Hi there! I just finished watching your HSE: The Waking World video (great job btw!), and I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the identities of the other Denizens? We don't know anything about those that are usually assigned to heroes of Blood, Doom, Mind, and Rage -- also, Hope and Heart, since I don't think Yaldabaoth and Abraxas are the standard denizens for those aspects.
Given how the denizens usually factor into the charactersā arcs in various ways, Iāve come to believe its possible to sorta reverse engineer at least some of the denizens of the characters we donāt know.
The ur-example here is Gamzee, who is so heavily linked to Dionysus I canāt really see another option for him.
Unless he has Yaldabaoth, which is possible since A) Part of Dionysusā mythology that links to Gamzee involves becoming one with Zeus, just as Gamzee becomes part of LE, and Homestuckās mythology generally seems to treat Yaldabaoth as a symbol Zeus, Ra, and YHWH at once depending on the roles Caliborn/Dirk (rly Bro and AR here)/LE are playing at the time.B) It seems at least possible that Yaldabaoth āreplacesā the standard Denizen a player might have, yeah. (To be honest though, Iām not sure that Denizens are precisely aspect specific--my views on Denizens generally borrow a lot from @dahniwitchoflight, her conjecture on that particular system makes the most sense to me right now.)
C) Gamzee obviously qualifies for the ānatural born warriorā thing. So does Equius, but due to Gamzeeās dominance I tend to assume heās likelier to have Yaldabaoth.Incidentally, if Equius doesnāt have Yaldabaoth, Iāve speculated he might have Orpheus, since Orpheus is at least in some places understood as a version of Dionysus, and Equiusā story seems to have some parallels to his.
Looking at canon this way it also becomes a solid guess that Tereziās denizen was Themis, since again sheās blatantly enmeshed in her mythology.That gives us at least one reasonably fitting denizen for Rage and Mind--Dionysus and Themis, respectively. As for Doom, I havenāt identified a particular mythological figure Sollux or Mituna seem based off other than the obvious--the Gemini twins, Castor and Pollux. But since thereās two there, Iām not sure how thatād translate to a Denizen--a dual denizen with two names would be fitting enough, I suppose. Itās also possible Iām missing some other mythological references built into the Captors, so who knows.
Donāt have anything to go off for Blood, though. Both Kankri and Karkat are fully enmeshed in Jesus imagery, all of which ties directly into Abraxas, so they donāt have any outside mythological ties to let us speculate into their Aspectās ācorresponding Denizenā specifically, if indeed such a thing exists. Iāve thought for a long time that YHWH would be a fitting match for Blood, as a āGod of the covenantā. But thatās just my long-held fan preference, not any kind of serious speculation based on canon.












