612

Currently of equally dubious importance, 612 is the arc number of Hivebent, just as 413 is the arc number of Homestuck. Most of its appearances in Hivebent mirror the appearances of 413 in Homestuck.

Appearances as a Date

 * The Hivebent game began on the 12th of June, 2010 - in other words, 6/12/2010 - just as Homestuck began on 4/13/2009.
 * While the Alternian calendar does not directly correlate to the Earth calendar, the story is set on Karkat Vantas's wriggling day: the 12th bilunar perigee of the 6th dark season's equinox, in the same way that Homestuck takes place on John Egbert's birthday, April 13th.

Appearances as a Time

 * The mysterious box under the Doomsday Scale counts down from 6:12. Likewise, most countdowns in Homestuck count down from 4:13 or variations thereon.
 * Before Aradia has her conversation about Sgrub with Sollux, her Crosbytop Computer displays the time as 6:12 AM.
 * Future Karkat exists 612 hours in the future from Past Karkat, who exists 6 hours 12 minutes before Current Equius. Past Terezi exists 21 minutes after Past Karkat.

Appearances related to the Characters

 * Retroactively, in where Hearts Boxcars is struggling with Eggs and Biscuits, there are six visible Eggs, each using a hat with 12 written in it. However, this is most certainly a coincidence.
 * There are 12 trolls, 6 of each gender and each one 6 solar sweeps old, who will split into two teams of 6 to play the Alternian equivalent to Sburb.
 * Each troll's first name and surname has 6 letters, for a grand total of 12 letters in their full names.
 * The two Alternian Frog Temples have 6 pillars each, one representing each of two teams, just as the Earth one has 4.
 * The Sgrub cursor has 12 complete squares, just as Earth's Sburb cursor has 4 complete squares.
 * The trolls' Prospit and Derse have 6 dream towers each, while the Earth session equivalents have 2.
 * 6 of the trolls have eyewear (Terezi, Sollux, Equius, Vriska, Eridan and Feferi), meaning a total of 12 lenses.

Appearances as a Random Number

 * Alternian architecture gives all windows 12 panes (which retroactively makes Earth's 4 pane windows a reference to 413).
 * The "continue" command used during Hivebent is ======>, consisting of 6 equals signs. It also consists of 12 lines, each equals comprising two lines, one for each troll. This retroactively makes the Homestuck "continue" command of ==> a reference to 413, since it has 4 lines.
 * The "Alternia" album costs $6.12, has 18 tracks (6+12) and its second track is 1:43 long.
 * On this page, there are 18 (6+12) exclamation marks.