#lifestuck au

[kindledrose]

patron troll :]

cleeoh's chumhandle is troublesomeCadaver and lizi's is curiousAllure ! the game (which i'm tentatively referring to as sblife because it's funny) works in that the nine trolls entered the server world first, and then were paired with a human to help them enter from their own world. if one loses, though, their partner does as well, and so it's rather akin to the soulmate mechanic here.

((using this au as an excuse to get better at drawing comics by making various small ones for practice! hopefully i will be able to tell some of the story that way and also better understand comics in general because i am Not very good with them rn hajsdsf))

#zombiecleo #ldshadowlady #trafficblr #life series #shadowrot #<i use some ship tags as general duo tags but it doesn't have to be #lifestuck au #doodles #tango be like o_o #also the bathtub is very much a reference to a joke in homestuck hjfhsf i didn't pull that out of nowhere

[kriber]

oh yea. it's all coming together

#jay.error #trafficblr #life series #trafficstuck #lifestuck #i saw someone post about their lifestuck au and i got inspired #currently working on classpecting them

[kindledrose]

sillies yaya ^_^

#lifestuck au #grian #geminitay #pearlescentmoon #inthelittlewood #skizzleman #tangotek #bdoubleo100 #ethoslab #zombiecleo #doodles #kills same face syndrome dead with a stick

[kindledrose]

LIFESTUCK ?!?! (pt 2 here!) (pt 3)

i was sick a couple days ago and spent like 12 hours straight doing nothing but classpecting life series characters and then was like Yeah i have to draw this now. so here's some sillies 👍 (super long classpect ramble under cut because i spent far too long on it not to share hfshjf)

quick note: i really really love @/classpect-navelgazing's theories and used them for a lot of the ideas here. go check their blog out it rules :]

ok you guys flower ranchers (scott tango jimmy) are making me so insane for this au specifically because of this idea i had about doom/life players. doom in true canon is related to inevitability, fate, and knowledge of the specific rules that keep the characters trapped within their story, right. and life is sort of related to healing, physically and mentally, within the confines of the game. so within this au, the aspect of life refers to the rules within the game that the players can see and are aware of (last life’s trading lives system + boogeyman, third life’s soulmate mechanic, secret life’s tasks, etc.). life players have some amount of dominion over these elements (depending on their class, of course). doom on the other hand refers to everything surrounding the games (stuff like admin powers, the world barrier, and whatever happens to the players after they die). 

as a mage of doom, scot (his name is so funny to me. like yeah he sure is) has a bunch of intrinsic knowledge about the way the games function on a logistical level. he’s like a guy who read the script a while ago and forgot all the characters’ names but knows the basic plot and how it’s going to end. or who knows all the ins and outs of tech crew and for whom the apparent magic of the show for the audience is lost on, since he knows how it’s being done. the thing is, scot isn't especially able to act on this knowledge during the game. what director wants someone in the audience — or one of the actors — taking all the magic out of the show, spoiling how it works and how it ends? no, it’s best if they keep that knowledge to themselves — and so scot’s narratively unable to affect the stories of those around him, even his close friends who he’d want to help. he’s aware of this, of course, which makes him more than a little depressed, as he can see the futility of it all and can’t even explain to anyone what’s going on and how the game works. (the only story he’s able to affect, of course, is his own. which. depressed doom player + mage martyr complex + guy who Really cares about his friends is not necessarily a good combination.)

the amount of stock i put in the idea of gendered classes is close to zero so tangoe gets to be a maid of life because ohh my goodness. i like the theory (thanks classpect-navelgazing) of life as “the aspect of affluence,” where life players usually enter the game with some kind of material wealth or status that helps their position in some way. i also like the idea that maid players start the game with a surplus of their aspect but often end up feeling as if they’re only seen as a provider of that specific thing as a result of this, and so end up longing for something else instead. this primarily applies to last life tango because that’s the season i’m most familiar with lol, but i thought the way he started out with so many lives there and quickly dwindled as a result of everyone taking from him and only him was Really interesting. mans has all the luck of the game he could need, but only wants friends to actually be able to live with. being a life player also ties into his little gambling games and things (again, dominion over stuff within the overarching game/story, but nothing beyond that).

then we get to jimi (again fantastic name). the basic premise of an heir is that they’re played by their aspect, right and Oh Boy is jimmy played by life in the life series. i don’t personally know much about anything he’s done other than heehoo canary guy but along with the previously stated points it’s So fun to see him as a life player because it allows for some really clearly contrast between the way he interacts with tangoe and scot based on their aspects. i really like the idea of scot being like “you’re a life player jimi. it's in your name. the game is not going to let you die” and jimi like “you really think so? aw thanks man” neither of them knowing that dying as a life player in this game is literally like in the job description. (ok. i kind of feel like i’m letting jimi down by basing his story so far around other people.. but this is just for fun and i can always change it later)

(also i could easily have put tangoe and jimi as doom players too but for the fact that i don’t think they necessarily see through the game as much as scot does (or at all). and so life it is.)

feel free to ask me questions abt them!!! i have so many thoughts about this bro 

#looks at you with my big ol eyes... please read about them i spent So Long thinking about them pfff #scott smajor #jimmy solidarity #tangotek #trafficblr #secret life #life series #hs #doodles #also disclaimer i haven't read homestuck in over a year and do not have the time currently so sorry- #-if smth is blatantly wrong but this is just for the funsies :P #lifestuck au

[kindledrose]

what does lifestuck scar look like?

like this! :]

#thank you for giving me an excuse to draw him !! love him tbh :) #goodtimeswithscar #lifestuck au #life series #gtwscar #also was no one going to tell me how fun wheelchairs are to draw ohhh my goodness #<there is room for improvement ofc but like hellooooo #doodles

[kindledrose]

'homestuck clethubs fake dating au' was not something i thought i'd be drawing by the end of the year but you know what i'm ok with that

featuring clethubs of veeery inconsistent heights hfjshf (and random tealblood trollspital guy)

#zombiecleo #bdoubleo100 #ethoslab #trafficblr #cletho #clethubs #lifestuck au #not the way alternia functions in hs canon at all i know but i'm just messing around #i'm p sure they don't have hospitals and just leave people to die but we can't have that happen to poor eethos now can we #doodles

[kindledrose]

PART 2 ‼️ me & my friends when we are stuck at life (pt 1) (pt 3)

character notes under the cut!!!!!

both in true hs canon and in this au, rage represents chaos. and lifeseries grian is so undoubtedly linked to chaos above all else — he thrives off it, subsists on it even. if it’s not something he can seek out it’s something he’ll initiate. but — make no mistake, the anarchy he initiates is very much limited to within the game. he doesn’t break the game system, he works within it and disrupts whatever system the players are trying to put in place… for the benefit of the game itself. and again, with heirs being played by their aspect, it only makes sense for him to be one. rather than jimi, though, he’s okay with this — being an agent of chaos ties him to it intrinsically, and that makes him feel so, so alive. he’s okay with being controlled, for the most part, because it also means he’s in control. at least at the beginning.

i wanted to make eethos a mind player so bad you don’t understand 😔 but i think he is closer to void in reality. either way he’s a thief — dealing in redistribution of his aspect only to himself, whether consciously or unconsciously. i think void makes sense for eethos because he’s such an unknown to many of the other players (and also to some extent probably himself). a thief of void — taking the mystery from others, knowing them and their secrets and cloaking yourself in them, making yourself an unknown. if void is an aspect more focused inward, also (i like the idea that the central struggle of void players’ character arcs are more personal than some of the other aspects), we could have eethos vs the mortifying ordeal of being known + choosing to stay. which comes back to his class, with thieves having to let others have their aspect as well in order to fully complete their character arc. with that being said eethos “wghats the deal wiht abtrhoom pesnis” mind player will always be real in my heart ok

beedub oh beedub my beloved rogue beedub. rogues typically have the problem, right, where they are capable of redistributing their aspect for the benefit of others but never for themselves. so they try to find others who can help them with it but really just have to learn to stand on their own (and end up finding a source of their aspect that way). this specifically throws beedub n eethos’s friendship into the saddest light because beedub is okay with giving everything to his friends + allies (esp eethos) while quietly hoping they will help him in return, but the thing beedub wants eethos (as a thief) is incapable of giving to him. he can only take, and that’s where their sort of falling out where eethos starts avoiding him and spending more time with others comes from. eethos needs to learn to give to others (not beedub) and beedub needs to learn to stand on his own. ethubs makes me sad. BUT ANYWAYS hope as the aspect of imagination, of being caught up in seeing what could be, of love and trust unconditionally without paying mind to the possible repercussions. that is pretty bdubs-coded i think. he’s a hope player and he’s going to be ok guys he’s going to be fine :)

again feel free to ask me questions abt them !!! lifestuck is in my brain

#grian #ethoslab #bdoubleo100 #ethubs #secret life #trafficblr #life series #hs #doodles #lifestuck au

[kindledrose]

lifestuck ethubs. You agree. reblog

THEY'RE SOOOO SPECIAL TO ME YOU GUYS. thihnking abuot them forever :]

lifeseries ethubs when it’s taken seriously is so fascinating on its own.. and esp in this au when you can take into account that hope and void are considered opposite aspects to one another,,, and when you throw in the contrasting rogue/thief playstyles,,,, ough. 

it's like. they are unable to understand each other on a fundamental level and that makes them so fascinating to the other. like they’re obsessed with each other because they can't figure each other out. yknow? bdubs wants etho wants his undying loyalty wants his support wants his word but ofc he’s a rogue and maybe underneath it all he doesn't deserve it but etho does so he’ll give him all his instead, and doesn't realize that etho is his in a way separate from the loyalties in the game. etho doesn't understand what bdubs wants or why and because it’s obvious that bdubs is his he doesn't need to put it into words, and since only one of them is going to survive anyway he’s really doing bdubs a favor by not sticking around him all the time. you see where i'm coming from? and then it's all filtered through sweeps and sweeps of friendship and all sorts of lovely traumatic experiences and like. idk. why am i putting this all here

anyways there's a billion other things i should be doing rn but here r some sillies (the rest of the au is here :b)

#i misspelled that bit on accident and decided to keep it. my room is cold ok my fingers are kind of numb #ethubs #ethoslab #bdoubleo100 #life series #lifestuck au #trafficshipping #ALSO FEATURING: girl who only ever draws characters from the front with like 3 different poses considers branching out :] #(perspective is WONKY on some of these but like i'm getting there ok?) #ALSO ALSO FEATURING: rare eethos Before he got freaking mauled or whatever. fun 👍 #doodles

[kindledrose]

more of these guys :] (part 1) (part 2)

classpect thoughts under cut! yippee

these absolute fools gave me SO much trouble. i changed each of their classes and/or aspects like twice while drawing this lmao.

pearle was going to be a rage player initially! i had her down as one for the chaos — yknow, ‘red’s my favorite color’ and all that. but the catch ended up being that in this au, as rage represents in-game chaos and bloodlust, it only exists while the game is in effect, and so rage players don’t have much dominion over stuff that happens after that period ends (which has all sorts of delightful implications for grienn’s character, but anyways). meanwhile pearle definitely continues playing and also grows as a character even in times of peace. i was thinking in terms of comparing her arc in double life to secret life in particular — ‘she left the tower’ and all that, yknow? she went from being terribly isolated and functioning on a completely independent scale, winning only for herself, to being a key member of a team and finding a purpose in helping them. which is pretty incredibly space-coded, in my mind! my personal qualification for space players is that they’re destined to be lonely, often physically separated in some way from others, for a while but not forever — because space is about creation, after all. and if you look at being a witch from the perspective of reinvention — what pearle manipulated or reinvented here was herself. she found her place in the story and the person she wanted to be. witches are also some of the most powerful characters in terms of specifically manipulating their aspect, i think, which is great because i’ve heard she's pretty great at pvp lol

ignore that martyn’s color palette is not particularly great it’s hard to unify the design of a character who is super rustblood-coded but also inextricably linked to the colors green and yellow of all things. i’ll redesign him later. anyways! at first i had thought there might not be any light players in this session — since light is about sort of seeing through the laws of the game and often deliberately defying them, as well as having a certain degree of control over narrative agency due to this. and because, yknow, the life series is a minecraft youtube roleplay series, realistically the ccs aren’t going to be playing any characters that go out of their way to completely ruin the game or refuse to play it by the rules altogether. but then i started thinking — and i don’t know an awful lot about martyn’s character so forgive me if i’m going a little bit off the rails here — does martyn want to understand? because if he as a character tries to understand and affect his destiny even though he’s ultimately limited by the nature of the story itself, then he could totally be a light player. so that’s where i was coming from here. think about how he won limited life in the end, for instance — not by playing into what the game itself had been leading up to, but by acting on and finishing his own story. he’s a knight because i do think knights are a certified Narrative’s Little Guy class — they persevere through so much pressure and often also have that sort of dual persona thing, both of which are particularly endearing to an audience. it’s hard work, keeping up with the narrative and fulfilling his own quest for understanding while he’s at it!! but he does it!!

renn is Such a blood player guys he is such a blood player ohhh my goodness. playing the game in terms of your relationships with others, right? basing how you go about it on allies and interactions, and being a leader above all else? i’d say that’s pretty ren the dog coded tbh. i don’t have too much to say here because i think seer of blood renn is pretty self-explanatory — he sees the entire game as a game of relationships and ties. he has a lot of knowledge about this field specifically, and shares it with his allies in the way he helps direct them and keep them alive. the reason he’s blood instead of light is because he puts his allies over knowledge, i think — he’s far too busy dealing with all that stuff to speculate for too long what the purpose of it all might be, and that would detract from his goal (of winning alongside others or dying nobly), anyway.

again questions abt them are open forever always :3

#(<TOTALLY SELF-IDENTIFIES AS A SPACE PLAYER BTW. can u tell lmao) #pearlescentmoon #inthelittlewood #rendog #trafficblr #secret life #lifestuck au #doodles #love how u can just slowly watch the quality of the character lineup drawings deteriorate because i want to get to all of them fsfjhjf #i have soooo many thoughts abt how these characters would interact in the context of the game but will save that for another post so this- #-does not become any longer than it already is #(also i know i'm probably coming across as super pretentious abt this au just know i am excited ok! i am simply having fun!)

[kindledrose]

if Jimmy and Scott where trolls what would their blood color be and why

for scott - teal because 1. i do think he's got the personality for it similar to the tealbloods we saw in canon (sometimes-cocky people person but also quite introspective and self-aware), 2. i think it'd be interesting to expose him to that sense of responsibility that comes with being one of the higher castes, and 3. teal is literally his brand pfff

for jimmy, hm. i'd say rust because it puts his relationships with scott, tango, and martyn in an interesting light (1. with scott it reflects their 3l relationship of very much loving each other + being partners despite a supposed inherent imbalance between their characters [as scott's, like, noticeably better at the game and jimmy's on red] [no hate to jimmy ofc scott is just Very Good at the game]) (2. with tango in double life it's interesting because they're both often overlooked or dismissed which ties into them both being lower castes and viewed by alternian society as expendable) (3. with martyn in secret life they're both rustbloods, as well as very competent characters despite being members of the lowest caste, and so the big dog alliance being a sort of reflection of this breaking free of perceiving themselves as less-than because of society and having the freedom to act as some of the characters with the most agency on the server [as they're the first on red] is fun). plus i think rustbloods as well as all of the warmer castes are sometimes a little underrepresented in aus and i think they're fun :P

#ty for the ask! despite the fact that i've gotta keep them as human in the au for the sake of the plot this is interesting ^^ #lifestuck au #scott smajor #jimmy solidarity #flower husbands #askbox #+a quick doodle. they've got matching rings :)

[kindledrose]

Hello! I am very interested in your homestuck life series au but it has been a very long time since I read homestuck, and I do not really understand the classes (I believe that is what they are called anyway) that you have assigned to all of the characters, so do you know where I can read up on them?

hello!! and thank you for the ask! the classes and aspects in homestuck aren't ever super properly defined in canon, so there's a bunch of different interpretations out there, although the wiki pages (classes, aspects) compile all the information actually canon to the story. for this au in particular i used those pages in conjunction with this blog because i really like their theories, and then sort of extrapolated a whole bunch for what that might mean in context of the life series (so the ideas in it don't follow hs canon exactly)!

#i hope that's what you meant! if you're asking about the definitions of classes or aspects i'm using for this au in particular i can- #-make a post describing them too :] #askbox #lifestuck au

[kindledrose]

looked thru ur lifestuck au and. Heir of rage grienn is so real actually. Like I run a small classpect analysis blog and I saw that and went "that's the truest thing to ever be spoken" I love that for him. Also everything else about the au is also great it's just that that specific detail means so much to me specifically. Also may I ask about lifestuck joel?

thank you!!! and YES rage player grian is so special to me. he's mildly deranged he's bloodthirsty he'll lead people to their deaths just for the heck of it. but also: he's very much aware of how the game works he's organizing groups of allies he's not quite himself. (heir in particular,,, he is the game. he's played by the game. he's taking 30 hearts off you and he's laughing.) etc etc :)

you may have noticed that this ask took me a very long time to respond to, sorry! this partially because the character of joel smallishbeans confounds me and i spent like a decent amount of time trying to puzzle him out, lol. he is like one of three characters i don't have a solid classpect for so this is tentative, but here he is for now :]

he is most definitely a knight, of that i'm sure. he's super connected to his aspect intrinsically, but the game is not kind to him for it. again, like martyn, he's the narrative's beloved littleguy and they love stacking stuff on him to deal with. and boy does he deal with it, or tries, but it's Not Fun

as possibly disastrous as a session with three rage players would be, i do think it would make sense in some part for him to be one -- although with the caveat that he's not very good at it, haha. yeah he's supposed to be vengeful and a force of chaos for the server. does he particularly succeed in this? ...ehhhh

#thank you again!! i really appreciate it! also‚ if you're ever willing to share your classpect blog i would love to see it...? #no pressure ofc! i love reading different interpretations of hs canon is all ^^ #smallishbeans #lifestuck au #askbox #doodles #i need to go back to my scar post and add some details i forgot his dream planet + patron troll augh (<does not matter but i want to anyway

[kindledrose]

haha grienn penis symbol

I KNOW. DON'T LOOK AT ME OK. i like taking signs from the canon extended zodiac for the funsies but when i got to that one i was like o_o

#with that being said is it even entirely out of character? #(for hermicraft grienn sure but for lifeseries troll grienn. well) #lifestuck au #askbox

[kindledrose]

Homestuck??? Life Series??? WHY WASNT I AWARE OF THIS SOONER??? you are doing gods work here THANK YOU

LOL THANK YOU I REALLY APPRECIATE IT :D!! and- part of the reason is probably because it didn't exist until less than two weeks ago jkfshf but still!!

lifestuck is currently very firmly in my brain and i have many more things planned so feel free to stay tuned for what's next if you'd like! :P

#lifestuck au #askbox

[kindledrose]

Hello Terra! I am here to pester you with questions about your lifestuck au!! I am sorry for the way I’m about to become obsessed with worldbuilding in your inbox (<- not actually sorry)

Number 1!! Are Earth and Alternia the same as in HS canon, or is it more of a minecraft world? Do they even have Earth and Alternia or is everyone from the same place?

2! From the posts you’ve made so far it sounds like the game itself is leaning more life games than sburb… Do you think players are more encouraged to work together or to fight each other? Or is it kind of up to them?

hello guppy!! and thank you very much for the ask :]!! all of this stuff is subject to change because i'm very super indecisive about aus BUT...

earth and alternia are pretty much the same! definitely different locations -- mostly because i think the cross-cultural interactions between the humans + trolls in homestuck are so funny and can't bring myself to cut that out of here. i have been considering basing 'earth' more on the overworld and 'alternia' on the nether which would be interesting as well... that influence would be only in terms of things like geography and architecture, though, since the more minecraft-y mechanics only get implemented when they start the game. but it definitely has some cool worldbuilding implications ^^

as for your second question, i do think the players are made to work together initially! even against their will, for some of them (read: pearle as scot's patron troll in lieu of the soulmate mechanic) (an attempt at working together is made) (it does not go well). this all kind of starts being less of a thing as they get further into the game and it becomes clear that there can only be so many winners, though. then things start going downhill

i do want to make a post or drawing of some sort explaining the lore of the game itself because i have a few ideas for it!! that might be up in a few days? hopefully ^^

#apologies for responding a tad late i've been contemplating the answers to this since you sent it! #see again: very super indecisive about aus lol #askbox #friendstag #(also 🤝 insane about worldbuilding buddies.. love thinking abt this kind of stuff so much) #lifestuck au

[kindledrose]

would you mind sharing what you think the mcyt characters classpects would be if they had classpects and why

not sure if this is what you're asking but i have made a fair few posts classpecting some of the life series characters already! it's all under 'read more' on the posts in this tag!

#if you're asking about a character in particular i haven't done yet let me know who but i should get to them all eventually :] #lifestuck au #askbox