Bonus Track from the album Homestuck - Volume 8 available at: homestuck.bandc... --- Track art by Mia Schwartz super-villain.org Cascade (Beta) by Joren "Tensei" de Bruin
Headcanon time! This "Giant Mindfang" thing is the direction in which the Homestuck Beta would go if shown as a doomed timeline. (I know that's not the actual context for this drawing, or this song, but hear me out.) The Beta uses traditional character inventories. Without the captcha-card shenanigans of the main Homestuck comic, *Dave never impales the crow,* as the sword is never ejected from his non-existent sylladex. As nothing else is ever impaled by Dave, nothing impaled gets prototyped. It seems silly for Jade to prototype a sword on its own, so *the sword itself is never prototyped.* With the sword never prototyped, *Caledfwlch is never created by the game,* consequently turned into the Royal Deringer, and used on the Black Queen. *She kills Jack* with her lance, (as she was going to in Jack: Ascend with her sword,) and *he never becomes a problem.* Also, since Vriska can't mess with doomed timelines, Bec never prototypes himself. *No one else can become similarly dangerous.* Since the Imps and other goons are merely "graveyard stuffers," they pose no real threat, especially without the omnipotence. The kids are able to ascend to God Tier. The timeline demands that the kids be doomed. That can only happen through heroics or villainy. *There is no in-timeline need for heroics, and no in-timeline cause for villainy,* so the timeline needs an external source. Somewhere else in Paradox Space, there's *a Mindfang who is either real, or Vriska in cosplay.* Her decisions and maybe some more external sources somehow lead to *her entering the Beta timeline.* Mindfang, evil as she is, would find a reason to be a problem, and thus, *people would need saving.* One troll would easily lose against four God Tiers, so *she needs to be formidable* in order to ensure their doom. An easy way to make a foe formidable is to *increase her size,* a goal accomplished through *more weird plot shit,* or perhaps *weird puzzle shit* as shown in Problem Sleuth.
To Add To Your Theory, If The Session Vriska And The Other Trolls Played In Had Different God Tiers Or Fan Tiers, This Could Very Well Be Possible. Why? There Is A Fan God Tier Aspect Called Realm, Which Allows The Player With This Aspect To Travel To Any Different Sessions Within The Bounds Of Paradox Space In Order To Find Success. Maybe, Instead Of Thief Of Light, She Could Have Been A Thief Of Realm. Then Through "Shenanigans" She Became A Giantess Because In Their Session It Was Needed For Winning . Thank You For Your Theory. I Am Glad To Add On To It.
This could be considered the first part of [S] Cascade, since the flash is in four different parts. These parts are Cascade, Flare, Savior of the Dreaming Dead, and Black Hole/Green Sun, respectively.
actually, the artist, joren tensei, uploaded "cascade-the director's cut" on his UA-cam channel. that version will forever be part one of cascade to me.
TBH I prefer that amazing violin with the 2x godtier combo than the ending of this. Also, this is probably just the full song of the first part of the whole Cascade song (before Flare plays).
Dave: John, you need to fluff that pillow and flip it to the chill side. John: What? How do I do that? Dave: I Donno, just go up and give her a hug, or some shit. John: Hell no, Dave! You do it! Dave: John, do I look like some sort of fucking psychopath? There is no way in hell in going near that. Vriska: Oh Joooooooohn. ;;;;;;;;) John: D:
+Jacob Fritts Sorry, not trying to be rude or anything of the sorts. Vriska only uses four colons, and only the closest one to the parenthesis becomes a semi-colon, you're thinking of Aranea owo
Jacob Fritts Yeah, you just drink a bunch of the different blood colors then try to speak with them all in your mouth. Actually that was a bit more morbid than I thought it would be, whoa.
The full "[S] Cascade" cast: Part 1 - 'Cascade' by Joren "Tensei" de Bruin Part 2 - 'Flare' by Clark "Plazmataz" Powell Part 3 - 'Savior of the Dreaming Dead' by Malcolm Brown, Doctor by George Buzinkai, Penumbra Phantasm by Toby "Radiation" Fox Part 4 - 'Black Rose / Green Sun' by Malcolm Brown, solo piano + violin + guitar parts written and added by Toby "Radiation" Fox, feat. Joren "Tensei" de Bruin on electric guitar and Kelly Sadwin on Violin
June and Dave try to contain a raging fire using their decidedly not well suited to fire fighting powers while giant Vriska hits the fattest vape to ever grace the medium.
Vriska alluded to some sort of bigger bad than Lord English that had nothing to do with the adventure... DRUNK MINDFANG IS THE FINAL BOSS OF THE VIDEO GAME
JOHN: dave! JOHN: what the hell is going on here? DAVE: i dunno man DAVE: you think i know how this shit happens JOHN: well, go back with your time powers and fix it! DAVE: yeah DAVE: see DAVE: ... DAVE: ok this is going to sound mad hells of fucked up DAVE: but i...actually kind of like this? JOHN: DAVE!
Someone should cut the ending of this and then add it to the flash version of this song. The result would create the most mind-blowing of songs in the history of things that can be listened to.
I'm not exactly sure who it is in the foreground with their back to us, but the shrug would suggest that they have about as much of an idea as to what is going on as we do.
Hussie: *listens to this song* ...Oh wow, this song is totally going to be the EoA5 Flash song. *30 days later* Shit, EoA5 is 3 times as long as the song. GOTTA PAD THAT SHIT. This is a pretty elaborate song, and it really fits how everything in Act 5 has led up to this "everything has absolutely gotten to the most desperate hour" thing in Act 5. Well done, artist.
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I can't find my favorite comment so here it is:
John: Are we in a doomed timeline?
Dave: We better be
TrapWolf I fucking mean it dude. We better fucking be.
Three years late but fucking heck that is the best comment ever.
Six years late but fucking heck that is the best comment ever.
HAHAHA
8 SMT years late but fking heck that is the best comment ever.
“On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the Serkets, and were disgraced to live in these cages we called lands.”
"DAVE, WHAT DID YOU DO."
"dont know but whatever it is its hot"
I really want to agree
Abby Nadira Hehe... hot like a fuckin' ill ass rhyme to a fuckin' sick ass fire. No, hotter than that.
Abby Nadira shits fucking steaming bro
heh
"do"
AH: Agree
This is what happens when you prototype Vriska before entering the Medium.
And you also have a gigantic Mindfang as a replacement for the Black King.
Lulwutzangrybirdsandbadpiggies 2.0 Dare I say it, a huge bitch.
+Noruzenchi86 (bluh bluh)
Noruzenchi86 Why thank you ::::)
Ok.This is a doomed timeline I wanna read in paradox space.
Headcanon time! This "Giant Mindfang" thing is the direction in which the Homestuck Beta would go if shown as a doomed timeline. (I know that's not the actual context for this drawing, or this song, but hear me out.)
The Beta uses traditional character inventories. Without the captcha-card shenanigans of the main Homestuck comic, *Dave never impales the crow,* as the sword is never ejected from his non-existent sylladex. As nothing else is ever impaled by Dave, nothing impaled gets prototyped. It seems silly for Jade to prototype a sword on its own, so *the sword itself is never prototyped.* With the sword never prototyped, *Caledfwlch is never created by the game,* consequently turned into the Royal Deringer, and used on the Black Queen. *She kills Jack* with her lance, (as she was going to in Jack: Ascend with her sword,) and *he never becomes a problem.*
Also, since Vriska can't mess with doomed timelines, Bec never prototypes himself. *No one else can become similarly dangerous.* Since the Imps and other goons are merely "graveyard stuffers," they pose no real threat, especially without the omnipotence. The kids are able to ascend to God Tier.
The timeline demands that the kids be doomed. That can only happen through heroics or villainy. *There is no in-timeline need for heroics, and no in-timeline cause for villainy,* so the timeline needs an external source. Somewhere else in Paradox Space, there's *a Mindfang who is either real, or Vriska in cosplay.* Her decisions and maybe some more external sources somehow lead to *her entering the Beta timeline.* Mindfang, evil as she is, would find a reason to be a problem, and thus, *people would need saving.*
One troll would easily lose against four God Tiers, so *she needs to be formidable* in order to ensure their doom. An easy way to make a foe formidable is to *increase her size,* a goal accomplished through *more weird plot shit,* or perhaps *weird puzzle shit* as shown in Problem Sleuth.
I love reading a story where that is a valid and reasonable suggestion.
Omg, yes, somebody make a story about this! :D
***** CONFIRMED.
To Add To Your Theory, If The Session Vriska And The Other Trolls Played In Had Different God Tiers Or Fan Tiers, This Could Very Well Be Possible. Why? There Is A Fan God Tier Aspect Called Realm, Which Allows The Player With This Aspect To Travel To Any Different Sessions Within The Bounds Of Paradox Space In Order To Find Success. Maybe, Instead Of Thief Of Light, She Could Have Been A Thief Of Realm. Then Through "Shenanigans" She Became A Giantess Because In Their Session It Was Needed For Winning . Thank You For Your Theory. I Am Glad To Add On To It.
***** Now this I would like to see in Paradox Space.
Attack on Vriska, the new hit anime series.
Stabbing her in the ego is the only way to be sure.
what.
the.
fuck.
to be fair, it's so big, it's almost impossible to miss.
I mean, Hussie is the waste of space cause he wastes it with fat vriska
Attack on Vaska.
Johns like "dude what the fuck did you do." And Daves like "dunno what you're talkin about" and Mindfangs like "HEUEHEURHEHEUEHEH"
Johns face just screams " IVE MADE A HUGE MISTAKE
and Dave's shades are like "she's your alien girlfriend, get your sp8der b8tch under control man..."
OneColdRepublican Bluh bluh.
+StudyinSteel Huge Boss
J Bizzle That One Person
is this what would've happened if he'd prototyped the Blue Lady?
@@123goldenlilymaybe, who knows what consequences would happen if he did
I like to think this was a deleted scene when John sticked his hand in the house juju and ended up in random alternate timelines....
Suddenly, New and Cool Webcomic happens.
...i love it
Retcon john: Davveeee.....The hell is this!?
Dave: hell if i know man. Ain't my problem.
Vriska: I've been here the whole time!
This was actually [S] Descend
Art by caliborn, Anime edition
EG: daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaveeeeeeee?
TG: fuck if I know man
This could be considered the first part of [S] Cascade, since the flash is in four different parts. These parts are Cascade, Flare, Savior of the Dreaming Dead, and Black Hole/Green Sun, respectively.
Form This Way What about the part where Spades Slick shoots Snowman? That wasn't really in any of the songs
Yao Wang That's a Flare remix.
+the big man ==> Attempt rare and highly dangerous double "bluh bluh"
actually, the artist, joren tensei, uploaded "cascade-the director's cut" on his UA-cam channel. that version will forever be part one of cascade to me.
John: Dave! We're in the wrong timeline againnnn!
Dave: Dont look at me like that, nothing i can do. Let's just go out with a bang.
...
John: dave is this a doomed timeline?
Dane: i fucking hope so
Dane
Dane
date
Dane
oh sweet jesus the ending is sO MUCH BETTER than the version in cascade //wheezes
+CALIBORN
yoUr only saying that becaUse dave is in it
TBH I prefer that amazing violin with the 2x godtier combo than the ending of this. Also, this is probably just the full song of the first part of the whole Cascade song (before Flare plays).
+CALIBORN i prefer the full cascade. this version is missing some really good stuff of the final version
guys, take this song and watch it along S: descend.(without the squiddles part) you'll thank me later.
1. How did you figure that out?
2. THANK YOU.
Dave: John, you need to fluff that pillow and flip it to the chill side.
John: What? How do I do that?
Dave: I Donno, just go up and give her a hug, or some shit.
John: Hell no, Dave! You do it!
Dave: John, do I look like some sort of fucking psychopath? There is no way in hell in going near that.
Vriska: Oh Joooooooohn. ;;;;;;;;)
John: D:
+Jacob Fritts Sorry, not trying to be rude or anything of the sorts. Vriska only uses four colons, and only the closest one to the parenthesis becomes a semi-colon, you're thinking of Aranea owo
+Daemon Frazier
Hi Rude,
I'm Jacob.
Jacob Fritts
Hi Jacob,
although if I were trying to be rude, there'd be a much more colorful vocabulary involved ;)
Go ahead. I didn't know that you could speak rainbow.
Jacob Fritts Yeah, you just drink a bunch of the different blood colors then try to speak with them all in your mouth.
Actually that was a bit more morbid than I thought it would be, whoa.
can we all just talk about this pic though
DarkEmperorRay13
It's Mindfang
sie sind das essen und wir sind die homestuck
But guys I feel like this was foreshadowing to the recent upd8
This is Attack on Homestuck.
123flowermax oh dear.
and suddenly the picture made sense
Is there a way in which this picture makes sense?
@@heheheiamasupahstarchimera631 when explained in a mysterious riddle-like way to a hammer-weilding pooplord
There are four kinds of fucked up sessions, an yours is the worst, it's called a Mindfang session...
The full "[S] Cascade" cast:
Part 1 - 'Cascade' by Joren "Tensei" de Bruin
Part 2 - 'Flare' by Clark "Plazmataz" Powell
Part 3 - 'Savior of the Dreaming Dead' by Malcolm Brown, Doctor by George Buzinkai, Penumbra Phantasm by Toby "Radiation" Fox
Part 4 - 'Black Rose / Green Sun' by Malcolm Brown, solo piano + violin + guitar parts written and added by Toby "Radiation" Fox, feat. Joren "Tensei" de Bruin on electric guitar and Kelly Sadwin on Violin
John: DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE
Dave: i dunno man
John: WHAT DID YOU DO
Dave: i dunno man i dunno
John: DID YOU CAUSE A PARADOX
Dave: i just do not know john
0:50 for the badass guitar bit
'parently Terezi is on the official art team now
If we get to Cascade again with John jumping through timelines and shit we might get a shorter version of Cascade using this.
Probably not :(
your profile picture ::::D
this. this my friends. is why. this is why you DONT EAT THE MIND HONEY.
John: Dave, whats going on? Dave: i dont fucking know
he just couldn't resist when the artist sent him this to be the songs cover art!
"Your ancestor so fat when she went to Skaia started to eat clouds thinking they were cotton candy"
I was about to ditch the video thinking it was just a short version of Cascade and then the solo hit. YOOOOOOOO.
On that day, humanity recieved a grim reminder...
June and Dave try to contain a raging fire using their decidedly not well suited to fire fighting powers while giant Vriska hits the fattest vape to ever grace the medium.
At the end I can hear heir of grief
you mean heir conditioning?
John: WHAT HAVE I DONE
Dave: the fuck i dont know
Vriska/Mindfang thing: GIVE ME A HUUUUUUUUG!!!!!!!!
John: ;_;
I'm pretty sure john would be OK with hugging her
Vriska's been hitting the sopor smoke
This song was originally known as "Descend2", by Tensei. The bonus riffs at the end were added recently though.
This is seriously my favorite homestuck track. By far.
That fucking solo though.
Vriska's been taking lessons from Casey
Sansy Pansy I only think she is making the :v
BEST BOSS BATTLE THEME EVAR
i have been looking for this EVERYWHERE jesus christ. cant search cascade without getting the whole 14 minute bit
Oh lord
that background
I can't stop laughing
Does somebody want to explain why Vriska is a giant... and on fire?
Shes made of Iron...And she need aaaaaaaallllllllllllllll the irons in the fire.
Five years!
What a surprise.
One more question: if you could steal a smooch from any guy on Alternia who-
Mindfang: No more questions
THIS SONG IS JUST AMAZING
When you realize that Descend, Cascade, and Collide are each 7 letters long, hinting at Act 7
Don't forget about about "Explore".
It's been how many years, and I still can't get off Mr Hussie's Wild Ride
I never noticed that little ending part before on this track. Rather adds to the Descend allusion don't it?
I have feeling we'll be seeing this level of artistic mastery in one of the future Homosuck updates.
The art's actually good though?
*sees title of video on recommended part*
ooh, haven't heard this one in awhile! wonder why i haven't taken a listen?
*clicks*
*sees picture*
...
oh
Dat picture doh. googly eyes, dramatic 8attle, FLAMING CHECKERBOARDS.
+Chibi Vriska Dat shrug.
+Cameron Wallace That look of fear and confusion.
is it just me or does it look like that Mindfang's a titan--
that's john, wearing his adorable wind jammies.
That fucking cover image looks like it could be a Radiohead album cover and I can't deal with it
I just
can't even
what?
I don't
I have lost all ability to 'can'
Imagine if Cascade was to this soundtrack. It would have been so different, wow.
Vriska hit that vape a bit too hard
Vriska alluded to some sort of bigger bad than Lord English that had nothing to do with the adventure...
DRUNK MINDFANG IS THE FINAL BOSS OF THE VIDEO GAME
I wish 0:52 was its own full length song...
I coulda swore it was from something earlier. Maybe this is it.
StudyinSteel Try out Union Jack
It's got that kickass Crunch sound
unite synchronization
john: OH GOD WHAT GOING ON
dave: calm down ude this os probably a dream bubble.
john: oh well then i guess i should freak out more.
dave: you do that.
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF MELODIC GOODNESS
john: wtf just happened.
dave: i dunno but i think were screwed.
mindfang: BLLLEEEERRRGGHHHH (continued)
JOHN: dave!
JOHN: what the hell is going on here?
DAVE: i dunno man
DAVE: you think i know how this shit happens
JOHN: well, go back with your time powers and fix it!
DAVE: yeah
DAVE: see
DAVE: ...
DAVE: ok this is going to sound mad hells of fucked up
DAVE: but i...actually kind of like this?
JOHN: DAVE!
"what the shit?"
'i dont even'
Someone should cut the ending of this and then add it to the flash version of this song.
The result would create the most mind-blowing of songs in the history of things that can be listened to.
Ok yeah the mindfang thing is weird but how tf did Dave’s dream self get all the way to the battlefield?
He just know how to *game*
it looks like mindfang is barfing clouds (is she?)
+Noah LLanos oh dear lord
+Theleopardgeckoqueen lorg I mean
nah, shes just vaping.
Its like head banging material almost...I love this! (Very interesting cover art though...)
I really love the way that they took the audio from cascade, and turned it into a very different song. I thoroughly enjoy it!
The track art is 100% funnier considering... Recent upd8s...
didnt know about a cascade beta, sounds pretty good! and that picture xD stuck maiden
It's actually the other way around - this song was composed, then modified for use in Cascade. (That's why it's called Beta)
John... how...
I saw this cover art so many times, and only now i see John, standing there, with that shocked face. Silly John.
i like this song :D in hometuck when the video clip showed up i replayed it just to hear the song
I'm not exactly sure who it is in the foreground with their back to us, but the shrug would suggest that they have about as much of an idea as to what is going on as we do.
That is dave going "i dont know"
...
Someone has to make a flash based on that picture with this as the background.
The best Doomed Timeline.
It's not the same, and thats part of the reason i love it
John: This is a doomed timeline isn't it
Dave: I fucking hope so.
What the actual fucking shit is this background. I think the artist wanted a crossover... (Vriska is creepy ::::( )
Mindfang smokin' all the derp toniiight~
hey, reading all these comments make me feel really dumb for not understanding them.
//weeps
IS THERE EVEN A MEANING BEHIND ALL THESEEEE????
John's face is just like
"HHNHAGAAHAAHAHAGAHNAHAWAAAH D:>"
I know, John. I know.
bad assery right here
the way shes spewing smoke sort of reminds me of OFF for some reason
like the elsen maybe
time capsule comment
This is the end goal of Aranea's plan
Goosebumps.
2:40
this version of the song is cool and all but the stock horror movie tension noise is way too funny
Super Special Secret Final Boss is doped Mindfang.
Hussie: *listens to this song* ...Oh wow, this song is totally going to be the EoA5 Flash song.
*30 days later*
Shit, EoA5 is 3 times as long as the song. GOTTA PAD THAT SHIT.
This is a pretty elaborate song, and it really fits how everything in Act 5 has led up to this "everything has absolutely gotten to the most desperate hour" thing in Act 5.
Well done, artist.
Epic.
the artwork on this
most of these are references though, or are making scenarios for what's happening
Mindfang: I 8m so h8gh! W888H!
John: i'm scared, dream dave. hold me.
Dave: i cant do nothin for you son
It sounds like an alternate version of the sound from the end of [S] Descend and the beginning of [S] Jade: Enter.
I am extremely terrified by that Mindfang. /shudders
I honestly come here just for the picture and comments.
Attack on Serket
Actually this perfectly syncs up to [S] Descend.
>Tensei: Resist temptation to jam for the finale.
You fail to resist the temptation, and crank out an EPIC ending solo.
That :v Mindfang, tho