they don't sincerely believe it, they are just feeding off that dumbass "identity" (in quotes because people don't seem to understand what that word means) fad on tumblr where people believe that if someone calls themself karkat then no one has the right to question it because Every Identity Is Valid. they are mostly roleplayers i think who just don't want to be seen out of character, since being karkat is way better than being who you actually are.

if they actually do believe it and are 100% serious in their heart of hearts, there is probably something much more wrong with them than just the trollkin bullshit. then again, being in an environment that teaches you a crazy thing and openly encourages behaviours relating to that thing while stamping out all criticisms can lead you, a sane person who is simply looking for acceptance into a group, to actually believe that crazy thing, even if you would have laughed at it had you been on the outside. it's how cults work. and why it's hard to distinguish the beliefs of an extremely devout religious person from someone who is just nuts.

I know a guy who literally never leaves character as Karkat, even types into the browser bar in capslock. Don't know if he runs a blog comparing snotty anonymous asks to the holocaust. It's actually kind of exhausting since he hasn't roleplayed in earnesty in months aside from the occasional half-hearted putdown where he actually intends to offend no-one.

Imvhotbqh this shit is really funny. It's either mentally ill people being enabled by giant carebears, or dorky kids needlessly willing themselves into a straight-jacket. Either way it's neither new to the internet, nor a situation where intervention is useful.

ok i know bile fascination at these terrible terrible preteens acting stupid is like the basic of homestuck giving these dedicated mental illness larpers attention is really the last thing we need to do. gawk from a distance, but lets not have a thread dedicated to this.
seriously the last thing they need is attention. i know its bad and embarassing but yyyyeaaah lets just
not

There's a cool little art thread over at >>57902, you could add it there

Adorable polar bear for non-hostility

Is the official plural gonna be cherubs or cherubim

Cherubim sounds cooler

>>66328
fastest fandom ever

>>66329
Wikipedia says the official pluralization is cherubim.

>>66367
The Felt look different from the carpacians also, and it's not just their color. They are possibly a different race of beings altogether.

I guess next update will be a prelude to an "Enter" flash and the start of a new thread.

This made me wonder about something: We've seen that humans, trolls and cherubim were recruited to play the game, level up, complete the task and all that jazz. There are probably shitload of races that play Sburb. We've also seen that carapaces can influence the game from both the inside and the outside. Given that carapaces are a created race for the war they are supposed to be only an internal part of the game, but we've seen how lenient Sburb is with requirements.

Do you think there are sessions played by carapaces? I think it's possible, but it demands a whole set of crazy circumstances for it to happen, like carapaces being sent to an universe devoid of sapient life and bringing the needed tech with them. Or maybe being part of a chain mixed with other species. Either way I don't see why Skaia would "refuse" them.

At one point it was mentioned that the carapaces are meant to repopulate your dead world and eventually prepare it for another session. So presumably there have been at least some sessions played by, like, the distant descendants of exiles and such. It's just that both Earth and Alternia were destroyed with their universes, so that never had a chance to happen.
Of course, if I recall, Karkat said that. Or maybe Terezi. Either way, it might have simply been a mistaken assumption.

>>65955
Alright, but how exactly does a Witch of Space work? A Sylph? A Prince, a Seer? It still doesn't tell us anything about the powers of the aspect itself, since both Kanaya (Sylph, passive class) and Jade (Witch, probably active class) were the only ones subject to transformation.

If the space hero = becoming their idealised form is true I wonder what UU's is (other than the above theory).

>>65957
Maybe she becomes all the other players.

>>65856
An ego trip, maybe? Jake kept going on about what the condesce did, msybe he kept going, but it just didn't show up in the log out if mercy. I would be a little impressed if my post-scratch version was so (from the perspective of a stab-happy see-witch) awesome that a person attacks me based on what the post-scratch version did. Im not entirely sure if she knows that jake is sort of clueless on how the whole thing works. Also does Terezi have a dirk-mind-splinter now, too?

maybe dirk is projected in whenever someone thinks about him
so when jake was examining dirk's existence during his dream bubble, dirk's heart powers projected a little of the real dirk into the figment, and that's what's keeping holo-dirk around

ABRAXAS
Get on it, researchers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas

The way I'm understanding OP's question isn't really in a 'characters vs plot' kind of way. You know those youtube videos that feature Homestuck characters doing stuff over some voice track or soundclip, but the Homestuck characters featured are often really out of character or only barely relate to what is in the video? That is what I'm thinking of.

And yeah, there are a number of people like that. The appeal of Homestuck characters for them generally seems to be using really basic cliches. To them Dave doesn't have any characterization other than 'cool kid,' for example. The appeal of the characters for them isn't what is in the characters themselves, but in what little comics or animations they can use the characters for. This is partly why there are so many Homestuck fan-things that have everyone acting really out of character, the creator doesn't really know those characters beyond their most basic element (cool kid, blind girl, stoner clown, etc.).

So yeah, I'd say there are definitely a number of 'fans' who are like that. Otherwise I don't think there'd be as many ooc fanworks.

>>65677
But in most fanworks the characters are usually distilled into simple flanderizations and/or OOC.

>>65686
Which isn't all that egregious when it aligns with your own take on the characters. I don't think anyone goes through the story taking the characters purely at face value with no extrapolations whatsoever, certainly nobody I've known who's read through it. Of all the ridiculous OOC sketches and youtubes and audio skits, a few of them probably made you smile, and they couldn't have managed that without a springboard for their own creativity. Being exposed to occasionally awful headcanons is the price of accessing that creativity.

>>65276
>>65275
Here's Dave, it's from the part where he's looking at Bro's body.
Don't know about Jade.

Right! I had totally forgotten about the ones that show up in just panels, not flashes. Here's Rose from here:
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004704

aaaaaaand a turtle from the same page, because I couldn't not.

New thread, anyone?

>>65332
Let's do it with the first page of the next update.
Dramatic, but not as super spoilery as the last page of the update is likely to be.

Actually, even then we're not in danger of falling off page 1 for a while. Meh, we'll see.
Someone will hopefully use good judgement.

And with a big update, I guess NOW is the time to make a new thread?

>>64455
Congratulations, you receive a gold star in detecting the painfully obvious.

>>64458
That's an amazing metaphor. Did you get that from somewhere?
(trying to actually contribute but it keeps timing out :\)

>>64462
Nope, that one was purely a product of my fatigued and angry brain.

>>65171
/mspa/ didn't exist when robojade died dude

>>65172
+/co/ did.

I don't remember us caring though.

>>65174
We did care, because it was [S] Descend and we all thought it was the coolest thing we'd ever seen. I think a few of us were sad for Jade because we thought she was permadead when her dreamself died? But there were cooler and more important parts of that flash to talk about. And the robot itself exploding was just met with a "oh yeah so it finally kicked the bucket, huh. Been waiting to find out why."

Immortality's got a bad rap. Sure, people worry about infinite time leading to infinite boredom, but I figure there's more stuff to see and do than a person can actually remember. Sooner or later you end up back where you started and think you're someplace new.

>>64942
well it is his computer...

>>64943
fanart is serious shit don't you dare undermine it's severity
>>64944
the helmet CLEARLY augments reality much like a scouter would from dbz
i doubt he would just leave the equipment lying on the ground during a beatdown that relentless

>>64960
eh not really
all the kids seemed to just used there shit as hands free talking devices

>>67141
We really should talk about Prequel more. Let's.

>>67246
How come this thread won't bump?