list of underrated homestuck characters

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homestuck things that will never get old #9508

someone requested some legit equius/eridan and so i decided i might as well draw some fanart for All the Way Down by Ceruleancynic/coldhope, which i love ( and i’m obsessed with There’s Still No Guarantee atm)

Equius is a really underrated character, and when he is brought up it’s usually just for jokes about him needing towels or in conjunction with Nepeta.

But in reality he’s like this awesome mechanical genius who builds fully functional battle robots and working bionic arms for his friends; at the human equivalent of 13 self-taught over the internet. That’s only 13 years of experience, much of it spent as a grub or small child, no matter what your ageing headcanon, while being raised by a horse-cow-butler.

Plus he is literally the strength equivalent of Thor, his STRONGjump is literally insane.

Do you even lift?

^^^ this

also let me point out we’ve only just recently managed to create a prosthetic robotic arm that an deal cards and tie shoelaces

MEANWHILE EQUIUS’S ROBOT ARM FOR VRISKA WORKS LIKE A FUCKING NATURAL ARM??? AND THE FINGERS AND HAND AND WRIST TOO???

and don’t even get me started on aradiabot

Can I mention here that paralysis occurs from damage to the spinal cord. Which means that it’s not just that Tavros’s legs didn’t work, it’s that the nerves didn’t send signals to the muscles properly.

Meaning that Equius would not have just had to build him a pair of legs, but also extend wires to attach electrodes directly to his think pan. This is a thing that some of the best doctors in America have only been able to do in the last few years, with much less stable results.

Not to mention the fact that he was able to craft these things out of random shit they found on the meteor and make the sensors tiny enough that they would be completely inside his head, something humans have not done to my knowledge.

tl;dr Equius is also a professional fucking brain surgeon

equius is actually one of the best trolls if you give his character more than 0.02 seconds of thought

all this and also, despite the casteist shit he was raised to believe, when karkat — lowest of the low — ordered him to stop gamzee, he went, despite probably knowing he’d have trouble standing up to him. the kid had guts.

i kind of love equius a lot and wish more people would write fic about him where he’s more than a sweat joke or a d/s caricature…

i already reblogged this but i don’t care

stay tuned, next week he finds out about selfies

sneaks in some cute when no one’s looking

OH HOLY SHIT WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS

@_@

(thank you this just made my day several times over)

OH MY GOD

ghsadlfhl

The little bandaid on his horn is just an awesome detail and HOLY SHIT NO WONDER THE STRIDERS HAVE A CRUSH ON DR. Z

Also I just want to scoop Karkat up and make baby-speak noises and give him a cookie.

Karkaaaat

Everytime I see this drawing I imagine Karkat doing his own informative video in which he explains how to properly care for your wiggler

and uses Equius and his crab as examples

”(…) and then you cover the boo-boo with the sticky like this (…)”

ALWAYS REBLOG THIS PICTURE

he also shows off how to brush hair, which gets really funny really quick on account of dr z’s hair is long enough to pretty much hide Karkat inside

there may be faint squeaks in the background from Feferi

I think I died of cute.

for anyone who doesn’t know this is (apparently) fanart for Unwanted Free Ugly Troll, a fucking amazing novel-length fanfic by Coldhope

I WAS JUST THINKING OF REREADING THIS FIC BUT I COULDN’T REMEMBER THE NAME.

BUT NOW I HAVE THE LINK AND SOME FREAKING ADORABLE ART TO BOOT.

NIGHT HAS BEEN MADE.

YOU ARE WELCOME FRIEND

WOULD EQUIUS WANT A LOT OF MILK IN HIS COFFEE OR WOULD HE WANT IT STRONG HELP ME THIS IS A LEGITIMATE PROBLEM

“When Nepeta Is Sad Or Upset Equius Will Call Her Kitten Instead Of Nepeta"

nepetafurrickingleijon suggested 

I NEED TO WRITE THIS INTO FANFIC NOW THANK

PEOPLE WHO CALL EQUIUS<>NEPETA ABUSIVE AND CONTROLLING BECAUSE HE KEPT HER FROM FLARPING WITH THEIR FRIENDS

TEREZI IS BLIND

TAVROS WAS PARALYZED FROM THE WAIST DOWN

VRISKA LOST AN ARM

ARADIA DIED

Also remember that people are a lot more direct with their friends.  Perhaps, earlier in their relationship, he said, "Nepeta, I don't think it's safe for you to play with them and I would be scared for you if you did.  I live next door to Vriska and I know what she's capable of and I don't want you to get hurt."  But at this point, perhaps he's explained all his reasoning and just says, "No, you're not playing that game.  Jegus, if I have to explain this one more time, I'll need a titanium robot to handle my rage."

Imagine Equius as a hardcore feminist

Imagine Equius beating the shit out of misogynists.

Zahhak Bonding Time

8=D < Why yes! While our encanter was fleeting, we conversed of our aspirations. Equius and I have much in common, with the e%ception of our views on the caste system.

8=D < whoof also might I add, is capable of bumping hoofs with me and tolerating my ridic001ous STRENGTH without shattering a bone.

Reblogging both because this is objectively cute and because there's always been a part of me that's longed for Equius to meet someone who can handle his strength.

I JUST REALIZED NEPETA IS APPARENTLY AS TALL AS EQUIUS

things people like to forget

I interpret this as: every character in Homestuck has the same body type.  There is a standard teen girl body type and a standard teen boy body type.  When drawing in non-sprite styles, Hussie has to give them actual body types, but in the same way that he makes the kids' skin white "like a coloring book page," he gives all the characters a healthy, balanced body that we can interpret as we like.  I firmly believe that, like skin tones, there is no canon body type for any character aside from the ones that are non-human and non-troll.  Equius and Nepeta may or may not be the same height, but Hussie leaves it up to the reader.

So, I’m realizing that this is actually a pretty important panel:

A green-blooded troll. Interesting, because every single green-blooded troll we’ve had accounted for had a much more specific shade of green used to describe their blood (jade, olive, teal if you squint maybe). The text also identifies the blue-bloods specifically as snobs, meaning that their caste was clearly above whatever Troll Will Smith’s was on this show. Why wouldn’t they just identify him as olive or jade, then?

Maybe because the other term for a specific green-blooded caste was a slur? Maybe because his caste made him a pariah, making him a likely person for Karkat to identify with? Hrm? :P

Look at the text on the picture, and then look at what the narration says: Troll Will Smith’s “ability” was to get the higher castes - known for aggression, as we know - to relax. 

That shade of green is troll lime blood. And it’s the same color we see when Karkat shoosh-paps Gamzee into submission (http://cincosechzehn.tumblr.com/post/42292935382).

It’s looking more and more likely, in my humble opinion, that the lime blood caste’s dangerous and threatening power to authority was the ability to placate anger and calm the higher castes.

I can’t help but wonder now if Karkat learned to shoosh pap from this show. 

Reblogging because, in my mind, at this very moment, Equius is having a tea party with Nepeta and letting her put him in whatever dress-up clothes she wants and they're using plastic cups and sitting at an under-sized table, but she's just the most precious person in the world to him so it's always worth it.

Meowrails hands.

Because tHEY ARE A FUCKING UNIVERSAL CONSTANT.

You gave me so many feels.