Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Regardless, I want to know whose red shoes those are, above Terezi and Karkat's dead bodies. Gamzee's? If so, was Gamzee was left alive, or was he killed too? If not Gamzee, it'd have to be Sollux or Kanaya, right?

Those are Vriska's feet.

[Solid Snake]

Ah. So Jack brought the bodies to her. Lovely.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Marc v1.0

We are viewing the Alpha timeline. Seriously. Lets not obsfucate the issue by assuming a speculation based on no evidence to be a hard fact.

Shit is already a pain in the ass to follow as it is

I have supplied evidence. This scene is a callback to a scene that was specifically displayed to be from a doomed timeline, one that I suspect was created by a callback to another scene involving a doomed timeline.

From a storytelling perspective, the foreshadowing and recall involved here suggests that this, too, is a doomed timeline. You have presented evidence to rebut the idea, I have presented an interpretation of the evidence that rebuts your rebuttal.

If you have nothing further to support your argument, that's your problem.

The breaking point of that Timeline was Gamzee flipping out, not the manner of K and T's death. The timeline was broken before that point came to pass.

Who ever said it wasn't?

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Ah. So Jack brought the bodies to her. Lovely.

Well, of course. He's a good dog. Best friend.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I think that Scratch is definitely showing us his scrapbook for a reason, but I don't totally know why.

Anyways, the bluntness of the deaths doesn't seem to be bugging me as much as it does others it seems. Aside from just the hope it isn't final, there is the fact that Jack's omnipotent. How could it turn out differently? What would sending them out in a blaze of glory change?

[Arcanum]

Wait so Scratch is saying that everything that happens is a replica of something that has already happened / will happen in any timeline (doomed or Alpha), right? But really, doomed timelines can be caused by pretty much anything, and it's quite possible that there are an infinite number of them. So basically what Scratch is really saying is that anything can happen, it's just that his omniscience allows him to see the pattern.

But really this just seems like Hussie incorporating his frequent use of callback images into the actual workings of Paradox Space, thus making callbacks an inescapable and canon part of the Homestuck universe.

[Revising Ocelot]

Originally Posted by McScratch

This is where events begin to outpace my awareness. The deeper into this dark pocket we explore, the more I will be forced to speculate. I rarely have cause to rely on probability, but luckily for you, my guesses are better than anybody's.

Basically, he can't actually see what's happening to the meteor, Karkat & Terezi etc. He's predicting that they'll be dead and laid out by Jack in that manner because that's how they died in the timeline Aradia visited earlier where Gamzee snapped and killed everyone early. Note the similar blood swirls.

EDIT: Hm, thinking about it he schedueled one second for Rose, but took two seconds. Is his omniscience is starting to go kaput?

[BitVyper]

Doc Scratch looks adorable sitting in that chair.

[Aldurin]

Is SS dumping oil all over the place so he can burn the mansion down?

[Bard The 5th LW]

Yeah, its been said before in comic/thread.

I was actually expecting him to start with the curtain, but this seems more effective. What I really am dissapointed about is that he didn't pour any oil on the scrapbook or Scratch himself.