AWKWARD ZOMBIE

We got another small update.

In the midst of all the deaths, finally it happened to the one who really deserves it. Fuck you, Aranea.

This is the first time Gamzee has died. ANY Gamzee. Anywhere. In any timeline.
Death is kind of required for a god tier.

Death of a body. The CONSCIOUSNESS, the soul that becomes the ghostbubble person, does not die.

Just because Gamzee has never been seen dead doesn't mean he hasn't ascended.

That hasn't happened either. Gamzee got shot dozens, possibly hundreds of times at point blank range, beaten with a crowbar, and left to crawl across miles of desert and still lived. He ain't died yet.
God tier people don't need their cronies to go crawling across the entirety of paradox space looking for pieces for the god tier costume that you get upon ascending.

you don't know this, i don't know this, nobody knows this



that might be because that's sort of one of the big things god tiers do? not die? i mean, seems like the immortality thing was sort of a big deal.



people who aren't god tier don't take hundreds of bullets to the torso and survive

i'm not saying it's factual, but saying that we have any real idea if he is or isn't is sort of completely untrue.

Godtiers aren't immortal because they can't die, they're immortal because if they die they come back in a minute or two most of the time: Vriska, John, Jake and Jane all got killed by being impaled yet they were all Godtiers; Gamzee's apparent immortality has been explained in-comic by the author-avatar as weird clown bullshit.

Not to mention Trolls have been shown to be FAR more resilient to physical trauma than humans.

Take for instance Karkat surviving multiple knife wounds from Jack

Tavros being thrown off a cliff

Vriska being beaten near to death by a super powered psychic robot (she did eventually die to those wounds, but later)

Kanaya surviving being evicerated by Eridan (explained with her Rainbow Drinker stuff but it still stands)

Terezi recently surviving stab wounds and earth shattering suplexes and still standing afterwards

Sollux being thrown hard enough into a wall to receive direct brain damage and then falling down stairs and losing all his teeth

I could probably think of more f I wanted to but the point is more or less made. It was explaned earlier that Gamzee's blood caste was probably the most powerful of the trolls (besides the Empress) And the aforementioned clown shit I guess plays a part. Being a god tier doesn't really make you more resilient to damage, but lets you come back from fatal wounds under set conditions. Gamzee could very well be a god tier, but his resilience doesn't really prove that. Also Hussie showed a Heroic/Just judgement for every other god tier so if Gamzee was a god tier why wouldn't he get one?

I just got a kickstarter update on the Homestuck videogame. To make it short: the game is called "Hiveswap" and is now being developed by What Pumpkin (they hired a bunch of new people over the summer) though there wasn't mentioned how this would affect the Odd Gentlemen's involvement, it will be released in episodes (likely four), the plot will involve Flashlight girl getting swapped with a troll and having to find her way back to earth while a possible sequel would follow in parallel the troll boy she gets swapped with.

and the best part is we don't even need to wonder who dies, because it's the same universe, set before homestuck

so everyone's already dead

really makes that whole thing easier

Not content with introducing characters to kill them later, Hussie introduces characters who are already dead.
Not content with being unable to kill them, he introduces new characters who died retroactively.

shit

shit john might have bodaciously either caused english to exist in the first place, or has altered canon and changed around things badly

which i mean is easy enough to fix i guess, it seems like eventually he DOES get some sort of control over his jumps, so he can fix everything

honestly if i'd stopped at act 5's end i'd have really solid ideas how this is all gonna end but now i'm just really curious how this could all possibly come together because wow

I love how Caliborn even dreams in his shitty art.

upd8

looks like hussie wants to hammer in just how fucked everything is atm, but hey john's gonna meet dirk so that's neato

edit:oh goddamn it that's what it is isn't it, john has to jump back to the beginning of 6-6 and fucking blow in the cart isn't it, that's what's gonna happen.

I feel like this update was also supposed to remind us that hey, yo denizens are still a thing how bout that shit

man if we finish this shit without EVER seeing the denizens properly i'm gonna construct a table from my own shit and flip it