mrbookboy replied to your post “Dirk Route notes: Very long, very rambly. I went on a fucking journey...”
I think the director is fascinating in a lot of ways. First off, Hussie still exists, but is being restrained in some way.
Also, Director carries a lot of connotation a for Conductor, a heavy term in the original comic.
The Director locking Hussie away for the duration of Pesterquest’s ending is phenomenal to me. It’s likely a bit of a joke, since Aysha is literally the director of Pesterquest and therefore oversaw a lot of it’s creation, much the same way as Hussie is the author of Homestuck, but the symbolism isn’t lost on me.
The author, being hidden away while a very non-canonical timeline plays out, which also just so happens to encompass an ending that absolutely betrays the general concept and creation of Homestuck? Allowing us to be in touch with a much more sympathetic creator who seems genuinely sorry for the pain she’s putting the Reader through? The creation of a Locked Timeline away from his heavy presence, where not even he can touch it and (potentially) continue it the way he has with Homestuck^2?
It’s poetic, honestly. And also funny as hell that he’s probably stuck with the stupid wolf head for the rest of eternity.
The connotations of Conductor are also pretty easily explained by the fact that Aysha’s literally conducting/overseeing the creation (and conclusion) of Pesterquest, but if we step away from the literal and into the more meta element? Into the narrative itself? It’s pretty interesting fo a connection.
She’s not the author. She’s not the writer, the person who’s creating, per se, everything we see. At least, not in the same way Hussie does. Whereas Hussie is writing it freely, producing something specifically new and unique as the Author, Aysha, as the Director, is just... gently nudging things into place.
She’s playing with what already exists. That’s why, maybe, it was the Alpha timeline that got so screwed up, the Alpha Timeline - out of all Timelines - that was chosen for her experiment. She could have created an entirely new timeline, but she’s not the Author; it’s not within her realm or power. Editing what is already there, on the other hand - that’s something she can do.