Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Bard The 5th LW]

I actually felt it was an informative enough answer. I sorta suspected the 'chucklevoodoos' were some sorta psychic power unique to himself.

[Loyal]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Also, I realized why the "Aradia" we saw in this update wasn't Aradia: Her hair is different, and everyone in this story has the same haircut from the day they're born to the day they die. And after they die. And become a robot. And then are alive again.

Well, funny you should mention that with this update.

[BitVyper]

Yeah, that is pretty much a cut/paste of this.

Hussie knows that's been one of the defining traits, so he's playing with it.

[POS Industries]

Welp, so much for that, then.

Whetever's going on here, it's still no less stupid than Hussie gradually becoming more and more of an active, relevant character within the plot itself.

[Revising Ocelot]

Are those cuesticks?

[Kerensky287]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

He doesn't seem to be acting like it's particularly self-evident at all there, though. In fact, even his response regarding whether this is a natural psychic ability or part of his in-game power set is a tad vague, though it obviously leans more toward the former. I mean, yeah, he acts like a smug douchebag in most of his formspring posts, but I don't really see him doing so here.

Well, my issue is less that he's being a smug douchebag (which he is, granted, not guilty of here) and more that there's apparently all this information we were supposed to glean from two sparse panels. Any writer worth their salt knows the rule "show, don't tell," and the fact that it's necessary to pass along this info via Formspring of all things means that he's failed at the showing.

Admittedly it isn't a major detail, but it's a detail nonetheless. It looked to me like he made that dreamclown out of sheer hate or something, which I guess is kind of related to what Hussie was saying, but if we're supposed to follow that along to the whole subjugglator/mind control/Gamzee is the puppet master thing... well, I just feel like more could have been done. If it's worth making an essay-length formspring post on the subject, then I dunno, I feel like maybe throwing in an extra panel of Ancestor!Gamzee doing it to Dualscar or something (just off the top of my head) would have been called for.

Originally Posted by POS Industries

Welp, so much for that, then.

Whetever's going on here, it's still no less stupid than Hussie gradually becoming more and more of an active, relevant character within the plot itself.

As long as he keeps playing up how stupid his self-indulgent bullshit is, I'm okay with it.

[BitVyper]

Welp, so much for that, then.

Not really. All this tells us for the moment is that he's messing with expectations.

[Locke cole]

I dunno, Kerensky. The whole "he made a doll, which caused John's subconscious scrawling and led to him having a harlequin doll to prototype with" thing clicked for me pretty easily.

Though, I'll admit to not even thinking of the possibility of him amplifying fears and anxieties without planting dolls into dream-selves' rooms.

[IHateMakingNames]

Originally Posted by Locke cole

I dunno, Kerensky. The whole "he made a doll, which caused John's subconscious scrawling and led to him having a harlequin doll to prototype with" thing clicked for me pretty easily.

The question was "how did Gamzee do that?" not what happened. It looks like he does it out of pure hatred/rage, but then Hussie has those bigger explanations that people who don't read formspring wouldn't really think about.

[Loyal]

I kinda figured his Bard of Rage powers were manifesting the current object of his hatred (ICP - Clowns) which he then distributed in a rampage. It never occurred to me that this might be a trait of Subjuggalators in general.

On another note, Hussie throwing out the what-if-maybes in that this power might be what allowed Gamzee to get away with his shenanigans re: Terezi, Equius, Nepeta, hasn't really made me feel much better.