>>86423524Betel is Hussie's long-time collaborator from back during the days of the Gangbunch Fora, and has been a part of his operation ever since. It's never been clear if there was ever a relationship between them, but there's certainly strong evidences of affection in photographs, Andrew's one depiction of Betel in illustration and general manner. A number of Huss fans used to speculate that Betel was a negative influence on him for the same reason that there's always a small group to do this, and it's pretty unfounded. Betel posed for the shirts and hoodies in the What Pumpkin store, and was a high-ranked mod on the MSPA forums.
Softowl, aka Rachel Rocklin, was (and maybe still is) Hussie's girlfriend. He met her as a fan of Homestuck. She very quickly integrated herself into the machinery of What Pumpkin and became the head PR woman, merchandiser, master of PXS and other outlets. Rocklin is known for immature outbursts, moderately obnoxious SJW-ish opinions and utter hypocrisy about marketing goods and brands. She is an amature writer with a distinctly derivative prose style, and has done weak illustrations of homestuck characters. Around a certain point in Act 6, the quality of Homestuck's writing and illustrations deteriorated, especially the themes and consistency of the story's overarching nature, which a firm portion have attributed to Softowl's influence. It's not even implausible that Softowl actually directly took over writing and (occassionaly) illustrating portions of the late comic. She is firmly disliked here.
IPGD is a girl who does some fan illustrations and writing and stuff. She did the Davepeta/ARquius hug drawing and Eridan+Shrek doodle, among possibly a few other small assets, that appeared in the comic. She also wrote a fic where most of the Homestuck cast watched Boku no Pico, a notorious shotacon, together. IPGD is, and has become all the more so recently, personally close to Hussie. She is the main source of photos, videos and quotes
