Tag: Jane Crocker

landofsomethingsomething:

revolutionaryduelist:

landofsomethingsomething:

the strilondes would all die for each other and anyone who devalues their relationships on any axis between them is my sworn fandom enemy. also, all their SOs know and support this. they are All Family and they all love and value each other deeply. 

the striders know the lalondes are dramatic highkey performative disasters but also that they are brilliant, kind, caring, dependable and willing to throw the fuck down when it’s time to do so. 

similarly the lalondes know that the striders are desperately insecure clingy bullshit bandits who deny everything but also that they too are brilliant, kind, caring, dependable and absolutely also willing to throw the fuck down when it matters most.

dave and roxy know that dirk and rose are desperate to appear Intellectual and Above Everything and are content to mostly let them have that with the occasional ribbing as long as they know that if they ever need help they always have support here waiting

and dirk and rose know that dave and roxy are Exuberantly Irreverent of everything to hide the fact that they care about everything way too fucking much and are mostly content to let them cavort around idiotically because it makes them happy as long as they understand that people do in fact generally care and love them, the real them, the parts of them that are broken and tangled and messy, the Reatalk under all that quality Shitpost

and also all these dynamics can be applied almost 1:1 in reverse because that’s how they fucking roll

the strilonde family is ride or die to the end and I love them so much anyway thanks for reading

This is also true about the Prospit clan, and about the way Prospits and Dersites generally feel about each other. It’s pretty amusing when people dunk on Jake while also talking up how much they love Jade, because being mean to Jake is maybe the fastest way I can think of to get Jade pissed at you???

The same is true about like, Dave and Jake, or Dirk and John. Dirk loves Jake and Jane so much he’d p much lose it constantly being aware that John and Jade are their kids, John talking to Dave and Dirk would lead to him understanding Dave’s childhood a LOT better, like.

Idk I could do this forever, the eight human kids are a mobius knot of interwoven friendship, acceptance and mutual love and it’s the best thing tbh.

john and jake and jade are best friends who chat for days at a time about stupid inane shit constantly and never feel overwhelmed or drained in each other’s company

jane and jade finally get to bond and jane has a target that is accepting of her directing her nurturing/motherly/nanna-esque feelings on her without being afraid of telling her when it’s too much and jade gets the unique and wonderful experience of having a mother-ish figure who loves her and they support each other and gossip constantly and roll their eyes at john and jake together, fondly

jake and jane have these two unambiguously Good Kids that came out of their combined DNA to marvel over and they both get to experience that goodness every day without having to be miserable in an ill considered romantic relationship together and they are able to bond again platonically and work through the many issues that plagued their relationship and become very protective of one another and their delightful ecto offspring

jade loves to hear stories about grandma english and idolizes her, john loves to hear stories about johnny crocker and thinks he’s a riot, jade loves to hear stories about nanna (from john AND from nannasprite(s) directly!) and jake is absolutely flabbergasted (and a bit embarrassed) at the adventures grandpa harley got up to, what the fuck!

they love big family dinners and watching movies beneath a pile of stuffed animals and fuzzy blankets with plants hanging from every available hook and rafter and the smell of gingerbread permeating every square foot of the crocker estate

jake and jade have 12 dogs and they track mud everywhere and jane loves them but is also going to choke a bitch if someone doesn’t clean those paw prints off the floor, john, stop wrestling with them, john egbert do you hear me

im that evil skin flap from that episode of dr who but instead of being moisturized with water spray im being moisturized with delicious, happy relationships between the homestuck kids 

Someone told me to post this so here it is. Probably my best vocalization yet of the Roleplay mechanic I’ve been talking about, which ties the Ancestors into the Classes and makes the whole system a lot more flexible and comprehensible.

If nothing else I think it’s interesting to consider and discuss, so do let me know if you agree or disagree. Here’s some other examples of Class roleplay I’ve found time to write about:

Dirk, Terezi, Xefros -> Knight

Dave-> Prince

Jane-> Heir

A. Claire’s Identity….REVEALED???

meme-loving-stuck:

revolutionaryduelist:

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.

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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. 

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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. 

This is only a small bit that I can contribute to your artfully constructed and likely extremely true theorypile… but, knowing that alt universe Alpha memories are a thing, the connection to the Cherub key makes sense symbollically, I feel, because Jane Crocker was the one Calliope entrusted with the red-green swirl lollipop juju–juju’s meaning being roughly adjacent to “heirloom”–setting a precedent for Jane as exclusively connected to especially Cherub-relevant Jujus among her peers.

Very true. Jane’s receival of the lollipop is even couched in her relationship to the Batterwitch, going by this log:

Makes sense another Jane would receive a similar inheritance. 

A. Claire doesn’t even have to be the same age as jane and jake if she’s a clone of jane, she could have been cloned years after, maybe even after jane finally ditched the condesce. this would make sense, since by 1980, jane and jake would be in their 60s/70s and jane (and any clone who was her same age) would be too old to have kids since most women go through menopause in their 40s/50s. it would actually make more sense for a claire to be a bit younger because of that actually

Nice, I like this. 

A. Claire’s Identity….REVEALED???

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.

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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. 

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Yep, I’m arguing A. Claire is Jane. Or, well, A JANE, anyway. I always thought the two Nannas thing was a little odd, but really, one than one lifetime spent on the same mortal plane makes perfect sense as part of the potential power of a Life player–particularly a creator of Life who tends to benefit themselves.

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But hear me out on the context. If we regard A. Claire as another Jane, then suddenly this story Nanna tells us–relayed to her as a fairy tale by the Condesce–is completely true. And the Condesce is a Thief of Life, with an established interest in genetic manipulation. 

It’s at least possible she would already have access to cloning technology with which she could have cloned Nanna. Stolen her life, so to speak. And she would have had an interest in doing so, because how better to shape her ideal Heiress? 

A Jane who grows up under the Batterwitch’s brutal tutelage could readily be expected to know secrets about Cherubs, who the Witch researched. Suddenly, A. Claire’s painting of the green mural,  her knowledge of Cherubs and connection to Cherub technology–perhaps even her and Pa’s posession of the Cherub machine would make sense, either through the Condesce’s secrets or possibly Jane’s memories, as with Pa.

In fact, that may well be the most likely way they got the Cherub Machine, and the Key that served as Joey’s heirloom. This Jane would, after all, be the Batterwitch’s ideal Heiress. The Cherub Machine could well be part of the inheritance she and Pa received. 

But this isn’t Jane, right? This character is named A. Claire. And with this context, we suddenly have true grounds for the name Anna. 

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Anna–the name that Dirk said sounded almost right for Jane in another universe, in another life (and in the same page where he correctly intuited the way the Beta version of Jake got his last name)–means “beautiful” or “graceful”. Both of those names are good fits for A.Claire, but most interesting to us is “Favor”, possibly as in favored child.

Just as Anna Claire would be the favored version of Jane, from the Condesce’s perspective. Meaning the fairy tale she related to Nanna was simply literal fact; a retelling of the setup she already orchestrated. And the kids she was destined to have with Jake, those who would save the world, are not John and Jade (sburb didn’t do that anyway), but Joey and Jude. 

Anna and Jake, then, are bound together through their shared experiences in another life, their mutual connection to the Game’s secrets. And, of course, their relationships with Roxy–who they take in as a babysitter. As well as…

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Dirk, who it seems they had plans to take in as well–Rocking horse and everything. Makes you wonder what happened to Bro, and what he’s doing. How did he avoid being found? Or was he found, but too influenced by Cal to indulge something like horses? Idk, this is clearly overthinking.

But I’m intrigued to see if we ever find out. 

As for Anna Claire, I’m feeling pretty confident about this and think it’d be cool. But I’m obviously not married to the idea just yet–I’d like to learn more about A. Claire first. I just wanted to get people talking about the possibility for now. 
Anyone compelled by this reading?