Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Intern Nin]

Rage kind of looks like a Rorschach test that resembles an angry clown face to me.

[rpgdemon]

Personally, I would have gone with a stylized flame.

[Kerensky287]

Originally Posted by Intern Nin

Rage kind of looks like a Rorschach test that resembles an angry clown face to me.

Really? It looks like my father going after my mother with a chainsaw before taking a scalpel and writing "MISTAKE" into my chest, and then it's also every girl that ever turned me down and the body of my pet puppy covered in bloody tire marks to me.

EDIT: In all seriousness it does sort of look like an angry santa.

[Fifthfiend]

It looks like a piece of shit people are going to buy because they're nerds.

[Ryong]

Rage definitely could've been better.

...Doom also reminds me of Rice Boy.

[Amake]

I'm seeing an angry Mr T with somewhat Fu Manchu-inspired eyebrows and sideburns. And no mohawk.

Though I think it's supposed to show rage twisting and turning in on itself and at the same time feeding on itself to grow and spiral out of control. While also being made up of angry clown makeup. Probably it tries to do too many things at once because Hussie wants us to think Gamzee is so very important to the story. (Which I think is a mislead.)

[Art of Hilt]

Every suggestion that Gamzee is "important" is always something to do with Lord English.
All that clown shit? Because of his religion and its two "Mirthful Messiahs", who are Doc Scratch and Lord English.
Even the scene where he is supposed to be the most important character at the Critical Moment actually has Lil Cal sitting on his lap.
Gamzee is a big red herring for whose sinister nature is all attributable to Lord English and his presence.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I sort of assumed that Karkat and Gamzee were the mirthful Messiahs. Gamzee made Cal, which made Scratch, who orchestrated the end of the Blue Universe, and Karkat created a faulty Genesis Frog which resulted in a universe fated to die. These doomed universes heralded LE's arrival, but there are actually a lot of possible interpretations.

[Art of Hilt]

Hussie's tumblr suggests that Gamzee's entire religion is actually, in part, designed by Lord English.

http://mspandrew.tumblr.com/post/123...47/le-factoids

Why’s LE honking like Gamzee???

If you’re prepared to be very literal, you might believe LE’s honking is a symptom of Gamzee’s influence in some way, due to time shenanigans or what have you. Examined logically, it’s the other way around. On LE’s arrival, he releases the vast honk Gamzee’s religion foretold. LE has always been around influencing troll culture from the start, and it seems he was always the embodiment of the mirthful messiahs the highbloods worshiped, since he was really two beings, Doc Scratch and LE, both “mirthful” puppet-based entities, in their own ways. Gamzee’s honking, the humorous brutality of the subjugglators and their dark spiritual beliefs, all could be traced to LE. The vast honk clip was actually a heavily modified sound clip of a bike horn, like one of Gamzee’s, slowed way down. First a small honk from the squeeze, then a big one from the unsqueeze. Sounds a lot like the noise the tripods made in War of the Worlds, which has me convinced those were made from slowed down bike horns too.

The main thing about the Mirthful Messiahs is that, like Gamzee thought, they're both one person. His only mistake is assuming that person was himself, when it was actually Doc Scratch/Lord English, who technically share the same body.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

So the Horrorterrors are from the universe before the trolls, right?

They must have gone through a similar cycle of Failed session which is scratched to corrupted session. Feferi's Lusus Gl'bgolyb takes on the same role as the Imperial Condescension does in the two respective kids universes. Scratch specifically mentions her being a gift to the Troll race, instrumental in putting their species on the path to the second troll session's conditions.

I'm confused though, because her Imperial Condescension's lack of capacity to manipulate events within the first instance of the kids session makes pretty good sense because she's a relatively small and powerless individual... but how on Earth did the first session of trolls go anywhere near normally if G'bgolyb was around and acting in English's interests for it?