by marathemara

Ms. Paint is Andrew Hussie’s personal assistant. She’s the Prospitian in the pink headscarf who follows him around, and who painted his office green. And, in my favorite fandom inside joke, her name is the name of the website that hosts Homestuck, making her the most important character in the story.

She began as a happy accident. Ryan North, creator of the bizarre yet delightful Dinosaur Comics, discovered a pun in the name of Hussie’s website and tweeted it at him: “Who is Ms. Paint and why has she not shown up in her own Adventures?” So a member of the B1 White Queen’s court was given the name “Ms. Paint,” and made Hussie’s assistant.

And Ms. Paint has begun to have her Adventures, beginning with helping Hussie rescue Spades Slick from the destruction of Alternia’s universe and taking care of him. Lord English rampages through Hussie’s house and kills him, but Ms. Paint comes out relatively unscathed: he’d smacked her in the face with his cuestaff and left to fry bigger fish. Ms. Paint is terrified, of course, but comes out of hiding when Slick does. His appearance as something other than her boss’ patient is Ms. Paint’s Call to Adventure, and after Narrator-Hussie okays Slick’s red attraction to her, she jumps at the call, taking on a new role as Snowman’s replacement in the Felt.

So our cute little Prospitian friend is now a member of the Felt, flying off to the B2 session. The (humorous) promise of the website’s name is being fulfilled: Ms. Paint is having adventures.