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[(Anonymous)]

[(Anonymous)]

i had no idea what this was last week and now its everywhere
is it a homestuck thing

[(Anonymous)]

No, it's not a Homestuck thing. It's a game that was made in RPG Maker three years ago by Mortis Ghost. The only connection between it and Homestuck is that, when the English translation was recently made available, some Homestuck fans heard about it and told their friends... who told their friends, and their friends, and so on.

[(Anonymous)]

well yeah, that's what i meant. the art style and quirky psuedo horror/sci-fi/mystery seems right up homestuck alley

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[(Anonymous)]

When I see this name I think of stinky bug repellant that fails to repel bugs.

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[(Anonymous)]

how stinky tho

[(Anonymous)]

it's pretty good at purifying my room of bugs

spoilers.

[(Anonymous)]

i... genuinely don't understand how people can rp from this. isn't the widely-accepted theory that the entire game is just a sort of metaphor for how hugo views his father, and the world he's imagined for him?

Re: spoilers.

[(Anonymous)]

no?

Re: spoilers.

[(Anonymous)]

that's just a theory

i think it can be interpreted in a lot of ways since mortis ghost has never said anything official

da

[(Anonymous)]

that makes it worse imo

have fun hammering out headcanon with castmates

[(Anonymous)]

That's the thing. It's still just a theory and nothing like that has to touch a game at all.

They still talk and have personalities. They have a distinctive voice. An application might be hard, but it can be done. Just justify yourself a bit and pull off from the pieces Mortis Ghost has confirmed on his DA page (ie. The Judge and Zacharie being good friends) if you need to get more specific.

Just because it might be difficult for some people to write things like that doesn't mean it's the same for others. It's all fun.

Re: spoilers.

[(Anonymous)]

easy to play from

hard to pin down canon

THEORIES

[(Anonymous)]

Inspired by the above. So. Symbolism. You got any?

Re: THEORIES

[(Anonymous)]

see i thought the entire game was an allegory for hugo being terminally ill (his soundbite is a cough and the elsens breathe smoke, so a lung disease is likely), conceptualizing his illness as a villain and the villain in the guise of his deadbeat father, particularly in a batter's outfit due to the comic his father gave him last

he constructs an elaborate fantasy world where things don't make sense (because he's very young) and his imaginary friends are guardians that protect him, and as the illness shuts down different parts of his body (as batter kills the guardians and destroys the zones), he gets sicker and sicker

the fight with vader eloha is a fight in the hospital between his father, who only just came back into the picture and was entirely absent otherwise, and his mother, over what to do with hugo

his father wins and soon after that hugo goes braindead (the fight with hugo), and the final decision between the batter and the judge (possibly a god figure?) is the father's decision whether or not to turn off hugo's life support, either ending in hugo's death or in hugo alive, but braindead

zacharie is a self-admitted anomaly just for the point of the video game and symbolizes nothing

idk that was my interpretation anyway, from the above anon's comment it looks like everybody has a pet theory

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

"Zacharie is a self-admitted anomaly just for the point of the video game and symbolizes nothing"
I love how that part's the same in pretty much all the theories.

Re: THEORIES

[(Anonymous)]

I think that Zacherie is the "Masked Man" who killed the Toad King, so he's got some kind of symbolism beyond his role as the Item Salesman.

Re: THEORIES

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is a really interesting theory, anon! Nothing to add, I just enjoyed reading it.

REVISED TRANSLATION

[(Anonymous)]

http://busket.tumblr.com/post/50181463389/ridiculously-dilettantish-whotisthis

jossing in 3 2 1

[(Anonymous)]

that's a pretty huge oversight

spoilers

[(Anonymous)]

...so does that mean The Queen and Batter aren't parents at all or...

Re: REVISED TRANSLATION

[(Anonymous)]

but

what about when the judge yells at him for killing his wife and son

Re: REVISED TRANSLATION

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know either. I just don't know.

Re: REVISED TRANSLATION

[(Anonymous)]

does he actually say "your son"? i can't remember that dialogue

Re: REVISED TRANSLATION

[(Anonymous)]

I could see the queen still being his wife without Hugo being his son. when they're put together in the Judge's line - "killing wife and child" - it does SOUND like Hugo is the Batter's kid, but it's not necessarily true, right? Hugo is a child. The Judge is just calling him what he is.