#Alt Selves

[toytle]

superblorbos in their teen years

#clark kent #superman #barry allen #the flash #hal jordan #green lantern #bruce wayne #batman #dc #dc comics #detective comics #danart #alt text #described #(artist’s notes in the alt text for comparison!) #nothing gives me joy quite like drawing face studies U__U #i should redo this with their current selves to compare #poor barry looks like he has a crick in his neck #joint problems at age 17… dw buddy you’ll get healing powers soon enough

[bottlehawk]

hello guys. the fucked up ecto-inverse of dirkjohn isn't davejake. it's davejane. this has been a psa. and you're welcome

#homestuck #davejane #dirkjohn #bottlehawk text #davejake is like. okay whatever. date my grandpa who ive never even met i guess. #davejane is like. you're dating my who now. #dirkjohn is a fucked up comedy ship because of just how many different people would be pissed off by it due to relations #but DAVEJANE? i think john would have an actual implosion. my NANNA. my GRANDMA dave. #not to mention that they were both sprites at one point. oh god i didn't even think about davesprite and nannasprite and how fucked up that #be for jade who's been alone on the ship with them for 3 years lmao and has to go to earth c to see their alt selves pull this shit. #dirkjohn and davejane happening at the same time would be so much for everyone to handle that they wouldn't be able to hold #troll hannukah get togethers anymore because i think someone would start throwing knives from it. my money's on jake

[conceptofjoy]

hal visits the shithead house and dave's there like oh hey i havent seen you in a while come in n lets find something to do and hal's like ohhh yeah hi. dave asks how he's been and stuff and jade comes up behind her and's like hey hal. and he's like hey jade! and they both leave the house and dave's left there confused and somewhat mortified.

#dave fumbles talking to alt selves forever #d talks

[dash-n-step]

5th option: ult dirk is an ultimate self, but thats because the inuniverse meaning of ultimate was warped from what it first meant. which is to say: davepeta is rubbing their temples wondering how the fuck their speech of encouragement turned into this fucking nightmare.

Davepeta leaves for five minutes and everything turns to shit

#ultimate selves #homestuck #homestuck epilogues #homestuck beyond canon #davepetasprite^2 #davepetasprite #davepeta #dashingedits #dashingposts #dashingdraws #dashingreplies #asks #rosebot #rose lalonde #dirk strider #ultimate dirk #aradia megido #jade harley #alt calliope #dave strider #davebot #Anonymous

[nonbinaryaubrey]

i loveee playing forever au it makes me. so sad </3 im so sorry to all of them none of them get a happy ending

#liiike.. the closest thing to a 'happy ending' is like. a non canon alt concept me and a friend came up with #where after sunny dies (bc he does end up dying. he has 5 spirits attached to him which are all slowly absorbing his energy. it was fine- #when it was just mari bc he could recover energy at a similar rate to when she was taking it. but with 5 its just too much) they end up- #reviving. bc yknow . this is a spinoff of revived mari #but even then its not. a happy ending rlly. 1: sunnys dead. and 2: all of them.. would not be left in the best state upon reviving #none of them would have their memories of course. and probably wouldnt be the best health wise either. since the energy they absorbed from- #sunny to revive. is yknow. split up among five people. so like.. aside from mari they probably wouldnt be doing the best physically #just uh. if anything kind of hope sunny died while he was sleeping .so they'd be.atleast like their DW selves rather than.nothing #but still.not. rlly the best ending for them #<- idk does any of this make sense. i love rambling. #playing forever au #aubrey.txt

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Jane: What would you do if you found out you were illegally cloned and you had genetic identicals living all over the world, living radically different, cooler lives

Dirk: Oh I would kill them for sure. Due to my jealousy and what not

#homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #jane crocker #dirk strider #mod terezi #i think that all heart players just really fucking hate coming across alt-timeline selves and splinters and whatnot #yes that includes nepeta #and meulin #if a leijon finds themselves in the dream bubbles it is on sight no words

[abelllia]

sharing this over here but since the magnus protocol is confirmed canon au, i think it would be really funny (and mean and cruel) if jmart were confirmed dead before the story even began. no not universe 1 "antichrist and his plus one" jmart but universe 2 alt. jmart. I think it would be very mean and that my tl would be in shambles over it.

#Abellrambles #Tmp #tma #tma spoilers #I'm sorry i think it would be funny i love jmart tho and would be happy (very much so) if their alt selves were happy #Just...it would also be really a power move to do it #the magnus protocol

[greensaplinggrace]

aleksander explaining that he has to kill the alternate universe versions of mal and alina because they spent too much time together and revealed too much about themselves and now their dopplegangers can steal their lives and devour their souls

mal and alina:

#alskdjfsl #aleksander ranting to mal and alina like: dont approach them dont tell them anything about yourselves dont speak too much to them #or they'll be able to kill you and replace you! #acting as a constant buffer refusing to tell alt!malina where they are and refusing to let them speak at all #meanwhile mal and alina to their alt selves have to be like 'haha 😅 he's just afraid you're going to kill us and steal our souls' #just boyfriend things (tm) #lmfao #shadow and bone #sab #grishaverse #the darkling #aleksander morozova #mal oretsev #malyen oretsev #alina starkov #myramblings #malarklina #superstitious aleksander go brrrrr

[terezis]

help i’ve never read homestruck and i’m so confused by the bubbles in harrow the ninth. i don’t understand and everyone who does has read homestruck but says u don’t need to read homestruck but then has vague posts about it and homestruck?????? ur my only hope

CRACKS MY KNUCKLES

okay so, in homestuck, copies of a computer game called sburb are proliferated throughout the multiverse. playing the game destroys the world the players come from, and the act of winning it creates a new universe. (whoops, homestuck spoilers.)

the basic plot of homestuck revolves around four kids playing this game. while they do so, they are contacted by a group of aliens (called trolls) who also played a version of it, won, and created the earth; however, they were barred from entering the new universe due to a glitch which now threatens the humans' session as well. the humans and the trolls team up to both win the humans' session and stop the glitches from destroying reality.

PHEW

in order to help the groups communicate better, a troll named feferi convinces the eldritch monsters who live in the furthest ring (the space dividing game sessions) to create the dream bubbles as a place for them to meet up and plan.

so dream bubbles are literal bubbles floating in space, made from these eldritch monsters' breath. they're built out of the collective memories of everyone who visits them; visiting a bubble is like standing inside a memory. in homestuck:

when living characters go to sleep, their consciousness wakes up in dream bubbles

when characters die, their consciousness also goes to/ continues to exist inside the bubbles, making it a sort of afterlife

if for some reason you are physically traversing the furthest ring, you can enter one and hang out with whoever's inside, even if they're asleep somewhere else, or a ghost

you can travel between bubbles by going through "common points in memory," so if, say, two bubbles involve a memory of the same place, you might be able to move from one into another.

they are also bait for the bbeg, who wants to destroy them and everyone inside of them (compare to abigail’s belief that harrow wanted to use her bubble to lure out the sleeper)

LOL so you can see how they have a lot in common with the bubbles harrow and palamedes make in the river.

they're both places where the living can interact with the dead while the living are asleep, constructed from the memories of the people who inhabit them. (for example, when harrow goes to sleep in htn, she seems to always wake up in her bubble.)

what the bubbles look like can be changed by those who enter, like how when matthias nonius gets summoned to harrow’s bubble, it starts looking like the ninth house. time also seems to work differently in dream bubbles—for example, palamedes and abigail are both shocked that it’s been months since the events of gtn; they thought that it had been maybe a few weeks.

it's not a 1:1 comparison (for example, in homestuck, the dead all automatically go to dream bubbles, but in htn, harrow is said to have pulled specific ghosts out of the river and into hers) but the rules seem pretty similar!

i think the comparisons are also probs poking a little fun at how tamsyn muir is/was a homestuck.......... but i personally do it with love. my username is terezis. who am i to talk

anyways here's some further reading on the homestuck wiki if u are so inclined

#if u have more questions i'm down to clown :0 #i luv getting these asks i love explaining things HAHA #Anonymous #the locked tomb #tlt tag #also @ homestucks i kno i dodged stuff like alt selves and doomed timelines etc but that didn't feel relevant lmao

[asterouslyaesthetic]

thinking about kiralfonse lovechild from a timeline where they get to grow up and be middle-aged together, only for their happy coexistence to shatter because of hel

the "war" lasts almost two years and for three-fourths of those two years, zach's family is mostly dead—his father, by líf on the battlefield; his sister, by an undead soldier when he stubbornly decides to go fight and she tags along, despite their mother begging them to stay put; his mother, by thrasir, in front of him, and what makes it worse is that she musters up the last of her strength to send him away with breidablik

only his aunt survives (ironic) and takes him to embla, which wasn't the initial target and so is mostly okay. he grows an attachment to his namesake and to veronica, and they also die to protect him because he's the only one who can make things right

he manages to get as far as finding the other breidablik, thanks to loki tipping him off after traumatizing him by masquerading as "his mom who he accidentally summoned", but líf figures this out and has to put him down

(oh, and also, this time around, eir recalls what happened and runs to warn the latest target about it, and since kiralfonse are middle-aged, while she's basically a teenager/young adult, they treat her like a second daughter while zach and his sister sol take up the role their father and aunt initially occupied

and zach refuses to let eir be taken away too, but fails miserably, with breidablik being his last ditch effort to save her)

and then he gets summoned to canon timeline askr, where they've beaten hel and his parents' murderers roam the halls like ghosts

even worse is that líf is basically kiran's bodyguard so he usually stalks her from afar, but he's gone on a mission when the kid's summoned. in the meantime, zach—a mama's boy who spent the last few months of her life depressed and convinced only his mother could save askr, only for her to choose to save him and the guilt of it is something he still has trouble coping with—also takes up that role, fearful of anything that might hurt her

(it becomes a running joke that whenever he sneaks up on her and hugs her, she's like "alfonse?"

at first, it bothers zach because he struggles with the insecurity that he's absolutely nothing like his parents, in true second gen lord fashion

but then she disappears for like six hours—and later, it turns out she was just accompanying his grandma for a trip to a town nearby, along with some other heroes, but forgot to mention it to someone—and he's like "oh")

and then líf comes back. and although thrasir warns him, because she remembers well what a wreck he was after killing his own son, who, in their timeline, died much younger and he couldn't even be there for his last moments, he still struggles with his curiosity and desire to see the mother and son duo safe

unfortunately, the first time they meet is when freyja decides to put kiran to sleep since now there isn't anyone to interfere with her plans. and zach left her for like five minutes, at which point she wandered off to the summoning grounds and fainted right before líf's eyes

líf has to walk ten feet behind them, even after alfonse assures him that yes, líf is perfectly harmless, only for things to get tense real quick when zach gets incredibly angry and ends up revealing something everyone's already guessed (after alfonse accidentally reveals who líf actually is).

things stay tense until kiran wakes up and works her magic. it's literally the first thing she does.

(thrasir also "helps", because she fills him in on what happened after he died, and since there's still a small part of him that can't help but care about líf since it's his dad, it affects him deeply)

he does reconcile with alfonse, though líf remains something they don't acknowledge

but he and líf manage a mostly peaceful coexistence.

sometimes, they'll even have conversations, mostly when they're stuck working together and líf's weapon ends up hurting zach so líf gets to be a bit fussy, and zach can't help but feel a bit jealous of the eight year old him who died, despite proclaiming he wants nothing to do with líf because that kid's dad loved him so much he was willing to murder another version of him for his sake—while líf is in this constant cycle of feeling unworthy and being grateful that zach is even willing to listen to him

#feh kiran #feh alfonse #feh lif #kiralfonse #lifkiran #fire emblem heroes #this has lived in my head for a long time #eventually he does end up revealing his jealousy to líf #and his fear that he's only a replacement #but only after he ends up having separate discussions with eir and his aunt and his mom and bruno and vero #about how they felt about it and what they speculate their alt selves felt #to which the answer is near unanimously “they probably felt sad and wanted to save them” #and it occurs to him that maybe his own family in that timeline felt that way too #so he's like “what if i also knew who he was?? would i also feel the same way??” #and it sort of bubbles over because he's like “why should i care about that man?” but #he's also like “i didn't even realize but even my sister did” #they never quite get to the same point as alfonse and zach #but it's close-ish?

[fanaskher]

A friendly battle

#Sims 4 #Photos #Lawson Dieterich #Sim Madonna #Lol I love their alien/spellcaster alt selves

[probably-a-plant-thing]

i colored one of my older doodles because i think these two should be happy

@bluecoolr-main

#nex grant #nathan todd #doodle #their alt timeline selves are just sooo saaad #so their normal timeline selves are just vibing and being adorable #also this is me apologizing for my past and future angst #i will sin again #but for now here's cute lil babes

[chatonnoir]

this rando clown really just put paragraphs ranting about ladrien and ~True Selves~ in my notifs in this the year 2022

#do I want to choose violence or do I want to send you to the block void #since they're stupid enough to still be saying 'mArI/cHaT aRe tHeiR tRuE sELvEs' I doubt explaining anything is even worth it #true selves AND ml s/alt in one take truly astounding

[asperants]

from shying me to blooming you

With the Battle of the Eagle and the Lion over and done with everyone in the academy seemed to have moved on to the next big event: the Ethereal Ball. Hortensia had done her fair share of digging when it came to the fête long before Ivy came to the academy - after all, balancing social time with academics was all part of being a top student!

She was glad now to be able to show her sister all she'd learned, and even happier to be invited into town for dress shipping. It was a first for them, together, and Hortensia was doing her best to not get too excited.

"It's pretty neat the Fódlan goddess cares so much about her people throwing a party for the monastery's founding, huh? I read up on a lot of legends about the Goddess Tower if you're interested, Ivy."

She had always been the more scholarly one, after all. Not that Hortensia would ever say she was lesser in magical talent, er, necessarily –  but she was certainly more hands on when it came to practice, so definitely for the best she tended to be on the support side.

(Huh. That reminded her... how was the old man Lindon doing?)

"We can talk and shop, of course! Hmm... oh, wow look at that one, don't you think with a darker color it might look nice on you?"

She'd pulled on her older sister's upper sleeve in excitement some, squeezing in a bit to point it out in the crowded street; this closeness it tugged at her heart a little. She tried not to show it just as she backpedaled, hoping not too overdo.

"Or, sorry, maybe you just wanna stick with what you're used to haha? Me, I want to try and find the poofiest thing around personally!"

@iyusiia

#thread | from shying me to blooming you #//title only vageuly fits but i wanted something with this flow and also #//ive been thinking about their dlc alt selves much of late... cries #//thank you so much for waiting and let me know if anything needs changing! #//this was made with beta and the icon is there bc i didnt know ho w to uninsert an image. the more u know. #iyusiia

[choctalksalot]

i think homestuck is pretty neat because all of the kids (and trolls, im using kids loosely) have this way of introducing themselves where they project an image of who they are/who they want to be, while also having a certain degree of self awareness on how much they actually embody that image. and under all of that a whole different version of themselves that they Actually Are that is usually a thousand times more lame, and more interesting because they're just kids. just a bunch of video gaming nerds. but by being those things, they're people, with flaws in places they may not expect and parts of themselves they misinterpret

so even on the things that they're self aware about, oftentimes they're also wrong about it to some degree, either by playing it up, brooding in in their flaws "i can't fix myself i am #brocken" style or closing their eyes to an underlying problem, sometimes being completely aware of it but burying it regardless

just. god !! it's so chewy. it's the basics of how any reasonably intelligent people would act and interact, i've seen it in media so many times, but there's something about how self-aware all of the kids are, how that awareness is still flawed, and how it reflects in all of their interactions that just Gets me so hard.

it might have something to do with how homestuck itself is a game about growing up. maybe it's how the narration itself embeds into the kids' perspectives and how it literally laser-shoots the image they each want to project into your head first through a mode of storytelling that is usually regarded as Correct And Trustworthy, then you get to pick and peel back each of the things they said. hold it up against their actions. the things their friends say, the things they themselves later admit, and it's still never a complete picture. nothing presented comes from a completely reliable narrator. not the characters, not even the narration itself. you have to break them down and deduce and discuss and still never have the full picture, there is always more to think about, there are always more layers to see.

they're all different degrees of aware in their self-perception and that awareness itself has different degrees of accuracy. sometimes that awareness is muddled through a separate perception of them through their ideals. it changes as they change. they understand, they repress, they dramatize and downplay and are so erringly knowing of themselves, it feels so real amongst all the utter bullshit that is homestuck itself. absolutely bonkers. real person-y thing that exists in every character everywhere to some extent but i've never been so aware of it

is layered. onion of mental illness. and when you look at them again you still see just a bunch of kids who played a game together. i think that's pretty neat

#EDIT: THIS POST IS REALLY FUCKING OLD. I AM NOT PROUD OF IT. DEAR FUCK WHAT WAS I ON #WHY ARE THERE SO MANY WORDS #[VIOLENT SHAKING] SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!! okay well i had to start somewhere #sigh #homestuck #homestuck meta #? #this post is sponsored by: #dirk strider #because i was thinking about how dirk is so cripplingly aware of his flaws and how firmly he sticks up his coolguy image #and how sometimes he cycles through his own flaws + his alt timeline selves and their atrocities and magnifies them #and how some of the fandom bought into that as That Is Dirk #among other things that im not coherent enough to say anymore all my words were spent on this post #it's about all the kids tho. dirk kicked it off #but dear fuck if it isn't about All Of Them So Much #homestuck kids #homestuck trolls #choc talks #way too much #i actually threw up an abridged version of this ramble on discord last week #it came back to haunt me #so into the hellpile it goeesss

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

You mentioned something about the turned alternates having nightmares? What kind of nightmares do each of them have exactly?

It can be any scary shit, but it’s mostly trauma based. Normally they relive a twisted version of a major event in their life that changed it for the worst.

Mark often finds himself locked in his old bedroom in his nightmares. He tries to do different things each time, but it always has the conclusion of him dying.

Jonah often sees Adam in his nightmares, but he’s always yelling at him, questioning why he was being a coward and leaving him to die.

Thatcher gets blamed for everything in his, and the entire town believes he’s the one that caused everything to go wrong. Even Ruth is against him.

#asks are neat #tmc alternate au #alt mark #alt Jonah #alt thatcher #they’re always their human selves in their dreams too