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[Teneb]

This is my fanaristocrat, he's a half-French half-Russian half-vampire boyar named Slicer Shadow.

Spoiler: Original character do not steal. (click to show/hide)

Abridged backstory:Slicer was just like any other half-French half-Russian half-vampire nobleman, until he turned 13 and was given control of Ukraine because of being much more qualified than his dad. He initially refused this assignment, preferring to instead spend time practicing with his katanas and training his dragon Fangburn. Natasha Rostova begged him to stay, but Slicer could not refuse his duty when he found out about the 50 million vampires that needed hunting in his new domain.

At the start of W&P, he has cleared the monsters from Ukraine after 7 months and is returning to Russia to face off against his brother, Napoleon. Napoleon is known to consider Slicer the single greatest threat in all Russia, followed closely by Fangburn.

His blood color is red, his Napoleonic Wars class is Prince of Blood, and he has no extended zodiac sign due to his unique destiny. His unusually massive beard at 13 years old is because he grew it through sheer force of will.

TRUE. ART.

[Dermonster]

*Cough*

Epilogue at 1 EST today.

Happy 4/13 folks.

Early VIZ announcement here:
https://vizmediaofficial.tumblr.com/post/184155172331/happy-10th-anniversary-go-read-the-homestuck

[Enemy post]

I'm surprised, I didn't really think there'd ever actually be an epilogue. I mean, I'd been waiting for almost a year.

[Putnam]

https://www.homestuck.com/epilogues

[quinnr]

It's just the prologue to the epilogue that's been released so far, but it sure didn't disappoint.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Meat or candy?

[Digital Hellhound]

Oh man. That was something. The fandom's self-destructing pretty spectacularly, it seems.

Spoiler: Epilogue Spoilers (click to show/hide)

I went with the Meat route and have read bits of the other one. I really quite enjoyed it - convoluted metatextual wankery is exactly how Homestuck should end. I can understand people being angry, though. Personally, I've never been very emotionally invested in the characters, just sort of dragged along out of curiosity for what Hussie would think of next. I'd forgotten like a third of the main story anyway. If I'd had expectations and hopes of what would happen, only for it turn out so harshly differently, I'm sure I'd be crushed too.

Homestuck holds a special place in my heart for being so... Homestuck. I appreciate it existing. just never actually had a real emotional connection to it, I guess? This somehow reminds me of Mass Effect 3's ending: I had a very strong emotional connection there and was crushed, but plenty of people were liking it fine and defending it from a more detached perspective. Nice to be on the other side of that this time, I guess.

[Darkmere]

I'm actually very surprised. Long ago, the first time I quit the main story in frustration, I decided there was no way Homestuck could achieve a satisfactory conclusion. Here we are, years later and (maybe somewhat) wiser, I feel satisfied.

I maintain that the best way to enjoy homestuck is to place yourself in a liminal state of half-assed caring. You must give only enough of a fuck to be amused at the rampant wankery going on and not one fuck-fraction further.

Still, I'm glad I managed to stick it out through the whole thing. I feel much better about this than the EoA7 we were left with before for reasons I can't fully articulate yet.

[Arx]

Maybe I just read through it in too sick and sleep-deprived a state, but... that epilogue raises as many questions as it answers and is in appreciable part absurd and nonsensical.

It's pretty much exactly the end to Homestuck I expected.

[Egan_BW]

Don't forget long-winded.

[SOLDIER First]

fuck dirk

[Egan_BW]

Finished eating up the meat route. It's a thing.

[SOLDIER First]

fuck dirk

[quinnr]

fuck dirk

Only through the Meat epilogue so far but going to say, so much this. Hopefully the Candy ending explains more because I have no clue what the heck I just read beyond that. Loving all the LGBT+ representation, though.

[Liber celi]

Fckdrk

First non-ending unlocked I have to digest all that raw meat before I can even think about candy. And what was up with that extremely stylish but impenetrable "post script"? Is that the next video game?

Overall very Homestuck;
Very interesting, very meta. Well written characters trapped in the steel housing of determinism. Quite funny. Too much shipping, too skeevy, too many systems, too much circular logic, too much "because cherubs", too many narrative strands, too many injokes. More questions than answers.

Looking back now, after only the Meat Route, most of the Content Warnings in the beginning have held up. Sick.

[Darkmere]

Dirk is trying to rescue his friends from irrelevance by stepping into the villain role and attempting to spawn a canon sequel. He says repeatedly that he wants to die, and has many times died for the sake of his friends, this is a natural evolution from that "doing what has to be done because I'm the only one who can" flaw that has driven his character from the start. To do this, he pushes characters into their own weaknesses in an effort to make them confront those doubts - an orchestrated hero's journey arc.

Granted it's all brutal totalitarianism - but that's Dirk and it always has been.

Seems like most people went with Meat first, I'll wait to talk about Candy until more folks have gone through that one.