#3626

You are busy being Rose Lalonde. Completely preoccupied with it, in fact. So preoccupied, you have been neglecting messages from some of your friends who are trying to contact you. But you have a lot of important stuff to do. You will get back to them later.

Well, it looks like we're finally here.

Rose's reply to Jade occurs at the precise moment of the Blackout -and when we saw it kick in, she was sitting in this exact position, holding the cueball she's currently being proffered.

It's imminent.

That looks a lot like the disc Bro was messing around with earlier - the one which may have been the alchemical material for Dave's Timetables. We still don't know what it's for, but it assuredly relates to Time.

TT: When will I receive further instruction? Now. […] TT: I came away with the impression from our last conversation that our next would take place on your invitation. TT: I was being polite by waiting. Your inevitable impatience caused you to contact me again. Inevitability is my invitation.

He thinks he’s slick here, but this statement is meaningless in Homestuck. All Alpha conversations are inevitable, and his aren't special in that regard.

TT: That's pretty smug. I am right to be smug. I am omniscient, extremely powerful, and very charming. TT: Well, TT: Two out of three isn't bad. TT: Can you use your limitless intelligence to figure out which ones I mean?

Charming isn’t the word I’d use. Charismatic is closer, but it's an ice-cold, calculated charisma, without a shred of humanity. There’s more warmth in Aradiabot’s messages than in anything Scratch has said – much more, actually, because if you read between the lines, Aradiabot was full of emotion, and in denial about it.

Scratch, however, is devoid of anything resembling personality. Even his ‘trolling’ seems feigned and very deliberate, putting Rose just a little more at ease.

3x18 // 4x01 // 4x14