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 Overdue thoughts on massive update

I read the giant select-a-character update this morning, but didn’t have time to respond before work.

So:

• Jane got MILES’D.  Yeah, I pretty much knew exactly that would happen as soon as the Feferi similarities were pointed out on dogsbody’s tumblr.
• Roxy getting MILES’D was very unexpected, though.  An exile might be able to kiss her, but the kiss has to be from a “prince or princess”.  If it does work, though, it’d ostensibly be from an exile we’ve seen an instance of before, like WV/PM.  (Would royalty like WQ or BQ count?  We know the Black Queen’s been deposed, possibly exiled…)
• It’d be really nice to see Roxy’s dreamself wake up with the other kids and trolls, only to start bleeding after a few lines (and possibly a pass at someone).  That’d get them nice and panicky.  :)
• Jane and Roxy need kissing, but all the players who could do so are KO’d at once… except for Gamzee, and Roxy’s dreamself.  Those are the two available awake princes/princesses, in unknown locations, who could be called to deal with at least one of the corpses.
• Of course, Jane might just Life herself right the hell back again.  We can’t say.
• With Roxy dead on future earth, and Jake KO’d on past earth next to a dragon (with a lotus timer opening soon), there’s some potential for both Tavros and Vriska to show up inexplicably alive on Earth in different times/places.  In other words, Vriska would butt into the whole Jake (Long, American) Dragon situation, while Tavros could show up and kiss Roxy, or even show up on Derse and kiss Jane.  (Both girls have had feelings for a Page.)  The story timing doesn’t quite line up for a simultaneous appearance, though; Jake’s lotus won’t be opening for some time, and even if he’s out that long we won’t see the results this soon.  The other corpse-kisses, though, need to happen pretty quickly.
• “uu: AND YET YOu WILL LEAVE BEHIND. A TRuLY BREATH TAKING CORPSE.”  The use of “breath taking”, intentionally spaced out, seems ominous in a way that can’t be immediately discerned for anything plotwise.  However, the intent he communicates here - that the dead Calliope would leave a corpse at all - may indicate that he intends to die on his quest bed, killing their shared body in favor of a singular, permanent new one.
• Dirk and Jake are now actually dead-dreaming at the same time.  (Yes, Dirk should be, too; both his dreamself and realself were knocked out at the same time, and we got a black thought bubble on him; this is the first time he’s actually slept since his dual-awake deal started years ago, and it appears to be catching up on him twofold.)  They may get wrangled into the same dream bubble, but I’m not sure where or for what.  Maybe with the trapped-sleeping, dead-dreamself Calliope?
• Sawtooth and Squarewave, with or without AR’s direction, could probably get Dirk in.  Whoever saves Roxy would be able to get her house in, too, presumably.  Though, I guess both of them have “started the game” enough that it’s not necessarily a requirement; they might be able to get in via dream-revival, though I see no narrative reason to get rid of the rest of Dirk’s stuff after going through all that to rid Cal specifically.  In any case, Jake English is the last person to enter, as I’ve theorized before.

Hmm, I think that covers my thoughts?  I’ll edit to add anything else below this unless it’s big.

EDIT:  From Skype:

• [6/26/12 9:36:07 AM] Don Ashdenej: Oh by the way RE: Update
• [6/26/12 9:36:15 AM] Don Ashdenej: Dave will have to kiss his Mum
• [6/26/12 9:36:34 AM] Don Ashdenej: In order to fulfil his Freudian arc

He could conceivably do this timeways, ala Gamzee.  It’d be hilarious.

The only issues would be (1) why he didn’t save her in the first place (it might only have been possible to loop it via him already having seen her dreamself bleeding), and (2) it gives a possibly unacceptable amount of time armor to everybody else.  But seeing as they’d all be in, that wouldn’t necessarily matter?  (Jake still needs his head severed eventually, though!  This could ostensibly prevent that from having been a thing, which might not work well.)

EDIT2:  gimmethegepgun pointed out that Dirk can plug in the fenestrated window to Roxy’s house and kiss her.  This sounds like the most plausible scenario.

2012-6-26