All theories are canon.

So now combined sprites are soul fusions? My point is the mechanics behind these things are obscure and frankly unknowable. There's no way to tell because the story never focused on it. John IS a combination of Grandpa and Nanna IN A SENSE, and that's all an aspect dealing with the abstract concept of the self requires, in my opinion. We'll never know because it was never tested, just like we'll never know if that kind of power can pull souls apart once they've been combined.

As for LE's weaknesses, I wasn't making an argument from fact; we could easily argue forever about which statements on the matter are true and which are false. I was very clearly speaking from my own opinion on the matter, which is that LE is built up as unbeatable in such a way that a story that gives him a simpler weakness is a weaker story for it. It doesn't particularly interest me whether Dave's Caledfwlch could actually hurt him, in as far as I hope it can't kill him because I don't think that's an interesting resolution.

I think you might be overestimating the significance they have on his power, though. They might inform some latent abilities and traits about him, but most of it seems to line up with what he was capable of anyway. So even if Gamzee and AR wind up separated from Caliborn, I don't know how much more vulnerable that would make him.

I don't have anything to say about this, I just wanted to point out the terrific word usage. I don't recall ever hearing "miscible" before.

It's tricky trying to identify how all of that works when it makes use of the word void, which may or may not mean different things. The realm between sessions is frequently referred to as the void, but it's apparently empty except for monsters and dreambubbles. If there were lots of cals and pumpkins and other mysterious objects sitting around out there, I feel like you'd see them sooner or later. Which leads us to believe either that void can also not literally refer to this place, or maybe more like you suggest, not exist physically but ephemerally, discreetly, woven into the fabric of nothingness itself. Roxy's powers are suggested to work by literally stealing from this fabric and arranging it into the form of an object, and whatever qualities it possesses. Presumably Cal is sent to and drawn from the void in a similar way in this case, existing as little more than something allegorically comparable to computer code until it is "executed" to manifest in the material plane.

Either way though I don't think that means Cal is being copied or duplicated. I've always argued a linearity to its existence, owed to the rule of jujus. Which in theory is hard to prove from an outside perspective, but important for English's existence. Unless he turned into the form we see the instant he merged with 1/2 Gamzee and ARquius, there would be no way for him to grow stronger through successive victories if he's being duplicated from the original source instead of weaving his way through reality one universe after another.

Things get tricky with Doc Scratch and the Cal that leads to B2 Jack. My theory is that the doll contains English's soul until it is used as an ectobiolical component to create Scratch. The doll itself is not duplicated, but another viable host is created from its template, and the soul transfers over in the moment of paradoxification. This allows English to manifest through Scratch later, while the doll is repurposed to empower Jack, seemingly a one off, as it appears it is destroyed once and for all.

Let's all stop for a moment to consider what this would be like.

Okay moving on.

Not a bad idea, actually. Certainly rather ironic and fitting to some extent. I somehow don't think it'd work though. Suppose, despite the best efforts the kids take to hide it in the void or wherever, it is inevitably found by some treasure seeker or even an acolyte of Lord English to release him. English is then free to go back in time to manipulate events to ensure such an unlikely thing transpires in the first place. Bailed out by his own future self.

Yeeeeeeesssssssssssssss. That was a thing I didn't know I wanted.

You can't really stay "one step ahead" of Lord English though; he's a time traveler who can manifest in whatever part of your timeline he wants. No matter how many or how fast new universes are created, he'll always be Already Here to fuck them up. That's like. His whole thing.

Just because we can't see him doesn't mean he's not there. If Alternia is any indication, Lord English himself doesn't hang around in Universes much, but just has his covert minions there to do most of the work.

In fact: IDE:
The anti-human group seen in the snaps was provoked, if not led by a Handmaid-esque minion.

Interesting. Would these forces be conspiring on all races? Perhaps a similar influence led to convincing the carapacians blowing up the moon without consulting anyone else would be a good idea? Is there some sort of "human superiority" club, or will one form after these events play out? Are consorts entered into this mix at all?

More importantly, to what end would all this civil unrest serve? For English specifically, he has no requisites of their rest except to die out in some millions of years, when the sun they're orbiting turns into a red giant. And creating misery for misery's sake seems a little disappointing for so much work and coordination, and isn't really English's style, horrible as he is.

Or convince John into sacrificing himself.

Obviously to overcome the god tier revive it'd have to be a heroic death, and the retcon can't save John if John's too busy being dead. Conspiring to put John in a situation where he will feel compelled to do something heroic that risks his life would be a fine way of dealing with him, if he so chose.

I guess in theory his ghost would appear in the afterlife. Maybe if English is fast he can wipe him out there too before John can do anything tricky.

Well he needs John and co. to go and fight him as seen in the masterpiece. We've seen that Caliborn has already attempted to provoke John, but that just led to John breaking off communication. So by turning Earth C into a shithole and leaving not-so-subtle hints that it was his doing, this may be how he gets the pantheon to rise to the challenge.

Huh. That'd be an interesting tie-in, though he doesn't seem to have any programming-like interests. I wonder if Roxy/Mom Lalonde would be a viable candidate, though? I guess it depends on how old the program is.

It is kind of interesting to think of what they might do as adults, though, assuming they don't escape from earth or something. Jude seems to be into investigating conspiracies, maybe he'd end up as some kind of investigative journalist? It'd be pretty cool if he were the one that wrote the newspaper article in Dad Egbert's's safe. (I dunno if the timeline on that matches up, though.)

Related thought: do you think post-scratch versions of Jude and Joey exist? Technically,it should be impossible, since they're the children of Jake and Ms. Claire, but maybe they're some sort of weird genetic constant like Dad Egbert/Crocker.

Yeah, my one thought was that some versions, especially the version John uses, already kind of looks 90's style, which means Jude would have had to have made it when he was young.

While he's an alien/conspiracy buff, his perspective will presumably be radically altered upon meeting a bonafide alien and confronting the weird green monsters plot with him. He could end up going into some sort of secret organization type work, ala Shield or the SCP foundation, some sort of covert operation in the know about that kind of thing, like Jude will soon be. Or he could end up going to work for his father's company, Skaianet...

I imagine we'll learn lots more about him if Hauntswitch ever becomes a thing, then it'd be easier to guess at his fate. Assuming that is not simply to be killed by meteors, that is.

The only reason the kids can fly is because their god-tiering involved transference to their dreamself's body, which can already fly. If your dreamself dies on a quest bed or your realself dies on a quest slab, you can't fly.

Here's my headcanon for every possible situation:

1.Real dies on Bed, Dream alive - God-tier, flight.
2.Real dies on Bed, Dream dead - dead.
3.Dream dies on Bed, Real alive - God-tier, no flight.
4.Dream dies on Bed, Real dead - dead.
5.Real dies on Slab, Dream alive - God-tier, no flight, Dream dies.
6.Real dies on Slab, Dream dead - God-tier, no flight.
7.Dream dies on Slab, Real alive - God-tier, flight, Real dies.
8.Dream dies on Slab, Real dead - God tier, flight.

All the kids and trolls are either situation 1 or 8, except Aradia, who is technically 7.

Yeah, dreamselves were frigging weird, bottom line. Like obsidalicious says, I think they are something like a projection from the 'real self,' and aren't typically meant to take over as the main body except in the case of an emergency.

This reminds me of a theory I had about God Tiers though. Specifically, that aside from the fancy duds, flight, and conditional immortality (with or without regeneration of lost limbs), God Tier grants no additional powers to people. John demonstrated the ability to do windy stuff before god tiering, Terezi has Mind powers, and Jane's Lifey thing... I think it's more like a literal sort of awakening that opens up latent abilities they were always capable of to some extent or another.