Q&A Meme

[twelfthspark]

questions meme



- Leave a comment below with your name and the character(s) you play.
- Respond to others' top levels with questions. Questions about their characters, questions about their plans and things they want to play, questions about their fandoms, questions about what they had for lunch today, whatever.
- Answer the questions you receive.
- After your answer, ask a question back. Keep it up for as long as both parties feel like.

Comments

[appraiser]

I want to ask this to every Homestuck player but. How do you keep the massive amount of the canon (and timelines!!!) straight when you play/reference things? Sometimes I want to reread it and canon review but am too daunted to get started haha

[rhapsodeity]

HAHA it's a fair question, there's two retcons in series and while that includes the alpha kids' timeline, it doesn't really factor in the amount of stuff that happens during that time. i'll be honest, i didn't find homestuck too confusing? i probably had a suitable amount of prep though because i'm a long time when they cry fan, so timelines are actually one of my favorite story tropes. that said, it helps to think of a big event that happened in each time line or come up with a name for each of them; for example, for anything pre cascade, i refer to that as "before the scratch" and after cascade is what i just call "the reset" mentally? i don't think this is a fandom accepted term (i'm actually new to hs so lmao idk what the majority of fandom agrees on), but it helps me. "before the scratch" i think of as acts 1-4 which is easy enough, whereas "the reset" is all the intermission heavy stuff. alternatively, this is the Heartbreak Timeline, because, [s] game over,, after that is the retcon! separating it into three chunks helps me a lot, personally, and breaking it down like that means that you can quickly come up with chunks of references.

that said, a lot of it is also just constantly rereading lmao, the wiki has a bunch of links which make that incredibly easy these days - i don't know if it was a thing back when hs was first starting up as The Big DWRP And General Fandom Fad, but i find that if i'm ever struggling to find something, remembering what chunk of the story it occurred in and who jade said it to makes that a lot easier!

ryoji is really cute and i love seeing him around! he's a very forward character which i'm pretty curious about; were there any worries you had bringing him into the game, whether they were with adapting his canon self to be au or whether you could achieve the effect, so to speak, that you wanted with him in game? (i.e. just making him fun to tag - which he super is, i love our thread!)

[appraiser]

Constantly rereading is the largest hurdle I'd need to overcome haha. The last time I read HS, Jake was aggressively ironing his pants, that's all I remember lmao... I kept up with it for a long time before then, so it might just be easier to read through now that it's done and I don't have the long pauses between updates to forget things! The Wiki does make it easier too, especially having all the logs on the character pages that I didn't realize was a thing, thank you fandom for all these contributions.


And thank you! I've played Persona 3 many times through before, but I've never considered rping Ryoji until like... literally two days before Recolle reserves went up haha, so a lot of my worries is "Does Ryoji sound like Ryoji?" and whether he's too colored by manga/CD drama influences, but the AU aspect of this game alleviates a lot of that. aka mostly I do whatever I want. Adapting to AU wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be though, because his canon is basically him not having memories and regaining them over time, so I've been pretty happy keeping things parallel here!