my hiveswap act 1 trailer analysis/ hiveswap theorising

so i pretty much just watched the trailer and screenshotted all the interesting things i noticed in the hiveswap act 1 trailer so im gonna go through those now. (this may be a long post) i plan on making a few follow up posts on putting more detail on these things. if i get anything wrong please message me and ill fix it.

typheus



i noticed a familiar face while analyzing the trailer…that looks quite a bit like typheus (johns denizen) to me. maybe suggesting denizen are mythological creatures in this universe. or maybe there are smaller versions of them as animals in this universe. or maybe the monsters are versions of the denizen (*edit* That’s not Typheus, it’s a Typheus minion, which is just a smaller version the denizen sent out to attack, this means that Grandpa has killed at least two, the one in Jade’s house, and the one in Harley Mansion.)

art style

the art style seems to be very much the classic homestuck style (in fact its pretty much that) i noticed its colored very much like hero mode tho which is interesting, there’s usually only outlines outside of characters

smuppets

there’s allot of things that look allot like smuppets which is pretty interesting. maybe dirk/ bro will appear? (*edit* 2nd image is a manthro chap not a humanimal or a smuppet)

blue girls

there is allot of blue girls which isn’t much of a surprise, english loves his blue girls.

dog house

there are multiple multiple shots of a small house which i presume to be the dogs house (the wiki says the name is Tesseract). the house looks to be of asian decent.

judes tree house

there’s allot of cool stuff in judes room

1. crystals/ geodes. i just thought these were cool maybe they have something to do with him liking science and sci fi?

2. conspiracy theories about aliens, big foot and other cryptids probably. man i would love it if we got a kid who really liked cryptid that’d be awesome.

3. that sorta just looks like ancient pixel art which combines 2 of my interests so yaknow yay

4. pigeons….he keeps pigeons i guess… sorta like commander holly (ross from the game grumps wife) that’s pretty cool too

5. map of the us it seems. you can visibly see california so maybe this game takes place in the us . but lets be honest it looks like he’s just tracking alien sightings on it.

6. there’s carvings on his wall which somewhat look like an alien language. maybe he’s trying to teach himself alternian?

joeys room

jodeys room has some cool stuff but is mostly just toys (pretty adorable) but ill list the things that were cool here:

1. oh my the references, joey owns a super nintendo, she has a poster for bubsy, tetris 2, mother 2, final fantasy iv, super metroid, tiny toon adventures, the never ending story, are you afraid of the dark, dirty dancing, and my little pony, (eee i love references)

2. she has a light aspect symbol on her ceiling pointing to the fact that shes a light player, she uses a flashlight as a weapon in the trailer as well so this could lead to her being a knight of light (weaponising light) but also the light aspect is usually used to signify the sun in homestuck so it could easily mean nothing at all.

house in general

1. its a mess this could likely be because joey and jude live three alone this theory is also supported by the house being overgrown on the outside and the fact that there’s monsters everywhere and no adults are doing anything about it.

2. there’s horse imagery everywhere. theres my little ponys (at least thats what they look like) everywhere there’s a painting of a horse and a classic hoofbeast statue outside. theres also some other horse related things on the inside of the house.

3. there’s a skull in back yard that has bull horns (kinda like tavros). maybe its a troll skull.

4. there’s a hedge cut like a huge worm or snake monster (typheus or one of the other denisen. or just another one of the normal monsters)

monsters

1. they are black, have green mouths and white teeth and take multiple shapes

2. their mouths are usually open

3. their mouths can close tho

alternia

1. unexplained beams of light coming out of house with broken room, i presume this is the bean carrying joey to alternia and dammek to earth (shown in this concept art)

2. the condense (*edit* its not the condense its trizza the current heir to the throne) is selling products that relate to her.

3. new sburb sign?

random stuff i had nowhere else to put

the cursor shape changes depending on what action you taking

why a signature on the photo?

this “dragon” ( i think thats what its supposed to be) is dawn on the outside of the house in davepeta colors.

this is my analysis hope you realized something you didn’t please like and reblog to show people new things they may have not realized :)

*Edit* i realized that at the last 4 or so seconds of trailer something falls down the green beam of light (my theory is its joey and i think that’s almost cannon really) also this video covers some of the things i didn’t mention and or that i missed



*edit* Don’t forget Jude’s diagram for the portal, one of the few assets carried over into the 2d trailer. Also, the 11/11 calendar, the 11:11 clock, and the news clippings pointing toward trolls infiltrating the US government. Also the cipher on Jude’s wall, but it isn’t decipherable at this resolution.

Easter-egg wise, don’t forget the crockertier trident, family photos concerning alpha kids, joke headlines on Jude’s wall, the myst book, area 51 and gravity falls on the map, and the can of mayo. - reddit user gwamn