#actorstuck

This au won the poll, so its post will be first, followed by the streamer au, and then the other two if I feel like it.

The premise is exactly like it sounds. Homestuck is a live action TV show, and everyone is human. Correct age was important to the directors, so all the actors playing the kids and trolls are between 13 and 16 at the start. This is more of a loose collection of headcannons, since I imagine having 16 teenagers running around on set to be a fun premise. Some of my ideas are after the keep reading thing. If someone reads this and wants stuff about a specific character/wants to contribute something, please send me an ask!

Oh I’m still into Homestuck alright~For you, friend anon, some more Actorstuck headcanons of mine.

- Equius and Horuss don’t actually sweat a ton. It’s all special effects from colored water. Either sprayed on them just before a scene, or released from little things just out of sight of the camera. It’s awful. Wet socks everywhere.

- There’s a special pot of soothing herbal tea for Kankri and Karkat in the break room. It’s to help their constant sore throats. It tastes awful, but is one of the only things that helps.

- Kanaya helped design all their clothing and costumes for the set. She had fun designing the God Tier robes.

- Vriska actually HATES spiders. It was a major test of her acting for her to get into the whole webs and spiders thing.

- Terezi has special edible candy chalk for the scenes where she has to lick it up from whatever or eat it. One time someone forgot to get the candy chalk and she took a big bite out of a piece of normal chalk. The reaction went about as well as you’d expect. (BLUH!!!)

i was grinding on a setstuck/actorstuck I wanted to make myself, the design is shit but I haven’t eaten anything okay

i have so many ideas for actor jade My god

Tell me your vision

Yes actually!

In this Au, the CHARACTER is the one transitioning, not the Actor.

I try to seperate the characters from the actors, not to the point of just… being absolutely different, but I do try.

Though the idea of the Actor, Nathan/Natalie transitioning while as their roles, and the studio rolling with it as the character could also as well, is an interesting concept I rrreally want to explore

- Director Hussie gives all of the actors their scripts in their characters’ typing quirks. The human actors are fine. The troll actors were ready to throw things at him. Especially the Pyropes, Mituna, Gamzee, Kankri, and the Peixes.

- Doc Scratch’s lines were printed out in white ink. Not even on dark paper. When he got his script his lines were literally just printed out in white ink on white paper. He uses a tablet to read over his lines for this purpose.

- Roxy and Mom both got tired of drinking just colored water whenever they had to ‘drink’ on set, so they convinced the prop guys to put fruit juice into whatever container they were supposed to be drinking out of instead. They sometimes go back to water depending on how hot it is.

- John actually loves cake, and adores trolling his fans by going to different cake shops and food blogging about it just to watch the backlash on social media from them screaming about it.

- Vriska is the only one of the glasses wearing trolls on set that actually needs them. Everyone else who wears them just uses fake prop glasses. Likewise, Jake is the only human who actually needs his.

- Latula actually learned how to skateboard for her role, even though she didn’t get to use it all that much on camera. Mituna cannot skateboard for crap and uses that to his advantage by being his own stuntman so he can realistically fail miserably.

Karkat yelling himself hoarse for all of his lines and constantly needing to take lozenges and water and stuff because he keeps straining his voice in character.

Mituna just getting frustrated over all his lines being so nonsensical so he just bullshit ad-libs more than half of it into gibberish nonsense, yet it still makes the cut.

Supreme pun characters like Nepeta, Horuss, Feferi, and Meenah collaborating because they’re just told to read the scripts and force in as many puns as they can think of.

Eridan and Cronus constantly struggling with their wwavvy vwawvy accents being kept in place while they’re talking. (ws and vs are hard. it’s hard and no one understands)

Dave having to stop constantly because he keeps losing his stoic face and voice from so many of the lines he has to say. Same with Jake who constantly mocks his own character when not on set.

Gamzee tripping over his own lines because he’s getting the way his words are pronounced screwy because he talks so weird.

Damara actually speaking Japanese and she sometimes just speaks Japanese off-set to screw with people and they aren’t sure if she’s flirting or just messing with them in character.