#MY FAWKING HOMESTUCK DSMP META WHGAT IS HAPPENINGNG

[cgogs]

Hi,

as someone who managed to escape Homestuck, coud you maybe give more context? It sounds very interessting!

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oh lord, um...

there's this kid named Dirk and he has identity issues. Mainly being, as a result of his isolation (he lives in a condo in the middle of the ocean alone) he has relied on himself and derivatives of himself all his life, literally since he was a baby. his sense of identity is fragmented because of this, and he hates himself *so* much. his glasses have a computer AI in them that is a brain scan of his 14 year old self, renamed Hal, of whom has his own identity issues from growing up at the same pace as dirk but being robbed of the experience of being human. imagine being 14, one brain scan later, and then waking up as a computer AI. it's a lot to talk about all on it's own i could fill posts upon posts.

homestuck as a story has lots of themes about identity and splitting/converging timelines, alternate reality selves, the works. so dirk is a character who already has splinters of his own identity, then adding on the fact that there are an *infinite* number of himself that exist, and a great deal of them are horrible people.

i am connecting Sam Prime and c!Sam as Dirk and Hal because of their relationship to eachother. Hal is Dirk's most influential and important splinter because Hal actually formed his own identity outside of Dirk, even forming his own key fundamental difference: Hal is afraid of dying. Dirk is not. None of Dirk's other selves managed to do this.

c!Sam loved and lost. Sam Prime did not. This is their fundamental difference. The only one of Sam Prime's splinters to differ in a fundamental way-- so strongly, in fact, his key memories are the only things Sam Prime can remember as he wakes up. c!Sam is not the same as Sam Prime-- Hal is not the same as Dirk. They are the same man who's identities verge at the fork of self definitives

#sam #MY FAWKING HOMESTUCK DSMP META WHGAT IS HAPPENINGNG #I HOPE I MAKE SENSE #this also ties into one of my favorite games Soma which has a very similar focus on identity and how 'you' can easily not be 'you' #at the drop of a hat #ALSO using the brain scan to AI thing