Pesterquest: Eridan Ampora [NO COMMENTARY] 

the duality of man is eridan being rly woke about gender one second then being incredibly racist the next

Eridan: gender is fake an arbitrary but the hemospectrum is very very real

Dave is thinking about his sexuality while Eridan is thinking about his gender .

Eridan: hey sol do you havve a double bulge Sollux: *_so you've choo2en death._*

alSO, “FRIENDSLUT”? CAN I GET THAT TATTOOED ON ME LIKE HOLY HELL

Eridan: "Do you have two bulges?" Sollux (counting his 2 dream selves): "How do you know I don't have three"

Every time I go through these routes I keep getting reminded that WOW they really are just kids holy shit. I’m happy with the way they took his route

FANON BECOMES CANON OH GOD THE DAD SHREK THING. IT'S REAL. IT'S REEEAAAAALLLL

"Hey Sollux who are you talking to?" "An entitled sub" *I'M*

Can we just acknowledge that it's likely Eridan likes Shrek 2 SOLELY because of the "I Need a Hero" rescue scene? A TRUE MASTERPIECE.

Someone said "Eridan Wwednesday" and now I can't stop thinking about it.

disappointed he didn’t say “pretty swwag huh” at some point

Eridan: *says something wholesome* Nice *after 2 seconds* "anywway lets talk about hemospectrum" Ah shit here we go

"Eridan, do you believe in the hemospectrum?" "I'm Trans." "THEY'RE DODGING THE QUESTION."

he has,,, purple nails,,, i love this artist :,)))

the theme kinda sounds like some sea shanty ass music and i am infatuated with it

okay actually i think my new headcanon for eridan is that he has a scottish accent because you know, shrek

I’m so in love with this Eridan’s art style.

Eridan is officially a big Shrek fan confirmed.

at this point being compared to zebruh codakk is worse than being stabbed in the chest twice

eridan: gender bad me: yes facts also eridan: poor people bad also me: *nervous sweating*

Is his phone case a freaking poptart? Thats amazing.

It’s canon Eridan wears dresses and I love it.

honestly as a big eridan fan and someone who's not really a fan of a lot of modern homestuck writing or how fans act about him i'm pretty happy with this ! i think they struck a really good chord with eridan here where his actions are reprehensible but they actually do make quite a lot of acknowledgement about the fact that eridan isn't even the big bad genocidal asswipe he's so intent on painting himself as - sollux's entire speech at the end i mostly adored _(one or two lines felt a bit off and generic and...... idk, twitter-person-y?? which is a problem with a lot of modern homestuck stuff for me, but most of it was really good imo)_ and i like that even the person who has the most reason to hate eridan of anyone outright says he doesn't even believe in the discriminatory garbage he spews off i guess i still don't agree entirely with the viewpoint taken of him here _(i still feel eridan is treated like he's somehow by far the worst of the trolls even next to gamzee and especially vriska and like...... i'm sorry, i like vriska more than eridan as a character, she's one of the two beta trolls i like over him, but she's absolutely no better than him on a moral level and i get tired of the fans who act like she is)_ but i think they largely did him _(and sollux here)_ justice, which is honestly relieving considering i'm so used to... well, what i just talked about in parenthesis, which i still feel was _kiiinda_ there but not to an egregious extent ! also, i admit literally as someone who DESPISES GENDER STIGMA and finds binary bs outdated af that i find a lot of the retroactive gender stuff with the og chars feeling a bit forced but like, march eridan has been around for ages, and while clothing doesn't mean jack about your identity i think it makes sense eridan would find stigma around gender to be kinda bullshit as he should ! and of course it worked as a really good juxtaposition with eridan's classist "beliefs" _(which on another note, i somehow never made the connection between eridan's fake belief in the hemospectrum and his title as a prince of hope..... well, i've talked about that in regards to his denial of magic before so MAYBE i did but like, guess it never hit me properly til now)_ overall, it's not perfect and i guess it still has the things that make me feel a bit sad with modern hs stuff, but i'm really glad they got a lot right with eridan and didn't take the purely-woobie route _(which was pretty much never a possibility given the writing team but still)_ or the HE IS SCUM NAZI INCEL route _(which i feared with how i've seen a lot of prominent people in hs now act)_ !

Dude, *THE MUSIC*

8:34 cant help but think that eridan looks like hes about to say “WHEN WILL YOU LEARN THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES”

that whole fight scene was pretty intense ngl

Eridan with his eyes closed? Gorgeous. Look at that eyeliner. Perfection 👌🏽

I will admit I cried. We stan eridan, we love him, we protect him, and we will care for him with our lives

I wasn't a fan of eridan in the comic but I really liked this route! The writers gave them an interesting conflict (re: which sorts of alternian prejudice eridan supports/rejects) and gave them some much needed depth while still preserving the character's original vibe

the "THE BOYS ARE FIGHTINGGGGG" in the description is SO funny thank you so much

Coming back to this route always makes me unreasonably happy, I can’t even describe it. Eridan s always been my favorite, and seeing him finally have a good hand drawn to him, it’s impossible to watch this and not get a giant grin on my face

Me: *leaves homestuck for a bit* Homestuck: .... Hey you missed the day when eridan and fef was put into pesterquest.. Me: *visibly upset* o h...

eridan sure is a real fincel

love how they used "the la2t frontiier" at around 19:19! pretty good theme imo, from a long time ago

WHO MADE HIS SPRITES THO. they deserve the world for that, all of them are super fucking good

Oh god. I can't bring myself to hate him, I love him too much

Yes, yes, *yes*. I don't have access to a computer and I've been meaning to give the Friendsims a look-see and gracious, I'm elated to see how fucking well balanced my fav character's is, especially after years in misinformed fandom. For one, the reader's dialogue isn't framed in a bias fashion towards Eridan (whereas a LARGE ass majority of the fandom will tell you they dislike him solely for fanon misconceptions). The reader treats him with the attitude that they give to all the other characters, and I *adore* that it resonates so well with actual fans of each individual character- and here is no exception! I couldn't help but keep chuckling at, in lack of better words, how much of a smug, conceded piece of pompous shit he is in the first ten or so minutes. Which is a very true reflection on his canon personality- due to his status and how it's drilled into him, (as it is with many highbloods from birth or I guess.. hatching) his superiority facade is flaunted, but it's also reflected on. The fact that Eridan admits that he feels the need to conceal his true character by being this gross caricature of snobbishness is speaks on levels to me. Him hamming up an incredibly idiotic conflict between him and Sollux shows us that he feels he *needs* to be this way- for one, due to him being used, comfortable even, with being hated due to his conjured haughtiness. And two, though he has incredibly impressive and commendable morals, (especially of how bullshit gender binary roles are used widely to oppress and control people by fitting them into restrictive and harmful stereotypes, even touching on how nonbinary folks have been apart of society since forever), no one would take him seriously as well.. he's racist as that one uncle at family gatherings we all try to avoid striking up convo with. Just because you advocate for one thing strongly doesn't redeem you for your other bigoted attitudes, especially one that is a large cultural + systematic factor that you fuel by hating a group of people from pure ignorance. To wrap this up, I love that after the reader gives it to Eridan how it is, he sincerely considers everything. He was genuinely understanding that his bigotries were making him the desperate, nearly socially inept tool he was and will find it in himself to change- not in the span of a few exchanges of dialogue, but over the course of serious self-reflection and learning. Eridan is a 13 year old born into privilege and wealth, and due to this, his unconscious tone is constantly degrading those underprivileged. TL;DR of this, your resident enby is delighted to see after eight years invested in a beloved series, genuine love go into their fav character's silly friend-date text based adventure. :'}💜

This whole entire route is a mood and I lovve it

Well then, this was fun. One minute hating down on this fool, the next I'm lovving this portrayal and thinking, "this is going to be all sorts of psychoanalysingly sad"

I DO want to comfort the broken hearted little fish boy 🥺

They have the voice right, but I feel like the characterization was kind of everywhere. This route had its ups and downs, and I did like the ending, but I feel like fanon was injected to make them seem worse in the beginning. However, it does confirm the non-binary headcanon I've had for years, so it has that much at least!

16:21 is literally an Ed, edd and eddy reference LMAO

ok so he's really fucking adorable he'd still be matespirites with a rock tho

y’all talking about Sollux being enby (which I stan) BUT EVERYONE IS SLEEPING ON *ERIDAN*

it troubles me that ''Shrek 2'' is a movie title on alternia. Weren't their names hyper fucking long and descriptive?

The first choice page has like 7 goddamn choices, man we are really in the driver's seat now getting completely shitfaced on all this choice-making like its a wily character select screen gone ballistic

I see that almoust everytime when MSPA reader meets(not befriend, Eridian is the first violet blood MSPA reader befriended) a violet blood the seedweller woud want the MSPA reader attention and MSPA reader woud then be something like "bish u talking to me?" . Like remember in Nikhhe's route when there was that seedweller and he was something like :"Hey alien!" And MSPA reader looked around the room as if they weren't the only alien there.

didn't really acknowledge Eridan in homestuck so far, (I'm on act 5 part 2) but after watching this, I loved it. I feel like ppl treat him as one of the worst trolls. But I love him. And the gender thing WE STAN. I totally agree with it And I love the idea of Eridan wearing skirts! >:]

I do! I do wanna comfort the fish boy! TO an unhealthy degree! It has become an Issue!

you accidentally saving instead of loading, and then frraking out when it all goes to hell is a big fucking mood

I am a Derse dreamer Prince of Hope and a true Aquarius sign so I relate to Eridan WAY to much but also notice very important differences in character between me and him mainly I’m not a desperate narcissistic asshole.

im so in love with eridan its not even a joke anymore

I am very happy with the music choice for the fight scene

"soft zebruh vibes"

i never expected to agree with eridian on anything especially not gender but im glad i had this one moment where i liked his character before he was racist seconds after

AHHHHH YES MY BABY BOIIII

If we can get the Alpha kids then our friendship pile would be complete!

I kind of love this route. It's probably my favorite so far.

I'm not gonna lie, out of all of the stories or routes or writing or whatever, this one feels the most off or something It's still good though

so i'm just gonna say this Pesterquest Eridan is best Eridan don't @ me

The irony that he say's gender roles serve no purpose. But he's assigned to a only male classpect.

Gender isn’t real but race superiority is 😞✌️

the bgm is a bop

nerd fight

There is no troll shrek Shrek is multi-universal

I love him and his smile made me so SOFT I can't-

9:02 AHHHHE SMILED

lemme jst i love this man,,,

hes a jerk but hes a... reasonable jerk

little nitpick about the game over screen at 23:21. it fits the scene very well but i feel like there shouldnt be that much blood, mc’s arm would probably have been cauterized by the laser

i will never understand the people that hate eridan:((

holy shit this route was a fucking ride i loved it

2:27 Wworthless is spelled incorrectly.

I’ve had the non-binary headcanon for Eridan for YEARS and as an non-binary non conforming individual it’s great to see that Headcanon basically be confirmed! I love this route I KNOW Eridan can be a better person if they try.

So, in the comic, troll movie names are usually incredibly long due to troll movies being around for such a long time. The fact that Shrek 2 has so concise of a name implies that Shrek 2 has existed for an incredible amount of time, and has remained such a cult classic that it’s still being shown in movie theaters to this day. Until we meet again!

i love eridan sm

I feel like I needed this

I like this a lot, like, it's awesome that they let Eridan actually have hope in this. Plus considering what happens in Dirk Strider's Route. It's cool to know that this isn't just flushed away due to "canon", theres genuinely timelines with Eridans that aren't villains. I wish the same could be said for Gamzee :o(

30:06 real smile :o

When the sunslammer remix started playing i lost it

"nobody wwants to be my friend and i don't blame them" is my new motto

This is somehow surprisingly wholesome. Also- Floating Sollux-

LMAOOOO THE FRUSTRATED POINTER AT 8:28 IS SO FUNNY

I love the ending. Yes!

FINALLLYYY

that's not a shrek 2 quote hello????

I still love you eridan

ooooooo theyre Fightinf

nevermind im crying!

Seadwellers demanding money for the privilege of listening to their woes is the new funniest part of Alternia for me.

I cant help but feel the gender part was shoved in there.

Wow

wow i want to dominate hHUH. what

fuck i felt that when you saved over a save and had to replay it again

What's the fight song called

eridan, are you trans? me too bro :) GENDER IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT DEVELOPED BY BATHROOM COMPANIES TO SELL MORE BATHROOMS-

Eridan after saying woke shit about genders: anywway let's talk about the hemospectrum IM FUCKING DYING

hes sOOOO silly eueueueuee

Shrek 2????? FUCK YES!!!!!