>>50611 Nah, I'm just here patiently waiting for that anon to answer me with his headcanons of what the difference would be between a Mage of Space and a Witch of Space and more.

Drew this based on that post from the 4/co/ thread the other night

>>50779 Explain the context of this drawing to me. By the way, is it just me, or is 8chan.moe's /co/ surprisingly active? I've never used it until now, but even now that 4chan came back, I see a noticeable level of activity on this board in general.

>>50806 https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/148341844/#148344407

I feel like anons who go back to 4/co/ after years of abuse, and now with increased tyranny from the mods, are a bit like Equius getting off to authority.

>>50822 So are we gonna talk about Homestuck, or keep talking about 4chan?

What's the deal with Troll powers? My memory is rather hazy on what they could do since we only saw Aranea and Vriska do anything relevant with them more than once.

>>50828 Trolls have a natural power depending on their blood color and that's about it. According to the comic/lore, the higher you are on the hemospectrum, the more powerful your powers are, implying that the troll hierarchy comes from the powers.

>>50829 wasn't it that lowbloods tend to have more proficient psychic abilities but weaker physical strength, while highbloods are much more physically strong? iirc vriska having strong mind control powers was due to her being a mutant rather than something typical of her caste

>>50831 yes. Blood castes can have no powers whatsoever, it's just way way more prolific in lowbloods. Vriska was a mary sue freak deliberately. Equius strength is likewise a him-only mutation. Even Sollux being as bonkers strong as he was was just him, not every yellowblood. Pretty much most of the cast wasn't really all that emblematic of their caste. The highblood strength thing has always been an after the fact rationalization of why highbloods would be in charge when you occasionally pop out Sollux-tier psionics based on misinterpreting Equius's freakshow strength as a caste thing and GHB being a fucking unit.

>>50829 >>50833 The main trolls seem to be abnormally powerful for their caste, especially when the Hiveswap stuff is taken into account. Most Rust Bloods can't move anything, and most who can can only do so with small objects. Most Golds can't give off any energy, and the ones who do give off comparatively little. Most Blues can only control a handful of people at best. Compare this to Vriska controlling armies of trolls at once. Indigos do seem to have a strength thing going on, but this is nothing compared to what Equius can do. Purple bloods being abnormally durable seems to be a thing as well, but once again, Gamzee is said to survive every timeline implying he's damn near unkillable.

>>50829 Are their powers based in some biological mechanism, or are they metaphysical in nature? Aradia could communicate with ghosts, and apparently this psychic ability made her less vulnerable to mind control. But Sollux’s powers seem to be biological in so far as they can malfunction.

>>50836 Not him, but from memory, Aradia's connection to the ghost is mostly specific to her. Telekinesis is her Caste power. Sollux's power also comes from his caste.

>>50837 Did she have telekinesis as a ghost?

>>50856 I don't recall if she just didn't use it much or couldn't while dead. She did harass Vriska with spirits and barely restrained herself from breaking the main timeline by killing her at the first opportunity so it seems safe to say if she had further ways to fuck with her while dead she would've. But i also cant remember if she was digging up Sburb artifacts for Sollux while dead or not so it could just be inconsistent. Shocker for anything troll related I know.

>>50835 A pet idea I've come to like regarding how inconsistent trolls are is that Condy and probably empresses before her with some Scratch nudging have been fucking with troll biology to one end or another for millenia. Something made really really easy to do with the mothergrub as a giant bottleneck they can control. So you've got rampant genetic tampering creating wild outliers for good and ill all the time.

>>50319 > Here's the screencap for it Forgot said screencap. >>50504 >are you saying this is not a more precise and faster extrapolation of his windy thing but rather a separate ability? In a videogame, you may have multiple abilities that lorewise are extrapolations of one ability, but functionally in game are a separate ability. I believe that's the logic anon is proposing here. To what degree its actually like that in homestuck, I can't say. >>50684 I figure troll ancestors are depicted pure black for the same reason human parents are depicted as featureless white figures. But yeah, black silhouettes lend themselves better to more sinister characters. >>50856 >>50863 I may be wrong, but dream bubble ghosts seem to be different than regular ghosts. The spirits Aradia sent to haunt Vriska looked different than Aradia herself as a ghost. So, maybe Sburb ghosts have bodies or something?

>>50866 On the ability front: More or less yeah. It isn't meant to be a deep systems analysis, just bitching about the tendency of fan characters to take the limited set of abilities we see Sburb give and do the usual powerscaling autism to insinuate they can go way further than we ever actually see The amount of Space fanchars ive seen insinuate atom splitting is nauseating.

this is really autistic but what do you guys think about this session idea i keep imagining scenes of anon going absolutely insane with the alchemy on his way to become a fully realized page doing different alchemeter upgrades than what we saw, im talking shit like an arm mounted alcmemeter that creates fired missiles or flying alchemeter building drones that can create building materials like steel girders and shit in a log continuous stream chud would be kind of like the dirk of the session but more raging and mad and less calculated and cold where his extreme actions would kick important shit into gear, at some point he would go back in time to when moses parted the red sea and interrupt the event, creating a doomed timeline that has significance on the alpha ive not completely thought out vivian james but at some point she would need to use her powers on her friends anon after god tiering sort of gets this apathetic and uncaring attitude where he cares only about stuff directly related to creation like breeding the universe frog or trying to make really power alchemy but at the same time chud would be so mad he goes around and starts fucking up the session her deal is that she steals the rage from chud and essentially uses it to piss off anon and make him actually fight the villan and play the goddamn game, the first time she does this she would actually overdo it and give anon so much rage he uses his insane powers plus creations to literally destroy all of the meteors in the outer veil either partway through the reckoning or after the baby meteors were intentionally sent early by the villan, the lord of doom, so he can orchestrate this whole thing

>>50872 I think you need to go outside more than anything else but also that the only Lord we ever saw was effectively unbeatable and capable of soloing an infinite number of opponents, only dealt with by his effective clone with poorly written asspulls. I dont think 3 schlubs could beat one under any circumstance that isn't a near mirror of what had to be done to LE

>>50872 >>50873 most of caliborns power comes from the fact that he not only beat a dead session but also fused with multiple other powerful beings granting him huge muscles from equius, soul destruction powers from a splinter of dirk, and gamzees plot armor/durability clown powers, and the doc scratch components making him even more powerful, maybe he could be kind of like this one in a billion perfect run like the whole sun photon changing a line of super mario64s code myth this guy would be the fourth player to a much more normal session while also being the villain similarly to mobster kingpin in problem sleuth

>>50876 Creating a Lord out of circumstances any less bonkers than Caliborns is simply a waste of the title.

>>50877 he makes up for it by actually doing shit directly to the players also as of thirty minutes ago while taking a piss he has 3 dream selves each of which are prototyped into a sprite, including vivans which happens pre entry when he himself basically forces himself into their session he finally throws something insane into his sprite idk what it is yet but since hes the prime minister of isreal you can connect him to all sorts of crazy conspiracy shit that could be used here like >really power super soldier he had growing in a vat >insanely powerful alien weapon dug up from the pyramids >he has this huge country wide sacrifice ritual set up and ready to go right when he enters so he can summon satan himself to touch the kernal when he godteirs he fuses with all 3 sprites, whenever else they prototyped, and any thing in the session that inherited the prototyping of vivian james's entry including but not limited to, the carapacian royalty, every underling that inherited his traits some of which have satans traits as well, and maybe even one of the terminals the exiles use

>>50876 Personally I don't care for that origin of Caliborn. But it actually happened in the canon comic, so there's not much for it.

>>50872 >Lord of Doom

Do you think we'll be able to live until someone writes a new story that makes us feel what Homestuck made us feel?

>>50958 The one that gave me the nearest feels as I got older was Kill Six Billion Demons but i absolutely refuse to interact with the community or follow the author as it would ruin it for me. You can't tell me anything about either i don't already know or suspect but as long as I'm not looking at it it doesn't exist. Im behind on it though, read up to the major jaggy confrontation and life got me.

>>50958 That's depends entirely on what caused your feelings towards Homestuck. So I'm guessing "no, because those feelings were mostly an adolescent thing and nothing can replicate that" >>50974 KSBD is fine, I just don't really give a shit about it. Sure there is a bunch of neat art and lore but they ring rather hollow for some reason. I think it's the fact that Madison, or whatever the MC is called, doesn't really have a good enough reason to stick around the supernatural bullshit and the story didn't really sold the idea of her preferring the magical world over her Earth. I stopped reading around the time that the MC started living full time in the wider cosmos with the demon she tricked so take this with a grain of salt.

>>50974 That comic is still going?

As someone who watched a voiceover of it recently and dropped it at the start of Act 4, Jade is best girl, but, after having scanned the wiki, should have been with John. >>45050 "Lets Read Homestuck" by Voiceover Nexus is pretty good. >>47579 Did you ignore the Barack Obama jokes made by Dave or how the Can Mayor hated monarchy? >>48271 >if you don't have anyfriends then your session is made up of other anons in this thread Was what would happen if someone had two computers and was their own host and client ever mentioned?

>>51034 >dropped it at the start of Act 4 nigger go read at least up to hivebent

>>51034 >That comic is still going? No idea.

I want to just die right now tbh. I wish I'd done more with my life when Homestuck was a thing.

>>51046 >I wish I'd done more with my life when Homestuck was a thing. Like what?

>>51048 Fucking cosplayer sluts in grey facepaint.