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Finished playing CG's route, pretty good. Some of the trolls felt OOC, like Sollux and Aradia, while others felt just spot on, like Kanaya and Equius. Karkat's self-hatred seems a bit TOO played up. Like, he couldn't talk about anything else, really. I also am starting to grow more tired of the constant self-references to MSPAR.  Constantly making "jokes" about "erm, Gamzee we're bros but I'm not actually a brother, you feel" stuff is pretty bottom of the barrel in terms of humour, especially since it's starting to get repeated in every route.

I think it's really funny how the win is achieved by being an asshole more often than not. Just knock on his door unprepared and dump verbal salad, snoop on his Trollian and talk to all his friends, basically laugh in his face over his self-hatred tirade. Basically all are things that Karkat really needed. Honestly less like an asshole and more like a boundary pusher, since you're really trying to change the outcome of Homestuck here, and trying to stick to the "canon" isn't MSPAR's purpose.

Keep up the good work.

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Hey, I'm interested to know what you think felt out of character for sollux and aradia? IMO they felt pretty in character. Granted, early hivebent sollux is not easy to get right since we don't see a TON of him before he undergoes a bit of a change post-second-awakening (since he no longer has to deal with the voices of all of the soon to be dead on alternia).

Talking about the Aradia on Pesterchum, I think her just blocking MSPAR was a bit strange.

As for Sollux, he seemed like kind of an airhead? Not sure how to describe it, just strangely detached.

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Something to keep in mind for Sollux is that he had a tendency to experience rather rapid and intense mood swings early on, which can definitely read as a sort of airheadedness. But it's more that he's stressed as fuck constantly and doesn't know how to deal so he goes very quickly from "fuck fuck fuck thii2 i2 horriible 2hiit" to "fuckiing whatever ii dont even care about thii2 2hiit" to try and cope, and then goes back to more intensely emotional states because keeping those down ain't easy, resulting in the flippy-floppy vibes. That's at least my read of his character in early hivebent at least.