Who is behind Hiveswap and why?
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2019 7:33 pm
And to be clear i am talking about in universe stuff. Not out of universe stuff. And guessing that Whatpumpkin guys are applying the canon discussion to hivswap. Which honestly would be appropriate. I might be wrong but it feels like they are. They pesterquest stuff semes to be like 'yes this is actually affecting paradox space' so why not Hiveswap that its a spinoff from?
What we know about how a 'story' works in universe is we have three pillars of continuity that is established. Truth, whether its true to the alpha. Relevance, rather we need ot see it or not, like we had to see the doomed timeline Davesprite comes from but not the alpha timeline Beforus. And we have Essential, whether its important and sustains the alpha. One could even presume that the more we see of the reality the more valid it becomes too, so a mixture or prose and visuals.
Hiveswap has about as much visuals and prose as Homestuck. Possibly more than it but it is a very different medium to begin with so its hard to judge.
Another is that there is an author behind it or someone who can function as an author. So likely there is a 'puppetmaster' as quoted in pesterquest. Someone making Hiveswap basically. Of that we have a list of possible culprits. Dirk, Alt Calliope, hussie though he is mia. It is even possible that future versions of Rose and Dave are a possibility, even though their current robot selves don't seem to be open to this. Even to this point we don't know where Homestuck truly began, and time shenanigans are always plausible.
I think the most likely culprit is Dirk simply cause he doesn't have a limitation in how far he is willing to abuse his powers compared to Calliope, though both have the issue of not being able to travel to the past. Their powers only manifested in the future. Though there are likely loopholes.
Doc scratch is another possibility but i feel less likely. At the very least though he is a major player in Hiveswap, though we don't know if he is doing this for himself or is being controlled by another. Which would further emphasis Dirk's possible collusion with him as they would probably get along. But the ultimate point of it is unknown.
The biggest mystery to all of this is why Hiveswap exists. By all means it seems like the only thing Paradox space ever cares to show is sburb sessions and things connected to them. Hiveswap is not a sburb session from what can be seen. So what exactly is the ambition and intent of the Puppetmaster? And why is a half orphan 14 year old who is slowly realizing she's either bi or gay (an dlikely will fully relaize it on the most Bi place created in media), for some reason the centerpiece of this whole plan?
Of course that is presuming that Hiveswap has any purpose outside of just being its own thing. I don't think so because they kinda tied it too securely to homestuck stuff. Joey's father, the multiple references in their house, a literal, cherub portal and it taking place in the same timeline even if its apparently a disconnected story? It would almost be disappointing if it doesn't tie into Homestuck^2. Especially with doc scratch involved. And they literally centered the visual novels, including Pesterquest which is apparently actually tearing paradox space apart at the seams, on the status of Hiveswap.
Anyway what do other peeps think about Hiveswap?
What we know about how a 'story' works in universe is we have three pillars of continuity that is established. Truth, whether its true to the alpha. Relevance, rather we need ot see it or not, like we had to see the doomed timeline Davesprite comes from but not the alpha timeline Beforus. And we have Essential, whether its important and sustains the alpha. One could even presume that the more we see of the reality the more valid it becomes too, so a mixture or prose and visuals.
Hiveswap has about as much visuals and prose as Homestuck. Possibly more than it but it is a very different medium to begin with so its hard to judge.
Another is that there is an author behind it or someone who can function as an author. So likely there is a 'puppetmaster' as quoted in pesterquest. Someone making Hiveswap basically. Of that we have a list of possible culprits. Dirk, Alt Calliope, hussie though he is mia. It is even possible that future versions of Rose and Dave are a possibility, even though their current robot selves don't seem to be open to this. Even to this point we don't know where Homestuck truly began, and time shenanigans are always plausible.
I think the most likely culprit is Dirk simply cause he doesn't have a limitation in how far he is willing to abuse his powers compared to Calliope, though both have the issue of not being able to travel to the past. Their powers only manifested in the future. Though there are likely loopholes.
Doc scratch is another possibility but i feel less likely. At the very least though he is a major player in Hiveswap, though we don't know if he is doing this for himself or is being controlled by another. Which would further emphasis Dirk's possible collusion with him as they would probably get along. But the ultimate point of it is unknown.
The biggest mystery to all of this is why Hiveswap exists. By all means it seems like the only thing Paradox space ever cares to show is sburb sessions and things connected to them. Hiveswap is not a sburb session from what can be seen. So what exactly is the ambition and intent of the Puppetmaster? And why is a half orphan 14 year old who is slowly realizing she's either bi or gay (an dlikely will fully relaize it on the most Bi place created in media), for some reason the centerpiece of this whole plan?
Of course that is presuming that Hiveswap has any purpose outside of just being its own thing. I don't think so because they kinda tied it too securely to homestuck stuff. Joey's father, the multiple references in their house, a literal, cherub portal and it taking place in the same timeline even if its apparently a disconnected story? It would almost be disappointing if it doesn't tie into Homestuck^2. Especially with doc scratch involved. And they literally centered the visual novels, including Pesterquest which is apparently actually tearing paradox space apart at the seams, on the status of Hiveswap.
Anyway what do other peeps think about Hiveswap?