T B Q H given the sheer number of memetic/deific iconography surrounding all of the kids you could legitimately make some really terrifically cohesive/interesting Soul Portrait shots of them even if they also looked like horrendous hilarious shit
I would pay genuine money to see that come into existence it could be really great. hmm.
TBH i have actually thought about this before, like if fraymotifs could be used outside of combat, could a seer’s powers combined with heart or blood get you something like that? probably not, since there’s no indication that the seer of blood (kankri) could literally see the connections between people, but it’s a fun idea. (dirk voice: rose, did you know that your soul is a writhing mass of orange tentacles? pretty dope.)
alternatively, they could alchemize a camera that lets you photograph people’s souls, or make a horrible soul portrait, sort of like how dave alchemized a camera that turns everything into sbahj
FUCK FUCK FUCK THAT THAT LAST THING
I WANT AN ENTIRE 30 CHAPTER LONG FIC ABOUT DAVE MAKING A SOUL PICTURE CAMERA AND TAKING HIS FRIENDS PICTURES, BUT LIKE, THE PICTURES REVEAL REALLY GAY SHIT ABOUT THEM ALL
He takes Rose’s picture and at the core of her there’s just like, a sun, a blazing blinding sun the surface of which is COVERED in Kanaya’s virgo symbol, like a delicate threaded cage holding in the sun.
He and Rose stare at it and Rose is like. I won’t put a curse on you if you just hand me the picture and never speak of it again. Dave is like fine. Rose is like also send me the captcha code for that. Also take a picture of Dirk that would be handy. Dave is like for what. Rose winks at him and his spine crawls.
Dave takes a picture of Dirk and Jake and just ends up handing it to them misty eyed like sorry i never took this bye
Dave takes a picture of himself and karkat and they get married.
why is everyone in this comic so beautiful and in love and gay 😥
dave: uh jake do you know that you have like… extra soul? a soul hanger-on?
jake: huh?
dave: it’s pink, does that help
jake: OH thats just dirk’s soul. he gave me a piece of his soul when we were little by accident when he fell in love with me! i call him brain ghost dirk and sometimes he helps me out of a jam. hes a nice fellow!
dave: thats………gay
karkat, eavesdropping: what the fuck, i have never heard something more romantic in my entire life, why dont YOU literally give me your heart dave
i decided to take a screencap to see what the whole RUN RUN RUN chapter looks like (i positioned all elements based on size/numbers as opposed to how they’re visually rendered), and check it out, my dudes. bunch o’ cool rainbow boxes
anyway read my fic pretty please this chapter took like 2 hours to put together + 2 bonus hours of trying to get around ao3s code parser to make on page anchor tags work (turns out…. the answer was in… the tutorial on their website… i should read the manual before building)
*happy shrieking*
Aaagh, I always love me some Auto-Responder. 💕 what a good chapter. what a good fic.
I think fandom overcomplicates itself by focusing on fandom understanding tropes like “explicit endgame canon”, instead of just…looking at the members of a narrative as people, and taking in what a story shows us their lives are. Like, in [S] Credits, we can say Dirk and Jake’s regular, every day lives involve…
-Living together, where Jake will casually interrupt Dirk’s work to hold him close for pictures to loved ones. Building incredibly ambitious and time consuming engineering projects together, too, btw.
-Being comfortable enough with each other to have spar fights that Dirk can be cocky and arrogant in, when the last time we saw Dirk before then he was worried he was a completely toxic element in Jake’s. Which implies they worked that stuff out in the meantime!
-Wearing flower crowns together, implying they’ve worked together to overcome the toxic elements of masculinity that kept them apart in the first place.
Plus there’s still the looming masterpiece, Jake has a tantrum to save Dirk’s life where Dirk is described as Jake’s “prettyboy ninja stud”.
My answer is that I don’t think it matters very much whether you want to see them as close friends who are living together or romantic partners. They choose to share more of their intimate and private lives with each other than anyone else.
They are clearly invested in having A relationship, and given how explicitly horny both men
(and that’s what they are–the cast is 21 now, let’s not forget)
are in general and how deep their affections for each other run, I don’t even see what would separate their close friendship from a romance anyway.
homestucks narrative clearly wants us to consider that Dirk and Jake are still together and quite close by [s] credits. That’s canon enough for me. You’re going to have to specify your doubts if you want me to speak to them, because I honestly can’t really relate to the section of fandom doubtful about the “status” of their relationship anymore, whatever that means.
Oh actually I missed this one. He was in a bad row with Dirk so he scribbled it over because he got it as a matching tattoo with Dirk, but then didn’t like the scribble and/or still felt bad about Dirk, so he made a displeased face.
Sometimes teens do things on impulse that they later regret, even if “later” is just a couple seconds. Thats Just The Way!
i’m not sure i follow. jake isnt supposed to marry anyone except who he wants, and he wanted to date dirk, not jake. i’d guess you might be conflating Jake with Grandpa, who was technically prophecized to marry Nanna? But i personally think that got fulfilled a different way, and anyway Grandpa and Jake are two different people living two different lives. you’re gonna have to expand on the nature of the perceived problem
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