Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Ecks]

I think the synaptic causality thing is unique to Terezi as a Seer of Mind. I am not certain how Mind powers would work with another hero archetype (a Thief of Mind perhaps might be able to "steal" someone's secrets, or an Heir might have telepathy) nor how Seer powers with other cosmic faculties would work either. Hopefully someday we may get an explanation as to how the non-straightforward ones (everything that isn't Light, Breath, Time, and Space) would work (yeah we got to see what Terezi is capable of but I'd like an overview just the same what things Mind does in general).

[Arcanum]

I dunno if any of you keep up with Hussie's Tumblr but I tend to check in on occasion out of sheer boredom and it seems he answered a bunch of fan questions. One of which being:

Did you realize that you got time dilation backwards in the intermission(assuming, of course, that paradox space even vaguely resembles special relativity)?

He gives a bunch of different answers but claims his preferred one is this:

The real answer: Homestuck-time and real-time have always been married in a strange way. I started it on 4/13/09, and by my own rule, that became locked in as the date in the story too. And then it became stuck there, for one day of Homestuck-time, while real-time flowed normally for two and a half years. When they scratched the game and reset the universe, it was time for me to start over too. So again by my own rule, I put up the first pages of the new story and grafted the story date to the real date, 11/11/11. The new kids, in a way, have been waiting almost 3 years since the beginning of Homestuck to take their place in the story, and have aged accordingly. They have done their time in the shadows, living uneventfully. And now the stated objective of the original kids is to join the new game. It is apparently John and Jade’s turn to wait, in sort of a prolonged narrative hybernation, while we spend time expanding on the new kids and their Very Long Day. If they are to eventually meet, it will be as approximate equals in age, and no, not so that everybody can get busy kissin’ or whatever. For more fundamental reasons, that have to do with the way HS-time relates to real-time, and essentially repairing the schism between these two clocks which resulted from the fact that about 24 hours of story took nearly three years to make.

And understanding that, I think the explanation that works best is not necessarily a physical, relativistic one, but more of a metaphysical idea. That when they crashed through the wall, they have presumably entered the real world, albeit for only 1 yard from our vantage. They have gone from HS-time to real-time. Given the schism between clocks, you could say they are faced with a rush of lost time, all at once. Like massive temporal wind resistance. So in crossing the yellow yard, they are forced to live every second that passed here in the real world which they did not experience in their fictional adventure. It’s the toll they have to pay before breaking through the other side and joining the others.

As I said, this is the explanation I prefer. But there are a bunch of ways to approach the issue.

Here's a link if anyone wants to read the other questions and answers.

[POS Industries]

I can't even come up with a coherent expression of how completely fucking retarded that is.

Like, I'm actually angry about this. I'm mad that some webcomic characters I've become attached to are being forced to spend the next three years of their lives literally sitting there waiting to be allowed back into the story for ultimately arbitrary reasons. I'm mad that, if we do the math here, we're being told that it will be roughly six months until we get the goddamn main characters back. And I'm even more mad that I'm mad about something so silly.

Just, goddamn, what the fuck?

[Marc v4.0]

I'm pissed off that you're mad, so I don't know either man

[POS Industries]

I guess the thing is that I used to describe Homestuck as "like Lost, but actually enjoyable" whereas now I'm starting to realize that Homestuck is just Lost.

[Ryong]

Originally Posted by Arcanum

He gives a bunch of different answers but claims his preferred one is this:


Here's a link if anyone wants to read the other questions and answers.

So, BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIT?

[Arcanum]

Originally Posted by Ryong

So, BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIT?

Yeah pretty much.

[Kerensky287]

I'm fine with it. Maybe the characters will find something useful to do with their time.

Hell, Jade's carrying the entire game with her. Maybe she and John have some side-quests to go on. And with the Trolls/Dave/Rose all meeting up, they might have some things to accomplish too. It won't necessarily be 3 years of solid waiting.

[Arcanum]

You know, instead of them sitting there doing nothing, this actually gives us a chance to learn about the Denizens, and possibly have John and Jade interact with them. If that happens then I'm totally cool with everything.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Strikes me as a pretty pointless plot point. The Time skip had better serve an actual purpose aside from making them all older.

e: at the very least, they're immortal so they aren't losing any sort of natural lifespan, but it doesn't change the fact that they're being separated from the rest of their friends (although Dream Bubbles may provide some communication)