Lil Cal



Lil' Cal is a puppet that belongs to Dave's older brother in the adventure Homestuck.

For a long time, Dave thought that the puppets his brother kept around were awesome but, more recently, he's begun to be disturbed by them; especially Lil' Cal. In Dave's defense, Lil' Cal has a rather unnerving aesthetic and seems to possess the ability to appear very suddenly (which is one of Bro's many ways of tormenting his younger brother).

Bro's mind games involving Lil' Cal have given Dave occasional nightmares where Cal talks, causing him to wake up in a cold sweat. This is likely related to Cal's presence as a (possibly) living, sentient creature in Dave's dream tower on Derse.

During Strife, Bro uses Cal as a weapon, manipulating him so that it appears that Cal is fighting while keeping out of sight using his ninja-like speed. This succeeds in delivering quite the beatdown, and untold psychological damage. This suggests that Bro has the puppetKind Kind Abstratus, though if the Strife Deck is capable of identifying a puppet and using it as a weapon is unknown. However, it is equally probable that Bro is like John's Dad, who can use many different improvised objects as weapons seemingly without a Kind Abstratus.

Due to a glimpse into events yet to come, Cal's future looks less than bright. Bro slashes him in half during his final attack on Dave. Either Bro doesn't care about Lil' Cal as much as previously thought, or killed him as an ironic gesture.

However, after accelerating to a future scene, Cal is shown to have been used as a Tier Two Prototype in Dave's Sprite. After reversing, Dave prototypes the seppucrow with something else, as the Calsprite doesn't seem capable of communication beyond mocking laughter.

Cal popped up as his dream self on Derse, but Rose got annoyed by him, and threw him out the window, down to Derse. He than landed on Bro's hoverboard and was brought over a teleporter to a mysterious lab in The Veil. Dream Cal was then sent back in time with Baby Bro, and presumably became the real Cal.

Real life
MSPA Forums user Eyes 5 constructed a real life Lil' Cal puppet which is now in the possession of the great creator.