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CARAPACIAN RAMBLE POST

What exactly ARE carapacians? On the surface, the answer is obvious - they're chess guys! Originating in Problem Sleuth + Jailbreak, Carapacians are simply designed, and their designs often amount to a stickman rectangle with a round head.

In SBURB, Carapacians play two vital roles - fighting the doomed battle between Prospit and Derse, and acting as the "Exile" to a specific SBURB player. Exiles function much like the suggestion boxes/reader commands of interactive comics. From a metatextual point of view, the Exiles fill the role of the reader in this aspect, rooting for and attempting to help the protagonists.

(Most of the characters in Homestuck reflect an aspect of the fandom - Caliborn reflecting the "hatedom", as an example. I won't get into it here, but Homestuck is ultimately a conversation between reader and author.)

They are unaffected by prototyping, save for when they posess one of the Royal's Artifacts - a Queen's Ring, or a King's Sceptre. This causes them to take on all the qualities of the beings prototyped, thus gaining incredible levels of power (depending on the power level of the beings prototyped of course) and changing their apperance. Interestingly, while these Artifacts are typically used by the King/Queen, Pawns can use these items too, as seen with PM. This is clearly a reference to the chess rule of "Queening", when a pawn, if moved to the very end of the board, can ascend to queenhood and completely turn the tide of battle.

These chess motifs are seen throughout the Carapacians, and I assume that it ties into their culture + biology as well! WV was once a "Warweary Villein", which suggests that Carapacians in the Medium live under a feudal system, further reflected by the Archagents (functionally, bishops, to continue the chess theme) and the high-ranking roles of the King and Queen. PM "rises" above her role as a pawn and mail carrier to take on the role of queen, but casts it aside (along with the Ring) into the Forge, in order to complete the A2 humans' session.

On the subject of their biology, many people take "carapace", the main feature of their biology, to indicate "insect" or another form of arthopod. While that's extremely cool, their chess motifs and the fact that all Carapacians are cloned (and given a barcode of their genetic data) indicates that they are more like plastic dolls, toy chessets, if you will, which reflects the nature of their existence - to serve Prospit (and by extension, Skaia) /Derse in a predetermined war.

erm hehe i really love carapacians!! ^_^ let me know if you guys have any thoughts, i just wanted to ramble about a few things ive been thinking about...might update this if i have any new ramble paragraphs

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[AUTOPLAY] CHUCK [maybe abandoned]	1709754158 OH SO WONDERFUL......... i really love seeing what other people think of them giggling running away this is kinda making me want to redo some of my spec stuff too hmm ireally need to like compile all my stuff somewhere actually Report Comment OMG ID LOVE TO SEE IT!!!! i lovee the capacrians smiling giggling by cherrybomb [on hiatus]; 1709754217; Report IM REALLY SHY ABOUT MY STUFF BUT I REALLY NEED TO OPEN UP ABOUT IT MORE... if i do itll probably be in bulletins honestly by [AUTOPLAY] CHUCK [maybe abandoned]; 1709754302; Report actually i might make one right now but itll be super short with only liek 1 thing by [AUTOPLAY] CHUCK [maybe abandoned]; 1709754325; Report yayyyy <3 <3 i love seeing carapacian posts by cherrybomb [on hiatus]; 1709754383; Report
𓆟 Gilbert !! 𓆟	1709736069 This is probably my favourite blog now. The carapacians are so complex and people totally forget about them 3. There should also be more carapacian ocs I’d love to see those. Report Comment i lovee carapacians people forget about them all the TIME............they r one of the best parts of hs imo by cherrybomb [on hiatus]; 1709747256; Report
sprite/jane B3	1709730191 carapaciian2 are 2o 2iilly B3 iim 2aviing thii2 for later when ii have to wriite the carapaciian2 for my fan2e22iion Report Comment YAYYY WOO i <3333 carapacians 4eva by cherrybomb [on hiatus]; 1709732874; Report
Maya Mikaela	1709728892 I fucking loooove carapacians my earth c OC is a carapacian Report Comment also I think I saw this on tumblr by Maya Mikaela; 1709728984; Report LMAO yeah i reposted it to my analysis sideblog ^_^ carapaces forever id love to hear about your oc!! by cherrybomb [on hiatus]; 1709732917; Report well her title is Newspaper Scribe , she works for the new prospit hornographer (as a writer) . she's a prospitan , wears a button up shirt and suspenders and she's trans (pretty cool if you ask me) , she's also tall. overworked as fuck and that's pretty much it she's not very deep lol by Maya Mikaela; 1709737515; Report well she doesn't HAVE to wear those all the time it's just for work by Maya Mikaela; 1709737682; Report oh shes sounds really cool!! :DD i love the title by cherrybomb [on hiatus]; 1709747203; Report