LET'S TALK CARAPACIANS 2: Maybe Less Dong?

What I don't get is Dersite eyes. They're all white, so how do they let any light through to their retinas? Especially since their homeland of Derse is one of the darkest places around, they shouldn't be able to see a thing.

Also, tangentially related: I wonder if the Carapacian population of Earth C still clone themselves, or have they gone back to natural procreation. Are they even capable of re-adopting natural procreation? Did they have to genetically engineer their dongs back on?

Maybe that's just the thing. Animals that live in dark areas often times are blind or almost completely blind, because they don't have the need to see because it's already so dark!

It stands to reason carapacian eyes don't exactly operate the same way human eyes do, as they otherwise don't really resemble them. Plus Prospitians and Dersites are genetically engineered to look like each other's opposites. Prospitians even have black teeth to counter Dersite's pearly whites. Their eyes work the same way, but are oppositely colored.

That said, you raise an interesting point. Maybe Dersites, or all Carapacians, have amazing abilities to see in dim light, without then being blinded by bright light like, say, emanating from Skaia. Or it could be light and shadow operates kind of weirdly in the incipisphere, because Derse never really seems that dark, even for the dreamers there. Much like the conveniently ambiguous electricity, gravity and atmospheric situations.

Isn't cloning their natural procreation?

That's what's interesting about them to me. Only the King and Queen of both sessions don't have barcode tattoos on their wrists, but even they are exactly identical to each other between Prospit/Derse pairs and across sessions. But even other high-up unique agents like Jack and friends have barcode tattoos, right along with foot soldiers on the Battlefield like WV.

I'm pretty sure that was more like a normal dream, which Vriska had the ability to enter. That probably has to do with her being able to read the minds of others, and control their actions, even across universes. That natural ability, possibly combined with her God Tier abilities, allows her influence his thoughts by appearing in his dreams.

Actually, I never quite knew how or why she was able to do that until I typed that paragraph. But that makes sense to me now I think of it. >.>

Trolls have genders, yet gender does not seem to factor into reproduction; carapacians could be the same way.

As for the heterosexual relationships, well, we've only ever seen a small sample size, it's entirely possible homosexual relationships do exist off-screen. (That said, the fact that WV and AR were both after PM and not each other and both seemed to understand the other's desire implies a certain level of heteronormativity, but who knows, maybe she's just particularly attractive in carapacian standards, and they found each other ugly.) Regarding porn, all we really see relating to any gender is The Gray Ladies, and for all we know females may enjoy that too. And considering the other carapacian porn we've seen and know of (licorice, hearts, and terriers), it seems like carapacian sexual attraction may be arbitrary, as if vestigial, or perhaps basing behaviours on some template that's not fully utilized.

I think carapacians can procreate normally, as they are generally meant to repopulate a plnet after its devestation.

Headcanon: S***b never picks the same planet twice, because of stuff like the frog temple and whatnot. Because of this, carapacians never end up playing S***b.
Normally.
If a group of carapacians did manage to get off-planet somehow, and play a session of their own, the game wouldn't be any different. It would still be a conflict between Dersites and Prospitans, which could lead to some very interesting situations like where a players is urged to turn on other people in their group, or how the public would feel about having an "enemy" as one of its nobles.

Wasn't it once stated that the Exiles are intended to repopulate the planet for botential reseeding or something like that, though?

Sessions can exist without a Frog Temple. Sburb was sent to players all over earth, either there were multiple frog temples or not every session needs a frog temple. After all it doesn't even enter the game with you. Once you've extracted the code for the game you don't really need the Temple.

I think the whole thing here is just because Hussie changed his mind.
Clearly he was making up Sburb's rules on the fly early on in the story, but as the story progressed and expanded his scope he either forgot about that idea entirely or quietly dropped it as he felt it didn't quite work for the direction he was taking the story in.

I reckon the whole thing started with his idea to work the readers' commands into the story itself and I think he invented the whole exile thing around that. Once the story's scope expanded, and Hussie took personal control of the narrative himself, the exile concept was just left to stand there on its own without justification, and as we've discussed here, there's a lot of weirdness with the whole idea and it doesn't fly that well.

Ok, I took the time to find the quote I was referring to. From this page:
Thus, according to Terezi at least, carapacians are supposed to play Sburb. And the conversation has went on from there.

How so? Granted, there is the issue of the frog temple and first guardian, but a session could simply ... not make a first guardian and not send out a frog temple and nothing else would change. Sburb is shown to have an amazing level of adaptability, even going to the point of completely changing the game in a dead session, the minor change of removing the frog temple and first guardian creation would be pretty minor in comparison.

I don't think the carapacians really need to be there to keep the planet 'alive' for future sessions, after all, Caliborn's session happened long after any inhabitants of Earth were long gone.

As for captchaloguing things, given John's finding of alternate fetch modus cards and the control deck in particular, captchaloge systems seem to be some sort of technology. As such, it's not so much that carapacians can't captchaloge things, but rather that they don't have that particular technology. There's no reason to believe they couldn't develop such a system after being exiled (or perhaps reverse engineer it from the old civilization's ruins). In the Midnight Crew intermission, we see that the exiles have developed a sort of card-based inventory system; perhaps this could be seen as an early version of what would have eventually developed into captchaloge cards had the universe not been destroyed first.