Pesterquest Sprites

[Mirtha Hinrichs]

Feel free to request pesterquest/hiveswap friendsim sprite edits of any Homestuck characters/OCs (please use submit for OC references). The more detailed the description of your request, the better. Please credit me if you use.

Hey! I'd like to request a pq sprite edit of my fantroll, references are uncoloured, so I'll explain as best as I can! He's a bronzeblood, the white part of his hair is slicked back and mutated to his blood colour, and his jacket is longsleeved and bronze as well. He is shirtless under the jacket. Two small scars on the left side of his face (right if facing him), he's rather buff but I have no preferred sprite in mind so go crazy!

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said it before, but i think the idea of feferi having to leave gl'bgolyb is very interesting. especially because, like she says, she will have to make decisions like this if she becomes empress. one thing that might stop alternian empress feferi from turning into beforus feferi is listening to people and weighing their needs with hers. but also, like, she's only 13 at this point and having to choose whether or not to bassically never see your parental figure again (and how that affects the other relationships that came out of it like eridan) is... sheesh :/

on a different note, having the dream bubbles set up is really cool! i wonder if we will get to see any ghost players. also... yay!!! i love the new sprites :o) whoever made them did a great job! (sg i think? not completely sure if this route was the bonus route 3 you were talking about)

That was a pretty good ending to the route, but I sort of feel like Feferi should have had a bit of a bigger realization of the fact that she is definitely not gonna see her lusus anymore, around the end. Maybe with Chekov making her snap out of it or something.

have not made any writing headway on aradiaroute because, frankly, her perspective is violently depressed, and i would prefer to. not. exist in the headspace of a character who is violently depressed. not until i get more stable at least lol

oh wow adoro questo gioco. appena esplosa la versione desktop quando siamo entrati nell'attico ma adesso lo scarico giusto e vedo. YAAAY. ahhh ho riso per qualche ora questo pomeriggio tutto cos divertente. specialmente quella parte di uhh. palmhuskphone HAHHAAH

Also, HOLY HELL I LOVE THIS. It was only when I burst out laughing trying to read Dave's lines out loud that I realized I haven't quite felt the way I do playing this game since my first reading of early Homestuck. I can never thank you enough for taking me back to 2016... for better or for worse.

karkat is one of my favorite characters and you are doing absolutely awesome at writing him :3 love what's been done here and so excited for what's to come!! rlly glad i came across this i always have so much fun checking out the updates :D

I was experimenting with loading different save files and got mixed results on which ones worked, went to the start, or crashed. I have updated the game to the version 301 and am only using old save files. I am using the Itchio app and the in-app updating feature.

basically the game likes to rewind to the most recent "label" -- there's a label at the start of every route, which is why the game rewound there if there's not any closer one. the trollian label exists, the "blueblood car" label exists, etc.

I am using the itch app to update, but I only started using it in late December. Some of the save files I tried to load where saved in early December and November which were the times that I redownloaded the game any time it updated.

Really enjoyed this, and will definitely be interested in seeing where this goes in the future. My favourite was probably the John route. Everyone so far has felt pretty much in character (though there's not been much to see of the non-Hiveswap trolls yet, obviously). Definitely has the potential for me to like it more than the official Pesterquest, though I can't really say at this early stage, of course. Spoilers + criticism below to not spoil for anyone who hasn't played:

I'm a little sad that the Joey route ended up being more about finding Joey and not so much about engaging with her and Xefros, but I concede that's just because I love Hiveswap so much and always want more Xefros and Joey stuff. The content that was there was enjoyable.

I'd also agree with the commenter below that the jokes about MSPAR's confused pronouns as the result of being a player-stand-in are getting a little tired as of Karkat's route. Unless Emespi is supposed to be foreshadowing the resolution of this, which IMO would be a bad idea since MSPAR is supposed to be a kind of blank slate for the player (I mean, the name alone conveys that...) and characterising them too much by giving them an entirely new identity including name and gender would go against that. If Emespi just serves to show the alternate timeline MSPAR and how things would go without player intervention that's fine and dandy and a cool resolution to the problem of "MSPAR has too many damn friends and they're all split across several planets and universes and points in time"

i'm glad you like it so far -- emespi was definitely meant to just be "friendsim!mspar, who can be cordoned off with their friends", so that we didn't have to worry about contradicting the messages with having those friends still being out there somewhere

Finished playing CG's route, pretty good. Some of the trolls felt OOC, like Sollux and Aradia, while others felt just spot on, like Kanaya and Equius. Karkat's self-hatred seems a bit TOO played up. Like, he couldn't talk about anything else, really. I also am starting to grow more tired of the constant self-references to MSPAR. Constantly making "jokes" about "erm, Gamzee we're bros but I'm not actually a brother, you feel" stuff is pretty bottom of the barrel in terms of humour, especially since it's starting to get repeated in every route.

I think it's really funny how the win is achieved by being an asshole more often than not. Just knock on his door unprepared and dump verbal salad, snoop on his Trollian and talk to all his friends, basically laugh in his face over his self-hatred tirade. Basically all are things that Karkat really needed. Honestly less like an asshole and more like a boundary pusher, since you're really trying to change the outcome of Homestuck here, and trying to stick to the "canon" isn't MSPAR's purpose.

Hey, I'm interested to know what you think felt out of character for sollux and aradia? IMO they felt pretty in character. Granted, early hivebent sollux is not easy to get right since we don't see a TON of him before he undergoes a bit of a change post-second-awakening (since he no longer has to deal with the voices of all of the soon to be dead on alternia).

Something to keep in mind for Sollux is that he had a tendency to experience rather rapid and intense mood swings early on, which can definitely read as a sort of airheadedness. But it's more that he's stressed as fuck constantly and doesn't know how to deal so he goes very quickly from "fuck fuck fuck thii2 i2 horriible 2hiit" to "fuckiing whatever ii dont even care about thii2 2hiit" to try and cope, and then goes back to more intensely emotional states because keeping those down ain't easy, resulting in the flippy-floppy vibes. That's at least my read of his character in early hivebent at least.

this iss so good. how the storyline is treated in this ver is so good & the direct connection to hiveswap is amazing it was very surprising to see. i really enjoy how roxy is written here aswell. cnt wait to see how it progresses!!! n_n

just finished the karkat route (well... finished isn't the right term) and ive got to say this is looking great so far! also mspar is looking for aradia to smooth things over with karkat and she shows up RIGHT THEN, isn't that convenient for us (or it would be if she too busy breaking the 4th wall)

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