#homestuck hc

[the-flesh-is-willing]

Chinastuck: the beta kids

tl;dr for the uninitiated: what if all homestuck characters were chinese people

John Egbert: 光勇 (Guang Yong). Lives in Beijing (im sorry /j). Han, Mongolian, and some Korean ancestry.

egbert means "bright edge" and guang means "bright" and also sounds a little like john even if its the surname. john means god is gracious, which is not really a type of name chinese people give their kids so i just went with a common masculine name that sounds good with guang: yong, which means "brave" which i thought was fitting. i think dad egbert definitely calls them by the diminutive yongyong.

June Egbert might choose the name 小玉 (Xiaoyu), meaning "little jade", in reference to her sister.

Rose Lalonde: 刘秀兰 (Liu Xiulan). Lives somewhere in Jiangsu, probably Shanghai. Hmong, Jewish Han, and Kazakh ancestry.

i literally just went with a random common surname that vaguely sounded like lalonde here. xiulan means elegant orchid, so it's a flower name like rose and i think it fits her vibes. she shares the character xiu with roxy's name, tianxiu.

transmasc rose probably steals his name from a book character.

rose is very similar to canon i think, except she lives in a penthouse in central shanghai. i want to say initially she feels her heritage doesn't matter to her but later in life she tries to reconnect with not being "100% han".

Dave Strider: 赵大伟 (Zhao Dawei). Lives in Chongqing. Hmong, Jewish Han, and Kazakh ancestry (same as Rose).

zhao has a similar meaning to strider and was also a surname of the emperors so it has a connection to royalty. this works for both the lotr reference and king david. dawei is... a generic chinese boys name thats the name you give your kid if you want their english name to be david. it means "extraordinary".

david means "beloved" and every single chinese name like that is feminine. Dove Strider takes this as inspiration for the name Xinyan, spelled either 心燕 meaning "beloved swallow" or 心焱 meaning "beloved flame" instead of the more conventional 心妍 meaning "beloved beauty".

dave struggles with their cultural heritage more actively than rose does, and thus leans hard into their sichuanese identity. i headcanon them as making fun of chengdu (chongqing's rival in representing the cultural center of sichuan) in addition to making fun of northern chinese culture. SICHUAN RAHH

Jade Harley: 林玉平 (Lin Yuping). Lives in rural Shaanxi. Han, Mongolian, and some Korean ancestry (same as John).

lin has similar meaning to both harley and halley, meaning grove/forest. yuping means "peaceful jade".

Jude Harley might choose the name 洋 (Yang), meaning "ocean" in the sense of expansive, or he might not feel a need to change his name. swapping names with his sibling is also a possibility.

i think her upbringing just translates to the rural northwest well? also i think its kinda cool she'd grow up near a section of the great wall of china. i could see her engaging in cultural traditions like papercutting and folk singing :> also buddhist jade real and true im not projecting trust

thanks for coming to my ted talk be on the lookout for more posts like this ft me struggling with traditional characters and cantonese pronunciations

EDIT: @ask-chinastuck exists :)

[cyber-corp]

Dave records “The Baby Is You” with everybody else and sells copies of it to the citizens of Earth-C and somehow succeeds in convincing everyone it’s exactly what happened.

[meeowerzz]

I have a very specific vision

[tudirkulosis]

all of my headcanons 4 homestuck characters

like when i make content / art of these freaks this is the canon i have in my head. in my own little fantasy fanon world. but i love love love other interpretations!! also disclaimer i ignore the epilogues and don't consider them canon, if anything here seems contradictory that's why.

beta kids

john/june egbert: she/her, unlabeled

dave strider: he/him, queer & mspec, cis

rose lalonde: she/her, trans lesbian

jade harley: she/he, intersex nonbinary trans girl

alpha kids

jane crocker: she/her, actually he/him gay trans man but doesn't realize it yet

jake english: he/him, gnc bi cis man

roxy lalonde: any pronouns, bi, doesn't gaf abt gender

dirk strider: "he/him unless something else would be funnier." cis gay

beta trolls

karkat: he/him, stealth trans man & bisexual

aradia: it/she, femme agender & aspec pan

tavros: he/him, cis

sollux: he/she, bisexual, bigender, bipolar, bitch (BI 4X COMBO!!)

nepeta: any prns, "purrbeastgender", aroacespec

kanaya: she/her, cis lesbian

terezi: they/them, aroace nonbinary

vriska: she/her, trans woman

equius: he/him, cis gay

gamzee: any prns, unlabeled

eridan: they/she/he, gnc & non-binary

feferi: she/they, cis ace lesbian

alpha trolls

kankri: he/him, cis, heteroromantic asexual

damara: she/her, queer

rufioh: he/they, bi transmasc

mituna: any prns, t4t queer trans man

meulin: she/they, genderqueer, ace & pan

porrim: any prns, mspec lesbian, gnc, gender is intrinsically linked w/ her lesbianism

latula: she/he, t4t queer genderqueer trans girl

aranea: she/her, cis aromantic bisexual

horrus: he/him, cis gay

kurloz: it/he/they, ace aro-spec & otherwise unlabeled

cronus: he/him, cis

meenah: he/him, femme lesbian

others

caliborn: he/him, cis, gay

calliope: she/they, aroace

davesprite: he/they, nonbinary

[transmascterezi]

I wish people would see my vision of Visual Kei Rose... No one understands me💔

Btw her favorite Vkei band is Hollow Mellow

[rotteneldritchhorror]

i just kinda love this one <3 i love ararose so much they deserve the world <3 witchy goth girlfriends (neither of them are girls)

[karkitty612]

lana del rey young and beautiful is so davekat. from karkat pov. especially if you think about dave being godtier and karkat not.

[kleptoppuppy]

Jane has schizophrenia and she went crockertier bc of it giggles! She has delusions not because of her tiaratop but because she is the #1 schizophrenia haver. nd the batterwitch knew this so she uses alittle bit of her influence to push jane to her limit and go wild! get this girl some meds instantly!!!

[yourfaveis-hyperose]

Aradia Megido from Homestuck is Hypersexual!

Requested by Anon (a Aradia Megido IRL)

[paozinho-o]

Having Dave strider thoughts

That mf is so chronically monotone he absolutely NEEDS someone in his life to do tone translations for him

He needs Rose or someone to follow him around and make sure he doesn’t get punched in the face because he always sounds the same and people don’t rlly know what he means

I’m conclusion

[octopus-awareness]

Kanaya used emojis literally as they appear to mean, then got a weird lesson from Dave about how many people actually use them, and so started using 🙂 all the time which left him to wonder if she's using it sarcastically or not

[the-flesh-is-willing]

Chinastuck: the alpha kids

Jane Crocker: 王艳芳 (Wang Yanfang). Goes by Fangfang. Lives in Beijing. Han Chinese, with some Korean ancestry.

for the name i sort of went off of pure vibes. wang is ubercommon and means "king", yan means beautiful and i honestly just added it so all the prospit kids could have Y names, fang means "sweet-smelling" or "virtuous".

transmasc jane crocker real to me and he chooses the name 敏敏 (Minmin) meaning "clever" bc detective vibe??

still figuring out how to incorporate crockercorp.

Roxy Lalonde: 刘天秀 (Liu Tianxiu). Lives in flooded, postapocalyptic Shanghai among carapacians. Kazakh and Jewish Han ancestry.

roxy to my understanding means something like "bright dawn". tianxiu means beautiful sky. they share the character xiu with rose's name, xiulan.

Dirk Strider: 赵强剑 (Zhao Qiangjian). Lives alone in postapocalyptic, flooded Chongqing. Jewish Han and Hmong ancestry.

qiang means "strong" or "surpassing" and jian means "sword/dagger", tying into his character and one of the meanings of dirk, a type of dagger. he may be from the mainland, but since He's Dirk he uses traditional and even archaic characters for the ✨vibe✨, much to the annoyance of the other alpha kids. he spells his own name as 趙彊劍 lmao

i feel like doll strider would choose the name 雪莲 (Xuelian), which both means "snow-white lotus", suggesting purity, and is the name of a rare and precious herb. lotuses also have religious significance which she is aware of although dirk is a lil bit of a snooty reddit atheist to me. again she'd spell lian as 蓮 for Dirk Reasons

dirk is as much of a weeb and brony as in canon. he likes yapping abt chinese/japanese/western cultural comparisions and tries to teach himself japanese.

Jake English: Angli, sinicized as 洋格李 (Yang Geli). Lives in rural Inner Mongolia. Mongolian.

mongolian names typically are only the given name. jake's name is literally "english"; post scratch jade named him this to spite the condesce, similar to her taking on the last name english in canon. this also reflects a somewhat old fashioned mongolian naming practice of giving a child a strange/inauspicious name to drive away misfortune. (i am not mongolian myself apologies if this explanation did not make much sense) the sinicization of his name starts with a Y to match all the other prospit kids, with the character 洋 meaning the ocean with a connotation of vastness. this references him growing up in the middle of the ocean.

i like transfem jake english choosing the name lara. in china its spelled 勞拉 👍

idk what other details to change abt jakes life... the general arc of it is similar obviously

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[mintofhtagn]

degenerates <3

[rotteneldritchhorror]

this one i actually really like-

i love meulin, shes an icon <3

[kazzsk2]

Johndave :D