Lil' Cal
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Relations	Dave's Bro - Business partner Jack Noir - One true friend Aradia Megido - Archeological find Kanaya Maryam - Fashion designer Dave Strider - Childhood tormentee Dirk Strider - Guardian and best friend Doc Scratch - Ectobiological son Lrd English - Ectobiological grandson Gamzee Makara - Best friend post-insanity
Pesterlogs Dave: Consult with Calsprite.

Lil' Cal is a puppet that belongs to Dave Strider's older brother in the adventure Homestuck. Another, identical one belongs to Andrew Hussie and was given to him by Eyes5.

For a long time, Dave thought that the puppets his brother kept around were awesome, but later he began to be disturbed by them, especially Lil' Cal. In Dave's defense, Lil' Cal has a rather unnerving aesthetic and seems to possess the ability to appear very suddenly (which is one of Bro's many ways of tormenting his younger brother).

Bro's mind games involving Lil' Cal have given Dave occasional nightmares where Cal talks, causing him to wake up in a cold sweat. This is because Cal actually existed on Derse where he was move on his own. He may have just be animated by Dave's subconscious in his dream, as he no longer moves on his own outside of dream Dave's room. However it is speculated that Cal was "alive the whole time", while not much supports this later undyingUmbrage calls Cal a "juju" but has his doubts due a dead look in Cal's eyes which may suggest Cal died after leaving Derse.

During Strife, Bro uses Cal as a weapon, manipulating him so that it appears that Cal is fighting while keeping out of sight using his ninja-like speed. This succeeds in delivering quite the beatdown, and untold psychological damage. This, along with his post-scratch self's possession of the abstratus suggests that Bro has the puppetkind Abstratus.

During Bro and Dave's final strife, Cal is trapped between them and cut to pieces.

After accelerating to a future scene, Cal is shown to have been used as a Tier Two Prototype in Dave's Sprite. When Dave goes back in time, he prototypes the seppucrow with himself, as the Calsprite doesn't seem capable of communication beyond mocking laughter.

Cal like many things in Homestuck has paradoxical origins. Dave was raised by Bro and Cal, he grew fearful of him due to his creepy aesthetic. Gamzee Makara then burned this fear into his subconscious using his "chucklevoodoos". This caused a manifestation of these fears to make a 'Dream Cal' which continued to antagonize Dave in his dreams. Rose became annoyed by him and threw him to Derse, but he landed on Bro's hoverboard and was brought to the Ectobiology lab in The Veil by a Transportalizer. This Dream Cal was sent back in time with Baby Bro to grow up with him, become the 'real' Cal, and raise Dave, leading to his paradoxical origins as he causes subconscious trauma that creates him in the first place.

Cal is later stitched back together by Bro at an unknown time and appears with him when he faces Jack Noir in the Land of Wind and Shade. After Bro is defeated by the Becquerel-prototyped Noir, he is taken by Noir for unknown reasons (along with Bro's awesome shades). When he throws away all of his trophies Jack Noir keeps Cal. The reason being that he could never stay mad at Cal, and he is a true friend. The only one he has ever known.

Jack stores Cal in some sort of First Guardian dimensional pocket within his own body. When Jack battles the Aradia army upon entering the Trolls' session, he sends Cal to entangle one of the attacking robots. That particular Aradia then travels through time, taking Cal with her, and when they arrive they are promptly hit by a meteor and into one

of Skaia's defensive portals. Cal lands on Alternia, near Aradia's hive before the creation of Sgrub, and the impact reveals a Frog Temple. She then gives him to Sollux, who in turn gives him to Kanaya. She makes him a new Felt-like outfit, but decides to put him away in her respiteblock when she too becomes unnerved by him. Black Queen then targeted him with a Appearifier along with the Magic Cue Ball to create Doc Scratch.

Cal briefly appears in the opening to Act 6 in his Dersite clothing, holding a sword. He is the companion of Dirk, the Post-Scratch Bro.

Cal is referred to by undyingUmbrage as a Juju, one of many, each of which only exists to turn the lives of everyone who shares a universe with one of them into a nightmare. He tells Dirk he should cut up and burn Cal, referring to the puppet as a bad omen. This particular Cal's eyes are described by uu as looking dead, and he speculates that the Cal may be untainted.

The fact that Bro carelessly allowed Cal to be cut to pieces, but went through a great deal of effort to stitch him back together, suggests that he may have intended for Dave to prototype with him.

MSPA Forums user Eyes5 constructed a real life Lil' Cal puppet which is now in the possession of one Andrew Hussie.

Lil' Cal also shares his name with a character that Andrew Hussie created ages ago.

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Pre-Scratch Kids	Heir of Breath Seer of Light Knight of Time Witch of Space John Egbert Rose Lalonde Dave Strider Jade Harley EB - ectoBiologist GT - ghostyTrickster TT - tentacleTherapist TG - turntechGodhead GG - gardenGnostic
Post-Scratch Kids	Maid of Life Rogue of Void Prince of Heart Page of Hope Jane Crocker Roxy Lalonde Dirk Strider Jake English GG - gutsyGumshoe TG - tipsyGnostalgic TT - timaeusTestified GT - golgothasTerror
Post-Scratch Trolls	Maid of Time Page of Breath Mage of Doom Knight of Blood Aradia Megido Tavros Nitram Sollux Captor Karkat Vantas AA - apocalypseArisen AT - adiosToreador TA - twinArmageddons CG - carcinoGeneticist Rogue of Heart Sylph of Space Seer of Mind Thief of Light Nepeta Leijon Kanaya Maryam Terezi Pyrope Vriska Serket AC - arsenicCatnip GA - grimAuxiliatrix GC - gallowsCalibrator AG - arachnidsGrip Heir of Void Bard of Rage Prince of Hope Witch of Life Equius Zahhak Gamzee Makara Eridan Ampora Feferi Peixes CT - centaursTesticle TC - terminallyCapricious CA - caligulasAquarium CC - cuttlefishCuller
Pre-Scratch Trolls	Sylph of Light Thief of Life Aranea Meenah
Uracil Trolls	uranianUmbra undyingUmbrage UU - uranianUmbra uu - undyingUmbrage
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