#dam’s hauntswitch concepts tag

[dammarchy211]

Hauntswitch was released directly to my brain it was pretty good

[dammarchy211]

I think your Homestuck stuff is really neat, especially the Hauntswitch posts. I would love to know more about Jude's friends if you don't mind sharing :D

Oh yeah of course!! I’ve been waiting so long for someone to ask me about them tbh LMAO

OKAY SO idk how to really format this in a concise manner so I’m just gonna ramble about them

So right off the bat, their names are

Rome Foster (white hair, orange sign)

Rita Valentino (black hair, glasses, yellow sign)

Noah Sanvick (white hair, glasses, red sign)

Aaand Mike Morris (black hair, blue sign) !

They don’t have official god tiers right now, as I just kinda wanna write them with god tiers in mind, and see where that takes their characterization in the end but the ideas for them are Rome is a thief of probably hope, Rita is either a sylph of time, a maid of void, or a sylph of void (leaning towards time bc time player lol), Noah is a prince of space, and Mike is an heir of mind. They’re all pretty snarky with each other, especially Rome and kinda Noah but with the exception of Rita as she kinda feels a bit outcasted from the group anyway. Throughout hauntswitch I feel like they would get into a loooot of arguments, including Jude. Just conflict of ideals tho stuff y’know. They each have their own “gimmick” type thing though! Based around Jude’s interest in aliens and cryptids n such. Noah’s whole thing is local missing and homicide files in and around hauntswitch as I’m sure the town probably has some deep and wild history like that, as well as any other true crime and mystery type stuff. Which is funny because of how easily freaked out he is, especially with fictional stuff like horror movies. Mike’s is ghost hunting, but the more technical kind. Think like those real life ghost hunting shows type stuff. He’s also the group skeptic and is big on ttrpgs and is in the robotics club with Jude. Rita’s is also ghosts! But less hunting and more of the séance Ouija board kind of ghost stuff. She the muppets/Jim Henson fan ever, and is kinda miffed by all of the creepy or gross stuff the others like. She’s also a fan of storybooks and folk tales. Rome doesn’t consider himself “as much of a nerd” as the others, despite definitely being a nerd. He tries to be a cool guy but kind of just ends up bullying his friends lmao—. He loves horror movies and urban exploration, and is more than happy to go poking around some abandoned place in the name of ghost or cryptid hunting. He definitely definitely still believes in aliens n ghosts n such though.

They’re also all in the middle school band! Except Rome bc he got kicked out for getting in trouble too much. Jude plays the trombone, Mike the clarinet, Noah the trumpet, Rome was in percussion before he was kicked out, and for Rita I haven’t really decided what yet but some contenders are oboe, violin/viola if it’s one of those bands that have a string section, or saxophone. They have a d&d session going right now, it’s 2e bc that’s what would be the most recent edition for the time period iirc! Jude is the dm, Mike is the magic user, Rita is the cleric, Rome is the thief, and Noah is the fighter. All themed around their god tier ideas lol. They also have code names, though the only 3 I really like are Jude’s, Rome’s, and Rita’s

Jude’s is Jay-Bird, which was a nickname given by Rome that much to Jude’s dismay became his codename (Jude is the object of ridicule a lot sorry</3) Rome’s is Foxtrot, which is the NATO phonetic alphabet for F, since his last name is Foster, and Rita’s is RVal which is just a throwback to RoLal from homestuck proper. The what I’ll call placeholder code names for Noah and Mike are John Doe and Winchester respectively, I’ll assume u get the John Doe one but Winchester is specifically referring to the haunted Winchester house lol. They just always felt too long to me, and like the code names themselves would need nicknames, which defeats the point of code names lmaoo.

I’m starting the run out of things I wanted to say about them but please feel free to ask more questions! I’ll definitely probably have an answer to whatever u ask lol. I do wanna just throw in that Rome chronically gives people nicknames, and will usually call Jude ‘juice’ or Noah ‘sandwich’ referring to Noah’s last name lol (or Sanddick if he’s feeling exceptionally mean). They all also have very polarizing opinions of Christmas movie Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas and if u know the movie you can probably just guess what Rita thinks of it lmaoo.

[dammarchy211]

I love your HS character, Mike! Could you tell me more about him regarding his classpect as a heir of mind?

Thank you! He’s admittedly my least fleshed out character, despite me liking them all pretty much equally </3

But! I can talk about his classpect :-)

So again the classpect are just kinda ideas or light guidelines for writing the characters, so as I write them they end up coming off as a different classpect then that’s totally cool! However

One part of his class shows up through his d&d class! The magic-user or wizard, reflects how a lot of classpecting analysis puts the heir class into the ‘magician’ archetype. His aspect, mind, is shown through his interest in ttrpgs! Mind has a connection with games, like Terezi’s flarping and Latula’s video games, but it also rules over probability. The majority of ttrpgs, especially d&d bc that’s our focus here, rely HEAVILY on probability. Mike could have dice that function more like Terezi’s coin, than Vriska’s dice, which represent luck instead. Personality wise, Mike tends to be quick-witted and clever, inviting logic and reason into his life through his interest in tech and inclination towards cynicism. He’s a pretty good decision maker, and tends to point out the most obvious or probable answer while the others are squabbling.

Some prime Mike example here:

I could probably give an explanation of all of their classpects, including Jude’s, especially with how they fit into the d&d analogy but </3 I’ll save that for later or if someone asks lol. And this isn’t necessarily about his classpect, I thought I’d share his info card I have for him too, just because I’ve really only shared Rita’s I think

Headcanon voice as apposed to voice claim as they’re written to be voiceless like all hs characters lol

[dammarchy211]

Like one person wanted to see my designs for Jude’s friends so here they are! 3 of them have a sprite (plus jude for reference)

Rita Valentino

Rome Foster

Noah Sandvick

And the last one doesn’t have a sprite *yet*

Mike Morris!!

They all have bios n shit with their info that I’ll post separately in order to not make this post too long

[dammarchy211]

I’m gonna start using the tag “Jude’s friends” for these guys btw

[dammarchy211]

I don’t feel like coloring these—

The broken foot one was based off of the crutches that r in a pile of junk in the attic stairway, meaning that either Joey or Jude probably broke their foot/leg at some point. Id like to think it was Jude so him and Dammek have both fallen out of a tree

[dammarchy211]

*shakes bag of cat treats* who uh, wants to talk about my hauntswitch writing au(?) with Jude’s friends 😳

[dammarchy211]

Would anyone like, wanna help me bounce ideas around the the Jude’s friends characters? They are 100% just for fun because I like creating characters that fit into a narrative but it’s a lil boring doing it completely myself </3

[dammarchy211]

Hiveswap Jude’s Friends Fan Designs #1

Rita Valentino

Prns: she/her

Age: 13 (or a year older than Jude, jude would be 12)

Strife Weapons: “wand” (wooden branch)/fishing pole

God Tier: witch of void

Lunar sway: Prospit

Relations: lives with her grandparents

Voice claim: Raggedy Ann (Raggedy Ann and Andy A Musical Adventure)

Likes: the fierys (from the Labyrinth), The Dark Crystal, The Labyrinth, Jim Henson movies in general, ghostbusters, evil eye medalions, Return to Oz, wizards, magic, cemeteries, garfied, furbies, violin, Raggedy Ann, Fraggle Rock, movies/TV/books in general

Dislikes: needles violence, curfews, fishing, too much social interaction, school, non-fiction, coffee

Extended Description:

Rita Valentino is a whimsical girl with rather eccentric interests. A fan of Jim Henson/adjacent style movies, she also considers ghosts and spirits to be her area of expertise. Her preference towards séances and mediums foils Mike’s tendency towards more technical ghost hunting. She is quite the fantastical juxtaposition to Mike’s more scientific world view. She is quite the odd bookworm, having a bubbly yet introverted and reserved character. She is a follower of superstition, much like her caretakers, her grandparents. However she finds them to be pretty strict in many ways.

[dammarchy211]

I am looking at Noah with both eyes open owo, are they an adventurer/cartographer? :O

He’s really big on adventuring/exploring! It’s something his dad used to do (a bit different than the type of adventuring pa does) his father passed away though (when he was like 7ish). He really looks up to his dad n shit, but not really in the sense that he has the same exact aspirations n goals as him (like Joey n her mom)