#sov!mituna.pdf

[nekropsii]

Wait, what do you mean with two distinct Mitunas???

I mean that there's two of them.

Two of them. Distinctly. Separately. At the same time. Second guy has a lot of names juggling around but is most commonly called either Mi2na or Prospituna. He's cool. Doesn't have brain damage, though, so he's a bit weird to get used to if you're used to regular Mituna. They're not fond of getting compared to each other, though. It's a sore spot.

To explain as simply as possible...

Mituna's a Dual Dreamer. The rule of Dream Selves is that only one body will take on the damage of the original at a time, and the Native Moon takes priority in this exchange. Mituna's a Derse Native, so when he died during the Great Act of Heroism + got God Tiered, his Derse Self was the one that sustained the Narratively Important Brain Damage and merged with the original body. God Tiers cannot dream on Prospit or Derse, so this leaves Prospituna as his own separate person, and lacking Brain Damage.

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How will the different mitunas in sovstuck be differentiated in terms of dialogue? Will they have the same chumhandle, quirks, color, etc? I can already imagine the FCG-CCG antics if they ever talk to each other, lol

I'd actually be pretty surprised if people managed to mix them up. They've got different handles with different acronyms (TA/AT), text colors, quirks, and look + speak completely differently from one another, lol. They're very much so undeniably different people, but still fundamentally the same god damned son of a bitch.

Mi2na's quirk has More Leet Per Leet, though, I will say that. You meet him pretty early on, so you'll see what I mean. At the very least, you get the grace of it only being number-based leet and there being no typos this time. It's genuinely not that hard to write or anything, at least. Pleome's quirk, despite having zero character replacements involved, is substantially worse to work with for me, lmao.

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kinda surprised I haven't seen anyone else ask this yet, but does sov mituna still have brain damage? I wouldn't expect you to completely veto it obviously but seeing as he is a reincarnation I'm guessing it's a bit different?

Yes, our Mituna still has Brain Damage. It's still specifically a TBI to the Frontal Lobe, and it was still gained through a Great Act of Heroism. The main difference between Homestuck's Mituna and Sovereignstuck's Mituna in that respect is that we write him and his disability with significantly more care and sensitivity. This is because we actually like him, and we do not hate disabled people, lol.

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I saw that you made Mituna and Latula moirals rather than matespirtes in your au. What are your thoughts and reasons about that decision for your story? Just curious!

Considering both of their characters, it seemed like it would be easier and more intriguing to explore their relationship through the lens of Moirallegiance rather than Matespritship. Their canonical Red Romance has very much so been explored and loved for years now, and we wanted something fresh but still familiar. Overall, it opened some new doors for exploration of both of their characters that we thought would liven up the Patron dynamics, and make them distinct from that of canon.

For Sovereignstuck, Moirallegiance is all about balancing each other, and staying in your best health. It's keeping each other in check, making sure your partner stays on the right path, and doesn't go down any dark roads. It's a form of extreme platonic love. It's a QPR with a specific function, though it manifests differently for everyone. Not all are healthy, and not all of them last, but all aim to fulfill the same basic purpose. Latula and Mituna both need each other, and separating them is a bad idea across most timelines. This is undeniable. We felt that with the way we executed their characters, it would be more apt for them to take on that balancing. They both have a lot of things wrong with their brains, and for the longest time they felt like they were the only ones who really understood each other. And, for the longest time, they were right.

The love between them isn't lesser just because they're Pale. It's still there, at the same levels. It's still intense. It's just in a different form.

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Are there any mituna-inspired character in Sovereignstuck?

Aw, man... I don't know... That's a tough question... I mean, we have this one character, right? He's this, like, 90's kid 4Channer skateboarding gamer guy, that's kinda like Mituna, right? And he's got this whole bee thing going on, because he's an apiarist... He's got this skintight latex body suit too, it's modeled after flight gear because he thinks planes are swagful, and it's like this costume thing for this superhero self insert character he has that's in this little indie comic series he's working on with his moirail. He's also a goldblood, and got brain damage from overexerting his psionics that had near historically unprecedented strength to them? He's an Heir of Doom, and his name is, like, Mituna Captor. I know, it's kind of dumb. Here's a picture of him, though!

Other than that, man, I really don't know... Damn... We're getting some really hard questions lately...

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Make no mistake. I think Mituna is lame as all hell. That’s what I love about him though.

For every cool thing about Sov!Mituna, there’s at least, like, 2 really lame things about it to offset it. Like…

He has tattoos. Like half of them are gamer tattoos though. He has a Triforce on his hand. He physically has a Neuromancer quote tattooed onto his body. He will not get rid of it. He thinks it’s fucking awesome.

He makes music. Sometimes it’s white boy gamer rap. He will put chiptune in his white boy gamer rap.

He uses a double-necked guitar for no reason other than he likes the number 2 and thinks a cool looking guitar will get him more bitches. It’s hard to play. He fucks up all the time.

He’s good at programming. If you ask him to help fix your computer, he will purposefully give you at least one new, slightly more annoying problem. Only he knows how to fix the problem. Sometimes he uses this to force people to talk to him more, because he likes them but doesn’t know how to approach them.

He uses video game references and bad puns to hit on people. I have no follow-up to this. It’s lame on it’s own. It works.

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Howdy 8)

not to reference a sovTuna post from like nearly a year, but which neuromancer quote does mituna have tattooed?

Hello!

That’s no problem! I like to keep that kind of ambiguous, just for fun. I also like to think that he has more than one quote on him, so you get some choices. Have fun with it.

Personally, I’m a big fan of these lines:

“All the meat, he thought, and all it wants.”

"Horror. The spiral birth factory, stepped terraces of the hatching cells, blind jaws of the unborn moving ceaselessly, the staged progress from egg to larva, near-wasp, wasp."

They have a nice little zest to them.

[nekropsii]

so I finally got around to reading your essay on mituna being a Cassandra parallel, and it was really good! But I can't help but notice that one of the sovereignstuck players is named Ajax and now I'm sweating profusely hoping there's no connection

Thank you very much, I’m glad you enjoyed the essay! And don’t worry! There’s no connection between Ajax Barrett and Mituna’s status of being a Cassandra parallel!! See, there’s actually two men named Ajax in Greek mythology- Ajax the Great, and Ajax the Lesser.

Cronus Ampora, in relation to Mituna’s myth of Cassandra, is simultaneously playing the role of Apollo, by most likely being the person who destroyed people’s belief in Mituna in the first place, and Ajax the Lesser specifically, for, well… You know what Ajax the Lesser’s relevance to Cassandra’s story is.

Ajax takes more cues from an entirely different guy- you might have noticed that his handle starts with the word “Telamonian,” which relates him very specifically to Telamonian Ajax, better known as Ajax the Great. He’s a hero of Greek mythology. Don’t worry- Ajax and Mituna are actually friends! Mituna’s his Patron, actually!