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gimmethegepgun asked:

WARNING: Only read AFTER you finish up the (“[S] ACT 6 ACT 3”) flash:

I really can’t add anything that imreadingthishomestuckthing’s askbox hasn’t already mentioned!

Guess I could itemize some things we learned in this update, if it lets me put it under a cut:

Alright, there’s the things you mentioned.

WARNING: Only read AFTER you finish up the flash: The Planet’s names are LOCAH, LOPAN, LOTAK, and LOMAX. The first one is Helium, then the rest could be Neon, Krypton, and Xenon (the Noble Gases), going along with how the post-Scratch kids are now “Nobles” instead of “Heroes”.

Right. And some other things I heard mentioned, and saw brought up in chat (I take no credit for any of these revelations, unless I say that I specifically thought something):

LOMAX is almost certainly Jake’s world, b/c Bernie Lomax in “Weekend at Bernie’s”.
The colors of those noble gases when glowing might have something to do with which ones they are, but don’t have to. Maybe the ones who server’d them, seeing how helium glows red?
If Roxy’s world’s the neon one, I really want it to be the Land of Parties and Neon, a suggestion I heard from someone. I mean, god damn, would that be awesome.
Someone mentioned a Lo Pan = sorcerer from some flick thing, too.
They could also be pyramids, tombs, and mausoleums to match crypts, one suggested, which sounds more likely given that they’ll all be full of consort bones. (Unless Jane’s crypt world had a monopoly on those or something, given the bones of all types. Corpse importers.) Would certainly fit the theme of everything being long dead, Lord English being created likely, etc.
Oh, and nobles are referred to as Lords and Ladies. Making them Lady Crocker, Lady Lalonde, Lord Strider, and Lord English. Though I guess you could throw in a Duke Strider and Baroness Crocker.
UU being creepy as hell, and probably the same individual as uu. When UU’s asleep, she controls a body on Prospit perhaps while the uu has the main one, while uu has a body on Derse when he’s asleep. Or such. Maybe. But do recall that uu mentioned that whenever he “comes back” to his terminal she has a bunch of text lined up for him, not that he gets it in real time! So, basically a switch of some sort is what’s been given away pretty blatantly, here. A single thirteenth troll.
(Or, it could be made more and more obvious, then subverted with us seeing them and “of course it’s different people! why would you think otherwise?”, but given even subtle hints right down to the word Uranian (a gender in another gender’s body), I’m doubting this.)
UU and Jane also nailed how stark, creepy, and empty her goddamn land is, and likely the others’ worlds, too. I thought it was odd that Jane would get a fruitless tree as an entry item instead of the “new beginning” symbolism the others got, and now we know the whole session’s that way. Stark hopelessness and dried bones, none of the livelihood of even the doomed pre-Scratch session.
“Noble gases can’t form bonds,” a full shell of 8 electrons, etc.
Either the others’ dreamselves or real selves will probably die from that whole lights thing, obviously fucking up Jane a bit to see! It’s unclear why dreamselves specifically would equate with light, here; it was once noted that the consequences of a dream death aren’t fully understood. Hmm. Can’t read specifics just yet.
Also, Jane’s light flickering off and back on was probably Jack killing her dreamself (which then revived), but also could foreshadow her hitting god-tier. Now, it said the lantern was temporarily extinguished because of a gust of wind, which sounds quite odd to be mentioned specifically. But then, I’d already heavily theorized Jane’s role-inverting descent into the opposite of her Life role, and I was privately imagining John fighting her out of it on arrival. That could end with her hitting god-tier…?
Lots of “dead on arrival” stuff possibly having Jake coming in dead, etc etc.