Hoofstuck

[flyingBrick]

Bountiful Harvest, Bright Future

Awesome names, but I can't decide.

> Ancestors: Be previous-gen counterparts (G1 Applejack, G3 Pinkie Pie, etc)

Also, this could work.

[Zarhon]

> AJ: Gain MOTHERHOOD SPECIBUS, then let this newfound knowledge fully sink in.

[Bohandas]

> Ancestors: Be previous-gen counterparts (G1 Applejack, G3 Pinkie Pie, etc)

Also, this could work.

I think that the G1 thru G3 counterparts of existing ponies would work better as counterparts from scratched sessions.


The Ancestors should instead be the ponies depicted in the play from Hearth's Warming Eve.

[Donut64]

Well, AJ's name in that was Smartcookie... xD

[KingTwelveSixteen]

Bountiful Harvest, Bright Future

Awesome names, but I can't decide.

Bountiful is a type of apple, but Bountiful Apple sounded weird to me so I threw in the farmy sounding Harvest at the end. Bright Future is an actual type of apple though, it was created in 2009 by one of those non-profit greeny anti-global-warming groups.

The More You Know!

[It Was A ...]

I like naming Applejack's foal Calvados (apple brandy). It works especially well if she is an AJ + R combination.

I don't think Hoofstuck titles need to be completely bound by Homestuck precedent. I nominate Futtershy as the Physician of Rage. The title is nicely ambiguous; does she heal anger through her ability to conciliate? Or is she standing a few strides from a berserk outburst?

I'm not sure I understand what Violet CLM is looking for with the Duo Strifemotifs. Could someone point me to an example in Homestuck or spell it out? Thanks.

Violet CLM, have you considered associating each pony with a musical note:
Dough -- Pinkie, our baker
Ray (of golden sun) -- Twilight, received as a gift from Celestia
Me -- Rarity, at once generous and self centered
Fa --
Sow -- Applejack, the farmer
La --
Tea --

I'm not sure where to put Dash in this. Fluttershy already has a song; can anyone tell me the note she starts with when rehearsing her chorus in the first episode or calling the animals at the gala?

[forkinyoureye]

Dash is Fa(r). Just throwing that out there for you, It Was A...

[KingTwelveSixteen]

Fluttershy is totally La. The whole lalalala thing just makes it click for me.

[Donut64]

Fa is Rainbow Dash. - Far, Fast, Favored

I agree with La being Fluttershy.

[flyingBrick]

I'm not sure I understand what Violet CLM is looking for with the Duo Strifemotifs. Could someone point me to an example in Homestuck or spell it out? Thanks.

I'm quite sure that the only fraymotif we actually got to see in Homestuck was the one of Jade and Dave, Adagio Redshift, which basically slows things down and teleports the users somewhere. They used it to flee from Bec Noir.

There are other fraymotifs that were mentioned by name, but never shown, all of which are from John: Feathercadence, Pneumatic Progression, Breathless Battaglia, Ivories in the Fire (Together with Dave), Mixolydian Maelstrom (Together with Rose) and Fantasia's Inhale (Together with Jade).

I think Violet is looking for examples of abilities that the ponies can use together in the future, altough at the moment this would be hard, because we don't know any of their mythological roles, so we are making up the names based on what we think their roles will be.

[AProcrastinatingWriter]

The one between Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle has to be called Rhythm Heaven. That's all I'm asking.

[forkinyoureye]

The one between Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle has to be called Rhythm Heaven. That's all I'm asking.

Seconded.

[JapaneseTeeth]

Well, she did say that they should be music related. Let's see.

Pinkie: Pestiforous Polka.

Fluttershy: Carnagival of the Animals

Twilight: Classical Sympony

Rainbow Dash: Awesome Side of the Moon (Based on the album cover. Maybe a combo with Luna or something)

Applejack: Cidarppegio, Apploggiatura

Rarity: Fashionistarioso

For whoever the Time player is, there are also all sorts of puns to make on time signatures; cut time, common time, etc.

[Fabricati]

Twilight: Music Of The Spheres, Rondo Of Stars
Rarity: Symphony Of The Thousand Weavers

[Violet CLM]

Partial update time. Almost done! I had a bunch of posts to reply to and thought I might as well throw in an image as well, plus goodness knows I love extreme zooms.

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So when do universal constants make an appearance?

Imminently.

Also, I know you didn't ask for singular Fraymotifs, but I'd like to put forward...
>R Tactical Rainuke

Not especially music related, plus it's something she can already do. We'll have none of this RARITY learned BREATHE nonsense. There are probably other examples of the same issue(s) -- I just picked this one arbitrarily.

>Ancestors: Be Platinum, Hurricane, Puddinghead, Pansy, Clover, and Cookie. etc.

This makes a lot of sense on an intuitive level, and were the story just starting now, it would probably happen; unfortunately there've already been five or six references to the actual ponies I chose for the other six involved in the ectiobiological process, none of which I'm really interested in madly retconning, so Platinum and the gang will have to sit this one out. Or else get cameos. Who knows?

I'm not sure I understand what Violet CLM is looking for with the Duo Strifemotifs. Could someone point me to an example in Homestuck or spell it out? Thanks.

What flyingBrick said. Fraymotifs are special abilities whose titles are music-related, and they come in solo and duo flavors. People have expressed the concern that this would be easier given the roles, but honestly, I've not been giving the roles the slightest bit of consideration when coming up with fraymotif names. Their existing personalities/memes are amply fertile ground for such things, and there's no need to figure out what anything actually does until much later. "Rhythm Heaven" works great -- I have no idea what effect it would have, but what are the chances we'll ever need to find out? Hard to tell. So I'm not too concerned with perfect matchups among titles and the like. Anyway, there've been lots of good ideas and everything is receiving full consideration.

Violet CLM, have you considered associating each pony with a musical note:
Dough -- Pinkie, our baker
Ray (of golden sun) -- Twilight, received as a gift from Celestia
Me -- Rarity, at once generous and self centered
Fa --
Sow -- Applejack, the farmer
La --

I hadn't, no, but I guess now they've successfully been associated! Good job, girls! Now all that remains is to make that relevant somehow. Hm.

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> FIRE! FIRE! FIIREE!! AAAAAHHHH!

[kd7sov]

...Fire. On a thing that appears to be either a book or a rug. On a green floor, near but not in a fireplace. With... either a vase or a table, I think, nearby.

...Fluttershy, what are you up to?

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Glancing through the screenshots on the wiki... the green floorboards are Fluttershy's main-room floor in Stare Master, but not in Bird In the Hoof. The fireplace in Stare Master doesn't look quite like that, nor does it have something brown right next to it.

I'm confused, but I'll call it Fluttershy's house until there's evidence otherwise.

[Donut64]

Yeah I did think that was Fluttershy's house.

[JapaneseTeeth]

Hmmmm...interesting. I'm kinda curious about whether that's fire, or just Applejack in mid-appearification/disappearification.

[Violet CLM]

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You are the Cutie Mark Crusaders -- Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle -- and you have just set fire to Sparkler's living room rug. You were reenacting the hit stage show "2600," and Sparkler, the town foalsitter, stepped out of the room to see if her peanut butter cookies were ready. As it happens, one of the pivotal scenes of "2600" involves Pony John Cusack setting fire to the room. In the show, firefighters come in and rescue him, but... you didn't think quite that far ahead.

[mrfatcat]

>CMC: throw the rug in the fire and drop it like it's hot

[Siya]

> CMC: Use the water from the vase on the dresser to put out the fire!

[Farsan]

> CMC: Scream CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS FIREFIGHTERS!!! YAY!!!
> AB: You heard that sand puts off fire, so you get some from outside, come back, and drop it over the fire.
> S: Try to run around the fire to make a tornado, like you saw Rainbow Dash doing. That will surely work.
> SB: Be the more sensible of the trio, and use the water from the vase to douse the fire.
> Hairbrained plans: Collide with each other.

[KingTwelveSixteen]

>Roll/fold the rug up really fast to deny the fire air and thus put it out.

[Zarhon]

> CMC: Each try to captchalogue the fires. If that doesn't work, use the sage advice of "stop, drop & roll" and roll that wooden log from the fireplace into the fire to put it out.