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Arsenic Lupin posted:Bother, my memory's messed up. There was an entire range of greenbloods that was deliberately exterminated, and I confused that with the jade blood of Kanaya, Porrim, and the Condesce. The Jadebloods were designated from birth to be the caretakers of the mother grub. As Alternian jobs go it's probably one of the safer and more secure ones, but if you're a jadeblood who wants to do something else with her life, you'll have to attempt an escape and live a life on the run. Kanaya did it at a very young age with the help of a similarly young mother grub who acted as her lusus. The Dolorosa was content in her live of servitude until she saw an infant troll whose mutant blood meant he had no lusus assigned to him, and so was slated for culling. She grabbed a saw and the kid and carved her way above ground, taking lethal damage and becoming a rainbow drinker in the process. ThaumPenguin posted:I have to say, I halfway expected Roxy to CHAOS DUNK that egg. ::3
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Cthulhuchan posted:Nah, she clearly gives no shits about the current goings on. As two Vriskas crowd her life, Meenah quickly begins to remember her one true love: Herself.
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True facts when you are nigh immortal this is a very important and positive quality to have.
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Cthulhuchan posted:Nah, she clearly gives no shits about the current goings on. I think you'll find that Meenah probably loves currents.
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creationist believer posted:Finally we learn what the "eggy loking thign" [sic] is. We've seen the Matriorb lots of times prior to this, though.
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Ariong posted:The Jadebloods were designated from birth to be the caretakers of the mother grub. As Alternian jobs go it's probably one of the safer and more secure ones, but if you're a jadeblood who wants to do something else with her life, you'll have to attempt an escape and live a life on the run. Kanaya did it at a very young age with the help of a similarly young mother grub who acted as her lusus. The Dolorosa was content in her live of servitude until she saw an infant troll whose mutant blood meant he had no lusus assigned to him, and so was slated for culling. She grabbed a saw and the kid and carved her way above ground, taking lethal damage and becoming a rainbow drinker in the process. This makes me wonder, actually. Since all the troll adults are in space, who's jading around on Alternia? I imagine it's just young jadebloods taking care of kids as they can, and... well, with nothing to do in space there aren't any old ones.
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I've always assumed that jadebloods were the exception to the rule, since they are supposed to stay in the caverns all the time and never go up to the surface.
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As I recall, Kanaya's intro mentioned that her blood type is fairly rare. Probably there's few enough Jadebloods that they're exempted from the 'Can't be on the planet as an adult' rule. They just, you know, stay in the brooding caves and don't really talk to anyone. Probably didn't even realize the apocalypse was happening until the Vast Glub got them all.
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Bobulus posted:As I recall, Kanaya's intro mentioned that her blood type is fairly rare. Probably there's few enough Jadebloods that they're exempted from the 'Can't be on the planet as an adult' rule. They just, you know, stay in the brooding caves and don't really talk to anyone. Probably didn't even realize the apocalypse was happening until the Vast Glub got them all. I wonder how exactly Karkat got out of the brooding caverns. I know it's mentioned that the Sufferer's followers made sure there would be a lusus for his descendant, but that he left the caverns implies to me that some jadeblood let him out. As a grub he was very obviously a mutant after all. Maybe the jadebloods don't actually care about mutants as long as a lusus turns up to claim them, and the Dolorosa had to fight her way out because she was trying to act as the Sufferer's lusus rather than because the Sufferer was a mutant.
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Slime posted:I wonder how exactly Karkat got out of the brooding caverns. I know it's mentioned that the Sufferer's followers made sure there would be a lusus for his descendant, but that he left the caverns implies to me that some jadeblood let him out. As a grub he was very obviously a mutant after all. Maybe the jadebloods don't actually care about mutants as long as a lusus turns up to claim them, and the Dolorosa had to fight her way out because she was trying to act as the Sufferer's lusus rather than because the Sufferer was a mutant. He was never the brooding caverns, he fell out of the sky on a metorite just like all the other sgrub playing trolls.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:He was never the brooding caverns, he fell out of the sky on a metorite just like all the other sgrub playing trolls.
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Yes. Karkat created his team and their ancestors and put them on meteors before the reckoning. See?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Do we know that there were meteorites in the trolls' sessions, or are we just assuming by analogy? Yes, we know. It is specifically mentioned that the Sufferer landed on earth on a metorite that fell near the entrance of the brooding caves. The handmaiden was also delivered to Doc Scratch on a metorite.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Do we know that there were meteorites in the trolls' sessions, or are we just assuming by analogy? It is definitely one of those SXURB constants. And Vriska even brow beats Tavros about going through the trials in the 8rooding caverns. So at least some of them go through the caverns. And Karkat obviously got through the brooding caverns and was picked up by Crabdad and if you forgot you are a monster. It's two days after father's day. One loving day and you forget about Crabdad already. You make me sick. life_source fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Jun 24, 2015 |
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life_source posted:And Vriska even brow beats Tavros about going through the trials in the 8rooding caverns. So at least some of them go through the caverns. or shes full of poo poo
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The kids probably assumed they passed through a birth canal at some point before learning otherwise. Vriska saying that Tavros made it through the caverns is likely based on similarly flawed assumptions.
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Thanks, all. At least (on reread) we now have the Worst Parental Figure In Homestuck locked down. I thought it was a tie between Bro and Li'l Cal, but I was wrong. It's Doc Scratch.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Thanks, all. At least (on reread) we now have the Worst Parental Figure In Homestuck locked down. I thought it was a tie between Bro and Li'l Cal, but I was wrong. It's Doc Scratch. Who, in a way, is a combination of Bro and Lil' Cal.
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Jun 24, 2015 19:15
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Spidermom.
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Blackheart posted:Spidermom. her parenting style, ie squatting in the basement demanding a constant stream of children to sate her ever-growing hunger, was supplemented by Doc Scratch's unique brand of harassment, insults, and gaslighting
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If we're judging them based on parenting skills or what their children did, I'd say that Goatdad and Seahorsedad have this poo poo on lock.
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Seahorse dad was alright, it's just that Eridan was genetically that much of a fuckup. I'd like to hear goatdad's side of the story though. Why did they give the poo poo land-based trash clown troll a maritime based lusus, it just doesn't make sense. Motherfucking clowns, man.
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Blackheart posted:I'd like to hear goatdad's side of the story though. Why did they give the poo poo land-based trash clown troll a maritime based lusus, it just doesn't make sense. Motherfucking clowns, man. Well, the lussii pick their own kids. So seahorsedad popped his head out of the ocean he lived in, saw a grub who definitely did not have gills or fins, and though to himself "Yeah, I'm equipped to handle that".
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Ariong posted:Well, the lussii pick their own kids. So seahorsedad popped his head out of the ocean he lived in, saw a grub who definitely did not have gills or fins, and though to himself "Yeah, I'm equipped to handle that". Eridan has both gills AND fins. Did you mean goatdad? Cuz I'm pretty sure Goatdad is just as stoned as Gamzee and clearly had no loving clue what he was doing.
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Classtoise posted:Eridan has both gills AND fins. Yeah I meant goatdad. Up to his gills in sea weed.
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Classtoise posted:Did you mean goatdad? Cuz I'm pretty sure Goatdad is just as stoned as Gamzee and clearly had no loving clue what he was doing. TC: I lEaRnEd It By WaTcHiNg YoU
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Update. Um. What does this mean?
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McStephenson posted:Update. HOO HOO HOO
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Nannasprite is alt!Janesprite, so presumably there's stuff that needs to be passed on from the Beta timeline instance to the Alpha timeline instance. It would make sense if it were the inside dirt on Betty Crocker/the Batterwitch.
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McStephenson posted:Update. Pretty much nothing.
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Meenah really does like them lovely rear end clowns as enforcers doesn't she.
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And now poor Dirk has lost the will to live and Roxy is dragging Calliope off into space.
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Really this is probably the best way this update could have gone.
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Poor Jane, always being dragged through the air with her legs kicking wildly.
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Soon, it's gonna be just Terezi and John in that platform.
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I'm really glad the Jane and Roxy on hoverboard image got reused, and I really hope that we get to see this conversation because I am looking forward to it.
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the most interesting part for me was that rose seems to believe herself to be "narcissistic". i have a hard time seeing that, but then again i guess constructing an elaborate insincerity-conspiracy centered around oneself is kind of self-centered.
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Meenah has so had it with all Vriskas, dead or alive. She's outie.
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Goddamn, that panel with Jasprose pinching Rose's cheek is a work of loving art.
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The expression perfectly captures what she's thinking. "Um, no. This is not what should be happening. This is the opposite of what should be happening."
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