- For more information on the process of prototyping, see sprite.
Prototyped
was the fourth Paradox Space story. It was seven pages long.
Continuity[]
Prototyped takes place on John's birthday, while playing SBURB.
Story[]
John Egbert captchalogues two fanciful harlequins, sending glass shards flying at his birthday present. Unlike in the alpha timeline
, John then captchalogues a third harlequin, sending the PDA flying and knocking off the harlequin's other arm. As a result, whenever Jack Noir tries to put on the Black Queen's Ring, both of his arms disappear and the ring falls off immediately afterwards. After Dave Strider confirms that they're in a doomed timeline, the kids decide to go watch a movie.
Alt Text[]
- Page 3
: if you removed homestuck from the internet and replaced it with just that last panel, no one would ever realize it - Page 5: you thought trolls were insectoid but they're actually related to pacmans
Trivia[]
- The glass shards' captchalogue codes on page 1 read “420BLZ” (being posted just after 4/20) and “8UTT5”.
- This story marks the first time that Jack Noir has on-screen dialogue, rather than his speech being described entirely through narration.
- This story was originally going to be titled Armless, but it was decided that that made the conclusion too obvious. [citation needed]