seeing this thread is sort of alive again so im going to ask this as the world famous (well, im famous for it in the official homestuck server at least) guy who is really not normal about carapacians:

this comic is one of the very few sburbventures ive seen that actually does something with carapacians which brings a tear of joy to my eyes so uh. my question is how plot relevant are they going to be... please they need to be plot relevant... i need chess people to live... starts rolling on the floor sobbing...