Fridge / Homestuck B 2 Universe

• When "Di" Strider MST's Jane's book, he puts a note next to the name "Anna" and says that it would be a good name for Jane. Who was Jane known as before the scratch? Nanna!
  • Specifically, the name was Anna *Harley*
• Dirk Strider's new fetch modus requires that the items in a column has to rhyme. It's also filled with different types of orange soda. The word "orange" is also infamous for being unrhymeable. Given the obsession for irony that both Striders share, there is no way that wasn't intentional.
• "XY" is chromosomic because X and Y are chromosomes.
• "RK" is diluvial (pertaining to floods) because it's the last two letters of Ark. It's obvious in hindsight, but it's not something that's easy to figure out.
  • Which ties in with the fact that majority of Dirk's apartment is submerged, and that he's a lone vestige of life in a flooded world, just like the Ark was.
• Where did Gamzee get his time machines? He got them from Damara, who is easily as Ax-Crazy as him and also wishes to support Lord English. Like Kurloz, she's also been helping Gamzee.
  • Alternatively, he may have gotten them from his kismesis, Terezi.
• Why is Damara from a Fantasy Counterpart Culture version of Japan? Remember Aradia's original characterization of being a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl, which usually is based on the Japanese cultural belief in the onryo. (Word of God even made reference to Aradia being based on "every Japanese horror movie ever")
• The alpha!kids titles are foreshadowed at the end of their introduction pages.
  • Jane: When [SBURB arrives], you will waste no time in embarking on the game's MAIDEN VOYAGE, and if even a fraction of what you've heard turns out to be true, you are prepared to have the time of your LIFE!!!
  • Jake: There is a good SKULL at the heart of any mystery, haunting its EVERY PAGE. That is what you always say. Or at least, it is what you always HOPE.
  • Roxy: You are known to nonseldomly employ a ROGUISH DEMEANOR toward the FELLAS, a habit not especially jeopardized by your noninfrequent INEBRIATION. ... And considering [alpha!rose] has been known by the knowledgeable to be in possession of VISION OMNIFOLD, this strikes you as a particularly STUNNING LAPSE IN PARENTAL DILIGENCE. But you have good friends and many distractions to fill this VOID in your life.
  • Dirk: Maybe tagged as a RENAISSANCE NINJA, PHILOSOPHER PRINCE, and FLASHSTEP PUPPETEER. ... And considering [alpha!dave] had a reputation staked on some order of MARTIAL NOBILITY, this strikes you as a STAGGERING OVERSIGHT IN BROTHERLY VIGILANCE. You don't have the HEART to hold it against him, though.
    • Considering that Hussie blatantly made the words all caps, this seems sort of obvious.
    • The aspects are so blatant that most of the fandom figured them out instantly. The classes are a lot subtler and harder to notice.
• Why is G Cat not loyal to any one member of the Alpha Session? Sure, G Cat is... well, a cat. But also because the Alpha Session lacks a Space player.
  • And on that note, the Beta kid's terrible prototyping combo made their session unwinnable. The reason why? Bec threw himself into it just to protect Jade. GCAT most likely never will or would.
    • In fact, GCAT would probably be Dog Tier Jade's natural enemy same as Jaspersprite.
• Nanna Egbert and Grandpa Harley both lived and died years before the events of Act 1, when Beta!Mom and Beta!Bro are still alive. Jane and Jake live years before Roxy and Dirk.
• Remember the first character select screen in Act 6? When you hover over a character, it shows their relative location on a map of the Earth. Dirk and Roxy are unselectable, blacked out, and marked with a question mark. The arrow marking their location also has a question mark over it. [S] Jane: Enter reveals Dirk and Roxy were actually living in the future, where Earth looks nothing like the character select screen's map. That's why they couldn't be selected - they weren't even alive yet.
• The B2 Session is a void session, which cannot produce a fully matured battlefield, and thus cannot create a Genesis Frog and produce a new universe. Jane's entry item is a cruxite tree that bears no fruit.
• An old one I'm surprised no one has caught yet. When Jane notices the extension on the fake SBURB file Roxy sent her you can see that the icon is slightly fuzzier compared to the others. That's because Roxy probably took the logo and shrank it or saved a smaller logo as a GIF or JPEG to use as the icon for the file. A small find, but Jane probably wouldn't have clicked it with the normal .~ATH icon
• Roxy's reticence to kiss Jane and unbridled glee at hugging Dirk on the rocketboard take on a shade of the heartwarming when you realize that it's the first time she's ever touched another human being.
• Why has Dirk's dream self been awake all this time? Because of Jake corpsesmooching his severed head in the past! This means that his dream self would have been active since the moment he was born, and since Dirk's original body was still alive, he was connected to both.
• The lands in the void session are all based around inert gases.
  • Even better than that. The four worlds are - Land of Crypts and Helium, The Land of Mounds and Xenon, The Land of Pyramids and Neon, and the Land of Tombs and Krypton. The first part of each world name is a term for a RESTING PLACE FOR THE DEAD. The second part of each name? They are all Noble Gases. What did Jane and the other Alpha kids become known as to their now-extinct denizens? The NOBLES.
    • The noble gasses aren't inert, all of them save neon and radon (because of being too attractive to electrons and being too radioactive respectively ) can and will form compounds. There's a reason that group 18 hasn't been formally referred to as the "inert gasses" in decades.
    • As an added bonus, Auto-Responder can be shortened to Ar, which is the symbol of the noble gas Argon.
    • Worth noting that the WMG page saw all this coming after learning the lands' acronyms in Myststuck.
• Dirk is the Prince of Heart, and "Prince" translates to "destroyer". Who does he kill first but the Hegemonic Brute, i.e. Hearts Boxcar?
• Calliope tells us that the two obligatory aspects in a SBURB session are Space and Time; all others are nifty but optional. [S] Dirk: Synchronize and [S] Dirk: Unite prove exactly HOW essential those aspects are to a successful game session. The (Void Session, Post-Scratch) B2 game lacks native Space and Time players. It takes Dirk one Thanatos Gambit, one rocketboard, two robot helpers, two corpsesmooches, three non-linear space/time transportation devices, and three or four crowning moments of awesome...all to solve a displacement problem Jade and Dave could have fixed with almost no effort.
• The Ship Tease with Alpha!Lalonde and Jane's dad can be attributed to Beta!Lalonde and John's dad being in a relationship as well.
• Jake just accidentally killed a fairybull. He feels just awful. Does this remind you of anything???
• Jade made the Girl's Best Friend, a rifle with DD's symbol on it. Well, diamonds ARE a Girl's Best Friend.
  • Check the total grist used to make it. All diamonds.
  • Even better? The amount of diamond grist needed to make the Girl's Best Friend was 500,500. In Roman numerals, D=500.
• Ro-Lal is an anagram of LOLAR.
• It should've been obvious that the letter in the mailbox was a trap, since it's taking place on 11/11, Veteran's Day. Mail isn't delivered on Veteran's Day.
• Why has the entire Act 6, nearly a third of the comic by pages, been so slow and tedious? because it's a void session, with nothing happening, and empty and dull by design!
• A long way back Dave had this conversation with Equius, implying that Bro's training had made him too powerful to properly wield a normal sword, causing them to break under the stress. Now, what is the only weapon Dirk/Bro has ever used?
  • Even better is what happens to both their weapons by the end of the series. Dave ultimately ends up with another Caledscrath that he never gets around to breaking, whereas, as of [S] Collide, Dirk's "unbreakable" katana gets shattered. A fitting end to the Irony Masters' weapons.
• The people trying to assassinate Jane could possibly be B2 Rose and Dave, attempting to kill The Condesce's heiress without realizing she's unaware of The Condesce's true nature. While that's not Fridge Horror enough, Roxy - Rose's ectobiological mother - almost kills Jane herself by causing her computer to explode.
• The sequence where Roxy uses her Void powers to conjure a new Matriorb is similar to using an Appearifier on a trans-universal scale.
• End of Act 6: Roxy does what every good Rogue should: she stabbed the enemy in the back.