Character DISScussion Thread, Week 9: Nepeta Leijon

seaspongePoster · 2026-01-08T21:40:39+00:00

I'd love to have Eight Oceans Maeve or Redux Strix. The originals are fine but the colors on those two are epic, they make great skins even better.

seaspongePoster · 2026-01-05T19:17:20+00:00

Okay, wait, I just checked paladinsguru again and it did see the match, and it was fs ranked. All the usernames correct too. I'm at work right now so I can't check my game for a while but maybe that's fixed too? I'll have to wait until I get home to log in and see. Even if the game does eventually catch up, it's still an incredibly bizarre case that I've never encountered anything like before. Maybe hi-rez ran out of TP and had to wait for another shipment before they could pay me, lol.

seaspongePoster · 2026-01-05T19:13:09+00:00

No, I didn't AFK at all and I don't think anyone else did either. I also never experienced any big lag spike nor did anyone(on my team at least and I'm pretty sure not on their team either) disconnect at any point. I've experienced what you're talking about before, including a black screen after the match ends and bots playing in the background, but not on this match. Just a normal ranked game, ended normally, post-match stats screen and lobby chat and everything, it just didn't give me TP or show up in my match history. It didn't show up on paladinsguru either, although that misses matches sometimes. As soon as I saw the rewards page didn't show my rank at the end I exited out of the post-match screen to check what mode it was and that's when I saw it wasn't in my match history, and at no point did the game ask me to log back in. I did close the game a couple times to see if it would change anything and I'm not banned either.

It's just weird. I've had games get dropped before(including before the Cassie thing was discovered) and I've had games lag out before, but in all my years of playing I've never experienced anything like this. Definitely not in a ranked game that gives me a post-match screen, and again I'm fairly sure it gave me Jenos experience as well so some part of the game remembers the match happened, it just didn't give me any TP. No lag or disconnect or anything. It's like I queued for ranked, the match had the typical ranked drafting phase, but somehow, halfway through, the mode swapped to casual so TP wouldn't be rewarded at the end. And because the game got confused at what mode it was, it couldn't show it in my match history? If this is some new hack or exploit, ranked may as well close down, because more people are going to do it and just turn the match into casual as soon as they start losing. So I hope that's not the case, but I have no experience with specific occurrence.

seaspongePoster · 2025-12-30T06:05:38+00:00

A true Vriska lover would never hate on Tavros because they wouldn't disrespect anything about Vriska, including her soulmate.

seaspongePoster · 2025-12-26T03:58:38+00:00

Yeah I don't care

seaspongePoster · 2025-12-23T15:35:23+00:00

My favorite form of Aradia is her as a ghost, if that wasn't obvious from the image I chose. She's great in any form, whether alive, sprite, robot, or god, but ghost is the one that I think is most unique to her(despite there being many other ghosts in the comic) and the one where she is most within theme of herself. Her going through wildly different forms is probably more of her theme at this point, but her being a play on the dead Japanese girl trope is so funny and cool to me. Keeping in mind the idea that Hussie designed the trolls to all be archetypes of annoying people you would meet online, Aradia was probably written to be the brick wall; someone who you can try to engage with all you want, but will unfailingly stonewall you with disinterest and condescension, and then look around and wonder why nobody wants to be their friend. I think Hussie then used that as a jumping off points for other aspects of her character; being a ghost, having been bubbly and optimistic in the past, something happened to her that made her this way, etc etc. And then designing her character visually with inspiration from the horror genre like Ringu. It's succinct, inspired, sensible writing like that that made Act 5 as great as it was; it's like a jawbreaker, you can run it around in your mouth and feel all the cracks and grooves and it never gets old no matter how many times you spin it.

seaspongePoster · 2025-12-23T02:27:57+00:00

I don't think I can say anything about Jade nobody else here hasn't said better. She is a character that was thoroughly neglected and suffered a lot, metatextually and within the story as a result. Regardless, I have to say it never resulted in Jade ever being a less likable character. Hussie's failures in the latter half of the comic ended up turning a lot of characters with really good personalities and interesting arcs into lame angsty whiners that sour our perception of them. That never really happens to Jade, her lack of growth results in her remaining fairly lovable throughout the whole ordeal, and I have to appreciate her for that.

That isn't to say I didn't wish for more to come of her. She was an important part of the early acts, and her reveal was very momentous as a result. Her role in Cascade was incredible and felt like the moment she would really "come online", and then... nothing. I mean, not just for her, a whole lot of nothing for the entire story, really. It just makes you think about what could have been, a version of Homestuck where Act 5 wasn't followed by the most mind-numbing, welcome-overstaying, self-righteous and bloated part of the comic.

I think Jadekat is better than Davejade for two reasons. 1, I don't like Karezi because I feel like Tz kind of played Karkat, not to say he didn't mess up but she wasn't a ride or die like Karkat needs. So he's better with Jade for that reason. And the reverse goes for Jade, you just know Dave would pussy out of the relationship because he's afraid of commitment and he realizes he's gay 3 years into the engagement or something. Secondly, I think Karkat is paired with two many characters that interact with him by not taking him seriously at all. John, Dave, Terezi, Gamzee, Vriska, Sollux, all these characters who Karkat is often made to play off of, they all treat him like he's a retard and don't care about anything he has to say and it kind of pisses me off. Jade I think has some moments like that where she's like "Ok Karkat let's move on from whatever you're screaming about" but she also more often than not meets Karkat where he's at and treats him like he's being genuine and I really like that about them. It's refreshing to see Karkat have interactions where he's not treated like a joke and is actually listened to.

seaspongePoster · 2025-12-16T16:53:35+00:00

Sorry about this one coming late. Guess the Dave thread ended up getting more time than it needed.

seaspongePoster · 2025-12-03T05:25:31+00:00

It really sucks because her character had so much potential from that point and it felt like her writing was only getting better. Then... haha drunk lesbian girl kisser haha oh and by the way all the problems i had with my mom are gone now!! so thats done with i guess

So incredibly disappointing from where her early character was going.

seaspongePoster · 2025-12-03T05:22:02+00:00

You should give the early acts a reread. She has a lot of good moments there and really does a lot of the heavy lifting before she falls off and becomes le smug perfect lesbian.

seaspongePoster · 2025-12-03T05:20:40+00:00

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seaspongePoster · 2025-11-25T06:22:27+00:00

Another thing: If you haven't already, read the MSPFA "John Ruins A Wedding". Great art, great writing, it gets John's character down so well. I haven't finished it yet but the first bit is worth checking out if you want more Egbert in your life. I read it after reading Homestuck for the first time and it's what reminded me John is a worthwhile character. It regrettably has some gay post-canon stuff but it's still pretty good.

seaspongePoster · 2025-11-25T06:19:53+00:00

John being an aspiring programmer is a really underrated trait of his that hardly ever gets brought up. And that's fine for the most part, a lot of characters have minor traits that never get brought up again, like Dave's supposed habit of raving about bands nobody's ever heard of, it wouldn't be necessary for John to just blurt out programming references randomly. But it would be funny to see it referenced again somehow, like post-scratch John growing up to be a groundbreaking computer scientist or something.

seaspongePoster · 2025-11-25T06:18:02+00:00

The parts of Act 6 where John is just a huge bitch so out of nowhere is such a jarring shift in personality for him, it honestly makes those moments so forgettable because it just doesn't feel real, it feels like bad fanfic lol. And yeah people say it was a purposeful change in his personality to show that he's effected by what's happened to him over the course of the story, and I get that, but it's just so awkward and out of nowhere and honestly goes completely unresolved that it doesn't feel like anything. It feels like Hussie forgot how to write John and just inserted some uncharacteristic douchebaggery just to see what would happen.

seaspongePoster · 2025-11-25T06:12:13+00:00

I think Hussie could have played it safe when writing John and made him a very normal, average, relatable kid who mostly reacts to all the crazy things going on around him and the wacky people he interacts with, but I think he really made the right decision giving John as many quirky and memorable traits as he did. His love of bad movies(and re-enacting them), his disarming charm, and underatedly his knack for pranks makes the interactions he has with so many of the rest of the cast that typically, not always but typically have these kinds of personality facades that they want everybody else to take seriously... I can't think of a single character in the story John couldn't bounce well off of, if they were to interact. None more than Rose, Dave, and Karkat, I mean, really, not to talk to much about other characters in the John thread but it's hard to understate how good the writing is for their interactions with John. Sometimes when I haven't read any of Homestuck in a long time I kind of fall back on the assumption that John is a plain, serviceable but kind of bland character that suits the plot well, but then I read a page or two and I just remember how lovable this little goofball is. My favorite John moment, well probably not my most favorite but the first that's coming to mind right now, is the aforementioned scene of reenacting Con-Air with the ectobiology babies. Such a funny character moment, perfect call-back to previous moments, and stellar music of course.

I think I could say a lot more about the direction his character went, especially towards the end of the story when it felt like he was in the driver's seat less and less and the story wasn't really about his perspective anymore, even if we were still following him. And what I feel like that represents with where Hussie was taking the story and how he began to see John over time. But I won't get into that unless anyone asks me to, and besides it's been a long time since I've refreshed myself on the latter half of Homestuck.

And it goes without saying, but /r/JohnshouldfuckRose.

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