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The Land of Brains and Fire (LOBAF) is Sollux Captor's planet in the Medium. It is almost exactly as its name suggests.

Concept and creation[]

“Sollux has the worst land. I don't think it's even a contest, really. It's just so completely terrible and unfun. Nothing but fire and brains everywhere. Dave has a similarly inhospitable land, a planet covered in lava, but at least there are cool industrial gear—based ruins and skeletal steel buildings to explore. Sollux just gets a bunch of gross brains harassing him. Just another shitty break for a guy stuck with a hard-luck arc.”
— Commentary for Homestuck: Book 4.[1]

The planet's unpleasant nature seems to reflect the cacophony of phy2iical paiin [Sollux's] hiideou2 mutant braiin cau2e2 [him] every dayHS, with the flames also alluding to the apocalyptic nature of Sollux' psychic visions and his Doom aspect.

In his authorial commentary, Andrew Hussie points out that, just as Sollux lives a similar life to the human Dave Strider, the two share similar planets in the Medium. The presence of brains and organic structures on Sollux' planet in place of mechanical industry may relate to the prevalence of biomechanics and the use of living troll brains in Alternian technology.

Geography[]

Though when Sollux's hivestem first appears on the Land of Brains and Fire there is no solid ground in sight among the towering flames and floating organs, Sollux and the other trolls are later seen traversing the planet's surface along the tops of much larger brains, and other masses formed from brain-like material. One such fleshy structure resembles the biomechanical Devil's Machine from the video game Earthbound.

A memory of the planet manifested in a dream bubble also shows brains growing on tree-like outgrowths from LOBAF's larger organic structures; if this memory is accurate, parts of the planet were also covered in a red or red-tinted liquid (perhaps similar in function to a real-life brain's cerebrospinal fluid).

Habitation[]

Brains and fire imps

From [S] Make her pay.HS

It might be presumed that the planet's brains are living organisms; it is unknown, however, what kind of consorts or denizen inhabited the planet. The Land of Brains and Fire's underlings come in varying shades of pink, possibly connected to the material that makes up the brains themselves.

History[]

Presumably, at some point "prior" to Sollux's arrival, the planet's denizen was prompted by Agents of Derse to start creating an army of underlings.[2]

Sollux died as he was entering due to Gl'bgolyb's Vast Glub. This prompted Feferi Peixes to rush through her own planet in order to revive Sollux. Sollux's Dersite dream self took over, and the two began exploring the planet. Later, Eridan Ampora dueled Sollux here.

LOBAF was destroyed with the other eleven planets when Jack Noir rampaged through the troll session.

References[]

  1. Andrew Hussie. "Sollux has the worst land. I don't think it's even a contest, really. It's just so completely terrible and unfun. Nothing but fire and brains everywhere. Dave has a similarly inhospitable land, a planet covered in lava, but at least there are cool industrial gear—based ruins and skeletal steel buildings to explore. Sollux just gets a bunch of gross brains harassing him. Just another shitty break for a guy stuck with a hard-luck arc. At least he gets a nice, new fish girlfriend here to help him out with brain-stabbing duty." Homestuck: Book 4: Act 5 Act 1. February 12, 2019.
  2. Act 4.HS ...When he was awake he was asked by some really terrible guys to commission a whole bunch of Underlings. He then went about befouling our land with all this sludge, clogging up all our beautiful Pipes, and now it can barely breathe. He was sort of a huge dick. Once he tuckered himself out with all that I guess he decided to take a nap. / The terrible guys? They are a bunch of mean fellows who like to push people around. They are called Agents.
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