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Jake, a figment of your imagination is smarter than you. That is just sad. Luckily, you are funny enough to make up for that.

Its Inhabitants have no individual freedom, since their actions are not only predestinated (which in itself arguably invalidates free will-or not) but forced unto them by the Alpha-timeline. Every attempt to break out of the destinated path only makes it happen and-in the most cases- kills you, your friends and your timeline, until no spectators are left.

Kinda nitpicking here but this isn't completely true according to Aranea.

The fates of those involved in the game are mainly predestined, though they are allowed to make some choices. And she implies that those not involved in the game do not suffer from predestination, but they really don't have any impact on reality. Which is kinda horrific itself. You are either one of reality's tools and used to ensure that reality continues to propagate, and your free will is largely pointless because any timeline where you don't do what reality wants is doomed to be destroyed. Or you don't suffer from predestination because you cannot impact reality in any meaningful way, so you are too unimportant and insignificant for it to bother.

Wow, if Homestuck wasn't so silly, it would probably be very depressing.

ROXY FOR MAIN CHARACTER 2012

She's got my vote! Roxy is the best of the Alpha kids.

Does this ring actually do anything?

Pre-scratch Jack was able to pull off that Red Miles attack, and it seemed to originate from his ring. That may just be an innate ability that the rings always grant to ensure that the royals are always a threat regardless of what's prototyped. Unless either that harlequin doll, the princess doll, Jaspers or that crow secretly had the ability to create planet-wrecking red energy tendrils.

Dafuq is up with this panel? It seems to imply that she's trying to gain Vriska's mind control and Tavros' mind control, but there's no way that the existence of Tavrisprite isn't somehow involved given how closely they're positioned in the narrative.

Well, those symbols are the telltale sign of Vriska's manipul8tion and Tavros' communion, so that and the text seems to indicate she's giving herself their powers. That's the obvious option, but we can't rule out the possibility of a connection to Tavrisprite since Hussie is an inscrutable and unpredictable bastard.

Spoiler: Has its bright spots though. (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Someone more insightful than me.

I can imagine it now
The Condesce did everything in her power to try and make John freak the fuck out and leave or suicide or something
Murdering his pets
Maybe murdering his friends
Intentionally miseducating him
The works
And what does he do?
He becomes a motherfucking comedian.

With this John going through the hell that is being raised by the Condesce and the other going through the apocalypse, the death of his father, his own death twice, and the possibility that one of his friends will die, one thing is clear. Nothing will ever cause John to be anything other than a cheerful little derp.

Wow. I'm guessing that if you prototype two completely incompatible beings together the sprite will reject them? Or did Tavris just use its sprite power to kill itself? The second would explain the explosion.

Does Gamzee destroy the Sprites deliberately so there are no options for revival?

...That actually makes sense. HUSSIE!

@title thing: Apparently I'm the Bard of Void, in the Land of Heat and Gossamer, wielding canes and hanging out with iguanas. Crap, I'm a bard. I'll have to wear that stupid outfit if I go god-tier. The time it would take for me to find a decent outfit would be pure torture.

@update: Wow. I'd probably say something about how disturbing it is that Gamzee has collected and bottled the blood of his friends and now is calmly selling them to someone with a smile on his face, and that he needs some serious help, but I can't tear my eyes away from the magnificent cod piece. It's so beautiful.

Inb4 Death of the Author joke. Anyway, I guess we're going to need a new narrator, unless something saves Hussie.

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/063/1/7/_s__john__just_lose_it_by_palaceofchairs-d4rr9e9.swf

It's beautiful... they should have sent a poet.