Trollsona Callie is our Calliope, the one we’ve known and seen for years. The other one is a Calliope from an alternate timeline where she predominanted instead of Caliborn. And now their ghosts are meeting.

I tagged it as upd8

He has two Strife pages. 

wecansexy:

Okay, I get the feeling that a lot of people could use a refresher on all the stuff that we’ve been told about this doomed Calliope before we go into this encounter! 

This Calliope is from a timeline where she predominated instead of Caliborn. It hasn’t been totally confirmed yet, but it’s implied that this Calliope never had contact with the Alpha Kids, due to living in a doomed timeline. 

(Our Calliope would probably not say something like this since she grew up interacting with humans!) 

Anyways, we do know that her predomination was not the Union that our Calliope was trying to achieve with Caliborn by getting him to co-op with her. She predominated in a very similar way to the way our Caliborn did. (Maybe by having his dreamself killed?) 

This is why she is seen speaking in red, as a counterpoint to Caliborn speaking in green. It symbolizes her domination over him. (Speaking in the blood of your enemies and all. Pretty hardcore) 

Like Calliope said in that picture, Alt!Calliope went on to play SBURB and was most likely given a choice by her denizen. It was likely the same Choice that Caliborn had in the main timeline. 

So, this Calliope made the Choice to die, and her death will allow her to help our Calliope and the rest of the heroes beat Lord English. 

I hope that helped! Feel free to add on anything I missed in reblogs!

Retcon means going back and changing something. When people say pre retcon and post retcon, they’re talking about the changes John made to the timeline per Terezi’s instructions. 

Yes, that’s most likely the explanation.

Yes, since Erisolsprite never happened in this timeline, Eridan is in the dreambubbles.

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In the dreambubbles

Physically abuse him, deprive him of food (at least to the point where Dave had to keep food in his room) and affection, raised him in an inappropriate environment, etc.