sorry if this is some shit everyone already knows about from a you tube clickbait lore video i dont keep up with the hive swap fan community and this is my 100% original theory which is true and if i am correct, which i am, then i deserve a trophy.
a claire's name sounds like "eclair" (don't all the best theories start off like this?)
anna claire's name sounds like "an eclair" and is a valid human name. the anna harley hint in pony pals is not superfluous, it is relevant
two baking themed names and a female character with black hair who is quite beautiful. (on the lilypad in the end of act 6 in homestuck, basically everyone tells jane she is hot, except terezi, who is literally blind. the narrative goes out of its way to talk about how hot jane is for like three pages.)
female character with black hair who is quite beautiful and has two baking themed names
now
let us weave facts together
skaianet is engaging in a massive cloning project. what is the Earth B1 Batterwitch trying to clone? we know the answer to this.
she was trying to clone trolls. of course, this would be her goal as a troll supremacist. but could she possibly have had another ulterior motive? yes she did. for you see, there was a PROPHECY THE SUPERSTITIOUS BATTERWITCH DESPERATELY WISHED TO AVOID.
Nannasprite tells Fedorafreak a fairytale version of her horrible old life. This tells us two things: Jane and Jake were destined to be married, and their children would go on to save the world. Surely this refers to John and Jade, right? WRONG. JOHN AND JADE DO NOT SAVE THE WORLD. Despite every good thing they end up doing, the world is destroyed while they are helpless to stop it! So the Prophecy that Nannasprite is an open ended piece, we know for sure that it does not refer to ectobiology or John and Jade at all. So the Batterwitch had reason to believe that Jane and Jake's babies would be dangerous to her aspirational rule. This is why the Batterwitch did EVERYTHING POSSIBLE in order to keep them apart. Not only by confining Jane and controlling her life, but also through more direct means of separation:
Someone else, a very pretty woman with black hair, no glasses, and black lips married Jake. We'll get to the no glasses and black hair in a second. We have no direct proof that the Batterwitch set this up, but, it seems a remarkable coincidence that a woman who looks so much like Jane and HAS A BAKING THEMED NAME ended up marrying Jake. So what does this mean? Nanna never has babies with Jake, right? Does this mean the Prophecy was averted? Oh no.
It is clear that the Batterwitch has a dearth of usable genetic material; otherwise she could easily clone the trolls outright. Dirk tells us about her desperate experiments on B2 to turn human blood different colors, etc. So she had to make do with what she had in the cloning process; and what genetic template was more readily available than her own stepdaughter's? All that needed to be done were a few tweaks, and she would be able to prevent the Prophecy from coming to pass and maybe making headway on her troll cloning project. What do I mean by that second part?
I mean that Anna Claire is half Jane and half troll.
How absurd! These black and white pictures show clearly that she doesn't have grey skin, nor horns! And those black lips look more like Roxy than Jane! What basis could this wild speculation possibly have?
Then let me ask you...
WHY DOESN'T DAMMEK'S LUSUS REJECT JOEY?
Oh, Vivian, you say, (you have just learned that my name is Vivian), maybe Dammek's lusus just likes Joey? NOPE. CONSIDER:
CONSIDER THAT LUSII ARE SO NOTORIOUS FOR REJECTING NON-MATCHING BLOOD SCENTS THAT THE DOLOROSA HAD TO ADOPT THE SIGNLESS LEST HE DIE, AND LATER, THAT THE SIGNLESS'S UNDERGROUND DEVOTIONAL CULT HAD TO SPEND EONS WORKING IN THE SHADOWS TO BREED A MUTANT LUSUS THAT MATCHED KARKAT'S BLOOD COLOR SO HE WOULDN'T DIE.
Huff. Hufffffff.
BUT VIVIAN. YOU SAY. HAHAHA. BUT MAGIC MIRROR. HOW DO WE KNOW FOR SURE THAT ANNA CLAIRE IS PART TROLL. WITH NO EXTERIOR VISUAL SIGNIFIERS.
OH?
YOU WANT EXTERIOR VISUAL SIGNIFIERS?
Look at Anna's lips. Now read this passage from Kanaya's intro.
EVEN.
THOUGH.
A TROLL'S.
LIPS.
ARE NATURALLY.
BLACK.
Haha! We are truly making new advances in the field of Zillytheory.
Oh, and, speaking of exterior visual signifiers, let's not forget what the Batterwitch does to herself in Skaianet Systems:
She removes her horns. So the stumps. Are buried in her big, fluffy hair.
I don't believe we've ever taken a glimpse inside Anna's hair yet, have we?
Oh but Vivian! Vivian! Magic Mirror-sama! Even if we accept that Anna may be part troll, how do we know she was bronzeblood? Is the Dammek lusus acceptance (which is by itself a smoking gun), the only connection you have?
Oh, I don't know, dear reader.
Aren't certain BRONZEBLOODS considered to be supernaturally gifted at ANIMAL COMMUNION?
And say... That pattern on the pigeons reminds me...
Doesn't Anna's necklace look familiar?
TAURMINI.
SIGN OF THE HERMIT.
Under a caste system that the Condesce herself had, if not promulgated, spent her life promoting eagerly, and would have certainly insisted upon conferring even to a misbegotten genetic experiment.
(Also, is that a Doom sign I see there? Maybe Jude has more in common with his wayward mother than we thought!)
Let's see. What else. Oh, Anna has another name. A valid troll name.
And this might dovetail neatly with the question of what happened to Anna Claire. It's implied that she died, right? She definitely died? We're sure about that, maybe? But, in any case...
Who knows what she may have been doing in life. What the name Arsala may have meant to her. Was it something Joey overheard in a conversation or monologue she maybe wasn't meant to hear? Did Anna, in her time, know the dark glow of strange skies, and friends beyond this small world and her marriage to a selfish, whimsical, impulsive fool like Mr. Harley? Did she make out with any beautiful troll ladies?
And what of the prophecy? Remember the prophecy I was telling you about? "No," you say? "Because I talk too much," you say? Well, there was the little matter of the prophecy Nannasprite spoke of that the batterwitch desperately wanted to prevent. That Jane and Jake's son and daughter would save the world.
And isn't Anna a Jane?
And aren't there two intrepid kids out there right now?
And aren't there still worlds out there to be saved?
I await my trophy.
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Huh. Guess I'll be looking out for Joey showing any signs of being part troll in Act 3.
IM LOSING MY SHIT THIS THEORY IS SO COOL. it might also explain why joey can naturally read and speak alternian. think about it.
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Sure. Fuck it, why not.
Not sure if you're insane or correct but either way I can tell that we need a new chapter soon because we're going mad.