The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.

MSPA "[S] Characters: Play haunting refrain."

AvrahamAvraham Registered User regular
edited August 2010 in Social Entropy++
sprial.png

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet.
Here our story of seven acts begins.

homestuck.jpg

A story of...
Andrew wrote:
Andrew wrote:
Futility brought on by their own mistakes.
Are they mistakes if they have no free will? If their mistakes are the reason they exist in the first place?
Whoops, there you go, asking the Ultimate Riddle.

Why you got to be asking all these Ultimate Riddles like that???

sburb.jpg
Meteors earthbound.
My friends fighting for their lives.
Fruit gushers? Hell yes!

1john.png1rose.png1dave.png1jade.png

John, Rose, Dave, Jade

2dad.png2mom.jpg2bro.png2bec.png

Their Guardians

3nanna.png3jaspers.png3davesprite.png3grandpa.png

The Sprites

4wv.png4wq.png4ar.png4pm.png

The Exiles

5jack.png5cd.png5dd.png5hb.png

The Villains

hivebent.png

Elsewhere in paradox space, we examine another planet, forgotten by time.

But we will strive to remember. What was this planet's name?

alternia.png

6aa.png6tavros.png6sollux.png6karkat.png

Aradia Tavros Sollux Karkat

7nepeta.png7kanaya.png7gc.png7vriska.png

Nepeta Kanaya Terezi Vriska

8equius.png8gamzee.png8ca.png8cc.png

Equius Gamzee CA CC

9slick.png9snowman.png9english.png9scratch.png

The Mobster, The Femme Fatale, The Demon, The First Guardian

sgrub.png


Weyr wrote:
The four kids in play
Mirror the twelve hostile trolls'
separate session

Their journeys began
in quite a similar way
all paradox clones

Fallen from the sky
as infants amidst space rocks
with shared destinies

To save their homeworld
they end up destroying it
for Skaia's safety

But was it worth it?
Agents and exiles settle
on their barren home

What's my point again?
I lost it some time ago.


For those of you who are just joining us, and would like to know more about the story...

ophomestuck.png

The story is told as if it were a text adventure game. Each command you click underneath the comic is really just a next button. All the commands for the first year of the story were suggested by Homestuck readers on the MSPA forum. A few weeks before Homestuck's anniversary, Andrew locked all the suggestion boxes and took over command-authoring. He still gets input from the community in subtle and unpredictable ways.

If I wasn't REALLY LAZY, I would have edited each photo to include character descriptions.testmb.gif

Other Works by Andrew Hussie
Misc confusing stuff
sillyjack.gif
The server user builds up the client's house.
An exile's station will appear at the server user's location. That exile will talk to the client.
For example, WV found the cork station at Rose's place and talked to John.
The station will resemble the cruxite item.

John had a blue Sassacre book, and found an aged brown copy in a safe. The brown book had an inscription from his Nanna, which we saw at the start of Act 3. At the end of act 3, Nannasprite inscribed the blue book and sent it to LOWAS. Grandpa Harley retrieved it and took it to the Veil. The blue book went back in time on a meteor and eventually became the brown book.

Rose and Dave dream on Derse and hear the gods. Aradia hears the voices of her dead ancestors. Terezi dreams on Prospit and hears her incubating lusus. Sollux hears screams of the imminently deceased and has psychic visions.
I think of trolls as being a bit like slashers/shippers, in that almost any interpersonal relationship of sufficient strength can be grounds for romance, but the nature of that relationship determines the character of the romance.

Humans have one icon to depict romance: <3

Trolls have four.

Broadly implicated: redrom = good, blackrom = not so good

Heart:
Matesprits
Probably the closest to human romance

Diamond:
Moirallegiance = Moira (mythological personification of fate) + allegiance
Kyriaki wrote:
moirallegiance is about devoting yourself to someone precisely because of their faults.
Diamonds are droogs!

Club:
auspistice
Zuki wrote:
trolls can conceive of a kind of emotional intimacy being implied by the necessity of mediation. Of taking two individuals that might be polarizing on their own, and forming a new stable triad. Takes at least three legs to create a stable base for a table, stool, or chair. And it has to be something that all three parties are willing to engage in, like a negotiation.

Spade:
Kismesis = kismet + nemesis
The troll equivalent of an arch nemesis, tied to some element of destiny. Nemesis in no way associated with human concept of romance, but for trolls it apparently is. Clearly falls under blackrom category.

MSPA Forums Stuff
SE++ CHUMFORCE
Andrew Ryan - raptureFounder
Baidol - somaticAlchemist
Caulk Bite 6 - tsaritsasAmorist
Centipede Damascus - damasceneChilopod
crwth - crumblixTzar
Davoid - adenoviralCryptographist
Delzhand - gamepadActuator
EidolonOrpheus - halcyonEidolon
Flay - fractalDiaglyph
GeoMitch - conspicuouslyAffluent
Goatmon - anthropomorphicAviator
Gumpy - interestingOctagon
Koshian - invisiblePhysician
Lexxy - freneticArtmonger
Lord_Asmodeus - omnibusArchiver
MacGuffin - pixelatedPlotdevice
PikaPuff - pikachuHairasser
Romanian My Escutcheon, Doxy - finalEscutcheon
Sal - unlikelySalvation
Shock G - frostbittenWinterbeard
Skull Man - cranialAntagonist
SLyM - overtlyEsoteric
Speed Racer - automobileConquistador
Snowbeat - corrosiveGambler
Squall - tempestuousGalestrom
Tarranon - auspiciouslyTarrmato
TheExAm - discordianCabbage
The Infra - mexicanKreplach
Traikan - illusiveOpportunist
VALVEjunkie - steampunkAddict
Vic - spuriousSycophant
VoproSTEIN - artificialDirector
ZeroFill - cavalierCatapillar
Zombies Tossed My Salad! - ZombiesTosser

We also have a Pesterchum Spreadsheet, if that's your sort of thing.

npipr.gif

:bz: :bz: :bzz:
Avraham on
«13456763

Posts

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Oh so THIS is what all those images were for! Nice OP.

    BahamutZERO on
    BahamutZERO.gif
  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Excellent op.

    Baidol on
    Steam Overwatch: Baidol#1957
  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    welcome to a new thread

    and no I wish I was a tax lawyer

    i'd be getting paid a hell of a lot more

    Cilla Black on
  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    seriously what's her face is a bitch and I hate her

    fuck her

    leave tavros alone

    Vann Diras on
  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    why would you use terezi pre-blindness!

    (but good OP)

    crwth on
    EzUAYcn.png
  • VoproSTEINVoproSTEIN howdyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    CELEBRATION OF NEW THREAD

    VoproSTEIN on
  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    We don't know that Grandpa Harley becomes a sprite!

    Speed Racer on
  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    1rose.png
    So are there wallpapers for this stuff?

    Couscous on
  • CharmyCharmy Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Awesome OP there.

    Anyway, commence ten more pages of arguing over whether Vriska is awful or not.

    (Hint: So awful)

    Charmy on
    I have a twitter.
  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    welcome to a new thread

    and no I wish I was a tax lawyer

    i'd be getting paid a hell of a lot more

    tax law is

    the

    worst

    crwth on
    EzUAYcn.png
  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Ok, whoa, wait, hold on, slow down there.
    Why would you post that.

    BahamutZERO on
    BahamutZERO.gif
  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Vriska is the best.

    "Say you're sorry for being a cripple!!!!!!!!"

    Synthetic Orange on
  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    crwth wrote: »
    welcome to a new thread

    and no I wish I was a tax lawyer

    i'd be getting paid a hell of a lot more

    tax law is

    the

    worst

    I find it interesting but recognize this is a sick and terrible perversion on my part as a human being.

    Cilla Black on
  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    VoproSTEIN wrote: »
    CELEBRATION OF NEW THREAD

    I see someone else has been trawling through the romart thread.
    dsc00537yt.jpg

    Baidol on
    Steam Overwatch: Baidol#1957
  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Vriska is the best.

    "Say you're sorry for being a cripple!!!!!!!!"

    Vriska is the kind of person who would make a person punch himself and ask why he is punching himself.

    Couscous on
  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Charmy wrote: »
    Awesome OP there.

    Anyway, commence ten more pages of arguing over whether Vriska is awful or not.

    (Hint: So awful)

    i hate her so much I hope by the end of homestuck she dies

    Vann Diras on
  • SalSal Damnedest Little Fellow Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Masterclass OP

    also,

    CRWTH!!!!

    Sal on
    xet8c.gif


  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Vriska is the best.

    "Say you're sorry for being a cripple!!!!!!!!"

    Seriously

    I mean if she were a real person I'd hate her guts

    but as a fictional character she's hilarious

    Speed Racer on
  • MoosehatIVMoosehatIV Saw a blimp once Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    crwth wrote: »
    welcome to a new thread

    and no I wish I was a tax lawyer

    i'd be getting paid a hell of a lot more

    tax law is

    the

    worst

    No taxation without representation!

    MoosehatIV on
  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Couscous wrote: »
    Vriska is the best.

    "Say you're sorry for being a cripple!!!!!!!!"

    Vriska is the kind of person who would make a person punch himself and ask why he is punching himself.

    Even odds she has actually done that before

    Speed Racer on
  • VoproSTEINVoproSTEIN howdyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Gotta say that Vriska really isn't any worse than when she made Tavros fly.

    That was just kinda the bottom and everything else is irrelevant.

    VoproSTEIN on
  • ShabootyShabooty Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    karket is still my favorite troll

    Shabooty on
  • Lord_AsmodeusLord_Asmodeus goeticSobriquet: Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    So, apparently in the last thread I nailed it. NAILED IT. YESSS!

    Lord_Asmodeus on
    Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    VoproSTEIN wrote: »
    Gotta say that Vriska really isn't any worse than when she made Tavros fly.

    That was just kinda the bottom and everything else is irrelevant.

    Its early yet.

    Baidol on
    Steam Overwatch: Baidol#1957
  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Sal wrote: »
    Masterclass OP

    also,

    CRWTH!!!!

    capital pun back there

    crwth on
    EzUAYcn.png
  • SalSal Damnedest Little Fellow Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    VoproSTEIN wrote: »
    Gotta say that Vriska really isn't any worse than when she made Tavros fly.

    That was just kinda the bottom and everything else is irrelevant.

    Really come on now

    Killing Aradia was way worse

    Sal on
    xet8c.gif


  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2010
    DAT RUMP....

    Orikaeshigitae on
  • VoproSTEINVoproSTEIN howdyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Sal wrote: »
    VoproSTEIN wrote: »
    Gotta say that Vriska really isn't any worse than when she made Tavros fly.

    That was just kinda the bottom and everything else is irrelevant.

    Really come on now

    Killing Aradia was way worse

    It'd be worse if I cared for Aradia

    But

    VoproSTEIN on
  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    i don't even find her all that amusing

    just every time she talks I'm like augh you bitch fuck you

    Vann Diras on
  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Sal wrote: »
    VoproSTEIN wrote: »
    Gotta say that Vriska really isn't any worse than when she made Tavros fly.

    That was just kinda the bottom and everything else is irrelevant.

    Really come on now

    Killing Aradia was way worse

    The Tavros thing was probably intended murder

    Speed Racer on
  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    DAT RUMP....

    best piece of fanart all thread

    Cilla Black on
  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    i don't even find her all that amusing

    just every time she talks I'm like augh you bitch fuck you

    quit gettin' mad at webcomics

    Speed Racer on
  • AvrahamAvraham Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Sal wrote: »
    Masterclass OP
    Thanks you guys! I am proud of it (:
    We don't know that Grandpa Harley becomes a sprite!
    I know! He's the most likely candidate for Jade's sprite and penpal

    Avraham on
    :bz: :bz: :bzz:
  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    i don't even find her all that amusing

    just every time she talks I'm like augh you bitch fuck you

    quit gettin' mad at webcomics

    it's a sign of good storytelling if you get emotionally invested in characters though

    ain't a bad thing

    Cilla Black on
  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    i don't even find her all that amusing

    just every time she talks I'm like augh you bitch fuck you

    quit gettin' mad at webcomics

    fuck that I'm angry

    AT YOU

    gettin' mad at webcomics and speed racers

    Vann Diras on
  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    that's a fucking awesome OP
    you know what else is awesome
    my dad is msning me because he is showing his cousin a not great website and wants to know where more are
    Kochi's dad says:
    so louie is here and surfing 4 chan is the other one 498 or what other ones he would like to know
    he is baddddddddddddddd

    i'm going to link him to a page of mspa instead

    Kochikens on
  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    keep gettin' mad at speed racer

    crwth on
    EzUAYcn.png
  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    crwth wrote: »
    keep gettin' mad at speed racer

    erryday

    BahamutZERO on
    BahamutZERO.gif
  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    ugh keep him away from 4chan

    Cilla Black on
  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    keep everyone away from 4chan
    forever


    nah I don't care

    BahamutZERO on
    BahamutZERO.gif
This discussion has been closed.