#ARquiusprite^2

[davekat-sucks]

Am I the only one who thought ARquius' design was terrible? Like, Lil Hal isn't just a pair of shades that talks like Dirk. It is a very distinct representation of Dirk. Canonical lore established in THE FIRST FOUR ACTS showed us that prototyping a sprite with a stand-in item will give it all of the properties of the item it represents. It's why Nanna's ashes and urns turned into a granny instead of a vase-headed whatever. It's why a stone frog head turned Aradia's sprite into a frog instead of just making it croak occasionally. It's why the crow made Davesprite much more intelligent and mischievous than Dave Classic despite the fact that his trauma compounded on the crow's association with emos and goths. Also yeah the crow also made him kind of emo. Not as bad as it could be though because crows are, by definition, goofballs.

What do we get with ARquius? Equius but he's a horny weeb. Which is just Horuss. Where's the dirk in all this? There's not enough Dirk in there, the Dirk attitude was relegated to being more insistent and pressuring, and damn near none of his hairstyle imprinted on ARquius at all. Those shades aren't just an AI, they're a representation of Dirk. What do we get with Jasprose? A pranky jester type, even though you would think the fusion of an eldritch horror princess, a cat, and a psychology-major goth chick would create a regal badass who is permanently grimdark, stares boggle-eyed into corners for no particular reason, and is easily distracted by people setting off her hunting instincts.

Also funny how WP and HICU will go on about Jade's doggy dick but are really quiet about how this implies that Jasprose has a (potentially huge) fucked up cat-spiked tentacock. Or that Aradia is the only troll in existence who is fertile and can get gravid and lay her own eggs. Or that Lord English has a supercomputer brain and a VERY fucked up combination of human, troll, and cherub junk all in one go due to how sprite mechanics SHOULD work.

Andrew Hussie, WhatPumpkin, and HICU also forgot the fact that Jaspers the cat himself, got NEUTURED prior to his prototyping. Even Nepeta seems to know what he was implying when she talked to him as Jaspersprite.

So why was he hitting on Nepeta then? The relationship between Nepeta and Jaspersprite was more playful because Nepeta's affiliation with cats. It's not like wanting to date and bang Nepeta. Some could argue that it is Rose who develops feelings for Nepeta, but does the neutering still stay even when another person joins along? Or does it get overridden by another living being (like Doomed Rose here for Jasprosesprite)? Jasprosesprite mentions the Rose side of being guarded with her feelings, but the cat mind of Jaspers made her more open now.

The same Jasprosesprite^2 would later find Jane as hot. Originally it was a joke and jab to how Dave and later actual Rose herself called Jane hot.

It wasn't until in the HS2 Bonus story, Catnapped, that it isn't just playful flirting.

Even being flirty with Jake too on the side.

Keep that in mind too that it was Andrew Hussie and WhatPumpkin that had control in the Bonus Stories at the time before James Roach and HICU took over. James Roach and HICU would later then imply that the Bonus story is connected to the main plot as Davepetasprite^2 is in talks with Jasprosesprite^2 during Vriska's VN hell.

Adding in this bit from Patreon too with tying both main and bonus story.

If the Dirk/Lil Hal side is hidden behind ARquiusprite because Equius being a Void Player means he is hiding Dirk/Lil Hal's true intentions, I could understand it. But it's strange then for Equius side of himself to not pick up on it and being skeptic about it unless it's the HAL/Dirk side that is controlling him to keep silent. Equius is horny, but he is genuinely smart and caring in his own way. I would have thought maybe the Equius side of him would pick up on HAL's plans and intentions that he would have to raise his conscience about it. Equius even speaking up about the issues towards Dirk is also mirroring to how he would console Nepeta, another Heart Player. But sadly, Equius has been said to be a joke character and nothing more by Andrew Hussie. Thus, he can't be written seriously despite he is part of a component to the big bad. Hussie probably didn't intend him to be part of a bigger role, but he did and Hussie couldn't back out.

[neostellarjpg]

school sketch stridahs

[moldsporr]

[equiusposting]

would you consider... arquiusprite hanging out with davepetasprite^2?

(i absolutely would, anon!)

DAY THIRTY NINE

[conceptofjoy]

[say-no-to-magic]

sprite doodle dump

[meraki-sunset]

Would anything have changed if Erisol, Arquius and Fefeta had double godtiered like Davepeta?

If the three of them had somehow gotten Prototyped^2 by coming in contact with the alpha session's kernelprites and achived ultimate self like Davepeta did, they would've been able to switch form one claspect to another, and have memories of all timelines from their component's points of view.

Erisol wouldn't need any character development because that prototipation^2 would be basically a speedrun on self acceptance. He could've switch between Mage of Hope and Prince of Doom and would have helped Sollux to destabilize the condesce during the the "Finish it" battle.

Fefeta could've switch between Witch of Heart and Rogue of life and would also gain memories of the Fereris and Nepetas from all timelines, including beforian versions, making her a great lider as she remembers ruling beforus as alpha Feferi.

Arquius... He's a Dirk splinter, which would make him an alternate version of Ult!Dirk plus Ult!Equius, which might include memories from lord english, seeing as he's composed partially by Equius and AI!Dirk aka Hal. Idk if he can handle that, something's gonna go wrong there. He could switch from Prince of Void to Heir of Heart so he's not a Prince of Heart perse, won't lose his heart like Dirk did, but has the extensive memories of all Dirks, who are and did and all their reasoning, so go figure it's a 50/50 on him going megalomaniac. He'll still kiss Erisol at the end of that battle tho before he goes of to ruin things i guess.

[cosmicyellow]

DIRK: He seems alright as Arquius though. At least it keeps him busy, obsessing over his muscles, asking for milk and shit like that.

This is one of the funniest lines and set ups I've ever read. Andrew Hussie is a comedic genius

[h31fd3ad]

I honestly really love these two

[connyofthecosmos]

part 3 of my lineup, this time featuring the blue team!!

BETAS | RED TEAM | BLUE TEAM | ALPHAS

individual files below (you really need it for this one. most of everyone is covered lol)

[davekat-sucks]

Equius had a character arch behind the scenes, he apologized to nepeta after he died and was ressed. https://www.homestuck.com/story/7923

ARQUIUSPRITE: What are you… ARQUIUSPRITE: I mean, ARQUIUSPRITE: Arquius submits his question to Davepeta in the form of a third person statement, thereby acknowledging once and for all that he is in no way above the childish nonsense of his former moirail ARQUIUSPRITE: He in fact acknowledges by e%tension that he is not above anything or anyone, and never was

Does it really count if HAL/Auto Responder was still part of him? Is it really apologizing to Nepeta when she is mostly taking over Dave's mind? What if Dave is accepting the apology in order to feel happy about himself with Nepeta? And this Davesprite too. He NEVER had interacted with Equius like the Dave we had followed. At worst, Davesprite would have a hatred against ALL the trolls after his timeline was doomed. He probably thinks even ones he thought were cool like Gamzee or Nepeta, were awful, even if they were never involved with Terezi's plan.

[superxstarzz]

OKAY FINE IM GIVING INTO THE URGES. SPRITES SPRITES SPRITES!!! au where sprites can't explode??? >:3

[dyke-stuck]

HAPPY ONE YEAR STRAIGHT OF DAILY DYKESTUCK :3

please use:

she/her for nannasprite, shes transmasc, bigender, and gnc. she/her, he/him, or caw/caw for davesprite, shes bigender, crowgender, and transfemmasc. she/her, pup/pups, paw/paws, dream/dreams, or star/stars for jadesprite, shes a bigender dreamgender princessgender prospitgender demigirl.

she/her or fae/faer for gcatavrosprite, shes bigender, genderfae, and transfem. she/her, meow/meowr, or glub/glub for fefetasprite, shes pangender, transmasc, and a xenogender hoarder. alternating he/him and she/her for tavrisprite, hes transfem, futch, and bigender.

she/her, he/him, it/its, meow/meow, or nya/nya for jasprose, shes bigender, catgender, and transfemmasc. they/them, she/her, he/him, any any neopronouns for davepeta, they are nonbinary, bigender, catcrowic, and transneufemmasc. he/him, neigh/neigh, or she/her for arquius, hes bigender, transfemmasc, horsegender, and robotgender. she/her, they/them, or he/him for erisol, she is transneufem and trigender.

[moldsporr]

Brorails

[fandom-err0r]

What if... arquius and davepeta...

annoying little brother combined with cat

[hraeiou]

just remembered that Davepetasprite^2 has been in the plot point, presumably since Act 7, along with every other sprite… except Arquiusprite

brb gonna go cry in the corner real quick