![]() ![]() The suits and colors from a deck of cards are used as the best representation of the different facets that troll relationships can take. Several pages of text and animations are used to try to explain it all. To say they are complicated would be an understatement. This gets us into Alternian relationships. Vriska did something terrible to Tavros in their past but turns out to have feelings for him later. They are violent and can be downright hostile and cruel to each other and not really think anything of it. So these characters say they are friends, but they can still say and do things to each other that would end friendships in a heartbeat among humans. The Alternian word for “friend” and “enemy” are the same. I say friend, but that word doesn’t have the same meaning to trolls as it does to us. From these five, we move quickly to Nepeta, Leo Aradia, Aries Vriska, Scorpio Equius, Sagittarius Kanaya, Virgo and grimAuxiliatrix from Act 4, and finally Eridan and Feferi, Aquarius and Pisces respectively.Ī lot of this Act shows how these 12 friends interact. He likes to play card games and Extreme LARPing. Tavros is the sweet adiosToreador from Act 4 and is still just as sweet. He is big into programming and computer tech. Sollux is Gemini, and appeared briefly as the tech guy in Act 4. We’ve met her as gallowsCalibrator in the previous act. Terezi is Libra, blind, and wants to practice law. ![]() He reminded me of a stereotypical stoner from 80s movies. He loves clowns and is very low key and relaxed. After meeting Karkat, who is carcinoGenetist in the previous Acts and the sign of Cancer, we start to meet his friends. The introduction of the trolls starts slowly. This Act introduces us to the trolls and their society and shows us the game session of their version of Sburb. He and his eleven other friends are going to start playing an ancient game tonight, one that their hacker friend Sollux found and has called Sgrub. He likes bad romantic-comedies and thinks he is good at programming, but he really isn’t. As we zoom in to the planet, we are introduced to a boy who is celebrating his Wriggling Day. To really understand the story and the mechanics of the game the kids are playing, you have to have read it all.Īct 5 opens with the introduction of the planet Alternia, which has two moons orbiting it. My youngest started with Act 5 but eventually went back to read the first four. I call it infamous, because any search on the web for Homestuck will inevitably lead to some comment about skipping Acts 1-4 because they are boring, and going straight to Act 5. ![]()
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