(Pomni inhales hell-ghosts; the Absolute Solver symbol appears in her eyes)
Pomni, Cyn voice: [Ah ... freedom.]
Kinger: POMNI! (pulls her back) You get out of her, you damn evil souls!
Pomni, Cyn voice: [Oh hey there --- KiKiKiKinger! How's --- the wife?]
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Jax: I love doing anything!
J: would make fun of you for knowing a Homestuck reference, but wouldn't recognize them without having them pointed out to her.
V: would make fun of you for knowing a Homestuck reference; recognizes the more obvious Homestuck references but not deeper cuts. Worried that Uzi or N will someday namedrop "kismesissitude" to describe her and/or Lizzy's relationship with Uzi.
Lizzy: would not recognize most Homestuck references or make fun of you, but would make Annoyed Popular Girl Noises if she realized that the topic of Homestuck had unexpectedly come up.
N: into Homestuck.
Nori: not only into Homestuck but also Problem Sleuth and delved into the earlier MSPA stories.
Uzi: into Homestuck, and kind of annoyed that her mom is into one of the same things she's into.
Khan: knows some references but is blissfully unaware of the greater significance thereof, only aware of Homestuck as "that thing my wife and daughter sometimes mention".
Thad: neither knows nor cares.
Solver: too busy devouring the universe to recognize or care about Homestuck.
Doll: Lizzy annoys her once; as revenge, Doll namedrops a term like "quadrant vaccilation" and gives Lizzy space to look it up on her own.
Alice: wrote this post, titled it "vuzinstuck" in her draft files.
Regardless of whatever else I might say about Murder Drones episode 4, having a character determinedly say "I'm not afraid!" about a particular supernatural-whatever which she is clearly afraid of, and having someone else respond "I am!", was definitely one of the good parts.
I'm kind of curious what Murder Drones would have looked like if the pilot hadn't been retconned to hell and back after the first episode.
Like, obviously it'd be a bad thing if we were deprived of Cyn. But in the show we got, you have to wonder exactly why Cyn, like ... went to all the trouble of specifically making the Disassembly Drones think they worked for JC Jensen, or made them want clicky pens, or gave J enough agency to kill off N, who was her favorite of the bunch. (The fact that N and V had enough agency to fight back against Cyn is more a late-season conundrum, but I digress.)
I mean it's abundantly clear that there was a major change in Creative Direction™ after the pilot. I'm just wondering what the original "robot girl rebelling against corporate overlords with her one (1) vampire boyfriend, who was part of one of several group of Murder Drones" plot would have looked like.