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{{quote|''Maimed Clown. Undead Cat. Impaled Crow. Omnipotent Dog. These four shall be held in reverence for the eternity they serve to cut short.''|A book in the library of the Battlefield's white castle, ''[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005595 [S] Seer: Descend.]''}}

 

Every sprite can be prototyped twice, which adds the properties of the second object onto the sprite and, if the second object is/was alive, overwrites the personality of the first object with that of the second. Prototyping twice is optional and can be done both before and after entry into the Medium, but a sprite ''must'' be prototyped at least once before entering if the session is to be successful. Whenever a prototyped sprite enters the Medium, its properties are transferred into the "prototyping" towers of [[Dream Land|Prospit and Derse]], which shares the properties among the game's [[Mooks]] and the [[Requisite Royal Regalia]] wielded by the White and Black Kings and Queens<ref>which can be used by an Prospitian or Dersite should they get ahold of them, which is where the problems with Jack Noir begin</ref>. Additionally, the prototyping allows the Skaia Battlefield to develop, evolve and become ready to bear the universe the players are destined to create. As such, if there are no pre-entry prototypings, the game becomes [[Unwinnable]].

 

 

* [[Back From the Dead]]: A sprite uses the form and memories of a deceased individual to create a trustworthy companion for its owner. Based off the ultimate fate of Jadesprite, it seems that prototyping a corpse as sprite actually brings it back to life, as Jadesprite serves as a living dream self for Jade's ascension to God Tier.

* [[Crutch Character]]: Sprites protect a young, inexperienced player from harm when they first enter the game, but a player must eventually leave them behind. It is possible to bring them back later, but as equals rather than betters. And it seems in normal sessions they ultimately die as well.

* [[Exposition Fairy]]: To a limited extent. It seems like this is a role they share with a land's Consorts in a normal session, but the trolls largely take over the exposition role by Acts 4 & 5.

** Davesprite subverts the trope. He doesn't say much about Dave's arc to him on camera and actually goes and takes care of some of it himself behind the scenes when it doesn't look like Dave is going to.

** Jadesprite averts it entirely by being completely useless; Tavrisprite averts it by being [[Driven to Suicide]] immediately.

=== {{color|#00d5f2|Nannasprite}} / Nanna Egbert ===

[[File:nannasprite2_3655.png|frame]]

 

John Egbert's sprite. Rose Tier-1 prototyped it with a giant maimed harlequin doll. After entering, the Harlequinsprite accidentally Tier-2 prototyped itself by [[Ashes to Crashes|knocking over the urn containing the ashes of Nanna]], John's grandmother who was killed thirteen years earlier in the meteor collision which brought John to Earth. While certainly wise and helpful, [[Trickster Mentor|she does strongly lean toward pranking everyone and everything]].

 

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* [[Familiar]]: She's obviously tied to John, and gives him advice and aids him in combat. She fits the role of one, at least, the other Sprites are similar in nature.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: "Nannaquin," after the music theme of the same name.

* [[The Hyena]]: HOOOOOOOOOOOO HOO HOO HOO!

* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: Betty Crocker tells Nana that she and Grandpa were supposed to get married but it's not clear if they ever felt like anything other than siblings.

* [[Mission Control]]: For John, after he gets past the first gate.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Being just a cat and having all that Sprite knowledge dumped on him makes him especially hard to understand.

* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: Between his [[Meaningful Rename]], the fact that he was a corpse when he returned to the Beta timeline, and [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006336 Roxy's freakout] over the successful Appearification of the unabridged Sassacre's, [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006398 his] [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006399 demise] could be seen coming a mile off.

* [[Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal]]

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Jaspersprite is one of the tallest kernelsprites shown, following only Becsprite when he trails his long [[Fog Feet|ghost tail]] behind him. Compared him to Rose [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004716 here].

* [[Meaningful Rename]]: Roxy names him Frigglish, after a wizard character in her mother's book series. Said wizard got crushed by a giant book.

* [[Mentor Mascot]]: Subverted. Jaspers was Rose's pet first and doesn't consider it his place to tell her what to do, i.e. to follow her quest, and when he does suggest things to her, he's too childlike to explain it properly. This is a factor in why she goes [[Off the Rails]].

** After his defeat by Bec Noir, he's missing his sprite form's sword and has a bandaged, bleeding wound [[Irony|in the place where it would normally go]].

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: He get quite peeved if you imply he's not the real Dave. At first, anyway.

* [[Not Quite Dead]] / [[Disney Death]]: A conversation between Dave & Terezi in Act 5 and both [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004828 feathers] and [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004829 his pendant] left at the site of their duel led people to believe that he was killed along with Bro after Jack Noir was prototyped with Bec. However, [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005789 he shows up later] in Act 5 on the Battlefield with a bandaged, bleeding torso and missing a wing. By a year into John and Jade's trip across the "yellow yard", he's completely healed.

** Which may have to do with the fact that he just arrived from a [[Bad Future]] where his best friend and another good friend died.

* [[Ravens and Crows]]

* [[Annoying Laugh]]: Calsprite's laugh was certainly annoying to Future!Dave, although it likely had more to do with the fact that [[The Hyena|Calsprite did nothing but laugh]].

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: [[Bad Future|Calsprite]] is incredibly powerful, but he doesn't '''shut. the. fuck. up.'''

* [[Breath Weapon]]: He could [http://www.fourthwallgifs.com/gifs/136_calspriteattacks.gif fire hundreds of naked smuppets out of his gaping puppety maw with a beam attack.]

* [[Demonic Dummy]]

Jade Harley's sprite, and the source of both the problems facing the kids and trolls ''and'' one of their solutions to the problems. While Jade was distracted trying to enter the Medium, Becquerel Tier-1 prototyped himself into the sprite, unintentionally giving Jack Noir and all the [[Mooks|Underlings]] access to his [[Reality Warper]] powers. After entry, Jade Tier-2 prototyped her deceased dream self's taxidermied body, but it initially backfired - the revived Jadesprite was thoroughly distraught about being pulled out of the afterlife and proved to be little more than a [[Running Gag|blubbering goddamn pansy]].

 

 

== Troll Session Sprites ==

 

=== Lususprites ===

 

=== {{color|#a10000| Aradiasprite}} ===

Alone amongst the trolls, Aradia Megido did not prototype her lusus, as its corpse was unavailable. Instead, she Tier-1 prototyped her sprite with the desecrated head of the blue Frog Temple, an act which proved critical to the trolls' success. After entering, she tier-2 prototyped it with her own ghost, thus reviving herself and giving herself access to all the knowledge sprites possess ([[Verbal Tic|among other things]]); to better facilitate playing the game, she later possessed an Aradiabot constructed by Equius. When Aradia [[Came Back Strong|ascended to the God Tiers]], Aradiasprite "died" and her robot body exploded as her consciousness was transferred to her new fully-alive God Tier body.

 

 

== Post Scratch Human Session Sprites ==

=== {{color|#0715cd|Tavrisprite}} ===

[[File:Homestuck_Tavrisprite_737.gif|frame]]

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* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Referred to as it here on this page not out of any offense to people of complicated gender, but because it was a [[Body Horror]] monstrosity with no distinct gender.

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