Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Can I be not the only one who sees Andrew Hussie as a comic relief character, please?
Or will people ignore that and claim the story got too serious again? Good times.

[Locke cole]

"A new employment opportunity", eh?

she's totally Betty Crocker.

[Kim]

[Loyal]

It occurs to me that this means Sassacre married The Empress.

He's not just a comedian extraordinaire, he's a true pioneer spirit, boldly coming where no man has before.

[BitVyper]

Originally Posted by InsaneGenius

Can I be not the only one who sees Andrew Hussie as a comic relief character, please?
Or will people ignore that and claim the story got too serious again? Good times.

He is comic relief, and that's an important purpose in itself, but that doesn't mean nothing is going on with him. We've had several secondary authors in the story - there's been Vriska essentially acting as a young fanfic author writing a self-insert Mary Sue. She's a fan of the story, but she's immature, so she doesn't so much have a relationship with the story as she does with her favourite character, so she ignores other aspects in favour of making him more important and powerful. She is marginally competant though, and you can see that she actually grows as a creator. She'll probably be writing decent smut one day, like her ancestor. Contrast the attempts of some other trolls to write themselves into the story (although in this case that's obviously not the only thing going on with them) that just kind of meander around and go nowhere. FF.net is littered with the corpses of barely-started fics.

Scratch is less like a fan creator and more like a legitimate secondary author who is critical of the original work and means to take it in his own direction. Because fuck all that silly meandering joke shit, and fuck Hussie. TROLLCESTORS! He's a pompous, egotistical ass who probably has an English degree. He's got a lot to say and do, and by god you're going to read his text walls about it. Not that his approach is wrong. I think he's a pretty good story teller.

Then there's Hussie's avatar, who isn't Hussie (as Hussie is responsible for ALL of this), but representative of the primary creator trying to keep control of his work. The conflict between his and Scratch's vision for the story is basically directly stated in the alt-text. It's all about Creative Control.

Homestuck as a whole is about Creation. This has been true since Act 1. It's littered with author figures trying to write their own stories on the Medium.

That's how I see it anyway.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Your talent to go on tangents and overanalyze things in a way that actually makes sense never ceases to impress me.

Until you started insulting Scratch I was gonna say he's Snake fanfic-inserting himself into the story to "fix" things according to his will against Andrew. But I don't want to insult my fellow forumites just because they dislike something I enjoy. But then you mentioned walls of text...

P.S.: No Snake, I love you.

EDIT: Calling it now, when scratch's sphere bursts there will be Snake's face! Or Andrew's.

[Solid Snake]

Wait. What?

...That's not even me trying to be snarky, that's me completely not understanding what IG is talking about.

[Locke cole]

I agree with Snake. What?

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Snake, I was just saying that you are Doc Scratch. Is all.
Also that I love you.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by InsaneGenius

But I don't want to insult my fellow forumites just because they dislike something I enjoy.

...Well, I will say this.
Why has this completely inaccurate characterization of me 'disliking' Homestuck still circulating around.

I mean you're presuming I dislike a story when I own a doll of one of its characters. And when I own three troll T-Shirts (Kanaya, Terezi, Sollux) and two human T-shirts (John and Dave.) And when I very nearly commissioned Matt Speroni to draw Homestuck artwork before Andrew came out on the record as saying he didn't want other people profiting from his characters. And when I'm a member of its own message board community. And when I am hosting a Mafia game right now on NPF about Homestuck.