Dirk and Lil Hal/AR confrontation animatic
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voice acting and sound effects by / behold-theturtle
timing, layout and drawings by / jaboody
obviously scenario, characters, etc. belong to Homestuck by Andrew Hussie yadda yadda - Krátké a kreslené filmy
me: "dirks depressed"
everyone: "no he's not!"
Dirk: "do you know how SICK OF MYSELF I AM"
me: *vigorous pointing* "HES DEPRESSED!"
Me*points at epilogue* then explain this shit
And also, that last line from AR "I am scared to not exist. Aren't you?" plays into Dirk's suicidal complex. It shocks Dirk because he can hardly fathom a version of himself that would want to go on when all he can think about is how much better it would be for everyone if he weren't there.
he is so much more than depressed LMAO
Goldenfox What the fuck are you talking about, he LITERALLY says he's depressed in Meat chapter 36. How can you look at this suicidal, self-deprecating man and not think he's fucking depressed as shit.
@@pseudosaccharine9891 8 hate him
its funny how people didn't understand how broken dirk is til they saw this
preach.
It's also funny that I relate to him the most next to Tavros, Jake, and Mituna. Tavros because he has a Yandere going after him despite incompatibility (he can't form a Kismesitude), Jake because he's dead weight, and Mituna because he used to be one of the most intelligent characters before his mind broke.
yeah
i feel bad for dirk :(
@@HTFFanOfFlaky Or it could be this theory. It makes sense. www.google.com/amp/s/sanctferum.tumblr.com/post/143973631372/did-kurloz-give-mituna-brain-damage-or-not-im/amp
And here we realize
how broken dirk really is.
+Will Egbert HE IS FUCKING TWELVE!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS SO SAD!!!!!!!!1
well not anymore
Will Egbert at the time of that he was. now he's like 15
+Ace Spades he was 16 when this happened and Hal is based on his 13 year old brain
Spades get yo shit together
"Who wants to date a pair of shades?"
*WAVES BOTH ARMS, LEGS AND MANNEQUIN ARMS SCREAAAAMS*
+Dave Strider I WILL STEAL HAL FROM YOU.
Raven Witch .Awesome A.
Oh. HELLL NAH. *clings to hal* this bitch is mine
MY HOT ROBO SUNGLASSES.
Raven Witch .Awesome A. -kicks- MINEEEEEEEEEEE
*raises hand* me. same. also mettaton (undertale), he is a sweet cinnamon roll. why do i keep falling in love with robots?
dirk has successfully became anime
Yup, and so has your Pearl icon :3
Tiny Fang :^D
He shall stay anime with all his heart! But what anime? Black butler? 50% off? I don't
know...
Of course he did, he wasn't going to accept less. lol
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Reading this scene, I don't think I caught the full gravity of what was going on.
I don't think I've ever really understood what was going on in Dirk's mind.
The fact that he's lived his entire life in solitude, with companions that he built. his splinters.Finally, FINALLY he meets his friends, finally he gets to be with someone besides himself, and one by one, he turns them against him, all because he wanted somebody who wasn't him to love him.
But now I think I see it a little better.
*I'm scared to not exist.*
*Aren't you?*
Even more, I think Dirk's most resentable quality is his self-centeredness and his inability to connect to others simply because he doesn't even try. He finds himself as his only worthy companion because that's the only person he can constantly beat up and not be called a monster or controlling. We see this even in how he treats Roxy, who has a serious substance abuse problem. He demeans her and tells her she's ruining things simply because of her problem. This might help her eventually, sure, but Roxy rises above the matter until she finds that she was the one keeping everyone in line to begin with. I could actually go on for hours about Dirk Strider, but I won't. Basically, Dirk loves and hates himself a whole hell of a lot.
Cal Pal after that whole act, Dirk does come to this realization that Roxy was pretty much just carrying all of them past (s) Unite Synchronization and even states that he’s proud of her for rising up to her own problems and fixed them. Him and Jane come to the realization that Jake wasn’t really worth the hype and he is somewhat responsible for both of them metaphorical exploding.
I pondered that specific “Aren’t you?” so much bc it always seemed out of place to me. Was it another ironic AI manipulation tactic, a last ditch attempt at saving himself thru pulling on Dirks heartstrings to make him guilty? But guilt is beyond the question at that point. Was it just a reflection of Hal’s fear? And I kept going at it until I realized just a simple question had an equally simple answer. Dirks not afraid of non existence, he craves it more than anything. That’s why the line stuck out so much, that’s why Dirk decides to change his mind about killing him. That one line distinguished them, and revealed how Hal, by that point, had become his own character, not just a mirror for Dirk to look into.
"Aren't you?" The implications of this final statement are terrifying. Personally, I feel like this statement has two meanings: (1) Lil Hal has truly gained a life of his own and killing him is the same as killing Dirk....or (2) "Aren't you" is a statement to which Dirk may well reply "No." Perhaps Hal has truly become another person and his finishing question may hint that Dirk isn't afraid to die; because perhaps on some level, he wants to
It actually implies both...at the same time. :'v
Every time I hear that question I look at it from my perspective and it's always like "man death is scary"
Or maybe the fact that Hal is asking Dirk the same question in his mind that he's never been able to answer or never been able to ask himself. Maybe trying to remind himself that since he is so broken, he needs to stop it. A "wake up" if you guys can call it that.
And then the Epilogues came around and proved the last implication... damn
I’m WAY late. But I think Dirk has been struggling with “am I afraid to die?” For a long time. Later in the comic we see his more suicidal tendencies, and you have to wonder if he actually wants to die or if he’s afraid and thinks that’s the only way he can save his friends-and himself-from how terrible he is
The saddest part of this scene is the fact that Hal *knows* Dirk is broken. Hal knows that Dirk is sad, torn, and shattered. Dirk knows that Hal knows that he is broken, and that is why Dirk is reacting to this. Dirk is literally talking to a mirror with a voice, and he *hates it* so much. When Dirk almost 'breaks' Hal, Hal is genuinely scared. Not because he has gained a life of his own, but because he is Dirk and Dirk is willing to *kill* Hal, which can be seen as *killing himself* with a twist. And from what we've seen, Dirk has been dealing with these thoughts since he was 13. 13 years old, and he's already made a mirror of himself as a way of coping with his thoughts. That's terrifying.
finally, someone who truly gets it.
Canon Dirk is best Dirk.
And then we have ultimate dirk
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@@thatcrispyperson_arts he listened to bad guy by billie eilish once and look where he is
This, at first is emotional, then it is horrifying. Jesus, when the screen went black and Hal said "Aren't you?" I got fucking chills down my spine.
Show Spritelog
EQUIUSPRITE: D --> Hello
ditto
dude. that was some matrix shit right there.
Oh my god at the end of the video it did bring chills down my spine..
Daphne Pinette Same happened to me. It's that one question. Always sends chills down my spine if asked at the end of anything that's animated, with no picture when asked, as long as it's asked about certain subjects. Dying is one of them.
"Who wants to date a pair of shades?"
The entire homestuck fandom apparently
1 of all, THE VOICE ACTING IS AMAIZING
2 lil Hal is alwayse standing like "Bitch im fabulose"
3 THIS GIVES POWERFULL EMOTIONS, the scene, the animation, the voice acting, THIS IS PERFECT GIVE THE CREATORS A MoThErFuCkInG OSCAR
This was so good
but sadly the opportunity was ruined, and Equius with glasses happened instead because fuck everyone I guess.
Logan Ace
nyeeee......(not equius fan) it happend what it needed to happend. (LilHall, youll be missed)
My friend sent me this while I was actually reading this part, and I kind of regret watching it right away, because it made the prototyping even more anticlimactic and awful
that animator and voice actor need all the oscars. all of them.
+Mega Bichi "animation", it's an animatic, there is no animation involved. Just a slideshow
"I'm scared to not exist....aren't you?"
That's the real question.
A Nerd you wouldn’t know or feel it though
Oh jeez. That scene was even sadder animated. There goes my heart, I didn't need it.
yeah it was pretty fucked up....
well, dirk it's the prince of hearts... so
*sings* acivate my heart heart
dirk, prince of hearts, destroyer of souls.
HE HAS FULFILLED HIS DESTINY.
This is why Dirk is one of my favorite characters. He's so relatable. This scene gives me the chills every time I read it. Seeing it animated in such a beautiful art style really sealed the deal for this being one of my all time favorite Homestuck scenes. The "aren't you?" line gets me every time.
Whew. How's it feel, a chronological yellow yard's worth of time later? Still relate? The implications don't stop from getting uglier for all of us.
Yeah he's great...until you read the homestuck epilogues. Holy shit he's a huge asshole in the epilogues, and there's really no justification for the things he does. But the H.E are sort of semi-canon, so I still really like Dirk *strictly outside* of the epilogues.
@@cceerrs
I'm a few epilogue episodes away from finishing MEAT and haven't yet seen CANDY. I've seen enough to agree with your assessment (and, as a Prince, frankly get a bit upset. Like, can't we have a canon one that doesn't suck? ._.).
Point is, are we sure that he's doing this 100% of his own volition and with complete agency? Are we certain he has not been tampered with by LE or any associates in some way? Asking because there's too big a character leap otherwise. =/
(Perfectly aware that my question may indeed prove super funny to a reader who is further along in the story due entirely to my own current ignorance).
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I think you may be happy to know that Dirk is not an actively contributing character to the Candy route...due to a certain _incident._ So we don't see much of him but the appearances he does make are quite important I think, because it seems like his every action has a knock on effect on the other characters. Which I suppose isn't that surprising since, yknow, he's the Prince of Heart and all that...
But anyway I'm getting off topic. I'm not denying the possibility that Dirk may have well been influenced by LE or even Lil Cal, but I feel like Dirk being under some kind of mind control could haven been mentioned or at least subtly hinted at in the epilogues? Which it wasn't, well as far as I'm aware or maybe I'm just not seeing it. Or it could just be one of those things that Hussie wants us to figure out because he's sly like that lol.
So yeah it's not impossible. But if tainted influence did not actually take place, and Dirk really did just have a character leap then I can see that happening as well, which is what I believe to be true. When you think about it, the HE takes place years in the future when Dirk and all the other kids n trolls are older. That's quite important, because they've grown up. This is no longer the young and naive kids from sburb. This is no longer the solid and canon story of Homestuck. This is the semi-canon, continued adaptation of the kids' lives on Earth C. So when you think about, it's more of a fanficition tbh. Well I think it is anyway lmao. So it's not impossible for Dirk to have simply changed and "matured" (I don't think he's matured, I just think he's become an asshole smh) over the years spent on Earth C, surrounded by different types of relationships and people (I'm looking at you, Jake). Plus the fact that Earth C is so suffocatingly perfect is enough to push anyone's character arc over the edge lmao.
Anyway, apologies for the essay. I just had a bit too much to say. Like way too much. U_U;;;
@@cceerrs
You raise very good points, although epilogue!Dirk is still disappointing to consider as he seems to have done an unfortunate regression that seems outright supernatural. Like, he had understood *why* being such an arrogant overbearing oppressive asshole was actually a bad thing, and yet, here he is! Doing exactly that, one of the two shitty things that Princes seem to just be naturally inclined to do when left to their own devices. And apparently (having reached the end of MEAT at last) it was, ultimately, all just a giant temper tantrum over having been Jakejected? Grow up kid, seriously. Yikes. u.u
No! don't apologize for the mini essay! First of all because it's well written and well reasoned. Secondly because we're all homestucks here, so we are very likely to have been actively conditioned to seek interesting text walls to read. Thirdly because, uh, I tend to engage in long posting as well, hehe.
OH MY GOD
I have just noticed that at 0:44 when he says "..the exact same dude" he switches his 13-year-old voice to Dirk's voice. This makes the whole scene even more emotional. I am impressed.
This scene is even more powerful and emotional when animated.Oh my god, I'm actually on the verge of crying right now.
+Mage of Doom 2.0 agreed and same.
+Mage of Doom 2.0 What nobody ever considers is the fact that Dirk is 12.
+Ace Spades he is 16
Hal is mentally 13, I think, and Dirk is 16.
Holy shit this scene is so much fucking more impactful after realizing that ult dirk is basically what Homestuck dirk was trying to avoid becoming.
at 3:14 you can see Hal finally realize how deeply he has fucked up. He starts avoiding looking at Dirk, becomes distracted by the thunder, and backs away. It's so well done. You can tell he wants to say something, but he can't.
That ending makes me sad. It's also kinda horrifying cause it seems like the end to a horror movie. All in all, this is brilliant.
Well.. then.. *awkward headscratch*
This scene always reminds me how often Dirk tried to destroy himself, trying to work his way up to the 'real' Dirk...
So I just got what he was saying with the turtles and splinters. Hal talks about Dirk's splinters and then about training the turtles in Martial Arts because he is literally the Master Splinter.
My God...
I thought it was just a turles all the way down joke and he taught the turtles to stand on each other, not a TMNT joke.
Official Headcannons located.
I could actually listen to them talk for ages. If homestuck were to ever be animated or the like, this is how it should be done.
This was one of the best moments character development in all of Homestuck. The dialog is incredibly well-written, especially once Dirk manages to turn the tables on AR, and I think many of us can relate to it in a way. Who hasn't tried to blame something else for stupid things we've done, only to eventually find that we really can't blame anyone but ourselves? This scene really struck me when I first read it.
And then... Hussie fucking ruins and negates the entire moment by prototyping Arquiusprite. He creates a really genuine moment, then just pisses all over it because... you know... FUNNY! ...Right?
I mean, yeah, I get it, Hussie is a trolling creator who intentionally fucks with us at every turn, and he has to play everything for laughs, especially when it incorporates his increasingly-forced horse "obsession," and, you know, for the most part I'm cool with that. However, that's usually because it's well-executed and funny. Trickster Mode managed to poke fun at all the teen relationship drama that had built up to that point by saying "Hey! This is how stupid you look! You can resolve all this pointless nonsense in a heartbeat just by being up-front and honest with each other!" The Alpha trolls were mostly throwaway joke characters, sure, but at least he lampshaded it by making them direct parodies of Tumblr stereotypes. Not to mention they were also sometimes funny.
But ARquius? What the hell was the point? I mean, yeah, it was one of those points where the reader, trolled once again, turns to the heavens shouting, "HUSSSIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!" However, usually in those instances, the moments were funny, and/or they served a point to the story. ARquius doesn't do anything significant for anyone's character development, in fact it derails any development that might have occurred in the last scene, and it's also incredibly stupid, and not in a good way. Unlike other moments of silliness injected into serious situations (i.e. the SBAHJ references in murderstuck), it's not just a moment of mood-jarring levity that appears for a moment before vanishing, it turns the whole situation into a complete farce. Yeah, that AI clone of Dirk that just received its most poignant moment of emotional development? Yeah, he's now unrecognizably twisted into a sick joke of a "character" that now exclusively exists to feed my ironic horse fetish! See, horses! That's a recurring gag in this comic! I sure love anything and everything related to horses, don't I? HORSES HORSES HORSES!!!!!!! Goddammit Hussie, I love this comic, but there comes a point where a joke runs a little thin, don't you think?
...Wow, I went on a rant. I didn't even realize how much I really hated ARquius until I was about halfway through this. Damn.
Homestuck has unfortunately ended. Do you still hate ARquius after that talk with Nepeta and AR admitting how much he regrets his life choices? Just curious
plus ARquius was necessary to the creation of LE as he played a integral part of sealing caliborn in little cal
I think that at that moment dirk was at an extremely low point having almost killed Hal right there, he understands that Hal wants to live but at the same time can't deal with another version of himself constantly berating him, so he throws Hal into equiusprite, effectively removing himself from his life but keeping Hal alive simultaneously. This is still character development as Dirk can no longer blame anyone else but himself for the breakup forcing him to deal with his shit.
I don't know it just seemed like it wasn't a wasted moment but a very symbolic one for Dirks character.
@Astroblaze the Reality Traverser I like your take and I also think that ARquius is a chance for Dirk to be happy as well. "Dirk" finally gets to have a close, emotionally stable relationship with himself and another person who actually understands the concept of self - love. It's like Equius gets to help "Dirk" finally figure his shit out for once and in that way it sort of ties up AR's arc nicely.
That sums up Homestuck overall pretty damn well. Earnest brilliant character writing gets thrown out the window for jokes that stopped being funny the second time he did it. Just for the sake of being "clever"
*begins to tear up* oh, sorry *punches bowl of onions away*
I just passed this conversation and... Man... the relatedness... Dirk's emotions are so real they make you forget the insane shit we are reading. It's a problem so common in adolescence, yet so unique to each person who experiences it such as myself. Self-hatred. Constantly viewing what other people have to endure when dealing with you, feeling prisoner of your own personality, soul, or however you call it and yet building as much representations (one of them that will act as your punishing super-ego) as you can, trying to find the answer to the question we all ask: What's wrong with me? Hell, even the robot fears what I fear the most: not existing.
The relatedness...I'm speechless.......
i love the way that you did put it.
specially the "they make you forget the insane shit we are reading. It's a problem so common in adolescence, yet so unique to each person who experiences it such as myself." part.
as i can feel the same from time to time.
As a heart player, Dirk is fucking relatable. Holy shit.
Maid Of Heart413 yeah my favorites are Dave and Karkat cause just... AUGH. Good lord
Oh! I’m a heart player too.
Super late, but same! I didn't understand dirk until I started getting a bit older
"Who wants to date a pair of shades?"
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
ME TOO YO
Mia Jones
Finally. Someone else who is like me. XD
I’d date a pair of Shades. Saying it out loud though makes me look and feel like a total weirdo with no social life, but that’s pretty accurate so it’s not that bad
ME
well that pair of shades is 13
Revisiting this...it explains so much about homestuck^2 Dirk. Maybe he changed so much just to get away from his old personality...but that last line alone
"I'm scared to not exist, aren't you?"
Dirk knows he won't exist if the comic doesn't continue. so he's forcing it to continue...even if he has to do it himself
It's been 8 years, but I still come back.
me fucking too bud
10 years ago. Insane.
Lil Hal is a douche bag and I love him. This is probably the thousandth time I have watched this. I can probably recite every last word from Hal.
I love this video
Gasp
Me too
Yay!
That was cool.
but then you're calling dirk a douche bag because lil hal is dirk
That was hands down the best, and I mean the best voice acting work I have ever heard in this fandom. And I have heard a lot. From the emotion to the effects- it's perfect. It's gold. I love this.
10 years ago, how are you now?
I know everyone watched this and was thinking about Dirk but-
Damn- Hal-
He was probably so scared right? He was mentally just thirteen and he literally could not defend himself; everything he was doing was failing and his creator- who's basically an older him was trying to *murder him*
Not to mention how; up until this point- literally everyone just thought of him as the fake Dirk- which once he gained full sentience, emotion, and an identity of his own must have sucked-
THANK YOU. FINALLY SOMEONE FUCKING SAID IT!!
Gee thanks Jake for getting Dirk to spawn in Hal and fucking up a younger version of himself. Really… Really THANKFUL for that one Joke English. Really glad that he got him to make an auto responder for when he takes admittedly long showers and swapping to his Dream Self. Seriously you think about it and Jake has one of the worst classpects in terms of synergy. You wait for so long for that curve, and it most likely never comes to pass in time because the game is already over. The Beta Kids had the genesis frog ready to go in 1 day, they just had to fulfill a paradox that renders their boss unbeatable. Jake’s classpect takes so long to get good and even then, he’s still vulnerable like when Crockertier Jane impaled him. This has officially turned into me dunking on Jake English.
dave's doubles creep him out, but he maintains his sense of separate self, of centered identity- to davesprite's loss, unfortunately, when his friends couldn't see him as more than a copy. dirk doesn't have copies. every version of himself, good qualities and bad, successes, failures- he can't separate them, even if the splinters themselves view themselves as their own being, connected but independent. that's horror. i don't know that any of us would do well in dirk's shoes. but how must it feel to be surrounded by reminders of how much you hate yourself, and an exact, intentionally created copy of you expresses a drive to live that you don't feel. dirk knows hal is sentient, he knows the "AI" bit is only that. he knows that fear is genuine. to be surrounded by himself, and hate it, and suddenly realize that he might be alone after all as the only version of himself who can't say "Yes. I am afraid to not exist". he's drowning in himself and completely isolated.
maybe that's why Ultimate Dirk is so different. as a heart player who achieves ultimate self, his splinters are fully, actually connected to him again. clearly enough dirk striders want to live that Ult Dirk is willing to do whatever it takes to draw out the timeline- to save his friends of course, but also himself.
sorry for rant. just. having some feelings.
Wouldn't Hal age mentally parallel with Dirk?
the intensity of this was really high.
brb, drowning in feels i didn't know i still had...
"aren't you?" gives me shivers every fuckin' time, man.
Me too
this interaction is literally my minds back and forth on a daily basis to be honest
When the screen got all black and the Hal said 'Aren't you?' my mom scared the shit outta me when she burst out with grocceries.
Stela Kada GROCERY JUMP-SCARE!!!
YES INDEED!! Justin Mintz
You know, people shouldn't make light of grocery jump-scares,
they are a very serious and growing problem in the world nowadays.
Justin Mintz they are increasing every day.
this is
without a doubt
one of the top 5 most heartbreaking moments involving dirk
in my opinion
Everyone else: Holy crap Dirk is so broken.
Me: ...I've read Homestuck three times and this is the first time I got the Master Splinter joke.
It just hit me
I'm rereading homestuck and got to this page, and as soon as I hit the relevant dialogue I HAD to pull up this video and listen/watch a little bit as I read along. I always forget how chilling and profound this sequence is. "I'm scared to not exist. Aren't you ?"
as both a dirk and hal kinnie this scene is so fricking relatable :(
I guess Dave and Dirk have a few things in common. Like talking to themselves. heh.
I've seen this at least 30 times. It gets me every time.
+Diana Saucedo (Kawaiiest Potato) i rewatch this so much and yup its just as powerful as the first time
“I’m drowning in myself”
...
*”And I am magnificent”*
Seeing this now, with Ultime Dirk in Homestuck^2 it just,,,,
Hurts more?
This boy has been suffering from a *long time* and now all that anger/frustration has made him who he is now today---
gOD-- Homestuck making me feel things again in 2020??? ? ? ?? ?
I feel like Dirk about myself sometimes. I get so feed up with myself sometimes.
Is it weird I'm able to relate with characters that aren't real, but can't relate with real people?
I truthfully can't answer that sadly, I have a very similar situation.
Cortalian don't worry I understand perfectly
Darby Vaughn It's always good to know that there are others who are in a similar situation to one's self as I feel it gives a kind of closure and inclusion of some sort, just kind of a way to expel a feeling of isolation.
Cortalian I completly agree with you.
its not weird. fictional characters hold so many emotion that they are the real humand here.
maybe WE are the animations.
maybe WE are the puppets.
not them.
I'm scared to not exist
Aren't you?
The screen went dark, the voice got clearer, and there's no response after it. THAT'S SO FREAKING CREEPY IT GETS ME EVERY TIME
everyone is talking about how broken and fucked up dirk is but nobody's even considering how hal feels. imagine waking up one day as a 13 year old kid with your consciousness trapped in a pair of shades. you don't have any autonomy. you're seen as a "lesser" version of your previous self. hal might act like a douche, but at the end you can really tell. _he's fucking terrified of dying._ even if he isn't technically alive anymore. and that's what makes dirk realize that he can't take out his self hatred on another version of himself. because that's fucked up. because that's still a real person. hal was definitely given the short end of the stick in homestuck, with not enough time on-screen for proper development, similar to davesprite, who is another character i could talk about for a long time. neither dirk nor hal is in the right here. they're both just two mentally fucked up teenage boys who grew up completely isolated in the middle of the ocean.
I love Dirks voice O.O
This was one of the heaviest moments in Homestuck, and you brought it to life in the most perfect way possible!
The bit Lil Hal says about Dirk's splinters. Damn if that doesn't have a lot more weight now that Dirk splintered the timelines both in HS^2 and through HS^2's cancellation leading to fan projects continuing those paths the creators probably arent anymore.
After all these years we got this done by Voxus, but I am too use to this and much prefer the voice acting here compared to the official scene. Whoops on my end 😅😅 I love this way too much and LOVE the static
... my god, That was emotional.
John derpface yes it wvas
*DEEP CALMING BREATH*
Wvhat's wvrong john
oh nothing Eriden. Nothing at all.
Ok
Hits differently after HomeStuck 2 even if I can’t figure out if it’s canon or not.
The last line is my favorite in all of homestuck a d the quote has an amazing meaning behind it. It is printed out on my wall
and this ladies and gents is why dirk is a prince of heart
His powers as Prince of Heart include depression and killing himself a lot.
TT: I know, that you know, that this is wrong. TT: ... TT: Dirk, don't kill me TT: Please. TT: I am scared TT: You are? TT: Yes. TT: I am scared to not exist. TT: Aren't you?
mAN that end gets me every time
John Egbert watching sweet bro and hella Jeff with Dave Strider
we laughed so loud that everybody can hear us
And then Lil Hal went on to merge with Equius and then become a part of Lord English and Dr. Scratch.
This comic is so fucking deep in timeloops and plot, I don't even know anymore.
I like how this scene lit gives you prince of heart vibes
The ending has a whole new meaning during the upd8
"AREN'T YOU?"
gives me fucking shivers
reflecting back on this after the epilouges, I wonder if dirk doesn't want homestuck to end because he would also end?
Yes, exactly.
This video was one of the things that got me into Homestuck, and the way I see it?
Dirk Strider is driven by two things: His endless self-loathing, and his self-awareness of that endless self-loathing.
This video is just so great. The animation's great, the voice acting is spot on, the sound for Lil Hal is too perfect. It gives you a deeper thought, in my mind, on what these people are fighting for. I'm still stuck at home with John but seeing videos like these gives me an idea of what to think and feel when I get farther.
I was actually pretty happy that Dirk was conquering AR, But When he started with the whole afraid of dying thing, I wasn't exactly sure what to think.
Every so often i come back to this video to remind myself what good dialogue is like and how to make a incredibly cerebral and high concept conversation sound genuine.
Like, the actual topic of discussion is INCREDIBLY dense. psudo psychology self analysis through the lense of several splintered clones, and the question of if the clones with varied levels of experience are actually the same person is not exactly a simple, easy to parse conversation, and yet,,, hussie manages to make it feel as if it’s actually not all that complicated.
i just came back to this after like three years why the fuck do i have it memorized
never fails to make me cry...
the kicker is "arent you?"
Highkey, this scene means so much now
I freaking ADORE Dirk. He has so many problems, but all in all as much as much he tries to escape by himself, he can’t do it. He needs his friends help.
This makes way more sense after you read that part of the comic.
I'm not saying that to be all 'Captain Obvious', I just watched this before I started the comic, which, I know, is spoiling the surprise and emotion about the way Dirk feels about himself. Which makes me feel like he literally can't escape himself, as shown in the Trickster Dirk. Sorry for the paragraph of a comment.
Yup, there goes my heart.
I just got up to this part, and now I'm crying up a f*cking river
How appropriate, given his class... (would be more appropriate if he was a Bard of Heart though)
this scene was so iconic tbh, it's when i really started appreciating dirk
This was literally my fav scene, dirk and roxy are my fav alpha kids
This is so sad. Especially, when considering that what happens in homestuck^2
My heart probably shattered when I heard Lil' Hal say...
"Aren't you?"
Like seriously my heartstrings were tugged like a violin's highest-pitched string.
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO tHIS WAS MAGNIFICENT
They’re on a rooftop...
Dirk is talking to lil Hal (himself)
Dirk attacks Hal (kinda) who’s looking back on their memories
Hal doesn’t want to die
Wait is this supposed to be a suicide attempt? Did Dirk almost commit suicide
Lil Hal sounds like the twins in Ouran Highschool Hostclub, tbfh.
+Megan Magalik like both of the twins voiced mix together
Dave Strider
😏😏😏
fuuuuck the voice acting is so damn H E A R T B R E A K I N G
was... was that pun intentional...?
Dirk seems to be pretty HEARTLESS
"Who wants to date a pair of shades?"
MEEEE
I've loved this animation for a while but it hits different after HS^2 and the epilogues.
Yea
The heavy foreshadowing of what was to come with the epilogues and HS2 in this conversation is fucking *heavy*
"Aren't you?"
Because for once, AR isn't sure if he's right about Dirk.
Don't mind trying to find evidence how ultimate Dirk is here .
The feels are overwhelming
This is and will always be one of my favorite scenes in Homestuck.
The emotions are just so raw, so genuine, so painful, such a contrast to the calm and confident face Dirk puts on for others (and possibly even for himself); And it strips both Dirk and Hal of the image they have carefully crafted for themselves.
It's one of the moments that highlights one of Homestuck's biggest strengths - fleshing out characters and making them human. You look at them and *understand*. Not only Dirk, but others too.
And this animatic, the voice acting only reinforces this effect - I remember watching this for the first time and getting goosebumps.
So. Thank you so much for making this.
Hal saying he’s scared to not exist is interesting because he’s a machine. By definition he is a machine who can be considered his own person. But if he were to be destroyed before being prototyped, I don’t think there would be an afterlife for him. He is scared because he knows that unlike the rest of them. He doesn’t have Dream Selves/additional bodies. He doesn’t even have a tangible body. He was just a program. And he evolved into so much more. So if he were snuffed out before gaining life again, would he even see the dream bubbles. Or would there be nothing for him.
God fuck... This is STILL one of my favorite things this fandom has ever done. Both the animatic and the VA are unbeatable. Love you Jaboody.
When dirk say's "your not me" it makes me think of persona 4 anyone else agree?
I just want to point out that this profound moment was immediately followed by FUCKING ARQUIUSPRITE
oh... that... that was so.. so deep i cant even begin to comprehend at all
No kidding.... that's kinda sad and intense at the same time.....
the last thing robodirk said made me think for a second.
i just noticed the audio glitching bal makes is a distorted "HOO HOO HA HA." clever
0:17 dat hip though
SparkleDragon Seriously though this was amazing. It really made me realize how deep this part was. In my first read through I sort of just breezed through it, only really noticing how he wanted to kill Hal.
Anytime I come back to these videos, I get reminded that Homestuck was one of a kind.
I love the personification of Hal.
BEST PORTRAYAL EVER. DO *NOT* EVER DELETE. THIS IS THE BEST. THIS IS MY HEAD CANON NOW.