The MSPA Simple Questions Thread

[qwerty]

You are most certainly not!

I like to imagine John Crocker spending his entire life playing along with the Condesce, earning the trust of her and her associates, then setting up for one big move that would take down the whole institution.
Only to get hit by a baby-bearing meteor before it comes to fruition.

Not really a story question though.

Wow I like this theory I would be glad to see an update for that, and in the process we get o e of johns Iconic derp faces. I wonder if he can do the windy thing in this universe tho. That would be cool

[FowlJ]

You are most certainly not!

I like to imagine John Crocker spending his entire life playing along with the Condesce, earning the trust of her and her associates, then setting up for one big move that would take down the whole institution.
Only to get hit by a baby-bearing meteor before it comes to fruition.

Not really a story question though.

Does getting struck by a meteor leave enough of a body for your family to stuff and put in their living room?

[Tenebrais]

Does getting struck by a meteor leave enough of a body for your family to stuff and put in their living room?

Apparently so.

[temporalPeregrine]

Also Jade got struck by PROSPIT and still left a body. (She also got exploded and only burned a bit)

[Iguana Baritone]

Also Jade got struck by PROSPIT and still left a body. (She also got exploded and only burned a bit)

To be fair, Propit's moon wasn't exactly intact when it hit her.

[simon.clarkstone]

Has there been any evidence that Jane/Roxy/Dirk/Jake had those names in B1? (they were named by different people after all) How about John/Rose/Dave/Jade having those name in B2?

[Conspicuous]

Has there been any evidence that Jane/Roxy/Dirk/Jake had those names in B1? (they were named by different people after all) How about John/Rose/Dave/Jade having those name in B2?

Not much directly, except for this quote:
But then, if the whoppers you have been told recently have any truth to them, maybe you will get to meet him after all? It seems too good to be true. The only relationship you have ever had with him are through video footage of his VAUDEVILLIAN ANTICS on stage. Or through his role as Judge Johnny Stone on one of your favorite old sitcoms, NIGHT COURT.

[Blaperile]

Has there been any evidence that Jane/Roxy/Dirk/Jake had those names in B1? (they were named by different people after all) How about John/Rose/Dave/Jade having those name in B2?

John has probably the same name in both universes. This is my source of that.

The book is an exact copy from the one of B1. It begins with "Dear John", and Jane knows it was addressed to her Poppop from the text.

That means John had the same name.

I think this means that the other Kids might have had the same name too.

[Tenebrais]

Jake understands Jade and John to be his grandmother and Jane's poppop, which wouldn't be possible if they had different names. Other than those two, no.

If you want a point of contrast, consider that Aranea and Spinneret Mindfang had different names despite being the same person. But trolls might work differently.

[maximus25]

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We see that Gamzee has a poster on his wall of a clown with what looks like UU's horns. Has this been explained/noticed before?

[simon.clarkstone]

Ok, thanks everyone on the names thing.

If you want a point of contrast, consider that Aranea and Spinneret Mindfang had different names despite being the same person. But trolls might work differently.

Or that small salamander and kitten that John and Rose pet-swapped, which were each even-more-literally-the-same person with different names.

[Blaperile]

If you want a point of contrast, consider that Aranea and Spinneret Mindfang had different names despite being the same person. But trolls might work differently.

But wasn't "Marquise Spinneret Mindfang" just A2 Aranea's title or something?

I believe that was said at a certain point.

EDIT:

Hussie suggested somewhere that troll names are the 2xsix letter thing their Lusus gives them, and then the 2xeight letter thing they give themselves when they grow up. So the Marquise could very well have been named Aranea as a little girl.

Yeah I think this is the case.

[Legendary]

Jake understands Jade and John to be his grandmother and Jane's poppop, which wouldn't be possible if they had different names. Other than those two, no.

If you want a point of contrast, consider that Aranea and Spinneret Mindfang had different names despite being the same person. But trolls might work differently.

Hussie suggested somewhere that troll names are the 2xsix letter thing their Lusus gives them, and then the 2xeight letter thing they give themselves when they grow up. So the Marquise could very well have been named Aranea as a little girl.

[SkaianRedeemer]

John has probably the same name in both universes. This is my source of that.

The book is an exact copy from the one of B1. It begins with "Dear John", and Jane knows it was addressed to her Poppop from the text.

That means John had the same name.

I think this means that the other Kids might have had the same name too.

I'm not so sure that isn't, though Weird Time Shit, the same book B1 John had, but there is another clue: Poppop's credit on Night Court. The real world actor on Night Court was Harry Anderson, while the character was named Harry Stone. But tellingly, Poppop's character was named Johnny Stone despite everything else being the same...


@Maximus: I don't know about "noticed" but there's probably not much of significance to it. UU's horns look like her symbol, like everyone else's, but as far as that poster's concerned, wavy horns were probably just the simplest thing that popped into Andrew's head that day.

[whitehelm]

I'm not so sure that isn't, though Weird Time Shit, the same book B1 John had, but there is another clue: Poppop's credit on Night Court. The real world actor on Night Court was Harry Anderson, while the character was named Harry Stone. But tellingly, Poppop's character was named Johnny Stone despite everything else being the same...

It is the same book, but Jane doesn't know that and thought the message was for Poppop. For her to make this mistake Poppop's name must be John also.

[tinning3]

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We see that Gamzee has a poster on his wall of a clown with what looks like UU's horns. Has this been explained/noticed before?

Hmmit is pretty close, but UU's horns go stright up instead of to the side

[Diffractor]

When John went god-tier, his regular self remained on the quest bed and his dreamself was the one that went god-tier. The same applies to Jade. However, when Vriska went god-tier, her regular self went god-tier and her dreamself vanished. Why does god-tier resurrection do different things in such similar circumstances?

[Redux]

Her dreamself did not vanish and her real self did not go godtier. Vriska was awake as her dream self on Prospit (slowly taking the injuries from her real self in) at the time of her ascension, it most likely got ported off to the Battlefield.

[cyberHeroine]

She later retrieved her clothes from her dead body, hence why she wears the shirt with the arm torn off.

[Diffractor]

I initally thought you were wrong, Redux, but then I realized that the blue background of Vriska's ascension doesn't fit with the sunset colors of LOMAT. Vriska ported off to battlefield is confirmed. Yay!

[Phenom1250]

How does Jane's Maid of Life powers work? It says on the wiki that she posesses healing abilities, yet she clearly died when she got stabbed and you can't heal something that is dead... so does she revive instead? And if so, does this mean shes physically immortal?

[Iguana Baritone]

How does Jane's Maid of Life powers work? It says on the wiki that she posesses healing abilities, yet she clearly died when she got stabbed and you can't heal something that is dead... so does she revive instead? And if so, does this mean shes physically immortal?

We don't know. The wiki is written by people who know as much about the story as anyone else. All we know is that her life powers activated and her lantern relit. But we also know that if she did come back to life, she wouldn't be the first maid to do so.

[Blaperile]

Her dreamself revived shortly after it died. Thus, she is "made of life".

[Darth GW7]

Simple question:
What happened to the lususprites?

[Tenebrais]

According to Karkat and Equius in Alterniabound, they died. We don't know when or how.