I'm still a little surprised no one's talking about how Dirk was the one to kill the Hegemonic Brute. I mean, the title of Prince of Heart was taken to a pretty literal level there.
A bit of subtle brilliance in this flash: Though it initially seems ridiculous that this robot is on 'novice' mode, when you consider the incredible feats of strength and speed the bro-bot occasionally displays, it IS going quite easy on Jake. Notice that the bro-bot stands passively and waits for Jake to attack for the first minute or so of the fight, only moving to defend itself. When it does launch a flurry of attacks, the bro-bot mostly just knocks Jake around and drops him off atop the tower almost gently. Of course, as the fight goes on the bot gets more aggressive, but the robot still pauses and lets Jake get in a counter-attack occasionally instead of hitting him while he's down. Also note that the bro-bot never used the sword directly against Jake, not even the blunt side, and only rarely used its jet engines.
dark7element Also note the incredible feats Dirk is capable of, and you realize that a robot of himself would be even MORE powerful, and it's quite clear that, as enemom so eloquently put, "Jake sucks."
HOLD ON A MOMENT. Dirk is the Prince of Heart Prince of Heart = Destroyer of Heart Dirk kills Hegemonic Brute Hegemonic Brute's midnight crew name was HEARTS Boxcars...
Prince is the destroyer class. Eridan is the prince of hope, and he destroys the matriorb. Dirk is the destroyer of heart, which makes sense, because he can rip peoples’ souls out of their bodies. However... Dammit Hussie.
I know Dirk is pretty awesome, but no respect for DD? He's just totally calm, cool, and above it all while Dirk is on the loose, and everyone is freaking out.
Perfect for introducing your friends to homestuck. If they have questions, leave them questioning with an answer like "if you want to know, then read homestuck."
Dirk and all of Dirk's creations have the most anime fighting style in the whole comic. The 'knock you around and teleport' combo in this flash was straight out of Dragon Ball lol
Just realized while watching this, Dirk is doing to Jake what Bro did to Dave. His abusive nature was very much already here even before the Epilogues, was just kinda obfuscated by the comedy in the same way Bro’s was before Dave acknowledged it, thus making it more clear in hindsight.
Actually, that's the thing. Brobot is another splinter of Dirk. All of his splinters (brain ghost dirk, Brobot, bro, AR etc) all have faults. Ultimate Dirk is such a dick because he absorbs all these splinters.
Just noticed how the waves of Dersites parted respectfully to let the Draconian Dignitary pass. And since the Dignitary is second in command to Jack, it makes you realize that (despite his begrudged clerical duties and being made to wear stupid outfits by the Queen) our boy Jack has some serious ranking on Derse!
I think what I like most about rewatching these on a second read-through is knowing the leitmotifs well enough now to catch them, like Beatdown and Black.
i personally found the erisolsprite-jake conversation to be one of the funniest things i've ever read erisolsprite to me represents self-loathing taken to a degree that is literally beyond human comprehension for some reason that's extremely funny to me? he's the combination of someone who adheres to rigidified mindsets concerning impending suffering, WITH someone who uses the power of hope and belief to destroy everything around him for some reason i find that extremely hilarious (continued)
this flash is just full of nonchalant dudes with sharp iconography in dangerous situations. dirk takes his counter-assassination pretty well and just decides to admit he's been awake the whole time, the brobot just curbstomps jake over and over, and dd just walks up to hb's decapitated head on a pike, and just reads the note while everyone surrounding him is either panicking or a head on a pike.
Going to say this rn, Dirk is the strongest human pre-entry and pre-god tier for the Alpha kids. 1. He does fucking shit 2. His weapon doesn't need no upgrades 3. Actually is cool while Dave pretends 4. Is a brony
A year from when the day this flash came out, a Sylph was about to saw a Prince in Half. And now we see another Prince wake up a year later. RIP Eridan. ;-;
You have to remember though, a majority of what we have seen of Dirk is the autoresponder and might not reflect what Dirk himself is thinking or doing.
In [S] Prince of Heart: Rise Up, Brobot is seen strifing with Jake - and I couldn’t get a screenshot of this, but he hits Jake in the head multiple times, once going so far as to lift him upside down by his torso and throw him at the ground head first. At another point, Jake ends up having rocks dropped on his head, effectively knocking him out and properly introducing him to Aranea. I’m sure he could’ve suffered more head injuries throughout the game now that they’re in it, too.
This... This... This is so badass i think i may have crapped myself. So amazing. Like really. Amazing. I can't believe it's not the most popular thing on the internet, it should be.
@1:37 is there a term for when songs have a similar melody identical or similar to another song? At that part of the flash it sounds just like a part in "jack ascend". A lot of songs in homestuck do this, and i cant really find an explanation.
comprehended before. Known fact is that he was able to, in the past, kind of tell when someone felt “that way” about him, which is exactly why he talked to Jane to begin with. He seems to have forgotten that even happened. Now, we have a possible reason here, remember when he fell on his head while wearing the skulltop? He equips the helmet as he’s falling after Lil Seb saved him to keep from having a more severe head injury than he would’ve gotten without the helmet on.
tbh i always thought it made sense, given the main motif from Beatdown was basically always heard when bro was kicking the shit out of Dave, unlike with the other guardian strife songs that seemed more evenly matched and started the main tune relatively quick. If anything, Dave's own motif from the early comic is probably Upward Movement and not Beatdown. eg in Descend, the song starts on Upward Movement mixed with Sburban Jungle because it's Dave struggling to enter the Medium, but the instant Beatdown kicks in, it zooms in to Bro slicing the meteor.
You + Me= Same reaction. Honestly, my friend came over and she was all "You have GOT to see this!" And she showed it to me, and we stayed up all night spazzing about it for most of the time.
"Time on My Side" from the STRIFE album. I actually just had a weird moment of Deja Vu where I thought: "This song is on one of the HS albums I own, but I don't remember what it is." I found it, and then scrolled down to see your comment. Shenanigans, I swear.
(continued from other post) i understand the evil thing (to an extent). i was almost parodying myself with my question about "twisted views" because sometimes i can get a little flustered about people NEARLY calling things evil because i have such a little psychological issue with the idea. but thanks for clarifying anyway despite my unusual questioning, even though i was half-aware anyway, your reply was most helpful
Well John: Rise Up had Savior of the Waking World, which was made earlier for the volume 5 album, and a lot of cascade was done with remixes of other songs that had already been released, like Black Rose, Green Sun, or Savior of the Dreaming Dead.
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![[S] Dirk: Unite Synchronization](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/aA5bVo6DX8g/mqdefault.jpg)
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dirk is avenging jake's death while beating him up
Thought about it for a minute and didn't get it till I realized the thing that happened with Jake's dream self
+Gail Song That is Jane though
+John “ℱ𝓻𝒆𝓷𝓬𝓱 ℱ𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓾𝒆𝓽𝓽𝒆” Egbert jake died, jane saw that
Pheo Jake died before Jane and Dirk noticed Jane's death because it was more recent which is why he used her newsletter
that's classic dirk for you.
I'm still a little surprised no one's talking about how Dirk was the one to kill the Hegemonic Brute. I mean, the title of Prince of Heart was taken to a pretty literal level there.
Destroyer of Hearts Boxcars
MiRaClEs See, this guy gets it!
Also had his heart destroyed.
My god. Hussie is too smart for his own good
@@4rk326 he's too powerful to be left alive!
Prince of Heart: Rise up = Dirk is a badass
Dirk: Synchronize = Dirk is a badass 2
Dirk: Unite = Dirk is a badass 2.5
Rest of the comic dirk:WHHHHHHHHHHHHHY
+godzilla12332 he's been decapitated twice now.
+Weird Caster 3 times
Are we counting the pinata in the credits?
Homestuck2= Dirk Wtf
[S] Dying ghost dirk goes FUCKING apeshit while the condece does weirdly sexy walk for 3 seconds while dirkbot fights jake for some reason.
Ben Goodwin LOL
A bit of subtle brilliance in this flash: Though it initially seems ridiculous that this robot is on 'novice' mode, when you consider the incredible feats of strength and speed the bro-bot occasionally displays, it IS going quite easy on Jake.
Notice that the bro-bot stands passively and waits for Jake to attack for the first minute or so of the fight, only moving to defend itself. When it does launch a flurry of attacks, the bro-bot mostly just knocks Jake around and drops him off atop the tower almost gently. Of course, as the fight goes on the bot gets more aggressive, but the robot still pauses and lets Jake get in a counter-attack occasionally instead of hitting him while he's down. Also note that the bro-bot never used the sword directly against Jake, not even the blunt side, and only rarely used its jet engines.
This is basically just a way of saying Jake sucks.
dark7element Also note the incredible feats Dirk is capable of, and you realize that a robot of himself would be even MORE powerful, and it's quite clear that, as enemom so eloquently put, "Jake sucks."
he only used his blade for slicing the bullets
Brobot *stands on jake*
Well. It seems brobot is ON THE RIGHT PAGE!!
+dark7element Yeah, he makes sure not to kill him.
I'm gonna make "the prince is awake. Your shit is wrecked." be my senior quote
And
We need updates!
I think he meant to write ''your ship is wrecked'' but then thought shit sounded cooler :)
Did you?
@@tanyarastogi1110 nah it was an adventure time quote
"The Prince is awake, your shit is wrecked" favorite quote 2014
Typhoon isnt it 2012?
@@nucleardoggie3647 2014 of the time that comment was posted
I didn’t check the dates these comments were posted and I was very confused
Honestly my favorite quote of all time. No matter the year or century :")
@@carrotcommunist9216
HOLD ON A MOMENT.
Dirk is the Prince of Heart
Prince of Heart = Destroyer of Heart
Dirk kills Hegemonic Brute
Hegemonic Brute's midnight crew name was HEARTS Boxcars...
holy shit bro thank you so much
Prince is the destroyer class. Eridan is the prince of hope, and he destroys the matriorb.
Dirk is the destroyer of heart, which makes sense, because he can rip peoples’ souls out of their bodies.
However...
Dammit Hussie.
Heart also equates to soul/self, so he is the destroyer of not only souls, but himself
He also impaled hearts' head on a pike, which is his strife specibus!
fallenprussiansoldier he decapitated himself and had to commit suicide to become his ultimate self.
I know Dirk is pretty awesome, but no respect for DD? He's just totally calm, cool, and above it all while Dirk is on the loose, and everyone is freaking out.
The Dignitary is my favorite character, 2nd maybe to the Mayor.
dirk is so badass he can knock peoples eyes of their face
Chat happened siguiente jhon too
he can also turn people pixelated
@@leviathanpretzel he got hit so hard he became 8bit
caliborn also did that to john in [S] GAME OVER.
I love how he just carries the head like "whatever, bro"
Yupiyu Romana Sepia he IS heartless
I like how Dirk is floating around in Derse while Jake and Robo Dirk are having an epic battle.
Wow. I can't believe I commented on this a year ago. This is still epic to me.
Ill comment so you can come back and see how awesome it is again
Hey its been another year come back
Hullo! :)
the condesce's thigh gap tho
Mry Woodward It's funny, because it's so true. It's so true, hence, funny.
+leave i s2g Why?
+Atomic Robo Tesla it used to be different lol probably mcr
Mry Woodward I see.
Oh my gawd.
I watched this while using the bathroom.
Now my shit is wrecked.
omg I died of laughter
Wow Im taking a shit right now to lol
Hubert Allen Nice bit of information to give our asses, but can you keep that you yourself?
Dirk Strider I'd rather not its quite useful information
Dirk Strider That would cause constipation. It's better that he just lets it out.
0:34
Double pistols and a wink!
Retold in emojis: 🔫🔫....👓😉.
(This is a continuation). 🕶👎.......👎👎👎👎👎
(This is another continuation) 👓😟
😎🏴🧡
I love how they incorporate music from earlier in the series into the later songs
it is called leitmotif
also it's dirk's theme
The songs name is "Time is on my Side." For anyone who wants to know.
Perfect for introducing your friends to homestuck. If they have questions, leave them questioning with an answer like "if you want to know, then read homestuck."
I love how you can here a bit of Beatdown Strider Style or whatever that song was called.
only a "bit"? lol
mahmud ghdamsi hehehe Yeah I guess that there actually is quite a lot. : )
"The Prince is awake. Your shit is wrecked."
Easily one of my favorite lines in the entire comic.
2:11 [S] Brobot: do a jig on your attacker
* double pistols and a wink *
I FUCKING KNEW IT!!!
JOHN AND JAKE'S EYES ARE SQUARES!!!!
+Taylor Gilliam DUNNNNN
This is also seen in Game Over
ashik jaman
THANK YOU
Must do fanart of their eyes being squares
Now.
+Taylor Gilliam NO WONDER WHY DAD/JAKE HAS NO EYES!!!!!!!!!
I love how caually dirk is floating with that head.... x3
Gotta love how Dirk casually smacks the eyes off of Jake
The prince is awake. Your shit is wrecked.
Hell yiss.
+Victoria Choi By far the best quote in the series. :P
Victoria Choi The Prince is wrecked. Your shit is awake
I can't stop watching Jake jumping at the beginning...... *HNGGGG....*
Dirk and all of Dirk's creations have the most anime fighting style in the whole comic. The 'knock you around and teleport' combo in this flash was straight out of Dragon Ball lol
'The prince is awake
Your shit is wrecked ❤️'
Dirk wins the sass award
Your shit is wrecked
-quote of the year 2012
+Dat Weird 69er
The shit is awake, your prince is wrecked.
+Dtskang21 but the prince of ducks shall win 4 ever
The shit is Princed. Your wreck is awake
the shit is awake
your prince is wrecked
Just realized while watching this, Dirk is doing to Jake what Bro did to Dave. His abusive nature was very much already here even before the Epilogues, was just kinda obfuscated by the comedy in the same way Bro’s was before Dave acknowledged it, thus making it more clear in hindsight.
IN FAIRNESS, Dirk told Jake put it in novice mode.
Actually, that's the thing. Brobot is another splinter of Dirk. All of his splinters (brain ghost dirk, Brobot, bro, AR etc) all have faults. Ultimate Dirk is such a dick because he absorbs all these splinters.
Okay, is nobody gonna question that Jake's eyes were still on his glasses when the dirk robot knocked them off his face?
His eyes ARE the glasses
@@justposeidon3810 that... Surprisingly makes sense-
I WARNED YOU BRO!
I WARNED YOU ABOUT DERSE!
I WARNED YOU BOUT DERSE BRO!!!
+Lyrica De Cleff IT KEEEEPS HAPPENING
YES
I TOLD YOU DOG!
wait is this not my timeline? fuck, hey me whassup
Just noticed how the waves of Dersites parted respectfully to let the Draconian Dignitary pass. And since the Dignitary is second in command to Jack, it makes you realize that (despite his begrudged clerical duties and being made to wear stupid outfits by the Queen) our boy Jack has some serious ranking on Derse!
The thumbs down Dirkbot gives Jake is just a re-use of when Dave fights bro.
The Dirkbot is named Hal, Miss Maryam
+The Real GenoMaster101 Nope, Hal is the name of Dirks AR, aka his glasses. The bot in here is DirkBot/Brobot
Ye
Ah ok
woah don't forget wake
3:20 ive seen this scene so many times
its just a change of character
When they make humanoid robots
There had better fucking be a Dirkbot
Great give Skynet their Trumpcard why don't ya.
Sir Keaton Brobot*
Keaton z Dirkbot would be a weapon to surpass Metal Gear.
8 years ago. christ i'm old.
2 years ago. christ you’re old.
And yet another Flash added to my list of favourites:
Jade: Enter
Wake
Cascade
This
Game Over
==>
unite synchronization
jack: ascend
John: Reunite with your loving wife and daughter
[S] All : Behold the glory of Zillyhoo
I think what I like most about rewatching these on a second read-through is knowing the leitmotifs well enough now to catch them, like Beatdown and Black.
0:37
Jake's just thinking:
"Well. I'm right fucked aren't I?"
thekaboominator1 I like to think he softly says under his breath "Oh no, he has multiple...oh...no..."
back when CONDESCE was alive
OH SNAP
[ ] Condesce Not Rekt
[x] Condesce Rekt
you should probably put a spoiler warning tho xd
Also known as WHEN HOMESTUCK DIDN'T END
+Niiue Biiue Calamiiue (Peekay Thuandah) also known as the time when dirk WAS ACTUALLY DECAPITATING PEOPLE AND NOT BEING DECAPITATED
you woπ
The CONDESCE is oddly hot, honestly
3:14
Bro got hit so hard he switched to a less symbolic rendering style
[S] Gamers: Rise Up
The Prince is awake. Your shit is wrecked.
The shit is awake. Your Prince is wrecked.
This is just Dirk walking to the center of town and placing a threat and Jake getting his ass kicked by a robot. WHY IS IT SO AWESOME!!
This is still one of my favorite ost’s of the entire story
if you want the true vizmedia experience yo should put the video quality in 144p, trust me guys im an expert
I'm so glad people inevitably post these. It's so hard trying to claw through this comic on a mobile device. It's hard and no one understands.
2:28. Brobot :smack jakes eyes off
I like it when the robot tap-dances on top of Jake and Jake is all "Stop it! That tickles! Get away! This isn't fair! Get off me!"
i literally learned this entire beat on my turntable
Please cover it
Dave pfp, checks out
I love that beatdown motif.
How would you like to qualify your Shit?
Really good [
Good enough[
Sort of normal[
A little bad[
I'm flipping[
Worse than ever[
Wrecked[
Worse than ever for 500 please!
+Blade Gamez *wrecked
I'll take Wrecked for 500, Alex.
I too like to float around purple cities with a giant black head in my arms
Little known fact: the lyrics are rapped by Donald Duck.
There are no words to properly convey how much I love this flash omg
fUCK ME SCALENE TRIANGLE
i personally found the erisolsprite-jake conversation to be one of the funniest things i've ever read
erisolsprite to me represents self-loathing taken to a degree that is literally beyond human comprehension
for some reason that's extremely funny to me? he's the combination of someone who adheres to rigidified mindsets concerning impending suffering, WITH someone who uses the power of hope and belief to destroy everything around him
for some reason i find that extremely hilarious
(continued)
Dirk: Prince of Heart
s Boxcars.
WHAA WHAA
godzilla12332 Princes destroy their Aspect. He killed the Hegemonic Brute/Hearts Boxcars.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA fuckity fuck fuck why does that make sense
I love how robot Dirk stopped all those bullets hitting the tinkerbulls
this flash is just full of nonchalant dudes with sharp iconography in dangerous situations. dirk takes his counter-assassination pretty well and just decides to admit he's been awake the whole time, the brobot just curbstomps jake over and over, and dd just walks up to hb's decapitated head on a pike, and just reads the note while everyone surrounding him is either panicking or a head on a pike.
Going to say this rn, Dirk is the strongest human pre-entry and pre-god tier for the Alpha kids.
1. He does fucking shit
2. His weapon doesn't need no upgrades
3. Actually is cool while Dave pretends
4. Is a brony
tbf with 2. dirk just got lucky and had a juju
2:16 help im going insane
sus?
robo dirk catching all the bullets
that is some dragon ball shit right there
2:23-2:25 I DONT CARE IF ITS 2 SECONDS LONG, SOMEONE BETTER FUCKING MAKE A 10 HOUR VERSION OF THIS
You mean that you want a DignitaryQuest?
Sure.
2:21 - 2:25
A year from when the day this flash came out, a Sylph was about to saw a Prince in Half.
And now we see another Prince wake up a year later.
RIP Eridan. ;-;
Remember when Dirk was cool?
*Pepridge Farm remembers.*
You have to remember though, a majority of what we have seen of Dirk is the autoresponder and might not reflect what Dirk himself is thinking or doing.
the prince is awake
your shit is wrecked
I like how Jack's theme plays when the Condesce arrives!
one does not simply summarize dirk's god-like form of badassery
Dude I forgot how totally AWESOME this page was 😎👍👌
In [S] Prince of Heart: Rise Up, Brobot is seen strifing with Jake - and I couldn’t get a screenshot of this, but he hits Jake in the head multiple times, once going so far as to lift him upside down by his torso and throw him at the ground head first.
At another point, Jake ends up having rocks dropped on his head, effectively knocking him out and properly introducing him to Aranea.
I’m sure he could’ve suffered more head injuries throughout the game now that they’re in it, too.
[S] Dirk: Wreck his Shit
This is my jam after Synchronize, Unite, Orange Hat (Dirk's theme) and Emerald Goliath (Jake's theme).
This... This... This is so badass i think i may have crapped myself. So amazing. Like really. Amazing. I can't believe it's not the most popular thing on the internet, it should be.
Thy royalty has been awoken.
Thy excretions shall be exterminated.
It's interesting how people forgot that the idea for Dirk flying through Derse with the head under his arm was thought up by Calliope...
This should've just been named "Jake dies".
@1:37 is there a term for when songs have a similar melody identical or similar to another song? At that part of the flash it sounds just like a part in "jack ascend". A lot of songs in homestuck do this, and i cant really find an explanation.
It's called a leitmotif, a melody or sequence of notes that appears in multiple songs, usually as an homage to another song.
And then artists made a shit load of art of this one flash with dirk and the derse flag
comprehended before. Known fact is that he was able to, in the past, kind of tell when someone felt “that way” about him, which is exactly why he talked to Jane to begin with. He seems to have forgotten that even happened.
Now, we have a possible reason here, remember when he fell on his head while wearing the skulltop? He equips the helmet as he’s falling after Lil Seb saved him to keep from having a more severe head injury than he would’ve gotten without the helmet on.
When it turns out Beatdown/Time on my Side was always Dirk's song and not Dave's...
tbh i always thought it made sense, given the main motif from Beatdown was basically always heard when bro was kicking the shit out of Dave, unlike with the other guardian strife songs that seemed more evenly matched and started the main tune relatively quick. If anything, Dave's own motif from the early comic is probably Upward Movement and not Beatdown.
eg in Descend, the song starts on Upward Movement mixed with Sburban Jungle because it's Dave struggling to enter the Medium, but the instant Beatdown kicks in, it zooms in to Bro slicing the meteor.
@@Kirbita22 bingo. You and I are on the same page then.
You + Me= Same reaction. Honestly, my friend came over and she was all "You have GOT to see this!" And she showed it to me, and we stayed up all night spazzing about it for most of the time.
God I miss this so much
2:27 is cursed
Can we just take a moment to appreciate all of Dirk and all the kid's badassery?
Dirk just like: No ❤️
"Time on My Side" from the STRIFE album.
I actually just had a weird moment of Deja Vu where I thought: "This song is on one of the HS albums I own, but I don't remember what it is." I found it, and then scrolled down to see your comment. Shenanigans, I swear.
1:39
AHHHHHH
OH MY GOD
*AHHHHHHHHH*
**LICK ME**
SCREAMING
anyone noticed how the midnight crew's suits have a connection to their personalities and troll quadrants/>?
Its their relationship to clocks
howd they predict the amongus theme at 2:18
I could watch this all day, oh god
2:23 lol look at dd's feet
(continued from other post) i understand the evil thing (to an extent). i was almost parodying myself with my question about "twisted views" because sometimes i can get a little flustered about people NEARLY calling things evil because i have such a little psychological issue with the idea.
but thanks for clarifying anyway despite my unusual questioning, even though i was half-aware anyway, your reply was most helpful
fuckin badass or what?
Well John: Rise Up had Savior of the Waking World, which was made earlier for the volume 5 album, and a lot of cascade was done with remixes of other songs that had already been released, like Black Rose, Green Sun, or Savior of the Dreaming Dead.
Condesce's THICC