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Caliborn, also known by his chathandle, is a cherub with HS 6862 (cherry red blood) from a dead session of the game who HS 7020 (shares) a body with Calliope. He was HS 7163 (confirmed) to be the young.

 is Caliborn's future self. He is an indestructible demon summoned at the end of the universe, although his time travel abilities allow him to appear prior to his actual summoning. He apparently cannot be destroyed by ordinary means, but only through the exploitation of a number of time-based glitches and loopholes. He is the leader of on Alternia, and his appearance resembles that of a cherub. Vriska Serket describes as "the 8ig 8ad," saying "English was the guy who stacked the whole deck against us from the start, rigging shit to go haywire, wiping out our race, 8lowing up universes, exterimin8ting ghosts, slaughtering dark gods, and shattering reality itself." was the "demon" summoned by the unhackable.~ath file.

Biography
Caliborn is the mentioned "brother" Calliope is working with, and is generally an antithesis of her. He is very rude and ornery (which contrasts Calliope's politeness). Caliborn's typing quirk is also the opposite of Calliope's, capitalizing every letter except u. Like Karkat and Calliope, he types in a shade of grey, having abolished "hemotyping" as part of a game he has been playing with Calliope for most of his life. However HS 7391 (Caliborn changes his text color) to the color of Calliope's blood as a sort of trophy.

He is confirmed to be a Derse dreamer, calling himself a HS 6877 ("Derse guy") when explaining to Dirk why he had to hire the archagent to kill his sister instead of doing it himself. Calliope also mentions that she is a Prospit dreamer and that her brother must enjoy his "".

Caliborn has been confirmed as the Lord of Time, one of two essential aspects to a session, along with Calliope as the Muse of Space. This is the male Master Class, parallel to Calliope's title. It is revealed by Calliope to be the most active class, and reserved for male players. Caliborn's reveal as the Lord of Time ties in with his adult self being the time travelling.

As Caliborn
Caliborn spent most of his life in a single room "together" with his other half Calliope. It is not until the dawn of their Sburb session that he breaks out of this situation.

By having Calliope's dream self assasinated by Jack Noir he prematurely takes full control of their shared body. This dominance is visualized by his cheek marks turning into full red circles, as seen in his future self. He then chews off his still shackled leg, as only Calliope would have been able to open said shackle. This marks another two physical changes that are seen later in, the loss of a leg and HS 6583 (one tooth). He replaces his lost leg with a robotic leg he prepared, and later replaces his tooth with one piece of candycorn obtained HS 7395 (when he trashed MSPaint Adventures.) At some point before talking to Jake, he HS 7575 (apparently) replaced this with a gold tooth.

After entering the medium he begins to explore his planet, meeting Gamzee Makara along the way. He HS 7372 (politely declines) Gamzee's offer to be his guide. He also finds a weird tower that lets him communicate with Andrew Hussie. He decides to go through with his HS 7007 (plan to paint his words with Calliope's blood) and changes his text color to #2ed73a. This combined with the caps lock on the towers key board results in the typing style he would continue to use as (when he isn't using the flashing color text). He begrudgingly starts to accept Gamzee's presents and guidance, due to Hussie's

After unlocking planets other than Earth, he largely abandons Gamzee as a guide and friend and HS 7839 (builds up) a crew of minions, one member at a time, to serve as his replacement.

He eventually reaches and ascends the god tiers, unlocking the skeleton key badge on his Kiddie Camper Handysash, which he uses to assume control of the narrative. At this point in time it is also seen that he has a solid gold robo-leg, yet another step closer to 's adult appearance.

As English

 * Note: Since it's difficult to know the chronological sequence of 's actions throughout the story, the following events are written in the order they appear in the comic.

The Midnight Crew Intermission introduced as the leader of. Spades Slick attempted to pry open 's vault with 's crowbar, which transported him to a timeline where everyone except him,, and presumably were dead.

During Rose and Dave's chat in which she reveals her plan to use her dream self to destroy the Green Sun, Rose mentions that she had help thinking up the plan from Scratch, who says he successfully completed everything that required from him. Scratch also mentions that his death is required for 's arrival, and that throughout the countless universes in which instances of him have been created, he has never failed in bringing him back, and never will.

Scratch also mentions that is a very evil man and that his name is merely a title, and not the demon's actual name. According to the narrator, to know his true name is to "understand terror no human ever has." However, there is one scene starting HS 5127 (here) in which the audience does get to see, and he appears to be Andrew Hussie himself. However, Andrew then HS 5128 (confirms) that he is not actually ; he is only wearing his coat (which is much too big for him).

Then, a small portion of him (his eyes) was revealed in HS 5979 (these) HS 5980 (three) HS 5981 (updates) at the top banner. At the time we could tell that has two eyes, large clawed and green hands, and speaks in a bold green text almost similar to the exiles. The pool balls that appear together on each frame are paired like ' coins; 1 and 11, 2 and 12, 3 and 13, 4 and 14, 5 and 15, 6 and 9, 7 and 10 and finally, two eight balls. The significance of this (if any) has yet to be seen. However, 111 is an arc number for Act 6, while 6 and 9 have been used to refer to the "sym69l" of The Signless. Meanwhile, 8 is the sum of 4, 1 and 3.

When the Handmaid tries to escape from Scratch's manor, intercepts her and takes her into his service. Later, the Handmaid enlists the Condesce to continue 's service in another universe; namely the post-scratch human session.

In Intermission 2, the ~ATH program was shown to execute after had died, destroying the trolls' universe. Scratch's body is used to create or channel, for as we all know, Scratch is an excellent "host". At this point, was revealed in full. Upon his "release," he summoned his Cairo Overcoat, which then transformed into an Egyptian sarcophagus, which closed over him and traveled back in time. He then made two loud honking sounds, an event referred to as the Vast Honk.

Interestingly, during 's summoning the parts of Scratch's genetic code that were written in the troll's Flarp rulebooks occur. The grandfather clock ""s and ""s. After which the " " occurs as Scratch's head breaks. Then proceeds to "".

HS 6583 (As of this panel), has somehow entered Andrew Hussie's home (possibly through the Fourth Wall that Hussie used to enter Scratch's home) and seemingly destroyed the Hussiebot. He is seen in possession of a Golden Cuestaff. The head of the cuestaff flashes multiple colors (blue, cerulean, yellow, orange, red, and gray) and is sometimes replaced with an image of the Green Sun. After giving poor Ms. Paint a CANEing with it, he proceeds to corner Hussie, turn the cuestaff into an AK-pattern rifle with a Green Sun sight, and messily gun our beloved author down.

Immediately after killing Hussie, enters his sarcophagus and flies through the Furthest Ring. He lands inside a dream bubble containing the doomed timeline versions of the pre-scratch kids and post-scratch trolls. Using the White Wand, he conjures a beam of energy that bursts from his mouth, killing the doomed-timeline characters and destroying the bubble in an explosion visually reminiscent of shattering glass. It is possible that this has caused harm to the Horrorterrors as one of them was shown to have a cut limb, however this could also have been caused by Jack Noir as he was nearby the wounded Horrorterror. This was witnessed by Dave possibly as a callback where he first listened to the Horrorterrors saying to Rose that they are being killed.

Back in Hussie's home, Spades Slick is shown to be seeing a "big overpowered gold machine gun" and notices that he has "very different styles when it comes to running an organized crime outfit."

Personality
Caliborn is perhaps the most alien of all the voiced characters. He has a terrifying obsession with playing games, so much so that Calliope claims his love for them surpasses human comprehension of what love is. Additionally, he is obsessed with superstitions and "JuJuS", which define much of the relationship and "game" with his sister. Thirdly, he shares his sister's interest in romantic relationships, but unlike Calliope, he sees them as disgusting and pornographic. He has also recently HS 6975 (taken up drawing as a hobby), although his drawings are far from intelligible at all (however his HS 7075 (later attempts) do show very slight signs of improvement, with features such as limbs and faces becoming recognizable). He also mentions that he has a learning disorder.

Despite this obsession, he is apathetic towards Sburb, seeing it mostly as a means of escaping his dead home planet. He still intends to play it, but he plans to treat the game as a competition against Calliope instead of the cooperative game it is meant to be, which could make winning the session impossible.

Despite his cartoon villain spiel and bizarre hobbies, Caliborn can be quite clever. He enjoys deploying "shitty" twists to spoil his "opponent's" game (such as pretending to switch positions of two chess pieces but merely camouflaging them as each other), and could be quite threatening if he was not so obsessed with theater.

Additionally, he has a strong prejudice towards women. He shows multiple times that he believes women cannot handle much due to their heightened emotional state. It is clear that Caliborn strongly believes women to be inferior to men.

His outfit is HS 7074 (seen) to be a black short-sleeved shirt with his symbol, a red bowtie and green suspenders. This is HS 7121 (the same outfit as Calliope's) with the jacket removed.

To Calliope
Caliborn has a conflicted, aggressive relationship with Calliope, and often threatened to kill her dream self – an act he HS 6875 (eventually performs) by hiring his Session's Jack Noir, who then stabbed her. In addition to the larger game between him and Calliope, the two regularly play chess, with Calliope winning all but once.

It was revealed that Calliope and Caliborn are two halves of one body, in a relationship that is perhaps somewhat akin to Jekyll and Hyde; one could say they are each the yin to the other's yang, calling to mind the shape of the cancer symbol. This had been heavily foreshadowed by several conversations and incidents. In her conversation with Jane in LOCAH, Calliope states that after a "dreadfUl nap" she "woke Up to find [her] coplayer has made a terrible mess here." This prompts a string of questions from Jane which Calliope is uncomfortable with, including whether or not she and Caliborn have actually met. It also explains why Calliope and Caliborn are incapable of simultaneously cheering/jeering one another and why they need to infer, rather than observe, one another's actions (such as Calliope suspecting that Caliborn is HS 6932 (possibly eating the chesspieces)). It is also mentioned that Caliborn would like to get his hands on Calliope's Juju (just as she would like to do with his, HS 7016 (for that matter)), this likely being the cause for their "game". A potential reason for this could be explained in an HS 6880 (awkward slip of the tongue) when he says there are only a few moves left before he "CAN MATE WITH HER" by which he could have possibly meant that they would become one; by the one obtaining the Juju of the other, said other would effectively cease to exist, leaving only the one and freeing them.

To Calmasis
Continued revelations concerning the Complacency of the Learned books foreshadowed that Calliope and Caliborn are two parts of the same being. In Dirk's conversation with Jake in 2008, the discussion of the books brings up an image of Calmasis bound by two shackles, the right foot's shackle bearing Calliope's Caduceus sign standing on red ground and the left foot's shackle bearing the lesser-known Ophiuchus symbol of Caliborn on green ground. The right foot standing on red ground could symbolize that the left brain, which controls the right side of the body, is Caliborn's domain. Meanwhile the right brain belongs to Calliope. The theory of right/left brain separation between Caliborn and Calliope holds up fairly well when looking at drawing skill, but falls apart when looking at chess, where the left brain (Calliope) should have consistently dominated the right brain (Caliborn). (Although this might just be a tie-in with the fact that Derse always wins the final battle on Skaia.) It should be noted that the more common Ophiuchus symbol is often confused with the Caduceus symbol. Andrew Hussie may have been using this to imply that they are represented by the same astrological sign, which happens to be the 13th sign of the Zodiac in some cultures, which foreshadowed that the two cherubs are one. In this picture he/she appears to have a particular deudly firearm, leading to speculation that Caliborn/Calliope may be 's ultimate downfall.

To other characters
He seems to have a "liking" for Dirk, as far as he is capable of such emotions, calling him the most tolerable out of the B2 kids. He also played a game with Dirk in which he threatened to kill Calliope's dream self unless Dirk drew him pictures of the B2 kids in various romantic pairings. When Dirk won by making him too uncomfortable to keep playing, Caliborn revealed that he had already killed Calliope's dream self before he started the game with Dirk. Dirk also assisted him in building his robotic leg.

Caliborn initially thinks of Lil Cal as a bad omen and cursed juju. However, after obtaining and "communing" with Lil Cal in person, he considers him no longer disconcerting, as he feels the bad vibes coming from it do in fact spell doom for all, but a doom that HS 7578 (he himself will supply). He can feel that Cal will serve as a vessel for his soul at one point.

Caliborn is the antithesis of Calliope, who, in turn, characterwise, is an antithesis of Karkat. This implies association with Karkat (except while Karkat hates mostly himself, Caliborn hates everything else). His ornery nature, tendency to ramble, his typing quirk, and their shared blood color all support a possible connection to Karkat, or, as suggested by the cancer symbol displayed on Calliope's sleeves, merely with cancer itself. He has also been HS 6880 (shown) to have HS 6972 (slips of tongue) much like Karkat when using HS 5771 (figures of speech). While originally speculated to have some concrete connection to Karkat or his ancestor this became unlikely once revealed as cherub and is now likely only one of many parallels between situations and characters.

When Calliope checked Rose's tome she discovered Karkat's attempted relationship timetable which resembled Caliborn's drawing, causing her to speculate that Caliborn did have some connection and that maybe he was "already there", a phrase associated with. This could be a joke Hussie played on the fandom for connecting those two (or four) characters in the first place (fitting, since Calliope is "the obnoxious fandom avatar character", making up theories about the story).

Etymology
Like Calliope, his name bears reference to a certain puppet, which can also be seen as a reference to being "born" from Cal. External to MSPA, his name may also reference the following:


 * Caliborn's name also bears resemblance to "Caliburn", an archaic name for the sword of Arthurian legend, Excalibur. Dave's sword Caledfwlch/Caledscratch also references an outdated and foreign term for the sword.
 * His name is also highly reminiscent of "Caliban", the name of a monstrous supporting character in Shakespeare's The Tempest, who is sometimes depicted as green, and shares Caliborn's misanthropy.
 * Although no obvious connections present themselves, his name is very similar to the nearly phonetically identical elf character "Celeborn" from Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.
 * Caliborn (and Calliope) could be a reference to the Hindu goddess, Kali, who is known as the goddess of death, time, change, and also revered as the redeemer of the universe. This hints at the ongoing duality of the cherubic pair.

Symbol
Caliborn's symbol is a variant of the astrological symbol for Ophiuchus, different from Calliope's (albeit the more traditional one). It was proposed by British astrologer Walter Berg in 1995, and gained widespread popularity in Japan. Unlike all previously revealed symbols (except Calliope's), his symbol contains two colors, a dark grey "U" with a red tilde (~) across it.

Connections to Saw
Many aspects of Caliborn appear to be related to the Jigsaw Killer from the movie series Saw. Both force people into playing their games (with Caliborn's greeting "I want to play a game" reminiscent of how Jigsaw greets his victims), use a black and red color scheme, and unveil twists that undo any progress or reward a "player" might achieve at the end. Caliborn also bears a resemblance to Jigsaw's puppet Billy, as he was revealed to be a cherub like Calliope. This race was HS 6997 (shown) to have blood-colored spirals on their cheeks and have a puppet-like appearance. In addition, Calliope's outfit is remarkably similar to Billy's, color notwithstanding. Billy was a puppet with red spirals on his cheeks, and the red-blooded Caliborn bears the same markings. In addition, Caliborn HS 7161 (chewed off his leg), which is reminiscent of the victims having to saw off their legs in the first Saw movie. When Calliope said Caliborn's love for games was more akin to horror than love this may have been a reference to Caliborn's connection to Saw, seeing how the Saw series is of the horror genre.

While not actually part of the Saw movies, Caliborn's requests for pornography do have a connection to them; in a famous MSPA Forums thread entitled "Cheerfulbear - PLAY ME", a user adopting the identity of Jigsaw demanded that Andrew Hussie draw him Muppet Babies porn.

Attributes
Physically, seems to be a hulking, veined, dark green wingless cherub with clawed appendages, a pool cue peg leg, and a head that bears more than a passing resemblance to that of Lil' Cal, except skeletal and fanged, with billiard balls for eyes. As he "hatches" from HS 6011 (during the second intermission), his leg stump bleeds candy red blood before his peg leg appears.

owns a Cairo Overcoat (an obvious mirror to Mobster Kingpin's Chicago Overcoat) that represents the spacetime continuum and gets damaged when time-related things get out of hand, and a Backup Coat, that may or may not possess the same qualities. The Cairo Overcoat can turn into an Egyptian sarcophagus, which can entomb himself in in order to travel throughout time once inside a universe. It is possible that the Cairo Overcoat is a vague representation of an actual pool table, or perhaps only the felt fabric on which a game of pool is played(similar to how himself represents a pool cue). Since Sburb (the overlying game in Homestuck) is played on the spacetime continuum, these two analogies mesh together almost perfectly. More recently, has been shown to have in his possession a golden scepter, atop which is an orb, glowing with multiple colors, that possibly represents the Green Sun. This scepter seemingly demonstrates a more controlled form of Weapon/Object Duality, as it has been shown to morph into a golden assault rifle. Andrew Hussie met his end by this transforming scepter.

has never known any form of defeat. In addition to his indestructibility, multiple incarnations of him exist simultaneously in multiple universes, making it virtually impossible to permanently end his existence. Despite these overwhelming factors, Aranea believes that Jake is destined to best in combat, which would mark the demon's first defeat and send hope to others that one day he may be destroyed forever. A statement made by Dave indicates that he believes he's meant to kill at one point, this is also HS 8283 (believed) by the Condesce who is attempting to encourage Dave to fulfill his role. Dave's sword, Caledfwlch, has also been stated to be capable of harming due to one of its components being the Magic Cue Ball, as the sword was originally found as part of Dave's quest it would seem to reenforce the idea that Dave is the one destined to defeat. It HS 7290 (is mentioned) that there is a weapon capable of destroying, possibly 'in one shot'. This weapon may be 's white magnum, as Andrew Hussie HS 6702 (claimed) that it was 's only vulnerability, however due to the gun's HS 6703 (cue ball nature) the "only vulnerability" could be interpreted as cue ball weapons as opposed to being solely the gun. Notably, Jake possesses the appropriate Strife Specibus to wield this gun. However, the innocuous double of the gun, Calliope's wand, seems to be in 's possession in use by him for dream bubble destruction.

It is hinted that although is an adult cherub physically (aside from his lack of wings), he may still be a child mentally. Andrew confirms this, saying that he used the dream self game mechanic to dominate his sister in an unnatural way, meaning he was missing critical maturation from living with her.

As Caliborn

 * Although Caliborn and Calliope's birthday and age are not mentioned in canon, Hussie has stated that it would make sense that their birthday is 11/11 and that they are eleven "units" old.
 * Caliborn's text color hex code is #323232, 32 being the atomic number of element Germanium, a brittle grey crystalline element used as a semiconductor and anemia treatment. 3 is the difference of 9 and 6 (Karkat's hex code is #626262; Calliope's is #929292). In addition, 6 and 9 are both multiples of 3 and the numbers Kankri uses in his quirk.
 * The word Umbrage can mean an offense or an annoyance. It can also refer to a shadow, likely a nod to the Umbra portion of uranianUmbra.
 * Umbrage can also mean an overshadowing influence, and having an eternal or "undying" influence is in line with his belief that HS 7573
 * The red in his chat symbol matches his blood color which is the same as Karkat's blood color. The shade of grey in the symbol is the shade he types in.
 * Later on, Caliborn changes his quirk to one essentially the same as Karkat's.
 * In addition, Caliborn, Calliope, and Karkat are the only characters, of a hemotyping species, not to display their blood colour in their chat text. This changes when Caliborn takes on Calliope's blood colour as his text, although he still technically fits this pattern.
 * Calliope and Caliborn show clear relations to Cancer, such as their choice of cufflink, implying or foreshadowing a relationship with Karkat.
 * In line with previous heavy-handed references to The Sufferer, Caliborn makes a long speech about suffering HS 7571 (here.)
 * Caliborn "jeers" instead of "cheers", opposite to Calliope.
 * Caliborn seems to represent different aspects of the Homestuck consumer community from Calliope, particularly his impatience with the speed at which things unfold. As many less fanatic readers do, he complains about long pesterlogs formatted strangely in unusual colors. Calliope's relationship with him mirrors the fans who keep pestering their friends to read Homestuck, even though they're not interested or don't "get" the story.
 * His title, the Lord of Time, could be a reference to long-running British television program, "Doctor Who"; the main character, the Doctor, hails from a time-travelling alien race known as "Time Lords".
 * In addition, Caliborn's outfit may be inspired by that of the Eleventh Doctor, who is usually wearing a bow-tie and suspenders.
 * As the Doctor is portrayed by British (or English) actors, one could say he is an "English Time Lord", which could be hinting at Caliborn's transformation into . His previous form / host being a "Doctor" also strengthens this connection.
 * Caliborn's tie-ins with the Eleventh Doctor could further associate him with the the arc-number of the post-scratch kids' universe: 11 11 11.
 * Caliborn's Sarswapagus/'s sarcophagus is similar to the TARDIS in the fact that both can hold more than thought possible judging by their sizes, as shown HS 7161 (here), when appears in the dream bubble. 's sarcophagus is obviously smaller than him. The sarcophagus is also 's time travel device, like the TARDIS to the Doctor. The sarcophagus and the TARDIS both travel in a similar way, disappearing there and reappearing here by de- and re-materializing.
 * Caliborn's "tumut" emote is one letter from "tumult", which means chaos or disorder, possibly a reference to his rather aggressive personality as well as his handle.
 * Caliborn is the only character in Homestuck to use lowercase letters for the initials of his screen name.
 * The closeup of Caliborn's and Calliope's eyes are the same image as the closeup of Lil' Cal's eyes, albeit different colors.
 * Other than Lil Cal, Caliborn is the only male character in Homestuck to be drawn with visible eyelashes in sprite mode.
 * Caliborn's trolltag undyingUmbrage is a reference to uracil, and thus is in keeping with the DNA motif of all the other chumhandles/trolltags.
 * Despite the fact that they share a body, Caliborn's tongue is HS 7400 (black) while Calliope's is HS 7033 (white).
 * This is yet another reference to their Yin-Yang theme.
 * Caliborn's new candy corn tooth is likely a reference to Problem Sleuth, as PS has candy corn teeth in his Candy Corn Vampire form.
 * Caliborn considers himself an artist, even though he can barely draw a circle. Even on a HS 7848 (larger scale) it's still made entirely out of lots of straight lines.
 * What Caliborn HS 7453 (describes) is a method of approximating a circle with line segments, and touches on the concept of a mathematical limit, an essential component of calculus.
 * Later on he HS 8144 (proved his worth as an artist) with a visually astounding retelling of Homestuck: Act 1. He provides the following truly encouraging professional advice: HS 8150

As English

 * is named after the pool term 'english', meaning spin on the cue ball (which refers to his relationship with, who represents the cue ball). Calliope indirectly references this when she stated that she likes the planet Uranus because of its unusual rotation compared to other planets, but can't remember the technical term for said rotation.
 * His name may also have drawn inspiration from the phrase "The devil is an Englishman", similar to how "Old Scratch" is a folk name for the devil.
 * Andrew confirmed that he is also "retroactively" named after Ultima's Lord British, an invincible character who could only be killed through manipulation of various game mechanics in the early installments of the series (although later installments regularly allowed players to slay him through intentional Easter eggs). If this reference is expanded upon, it is absolutely possible that he could lose his invincibility in the post-scratch kids' session. When Lord British died for the first time in Ultima Online, it was because a developer forgot to turn on his "invincibility flag" when carrying his character between sessions.
 * may represent the titan Cronus from greek mythology, a universal ruler and destroyer, that overthrew Ouranos.
 * In an alternate telling of this tale, he overthrew the wicked serpentine Titan Ophion. Ophion is important also because the cherubs were born from a spiraling egg, similar to the Orphic egg which consists of an egg with a snake wrapped around it. Additionally, their zodiac sign is Ophiuchus, similar to the name Ophion. Ophiuchus has also been depicted popularly as trampling upon Scorpio, (Vriska's and Aranea's Zodiac sign,) with his feet, causing her to threaten to sting him.
 * may further extend the billiards parallel as the cue stick, using Scratch, the first guardian of Alternia, in order to affect other individuals on his field of play, and to ensure his summoning. Indeed, his scepter and pegleg resemble one. This is further alluded to when Caliborn serves as a metaphorical pool cue, sinking his billiards-themed planets into the black hole pocket of Skaia.
 * Hussie has confirmed the Cairo Overcoat's dual nature as being a play on mobster slang—just as a Chicago Overcoat referred to a coffin in Problem Sleuth, so would a Cairo Overcoat refer to a sarcophagus, as Cairo is a notable city near the pyramids and subsequently sarcophagi. Using a sarcophagus for time travel may also be a reference to Pharoid's time chamber.
 * Hussie has also confirmed that has the powers of a first guardian.
 * It has been confirmed that inspired the mirthful messiahs of Gamzee's religion, along with Scratch. He also appears to HS 6249 (have inspired) the Alternian concept of Death, along with the Handmaid.  on Hussie's Tumblr contains some insightful information on.
 * harbors a connection to Jake English. Jake's shirt has the likeness of on it, he wears computers that resemble various aspects of 's appearance, and a piece of Homestuck fan art in the form of a fake movie poster featuring made it into Jake's room. These are all due to his grandmother's company, designing its products to be reminiscent of, specifically to remind the Condesce of her greatest fear. Grandma also took English as her last name to serve the same purpose, which was eventually inherited by Jake.
 * Furthering this connection, Jake's HS 6020 (introduction page) says he would "give [his] RIGHT LEG" to go real-life adventuring; himself has no right leg.
 * 's head resembles a puppet we know. This may be because, his host, is ectobiologically created from said puppet and a Magic Cue Ball and also because Cal acts as a vessel for 's soul. As Cal seems to have paradoxical origins it is unclear how the likeness came about.
 * In the Intermission, English's name appears as Lord English, without the flashing pool ball sequence replacing the "o" in Lord. It doesn't appear until 's introduction in Act 5 Act 1.
 * With the Squiddles representing the Horrorterrors, may represent Skipper Plumbthroat, as he was essentially responsible for the deaths of some Horrorterrors in HS 7161 (Caliborn: Enter.) Hussie also made note of this connection in one of his earlier Tumblr posts.
 * This was further alluded to by Vriska when she describes him as an ""HS 7953.
 * is a Lord of Time, which is reminiscent of Doctor Who, in which the main character one of a spacetime-travelling alien race called Time Lords (and who is later responsible for the destruction of his species).
 * In addition, the flashing edges of his Cairo Overcoat bear a resemblance to the infamous large scarf worn by the Fourth Doctor, who, interestingly enough, is the fourth of thirteen potential iterations of the character.
 * Oftentimes, one frame of the .gif images will show his overcoat displaying the colors of a Hero of Time.
 * The numbers of 's eyes correspond to the paired numbers of ' coins. 8 is always paired with 8, 7 is always paired with 10, 6 is always paired with 9, and 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are paired with 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 respectively.
 * is depicted on the "XIII:Death" card in the Homestuck tarot card deck.
 * The only two black letters in 's HS 5981 (flashing text) were and, e.g. the initials of his title.