#quest bed

[minimoosedraws]

Mini Hopper about to become the Mage of Space

Been having a lot of fun editing homestuck pages and putting my self insert into the comic

The pages in question

[homestuck-today]

December 15, 2010

Time for A Nap, John

[jadefemme]

[trees4p]

Just finished a mock up of my quest bed in the Land of Rhythm and Towers! I’m an heir of time.

[chubby-aphrodite]

sometimes you just gotta die on your own planet instead of dying on your dream moon

[geekydoesart]

god i love her

Jade | John | Dave

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[mmmmalo]

I read your post about murder/sex in homestuck and the subsequent post about quest beds and it left me with this weird feeling about how weird it is that the way to reach godhood in a game based on reproduction was dying on a bed instead of... um well other means involving that item and I was wondering if you've ever questioned that line of thought?

Not until like. A day ago? Two days ago? I think it’s really easy to take things for granted in a story and not ask “why” when unprompted.

Plus Hussie really likes providing multiple explanations for the same phenomena to discourage further thought. Like, Tavros saying that trolls deliberately target kids at moments of emotional vulnerability, so if anyone DID question the timing, they might just say “oh okay, that’s why.”

In that same vein, there’s two alternate rationales for why people ascend on Quest Bed: one is that since the bed is made of stone, it plays into the idea of sacrificial altar, suggesting that dead kids are being offered up to some god. It also plays into the idea that kids are literally becoming their dreamself, since they go to sleep on the bed. Ascending to the godtier is supposed to bring you closer to your ultimate/ideal self, the sort of person you dream of being. So going to sleep to ascend made sense on that level.

Had Hussie NOT provided these alternate rationales, maybe more people would have connected beds to reproduction? It’s hard to say.

[theilluminantsystem]

So, I was at work, and so I didn’t go crazy I was musing (lol) about masterclasses. And I came to the conclusion that, Well everything else about them kicks their collective asses, why not also the quest bed.

So i was thinking that Lords and Muses’s quest beds have the Highest concentration of their aspect in the session, with Lords being heavy and hellish even compared to their lands, and muses being basically the only concentration of it in the session.

Now the way they work is they are designed to kill a masterclass at any point in the session, with the Lord’s being a challenge they have to fight through to be the successful one, and can easily kill an unprepared or weaker lord, and a muses an alluring trap that kills a muse who is not worthy of making it to the bed.

For example, caliborn’s would be found in the center of repetition on his planet, Youtube Headquarters most likely, and all existing timelines converge into a single existence there. Only one caliborn per set of Caliborns can go godtier at a time, and the rest are losers and as such their timelines get deleted. Caliborn steps up and sees multiple versions of himself, each sharing a similar glance of I will be the winner you fucks, flip each other off and start firing their rifles. Alpha caliborn (alphaborn) has to fight multiple equally talented versions of himself firing at each other through time, and as such focuses on the bed, what’s important. Another caliborn sees this and fills alpha up with lead, leaving the durable creature to bleed out. Alphaborn manages to crawl his way onto the bed and dies, as the others fade out of existence, shouting profanity and angry screaming as they do.

Calliope’s on the other hand would be a center of originality and science, probably the large hadron collider. As she aproaches her quest bed the collider revs up, and starts to focus all of it’s Space into her, and her mind overloads with originality, as Her body grows heavier and heavier. She keeps walking towards the bed, entranced. Her dimensions twist and contort, and she starts to drag herself through the heavily fluctuating gravity, and as she makes it onto her bed, a black hole forms around the edges, and collapses her body into a singularity. They dissipate as Calliope emerges as a godtier.