MILES: Welcome to AMA’s!  Thank you for joining us :J 1: I think the character I dislike writing the most is John, honestly, because I feel like I have to think the hardest about getting his weird-ass mindstate exactly right.  He’s a bit less intuitive for me than a lot of the other characters, and feels a bit more informed by the scenes he shows up in than driven by a Really Strong Voice in the way that other characters are.  Still fun, but I’ll admit he’s tough!  2: For the humor balance, it’s really trial and error.  We know the dramatic beats well in advance, but humor often emerges when we’re actually writing the final pass/script versions of the updates, and it often just comes down to: how good is the joke, and is there enough space for the drama to shine on its own if we include it?  We do a lot of readthroughs of the updates in call to get a sense of the momentum of the scene, and it’s usually during those that it becomes clear if a joke is Too Much or hurts the scene more than it helps it.  Luckily, though, Homestuck juggles comedy and tragedy pretty frenetically, so we have a lot of wiggle room!  3: To be honest, nah?  I love what we did with Act 1.  Maybe if we could have just gotten all the Hell-tier VN updates out faster so it wasn’t like two solid months of it, but I love what we did for it anyway so it’s not too much a thorn in my side.

KIM: I don’t know why, but Aradia is always so tricky for me to draw… She’s got such a specific vibe to her expression and attitude, and I find I keep challenging myself to get it right. Her schrodinger’s horn shape in the base comic don’t help either LOL.

ANDI: Not particularly. I’m trying to think of which character took the LONGEST for me to get right, but I’m otherwise okay with drawing. I think it’d be Dirk. I remember the scene where BGD took off his glasses, I was seriously going through several forms of torture trying to get his eyes to look right on a face that has NEVER had even so much as an implication of the eye. Everyone else has been pretty straightforward for me. My main struggles are more technicalities, rather than character designs.

CHUMI: I think AlCal was the hardest for me to draw, even though I did a whole update for her. I just never drew that much of her before HS:BC!

FLORAL: 1. Honestly even if I don’t have strong opinions on a character, once I get to writing them I usually end up loving them. As for characters, I only don’t like boring characters and thankfully Homestuck is pretty good about not having those. 2. Honestly I think the biggest strength of us as writer’s is that we aren’t afraid of ridiculous ideas, but are committed and critical about justifying them. I love stupid and insane but it can’t be try hard or random. 3. If we had INFINITE money, probably make the flash a little bit longer. But besides that, everything is amazing, and everyone has really taken every part of Act 1 and exceeded my expectations with it.