tl;dr meme

[glassinine]

Vilkommen, Herren und Damen, to the...



~TL;DR MEME~

Fucking magnets, how does this work?
Step 1: Post a list of your characters.
Step 2: Sit and twirl your moustaches until other people post their characters, then go and ask them questions about their folks. It can be anything, from "So how deep DO Tony Stark's daddy issues run?" (Answer: "they swim amongst giant squid and anglerfish and the trench the kaiju came out of") to "Tell me your least favorite thing about the DC canon" (Answer: "Holy shit are there some cockmongling dingleberries running that company").
Step 3: Other people will ask YOU questions. You go and answer those questions, and be polite - ask THEM a question in return after you're done answering it! (So, it's not just "Nick Burkhardt decided to become a cop when he heard about police brutality and wanted to get in on that" but also you follow up with "What magnificent auroch did Loki hunt to get those beautiful horns?") Then when THEY answer their question, they'll ask YOU a question! ("They came from being cuckolded in Shakespearean times. What are Nick Burkhardt's favorite sunglasses?") And the you ask THEM A QUESTION AGAIN! And they ask YOU! And you ask THEM!! And they ask YOU!!!! So that it's a great big patty-cake of QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS!!!
Step 4: Repeat ad infinitum until we break the motherfucking internet

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Comments

[vengefulshades]

How did Kanaya learn to sew? Is tailoring her specialty or does she make other things more often?

[glowsferatu]

her specialty is actually haute couture and dressmaking, but she keeps it general enough to stay relevant to whatever need she encounters. she does that with a lot of things really, she's needy about being needed. she's mostly self-taught, since her guardian was a 30-foot tall moth and those don't tend to be very good at sewing, but she's been doing it since she was small, for ten years if not longer.


as for yomiel, where did he get his suit? he mentioned it was a gift, care to tell that story?

[vengefulshades]

This isn't really canon, but I like to think Yomiel's fiancee gave him the suit. He's clearly a flashy dresser, but he especially likes the suit and continues wearing it even after he's dead. Red is his favorite color and though we never get to see his fiancee, there's a lot of cute drawings of the two of them in matching outfits. Since zoot suits are clearly still a thing in magical anachronism land wherever they come from.

So, uh... her guardian was a giant moth, huh?

[glowsferatu]

oh that's really cute

but yeah, alternian culture has weird attitudes toward parenthood, so they let monsters raise their kids instead. kanaya's was a virgin mother grub, abdicated from the brood where little trolls are born. some girls' mothers are bigger than other girls' mothers. as a jadeblood, she would have returned to the brooding caverns to accommodate the whole process if the planet survived once she came of age, so i've always thought of it as a mother raises daughter so daughter can grow up to be mother cycle.

i tl;dred on it earlier this month because the net result is hella mother issues.

so, tell me about yomiel's fiancee, did he ever see her again after he died? how does he feel about being separated from her now?

[vengefulshades]

Hahahaha. Oh, Homestuck, you are so incomprehensible from the outside looking in.

Oh it's actually a really miserable depressing story. Yomiel died in an accident in the middle of a standoff with the cops, but due to the way he died he didn't really-- his soul was just separated from his body, and his body turned immortal. For a little while after his death he just floated around as a ghost, having forgotten who he was. When he regained his memory, he found his body at the police morgue, and he hopped back in, got up and walked out.

He went to go see her immediately after that, but he caught her a few minutes too late to stop her from committing suicide to join him. For all she knew he was killed in a police shoot-out that made headlines. And unlike the other ghosts in canon, Yomiel doesn't have the ability to undo other people's deaths.

That all went a long way to turning him into the angry, miserable jerk he is, the poor bastard.

What are Kanaya's plans in Heropa? Just go to work and eke out a living, or does she have grand master plans in the background somewhere?