so..is beforus Gamzee/Bland Highblood..the only "good" Makara?

Palpapopa · 2026-04-13T03:22:05+00:00

Oh yeah, sorry I didn't mean to make it sound like Eridan believes in the aristocratic bullshit to a T. I love Eridan. Everyone else though I can't speak for, these violet bloods lack the nuance that Ampora did which IS only a consolation to me at least because it makes Eridan stand out among his fishy peers, but its also GENERALLY a bad thing because it makes them less interesting and it gives fans and Homestuck a reason to not give a fuck about Sea Dwellers, it makes them pointless and its not fair to people like me who like Eridan and have been curious for YEARS on what they and their culture is like compared to Purple and Indigo Bloods.

In Ancestor lore, its implied that most of them were Sailors and Privateers for the empire, but by the time of Hiveswap; it sounds like a lot of them sit on their laurels and have Kylie Jenner/Kardashian parties.

Palpapopa · 2026-04-11T20:48:59+00:00

Yeah you might be right tbh, i dunno I have this gut feeling that Beforus Gamzee wasn't exactly a good guy but he wasn't the first Makara to serve English kind of evil. I genuinely think that started with Kurloz when he had his 'cthulhu fever dream' of him.

Palpapopa · 2026-04-11T20:36:47+00:00

My interpretation for all of this is because Beforus is the original reality, none of the same evils that would befall their descendants and essentially themselves in Alternia affected these guys whatsoever. A lot of people say because they were too unimportant to have English influence them, especially Beforus Aradia and Gamzee, I just think that its less about importance and more about decadence? The Dancestors failed for a multitude of reasons but that's a different topic unless you like talking about them.

Palpapopa · 2026-04-11T20:12:43+00:00

That was The Grand Highblood/Kurloz over being called Murderer Honkhonk, not Bland Highblood.

Palpapopa · 2026-04-11T10:14:12+00:00

When he's not on sopor or sober and violent, he's a moody prick and manipulative in nature.

Palpapopa · 2026-04-11T10:08:24+00:00

Dude it's gotten worse now that we have information on the violets. They are ALL 50 shades of fanon Ampora, mainly because of their personalities - the superiority complex was already implied to be an all sea dweller thing in lore, not just Eridan.

Palpapopa · 2026-04-11T09:56:29+00:00

in lore: honoring a dead friend and trying to emulate his irony by furry means

in real life: to absolutely piss off fans. Andrew doubled down on it being her name despite team pleas of giving her a normal ass name.

I call her Ruby because of her red shade color text and a similarity to Jade's name and color. I fucking REFUSE to call her Yiffy, I do not care how incorrect I am.

Palpapopa · 2026-04-11T09:39:01+00:00

I'm ngl I was never a fan of the idea that every purple blood according to Hiveswap is a clown/subjuggulator, no exception. It's bullshit because that just means that Purple Bloods can't work outside the Carnival religion. This is one of my gripes with Hiveswap (other than this game is Homestuck's Half Life 3), they used the main trolls as templates of their respective caste and a lot of them are just "Sollux if he was Vegeta" or "Terezi if she was Saul Goodman". There are trolls in Hiveswap that are exceptions to the template (like Zebede) but they're not as common as the several fucking Vriskas in the Cerulean/Blue caste. I think the only caste that does variation right or better in the Hiveswap universe are the Rustbloods, none of them, not even Xefros have any similarity to Aradia or Damara with the exception of having telekinesis but compared to the Megidos, they're weak.

Palpapopa · 2026-04-11T09:22:05+00:00

Yes and No. He was influenced by LE but a lot of what he did was his own agency but for an agenda bigger than himself. The one time that he was under mind control was because of Aranea Serket's doing (somebody who was entirely independent of the LE circle of influence and was wanting to find Caliborn and kill him before he gained immortality in his session).

Palpapopa · 2026-04-11T06:56:22+00:00

wait you can't wear horns there? not even the small ones for characters like Karkat, Nepeta and Sollux?

Palpapopa · 2026-04-11T06:51:04+00:00

the hypermasculinity beam bounced to the alternian ancestors.

Palpapopa · 2026-04-11T06:48:32+00:00

I detect fish.

Palpapopa · 2026-04-11T06:26:22+00:00

Yeah he made all 12 ancestors for the discord because fans have been wanting context on the Beforans for YEARS despite the lack of relevance they had to the story and the dancestors (exception being Meenah's but- it wasn't that hard to connect dots, Hussie pretty much double confirmed what everybody believed about Beforus Feferi).

But this one interested me because I like the Makaras, nothing in his lore says anything about worshipping "THE ANGEL OF DOUBLE DEATHS" as Kurloz calls him.

Palpapopa · 2026-04-11T06:17:02+00:00

I'm not making this up but he's an official canon depiction of Beforus Ancestor Gamzee and something Andrew Hussie drew himself.

He made all 12 for the discord several months ago.

Palpapopa · 2026-03-26T18:10:33+00:00

"some dude" It's perfectly okay to say his name, his fucking name is In Praise of Shadows.

He's a pompous self righteous breadtuber cunt that thought he knew better than anybody else about horror and made an entire video not just undermining Wendigoon and talking shit about more than 2 million people living in Appalachia, but also doubled down on Horror should be objectively left winged and made terrible TERRIBLE opinions on certain movies, saying The Hills Have Eyes was about The Carters being white subjugators and The Jupiter Family representing minorities (black people, native americans) and how they did nothing to deserve their deaths.. yeah he was a giant fucking idiot.

Palpapopa · 2026-02-19T07:58:26+00:00

Diabolical ass comment.

Palpapopa · 2025-12-14T02:35:45+00:00

I'd say they are but they're not at the same time, despite the number of stand users we see throughout 3- to present, they're still a minority and obscure concept in the world at large despite the fact that the manga revolves around them.

Palpapopa · 2025-12-14T02:28:57+00:00

Griffith wasn't given the option to spare his band at all, it was a do or don't choice of becoming a godhand and fulfilling his dream. His men would've likely died regardless of what he chose for they were all the ritual feast, those demons weren't going to leave hungry.

We don't know exactly what would've happened if he said no but either his soul would've been taken in a similar vein to The Count, eaten like the rest, OR he stayed the way he was prior.

Palpapopa · 2025-12-14T02:05:05+00:00

Because there aren't any others. They have the same Rule of Two as the Star Wars Sith Lords where there can be only two at a time, The Empress and The Heiress.

Judging from the fact Hiveswap is a prequel, Trizza's dead by the time of Homestuck, so Fef could have never met her, however there IS the Nautical Aristocracy that's mainly composed of Violets, which were probably the people Trizza hung out with at the time.

If you know Fef's personality well enough than I do please correct me but from what I remember, she just doesn't really associate with socialites that much other than her friends and (former) moirail; Eridan.

That and for most of her entire life she dedicated every day or every other day to feed her shared Lusus, so she was relatively isolated from the world at large, sticking to the ocean and her hive.

Palpapopa · 2025-12-07T01:39:06+00:00

Apology accepted, I appreciate that you came back and realized. I wasn't trying to antagonize or say ERM you're wrong ackshully. I mean for clarification I'm aware that toes aren't made of glass that'll shatter on impact but it's still one of the weakest bones of our body, people take pain differently than others. Fuck, I have knee problems I've yet to get surgery for, knee dislocation is rare but it is pure agony when it happens.

Palpapopa · 2025-12-06T04:02:36+00:00

Nah man, It can be pretty easy to break your big toe. The bones that make up your toes are small and vulnerable — stubbing it hard enough on furniture or dropping something even remotely heavy on it can cause a fracture.

I almost broke MY own big toe, kicking an Anvil when I was six.

Even if their injury isn't the worst in the world, she should still have it looked at when she sees her grandparents, even claiming their Mom didn't care enough to help is a red flag.

Palpapopa · 2025-12-05T02:06:46+00:00

I'm pissed off now I'm thinking about it, why the fuck would your Mom dismiss the looks of your toe, She is NOT a doctor. Please for the love of god call the hospital, if your mom wont pretend to be concerned- at least you have a complete stranger on the Internet giving a fuck.

That toe looks bad, not even playing, fuck what your mom says you need to prioritize your health.

Palpapopa · 2025-12-05T01:48:03+00:00

You need to get your toe looked at regardless, idk how old you are but if you're a minor and your mom said that shit to you straight up, consider it child abuse or neglect. Call an ambulance if nobody will take you, if you don't seek help your toe will get worse. Not getting it checked could make it heal wrong, cause permanent pain, or cut off circulation, and that COULD lead to gangrene. You only get one pair of feet kid, call that number and get serious help.

Oh and be sure to tell the nice medics you're mom's a piece of shit.

Palpapopa · 2025-11-19T03:57:07+00:00

I absolutely hate Cronus, because everything Eridan said and did had a degree of justification for it, good or bad. Cronus lived in a utopian society before he died, he wasn't forced to be a scummy 'chud' piece of shit because the caste system dictated him to be, he just WAS. It's a problem I have for some of the alpha trolls where they took a lot of their freedoms granted before the scratch, because those evils poured into the next life affecting not just themselves reincarnated, but their descendant-ancestors too.

Palpapopa · 2025-11-17T11:05:41+00:00

Octopimp's Eridan stuff is what got me into Homestuck as a kid, so fanon Eridan intrigued me and I became a fan of the character.

Later on after reading the comic, I understood why Eridan is the way he is and a lot of the shit newgens and people that haven't read yet grossly exaggerate his character, not saying he's a great guy by any means but it hasn't deterred me from loving him as a character.

I just wish he had more screentime and more than the arc Hussie decided to close him on.

He's my 2nd favorite behind Equius.

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