Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[BitVyper]

I bet Not-Aradia either has, had, or will have Jaspers at some point.

...I really hope the Horrorterrors aren't coming along for the ride.

What part of

all of his human and troll characters going to high school in Japan

Don't you understand?

[Specterbane]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Assuming his next project is an AU of all of his human and troll characters going to high school in Japan,

spectacularly successful

It worked for Evangelion, right? Worked sooooooo well, right?

[Revising Ocelot]

Update? Update. Don't think you guys have seen it.

I'll just say one thing - when Scratch refers to the mother of all monsters, is this the ancestor version of Echidna? It sounds much like the deal offered to Jade. And given the whole guardian swap thing, that's how J = Jade's grandson. It's a Scratch'd Grandpa Halley.

Also, way to drag the act out further.

[Viridis]

Oh wow. This changes things.

What precedents do you think this sets and will apply to the kid's session? Will humanity be more violent post-Scratch? Will there be a new First Guardian?

Given that the kid's session already made Bec (unlike the first troll session, it seems), I doubt that second one.

[Locke cole]

Um...

I believe "holy shit" is the only way to react to this.

So, the ancestors are Scratched versions of trolls that played the game once before, in a session where troll society was ill prepared and lost the game. And THe Sufferer began to remember his pre-Scratched past. And why is Aradia(?) showing us the display behind the 5th wall?

And "mother of all monsters" indeed refers to echidna. It fits with the relevant mythology.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Echidna makes sense since her needles are needed for the Scratch, it seems.

This changes some views of the Guardians, especially Rose's comments regarding her mother.

[Dracorion]

Unless the Kids are supposed to play the same role as the ancestors.

Which is to say, Scratching their session and having their descendants pick up a new one.

[Locke cole]

It's more like a switch, really. The way Doc Scratch put it, he suggested that in both sessions, scratched and unscratched, the same 24 wigglers were ectobiologized.

However, when the trolls that we know as the ancestors performed the scratch, it switched the roles around. The 12 that had been the heroes were sent back further to become ancestors, and the 12 that had been ancestors were sent back earlier, to become the heroes.

In other words, in the unscratched timeline, Karkat was the Suffere's ancestor, Vriska was Mindfang's, etc.

I wonder if we'll get to see the kind of person Vriska would've become without the influence of that journal. Just a thought.

And another thing: the way Scratch talks about the "unfathomable cascade of misfortune" leading to the session's failure and the universe's destruction as Lord English's calling card... It almost sounds like he's implying that it's Lord English who is truly responsible for Universe U2's cancer, rather than Karkat, Gamzee, or Vriska.

[Loyal]

Man, fuck all that, we get to see The Sufferer!

[Dracorion]

Well, English is responsible for Scratch is reponsible for Troll culture is responsible for Karkat, Gamzee and Vriska.