Homestuck Vol.8 - 28 Questant's Lament

From the album Homestuck - Volume 8 available at:
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Track art by Fibug at fibug.tumblr.com
Questant's Lament by Thomas Ferkol

[@McLovinEgbert]

Her journey through the windswept must be walked alone. Her entourage, bid farewell. A queen becomes a questant.

[@festeringmongoose]

+Speggy Wee You always put the best comments c:

[@desireanddecay3583]

[@insectoidinheritor896]

It's really, really sad when you think about that the only characters who can truly die are the carapacians...and that PM and WV are the only ones from B2 left alive...

[@thefangirlingpuellamagi3345]

I love the carapacians so much.

[@Future_Phoenix]

+Insectoid Inheritor What about the guardians? (and the handmaid I guess.. though she lived a very long pitiful life) can't they die? I'm not sure about the guardians and that also makes me wonder about the rest of the citizens of Earth, Alternia and Beforus who died. (and the rest of the carapacians probably died for good too)

[@emeraldarwyn5367]

Insectoid Inheritor no dream bubbles for them :o(

[@fadzalhakimi1298]

Are you from Guatemala, TFPM?

[@fadzalhakimi1298]

Are you from Honduras, Land Ahoy?

[@muon1]

The underrated part of homestuck.

[@muon1]

+Vocanimeify pretty much

[@muon1]

+Vocanimeify same.

[@room___]

i liked alchemizing a lot but even though i love problem sleuth... the whole 'screw around until you do plot' type thing gets lame, i think i like the minimal amount of silly commands homestuck had.

[@emeraldarwyn5367]

Harlequin the carapacians were the best part of acts 2-4 for me. i really wanna cosplay as PM one day

[@fadzalhakimi1298]

Are you from El Salvador, Room?

[@HollyCancer]

*spoilers* It's funny, It really didn't faze me when trolls started dropping left and right like flies but when Hussie let Jack kill off the White Queen and her King, I was pissed. I couldn't read the comic for a couple of days. I'm glad to see she pwned the shit out of Jack in the Alpha session.

[@dimensionalMystery]

The exiles deserve so much more love and attention

[@shepsfield]

Okay, not homestuck related, but this feels sort of.. Angsty? It gives off a sort of dissociation and creepiness to it, sort of like a ghost trying desperately to communicate with people they used to know.

[@tipsy634]

thanks now im going to have nightmares

[@Em_kat]

@Laura Álvarez del Río we havent seen any so unfortunately it seems unlikely they are game constructs so I think they are treated like underlings but friendly

[@gosupergirl123]

If they're game constructs or not, they still had feelings? I mean, we followed them and their thoughts a long time, didn't that prove it? And I still think Peregrine, Jack, Wayward and Spades are big parts of the story, but that's just what I think.

[@IceeMoonDemon]

gosupergirl123 hi

[@cameronwallace8265]

+gosupergirl123 I thought it was clear that it was never a game.

[@dooplon5083]

+Cameron Wallace Nope, it is indeed a game, just the most important on ever.

[@gosupergirl123]

Izzy Toigo hi i didnt see this before now xD

[@IceeMoonDemon]

gosupergirl123 i know :\

[@DiaVaza]

This song always reminds me of loneliness, and how it often took control of me. But on the other hand, I can't stop imagining about the White Queen.

[@JoshabitheTogekiss]

You forget. Death is very real. Players have the Dream Bubbles, where they can live with their friends forever. But they can die again, and then they die for good. And Death lets them wait around for their friends to double die, or they can carry on. Past the end, to see what waits behind.

[@Legomicroman]

the exiles are getting too less attention, they did far more than the troll´s ancestors and dancestors. and yet there is more fanart about these actually pretty unknown trolls, although they are BACKGROUND CHARACTERS, while you could count the exiles almost to the main ones, atleast the mayor.

[@lost2736]

Yudron Micros I actually thought that the exiles are trolls in disguise at first XD

[@hekirb3382]

Yudron Micros the mayor rules

[@wsketchy]

All hail Mayo! Ack- I mean Mayor!

[@KuroSys]

I miss the Mayor.

[@fadzalhakimi1298]

Are you from Mexico, Lost?

[@ClubbingChoogle]

Death still isnt bad, even if you double die you just go on to play scrabble with death for eternity, hes actually a pretty cool guy.

[@dazzythenormling4847]

There are lots of spoilers in the comments, If your are a new homestuck just don't read the comments or wander in the homestuck fandom, there are spoilers like EVERYWHERE, so just ignore the internet and just keep reading the comic, or just watch a read along on youtube by ColabHQ

[@rosebyday3479]

*snaps fingers* Donchu tell me what to do!

[@rifukun3825]

+angel rivera You literally just told someone what to do as well.

[@rosebyday3479]

+Rifu Kun I thought the misspelling made it obvious, but that was sarcastic humor.

[@rifukun3825]

angel rivera Yeah, I realised.

[@rosebyday3479]

+Rifu Kun Oh, ok.

[@soulsspiritscombined2718]

i am forever in love with this song.

[@celowein]

My favorite exile. She was always so stoic and knew what was going on. Well, almost everything...Didn't know what that second lotus blossom was.

[@lakesandquarries]

I love this song. Its so beautiful...soothing....

[@volnartheunforgiving3952]

This song really just gives a feeling of despair, of that there's just nothing that can be done.

[@teabee2497]

I FINALLY FOUND THIS OMG

[@Sevurxkur]

Wait other people love Questant as much as I do? Is she also your favorite character like she is mine>? WHY DON'T YOU ALL HAVE DEVIANTART WE SHOULD TALK MORE.

[@jiffy-jef]

This is one of my favorite HS songs!

[@kitcatkat13]

Simply, heart-wrenchingly, beautiful.

[@kuwagattan]

windswept questant .. ..... nhgh .. ...............my beloved ... ..........

[@faustlacrimosa]

i cried the first time i listened to this...for at least half an hour...there is truely something...in this song...that can make touch the weakest corner in our heart.....

[@tygonmaster]

That is only a concept that has been presented in Problem Sleuth. It is not present in Homestuck. Lord English double-killed tons of doomed timeline ghosts that were confirmed to be gone forever. That being said, Roxy is a wild card here. She could bring them back by stealing their nonexistence away if she wished to do so.

[@ChaosTheory010]

{Spoilers}I kind of felt the same, even though I really liked most of the trolls who ended up dying. I think it was more because of how it was treated in comic though. The trolls' deaths were kind of just ignored, you never really saw anyone mourning, or if you did it was treated as a joke. On the other hand the King and Queen only got a few moments of screen time together, but that time was used to effectively establish that they really did care about each other.

[@brit_no]

Why is this music so nostalgic?

[@OTPCRAZY]

THE FEELS ARE COMING BACK. GO AWAY! STAHP!

[@SargonsEye]

@cthulhlu Now, did he? After seeing Jade, the one entity he at least cared for (Even if due to Bec's influence), being always alone and hated, disregarrded... Perhaps that was just the thing. Being a god, needing to destroy everything to feel he could actually do something. Perhaps just no one thought of Jack Noir first. Perhaps he didn't think of anyone else as well. We shall never know.

[@inferno232]

@Eagle0600 The sad thing is, we don't know what happens to the Carapaces when they die. Player characters? Yeah, they're in dream bubbles. But constructs of the game? We don't know. So, for all we know, they just... Cease to exist when dead. Which would be sad as hell, sure, but Hussie hasn't pulled punches on matters of death before.

[@kalanianteah8939]

I thinK that VrisKa and Meenah mentioned CarapaCians being in the dream bubbles... Not sure though Also they probably hadn't yet when you Commented this, so w/e

[@nicholasmaiab.6668]

i AM CRYING IDK WHY

[@kitcatkat13]

I'm....not...crying, there's something in...both....my eyes.

[@Daftelfy]

dying means nothing in this comic

[@Dustrusk]

What of course it... 3:14, 3:14, *gasp 413!

[@KHIX3L]

Why doesn't any body draw/talk much about WQ and the White King? They're an awesome pair, I just don't understand. Seeing your husband for a few moments before meeting your end is pretty sad now that you think about it. Damn Cascade.

[@Smatwafaum]

Dead, but she got to see her king one last time... you know, for ten seconds.

[@garthol]

But think about it. They're seriously in a better place now. Together. Forever. Still sad though.

[@jamesream3745]

death doesn't mean anything if you can just sneak out of his apartment. :)

[@RemingtonVslice]

Plus we still havent met the White Queen of the B2 session

[@TheJeSTeR7530]

Dragonballs answr to everything.....I LOVE IT! Wonderful Idea.

[@DeathMachineDAS]

Strangely touching. And sad. And a bit underrated compared to the rest of the songs. I like it.

[@DrBreyn]

oh heck yeah!

[@dwagoncatboi1724]

;~; dem feels

[@doodles507]

don't touch it only...

[@tygonmaster]

x2 thumbs up combo

[@plaaaant]

kill me if you want but this sounds like waterfall from undertale

[@Ulindria]

@GrandGetsuga0 you realize the important number is 4:13, right?

[@aximila123]

this song kind of reminds me of the twilight princess game and it makes me sad. :.'((

[@polygonlaundry]

I-it's just raining on my face, okay?

[@JoshabitheTogekiss]

He locked the door, remember? Or Woodwind Instrumented it, I don't know.

[@CyndaZtarz]

Didn't they show her imprisoning B2 Jack noir?

[@Brackets_Guy]

[@EidolonOrpheus]

@GrandGetsuga0 This case was actually unintentional. 0_0

[@FutureKarkat]

He oboe'd it, that's the scientific term.

[@Plakhandje]

This song is 3:14 long

[@vondieerde]

I hope the carapaces go the The Afterlife from Problem Sleuth when they die.

[@ASwiftBreeze]

Read the amount of time in this video. Backwards.

[@saylemevelyn]

aaaHHHHH

[@tygonmaster]

Indeed. It was very funny. :D

[@lizardwizard226]

No one else like this comment! It's perfect.

[@DemonicGhostwithin]

can't they just use the dragon balls?

[@watcherfacehurtlolol]

@Smatwafaum not the king.

[@Party_Almsivi]

Tfw /co/ gave me a thing for dersites/prospitions

[@faustlacrimosa]

@aximila123 after listen to this song for once..i just turned to lady gaga and florence and the machine to gain some health back orz....

[@MissJenca]

Or hungry hungry hippos. xD

[@yoshikinglovesyou]

Reminds me of Touhou.

[@aximila123]

@faustlacrimosa join the club :'((

[@meece5970]

The main tune sounds similar to the waterfall theme in Undertale :/ Not sayin it is the same tune, but it just reminds me of it.

[@AllAroundVids1]

Guess who makes and helps with a lot of the music for Homestuck, and has helped with it since years before Undertale... Toby Fox

[@easypeasypiano6118]

But this wasn't even made by Toby Fox.

[@hamboz8976]

This was made by Thomas Ferkol

[@Hotpocket0916]

incorrect, the waterfall theme in undertale sounds like this' main tune.