Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Loyal]

I have to admit, about halfway through TA's last conversation I ended up reading what he said with a lisp. I'm glad to see that was intentional.

[Art of Hilt]

Bees? Bees? Beeeeeeees?
Oh my god John has to meet TA in person somehow it has to happen.

[Bard The 5th LW]

So how many trolls are Psionics? Because AA seemed to have some pretty powerful abilities there. Maybe they're siblings? I mean all trolls seem to be siblings, but I mean they are Paradox siblings.

[Donomni]

I wouldn't be surprised if the Trolls were actually yet another genetic goof-up the original kids made, then sent some absurdly large number with 413 years in the past. Or future. Or some other weird time shit.

[Marelo]

Note that the hints seem to be that the trolls' world exists before Earth. If anything, they'd have to be sent into the past.

[Geminex]

Ok, this is really interesting.

See, I had, so far, assumed that what distinguished John's, Rose's, Dave's and Jade's session from all other possible "sessions" was the fact the Rose's fore-knowlege of events allowed her to modify them (conciously and unconciously) to achive some aim or another. But now it seems that aa has at least as much knowlege of coming events, at least as much ability to influence coming events.

Y'know what I think? I think all the rules, the whole scheme of "Build high, go through the gates, face the king and queen, save Skaia", that's all a big facade. It's... not the real purpose. It's a way to play the game, but it's not the inherent goal of the game. Understand what I mean? The real game goes deeper, there's something beneath the surface.

Because the big failure that aa's forseeing, that's the one that's gonna be caused by the "protagonists". That's no mistake. Whatever the "Rift" is that's been mentioned, it's supposed to happen. And it's being engineered by some entity, for some purpose. Both teams are going to fail in one way, but they're supposed to.

Question is, why?

[PCD]

The thing that has really been making me wonder is, as you said, why? I mean, at the beginning, when John was speaking with Nannasprite, we were led to believe that the point of the game is to save Skaia and help defeat the Black King and so forth. As Nannasprite said, even though their planet would be destroyed, they were accomplishing something much greater, in protecting Skaia.

However, we've since learned that there are multiple copies of the game, such as on Alternia, with the exact same premise played out differently. All the same people and places, the only difference in who's playing. If the whole scenario is just a copy-and-paste gameset, why is it so important to win? Why is it worth the destruction of a planet, and why are these multiple Skaias so vital to protect?

There's got to be a bigger point to all this, obviously. With Rose's refusal to play by the rules, we're definitely going to have to see where things start branching off from the previous instructions; also, since the Trolls won't be able to see the kids for much longer, that means that shit's probably about to get real(er), once we get back to them. I'm looking forward to the curveballs on their way.

[Kim]

The planet's going to be destroyed whether the game is played or not.

[Loyal]

Goddamn, Karkat really is his own worst enemy.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I think I just realized that every time Sollux says KK, he was referring to Karkat as a sort of nickname.

That's kind of cute. I guess.