“It's Mobster Kingpin's ship, the CHICAGO OVERCOAT, black thorn of the imaginary skies.”
The Chicago Overcoat is simultaneously a set of rooms in Problem Sleuth's offices, reached from a spiral staircase in Mobster Kingpin's office,[citation needed] and Mobster Kingpin's battleship in the imaginary universe. The fenestrated planes in MK's office and on the Overcoat are also connected.[citation needed]
Concept and creation[]
A Chicago overcoat is a mobster-era euphemism for a coffin.[1] Some of the basic ideas behind this wordplay were recycled into the mode of transport used by Homestuck's malevolent mob boss Lord English, the Cairo Overcoat, which is both literally an overcoat and literally an Ancient Egyptian coffin.[2]
History[]
Team Sleuth made their final stand against Demonhead Mobster Kingpin on board the Chicago Overcoat. DMK destroyed the masts of the ship and caused the fans that were propelling it to scatter.[citation needed]
References[]
- ↑ Andrew Hussie. "FUNFACT: Chicago Overcoat is mobster slang for a coffin. / BONUS: In HS, Lord English's Cairo Overcoat was therefore slang for a sarcophagus. Also, it was literally an overcoat as well." Problem Sleuth Volume 3: Suitor to the Sodajerk's Confidante, p.117. December 2011.
- ↑ Andrew Hussie. "Cairo Overcoat talk: I think I covered some basics in the Intermission book. It's an idea imported from Problem Sleuth, with object-duality properties—at times it's a coat, and at other times it's a sarcophagus. In PS, the Chicago Overcoat was the final boss's method of transport (a pirate ship) and was also an old mobster term for a coffin. When I adapted this idea for Lord English, I made both the coffin and overcoat parts of the euphemism literal, by making it a dual-state coat/sarcophagus." Homestuck: Book 6: Act 5 Act 2 Part 2, p.72. March 10, 2020.