princeofdoom

I could probably write an entire book about Homestuck and the meaning behind a visual media that also has text having the actual visuals and text disagree. For example, in Hivestuck Friendsim with Mallek (who is so far best boy and I adore), it is mentioned in the text itself e has "bright blue eyes". In his sprites? Black, just like most of the other trolls. Was that done to stylistically show that while he might be physically mature (or maturing) - since trolls with their eyes filled in with their color is considered an "adult" trait - he is still not considered an adult or going off world yet. It would be the equivalent of making a character who is described as looking "mature for their age" look a little more childish in a visual representation for whatever reason (not that tha's common).

Or maybe the artist forgot and they decided to leave it for folks like me who want to read into everything.

But I've noticed a lot of little details like that, and I remember reading a quote from Hussie that went like "This is a work of visual media, whatever you need to know about the character's appearances is in the art itself." Which is pretty ridiculous both from the variability of the art and Hussie's own statements about characters both outside AND IN THE TEXT ITSELF.