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 So, do I have this straight? Gamzee honks because LE honks, whereas LE honks because when he was Caliborn, he may have seen from Gamzee that honking clowns are immortal, thereby convincing him to take up honking every once in while in a bid for immortality. Ultimately, Gamzee honks because Gamzee honks... it seems like a big honking paradox.

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Quite honking true.  (Though, again, Lord English’s HONKing at powerful moments could be due to other reasons.)

Usually these sorts of looping bits of information have to have an external source - a plausible, innate place it at least could have come from without being looping and wholly self-generated.

In this case, we can’t quite be sure yet.  But if I had to guess?  My strongest sense of it is that it probably came from Gamzee’s Heart.

The innate and unique individual soul is full of powerful inclinations, in Homestuck.  Even cut and duplicated across a Scratch, Dave Strider still gravitated towards those Stiller shades, still expressed himself through the almighty Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.  These were predispositions and penchants coded into his very essence, an inevitable result of the core of who he was.  Dave Strider’s impact on reality was necessarily those things.  That’s the essential power that the Heart aspect has over how existence unfolds.

And in this case, it’s perhaps a fair bet - a guess, but a nearly sure guess - that HONKing is an inseparable component of Gamzee’s essence.  He HONKs because he was given an excuse to HONK, but at the same time he was always meant to HONK, and always would.  It’s simply who he is.

And from that core origin spins a vast loop that nigh wholly traverses Paradox Space as a whole.

2012-11-24