#413 ac

This one’s interesting, because I think it’s the first “Earth C” focused Sburbventure (besides Nightfall, but. Nightfall seems to be an outlier in a lot of things). It makes sense that we’re getting Earth C Sburbventures now in 2017, because the Fandom is now realizing “oh yeah, there’s more to the story after they go through the door” thanks to those Homestuck Snaps I was talking about. Also this one has survived to the present day, so that’s neat to notice. I always like opening up the “Recent Posts” portion of the site and being greeted by a “2024” post that’s fairly recently, because it makes me feel like, wow. The fandom *can* survive, and people from that age of Fandom CAN in fact make stuff in the current post post-canon environment that we find ourselves in. I don’t know, it’s neat.

Oh, that’s a cool technique. The vines on the ruins getting more and more overgrown as the years tick up, and then it gets to the title drop of the fanadventure itself. It’s kind of hard to explain without seeing it, so just look at Page 8 and bask in the glorious narrative technique that is the montage. Ah…montages…In fact, the entire opening section is a very good and concise way of showcasing that, yes. This is Earth C.

The reason why I don’t really include Nightfall in the assestment of “Earth C Sburbventures” is that…while it does take place on Earth C, the first year atleast is unconcerned with the actual mechanics of like. What that really means, for the world. It just takes it for granted that the Earth that comes after the SBURB Session will be just like our earths, despite that not being the case. Probably this fanadventure has the luxury of coming after those Snapchats, but still, I like how it has like. Kind of this history behind it. People had to rediscover Ballet! It’s not just something that the people invented, they had to like, dig out the ballet and opera theatres on Earth C and go “what is this?” It’s those kinds of details that make this world feel real and alive, just a tiny bit.

Also yes the Ballet is Swan Lake because of course it’s swan lake. I haven’t even *seen* swan lake but I know that if any Homestucks are going to like Ballet and want to reference Ballet. It’s probably going to be Swan Lake.

I like this opening bit of like, this one troll wanting to message our protagonist but our protagonist is clearly not wanting to deal with them. Having this overarching bit that’s clearly setting up these two characters talking to each other builds up towards their eventual conversation, and makes me wonder at least “why does one troll want to talk to the other so badly, but our main character doesn’t want to talk to them?” It’s subtle, but it’s nice storytelling.

7/17/17

6/26/17

ok ok ok i think i designed everyone. idk how. still don’t have names for most of them but i’m working on it..... im working on it

edit: i cant believe i didn’t make any of them memelords. kate is ur character a memelord if not i will make it one of the kids i think

edit 2: fixed caphag’s symbol

edit 3: ACTUALLY fixed caphag’s symbol i chose the wrong picture ugh

7/1/17

sooo she's the only character with troll & human parents. her father is a goldblood and she deliberately takes after him because she's also. a genetic clone of her mother thanks to ectobio. and really wants to distance herself from her mom

her family lives close to an area where a lot of dangerous (uncontrolled) lusii/megafauna roam, and her parents specialize in going to dangerous areas and retrieving valuable stuff or killing creatures that cause trouble. mind you this isn't like. what i condone. there's a lot of undercurrents in this world of 'trolls are dangerous/do things wrong' that aren't true but shape a lot of characters in small ways. e.g. neil dismissing troll relationship dynamics, cygnia and zifias feeling a lot of guilt over small infractions, the line in zifias' section about how most lusii allowed to exist nowadays are herbivores, etc.

anyway she was raised in a very. chaotic household. her strife [S] was going to be her dodging between her parents fighting as she goes to get a snack for her younger brother. her father is less aggressive than her mother, but doesn't exactly discourage any of this either. she hates that she's following in her parents' footsteps by getting into FLARP but doesn't feel like she has any other choice, really. she's good at it and it's the only thing that gets her favor in her parents' eyes.

she haaaates when cygnia starts to become a genuine competitive threat in the game. partially because cygnia refuses to use weapons and impart active violence, which would mean that the violence she was raised with wasn't necessary. and partially because cygnia's powers, as the sylph of blood, are all about connections & community - which tess feels is a sign of ultimate weakness.

so one of the scenes that i really wanted to write (but it would've been at about page ~1000 so that's not happening LOL) is her and cygnia getting into an argument (because cygnia, from the part where she visits her neighbors, really craves community that feels inherent to human families), and eventually tess agreeing to try and use their combined classpect powers (seer of doom + sylph of blood) to see if they can get cygnia to remember anything about her ancestor. tess is initially rooting for cygnia to get bad memories, while cygnia has a very... idealized imagination of what her ancestor was like. she feels inadequate and lost, and hopes to see a more put together, more inspirational version of herself succeeding where she's afraid that she'll fail. and she's been putting all of her stock into this imaginary connection to her ancestor being what's going to save her from loneliness.

but what ends up happening is because of the doom aspect mixed in, the visions they both receive of are specifically the deaths of cygnia's ancestor and the ancestors of her friends. moments from their falling outs and mutual betrayals are mixed with shots of zifias wandering through a graveyard of nearly-unrecognizable spaceships, eventually being drawn to one and going inside, and then finding his ancestor's skeleton pierced through with a sword with a swan-shaped handle. (this fucks up zifias in his own way, because he's struggling a lot with the feeling that no matter how he helps people he's going to end up hurting them and being rightfully discarded by them)

cygnia's whole worldview kinda shatters a bit there, because she's placed so much stock in the idea of ancestors predicting your life's path. tess ends up finally opening up to someone about what her parents are truly like (which was causing her to pull away from her friends in the beginning of the comic), and they end up talking about fate and working through their misguided belief that escaping the path laid out for you is impossible. they also both start to re-evaluate their beliefs about community and where to find it, as they begin to find solace in the one person in the world they thought they'd never see eye-to-eye with.

hey!!! thank you for asking :D

SO. while it's something i don't intend to be specific to cygnia only, i think there's three reasons why she keeps getting those moments while other characters... don't, as much.

5/13/19

11/20/17