AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Boy these fireflies sure are ROMANTIC.

probably super obvious but
the "loss" stipulation is totally every single other instance of this character in every other history are going to die right?
or am I misreading this

That was what Jade implied, yes. Possibly they themselves too after they did what they have to do.

Not at all, because that's not a stipulation so much as a fact already defined by paradox space. There's one timeline, the alpha timeline, that is exactly what should happen. Anything else is a doomed offshoot, where everyone dies.

John and Roxy's choices seem to be that, in order to not be doomed offshoots and to continue existing, there must be a price paid. That price seems to be the same for both of them. They get to lose the feelings of loss and despair from their friends dying, and and can see them again, at the cost of their deaths in the new alpha timeline that John has created through his choice.

That's why John's planet exploded. His price was Jade not only watching him die, but also being alone on a ship with those feelings for years.

We're not sure how Roxy's price will be paid, but it's possible she'll be killed early on in the session, leaving her friends without her for the months that they're trapped in the game.

The upside to this being, they can continue being the "real" versions of themselves, and not just doomed versions. Meaning they have the experiences and memories of the alpha timeline getting fucked up and can make sure it doesn't happen again.

There's no place like HOME.

Today on "My super sweet 16":

I feel like Hussie accidentally published his fanfiction on the website as an update.

Boy, we are just shipping everybody now, aren't we?

look okay if this is the shipping quality of the comic going forward i am 100% behind it.

I'm definitely OK with two of the worst characters in the comic hooking up.

Edit: OK, maybe Meenah's not that bad, I don't really like her though.

meenah is a fantastic character don't even start to lie to yourself

vriska is base breaking but i definitely don't dislike her as a character, she's pretty well done development-wise

as a person she's kind of a bitch but the point i think is she's gonna grow out of that

A few things.

We've never seen Caliborn's true SBURB planet.
The bubble they're in currently doesn't belong to the land of any of the kids or trolls (the beforus trolls had the same planets)
Caliborn, as a time player, would have a musically themed scratch initiator
Carousels used to have calliopes in them that played their music
The space around the bubble is cracked, and we only know one character who can do that

I'm thinking we might be in Caliborn's dreambubble.

I thought maybe it was part of the Land of Tents and Mirth, Gamzee's planet.

Couldn't be. First off, looks different. Second off, the way the game works is you travel to everyone's planet in order. Vriska would have seen Gamzee's planet, but she dosen't recognize this.