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.
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.
there is someone like that, in my opinion. it’s caliborn.
I was going to get mad but then I remembered that no – there was an alt-Caliborn. We never met him, but he was dominated and defeated by alt-Calliope.
The end result, though, is that unlike anyone else in all of reality, there’s only ever really One Caliborn. Caliborn doesn’t exist conceptually, in many different iterations, like the rest of the characters do. He exists only and exclusively in the single physical form that goes on the single physical journey he ever chooses to take.
The Alt-Caliborn only existed through forced John scratch, and his only fate was to be consumed and become part of Calliope. He doesn’t truly exist except as part of her. So Caliborn remains a true individual–an oddity in Homestuck’s cast. Everyone else is multiple people.
FedoraFreak.
That’s a fairly good point, except that we don’t really see the full context of fedorafreaks’ existence. He would well have alternate timeline selves and w.e and we’d have no way to know, because he’s a person from Earth, and Homestuck is only concerned with them insofar as they’re subjugated by LE and killed by the game.
Once he dies (or God tiers) and finishes his conversation with Nanna, he’s simply not relevant to us.
there is someone like that, in my opinion. it’s caliborn.
I was going to get mad but then I remembered that no – there was an alt-Caliborn. We never met him, but he was dominated and defeated by alt-Calliope.
The end result, though, is that unlike anyone else in all of reality, there’s only ever really One Caliborn. Caliborn doesn’t exist conceptually, in many different iterations, like the rest of the characters do. He exists only and exclusively in the single physical form that goes on the single physical journey he ever chooses to take.
The Alt-Caliborn only existed through forced John scratch, and his only fate was to be consumed and become part of Calliope. He doesn’t truly exist except as part of her. So Caliborn remains a true individual–an oddity in Homestuck’s cast. Everyone else is multiple people.
Flying through Storytelling 