#and thinking of the latest hs2 update like damn

[mistrex-silly]

"AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN SAY A FUCKING GOODBYE. WHY?"

Karkats definitely about to give a tiny smack

look homestuck^2 has it's,,, points, but a character not saying goodbye then dying (but also not really/coming back like this withiut a say) is what GETS me, many feelings in that reveal if such happens, so this is really a drawing of that, it just happens to be with davekat here

[dedicatedfollower467]

lmao and now it’s time for AH: Ride aka a fourth wall break! literally JUST after Vriska set herself up as the author of the story!

lotta things to break down here, so under a cut we go!

First, a couple of immediate things of note, which I’m just gonna jot down real quick here:

Number one, hussie is cosplaying again! This time he’s not a generic fantroll using the Virgo symbol, he’s very clearly specifically cosplaying Dave. But we can still see the remnants of his earlier troll cosplay.

Number two, the dragon he’s riding has LE’s shifting pool ball eyes. Thanks to Jack English from the Alpha session, we now know that this means it has been possessed by Caliborn/LE.

Number three, he’s got the symbol of Vriska’s manipulation on his forehead - i.e. Vriska is controlling him.

So let’s back up here.

Hussie wearing Dave cosplay and the symbol of Vriska’s manipulation are, in a lot of ways, responses to and acknowledgements of at-the-time accusations of the fandom - that Hussie preferred Dave to the other kids and/or identified with Dave, and liked Vriska better than the other trolls, and in particular that Vriska was getting away with being evil too much.

In a lot of ways, Hussie’s owning the Dave thing. I can’t remember if Hussie has said it himself or if I’ve just seen a lot of other people saying it, but if there’s a non-antagonistic author insert in Homestuck, or a character most like Hussie-the-person in Homestuck, it’s probably either Dave or possibly Dirk, but Dirk hadn’t been introduced yet at this point in the comic.

(i’m gonna digress here for a minute to say that this makes it really interesting that dirk, as a character who shares many traits in common with hussie-the-author, is the one who becomes the author-antagonist of the epilogues and homestuck 2, and doubly interesting that even in that villainous mode, he does everything in his power to try to make dave’s life happier, and according to the latest hs2 update apparently succeeded)

(it’s also notable that Dave is the author of a popular and successful webcomic, which comes up frequently both in the text and the meta-text of Homestuck, but Dirk’s authorship extends only to an altered text of a pony pals book which we cannot “officially” read in its entirety, although sonnetstuck’s interpretation is at least tenuously canon to homestuck 2. i’m pretty sure writing an altered book is something hussie-the-person has actually done, although at the moment i’m not finding the altered-text because everything associated with AH is homestuck)

anyways, back to AH: Ride

the vriska manipulation thing is, pretty clearly, within the terms of the actual meta-narrative, in response to the fact that vriska actually is controlling the spin of the story right now! her narrative is the one that matters.

everything that’s happened in the past few scenes has been authored by vriska.

but what i ACTUALLY really want to talk about is falcor’s LE eyeballs

because I’m pretty sure this means that almost every single time we’ve seen hussie-the-character appear as part of the metanarrative, he’s been accompanied by something or someone that turns out to be associated with lord english.

first there was lil cal and now there’s LE-possessed falcor.

it’s very interesting, because while the supposed relationship between LE and hussie-the-character is antagonistic, hussie still has basically all of LE’s stuff? i’m thinking i might need to pay extra close attention to the scene where LE kills hussie, because i’m very curious now about why hussie has so many things associated with LE, and why he can use them

is it because LE hasn’t yet assumed control of the narrative?

is it because hussie-the-author is still ultimately in final control of the story, whether or not LE seems to control it?

another significant thing is that hussie chooses to use falcor to barf on the “bullies” - pretty clearly stand-ins for critics of homestuck, given the last couple of metafictional asides.

this is hussie saying directly to the fans, “okay you were right, but not for the reasons you thought you were.”

yeah, vriska’s getting away with way too much! that’s because she’s setting herself up as the author-antagonist, and it’s all part of the damn story!

okay back to reading

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