#homestuck speculation

[deerlike-dyke]

one thing that makes me particularly hopeful about june's transition in beyond canon is that in all likelihood we are going to get TWO distinct storylines out of it: one for meat june and one for candy june.

the last update had laid down the foundations of candy june's transition by putting on fragrant display her unwillingness to face her actual life as an adult who has to decide for herself who to be and what to do, as someone who has a personhood rather than a role to play and responsibilities rather than a quest to follow. she is so attached to the comfortable oppression of sburb that not only has she let it alienate her from everybody who was dear to her, she even reacts with palpable RELIEF (bordering on the villainous) at harry giving her an excuse to get back in the game, even if it's because he's decided he would rather fuck off into a hellhole adventure rather than have to deal with her.

meat june, on the other hand... is a corpse. this obviously puts her in a way different position, but it's ironically one that has a much clearer path to her coming out. despite being 20 years younger, this june has reached the logical endpoint of her candy counterpart's hyper-identification with the sburb narrative and has been consumed by it, getting killed in the progress of fulfilling her predestined role. her only hope for coming back to life is as a sprite in the new session, a literal sburb game piece; being thrust into this new state of being could very well be the triggering event for a serious, much-needed identity crisis. in addition, there's the matter of what she's been up to as a corpse: we don't have much explicit information about what the furthest ring/afterlife's like these days but presumably it now contains the noir city where catnapped and the hyperbolic helltier chamber take place in (the sprites who were left in the incipisphere are there, vriska reaches it through a pinhole in calliope's black hole, jasprose's fenestrated walls are connected to it...) so that also offers another avenue for meat june's personal journey to develop, especially given the connection between the problem sleuth characters living there and the vision of the table-and-chair from when ace dick played the game of life in death's bubble.

part of the reason i hope it turns out this way is that candy june's transition seems like it's shaping up to be a delicious mess, a story about a deeply traumatised trans woman cracking out of her egg right as her dysfunctional coping mechanisms have turned her own family and friends against her and are threatening to push her into a villainous role as dirk's counterpart, nominally benevolent yet just as destructively attached to the narrative, but it's also one that given the state of media discourse and the fandom would VERY easily be read in VERY bad faith ("oh snap john is transitioning but she's EVIL that will surely show all those trannies june truthers classic hussie trolling"), so showing off a more sympathetic transition narrative right alongside it could give the team enough cover to explore it fully.

anyway this is how grimdorks can still win (candy june and rose bond over being shunned and over their shared attachment to The Narrative so they get together; this development weirds THE FUCK out of the other characters and also generates absolutely radioactive wasteland levels of discourse from the worst people you can imagine)

[eldritchkraken]

so now that we know the omega kids are supposed to be playing the game im going to throw my hat into the classpect speculation ring.

i don't have much of a bead on most of the kids yet, but for yiffy in particular i feel pretty certain she's a bard of blood. a bard invites destruction with their aspect, blood is the aspect concerning bonds and relationships. i know the bard is normally a male aligned class but stick with me.

yiffy has sledgehammered pretty much all the interconnecting relationships between rose, kanaya, jade, and vrissy. note that she didn't actively do anything to accomplish this, her mere existence was enough. she's also the one that took the initiative in getting the kids to join vriska, severing the connection between the kids and their parents. it will be interesting if the kid that's had the least amount of speaking lines is going to take a leadership role

[touringtanuki]

My guesses of what the Candy/Omega Kids' Classpects will be

Currently, we lack information on both the classes and aspects of all the new BC-original characters. But since they all seem to be entering the game, and Vrissy in particular has been confirmed to have a god-tier outfit, it's safe to assume that they'll have classpects.

A theory that's been common since the original launch of ^2 is that the Candy kids will have the Classes & Apects which remained unused by the Beta & Alpha kids. I agree with this, as continuing the pattern would let the team examine the less explored parts of the classpect system, and help separate the Omega kids from their parents. Furthermore, I think that the new kids just represent the unused aspects very well. So, as for which person I think goes which which class & aspect, I believe the following: Yiffany "Yiffy" Longstocking - Sylph of Rage Tavros "Tavvy" Crocker - Bard of Doom Harry Anderson Egbert - Mage of Blood Vriska "Vrissy" Maryam-lalonde - Thief of Mind

I have considerate faith in my aspect guesses, though less so in my Class guesses.

As justification for Yiffy being Rage, I am simply going to post this excerpt from Page 562 and the EZ Rage description and let them speak for themselves.

As for her being a Sylph (with sylph meaning "understands their aspect"), I think her attitude of thinking she understands everything about how the world works fits that description.

(Alternatively, she could be a Bard because her muteness and the orderly bullshit she's dragged into [like being held captive or, even worse, private boarding school] prevent her from showing her rage at all times [in a similar manner to how Gamzee's sopor, Kurloz's sewed lips, and dirk's overthinking suppressed their aspects]. Not to mention, her love of watching shit get destroyed. This class has a blatant issue, which is that she shares it with Gamzee, which is why I have my doubts on it despite it lining up so well with her character.) As for Tavvy, I say he's Doombound because of him being the Crockercorp CEO's son. Being in that position, he's been put onto the side of the organization/empire that's brought most of the suffering and conflict currently encapsulating Earth-C. Tavvy's whole attitude also has an aura of 'doom and gloom,' to it, even in comparison to the original Tavros Nitram. Also, it should be noted that him being Doombound would be an interesting subversion of Jane & Meenah, the previous Crockers, being lifebound.

I say he's a Bard because he goes against the Doom-full situation he's been stuck in, albeit in minor ways. He's allied with the resistance, and is dating the daughter of one of the main resistance leaders. And despite him not being the most optimistic, he doesn't let it show too much. Harry and Vrissy were a bit harder for me to decide on. Starting with Harry, he's described as a "social climber," in the patreon commentary of the page where we saw his phone, works with others for musical plays, and appears to be the person who's most into the celebrity-esque role thrust onto him by his literal-son-of-god status. He also appears to be closer to his parents than the others are, or at the very least talks about them more. Being bloodbound would give yet another candy kid an inversion of their parent's aspect, as he's the opposite of John's Breath. Lastly, I want to add the anecdote that when Vrissy makes fun of Tavvy for his genocidal parent during the pre-hiatus run, he's the first person to say that it's not cool to bring Tavvy down for that.

Mages are a... confusing class, and one with very little to work with. My personal (and admittedly unpopular take) is that it's the Active equivalent of either Heir or Maid. Since the role of popularity is something which has been thrust onto him more than note, and because he gets dragged along with his parents' feelings consistently, I think it fits.

Lastly for the Omegas: Vrissy. One class and one aspect remain: Thief and Mind. Firstly, I would like to mention that Vrissy has not once been shown bearing the Scorpio sign. It's nowhere to be seen on her outfit, and when she texts someone her face is used instead of any symbol. As such, there's nothing tying her to Light, Despite Vriska and Aranea both being Lightbound. Considering that this story has gone out of its way to never associate her with Light, I believe her aspect is something else. My best guess is Mind. I say this because unlike Vriska, who's usually going straight into things without a plan, Vrissy consistently comes up with a plan before taking a step forward, though given that she's still a Serket, this usually results in her arguing with her friends while trying to make said plans. Finally, Vrissy being Mindbound makes her a Serket with the Pyropes' aspect, while her being a thief shows some inheritance from Vriska.

The previously mentioned arguing is also why I say she's a Thief. She's the one making her partners go through impulsive shenanigans for her, may it be to hide a body or to crawl through a window for a makeout session. Also, her improved Vriska mind control abilities enable her to literally steal minds.

Aaaaaannndd that's it. I was originally going to conjecture over the Deltritus kids as well, but I'll save that for another post since this one has gone on long enough. Just as a bonus: Harry, Vrissy, and the Satyrs (Dirk's Species) are Prospitan, while Tavvy, Yiffy, and the Nymphs (Rose's Species) are Derse. Why? Because it came to me in a dream goodbye

[bluekittyyoyo]

ALTERNIAN CULTURE ANALYSIS: APATHY AS ANTITHESIS. AN ESSAY ON TROLL SOCIETY'S UNDERSTANDING OF EMOTIONS

listen to me. it only makes logical sense that trolls would have a strong understanding of the idea that the opposite of "love" is actually antipathy; having no strong feelings whatsoever. I know what you're saying, "but the quadrants have love and hate as a dichotomy, they clearly think of hate as love's antithesis-" no. wrong. the quadrants are obviously not representative of every emotion a troll can have, the quadrants are a concept of ROMANCE. see there's the keyword here. love and hate are both integral parts of this romance, they do not exist in opposition to each other as in one cancels out the other, they are two sides of the same coin. having quadrant feelings for someone regardless of alignment is indicative of caring about them, of being passionate about them. I know those words typically have purely positive connotations when used about human romantic understandings but disconnect that for a second. basically it comes down to a slightly warped version of "horseshoe theory" (where supposed opposites, in this case love and hate, are actually closer together than the middleground). I think this concept is firmly supported by canon, examples off the top of my head:

from the quadrants explanation;

"The relationships each quadrant describes tend to be malleable, if not volatile,"

as stated with the pitched/flushed vacillation and the canon examples of pale/flushed, but also I think it is implied (though less so) that it applies to every quadrant and there are many ways unexplored in canon that every quadrant can bleed into another.

this famous line:

"It should be noted that in troll language, the word for friend is exactly the same as the word for enemy."

this quote being on the page where equius pesters gamzee, citing that he does so with regularity and thus considers him a "friend" (but that's not the whole picture). this adds to the notion of these relationships not being considered opposite but stemming from the same root idea of investment in a person.

I think it's very interesting because I believe the authorial intentions of incorporating hate as an integral part of troll society and culture is meant to contribute to the idea of them as a cruel and violent society, and while that may have some truth for the ways in which individuals treat each other peer-to-peer in average situations I actually think the real overarching effect it has is trolls coming off as a more emotionally honest society at the cost of simplicity and peace.

the implications of hate being considered on equal terms with love to me paint an image of a society that encourages embracing all emotions to the fullest extent, a society that might even consider the worst thing you can be not as someone who is filled with hate but in fact someone who does not care at all. I'm reminded of the conversation between vriska and aradia in hivebent:

vriska calling her a "miserable soulless witch" followed by repeating she hates her and "only regrets killing her cause it made her so BORING!!!!!!!!"

of course we also see plenty of times that "not giving a shit" is a thing that trolls are naturally inclined to do because you only have so much emotional resource to devote to a finite amount of things. moreover that alternia is a society that encourages emotional "balance", to embrace the love and the hate both with the same passion.

again as karkat rants to vriska also in hivebent:

"A WELL BALANCED PERSON IS GOING TO HAVE A GOOD DISTRIBUTION BETWEEN HATE AND THE VARIOUS PITY HUMORS."

you may also recognize this conversation as the same one where karkat claims this (rather infamously imo):

"PITY IS OF COURSE JUST THE TONED DOWN VERSION OF THE CENTRAL EMOTION, HATE."

(adding more to the "trolls believe hate and love come from the same emotional source" pile even if the manner of it is slightly off-center here)

and vriska's response to karkat's ranting:

"Did you learn this crap from your awful romance movies?" "THEY'RE REALLY INTRIGUING SOCIOLOGICALLY."

I hope this presentation makes it clear but for the audience in the back: karkat's interpretation of emotional composition of trolls is most likely complete bullshit and not at all factual nor, in my opinion, should be taken as biological information about trolls. for that reason I believe the reference to humoral medicine is completely intentional, invoking the imagerey of bullshit pseudoscience. just in the same way as I don't think it would be reasonable to make any similar claim about the nature of human emotions (and anyone who does is trying to sell you something). in A6A615 dave even states that "both humans and trolls are emotionally versatile sentient beings that can feel many hells of different things".

what I'm mainly getting at here using these quotes is that there is a cultural precedent for the claims he is making. karkat did not spawn these ideas about emotions out of thin air or scientific research, he got them from watching romance films. which particularly, as presumably low-culture media in much the same fashion as our own, would in fact make them excellent case studies on the general cultural attitudes of the society that consumes them. and that society, as karkat observes, makes indications that a) emotions of hate and love stem from the same source and b) trolls ought to have a balance of negative and positive emotions, where apathy is considered more undesirable.

so what I mean to say from all these observations, my formal opinion: to trolls there can exist this nebulous feeling of being emotionally attachment to someone, to desire any kind of relationship with them. and with that the average troll has a far better understanding that the most devastating response possible is actually none at all; to be completely unaffected by them.

so what am I saying with all this? it is my idea that in troll culture, trolls have a concept of relationships and emotions that can exist as a nebulous idea of just being *passionate*, of caring about something or someone and the distinction between negative or positive is merely a nuance rather than an opposition, and the actual socially reviled opposition to this feeling is being apathetic.

for example a troll rejecting another for a particular desired quadrant is heartbreaking (or diamondbreaking, spadesbreaking etc), but as there exists a desire for connection generally by virtue of the desire at all, it would be less devastating and possibly could become just as fulfilling for the connection to exist as a different quadrant, even on the other side of red/black. the most devastating possible outcome of a rejection would be that of total apathy, of the idea that one inspires no passions, no emotions of any kind in a person.

and with that established now we can get into my ideas about how alternian media rating systems work, such as a troll equivalent to rotten tomatoes where movies/books/films etc are rated on 5 different scales (also possibly two different modified 3 scale versions) in addition to a simplified two-scale version where the measure of "good" is based on "how much did this work inspire emotional reactions in you vs how much did you not give any shit at all"- the cane hooks me by the neck and pulls me off stage

[hopskippen]

I remember seeing somewhere on the wiki (even tho I can't find it anymore) that a possibile definition for the Seer class is "one who gives up their aspect to learn more about it" and honestly I think that's a super cool concept

A Seer of Void could start the game with basically nothing, having a "void" in their life, but as the game goes on they gain more and lose that "void" in their life, then learning about what being "void" means.

A Seer of Heart could start the game as one of the kindest people in the session, but slowly lose their "heart" as the game goes on and becoming more cruel, spending all their time looking into the meaning of "heart" instead of upholding their relationships and keeping those bridges from burning.

A Seer of Space could start the game pretty isolated, having way more than enough "space", but as they game goes on their life gets more and more crowded as they lose their "space", but in turn learning more about what "space" is and how to use it to their advantage.

A Seer of Life could have a pretty good "life" before entering the game, but their health slowly declines throughout the session and they die, learning more about the "life" of them and their allies in the dream bubbles.

In conclusion Seers are swag as hell

[thaumaturtles]

Why do Karkat and Caliborn have so many apparent similarities?

This might seem like an odd question at first, considering Hussie is known for using “prototype concepts” and mixing and matching them to make more refined versions down the line. For instance, his comics on the poorly namedTeam Special Olympics site featured much intentional homophobia, racism, bad dialogue and worse art, and Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff was a later execution of those concepts which made it clearer that he was lampooning bad webcomics. To use an in-universe example, Nepeta was used as the in-universe avatar for audience engagement long before Calliope was a blip on the horizon. So, why am I bothering to ask this? Karkat was obviously just a proto-Caliborn, right? Well, let’s look at the facts:

They both type in gray

They both type in all caps and use the rudest possible terms for things

They both have candy red blood and are in some way related to lime blood (Karkat through mutation and Caliborn through his sister)

But those are all superficial similarities. Let’s go a bit deeper.

They’re both pretty sexist. Much as I love Karkat, he does say some shit that displays a pretty condescending view towards women in canon. You can point out that he was initially meant to parody internet trolls, and that he’s overcompensating due to Alternian culture, and that he Lives In A Society and whatnot, but regardless, he’s pretty sexist during most of Act 5.

They both serve as a “typical” example of what their race is like, and display elements of their culture (or lack thereof, since Caliborn makes it clear that an asocial species would have no need for culture) despite not being very typical themselves. Karkat is a mutantblood who doesn’t even experience the quadrants correctly, and Caliborn never dominated the way he was meant to

They both make friends with Jack Noir, though for entirely different reasons. Karkat makes friends with Jack because his natural inclination is to try to be friends with everyone, no matter the circumstance, while Caliborn forms an uneasy alliance (note that he explicitly calls him not a friend) with Jack because they’re equally bloodthirsty.

They both have an interesting dynamic with one Gamzee Makara. Admittedly, because of his level of importance, nearly everyone has some sort of relationship with Gamzee, but it is interesting that it’s concilliatory on both ends: Karkat pacified Gamzee during Murderstuck while Gamzee took care of Caliborn during his childhood.

Finally, the biggest bit of similarity between them: they’re both terrible at art. This is, honestly, the main reason I made this post. In Homestuck Book 5: Act 5 Act 2 Part 1, Hussie mentions that Karkat is the only character who’s as bad at art as Caliborn, going on to say, quote, “The fact that Karkat and Caliborn have a bit of overlap in personality and typing style may correlate somewhat with their artistic sensibilities as well. Like there's a certain part of the brain that's overactive in both kids, and possibly in all very special boys of their ilk. “

What, exactly, did Hussie mean by this? He’s previously not shied away from describing Caliborn’s brain as broken in some way, and it’s clear that Karkat deals with serious self-loathing issues; could either of those be it? Does this mean Caliborn’s self love isn’t nearly as unflappable as we thought? Is it a mask? Was he just saying Karkat and Caliborn are extremely “left-brained” in the traditional sense? This seems less than likely, to me. While I do think Caliborn is pretty left-brained (the jury’s still out on whether he can draw a CURVE, for the sufferer’s sake), Karkat, much as he fronts like this LOGICAL, NO-BULLSHIT, CUT-TO-THE-CHASE MACHO MAN, is far more in touch with his emotional side than anything else. In all honesty, he doesn’t even strike me as one of the more intellegent Homestuck characters, at least not in the traditional sense. (Please note that saying a character whom I adore very much and identify with heavily isn’t as smart as other HS characters is like pulling teeth for me).

I do wonder what exactly Hussie meant there, though. The word “special” is of course loaded, both within Homestuck and without. I’m sure I needn’t tell you of its perjorative, ableist meaning, considering I brought it up in the second sentence of this post. It’s very likely that Hussie is just making an off-colour joke here. Let’s act as though he isn’t for the sake of exploring this a little more though. Within the comic, the first thing I think of when hearing the word special is Special Stardust, which is of course inextricably linked to cherubim. Gamzee is a frequent partaker, as are Caliborn and Calliope. However, another place it’s used, especially with the context of a “special mind”, is with Jake English. (Caliborn is even the one to tell him this!) Our other major page, Tavros Nitram, is also linked to special stardust and also behaves similarly to Jake, which might lend water to this theory.

So, then, one must ask, what exactly is being said here? it’s suggested that Karkat and Caliborn have... something in common with one another, and furthermore with Jake and Tavros, but what? On this page right here, Caliborn says their shared uniqueness is because they have to work harder than everyone else. This makes sense, as we see Caliborn’s journey to Lordship is a long and arduous one, and we also see Jake and Tavros having to struggle to reach their full potential as Pages. Karkat has to fight his inner demons for a long time, and by the end of the comic it’s clear he still has a long way to go. I doubt that that’s what Hussie meant, considering he specified “a part of the brain that’s overactive,” but I do think it sheds some light on matters. I especially think it might give us a new theory relating to the Knight class: If it’s truly meant to be a counterpart to Page, then maybe that means they ALSO have to work hard to reach their full potential? This might just be a reflection of Karkat’s personal journey though, considering Dave managed to get a handle on Time shit fairly early in the game.

This post was the equivalent of me violently shrugging and stating self-evident facts for a few minutes, but it’s also getting a bit long in the tooth, so I think I’m gonna end it here. I’m open to feedback/counter-theories/telling me BKEW already came up with this theory in 2012

[saffronshadows]

Life and Doom: A Casual Aspect Interpretation

A lot of times when I’ve seen people talk about Life, it’s about how it’s connected to power and wealth and that kind of thing, or healing. And with Doom it’s all fairly, well, doom and gloom. Those interpretations aren’t necessarily wrong, however, I feel like there’s more to this Aspect pair than that. So here are my interpretations of those more neglected sides of these Aspects.

For Life, allow me to refer to the Extended Zodiac description, specifically the second sentence;

“Those bound to the aspect of Life are the universe's healers. They are concerned with the betterment of themselves and those around them, as well as the onward march of positive progress.”

I feel like people skip over this a lot, but people with the Life Aspect aren’t just concerned about helping others, they want to improve themselves too! In fact, they want to change everything for the better! You can see these things in canon at least somewhat too, with how Feferi wants to improve society, and how Meenah leaves (Vriska) because not only was she worried about hurting (Vriska) after she became more sensitive, but also because she was bored doing the same things all the time. If there’s something Life doesn’t like, it’s stagnation.

Life loves progress and achieving goals, and this can also be seen with Meenah. Even in the afterlife she was dedicated to gathering wealth, and hearing that her post-scratch self had not only achieved her goal of ruling their home planet, but was also achieving even more than that by attempting to conquer the universe, made her so completely full of glee and admiration that she didn’t care that she had just been whacked in the face.

Of course, Life loves helping people too. They want nothing less than the best for everyone. Sometimes it’s gentle advice, sometimes it’s tough love, but either way they want what they feel is best for you. That said, occasionally they can be overbearing with their advice, and they can also give it without thinking about if you actually want it or not. Sometimes you just have to tell the Life bound to step off!

In conclusion, at their best, people with the Life Aspect are not only good at helping others, they’re good at making their own progress and forging their own path too. They have a tendency to put others before themselves too much though, so learning to harness their Aspect for themselves too is essential for their growth.

Now, on to Doom. Despite being the opposite of Life, there is one thing that these Aspects have in common, and that is a very deep sense of empathy. However, the way they deal with it is pretty different! Life is all about improvement, so as a result they deal with empathy with someone’s bad situations by trying to give advice on what to do. Doom, on the other hand, is more about acceptance, so rather than giving advice, they’re the comfort friend. They’re the ones you go to if you just want to vent, and have someone say that they’re there for you.

Doom knows that sometimes things just can’t be changed, and that in some situations trying to force change is a waste of energy at best, and might even potentially make things worse. That’s not to say that they’re passive though! It’s more like that they just prefer to pick their battles. They’d rather wait and see instead of immediately going out and trying to force change.

Doom is not only acceptance, it’s accepting too. Doom doesn’t care about who you are, what you look like, or what kind of circumstances you came from, because Doom knows that bad things can happen to anyone. As the Extended Zodiac says, people who have the Aspect of Doom can be wise, kind, and non-judgemental. I imagine that Doom is also very loyal, and the least likely Aspect to be a fair-weather friend.

In conclusion, Doom is probably the best Aspect to turn to if you want a friend who will empathise with you without trying to tell you what to do about it. At their best, people with the Doom Aspect are loyal, kind, wise, and accepting. However, they should be careful not to get so caught up in the pain of themselves or others that they fall prey to despair or bitterness.

[the-weirder]

His Honorable Tyranny Masterpost Manuscript  (Complete with Canonical Information on the Subject of Alternian Law, 1st Edition)

OWO < His Honorable Tyranny’s blood is irrespective of any canonical significance; likely a biological mutation and stylistic choice. At this time, there is no reason for him to have black blood aside from his depiction including it.

OWO < His Honorable Tyranny(s) is/are hand-picked by the Highbloods to oversee judiciary operations on Alternia. The word just is explicitly used here, meaning they adjudicate the final say insofar as who is guilty, who is not, who is eaten, and who is spared the rapacious appetite of His Honorable Tyranny.

OWO < His Honorable Tyranny is described as brainless, gross, huge, and massive. His grotesque frame could be used as a deterrent, as well as an element of impartiality. Justice is certainly blind if justice is uncompromisingly cruel and tyrannical, with no room for bias or sleights of favoritism. (Sans taste)

O0O < This is the first CANONICAL appearance of His Honorable Tyranny. His Honorable Tyranny presides; and thus it can be safely confirmed he oversees most, if not all, non-court-martial-related judicial proceedings on the planet of Alternia. It is not confirmed if he makes the actual decision or not. 

OwO < We don’t get much information insofar as what a ‘Courtblock’ entails, especially since Courtblock drama seems to suggest allusion to a kangaroo-court-esque sort of show-trial, but a little attentiveness gleans Alternian Justice is much more sophisticated than that. The trials /do/ matter, just not much.

OWO < We also get confirmation there is NO SUCH THING AS A DEFENSE on Alternia. This is majorly important to understand -- as most are used to a non-European-style ADVERSARIAL justice system, rather than an INQUISITORIAL system. If Alternia is a true Inquisitorial System (as I suspect it is) plausible deniability and reasonable doubt are pointless -- the judge ascertains the truth and the attorneys (in this case Legislacerators) stick to their guns: who did it?

VwV < We unfortunately don’t get to SEE His Honorable Tyranny preside...but... 

(VwV) < We do, however, get a nice glimpse into the shape of the courtblock, and it can be reasonably assumed Redglare or at least Mindfang circled around to the center of the Libra-esque symbol, thus placing His Tyranny centerfold; presiding. Hence why he had to be dealt with directly in order to escape)

OWO < The Prosecution can motion requests from His Honorable Tyranny, such as a momentary recess to compose one’s self. This is significant because traditionally -- issuing a motion requires one of the two opposing council’s subordinate permission(s) requested verbally from the Judge. This implies His Honorable Tyranny, if nothing else, can understand Trollian Basic.

OmO; < There doesn’t appear to be any iteration of separation of church and state -- and although there is none in American law either (just a three prong test to make sure there is no official endorsement of a faith by a public institution) -- it’s worthwhile to note this means phrases like ‘Mother-Grub fearing’, and presumably, ‘mirthful messiahs’, ‘troll Jegus’ .etc are ALLOWED. 

Om<; < This may also lend credence to statements like ‘purple enough to get away with it’ -- as purplebloods are given some leniency with regards to rules that would ordinarily result in uncompromising culling -- and posthumous pardoning of guilt if disproved. Purplebloods are often the most religiously pious, which would make sense for the dissemination between privileged classes, if Purplebloods are afforded closely nit-networks of partial court-immunity. 

OMO; < It is not customary to salute His Tyranny by licking him personally...

OWO < It is at the very least, however, canonical that the entire courtblock is adjourned post-trial. How many of them are allowed to leave without being culled or devoured is unknown, (the Rustbloods during Mindfang’s trial, for instance, are not seen again after having been manipulated into Redglare’s death) but it is known that “adjourned” is legal-speak for “fuck off and head home.”

OWO;;; < His Honorable Tyranny’s graffiti depiction is given the honorific title “Hella Tyranny”. This mirrors traditional court parlance, in phrases such as “Your Honor The Judge, Your Tyranny, Your Viceroyality .etc”.

OWO < Alternian law reverses the principles of innocent until proven guilty; and lawyers really do have it out for the accused as Remele seemed to suggest. Any exoneration or appeals are traditionally posthumous, meaning there is doubtfully any sort of appellate court in Alternia  -- especially when the sentence is death.

OWO; < ...he eats trolls. Presumably not trolls who are smart cookies (like Tirona Kasund, for example) but rather, the ones who are disrespectful in court, make a lot of noise, and taste the best because of their wicked deeds.

OWO < Character witnesses are a thing on Alternia -- which is strange, considering the Prosecution would never have a need to call to the stands someone in DEFENSE of the accused, especially since defense is not only a thing in Alternian law, but the mere word is offensive. 

OMO; < What’s more confusing, is that you can /object/. If there are no opposing counsel(s), and law is restricted to a courtblock, Legislacerator prosecution, and His Honorable Tyranny...who would a hypothetical attorney object to? His Honorable Tyranny? You would essentially be asking the judge to determine if his actions and composure are appropriate -- to sustain or overrule; I’d be hard-pressed to see someone with the unmitigated gall to pull a stunt like that.

OWO < The positive side to this all is that His Honorable Tyranny is confirmed to receive objections! Even if it is tantamount to an auto-eat/consumption, he is at the very least equipped in some way, form, or facet to be objected to when court proceedings go less than favorable for the prodigal Legislacerators.

OWO < His Honorable Tyranny will obstruct anyone who attempts to leave court while it is in session; likely killing them or devouring them alive. Speedy trial.

OWO;;; < Unf. What a solid monster design. He carries a similar motif to that of the Drones, the Condesce’s ships, and other similarly imperialistic vessels and/or constructs in the Alternian military. His maw doesn’t seem to imply speech capacity, but he has (APPROXIMATELY) the following statistics:

OWO < Bribery of the Prosecution seems to be illegal, as per the standard of trying to corrupt officials. What’s interesting, however, is that it seems not only commonplace -- but well known -- how crooked Tealbloods can be.

OWO; < I will never dub a character my ‘uguuu flowerchild’, but I cannot get over the fact that it is beyond adorable to imagine His Honorable Tyranny daydreaming and dazing as court proceedings take place. Nothing is cuter. He is a bloodthirsty, adorable brainless beast monster judge, and does no wrong.