This makes so much sense.
Posted Dec 19, 2011, 11:52 PM UTC
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Hopy shit. Maybe Mom based her FAQ off of Rose's FAQ, resulting in a stable time loop?
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Haha, you might be right, since Drunklonde is a hacker and should be able to find it easily if she looked. (Still not really sure how Kanaya found it.)
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The Horrorterrors hooked her up with it, after hosting it on a derse-colored server floating in the Furthest Ring. (See also the English-server, which resembles Doc Scratch's tower.)
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Ahhh that makes a lot of sense, since Kanaya woke up early as well. :3
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I thought Kanaya woke up early because Doc Scratch.
There is something I feel we're not being told about how all of this fits together. Doc Scratch and the Horrorterrors both have/had hooks into Rose and Kanaya.
Many things haven't been really explained.
Grimdarkness messes with the skin tone, leads to glowing, inability to communicate with others, and, allegedly, impulsiveness. It's not clear whether that had any (presumably helpful) interaction with her ability to channel the Horrorterrors, if that's what her magic was (IIRC, Doc Scratch merely strongly implied that this was the case, which could mean anything). The likely effects of it, in my mind, are enhanced magic, and more direct communion with the Horrorterrors.
Similarly, the Rainbow Drinker transformation. Doc Scratch was clearly aware this would come about, and either permitted or encouraged it. However... it isn't clear how Rainbow Drinkers work beyond the obvious parallels/counterpoints with vampires. Kanaya has bitten several of the trolls (Terezi, I know for sure, and I think she went for Feferi as well, among others?) and we haven't seen any obvious effects from that yet.
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I think Doc Scratch sent Rose's FAQ to Kanaya.
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She probably got it from R-Mom or something.
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wat.
How would that even be possible, I don't even.
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Kanaya probably got it through some kind of Weird Time Shit connection to R-Mom. Imagine the conversations they would have.
You are now shipping Kanaya and R-Mom.
MANUALLY
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Actually If I remember correctly, This is before hussie even came up with the trolls.
You guys do know that he pulls most of the plot developments out of his luscious, succulent lips at the last minute, right?
The trolls were not originally planned when homestuck started, or even for a while afterwards.
Let alone the scratch kids...
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And yet he manages to retroactively tie these things together perfectly. Either way it's worthy of a HUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE
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Maybe he had the post-scratch kids figured out, but not the trolls yet?
Or maybe it was just a random typing error, and he ended up making that Mom's quirk to fit...
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Andrew said on his tumblr that he go the idea for the post-scratch guardian-swap from when John created himself and the other kids in the ectobiology lab. So, no, he didn't have it figured out.
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And? All this means is that he's going to see this, and think "Oh, that's a good idea". 90% of calling it is influencing it in disguise.
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He retroactively foreshadows things all the time, like mentioning Betty Crocker in Act 1, and calling back to that and making her important. I don't think that was planned.
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Even if he didn't mean it at the time, he could have built the story later on so that it worked with that moment. Plus he did say he came up with the idea of the scratch kids about 2 years ago, so he's had time to develop that idea.
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That pesterlog is this page:
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There's no appropriate emote to show my brain busting out from behind my skull.
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....HUUSSSIIIIEEEEE!!!
(this is the first time I've legitimately said that)
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Congrats! This definitely won't be the last time. :P
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Nah you see I know all about Hussie's Razor, but to have the gall to retcon the importance of Rose's FAQs? FUUUUUUUUU!
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My mind is full of fuck.
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Which page is this?
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....... HHHUUUUSSSSSSSSIIIEEEE!!!!!!!
Seriously, every panel in this godforsaken comic is a "...HUSSIIIEEEE!!!" moment. I love it.