Green Sun

The is a massive star in the middle of the Furthest Ring with the mass of two universes, having been born from the simultaneous explosions of Universe A and Universe B. It is the source of power of all first guardians, and one source of the first guardian-born demon Lord English's immortality.

Concept and creation

There are various precedents in literature and pop culture for a green star. Notably, Insane Clown Posse's "Miracles" music video features a green star on the horizon behind a carnival.

Influential 1908 supernatural horror novel The House on the Borderland features a vast green star speculated to be the central sun around which various universes orbit, and which contains other dead stars. J.R.R. Tolkien's 1939 essay On Fairy-Stories uses the concept of a green sun as an example of something that might take great skill and effort for an author to suspend a reader's disbelief about. William Laurence of the New York Times described the United States' 1945 Trinity nuclear test as creating "a great green super-sun climbing in a fraction of a second to a height of more than 8,000 feet, rising ever higher until it touched the clouds".

In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche used the gravitational pull of suns in various colors, such as red and green, as an analogy for the different moral forces which pull at humanity.

Description

The 's power coursing through Becquerel.

A great number of universes, and the sessions associated with them, are “preside[d] over” by the , much like a “giant solar system”, likely implying that these bodies within the Furthest Ring are kept in place by the Sun's gravitational pull.

While first guardians all draw power from the , one with the Sun's power must be within the Sun's "domain" to use it; which is to say, within one of the universes or Incipispheres caught in the 's pull. Each first guardian is “a gateway” to the Sun's energy - literally - with their abilities to warp space likely owing to the Sun being itself composed of two universes worth of space. Jadesprite also found it hard to “stop seeing” the , indicating that some sensory connection to the Sun may also be what allows first guardians to be aware of the world around them at such great distances, and near-omniscient when “merged with a host of great intelligence”.

History

The birth of the Green Sun.

The was created when Rose Lalonde and Dave Strider, operating on the advice that destroying the Sun would strip Jack Noir of Becquerel's power, travelled deep into the Furthest Ring on the detached moon of Derse to detonate The Tumor, which in actuality either destroyed the A and B universes or channeled the energy from their destructions via Snowman's death and Jack's Red Miles respectively.

A carving of the found on the Land of Light and Rain.

Rose's hand in the creation of the was foreshadowed in the architecture of her Land of Light and Rain, with carvings of the Sun within a captchalogue card found within the planet's temples despite Rose's best efforts to dismantle the planetary quest seemingly being pushed upon her. The sun on the spritely bed created for Jade by Becsprite also appears as bright green.

The appearance of Alternate Calliope's black hole as it consumes the .

An Alternate Calliope ultimately began the Rapture by opening a black hole beside the , quickly pulling the Sun into its gravitational well along with chunks of the Furthest Ring, having been well and truly shattered by Lord English's assault on reality, increasing the black hole's mass exponentially and giving it a distinct green accretion disk.

Pink sun

A pink sun behind Rose in Seer: Descend.

“GA: Your Hubris Is Really Astonishing
GA: Easily Twice The Mass Of A Universe I Think
GA: That It Hasnt Collapsed Upon Itself Into A Tiny Lavender Singularity Is The Most Striking Marvel Paradox Space Has Coughed Up Yet.”

A pink equivalent to the is a rare motif in Homestuck, first used by Kanaya as a euphemism for Rose's supermassive self-confidence; an image of such a sun then very briefly appears haloing the figure of the grimdark Rose Lalonde in Seer: Descend. The colors of these two suns happen to match the colors of Alternia's twin moons.

Trivia

• Green stars do not exist in real life, as stars tend to emit radiation on a black-body spectrum ranging from red to blue-white; green fire like that associated with radiation in Homestuck is however chemically possible to create with the right ingredients.