Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Arcanum]

I have a feeling Hussie's original "plan" was just "kids escape from their universe, meet alpha kids (who are their guardians). Shenanigans happen."

[Bard The 5th LW]

I didn't really mind Hivebent, but yeah these updates are sort of bugging me to an extent as well. Dirk and Roxy are interesting, sure, and the mechanics of Sburb are also neat, but I overall just want to get back to the kids and surviving trolls.

[Locke cole]

Actually, friggin' all of the concepts make no sense.

Light is actually Fortune
Heart is actually Soul
Princes and Bards are Destroyers?

I mean

What was keeping Hussie from just making Vriska the Thief of Luck?

In fact, at this point, the weird ones are Breath and Time for actually doing what they sound like they'd do.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

I like him a heck of a lot more than Vriska Sue, though.

Also: Man I remember way back in the Act 5 days, when Hussie was like "Well Act 5 is really hella long but Act 6 will be much shorter and basically just post-climax wrapping shit up, and then Act 7 will just be a few flashes." You know, back when the EOA flash rocked the hizzy and then I assumed we'd just have a few more months of tidying up to do as the kids wandered around their new universe or something.

Man those were the days.
Now I'm more convinced than ever that Homestuck will just like never end.
We'll reach the EOA Act Six flash and then Andrew will be like "Sorry guys, I decided Act Seven will actually contain serious amounts of content, it won't just be a few flashes!"
...And then EOA Act Six will result in the Alpha Kids and the old-school crew all collectively escaping the clutches of the Evil Empress by...escaping that universe and restarting the session
At which point we'll meet the new Alpha kids, which will be Rose and Dave and Jade and John in college at age 19.

Then the fourth edition of Alpha 'kids' will be Dirk, Jake, Jane and Roxy as adult corporate shills in their mid-twenties.
And then after that the NEXT reboot will be so powerful that it impacts the universe of the trolls' session, leading to Ancestor shenanigans.
Will kiddie Sufferer return kiddie Disciple's unrequited affections?!?!?

I'm no longer with Snake on this one.

Like, I'm just sort of less enthused than I was previously. Probably has to do with this being a big throwback to act 1 whereas the story really started to find its bearings in act 2.

[Arhra]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Dirky Sue is really unavoidably not as radcoolically awesomeacular and interetastic as Hussie so palpably, viscerably wants him to be.

Isn't the whole point that Dirk isn't as radcoolically awesomeacular as he thinks he is?

[Ryong]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

I like him a heck of a lot more than Vriska Sue, though.

Also: Man I remember way back in the Act 5 days, when Hussie was like "Well Act 5 is really hella long but Act 6 will be much shorter and basically just post-climax wrapping shit up, and then Act 7 will just be a few flashes." You know, back when the EOA flash rocked the hizzy and then I assumed we'd just have a few more months of tidying up to do as the kids wandered around their new universe or something.

Man those were the days.
Now I'm more convinced than ever that Homestuck will just like never end.
We'll reach the EOA Act Six flash and then Andrew will be like "Sorry guys, I decided Act Seven will actually contain serious amounts of content, it won't just be a few flashes!"
...And then EOA Act Six will result in the Alpha Kids and the old-school crew all collectively escaping the clutches of the Evil Empress by...escaping that universe and restarting the session
At which point we'll meet the new Alpha kids, which will be Rose and Dave and Jade and John in college at age 19.

Then the fourth edition of Alpha 'kids' will be Dirk, Jake, Jane and Roxy as adult corporate shills in their mid-twenties.
And then after that the NEXT reboot will be so powerful that it impacts the universe of the trolls' session, leading to Ancestor shenanigans.
Will kiddie Sufferer return kiddie Disciple's unrequited affections?!?!?

Hey Snake. Stop it.

Remember when Terezi killed Vriska by not even trying to overcome her flaws? Remember when Gamzee killed a bunch of people but it's okay 'cause he's Gamzee and he's just like that? Vriska had issues but she wasn't as much of a sue as much as she did everything she could to get stronger. And then it didn't really matter, 'cause everyone was fucking absurdly strong anyway.

Shit, like, there's been padding in this act and the updates aren't coming as fast as they have been in the past so maybe, just maybe, it's that? I mean, shit, I find the whole deal with everyone aging up 3 years to catch up pants on head retarded, but this act is pretty much Homestuck as usual.

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by Arhra

Isn't the whole point that Dirk isn't as radcoolically awesomeacular as he thinks he is?

You are a terrible person.

[Arcanum]

Al this may come as a shock but Dirk isn't as radcoolically awesomeacular as you think he is.

[Flarecobra]

Ironically.


Any bets that in a real fight, he'd just run away?

[Ecks]

Wasn't the whole point of Dave's quest for him to come into his own as a hero and realize he actually is a lot cooler than he thinks he is? Sure he talks himself up and throws a little smack around, but per SBaHJ and other pages of Homestuck proper, Dave feels like the weakest link out of the group. When he's actually one of the strongest (Dog Tier Jade notwithstanding) and most useful members of the team (especially post-ascension).

On the flip side we have Dirk who is so full of himself he's entertaining the notion that he's actually pulling the strings in a session that is entirely predestined from start to finish. He micromanages things so much (per his Heart aspect) that he simultaneously manages a waking self and dream self, spies on Dersites for intel during his legendary infinite showers, argues with his autoresponder (much the way an older brother would argue with a younger... AR switching chat colors to red was very significant I think) while trying to keep Roxy out of trouble, get Jane in the session, and seduce the fuck out of poor unsuspecting Jake. This dude is more of a meddler than Vriska.

His quest is going to revolve around realizing he doesn't need his hands in everyone's business, and that he needs to learn to trust his teammates to handle their shit. He's not the Time player for fuck's sake, it's not his job to run around putting out everyone's fires.