So, wow. Looks like shit got real all of a sudden, huh? We suddenly understand jack shit.
This is what keeps me in Homestuck, god I love this stuff. Let’s talk bout Boldir a little bit–needless to say, spoilers for her path under the cut.
The Good Shit
I WILL add something I’ve seen around from other people that the ominous text we get in that second bad ending may be the narrator (separate from the MC) of Friendsim, literally. To paraphrase, whenever we get a bad ending it’s the game that takes us back to the beginning to try again, and that very fourth wall piece of text we get is almost like the game, itself, telling us it’s going to fix our mistake again by ending the route and taking us back to the main menu.
Seeing as Boldir is exuding heavy Calliope vibes to begin with and already breaking the fourth wall, and the MC is either recalling all the times in prior routes they’ve taken the bad ending OR if Boldir’s second bad end exists in a space where all prior bad endings were canon, it would make SOME sense that this sort of ~previously unknown narrator~ would appear. Boldir even talks to us about how assuming things would have happened this way anyway would imply our choices don’t matter, it’s more complicated than that – our choices do matter in Friendsim, and the game in that ending is literally pointing that out to us. So I think it’s really just emphasizing Boldir’s point on that matter.
I’m just assuming, anyway. I found the theory interesting and since her entire route is so self aware it sounded plausible to me.
Yeah, that sounds like a solid possibility to me. aaaaaaa goddamn this is so exciting! What a good homestuck feel
Flying through Storytelling 