This is a theory I've had for a while, figure I may as well post it here. I've already posted it on Tumblr a few months back(https://www.tumblr.com/tankgamingidk/775595443630587904/homestuck-beyond-canon-100-player-theory-so?source=share), and most of this post will just be restating stuff from that post.
So, we know there's going to be 3 nymphs and 3 satyrs. According to Hussie (in a non-canon post), the troll universe was made via a 48 squiddle session, and according to loop theory, the nymphs are going to become the squiddles/horrorterrors.
Now, if there were ever going to be 48 squiddles/horrorterrors/nymphs, in a session alongside satyrs, it'd be pretty odd for there to be only 3 satyrs alongside 48 of the other species. As such, it'd make sense for there to be 48 satyrs as well.
And hey, if you combine that with the number of candy kid players coming in, you get a grand total of 100 players. The perfect number for a battle royale. Now, we know that there is some kind of war between the 2 species. What if this war was to happen/continue inside of Shurb? It would also allow for the 48 squiddles specifically to create the universe, despite sharing the session with another species. Additionally, with the most recent upd8, we now know that there are a bunch of other players connected to our main 6 through Cha.OS that could make up those other 92 players.
One additional detail, if you add either A. The number of human players from previous sessions, or B. Vriska's number, to the number of players in this session, you would get...
108. Homestuck's new arc number.
That's it that's the theory. There's gonna be 48 nymphs, 48 satyrs, and 4 candy kids, all participating in a big war/battle royale inside of Shurb.
I've never considered that they could have such a large amount of players until this update, because there appears to be a whole fucking Discord server lol.
This theory is cool! I honestly thought it would make sense if the Discord server died in the reckoning, but it would also be really cool if the rest of the players just did stuff in the bg.
Crack addition to this theory: The hundred-prototyped enemies, queens, kings etc become the horrorterrors after the session, because they are so distorted by the prototyping.
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It's a good theory, but I wonder how a 100 player game will play out. Unless the known rules of Sburb are broken they'd have to be playing at least like, 8 different Sburb sessions with 12 players each + the main character sessions. I wonder if cha.OS is how they'll all connect somehow?
And just out of curiosity, is there a post somewhere or maybe a youtube video talking about the loop theory? I was thinking of writing a post here about it but I'm unsure how much people have already come up with.
And that's about it.
@Palm Heart IIRC the origin of loop theory is this post from Meraki Sunset, all the way back in April 2024. It's probably a bit outdated since we've learned far more about the Nymphs since then, but it's still a great explanation of the theory for the time.
https://www.tumblr.com/meraki-sunset/748573737383854080/its-a-loop
Also I hadn't thought much about 100x prototyped enemies and king, that'd certainly make a chaotic session! Plus, them becoming horrorterrors rather than the nymphs could be a good explanation, given that the nymphs don't seem to grow directly into horrorterrors like the original theory implied. (Although, the imps don't bleed and the carapacians bleed red, while the horrorterrors bleed purple, so unless one of the prototypings somehow modifies their blood color that's probably a point against it)
i feel like this would be frustrating and near-impossible to write but would also be sooooo funny
forget putting homestuck into Fortnite we are putting Fortnite into homestuck
why does my phone insist on capitalizing Fortnite???
I actually had a friend who wanted to make this into an MSPFA once, but not as a general premise, but as an epilogue to an already thousands of pages long story. I tried to tell him it wasn't a good idea and it got canned like 2 months later.
Also I almost autocorrected premise to penises.
Last time I saw him he went viral on Twitter for saying that Hussie deserves to be locked up in a mental institution so I think I'm doing good now
Oh yeah cool theory though. I think it'd be fun but only if you don't try to develop all of them.
re:tankgaming ohhhh i totally forgot we had references for horrorterror blood. thats a good point!! although im not sure we have any strong references for the nymph blood yet either...
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I hope youre right if only so i can overly attached to some scrub that gets murdered within their first page of screen time
