aranea from alive to dead (while also snapping her neck). Pre-mortem!Jane executed this switch from death-to-life more explicitly, while also conducting more subtle flips like sleuthing "uROBuROS" from "UrobUros".

And Doom is the axis of that flip. While Doom is associated with death, it's important to remember that Sollux heard the voices of the imminently deceased, not the dead. Just as Sollux is stuck between life and death now, he was subject to the voices of those transitioning from one to the other. Doom is the yellow light before a red light, the boundary.

I'm unsure whether Heart could be similarly related to the axis via Mind's connection to "flip". You could argue that the "heart" of things is at the center of things like an axis, but that's just semantics; I don't have any textual confirmation for that line of thought.

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Hooooly crap, you have to pay at least $100 to get a copy of Jung's mystic Red Book off of amazon. I'm a bit curious now, but pass on that.

...even though the rereads over, I think I'll throw theory stuff in my 'general tidbits' tag from now on. Better book keeping, less spamming into the already unusable homestuck tag.

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Actually, just reading the wiki article on the pentagram clarified p quickly.

The word Pentemychos (πεντέμυχος lit. "five corners" or "five recesses")[5] was the title of the cosmogony of Pherecydes of Syros.[6] Here, the "five corners" are where the seeds of Chronos are placed within the Earth in order for the cosmos to appear.[7]

That...strikes me as a plausible justification. Carry on.

I think I might check out the Cosmogony some time, though. Seems like a good read.

See what's happening here? This is cultural enrichment. We're all learning so much together. I'm being sincere but still feel a detached disdain for what I'm saying.