This blew my mind but I recently found out that a fan-turned-friend of this blog named Vriska. Gave Vriska her name. I am friends with Vriska’s dad. Years into the relationship he casually drops that he named Vriska. Six years and I had no idea my friend named Vriska. You would never know because he is a wonderful person who never commit murder. Not even once.
That’s pretty cool! I am not sure I’m sold on any theories on A. Claire yet, even this one. I’m mostly adopting a wait and see approach, as I tend to do with speculation. The fact that I’m advancing a particular line of spec doesn’t really change that for me. It’ll be interesting if she is a troll, for sure.
No. Well, probably not. But I think I have a pretty decent guess?
My Jude post is going to take a little while longer, and once I put these pieces together it didn’t take much to make things fall into place, and turned out to be pretty quick to put together.
I don’t usually do outright speculation, I tend to dislike doing so. But this feels solid enough that I’m willing to at least mention it, and more than that its simply interesting to think about, so while we wait for Hiveswap: Act 2, I figure we may as well mull over this possibility.
So, humor me.
A. Claire is a pretty mysterious figure. She seems to come out of nowhere to shake up Homestuck’s core cast, and she seems to know more about the game than we ever confirmed for any other Guardian, barring Pa himself. Why does she seem so connected to the Cherub Key? How on earth did she paint a mural of the green sun??? What’s her deal!
There’s no precedent for a character quite like the mysterious actress, and seemingly no background profile that would explain how she knows what she knows. Except, of course, for the obvious one. The one we’ve overlooked.
Oh, absolutely. I speculated shortly, that she looks a biiit like a Roxy-Jane lovechild. But of course theres no pretense for that, and this makes a lot more sense!
Hm. I thought it was just me, so I didn’t feel inclined to say. But if you thought A.Claire looked a bit Lalondeian too, I think it’s worth mentioning. I think this jives with the fact that in a lot of ways, Roxy stole a bit of Jane’s role of Heiress–she was definitely under the Heiress’ tutelage to some extent.
So maybe it’s worth considering that, as the Baroness’ true heiress, A.Claire’s mutations are specifically in the mold of Mom Lalonde? Or lightly incorporate Roxy’s genetics in some way? This is downright WILD spec and I am not married to it at all, I’m just mentioning it because A.Claire does kinda strike me as both of them.
I don’t buy the double agent/highblood thing at all, it’s effectively random as far as I can tell.
Dammek isn’t particularly trying to make Xefros a butler, though. Alternia does just fine at that on pain of death.
What I DO think Dammek is guilty of is having Xefros serve him, specifically. But the exact way that’s fucked up seems a bit more nuanced, because Xefros describes his servitude to Dammek as Butler PRACTICE, and not getting enough practice is, again, literally lethal to Xefros if he isn’t good enough. So I can see how both Xefros and Dammek might justify the treatment, though my guess is Dammek is probably too self-centered to think it through like that and most likely just sort of takes it for granted.
Homestuck is extremely concerned with broad systems of power and how they affect individuals–even those who hate or try to fight the system. I think the reason why so many fans get hung up on issues of “Is Dammek good/evil” as if that’s a question that matters are sort of missing the point, which is that Alternia by design breaks kid’s abilities to have healthy relationships with each other. In this case, Dammek’s slight blood advantage is all it takes.
John getting the retcon powers and making [S] Game Over “Unhappen” certainly qualifies as an improbable glitch in causality. It’s essentially the same as a controllable Scratch, it’s just that John is doing it himself.
More to the point, no other source is given for Alt!Calliope’s existence in the comic. So occam’s razor suggests this is the understanding the comic wants us to have.
i beg of you. learn to accept that a good character doesn’t have to be a good person. lots of lovable characters are completely terrible. Dammek being a big piece of shit is what makes him interesting.
if him being terrible is too much for you, you also don’t have to like him though. I never understand how people get so wrapped up into characters that liking or disliking one will like… destroy friendships and stuff. Sorry I got kinda into this cause I get like a thousand asks that are literally like pleading with me to reveal some weird overlooked subtext about Dammeks shitty personality that suddenly makes it OK that he is completely awful to everyone around him.
Not every character is going to be perfect, or even like… acceptable. Maybe I’m just like extremely old here but.. isn’t that more interesting?
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