Forgotten Homestuck Facts

Actually I seem to remember Dirk and Roxy being introduced as a year older than Jane and Jake. Could you check for me please?

Anonymous

They were born in the future so their birth year isn’t the same as Jane and Jake’s but they are the same age.

if the alpha kids are clones of their guardian selves then why does jade call herself jake's grandma?

Anonymous

Because Jade’s post-scratch self raised Jake and she was old so Jake called her grandma.

John actually has a fourth strife specibus in umbrellakind.

Anonymous

He found the umbrellakind but he never picked it up. At least that we’ve seen. When he made am umbrella weapon he said:

It suddenly seems worthwhile to you to go nab that UMBRELLAKIND STRIFE SPECIBUS that’s been lying in the study for a while.

But we never saw him go back for it.

I was totally gonna argue with you over the kid's ages, so thanks for preempting me. You win. Preemptively.

mutecebu

Nice sarcasm, but if I didn’t explain I would have had people argue that they were 19 since that’s how old they would be in real time or something stupid like that.

If I remember correctly, the alpha kids aren't related, rignt? They're clones of their guardian selves, no mixing.

big-gay-and-underage-deactivate

Yep.

What's everyone's current age? :o (mainly the kids)

raleigh-reshi

16 in story. And so that no one will argue with me: The Beta kids were all 13 in April 2009 when Homestuck started then they spent three years travelling so now they are all 16. All the Alpha kids were 15 when they were introduced in November 2011 at the start of Act 6. In story it is currently April 13th, 2012. Dirk, Jake, and Roxy’s birthdays are in December and Jane’s is April 13th so now they are all 16.

Trolls are also 16, or 7.38 sweeps.

I started rereading Homestuck and I'm at the first Intermission. And there is this scene where Die pushes Spade Slick's pin into his doll. This allows Die to jump to the moment when Spades died. But instead, he jumps to Alternia(?) and it says "How many times does he have to tell you. He made this town." I'm confused. How does Die appearing in Alternia(?) prove that Spades made the town?

Anonymous

Spade Slick founded Midnight City on post-Sgrub Alternia. When Die teleported to a timeline where Slick died and the city wasn’t there it proved that Slick did in fact “make the town”. Slick is alive, the town exists. Slick is dead, the town doesn’t exist. Therefore for the city to exist, Spades Slick had to be alive to make it.

I didn't think the beta kids handles were based on DNA...I think it's just the alpha kids and the post-scratch trolls

Anonymous

The Alpha kids and Beta kids’ chumhandles are literally the same letters.

Jane and Jade are both GG
Dirk and Rose are both TT
Dave and Roxy are both TG
Jake and John’s old one are GT

Who has the most Strife Specubi? Also do you think it's going to be stated or implied John gives Rose her Needlekind back? Maybe she doesn't need it?

jazzmastermind

John, Dirk and Equius all have three.

Equius has Fistkind, Bowkind, and Halfbowkind.

Dirk has Bladekind, Puppetkind, and Fncysntakind

John has Hammerkind, Bunnykind, and Needlekind.

John didn’t give Rose her Needlekind as she’s seen using it before she interacts with him in the Post-retconned timeline. So either she made a new one or gained enough tiers so that she doesn’t need a specibus to use a weapon anymore.

for devices like the skulltop and whatever jane was using on page ?s=6&p=007423 do they use their minds to control the device and type on pesterchum or is it like phone calls because jake was able to cut jane off in the middle of the word "tomorrow" (GG: Actually, why don't we just talk about it tomor- GT: Okay we can talk about that if you insist.) but then later jake said she was going heavy on the caps and it made it seem like shouting. very confused o_O

Anonymous

My guess in that situation is that with Jane’s headset probably worked by her speaking into it and it converts that into text and it reads the replies to her. And Jake’s skulltop might convert speech into text but not text into speak so he still reads the messages. This way they’re conversing in real time giving Jake the ability to cut Jane off and to not know that she is shouting at him.