What do the homestuck quadrants mean

We all take a moment to lament how pedestrian the human reproductive system is, and further lament that the phrase "incestuous slurry" is not a feature of common parlance in human civilization.

This quadrant involves a particular type of three-way relationship of a black romantic nature. Falling on the conciliatory side, it has no bearing on the reproductive cycle, except for indirect ramifications.

The auspistice mediates between the two, playing the role of a peace keeper, preventing the feud from boiling over into a fully caliginous rivalry.

Since such lesser feuds are quite common among trolls, there is a significant need for auspisticing parties. Without them, too many ashen feuds would become caliginous, and begin to conflict with other exclusive kismesis relationships, leading to a great deal of social complexity and sore feelings even more so than black romance usually involves. Without auspisticism, the result would be widespread black infidelity. The relationships each quadrant describes tend to be malleable, if not volatile, especially on the concupiscent half where more torrid emotions reside.

It doesn't take much to flip a switch and transmute blackrom feelings to redrom, and vice versa. In many cases, one party will have red feelings while the other has black. But it will often be the case that one party's feelings will swap to match the other's, since there is no quadrant which naturally accommodates such a disparity. But thereafter, it's not uncommon for the two to toggle between red and black in unison now and then.

These scenarios naturally result in both red and black infidelities. This sort of relationship volatility is why conciliatory relationships are an important part of troll romance. An auspistice can stabilize particularly turbulent relationships. There are many outside factors and influences tugging and pulling these relationships in different directions, and unlike humans who have very orderly, simple, straightforward romantic relationships without exception, trolls exist in a state of almost perpetual confusion and generally have no idea what the hell is going on.

Being confused by troll relationships is one thing we do have in common though. A reasonable human translation would be the concept of a soul mate, but in a more platonic sense, and with a more specific social purpose. Trolls are a very angry and violent race. Some are more hot-tempered and dangerous than others, to the extent that if left to their own devices, they would present a serious threat to society, or even to themselves.

The moirail is obliged to pacify the other, to function as the better half. A Caliginous relationship is about frustration. Wich originates in crossed feelings for the partner. And yes, they can work together, and carry on normal conversations. Just prepare for the kismessis flirts. I will quote Karkat once more. Feelings developed while he followed her instructions through fixing the Alpha timeline. An John was starting to realize how he hates beign bossed around without explanation. JOHN: do you understand it?

JOHN: no, not really. JOHN: well, sometimes, but not much. JOHN: what?? JOHN: no… this is messed up! JOHN: aw, man. The moirallegience has a very important and specific social purpose.

A moirail is some one who complements you. We talked about soulmates, but it is not quite that. Moirallegience is about finding someone who is the opposite of you and accepting them as the self you lack. You respect your partner, because they are capable of things you are not. For trolls this is really necessary. We said before trolls are violent? Say that I am very impatient, but my pale partner is very good at beign patient, and they help me emulate that patience. This is the complement moirals search, a good balance of emotions.

Imagine a vacilating relationship, or a particulary dangerous kismessissitude. If a troll gets concerned about their well beign and whoever surrounds them and decides to meddle in, then we said they become ashed for the couple.

This is what feeling ashen for someone is. Wanting to help out to keep a balance, for the greater good. The auspisticer troll begins to mediate between a problematic couple and pacifies the situation.

Making it less dangerous. Breaking a chain of infidelity. Helping the couple get to terms with their emotions. An auspistice will have to do a good job or everything could go horribly wrong, though. That is the very specific role for the ashen quadrant in troll society.

You could take whatever couple you would like, honestly. They are too similar. You know Dexter and Mandark? Just pay attention for a second to these kids behaviour.

They did everything to get the other one frustrated, but when the situation called it they even worked together. They had so much fun. That is caliginous flirt and there is no other way around it. Because I am so invested.

They have shared so many feelings and they do have emulated emotions on each other! I just love it when they talk about their differences and agree that they are both good in their own ways. And even after that they kept having these tensions but workaround them so graciously.

All thanks to Steven being a silly and cute auspisticer. If you need even more examples, please refer to this post. See how well these three teenagers will explain you how Troll romance works. Ah, yes. The first possibility is person A's flushed feelings going unrequited for too long, so they go back to pale. Another is person B learning about and being disgusted by person A's desire for a matespritship. The third is person B realising and returning the flushed feelings, resulting in a matespritship, though this is the least common.

Transgressions from flushed to pale are equally uncommon, and progress the same, only in reverse. Comprehend Blackrom Transgressions. Though transgressions between the two blackrom quadrants, Kismesistude and Auspisticism, are certainly not as intricate as concupiscent transgressions, they are considerably more common. If two people are in a caliginous relationship for a while, and the kismesitude begins to wreak havoc, and auspistice will step in.

This is exactly like the previously explained ashen relationships, only the third party acting after the disastrous relationship became canon, or official. However, it is unfortuately quite common for ashen relationships to trangress into caliginous as well. If the party acting auspistice has little interest in the role, or doesn't perform well enough for any reason, they will be forced out of the quadrant while the other two presume to become kismesis.

It's traditional for a troll to only be in one quadrant, but a troll can be in more than one on rare occasions, for example, Morail and Auspice. Yes No. Not Helpful 39 Helpful Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Try doing some research on other sites about the Homestuck quadrants, such as the Homestuck official wikia, mspaintadventures. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. As your friend, they might know a way to explain the quadrants in a way you understand.

Moirallegiance is NOT friendship, despite it not being one of the 'reproductive romances'. Submit a Tip All tip submissions are carefully reviewed before being published. Fictional or not, it can be quite graphic and is not for innocent minds.

If you think you're ready, look up the word Bucket. Helpful 18 Not Helpful 2. Do NOT make the mistake of assuming caliginous feelings are based off hatred. This assumption is horribly misleading and embarrassingly inaccurate. Helpful 13 Not Helpful 2. Related wikiHows How to.

How to. Co-authors: 9. Updated: November 1, Categories: Comics Fandom. Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 49, times. Reader Success Stories H. MeenahxAranea , or the XY format i. Onto quadrants! Now, shipping in Homestuck got a little more complicated when the trolls were introduced in Act 5. This is due to trolls having four types of romance.