epsilondraconis wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 1:25 am
I suppose it's not totally impossible that everything did take place in the same day (or maybe two consecutive days), although it's a bit unusual. Chapter 1 did have me believe that it had been some time after the Epilogues, but yeah, it's not stated anywhere at all.
An alternative interpretation is that Dave's "death" could occur more or less around the same time as now, so maybe time just gets totally messed up without him around.
There is something weird with the timeline honestly. Jake was supposed to be there a week already yet it seems like the events of the first and second chapter might be happening simultaneously?
A lot of these elements are accurate otherwise. John had let the entire house go to seed and such. But the meeting between Roxie and John is the question and he had supposedly spent the entire week with Jake and Tavros before the meeting was set up.
Most of everything is accurate except the timeline. Which is somewhat of a big thing.
Unless the implication is that the Epilogue as we knew it was altered in some way and this is in fact intentional. Last chapter i sent a twitter to Aysha about how it seems weird that the divorce papers were forgotten and she replied 'yes that is weird' in a cryptic manner.
The simplest possibility i think might be that Jake continues to live in John's house even after all thi incident. That might work
timeline could be thus. An evening passes for everyone. Jake is spending the morning fixing up the place a little, and during this time Jake had gone off to get the Vriskas. The shenanigans happen around the same time, with Jake coming in just as Jane learns of Gamzee's fate and what became of Tavros. And tavros and the vriskas are hiding in a closet waiting for a chance to escape.
Its possible that during this week Jake continues to live in John's house when he isn't spying on Jane for his own sanity. Possibly Tavros secretly lives there too for a while and the Vriska's make it to the Troll rebellion stuff.
It may turn out that the divorce papers were never really sent and Jake does not want John to know he is still seeing Jane, even if its under the pretense of espionage.
Maybe this is leading up to Vriska, and who knows maybe Harry, Vrissy and TAvros, using the portal that Calloipe makes a week later. We know that Calliope hesitates to use the portal for quite some time so maybe she is letting people through?