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[Sergarr]

It is, kinda. But I don't think we ever saw a retcon affecting that place directly before.

There's also the fact that all that Vriska's character development cannot be simply retconned away. And the chances of that are increasing, since all recent retcons seem to target her death.

Didn't Terezi wind up killing Vriska because she was going to head off to fight Bec Noir?  Reason for going up there could easily be change to needing to getting her to fight Gamzee.

She doesn't need to go find Vriska in person if she has the glasses.

She takes them off later in the main timeline, just before she tries to bring Tavros back to life.

She was right in the middle of doing that (kissing Tavros) in the current update.

She put them back on. I'm reasonably sure she's not going to put them down again.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

She put them back on. I'm reasonably sure she's not going to put them down again.

She hadn't done the investigation of the corpse yet.  She tried to kiss Tavros (which is when she put down her glasses) after the investigation.

[Bauglir]

She put them back on. I'm reasonably sure she's not going to put them down again.

She hadn't done the investigation of the corpse yet.  She tried to kiss Tavros (which is when she put down her glasses) after the investigation.

She appears to have done it while John was being grossed out by corpses.

[Solifuge]

Brief theorycrafting sidenote from recent updates. Was doing a bit of a reread today, looking at all the things that have been in the works for years before their big reveals, and I think I found another thing that's been/is being set up:

So, Lord English is thoroughly established as some kind of God-Tier Hero of Time Caliborn who made a bargain with his denizen to gain access to Invulnerability/Ultimate Power by completing his insane grindfest solo quest and somehow unlocking the stupidly OP Snake-Form Cherub powers while in normal form, right? And his essence is magically tied to his new Juju, Li'l Cal, who he uses to indoctrinate servants (Gamzee, Alphaverse Jack, etc.) who alchemize Doc Scratches in universes he appears in. This is all boring and unimportant.

...but what do we know about Li'l Cal? He seems to be a single plush toy who gets dragged from universe to universe by Heroes of Time. For our purposes, he started with Dave (Human Knight of Time) when he entered the Beta Session, then Jack carried him over to the Troll Session and threw him at a RoboAradia. She warped with him using her Time Tables to escape, and was clipped through a portal by a reckoning asteroid and sent back in time where young Aradia (Troll Sylph of Time) discovers him in an archaeology dig. Somehow Li'l Cal makes a trip to the Alphaverse too, and eventually to Caliborn (Cherub Lord of Time) via the scorched remains of the post-apocalypse Earth he/his Sister hatched on.

Now, it's also been pretty thoroughly set-up that some kind of Alternate Universe God-Tier Hero of Space Calliope (Or possibly a revived Ghost Callie who is allowed to grow up and find the same exploit to equal her brother's power) is going to defeat Lord English, since only the power of another Snake-Form Cherub can destroy him. Plus, the whole Oroburos thing... snake devouring itself, whatever. Anyway, this is all boring and unimportant too. Before she can do all that, she has to level the playing field with him... and let's not forget that Lord English still has the inexplicable Juju power of Li'l Cal on his side.

What's would-be Lord(Lady?) of Space Callie to do without an equivalent Juju of her own? If only there were some other plush object aside from Li'l Cal that had roamed from universe to universe, perhaps thanks to the efforts of Heroes of Space like Jade, rather than Heroes of Time? Something that drifted around in the background through many iterations and revisions, getting nearly destroyed and repaired, augmented and changed, and so on during it's appearances in each universe. Perhaps something that also took a long and winding path to the Post-Apocalypse Alpha Earth which Caliborn and Calliope were born on?

Spoiler: Yeah I know it's obvious what Hero Callie's new Juju will be, but I enjoy Spoiler Tags... (click to show/hide)

Good old Li'l Sebastian / Liv Tyler / Con Air Bunny

Spoiler: Other notes and silly stuff (click to show/hide)

Sidenote: Not really significant, but Kurloz making off with Vriska's discarded Marquis Jacket basically means Gamzee is going to present it to Caliborn to alchemize into the Cairo Overcoat, right?

Side-sidenote: Calliope's symbol, the Caduceus, is basically blatant Cherub Porn. And she wears it on her coat with no problem, yet giggles awkwardly about and avoids drawing snakes for fear of indecency. Either Hussie didn't notice, or she Crazy.

Also maybe: So Jake has to deal Lord English his first defeat, and the Homestuck Retcon Juju can/will only be used as a weapon against him once successfully, right? Wonder if he's going to recover the Juju while dead and maybe use it to make Lord English defeat himself? Or possibly "defeat" is just a temporary setback, and Jake just uses the Retcon Juju to unstick Lord English in Cannon to buy them time while unfortunately also allowing him to Already Be everywhere? *shrug*

EDIT: Hmm. Or maybe the same way Cue Ball + Li'l Cal = Doc Scratch/Lord English, Retcon Juju + Con Air Bunny = whatever allows Callie to equal Lord English? In any case, the Retcon Juju has a lot of paralells to the Cue Balls... One making someone Omnipresent by letting them warp to any Time/Space, while the other makes someone Omniscient by letting them know anything about any Time/Space.

[Arcvasti]

Callies juju/soul jar was the firefly, wasn't it?

[Bauglir]

Major problem with the spoiler theory is this.

Of course, retcons can fix this (it might even be the whole point).

[frostshotgg]

All this shuffling around of plush toys. it all makes sense now

[Putnam]

It's the clockwork majyyks that give him the invulnerability, which also appears to be the stuff that revives godtiers.

It's also probably cherub invincibility stuff, so whatever.

[Solifuge]

Major problem with the spoiler theory is this.

Of course, retcons can fix this (it might even be the whole point).

And yet remember how the same thing happened to Cal?

Though honestly, it would absolutely make my day if all these Retcons are part of an elaborate and convoluted process by which John is saving Liv Tyler. Hussie would spend 3 years of his life making a "Put the bunny back in the box" joke.

[Putnam]

Major problem with the spoiler theory is this.

Of course, retcons can fix this (it might even be the whole point).

And yet remember how the same thing happened to Cal?

Though honestly, it would absolutely make my day if all these Retcons are part of an elaborate and convoluted process by which John is saving Liv Tyler. Hussie would spend 3 years of his life making a "Put the bunny back in the box" joke.

The same thing happened to Lil' Seb as well. They both ended up in Caliborn's possession because he's on Earth.

[Bauglir]

Yeah, Lil' Cal wasn't destroyed there, near as I can tell. Merely deposited on the ocean floor, where he miraculously survived until Caliborn later found him.

I'm now on board the bunny back in the box train though.

[Sergarr]

What about the 8-ball though?

[Putnam]

What 8-ball? There's like a million of those.

[ArKFallen]

What about the 8-ball though?

You consult with your MAGIC CUE BALL, an extremely rare treasure you recently plundered from an ancient crypt, and one of many rumored to be hidden across the globe. Each at one time belonged to the strange and powerful man fabled to live on the green moon, but have since managed to escape his vision.

There are/were multiple. I think Jade also had one.

[flabort]

ArKFallen, you're confusing 8-balls and cue balls.
There's a limited quantity of Cue Balls, although yes there are many of them.
There's a metric buttload of 8-balls.