- For the location in paradox space, see Furthest Ring.
The White Queen and the Black Queen in Homestuck each possess an important ring that are the counterparts to the King's Scepter. These rings, linked to Kernelsprite Prototyping data on Prospit and Derse, affect their wearers by giving them various traits relating to the prototyping. This effect has only been shown to work on carapacians, and does not work on humans and is unlikely to work for other player species such as trolls.
Concept and creation[]
The Queens' rings are inspired by The Lord of the Rings' One Ring, which was similarly destined to be destroyed in a volcano. The B1 Black Queen's ring has mirrored the journey of the One Ring by being cut from its owner's finger with a broken sword[citation needed] and found in a river,[citation needed] while the Ring of Void can like the One Ring be used to become invisible and has become an object of obsession for some characters who find it.[citation needed]
Description[]
The rings all consist of a gold band, with orbs floating around its edge matching the number of kernelsprites prototyped pre-entry into the session - typically equivalent to the number of Heroes in that session. Like the matching spires on Prospit and Derse, each orb begins to glow as its associated kernelsprite is prototyped. Carapacian wearers of the ring are transformed into a being with the physical attributes, abilities, and some personality traits of these protoypings; Becquerel's instinctive loyalty to Jade Harley was so strong that even Jack Noir was unable to bring himself to kill her.
The rings also possess powers innate to themselves, with the Black Queen's ring enabling the wearer to control the highly dangerous Red Miles, whose inescapability
reflects the wide reach of the Queen on a chessboard. It is not known if the White Queen's ring has the same or an equivalent power.
History[]
A2 session[]
The Ring of Orbs Twelvefold
After Aradia Megido prototyped her kernelsprite with the head of a frog statue, the Black Queen removed her Ring of Orbs Twelvefold, unable to stand bearing the visage of such a vile being. when Jack Noir learned of this, he allied with the troll players, who used this information to easily exile her to Alternia - where she eventually took on the name Snowman.
Both Rings of Orbs Twelvefold were destroyed in the stoking of the Forge on Kanaya Maryam's Land of Rays and Frogs.
B1 session[]
White Queen's Ring[]
The White Queen voluntarily surrendered her ring to Parcel Mistress, as part of a gambit to convince Jack Noir that she is dead and to allow Parcel Mistress to retrieve the Green Package from Jack. As the Mistress prepared to leave Prospit, the Courtyard Droll stole the ring from Parcel Mistress's pocket. Parcel Mistress departed without being aware of the theft, but the ring was retrieved from the Droll by Jade Harley's dream self. Dream Jade placed the ring on her finger, unaffected by its power, and kept the ring until her death at the hands of Jack's destruction of Prospit's moon.
At the ruins of Prospit's moon on The Battlefield, John Egbert's dream self retrieved the ring from her corpse's finger. Jack attempted to steal it from Dream John, but was thwarted by the Uber Bunny, which recognized John as its rightful owner and defended him. Later, as John tried to jump across a chasm to reunite with his father, he was rudely reawakened by Vriska, causing his dream body to vanish and the ring to fall far below into a river. In the river, it was found by the Wizardly Vassal, who took possession of it for the rest of the session and through his eventual exile to the future of Earth as the Wayward Vagabond. WV took to fiercely protecting it from theft, but never wore it himself, subconsciously fearing its power, and during his exile he hid it within his Trusty Knife.
The former White Queen, now Windswept Questant, had intended for the Vagabond to return to their native session, wear the ring to battle and defeat Jack; her plan was thwarted with the arrival of Jack as Earth was bombarded by the Red Miles, who killed the Questant and mortally wounded the Vagabond. Instead, the Parcel Mistress - now Peregrine Mendicant - put on the Ring herself and followed Jack to the A2 session to fight him. It remained in her possession as she pursued him through the Furthest Ring. She kept it until the events directly following [S] Collide, when she had WV remove it, intending to destroy it in The Forge from the B1 session.
Black Queen's ring[]
B1 Queen ring
Originally in the Black Queen's possession, Jack Noir using the contents of the Green Package to, in a fit of rage, cut the Black Queen's ring from her finger before murdering her. Jack Noir then donned the ring for himself and used its power to go on a rampage through the session, ensuring its failure.
When Jade Harley entered the Medium, the ring adopted the powers of her prototyped first guardian dog, Becquerel, but also adopted Becquerel's strong loyalty to Jade. As such, while he had no issues with using the first guardian powers to wreak havoc on the session and its three other players, Jack is completely unable to harm Jade while wearing it, instead being forced to follow her around like a dog. Under its influence, he even transported her to her Quest Bed after she was killed by the Courtyard Droll, ensuring her god tier resurrection.
The ring remained in Jack's possession, who wielded its power to rampage through the A2 trolls' entire session - destroying all twelve planets and both kingdoms - before using its green Becquerel-enhanced Red Miles to kill the Genesis Frog containing the humans' universe. Pursued through the Furthest Ring by the Mendicant, Jack's ring arm was ultimately sliced off and the ring thrown into the Forge to initiate the end of the B1 session.
B2 session[]
- Main article: Rings of Life and Void
As the B2 session is a void session, its two rings have no prototyping orbs or powers, and the Black Queen's ring is dubbed the "Ring of Void", or the "Ring of Orbs Nofold". It is unclear why it developed such powers, and if this occurs in all void sessions, though it may be related to Roxy Lalonde being a Hero of Void with a Dersite dream self.
After Dirk Strider's uprising on Derse, the Draconian Dignitary convinced the Condesce to hand over the Ring for his use in finding Dirk. After testing its invisibility powers, he activated the Red Miles to try and kill Dirk, in the process killing Jane Crocker and wrecking much of Derse.
It is later revealed that this ring, along with the one that Hussie used to try to propose to Vriska (the Ring of Life) is a very special kind of ring, distinct from most found in typical Sburb sessions.