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[ToonyMan]

If nobody noticed I drew that picture of Equius up there.

Also I agree gA is really cool even before introduction.

[Jim Groovester]

Anyway, yeah, gA finally gets named.  I always remember there's a reason I put up with the bullshit parts of this comic; that reason is the perfectly-sensible-in-context characterization of a daylight reverse-vampire gamebreaker who battles shrubbery and the undead with a chainsaw.  So cool.

Kanaya wields the tool of landscaping and fighting the undead, but she doesn't actually fight the undead. Instead she reads about them. In romance novels.

I think Kanaya is the troll equivalent of a Twilight fan. And I bet her favorite book is called Sunrise, about a completely and unremarkably ordinary troll girl who through an unlikely set of coincidences becomes the object of affection for a creepy sun vampire stalker. And I bet we will get to see her talk about it in a few pages.

[Karnewarrior]

If trolls are the opposites of humans in most Social ways, wouldn't a "Twilight" book be action? Filled with masculinity and testoserone?

[Haspen]

If trolls are the opposites of humans in most Social ways, wouldn't a "Twilight" book be action? Filled with masculinity and testoserone?

Perfect for Equius.

[Duke 2.0]

 Equius would probably read actual Twilight and try to pass it off as classical literature.

[Jim Groovester]

If trolls are the opposites of humans in most Social ways, wouldn't a "Twilight" book be action? Filled with masculinity and testoserone?

They're different socially and biologically, but not significantly different culturally. Trolls have movies, games, TV, etc.

I don't think a troll Twilight, featuring roughly the same content, is out of the question.

Equius would probably read actual Twilight and try to pass it off as classical literature.

This... works out surprisingly well, actually.

[Aqizzar]

Equius would probably read actual Twilight and try to pass it off as classical literature.

I think it would be a little too low-brow for him.  Needs more giant horse dongs.  But, I'm sure Hussie will be more than happy to enlighten us all in a few pages, yeah.

Anyway, I've been spending the morning rereading the comic, because a lot of it is old enough to be fresh again.  I honestly forgot just how funny MSPA is.  But I stumbled across something interesting, in the conversation between then-new Davesprite and then-mysterious gallowsCalibrator-

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TG: did you guess that by trolling john to his grave
TG: and making me splinter us off into an alt timeline
TG: that you were basically complicit in making our timeline go the way it was supposed to go all along
TG: where future me is now helping dave and we just keep playing
TG: and our actions ultimately lead to the trouble youre all in now
TG: thus leading you all to troll us incompetently
GC: OH
GC: NO >:[
GC: 1 D1DNT TH1NK OF TH4T
TG: yeah
TG: see
TG: none of you ever thinks anything through
TG: whos in charge of timeline management there
TG: i gotta give him the business
GC: SH3 DO3SNT W4NT TO T4LK TO 4NY OF YOU
GC: 4ND H4S M1SG1V1NGS 4BOUT TH1S WHOL3 TH1NG
GC: NOT 4LL OF US 4R3 TH4T 3NTHUS1AST1C 4BOUT TROLL1NG YOU GUYS
GC: 4ND TH3 ON3S WHO 4R3 SORT OF SUCK 4T 1T >:|
TG: well at least you got john to off himself so i guess youre not totally incompetent like the others

So, after absconding to their meteoric web-cafe, one of the female trolls came up with the idea to give helpful information in the most unhelpful way possible to the kids in the past.  It's not Terezi or Kanaya, and apparently is a bit regretful whoever she is.  Place your bets now folks: Aradia 1:2, Vriska 1:4, Nepeta 1:8, cuttlefishCuller 1:8.  Or maybe it's Snowman or another White Queen or who the fuck knows.

[Enzo]

Place your bets now folks: Aradia 1:2, Vriska 1:4, Nepeta 1:8, cuttlefishCuller 1:8.  Or maybe it's Snowman or another White Queen or who the fuck knows.

Well, Nepeta doesn't seem like the type to be in charge of anything important, and I don't think Aradia is capable of feeling misgivings. Vriska is all BLUH BLUH HUGE BITCH so my money's on CC.

[Retro]

I think it would be a little too low-brow for him. Needs more giant horse dongs.

This is a great quote to take completely out of context.

[eerr]

50 boon dollars on cuttlefish culler.

[Soadreqm]

Well, Aradia is the Maid of Time. I kind of always assumed she was obviously the timeline manager.

[CJ1145]

Now, I'm not far enough to know for sure, but didn't a mind honey incident remove one of the more likely candidates?

[Aqizzar]

Now, I'm not far enough to know for sure, but didn't a mind honey incident remove one of the more likely candidates?

If you mean Aradia, don't worry, she got better.  Sort of.

Now, she does seem like the likely candidate for the mysterious instigator, with the "Maid of Time" thing, and wanting to help people by creepy and inscrutable means.  I'm not sure she would put up with all the time-window trolling shenanigans of the people actually doing it, but she doesn't seem like she'd have misgivings about anything either, but she's okay with a lot of things now anyway.

On the other hand, uphelpfully trolling people with useful information across time seems like the kind of thing Vriska would come up with, especially since she has a bone to pick with that Cue-ball guy and the mysterious final boss "Lord English" guy.  And having misgivings seems possible in light of Hussie's growing hints that she's not the unrelenting bitch she first appeared to be.  But then, it also seems like exactly the kind of thing she'd really want to do herself, which begs the question of why she's not part of the trolling, whoever's idea it was.

And of course, Nepeta is the crazy lighthearted autistic catgirl, and absolutely nothing is known about cC yet, so they're both a wash in speculation.

[Jim Groovester]

Misgivings might not mean misgivings about trolling the kids out of decency, but misgivings on whether trolling the kids with helpful information will actually work at all. I think that expands the pool a little bit.

Trolling the kid's in the first place was Karkat's idea, right? And all the trolls talking with the kids are from the Red Team.

If it's Karkat's idea and it's a Red Team operation then it's probably Vriska managing the timeline. Doesn't it seem like Vriska who would do such a horrible job of figuring out who talks to people when? You'd think spooky ghost girl would be more effective at it, even if does so cryptically.

Anyways, it's interesting that Kanaya's weapon is also her makeup. I think there might be some meaning there, perhaps into how Kanaya views her appearance.

[ToonyMan]

Hehehe, Problem Sleuth reference, nice.

There's a character called Hysterical Dame in PS that uses the same weaponry.