Okay, Minor spoiler Warning, I don't think this has too many spoilers but yeah. Anyways this is more of an essay than a FanFic. An essay about what, you may be asking. Well you obviously can't read titles so let me just say it right here: this is an essay about Eridan Ampora and how he was screwed over by the game and that bitch Feferi and his so called "friends". Yup I'm saying it right here. Eridan Ampora along with the entire Ampora family are great wholesome characters that are just misunderstood. I'm not pulling your leg, I'm not joshing you, I'm not taking your wang for the ride of your life, I'm one-hundred-percent telling you the truth. Let me take that veil of hate you have for the Ampora family and burn it so that way you can see the Amporas in a more modest way.
Okay to start off I'm going to look at Eridan's and Feferi's relationship and also look at their Classes and Aspects to better understand these characters.
Why look at their Classes and Aspects? Well their Classes and Aspects are who they in fact are, sure some people don't want to fit into their respective roles because they're not happy with it, but trying not to do so will make the player far more unhappy than they would be when they accept themselves, example being Tavros Nitram. Tavros didn't accept his role as the Page of Breath — he refused to stand up to Vriska and her endless list of bullshit until he and she both died.
What does that have to deal with being a Page of Breath? Well it mainly has to deal with being a Page in general. A Page is in the same league as Knight, well let's use the word "Verb". The Page and the Knight's Verb is "to Serve".
The Page is the Active Class of Serve, while the Knight is the Passive Class.
The best example of those who Serve is the Butler. The butler is someone who serves a person without question depending on their job. He gets your food, your drink, and whatever you might need for your meal. But let's look at how the butler is portrayed by the game and Homestuck.
Example: Dave Strider the Knight of Time:
Dave served his friends and gave them and Terezi freebies throughout the game on a silver platter without a good chunk of them even asking. He gave John a hammer with time altering abilities, he gave Terezi 413 boonbonds, he gave Jade help in making a new Bilious Slick. He used his Time abilities to passively help his team and give them what they need without them asking and with very little questions.
Now for the Active version of Serve; the Page:
The Page class is a class composed of "untapped potential" as Arenea Serket and Dream Dirk Strider put it. This class though it's meant to Serve others often finds itself surrounded by butlers, all working on getting the Page to improve, but those butlers often have very questionable mean of going about it, even outright being abusive. It's due to the un-opposing and innocent nature of the Page that this occurs. The Page also seems to unknowingly serve others their Aspect to others, especially to those who Serve them. It is only when the Page stands up for themselves and put their foot down is when they actually accomplish and finish their journey and truly fulfill themselves.
Example 1; Tavros Nitram:
Tavros had been abused and Served by Vriska Serket. Vriska had forced him to jump off a cliff in an attempt to kill him for no reason at all. She then proceeded to kill him when he finally stood up for himself, then when Gamzee merged them together by throwing their chopped up corpses into Jane Crocker's colonel-sprite then they committed suicide and finally in the Dream Bubbles forces him into joining her in finding a way to make an army to kill Lord English. He finally stood up to her again showing that yes with kindness can come greater rewards and that he would not be taking any more of shit.
Example 2; Jake English the Page of Hope:
Jake was abused and Served by Dirk Strider the Prince of Heart. Dirk had given Jake a robot to fight with and constantly avoided talking to Jake and forced Jake into talking to his Auto-Responder which, like Dirk, never bothered honestly helping Jake with the Robot without using complex mind games and forcing Jake into an emotional corner no matter how vocal Jake got about it. They could've set the robot onto an easier setting, for him, but they actively didn't. After going Godteir and a little later in the game Jake finally spoke up for himself and Dirk accepted Jakes view's and growth as a person. (We'll get back to Dirk later.)
Example 3; Xefros Tritoh the Page of Rage:
Xefros is a rust blooded troll who is coming of age to be forced off of his planet and become a butler of some random Highblood. He was convinced by his Moirail, Dammek the Theif of Blood, to rebel against the Heiress. Dammek outright steals some of Xefros' belongings had him sleep on the floor and act out dangerous stunts from their favorite movies all for an unknown reason. Later on, when he meets Joey Clair the Maid of Light, he unknowingly serves Joey Rage when he talks to her due to a small misunderstanding and wins a champion in her thanks to his kindness. Due to her shining a Light on his relationship with Dammek, we might see Xefros confront Dammek at the end of either HiveSwap or HauntSwitch.
Okay now that we're done with the examples, let's talk about Eridan and Feferi's Classes and Aspects.
Let's start with Feferi's Class — the Witch.
The Witch is the Active version of the Heir class, their verb being Change.
In myth and folklore, witches tended to have these animals called Familiars. The Witches needed to overcome their Familiars to be able to use their magic how they pleased but if they did not overcome their Familiars the Witch would be conquered by the beasts and their magic would be used for evil.
Example 1; Jade Harley the Witch of Space:
Jade Harley's Familiar was the First Guardian of her universe, and loyal dog of the Harley family, Becquerel, a dog with the abilities of but not limited to:
1.) manipulating space to be able to teleport great distances.
2.) being able to shrink and teleport itself and Jade to ride a bullet
3.) omnipresence
Jade took care of Bec like one would do with any dog. And even respected it. Doing so won her a champion in Bec, earning her its love and loyalty to the point that when it was prototyped into the colonel-sprite, Jack Noir gained that love and loyalty for Jade, not allowing him to harm her and merely fallow her around like a guard dog and even put her on her Quest Bed when she died, allowing her to Ascend. When Jade ascended to Godteir she gained Bec's powers making her a prime example of what happens when a Witch conquers her Familiars.
Example 2; Damara Megido the Witch of Time:
Damara's familiar was none other than the ultimate jackass himself Lord English, also known as Caliborn. His abilities were but not limited to:
1.) being the ultimate Timebound player and being able to undo other Timebound Players work.
2.) KILLING GHOSTS
3.) always being ALREADY HERE
4.) being able to fuck over everyone and everything.
Damara of course could not conquer Lord English, but she could defy him, not allowing him to be served. However, this was not the case for her becayse Meenah Peixes had unknowingly guaranteed Damara's fall to Lord English.
Damara "was not always the party's 8iggest trou8lemaker. [...] Once she was as meek as can 8e." [Aranea Serket; Openbound part 3]. However, Meenah was determined to win, and she began harassing everyone, but Damara was hit harder than everyone else. Meehan had talked up Damara's "matesprit's 8etrayal making her feel even more dreadful, while pushing him further into the arms of her rival, until she simply snapped. She attacked him, paralyzing him from the neck down. You finally got the aggressive confrontation you were looking for. Unfortunately, you unleashed something even you weren't prepared for, and you had to deal with her yourself. After a long 8loody duel, she killed" Meenah [Aranea Serket; Openbound part 3]. And "Damara has 8een unhinged ever since. 8y increasing her violent tendencies, instead of 8eing an asset in the game, she 8ecame a loose cannon, ar8itrarily showing up at key moments throughout the timeline to sa8otage us. So radical was her shift in personality, I've had a hard time 8elieving your incitement was solely to 8lame. It always seemed like other forces were in play, as if her acts, though apparently haphazard, were in keeping with some inscruta8le agenda." [Aranea Serket; Openbound part 3]. The only time she was a good asset to their team was when she did the scratch. "Strangely, the only time she was eager to help us was when we were preparing to initiate the Scratch. And it's a good thing she was, since I'm not sure anyone else would have had the a8ility to do that kind of damage to the Cardinal Movement and release its energy. It was almost a little eerie how happily she complied with our plan. What did Rufioh say she said? Something a8out how we would all finally get what we deserved... Which at the time, I thought sounded chilling." [Aranea Serket; Openbound part 3].
Damara now gleefully serves Lord English, allowing the destruction of her fellow ghosts.
Then we have Feferi the Witch of Life:
Feferi's familiar was Gl'bgolyb, a giant Horror Terror the size of a city that could kill off the entire Troll race — except Feferi and her Ancestor — with a single glub. However, Feferi has a lack of respect and a did not take care of it. Feferi as the Witch of Life had to make a decision:
Kill the Lusi of other trolls and feed her familiar?
Or
Let her entire race die?
Instead of making a decision, Feferi shoved the responsibility onto someone else — that person being Eridan Ampora, the Prince of Hope.
Feferi just like her Ancestor, and Meenah, pushed their responsibilities onto the Ampora Family while they did whatever the fuck they wanted.
This is the key reason why Feferi didn't ascend, she didn't take responsibility and did not accept her fate of protecting her race from the voice of her Lusus. Sure, she did in fact take the killed food to her Lusus, however if Eridan did that too, Gl'bgolyb would've had a far stronger bond with Eridan than it did with the Condess and Feferi. Feferi did not wish the death of any living thing; but this caused a lack of appreciation of taking care of her Lusus and the appreciation of life itself and how much people take it for granted.
Feferi failed in both conquering her familiar and being taken over by it.
Now let's look at the Class of Prince. The Prince Class is the Active version of the Class of Bard, their verb is Destroy
The Prince destroys their Aspect and can bring destruction through their Aspect. However, the Prince themselves cannot have much of their Aspects if not at all. When they do they can only have small increments of it. They need these small increments of it to see good in their Aspects and thus have something to fight for when it comes to their Aspects. If they don't they will become unstable and depending on the Aspect, even emotionally unstable to the point of madness.
The Prince's biggest faults are the importance they put in status and titles. They consider these titles more important than they actually are. Their greatest fault however is the title of the Class itself. The title of "Prince" is a fake-out. A doll-ed up word for "destroyer". Causing them to believe they passively ruled over their Aspect and thus tricking them into putting even greater importance in titles and act more like their Passive Counterparts — the Bard — who passively allows their Aspects to be destroyed or allows destruction to be brought through their Aspect.
Though Eridan was a vague course of the Prince Class we did not get a good explanation of the Class until we were introduced to Dirk Strider.
Example 1; Dirk Strider the Prince of Heart.
Dirk Strider is a heartless boy who is more of a soldier than a kid. Even as Bro he was very cold and even abusive toward his little brother, Dave Strider, often forcing Dave to fight him with literal weapons and having way too much of a surplus of 'ironic' puppets, weapons, and the like.
Sure, one could say it was because of the fact that Dirk grew up in a post-apocalyptic world, but so did Roxy Lalond the Rouge of Void but she is FAR more relaxed than him and is FAR kinder than him. When talking to Calliope, he asked her about his God Teir, and their conversation was enlightening:
"TT: So, that's what a Prince of Heart does?
TT: Just has like, multiple waking consciousness disorder, or something?
TT: Sounds kind of stupid.
UU: no!
UU: like i said, these can be traits of sUch a hero, bUt is not necessarily always the case, nor is it the defining property of the aspect.
UU: to Understand the heart aspect better, yoU might Use it interchangeably with the word soUl.
UU: the hero Uses the methods endowed by class to inflUence in some way the soUl, or essence of being, of oneself or of others.
TT: Then I'm basically the Prince of Soul.
UU: yes.
TT: That sounds kind of maybe a little cooler. Sort of.
TT: Then what am I supposed to be able to do as a Prince? Like, rule over souls in a pompous, regal manner?
UU: no!
UU: again, sUrface meaning of classes and aspects can be deceptive.
UU: a prince is a destroyer class.
UU: it is very far on the active side of the scale. its more passive coUnterpart woUld be the bard class. both of these are exclUsively designated for male players.
UU: to Understand a hero's capabilities, it always helps to search for the right way to parse the class/aspect pair into a more explicit statement.
UU: for instance, being active, a prince coUld be viewed as "one who destroys x, or caUses destrUction throUgh x," if x is the aspect.
UU: while the more passive bard coUld be seen as "one who allows x to be destroyed, or invites destrUction throUgh x," as if by the will of the aspect.
TT: I'm obviously no expert, but that sounds like a pretty odd thing for a Bard to do.
UU: maybe! it's a qUirky class.
UU: somewhat like a wildcard role for a hero. very Unpredictable.
UU: they are typically known for their spontaneoUs and dramatic story-altering inflUence on the fate of a party.
UU: some of the more remarkable tales involve sUch parties, where the bard is single handedly responsible for their spectacUlar downfall or improbable victory. or both!
UU: in trUth, yoU are probably fortUnate yoUr groUp doesn't have one. :u
TT: I think we have enough unpredictability as it is.
TT: So if I'm following, my title nearly parses as,
TT: Destroyer of Souls.
UU: indeed."
After getting into the game, Jake the Page of Hope had bestowed Hope unto Dirk and showed Dirk that being so distant from everyone is not good and that having a Heart and empathizing with his team can cause their bonds to grow stronger and make it easier for all of them to work together as a team. And thus, he gained something to fight for.
Example 2; Kurloz Makara the Prince of Rage:
According to Aranea Serket, Kurloz "actually used to be quite talkative. That is, until he had a nightmare which prompted a bizarre incident, after which he would never speak again. He took a sort of spiritual vow of silence, which I'm sure was probably related to his esoteric faith. Once, well before our session began, Kurloz and Meulin were in a very loving matespritship. It really seemed to everyone they were made for each other. One day, they fell asleep together. Kurloz then had a nightmare so terrifying, he released the most dreadful sound imaginable. It truly echoed the horror of the Vast Honk itself. The noise was so loud and so awful, Meulin went completely deaf, and her hearing never recovered. Kurloz was undoubtedly devastated by what he'd done to her. He was so distraught, he chewed off his tongue and sewed his mouth shut and has never spoken a word since."
It could be interpreted that he had emotionally distanced himself off from everyone in the group, Mewlin especially, to the point of madness, now that he and Gamzee had begun to follow Caliborn and his destructive tendencies in hopes of burning the universe down to the ground.
And finally, we have Eridan Ampora the Prince of Hope:
Eridan is a complex character indeed, very little is known about him but at the same time there is a lot about him to analyze.
Eridan's former Moirail is Feferi Peixes, an Heiress who honestly doesn't wish the death of any living thing and Eridan knows this fact fully and says, "you are goin to make a hell of an empress".
Now question is: why would Eridan who "loves to kill" fallow Feferi who doesn't wish the death of any living thing?
Well what if he does in fact support Feferi's belief, faithfully, unironically, and takes it rather seriously.
Eridan had to take care of Gl'bgolyb, Feferi's Lusus that could kill the entirety of his kind. So, if he wanted to kill all the Land-Dwelling Trolls he has the literal psychic equivalent of a Nuclear Warhead, all he'd have to do is wait a little while before feeding it so that way Gl'bgolyb would speak at a frequency that would kill the lower-casts! So, going through the trouble of getting doomsday devices was pointless, but Eridan isn't stupid so what was the point?
Well what if I said that when he was talking about killing everyone and being all high and mighty he was actually being sarcastic.
But trolls don't understand sarcasm, I hear you saying.
Well tell that to the Amporas.
Looking at his descendant / Ancestor Cronus Ampora, the Bard of Hope we can gather something that is a bit hard to deny.
Cronus seriously, unironically, believes that he is a human born as a troll. If you apply this to Eridan, you get a rather sad story. There are kids who are extremely naturally sarcastic, but their family isn't sarcastic at all. I am one such example, I even have a bit of a monotone so it's hard to tell if I am joking or not, I sometimes have to pull a Sheldon Cooper to show that I'm joking.
If you read some of Eridan's dialogue you actually get a rather hilarious, extremely sarcastic, smartass character. Here is an example of his sarcastic text and translated so that way those of you who are a bit denser to it – these translations shall be in brackets so that way they're distinguishable.
CA: i wwill tell you [I'm going to anyways]
CA: evven though you wwill only humor me as usual since you dont agree wwith my agenda [even though you don't understand it, and will just merely listen]
CA: any of my agendas really [Zero]
CA: none of the agendas [Nada]
CA: none of them
CC: Are you fretting over anot)(er one of t)(ese dumb contraptions?
CA: see
CA: more condescension [I wonder how you and the Condess are related]
CA: you are goin to make a hell of an empress
CC: No I'm not! But t)(at is beside t)(e point.
CC: None of your plots to kill t)(e land dwellers ever work out, and every doomsday device you get your )(ands on turns out to be a piece of junk!
CA: so
CA: i got to keep tryin thats howw all the great military masterminds became great through upright persevverance
CC: I t)(ink deep down you stack t)(ese plots against you so you fail because you know it's wrong.
CA: it isnt wwrong
CA: im not going to explain it to you again
CA: at this point all you need to knoww it is important to me
CA: and im doing it for us
CA: i mean our kind [I'm trying to protect you and everyone else damn it, if there is any other doomsday device who says that it wouldn't kill you too!]
CA: nobody understands not evven you [why do I even bother talking to about this?]
CC: T)(is is t)(e last time I will say t)(is.
CC: W-E AR-E NOT B-ETT-ER T)(AN ANYBODY!
CC: GLUB. 38(
CA: pshh
CA: hemospectrum begs to differ [tell that to the murderous purple-bloods; like say the one who fucking killed my ancestor.]
CC: If you're as sickened by t)(em as you say, w)(y do you spend so muc)( time on land?
CC: You can't )(ave t)(e sort of affinity for "our kind" t)(at you profess if you've only spent, w)(at...
CC: A few days underwater, maybe? IN YOUR W)(OL-E LIF-E!
CA: wwhatevver
CA: i havve to keep an eye on em up here
CA: its all about tactics [breathing underwater is unnatural…]
CC: W)(at about your friends? Do you ever t)(ink about t)(em?
Then there are the facts we are given by the Canon Homestuck Extended Zodiac!
Violet Signs are the universe's eccentrics. Forget marching to their own drummer-Violets built their own drum, and it's probably weird. A good deal of this is natural, but they also have a distinct bent toward contrariness. They are the sorts to give the popular thing a pass. Personable and outlandish, they are ready to make friends with anyone, although if they aren't careful their 'game for anything' attitude can come across as clingy or desperate. When their feelings are reciprocated, however, they are very loyal friends. Politics and humanitarian causes are often very important to Violet Signs, and they will turn their considerable inventive energy into a sort of noblesse oblige, happy to offer their nontraditional approaches to help others. At their very best Violet Signs are artistic and inspired, but they tread the fine line between genius and maniac. Too often their more esoteric interests can come across as perverse or untoward, and they can have a hard time holding their tempers, especially if they feel that they are being belittled or ignored. Intelligence is enormously attractive to Violet Signs, and often an intellectual connection is necessary for them to be attracted to a prospective partner.
Here are the definitions of two words that some of you might not know too well:
"Contrariness" - opposite in nature or character; diametrically or mutually opposed: contrary to fact; contrary propositions. opposite in direction or position: departures in contrary directions.
"Esoteric" - intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.
So, let's get this straight…
Naturally, Eridan and Cronus have odd interests that go against the norm of Troll culture and tend to gravitate toward people with SPECIALIZED interests and will constantly give a pass to the norm, not even so much as consider it?
So, for example:
Eridan is someone who thinks that the Hemospectrum is stupid, he happens to be a natural sarcastic and thinks sarcasm is cool and is the kind of guy who will not explain sarcasm because if you don't get it you're stupid and thus need to learn about it on your own. He is also a sea-dweller and thinks living in the ocean is dumb and thus lives on land because he's that kind of guy. He also tries to teach Feferi how to be a better empress and that she needs to take charge of her own responsibilities by using a nontraditional method like his sarcasm to his advantage and trying to make it blatantly obvious.
Let's see what it says about his moon – Derse:
Derse Dreamers have personalities marked by a distinct and restless skepticism. Whatever their waking circumstances, chances are they will live in a state of dissatisfaction. Rebellion is in their blood, manifesting whether they are fighting back against a fascist dictatorship, or the most recent trend in casual footwear. Derse Dreamers are cerebral and self-aware; they have a far better grasp on the landscape of their own minds than on the world around them, which they can find alienating and confusing. But as so much of their identity is built on control, they will do their utmost to hide any insecurities, often with false humility or self-deprecating humor. They may be inflexible and pessimistic, but they are also great problem solvers, facing conflicts head-on with shrewd, calculating minds. They see one true path among an infinite snarl of wrong ones. They tend to be introverted, but if you win their trust Derse Dreamers are extremely powerful allies. However, they find sincere vulnerability difficult and will often keep people at arm's length. Letting go and living in the moment is hard for a Derse Dreamer; they constantly look toward the future and analyze the past.
So, say a princess comes up to you, throws her responsibilities on you, rarely thanks you, and refuses to kill the current queen and your culture's history has shown that the heiress and queen must fight to death and who ever wins will get to have the throne until the next heiress is of age to fight – rinse and repeat….
And Troll culture was shown to be hell, and HiveSwap has shown that yes, its fact that Troll Culture on Alternia is fucking hell.
We also already established that Eridan, as the "Prince" of Hope is a natural pessimist.
The word "Self-Deprecating" means modest about or critical of oneself, especially humorously so.
Its not like Eridan flirts with someone sarcastically and then points it out and makes a face that would signal that the flirt and the moment itself is one big fucking joke! (cough-cough, Alternia-bound, cough-cough).
Eridan must've been stressing his head off. We rarely got ANY dialogue about Feferi and the Condess fighting. We got ZERO idea if Feferi had any plans on how to kill the Condess, and I highly doubt that Eridan too got a smidge of any information on that.
Then here is what it says about Hope:
Those bound to the aspect of Hope are driven first and foremost by their convictions. They do right for right's sake, and are quick to come to the aid of anyone they deem to be experiencing injustice. That said, their views of the world can be quite black and white, so what they see as the "right" thing may not always be the universally accepted view. They put great value in the power of the imagination, the ability to dream up a better and more beautiful future. If anyone could dream a better world into existence, it would be one of the Hope-bound. They may sound like all sunshine and rainbows, but they aren't adverse to a little destruction, especially if they think they can replace it with something better and more just. At their best, Hope-bound are positive, caring, and warm. At their worst they can be narrow-minded and selfish.
This means that yes, Eridan is a good guy but due to the many (and I do mean MANY) rocks thrown in his way he became a bit narrow-minded, and he was selfish but he gave everything to help Feferi so yeah, this guy had a long list of reasons as to why it isn't bad for him to be selfish.
Want to see that list?
Here:
He gave up his valuable time to feed A HORROR TERROR THAT IS THE SIZE OF A CITY – ITS CARNIVOURUS AND THUS HAS TO EAT A GREAT AMMOUNT OF MEAT TO BE ABLE TO SEDATE IT AND KEEP IT QUIET.
That very same Horror terror could kill him and his entire race it a single sound.
He is a natural sarcastic in a culture that doesn't understand sarcasm at all!
He has to deal with the Hemospecrtum and the Quadrants and its blatantly obvious that he has no-idea how they work.
He hates his own culture, so he is desperate to have Feferi to take the throne.
Feferi doesn't want the death of any living thing.
Feferi is CHILDISH.
He got stuck on a hell-planet that wanted to kill him to make him give up on every last drop of Hope inside of him so one of his "friends" could give him a little bit of Hope to fight for – AND NONE OF THEM DID THAT thus leaving him psychologically broke.
Karkat kept promising him that they'd go there and help him, and NEVER KEPT THAT PROMISE.
No one bothered to check up on him.
No one bothered to talk to him about it.
No one helped him in any shape or form.
Some monsters are born, but there are a good few like Eridan who are made!
BUT WE HATE ERIDAN BECAUSE HE KILLED SOLLUX, FEFERI AND KANAYA! I hear you screaming at the top of your lungs – let me correct you there.
Eridan BLINDED Sollux.
Eridan did kill Feferi.
Eridan CAUSED Kanaya TO GO INTO A METAMORPHISIS. My proof – page 3596:
GA: This Is A Dream Isnt It
AA: 0_0
AA: w0w!
AA: uh i mean
AA: o_o
AA: wow
AA: you figured that out very fast!
GA: It Seemed Obvious
GA: Either Im Sleeping Or Im Dead Which Is It
AA: oh i am sure you are alive
AA: you are unconscious now and will likely wake up as your new self very soon
GA: My New Self
AA: yes
AA: you are undergoing a metamorphosis which you have been groomed for since you were very young
AA: much like i was for my various personal iterations including this one
GA: You Mean
GA: Being A Ghost And Then A Frog And Then A Robot And Then A Fairy
AA: yes!
Kanaya turned into a "Rainbow-Drinker" a Troll Vampire.
Plus
Guys…
You all do know that a wand and a gun are two VASTLY different weapons and need to be wielded differently right?
Like if you were to give a sword-wielder a hammer they will not be competent at wielding it at all. Like at all at all. Not even slightly.
Plus, I did point out that Eridan is in fact unstable thus his powers that are channeled into his wand are unstable, so he likely killed Feferi and caused Kanaya to go into that metamorphosis by accident.
Then there's the fact that Vriska did worse – she has killed thousands of trolls and fed them to her Lusus. She also forced Tavros to jump off of a cliff in an attempt to KILL him and laughed while doing so! Tavros of all people. You know – the nicest troll there is aside from Kanaya, Feferi (if you barely know her, happen to be a low scale and are childish by nature – if you are sarcastic and happen to be high-blood AND happen to have fed her Lusus for sweeps expect to be shunned) and Nepeta. My proof, pages 2175 and 2176.
She then did in fact kill him during [S] Wake which is page 3297.
She also killed Aradia by mind controlling Sollux into eating the mind-honey to cause his psychic powers to overload and take out all that energy (aka laser-vision) on Aradia, aka having him kill his flush-crush turning him into the major pessimist we know now! My proof pages 2246-2251.
Oh and lets not forget what she did to Terezi – aka blinding her! My proof: [S] Make Her Pay
Yeah, Vriska is such a badass, killing someone innocent like that! WOW! Blinding her best friend like that. Having Sollux kill the love of his life like that just because she couldn't handle being tortured by the people she killed all those times before! WOW! Someone to live up to you don't you think! (sarcasm to the Nth degree).
Terezi also did worse by helping Vriska kill during their RPs and she killed John. You know JOHN EGBERT. She also killed Vriska but that was completely justified.
You know what isn't justified.
Killing Nepeta and Equius.
I'm looking at you Gamzee. (pages 3438-3461)
Neither is necrophilia.
I'm still looking at you Gamzee… (Page 4357)
But what about the Angels?! He killed them for no reason! I hear you saying grasping at your final straw. Well….
Every player's planet's name is very much literal!
Land of Heat and Clockwork = A lava covered planet with many gears of varying sizes. Magma/Lava can each 2,120 F, gears are often associated with Clocks and clockwork.
Land of Light and Rain = a planet that basks in eternal daylight and has clouds that 'rain light'.
Land of Wind and Shade = a planet with an eternal night and the only sources of light are the fireflies, glowing plants and fungi, the salamanders also use wind to transport their mail.
Land of Frost and Frogs = a snow-covered planet that has many frozen frogs. Snow and frost are heavily related and there are many species of Frogs that survive the winter by being frozen and then thaw out in the spring/summer.
Land of Wrath and Angels = a planet covered in gothic cathedrals and has WRATHFUL ANGELS THAT WANT NOTHING MORE THAN TO GET THEIR HANDS YOUR SQUISHLY LITTLE NECK AND RIP IT IN HALF!
Now for my final point. In a small "scene" Arenea gives some exhibition on Cronus that shows that Eridan and Cronus himself were FAR more important than ANY of the other trolls, humans even in all of Homestuck.
The Bard of Hope may seem a little jaded these days, but once he had a deeply abiding faith in magic, and dedicated himself to becoming a great wizard. He became convinced he was hatched to defeat an extraordinarily evil magician, one he swore the angels foretold of. Though when pressed for the name of the man, he would not say it, claiming it was too dangerous to even enunciate. Part of his self-aggrandizing mythos was that this magician once somehow from afar tried to strike him down at a young age, so he would never have to face him. But the evil spell was deflected, sealing the magician's spirit away in a series of unassuming vessels until he could find some other cunning way to enter our universe. The attack supposedly left him with his distinctive scar. But at some point he became disillusioned with magic. If there ever was any truth to his far fetched vision, the legacy of defeating the evil magician would have to be passed on to his descendant, or if his descendant proved to be as much of a failure as he did, then perhaps on some other Hero of Hope. I'm unsure why he suffered this crisis of faith, aside from the obvious reasons having to do with an overall lack of character, or any other redeeming qualities. Perhaps someone talked him out of his beliefs. Maybe a friend close to him. Or, if one is to believe his fantasy held any water, perhaps someone who was in league with the evil magician.
This. This right here is talking about Lord English. Caliborn. The main villain of Homestuck.
My proof?
He sealed himself in several forms of Lil' Cal, he was also Doc Scratch, he was also God Cat, a bunch of un-assuming vessels. And let's all remember that he is always "ALREADY HERE". And if that statement itself is not enough to convince you, let us not forget pages 7432 through 7445.
Let me quote them or shall I say, "quote Caliborn himself".
"MY OVERCONFIDENCE, WAS MY ACHILLES DOWNFALL THOUGH. I MADE, ADMITTEDLY, THE AMATEUR'S BONER. I TURNED MY BACK ON THE BODY.
THE CRYBABY IN THE YELLOW PANTIES GOT UPSET WITH ME. THAT I WAS WAILING SO EXCELLENTLY ON HIS INCREASINGLY BATTERED PRETTYBOY NINJA STUD. AND BY UPSET. I MEAN HE THREW A FULLY FLEDGED TANTRUM OF *PURE HOPE*. THE HOPE... MY GOD. IT WAS BLINDING. BEAUTIFUL EVEN.
OK, MAYBE THE COTTON ISN'T DOING IT JUSTICE. HMM.
OK, YEAH, MAYBE THAT JUST LOOKS STUPID.
YOU KNOW, YOU TRY THINGS. AND SOMETIMES. IT JUST LOOKS LIKE SHIT. LET'S CALL THIS. MY ONE AND ONLY FUCKUP IN HISTORY.
WELL, MY SECOND MAYBE. SECOND ONLY TO UNDERESTIMATING THIS SAD SACK WUSS OF HOPE. WHO KNEW THAT SUCH A SIMPERING CHARLATAN. HAD SUCH AN OUTBURST STOWED IN HIS GIRLY BOSOM. CLEARLY, NOT I. EVEN THOUGH I HAD THE INFORMATION WELL IN ADVANCE. IT WAS JUST *THAT* SURPRISING.
IT SEEMS THAT HOPE POWER IS OVERWHELMING.
EVEN TO THE CLOCKWORK MANJUNK. IT LOOKED LIKE I THOUGHT I COULD USE MY RAINBOW SEIZURE FIELD TO OVERPOWER HIS MASSIVE GAY HOPE BUBBLE. ALAS. IT WAS MY PERFECTLY JUSTIFIED HUBRIS WHICH BIT ME IN THE ASS, IN THE END. EVEN THOUGH I'M SURE I MUST HAVE KNOWN THIS OUTCOME WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. (IT CAN STILL BE WORTH IT TO GET OWNED. IF IT MEANS HAVING A LOT OF SELF ESTEEMED HUBRIS ABOUT YOURSELF.)
AND SO, THE ENGLISH BOY DEALS ME MY FIRST DEFEAT EVER, SINCE ASCENDING AS AN INVINCIBLE TECHNICOLOR TIME KID.
I GET DUNKED AS FUCK.
AND LAND SQUARE ON MY BOTTOM. I REMAIN PRONE FOR SEVERAL MINUTES, STARING AT THE CEILING. BLINKING A BIT. PONDERING WHERE THINGS WENT WRONG IN LIFE. HOW I. THE LORD OF TIME. COULD EXPERIENCE SUCH WOEFUL OWNAGE.
THERE IS NO BODILY HARM OF COURSE. EXCEPT TO MY INCREDIBLE EGO. WHICH IS A FATE WORSE THAN GETTING BROKEN BONES. SO I JUST LIE THERE. THINKING SADLY. ACHIEVING SOME DEPRESSION.
I'M SURE AT THIS POINT. I TURN TO THOUGHTS OF RESPECT. RESPECT FOR THE PANSIED ASS, PRETTY LEGGED PAGE. AND HIS MAYBE ACCIDENTAL PROWESS. I UNDER MISESTIMATED HIM, AND ADMIRATION HAPPENS IN MY BREAST. MAYBE I'LL JACK HIS SWAGGER TOO, AS HE ONCE DID MINE. MAYBE AFTER A LIFETIME OF UTTERLY DESERVED HUMILIATION, SOBBING, AND SPONTANEOUS URINATION. HE'S EARNED THAT MUCH.
(THE CLUE HERE IS THAT I STEAL HIS NAME. GOD. YOU THICK, STUPID FUCKS. WHY DO I BOTHER WITH SUB TEXTS, OR FINE LITERATUREY NUANCE. GOD. FUCK! GOD. I TAKE HIS NAME LATER. ENGLISH. THAT'S ME LATER. THAT'S MY NAME. YOU STUPID BRAINLESS FUCKS. HOLY SHIT, YOU ARE DUMB AS BOZOS COME. GOD!)
MEANWHILE, STRIDER REGROUPS FROM HIS TROUNCING.
AND SEES HIS CHANCE TO DO AWAY WITH ME FOR GOOD. HE KNOWS BY NOW THAT HE CAN'T KILL ME. BUT CAN DO HIS NEXT BEST THING. WHICH IS TO BANISH MY SOUL.
HE'S HURT BAD AND IS SLOW TO USE HIS PINK SOUL KILLING SPELL. THIS GIVES ME TIME TO REBOUND FROM MY SHAMEFUL ASS WHOOPING TOO. AND PULL MY SORRY BUTT OUT OF THE OWN ZONE.
SO I GET UP. AND...
I NEARLY GET THE DROP ON HIM BEFORE HE RELEASES HIS SPELL. BUT THEN... WHAT'S THIS?
THERE'S A COMMOTION. THE HAUNTING SOUND OF NEIGHS. EXCEPT. THEY'RE ROBOT NEIGHS?
THAT IS WHEN THE HORSES COME IN TO PLAY. THE GOD DAMN HORSES. HOW TRULY AND UTTERLY IRONIC. THAT MY VERY DEMISE COULD BE IN THE PROXIMITY OF SOME HORSES. WHAT. NO REALLY, WHAT. I DIDN'T FOLLOW THAT. I'M STILL NOT FOLLOWING IT, TO BE HONEST. I'LL HAVE TO THINK IT OVER. I'M THINKING IT OVER *RIGHT NOW*. AND I HAVE A FEELING. I'LL BE THINKING IT OVER FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. PERHAPS WE ALL WILL.
WAIT, THEY SHOULD BE ROBOTS.
HOLD ON WHILE I PAINT THE HORSES TO LOOK LIKE METAL HORSES. DAMN, THE WORK OF A CRAFTYMAN IS NEVER DONE.
SO BASICALLY.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON. SO I'M REALLY DISTRACTED. I'M SAYING TO MYSELF, THIS IS OMINOUS AS SHIT. NOTHING GOOD CAN EITHER FOLLOW OR PRECEDE AN EVENT SUCH AS THIS. AND THEN, THAT'S WHEN IT HAPPENS.
THE SWEATY MUSCULAR GHOST APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHO HE IS. OR WHERE HE CAME FROM. JUDGING FROM THE FACE OF THE GUYS, THEY DON'T EITHER. NOBODY SEES THIS COMING. IT IS A TOTAL AMBUSCADE, AND MY SKELETON JAW IS DROPPED AS SHIT. HE PINS ME IN PLACE WITH HIS RIPPED MUSCLES, AND I'M COMPLETELY IMMOBILIZED. PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE *STRENGTH*, BUT ALSO DUE TO MY AWE AND ADMIRATION. I JUST CAN'T MOVE.
THIS GIVES DIRK JUST THE TIME HE NEEDS.
TO DO HIS FLAMBOYANT PINK SPELL.
IT OWNS ME COMPLETELY. BUT SADLY TO DIRK MAYBE, IT ALSO OWNS THE MUSCLE HERO. BOTH OF OUR SOULS ARE CONSUMED BY THE ENCHANTMENT.
I THINK HE THOUGHT HE COULD DESTROY MY SOUL.
BUT HE BIT OFF MORE THAN HIS FLESHY SKULL COULD CHEW. SO HE USED HIS "IRONY" AGAIN. AND STUCK MY SOUL IN HIS JUJU. EXACTLY THE WAY. I STUCK HIS BUDDIES IN MY JUJU. THE ONE I GOT FROM YODELBOOGER. IT'S LIKE POETIC JUSTICE I GUESS. EXCEPT PUPPETRY, INSTEAD OF POETRY. SO PUPPETIC JUSTICE. OH YES. I LIKE THAT.
THE MUSCLE GHOST CAME ALONG FOR THE RIDE. AND I GUESS HIS SOUL GOT TRAPPED IN THERE TOO? I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT MEANS. HONESTLY IT IS DISTURBING AS HELL. AND I'D PREFER NOT TO DWELL ON ITS GREATER RAMIFICATIONS TO MY LONG TERM EXISTENCE. MAYBE IT'S GOOD? OR MAYBE IT'S DUMB. MAYBE IT'S. GOOD AND DUMB. OR SMART AND BAD. THERE ARE SO MANY WORDS THINGS CAN BE WHEN YOU'RE CONFUSED.
AT THIS POINT.
HIS BELOVED JUJU IS NO LONGER A HOLLOW VESSEL. IT IS VERY MUCH CROWDED IN THERE, CHOCK FULL OF SOULS, BELONGING TO HARDCORE BRAWLING BRUTES. AND HE KNOWS IT. HIS PUPPET IS NOW A PROBLEM TO DO AWAY WITH, JUST LIKE MY JUJU WAS. SO THEY DO THE SAME BASIC THING. THEY GET THEIR DRUNKARD SORCERESS OF VOID TO BANISH THE PUPPET ONCE AND FOR ALL, INTO THE DARKNESS. NEVER TO BE FOUND AGAIN BY PROBING HANDS OF MEAT.
YES, NEVER TO BE FOUND.
BUT NOT NEVER TO RESURFACE. OH NO.
YOU SEE, MY SOUL IS A TENACIOUS ONE. I KNOW THIS FACT FIRST HAND, BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN INSIDE MY BRAIN ALL MY LIFE! IT'S A REAL MOTHER FUCKER, I'LL TELL YOU THAT MUCH. THE PUPPET'S ESSENCE WILL FLOP AND FLUTTER THROUGH THE SHADOWS FOR ETERNITY. SURFACING IN THE NIGHTMARES OF THE UNSUSPECTING. WEASELING ITS WAY INTO THE HEARTS OF YUCKY SHITTY CHILDREN. AND WHEN ITS INFILTRATION IN THAT UNIVERSE HAS TAKEN HOLD, THE SEED WILL HAVE BEEN PLANTED. AND IT WILL PAVE THE WAY FOR MY EMERGENCE, TO WREAK MY BADNESS. FROM UNIVERSE. TO UNIVERSE. TO UNIVERSE. EACH ONE WILL FALL. AND EACH TIME I WILL GET STRONGER. AND OLDER. AND BIGGER. AND BUFFER! OHHHHHHHHHHH YES.
IT WILL BE TIME."
When the kids and Caliborn fight they are all around twenty-one years of age, HOWEVER, Lord English is about his mid-thirties…. So essentially the Black Queen made the trolls' first guardian by using the Lil' Cal that has the souls of both Calibon and Arquiusprite in it and a cue-ball thus making the Lord English that troubled Cronus and Eridan.
We all don't know how Hope works but if medias of games, anime, comics, manga, cartoons etc. has shown us anything.
Hope defies every sense of logic and reason imaginable!
Hope itself can defy all odds.
In the Anime Fairy Tail hope allowed the character of Natsu to eat holy fire and allowed a ghost to save the most powerful members of their guild from IMMENENT DEATH AND TIME ITSELF.
In the Anime Naruto hope allowed the character of Natsu to literally beat some sense into a murderous psychopathic Garraa who was taken over by Shukaku.
In DC Comic's Dark Nights arc hope caused some unspeakable (I can't even say it because its just that hard to describe and you have to see it to believe it plus its recent so yeah I ain't spoiling that shit.)
Eridan is the Prince of Hope. He can destroy Hope and bring destruction through Hope.
Eridan can defy logic and kill the Hope of Lord English/Caliborn and save everyone!
But he couldn't because NO ONE GAVE HIM HOPE TO FIGHT FOR AND STABLIZE HIM EMOTIONALLY AND MENTALLY!
Boom! Essay done!
Thank you Homestuck Fandom for shitting on the one character that protected the Troll Race and was the key to killing the ultimate villain of Homestuck!
I hope you all are happy with yourselves for all of this!
Fuck this shit, I'm out!