Sooooooo, apparently an unprototyped ring doesn’t change you. Either that, or DD managed to resist being changed, somehow.
And it looks like it has a bit less power. But I guess the Red Miles thing is a power inherent to the ring…Interesting that it has powers without prototyping at all, I thought unprototyped Derse and Prospit were supposed to be locked in a complete stalemate.
Okay, the fact that there are all these Crocker products that have stuff specific to the game makes me think that the Condesce wanted the game to get played. And maybe knew who would play it…or at least probably knew that Jane would, since she would likely know that Jane arrived on a meteor.
Y'know, I’d really suspected that they were two aspects of the same person, or one person with two personalities or two souls. It would explain how uu could fuck up UU’s shit without them having ever met, if only one of them has the body at a time, or something. Not to mention the Complacency of the Learned parallels and the main character being neither male nor female, or being both.
But I don’t see that working with them having two different blood colors. So now stuff is confusing again, and I have no decent theory.
Oh god please tell me she’s not sending her version of Lil Cal.
Or maybe Lil Cal isn’t evil and her brother was lying or manipulating the truth, but I’m inclined to believe him because Lil Cal is creepy as all get out.
Also it seems that there may be some partner to Lil Cal, if the juju description means UU’s thing is related to Cal somehow. I can’t think of what it might be, but I’m guessing I’ve seen it before.
I wonder if it’s the whole uu being like Jigsaw from the Saw movies, or if it’s a Romance-type thing, where beauty is also terrible and there is terror in beauty. Possibly both, who the fuck knows with this thing.
I really wonder what troll verse they’re from. They say they’re doing a two-person session which implies either a completely separate verse, or them being able to create a session from the same universe and the same planet, but without joining any of the other players. Both seem kind of unlikely to me.
Look at everyone who’s there! Karkat, Aradia, Dave, Rose, and of course we already knew about Roxy and Terezi being there. Awesome! Characters I care about!
So, I figure that even as a guardian and not a player, mom probably had a relationship of some sort to the void, like Roxy does as a player, and this explains a hell of a lot why mom was drinking all the time, which makes me dislike her a bit less.
All of the instances are held in the same genesis frog, huh? Interesting! So the alpha kids’ instance is going to last juuuuust long enough to let them get into the medium, looks like.
And the Condesce is making sure of that, pushing the kids to get out ASAP. Seems like her interests might be sliiiiiightly more in their favor.
Okay, I guess that information is useful and interesting now.
uu killed Calliope’s dreamself, or I would count this as more evidence that they’re the same person. It would make a bit of sense, if they were swapping between awake and dreamself, but they can’t if one dreamself is dead, right?
Okay, I double checked and “english” means side-spin, but I couldn’t find anything meaning top spin, other than like…topspin and top and follow. There’s no Lord Follow, as far as I know. HOWEVER with all the billiards imagery, I know this is important.
Oh my god, Calliope is making me so sad right now. That poor, poor baby. She wants so hard to help people and to do the right thing, but her brother is pretty much the polar opposite, and now her facade is completely crumbling. She’s not a troll, she doesn’t know everything she thought she did, and now she’s realizing she’ll probably die.
Also I just realized she referenced being kissed to be resurrected, but that would only work if her dreamself was still alive. So I guess she doesn’t know? Poor baby.
Oh my god, watching her remove the trappings of her trolldom is just completely heartbreaking. She wanted so badly to be a troll she even wore grey gloves.
Also totally curious if this is a meta commentary on people being sooo obsessed with Homestuck!trolls and wishing they were trolls themselves. Since Calliope is supposedly an allegory for the fans.
WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT IS SHE. SHE’S TERRIFYING. OH MY GOD.
Also I see she has a shackle with uu’s symbol on it. Just like we saw for the Complacency of the Learned person.
Also wtf is with the raw steaks on the floor? Scattered among candy? I see a busted chessboard. I’m going to warrant a guess that her brother is on the other side of the room, on the other side of that chain, and that’s the chessboard they were playing on.
I went to go look up Calmasis’s name, since I remembered it began with “Cal” so I thought maybe it was a smush of Calliope’s and her brother’s names, and then I stumble on this.
I’d been operating on the assumption that Calmasis was either Calliope or Calliope and uu, but now it really looks like Calliope is Zazzerpan, who certainly appears to be both learned and complacent, and Calmasis is uu. Calliope had never lost a match to uu, but by some kind of ~enchantment~ (which turns out to be pestering and deception) uu managed to win even after a checkmate. It also makes sense that Calmasis=uu, since uu could make sense as an anti-hero and certainly as an antagonist.
