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Dronema🔞🌿

@dronema.bsky.social

Rankmaid and Treeaboo reminded me of this drawing from 2018 that I never finished because my tablet died (It was going to be for a beforus zine). I never posted it either because I thought I'd get back to it eventually. I still really like it.
#2d #art #rufioh #damara #horuss #homestuck

Unfinished drawing featuring Damara Megido, Rufioh Nitram and Horuss Zahhak laying back and hanging out together. Damara is reading a notebook with a cover that reads "Top Secret 18+", implied to be explicit fanfiction belonging to Meulin. Rufioh and Horuss are each playing a handheld console game. Horuss is resting his head on Rufioh's lap and pointing at something on the screen of his handheld console to show or ask Rufioh something. Rufioh is humoring him with a nervous awkward smile.

A rough version of the previous drawing but showing the colors the pic would have.

October 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM

Dronema🔞🌿

@dronema.bsky.social

An attempt was made. Treeaboo & Imposter.
(I'll just keep running with Ouji fashion Tav)
#2d #art #homestuck #tavros #karkat

Sketch of Beforus Tavros, "The Treeaboo", as per the newest designs made by Andrew Hussie for the 20k member event on Discord.

Sketch of Beforus Karkat, "The Imposter", as per the newest designs made by Andrew Hussie for the 20k member event on Discord.

October 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM

Eldr y eso

@bizaskn.bsky.social

And here are the last ones.............

Tavros - The Treeaboo

A member of the Lost Weeaboos, who dwells in the trees. Another term for these trolls is Treeaboo, which he has claimed as his title. A common misconception about the Nitram legacy is they're based on Peter Pan, or the troll equivalent, Pupa Pan. But this is not true. Actually the Treeboo styled his themes and persona after Troll Robin Hood, who similarly dwelt in tree villages. But at some point there was a mixup, when Rufioh had a vision of his ancestor and thought he was LARPing as Pupa Pan, so he ran with the idea, and conflated "Lost Weeaboos" with the "Lost Boys" of the Pan myth. Actually the Lost Weeaboos had nothing to do with that, they're just weeaboos who live in trees.

Sollux - The Helpsman

A key part of Beforan society is emphasis on voluntary service, by using special abilities to assist with public works and infrastructure, like healthcare, energy production and such. Certain members of this force of volunteers are called "helpsmen", so that's his title. He's extremely enthusiastic about putting time in the power plant, using his telekinesis powers to boost the electric grid. He spends hours or sometimes days on end clutching the terminals with a huge smile on his face, thinking about the joy he is bringing to every troll enjoying his electricity. At some point due to a karmic chain of events, there is an accident that affected him quite negatively, but we don't need to talk about that.

Karkat - The Imposter

Because he has mutant red blood, he spent his life posing as a lime blood, because that's the caste he would have naturally fit into with his friend group growing up, but no one ever found out, even his friends. The lime bloods, a class that was hunted to extinction on Alternia because of their dangerous pyrokinetic powers, were not similarly hunted on Beforus. Instead they were put to work on public infrastructure, like other helpsmen. Very powerful pyrokinetics got tough jobs like melting huge amounts of ore to make steel, but extremely weak ones like the Imposter got stuck with menial jobs, like burning off trace amounts of excess gas in coal mines so it doesn't build up and explode. But because he didn't have any powers, he couldn't burn off the gas, so such a buildup did happen which led to a massive explosion, setting off the karmic chain of mishaps affecting this group. He was uninjured from the blast, because he left the mine long before the blast, ashamed of his lack of powers. He was arrested for negligence, was discovered to be an impostor, and was jailed for life. No one ever found out about his mutant blood because the government covered it up. He believed he should be a tragic martyr figure for being forced to live a lie, leading to deadly consequences, but his story was forgotten by time. Kankri learned of his ancestor in a vision, and tried to redeem the Vantas legacy by proudly wearing his blood color on his red sweater, and spent his life preaching perfect morality to everyone to bring honor back to his name.

Terezi - Songbird Sootnose

The Songbird is also a sort of helpsman, using her abilities to help with coal mining. Due to her great sense of smell, she played the role of a mine's "songbird", which is similar to the way canaries are used on Earth. A canary is brought deep in the mine, and if it stops singing and dies, that means there's too much gas and people need to evacuate. She uses her nose to detect gas, but an injury which started this karmic chain of events left her without a sense of smell, but she tried to keep songbirding anyway. When the Imposter allowed a massive buildup of gas, she couldn't detect it, and a huge explosion followed, rocking the neighborhood above, affecting a nearby powerplant manned by the Helpsman, a tree village housing the Rankmaid and Treeboo, and a hospital where the Lamplady was on her shift. The Songbird lost an arm and an eye in the blast, with the damage to her eye being done by a very specific piece of shrapnel... a stray coin in the mine. She decided to use it as an eyepatch so she could never forget her deadly mistake.

October 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM

Mixtinma

@mixtinma.bsky.social

Treeaboo not being buff is my one (1) critique of his design but otherwise I think that's truly my only problem with him. He's kinda fucking perfect.

October 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM

Tavvy

@tavvy.bsky.social

#homestuck #tavrosnitram #tavros #thetreeaboo #treeaboo #fanart

had to draw this guy. but he was too thin for me, so i gave him the real handsome robin hood treatment. like he deserves

October 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM

☆☆Rie☆☆

@systemtimeout.bsky.social

YESSS LET'S GOOOOO!!!
12/12 Beforus Ancestor designs
1/2
- Tavros - The Treeaboo
- Sollux - The Helpsman
- Karkat - The Imposter
#homestuck

October 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM

LibetsDelae 🧿

@libetsdelae.bsky.social

Tavros - The Treeaboo
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MY ANGEL, I love his HAIR. I know I don't talk about my love for Tavros like I used to but when I was reading upd8s, he was my favorite character because of Clock-Heart. I am doing what I'm doing with Eridan now because of them! They did Tavros justice.

October 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM

Triple Steak Guy

@triplesteakguy.bsky.social

It's pretty funny to me that, possibly unbeknownst to her, and certainly not knowing the term, my mom is a huge plant weeaboo (Japanese maples, hydrangeas, Japanese iris, etc.). Don't say treeaboo, I already thought of that

March 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM

LoveLuck ♡

@loveluck.bsky.social

Deer girl!

[C*mm*ss**n for Treeaboo]

#NSFWSky #NSFWartist #SmutNetwork #Pregnancy

March 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM

Mr. Skippy, If You're Nasty

@mrskippy69.myatproto.social

A Maple Treeaboo, perhaps

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Feb 18

Imagine a guy in the US showing his support of Canada by becoming a weird weeb about Canada.

Like he's now dressed as a lumberjack, he keeps talking about the fine steel of his Yukon-honed axe, he ostentatiously sips aged maple syrup out of an authentic flask signed by Dan Akroyd himself, etc

February 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM