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Okay, but has Homestuck as a fandom ever considered, like, Moonswap?

The dreamers of Prospit become the dreamers of Derse and vice versa? Nothing else changes. Just the fact that they dream on different moons.

Idk I didn’t think this through I really am just interested in the aesthetics of Trolls and Humans in different colored royal moon jammies.

I like this idea!

Because it changes much more than it sounds like, too! Plus I just like the aesthetic.

But seriously, just consider:

• Jade spending her childhood already involved in Dersian politics instead of fun Prospit shenanigans.
• Dirk, already awake constantly both on Earth and on Prospit, thwarting an assassination attempt against Roxy.
• can you imagine if John had been a Derse kid and actually kinda, like, designed as a Derse kid – like can you just imagine the very silly but startlingly relatable thirteen year old angst????? the secondhand embarrassment that would just emanate from a Derse John????
• in general PROSPIT GAL ROXY
• I didn’t even bother with the trolls but Karkat and Jack’s interactions would probably be interestingly shaped and more frequent??
• sorry Sollux

Possible other ideas for your consideration:

• Rose who, instead of being obsessed with what lays in the dark, is enamored with the Light. She’s still snarky and has that Lalondian attitude we all know and love, but she’s a lot less obtuse, less “scary”, more obviously friendly but there’s still a thousand gears going inside her mind.
• She will dance circles around you linguistically and there’s a chance that compliment there was meant to poke fun at you but that’s alright.
• Instead of going grimdark, she does the opposite: a blazing witch filled with the wrath of Skaia. The trolls’ don’t experience a blackout so much as an overload. A holy warrior that will stop at nothing to destroy Jack for killing her mother.
• Seer ==> Ask: “Is Skaia really good?”
• Dave hides his insecurities behind a facade of being a generally friendly guy. He’s nice, he’ll talk to you about your troubles, how you feel, what he’s having for lunch; literally anything but himself. The subject of Dave Strider is a conversational topic locked in a vault deep in Fort Knot, submerged in the Bermuda Triangle, and without a key.
• Dream-wise, his shades and music are keeping out the constant flood of light and imagery from Skaia. The war going on underneath the planet, the visions from the clouds; it’s all too much. Knowing his future is hard enough as a time player. Knowing other peoples’ futures? He can’t take that pressure. He doesn’t want that burden.
• He likes Prospit well enough? It makes him kinda uncomfortable what with how everyone praises him and treats him like the best thing since sliced bread. He has enough attention while awake, he just wants to dream alone.
• Jade is a master of political schemes. Her grandpa is surprised by how clever and deceitful she can be despite being totally innocent. He’s proud at what he calls her ‘innate hunter skills’, she can even sneak up on him when he’s not expecting it!
• Jade is mostly the same as canon, but she’s a little more mysterious. Unlike Prospit!Jade who’s very bad at hiding what she knows about the game, Derse!Jade has a great poker face, and knows how to hide her hand. She does it all for her friends’ benefit, of course, she just doesn’t want them to bite off more than they can chew.
• She met the Queen once. Well, not so much met as much as I accidentally stumbled upon her throne room oh my god please tell me she didn’t see me. She didn’t. But it taught Jade to be very careful
• She treats the horrorterrors like Feferi does. Sweet, kind, and friendly once you get to know them. But she also knows how dangerous they can be. She respects them, asks for help only when needed, and keeps a polite distance.
• John just kinda shrugs off most of the weird bits of being a Derse dreamer. Whisperings of horrorterrors? K, that’s cool, he’ll just ignore you. Assassination attempts? Lol, good luck next time, here’s a whoopie cushion for your efforts. (He doesn’t even kill them like Dirk did, he just. Pranks them til they leave in disgrace.) Dark and heavy atmosphere? He carries a flashlight.
• His attitude is mostly the same, thanks to his blessed ability to shrug things off and focus on the now, but if it’s at all possible, I think he becomes a bit more serious. Not scarily so, but more akin to his attitude later in the comic, with how he called Aradia (and Terezi) out for their ridiculous actions. A bit of a straight man to the weird things that happens in Sburb.
• Okay but consider. His comedy routine being as finely tuned as Rose’s linguistic stunts. He’s the thing keeping his friends (and troll onlookers) happy and entertained, a bit of a distraction from the general strangeness of it all.

I totally went overboard with this but I love this AU, it’s gold.

“He carries a flashlight.”

I love these additions and I love you.

Has anyone yet thought about Derse Jake tho. I feel like maybe there’s this entire dimension to Derse Jake where he’s almost exactly the same person but instead of being just earnest about it he’s ironically earnest and genuinely earnest at the same time. Metamodern Jake English. Holy shit.

(What the heck would Prospit Dirk be like? – other than probably intensely preoccupied with Derse Jake.)

considering his “simultaneously awake” thing, his “will do anything to help/protect his friends” thing, and prospit’s predictive clouds im guessing a LOT of cloudwatching and a lot of Lil Hal-like manipulation (but maybe less shitty)

think jade with all her reminders but more effective since he can immediately switch to the waking world and act NOW instead of having to wait until he wakes up.

im thinking he’d have a lot more convoluted plans like the one that got them all into the game alive in canon