Alex's Stuff

swamp-wizard:

one of my favorite Little Things about homestuck is johns strife specibus allocation….. i dont mean in like a “this is complex and meaningful and hussie is a genius” way in just a, i like it way. its something that ONLY could have arisen organically out of the kind of collaborative storytelling homestuck was way back in act 1. an independent author would NEVER have made john a hammer user. johns whole thing, thematically, is wind, which is generally associated with lightness, freedom, delicacy, unpredictability. characters who are wind elementals get to use things like bows and arrows, or other projectiles. very light weapons that are thematically appropriate. hammers are fuckin, literally just, Condensed Heavy. and warhammers especially are big, blunt force weapons. sturdy, utilitarian, brutish. generally associated with blacksmithing, so like a fire or earth elemental (altho those dont really exist as skill sets in the Homestuck Encyclopedia of Superpowers). johns a hammer user bc an audience, that had noooo idea that wind powers were ever going to be a thing in homestuck, decided they wanted john to pick up the hammer (and NOT the sword which he had in his magic chest, an equally efficient and perhaps more obvious choice of weapon). so as things go on and the plot develops what you ultimately have is a character w wind powers (i.e. weightlessness) running around wielding a giant hammer (i.e. weaponized weight). if an individual author had plotted the whole thing out ahead of time that never would have happened

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