Unfortunately, I don't have the best assessment of you yet, so I can't say how well your Rogue of Time title fits your personality. You do have another pretty awesome title, though! Especially if your "stealing" of time means that you'd be able to cut out the intermittent moments between actions. That's an incredibly useful power! By removing the transition time for motion, you can essentially teleport great distances in milliseconds, by removing waiting time, you can near-instantly complete a process that would otherwise take hours, and you could benefit your allies by shortening the charge times between their uses of super-powerful abilities. Of course, you wouldn't be able to do any of those on a game-breaking scale unless you hit God Tier, but even without it, that is a really great and versatile ability.
Yes, a fellow Vriska fan! To me, one of the best parts of the trolls' story is how central a few character interactions are to the entire process, and if it weren't for Vriska, the entire setting would have unfolded completely differently. Not only did she set off the cycles of spite and revenge that almost killed the whole session, she developed enough to realize how misguided those beginning actions were in the first place. I also love the character development stuff, most of what you already said. I think Vriska gets the best gradual development in the story. Most of the characters either experienced their development through building personality where there hadn't been a lot previously, or through reacting to specific and individual situations, but Vriska starts out as one person and ends up as someone completely different and more capable of handling themselves, largely through her own actions. That scene at the lip of the crater, where she has that speech about her own past life and her plans for her post-life? The best. Even though she starts getting uncertain about it later after Aranea breaks back into the waking world, I still love it.
I just wish the interplay with Terezi had gotten a proper resolution, though I suppose the lack of closure ties itself into Terezi's arc. Terezi never got to close out her own feud with Vriska before the latter died, and Terezi's still torn up about that, even though if she hadn't forced a resolution the way she did, Vriska would've fought Bec Noir and the rest of the trolls would've been wiped out. Yet, Terezi still struggled with the consequences of her decision, despite making the right one. I'm still not happy about her subsequent angst and shacking up with psycho-Gamzee, though. Just because it's a logical fallout from previous actions doesn't make it the best or most effective fallout, or in my opinion, it's not an entirely in-character one either. I know that despair can change people, and her choice to allow Aranea to restore her sight has given her regret at shedding what she formerly thought of as a symbol of her dead lusus and her former life that she hasn't yet worked through, but I sincerely doubt that the same troll who spent half of Hivebent laughing at the worst of situations, and remained upbeat even after her session had been blown to bits just prior to the moment of victory would spend the better part of a year soaking in juggalo juices because she made a couple of tough decisions.
While I'm on the subject of stuff that should/could have happened, I wish we'd have had some kind of character structure for Feferi. I mean, all we ever got was "she's the nice one, even though her unique caste means she doesn't have to be". Nice start, but it never really moved beyond that. All she did in the story was provide a springing point for Eridan and Sollux's arcs, and Eridan's arc got cut off after the Jack-attack left him in horrible crushing despair and he decided the best way out was to start killing everybody. Nothing really happened with Feferi; there were just too many characters around her squirming for attention, and we didn't see much outside of the main five trolls: Karkat, Terezi, Vriska, Kanaya, and Tavros. I guess Gamzee and Aradia could get honorary advancement, since they did technically develop, even though their developments consisted of having complete 180s for their personalities, and Sollux did get a little space to himself, but I wish Feferi'd at least gotten a framework of a personality like we'd gotten from the other non-central trolls. Heck, Nepeta proved you don't need to go all that far beyond framework to be entertaining. Nepeta's one of my favorites, and I was sad when the opportunity for her to have a spotlight moment post-moirail-death never came to be.
John ending up in Caliborn's parody was one of those entertaining scenes I mentioned. I'm not saying that it was all bad, I'm just not fond of the implications of the new powers. I mean, when Homestuck had its "this isn't really affecting the story" moments before, they were either obvious or revealed to be doomed timeline/jokes/PSYCHEs shortly after the fact. There was just never an undo button before, and I don't really enjoy the fact that there is one now. Even the Scratch had powerful consequences for future events, but if John mucks with space-time with his new house-powers, he'll be the only one who knows anything changed, if he even knows that there was a change at all. Yes, it's clear in-story that John's unstuck from reality, so it makes in-story sense that he doesn't have to follow the rules, but it's narratively problematic.
Wow, this turned into way more complaining than I thought it would. I suppose it could be considered the mark of a good fan to be able to tell where one's favorite stories could have been made even better, but I'm not going to commit to that statement, because it reeks of slippery-slope to me.
Yes, Betty Crocker is the same Condesce as the one that enslaved the Ψiioniic back in the Sufferer's day. Leader-class trolls apparently are nigh-on immortal until killed, or something like that. I was going to bring up a humorous little continuity error there by linking to Feferi's introduction page, where it said that Feferi was heir apparent because her blood was even more pure than that of the current empress, but I see Hussie's edited the page to replace it with a reference to Her Imperious Condescension. Pretty sneaky, Hussie. Dealing with continuity problems by wedging in later continuity. At least it's a more elegant solution to the problem than the one raised by Jane's "I feel so Caucasian!" The new page just seems forced now.
Well, I tend not to ship anything that's more than slightly canonical. Evidence takes all the fun out of it! My primary pairing for Homestuck is Eridan/Terezi, because those two psychopaths deserve each other, and I mean that in the best possible way.
An AU that a friend and I co-wrote contained the pairing as an ex-flushed relationship, but to be fair, we had Eridan in a lot of weird pairings there, and the AU was written to be deliberately preposterous. I can't even remember them all, since it was three years ago(and suddenly the passage of time smacks me right in the face), but I distinctly remember one of them involved Eridan self-identifying as Tavros and Vriska's auspistice, but neither of the other two knew about it. My friend was the only one who actually posted any of it online, and I've lost my files(I had a lot of ideas, but was too lazy at the time to actually adapt most of them, so this was bound to happen), so I don't know if any of the bits mentioning the Eridan/Terezi relationship are up anywhere. Or any of the bits that I was primary writer for, in fact. Well, Grocery Day, the founding stone of the AU, was something that I made the plot and basic outline for, but he adapted it, so about half of those jokes are his. It's been years, but I still feel inordinately proud of my joke-premise of the trolls' primary mode of transport being a bus that Nepeta unscrupulously bought on the Internet. The massive Walmart being patrolled by a specially trained platoon of pseudo-military order enforcers was all his idea, though. I think the original draft just had a handful of mall cops or something.
You know, I suddenly realized that if readers don't find the story funny, its entire premise is incredibly dumb. True, that's how it is for most comedies, but be warned that either the story behind that link might be kind of dumb or I've subjected myself to another wave of self-deprecation. Maybe both?
I don't know about lending you those cables; it looks like I'm going to be needing them again.
