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He dismisses them as irrelevant. It's not until later he makes the connection between the Jack Noir in the kids' session, and the one hunting them down, recognizing them to be the same Jack, therefore placing the kids at fault for the current predicament.

He then conceives of the plan to troll the humans, as a futile form of payback, and urges his team to follow suit with a compelling speech. He isolates John as the primary target of his hatred after watching him grow up.

He is sure John is fated to be his kismesis, a romantic partner specific to troll culture, centered around rivalry and loathing. John cannot reciprocate.

The awkward exchange causes Karkat to trap himself into continuing backwards on John's timeline, and the trolling continues in reverse fashion until John's first conversation with Karkat.

By then, Karkat has explained many things to John along his journey, things about the game, about his role as an ectobiologist, and about their shared chief adversary, Jack Noir. In John's first conversation with Karkat, Karkat needs to get in touch with Jade. It's at this point on Karkat's timeline he has finally understood enough that he knows he must begin making plans with the kids for their mutual benefit.

Karkat attempts to get in touch with Jade, who continues to ignore him in a particular timeframe due to his persistent previous harassment of her in years prior. He leaves a message to her months in the past, telling her she needs to get in touch with him when her robot explodes. Her robot later finally does explode when her dream self is killed in the impact of Prospit's moon on the battlefield. When she wakes up, she remembers the message, and contacts him.

But she contacts him at a point in his timeline where he is not yet interested in hearing from her. He argues with her, and is interrupted by his future self in a memo, from a time where he is trying to contact her. He and his future self argue, and Jade mediates between the two and becomes angry and frustrated, and ceases the correspondence. By this point, the biggest meteor yet is approaching quickly, and she must enter the medium to escape. She requires John's assistance. He must recover the server disc, install it, and rescue her.

His dream self had awoken after dream Jade pushed him to safety from the blast of Prospit's moon. His dream self now exists on the battlefield, awake whenever John sleeps. He wanders the battlefield with his robot bunny, who he would later name Liv Tyler.

He sees his dad and Rose's mom, and runs to meet them. But he wakes up before reaching them, and his dream self disappears. The ring he was carrying falls into a ravine below, later to be recovered by WV? Vriska was responsible for waking him up.

Upon discovering John, she takes an interest in his advancement, and uses her abilities to help him progress and set up critical events along his timeline. The only effect her abilities have on humans is to wake them up or put them to sleep.

In this case, she woke him up so he would be able to receive the server disc about to come out of a parcel pyxis.

The disc had been deposited into the pipeline by PM some time ago. She and John continue to converse, and he befriends her, oblivious to the true nature of her schemes.

She functions as his "patron troll", a troll who is particularly focused on helping one of the kids, like Terezi is with Dave, and Kanaya is with Rose. John returns to his house, and installs the server. But not before touching base with Rose, who is committed to cracking open the secrets of the game through dark magic, and Dave who is from the future, having time traveled extensively over the course of the 24 hour reckoning period.

John also encounters nanna, who gives him a pendant granting him the ability to summon her. She conjures a ghost bed for him, and cooks for him with a ghost oven. Jade, who had woken up in her bed at the foot of the hill, returns to her house to find John setting up the equipment. John deploys the alchemiter and lathe in her greenhouse, and the cruxtruder in front of her fireplace.

He opens the cruxtruder and discovers there are 10 minutes and 25 seconds until impact. They discuss what to prototype with, if anything. Rose warns him of the danger of failing to prototype, which would not allow the battlefield to heal, evolve to its final form, and grow the Tumor inside, which is critical to her plan to destroy the Green Sun. John resolves to prototype with the blue doll, missing an arm and an eye, to deliberately disable Jack.

But Vriska puts him to sleep before he can. Becquerel then prototypes himself to destroy the meteor and save Jade. As he sleeps, John's ghost bed crashes into an oil ocean below. He loses his computer with the server disc in it, and nanna's pendant.

He hops to a small island. He notices the ocean is on fire over the horizon, and the fire is approaching. He talks to Rose, who informs him Jade entered while he slept, and is safe. She tells him about a quest he'll need to go on later, to recover the Tumor from the battlefield and bring it to her.

He then talks to Karkat, who is speaking to him for only the second time from Karkat's perspective. Karkat explains exactly what the kids did that made him decide to troll them. He blames Jade for prototyping Bec, creating Bec Noir who is now terrorizing the trolls' session, while blaming John for allowing it to happen. Meanwhile, the fire is approaching his island, and has turned green due to Bec Noir's transformation, taking place during a duel with bro and Davesprite elsewhere on LOWAS.

John is contacted by Vriska, who admits to putting him in this position to challenge him, to realize his potential as the Heir of Breath. She also admits to deliberately playing a role in the creation of Bec Noir, wanting to be involved in his rise just as she also plans to be the one to kill him. She explains that regardless of her actions leading to his rise, his existence in the troll session is immutable.

Due to the nature of paradox space, that outcome could not be changed with different actions. The only consequence of different actions would be an offshoot timeline, in which all participants would be doomed. As the fire surrounds him, she encourages him to use his abilities, and with some coaxing from WV who commands him from his station, he does the Windy Thing. The Breeze also clears the clouds from the sky, but they return shortly, as the spell over the planet must be broken by other means.

By unlocking this ability, he reaches the top of the echeladder and becomes the Heir Transparent. Vriska then informs him the only thing left to do is reach the god tier, which is done by sleeping on his Quest Bed which is nearby. She tells him to ask the locals about it.

He does, and finds the Quest Bed beyond the village. He sits in the bed but isn't tired. Vriska gives him the choice of whether he would like her to put him to sleep.

He agrees. While he sleeps, Jack Noir finds him and stabs him through the chest, killing him. WV watches his death on the monitor and commands him to rise up.

WV sees nothing except fireflies gather around John's body, while the Quest Bed glows. After the spectacle, there is no change. Following his spectacular defeat, Tavros asked Rose what the best way to get on Dave's nerves would be. Rose told him that poetry would be the best option, and he seemed to decide to take her advice. Tavros seemed very satisfied afterwards. At first, he got along quite well with Jade , communicating with her while she dreamt on the dream world Prospit vicariously.

On his iteration of Prospit, Tavros could once walk around without a wheelchair and fulfill his lifelong dreams of flight. He saved a younger Jade from shooting herself by communing with Becquerel and directing him to teleport the bullet away, though unfortunately it ended up hitting and killing Grandpa instead. However, Tavros saw no harm in this until Jade explained it to him because he believed Bec was her Lusus and Grandpa was an intruder.

Tavros was then made aware of how Vriska had directly brought about the circumstances which created Bec Noir , and set out to stop her. He had more trouble, however, with another enemy he'd been warned about.

Tavros proceeded to engage Vriska in the room where the inquisiclops was found. She managed to stop his charge, steal his weapon, and stab him with it. She impales him in such a way that the lance pierces the circle of his "Taurus" shirt, a possible metaphor for "bullseye.

Terezi attempted to revive him , but it was no use, as his dream self was killed by Jack Noir. After his death, he visited Coin Dave in a dream bubble , along with a god tier Aradia. Tavros seemed incredibly excited to finally meet Dave in person, even if he was a dead temporal copy. Tavros' decapitated corpse was found by Terezi , along with Feferi , Equius and Nepeta's bodies, as well as Eridan's legs.

It appears Gamzee placed his mutilated head on the ground in front of the jury's table. Gamzee later preserved his body until arriving in the post-scratch Kids' session where he prototyped Tavros' and Vriska's remains with Jane's sprite, summoning the souls of Tavros and the now-dead Vriska to the session, and resulting in the birth of Tavrisprite. However, this fusion was short-lived, as Tavrisprite soon destroyed itself because the two sides were impossible to reconcile.

Consequently, Tavros' ghost was returned with Vriska's to a dream bubble set in the Land of Sand and Zephyr. She agreed there was a silver lining, apologizing to Tavros for killing him. He is later seen when John gains access to his dream bubble through Bec Noir's memories and enters their area.

Tavros is revealed to be sleeping. A ring with no orbs, like the ring of orbs nofold from the B2 session, is found by John in the sand. John puts on the ring, then Tavros speaks up claiming he saw it first. This is because Tavros was hunting for treasure to give to Vriska, his new matesprit, or so he claims. John disagrees and decides to keep it, before Vriska comes.

Vriska proceeds to explain to John and Tavros even thought the latter had already heard her explanations before the threat of L o rd English and her plan for using his reality-shattering rampage to lead her through the Furthest Ring to a legendary weapon that can stop him. Tavros starts looking around for the ring to no avail, since John woke up with the ring in hand. Tavros is later seen adventuring with Vriska and the others in search of the great weapon. Tavros flips Vriska off for being mean to him before flying off and leaving.

Later, he gathers a massive ghost army without any psychic influence, similarly to his ancestor. He lets Meenah lead the army as she gives a speech to all the ghosts he gathered up. The newly prototyped Tavrosprite in Vriskagram.

In the new timeline created by John's retcons , Vriska was not killed by Terezi, and therefore her body was not available for prototyping in the B2 session. In addition, Gamzee was bound and gagged just before the events of Cascade.

This resulted in Vriska appearing before Jane in Gamzee's place and prototyping Tavros by himself, as opposed to with the remains of another troll, resulting in Tavrosprite. Tavrosprite is seen along with most of the rest of the main cast of Homestuck on the victory platform. When everyone decides who will take on which villain, Tavrosprite offers to join Jake in taking on Spades Slick.

Vriska says that he can join him, but not before he does something else, which she'll explain to him in private. At first it appears that Vriska forgot to tell him what this task is, as she left for the furthest ring , but she later phones Jake to instruct him to summon GCat through use of a Crockercorp mouse toy, and to tell Tavros to grab the cat.

This causes him to prototype himself with GCat , creating Gcatavrosprite. Tavros is just too sensitive to be a decent troll in the sense of one who provokes others , to the point where he even tries to help Jade. He sucks at trolling and usually ends up getting trolled himself, which he talks to Jade about. On the surface, he seems innocently ignorant of his own shortcomings as a troll, and of mockery from others. However, he copes with the negativity he faces from the other trolls by personifying his self-esteem , which he has named Rufio.

Using a technique suggested by Kanaya, Tavros imagines that he talks to his self-esteem in the form of Rufio, and is careful not to let anything hurt Rufio's feelings. His misguided affair with self-esteem continues as he becomes Jade's fairy god troll, now assuming that a high self-esteem means not having to apologize for anything, even if he is at fault for it.

A dead, doomed timeline Tavros who had previously achieved god tier and ascended as the Page of Breath. Tavros also preferred his dream world over the waking world because he is indeed a paraplegic confined to a wheel chair. Before dying himself, he confides in Jade his disappointment over the fact that his dream self , and the dream selves of all the other trolls, have died, since he had more fun in the dream world. His time in the dream bubbles seems to have done him just as much good as Prospit - Tavros shows more balanced self-esteem and assertion as a ghost.

He uses a Jousting Lance, which is allocated to his lancekind strife specibus. He has the ability to commune with wildlife, and seems to be an Alternian Wildlife Master. His ability to commune with creatures extends to imps who would otherwise attack him; a cadre of imps and ogres accompanies Tavros into a temple, with one ogre carrying what appears to be a piece of a puzzle.

Some of the most powerful lusii are within the reach of his commune powers as well, as demonstrated when Tavros was manipulated by Vriska to control Terezi's lusus. He is even able to commune with Bec. Streamers have to become increasingly savvy about the need to defend personal boundaries without provoking the ire of fans. On Twitter, creatives, journalists, and anyone with a modest following agonize over what people think they know about them online , and trolls regularly obsess over personal information around topics like mental health.

In this sense, fandom itself, with examples like Homestuck , was the precursor to the asymmetrical relationships that have come to characterize so much of online life. In a video published in April , Canadian YouTuber Sarah Z delved into the history of Homestuck and Hiveswap , with a focus on the turbulent development cycle of Hiveswap. Hussie initially spoke to Polygon before the Sarah Z video, but agreed to follow up conversations after its release.

While he declined to be quoted directly, he feels that the video missed important contextualization that he had intended to provide to the YouTuber in a conversation. An otherwise slumbering fandom ignited as people filled Reddit forums with speculation. A member of fandom may have a good attitude for a while, but since their involvement is predicated on obsession or very strongly held feelings, that positive attitude can turn on a dime, and it can take very little to trigger extreme negativity.

The same can be said for any cultist. Where does this leave a generation that grew up online, many of whom were devout Homestuck readers? You can purchase the interactive fiction on Steam. I asked Hussie if he thinks everyone should just log off. No one needs me to tell anyone this, but stories can always serve as reminders.

She explains that he is in the Medium in a new dimension called the Incipisphere. The Incipisphere is a world of "warring royalty in a timeless expanse," where the forces of Prospit and Derse struggle for dominion over the realm of Skaia in the chess-patterned Battlefield at its center. John and his friends must fight against the monsters of the dark kingdom, controlled by the Denizens , and free the Consorts of the four planets circling Skaia. They must master the inventory system called the Sylladex , and understand the alchemy system the game provides.

John cannot help Rose get into the game, as he has lost his game copy. Their friends Dave Strider and Jade Harley , must assist them by forming a player chain. They struggle with their Guardians to get a hold of game copies. One by one, they work together to flee the apocalypse and enter their personal planets, where they have personal quests to fulfill, monsters to fight, and Consorts to interact with. Rose and Dave get their own sprites, as Dave resurrects Rose's dead cat and Jade resurrects a dead crow in Dave's apartment.

They start to awaken their dream selves on Prospit and Derse - Jade is the only one awake at the start of the game, giving her some advance knowledge. Some of these meteors are to "seed" laboratories like the Skyship Base on Earth, and carry Exiles — former members of the two kingdoms — to the year , long after the apocalypse, for them to repopulate the Earth.

Exiles talk to the players as they enter their lands in the Medium, such as the Wayward Vagabond , who acts as a voice in John's head. In the game session, Carapacian agents, some of whom will later be exiled, carry out their kingdom's duties. Others spawn structures like the Frog Temple , an ancient place containing the code for Sburb and a Lotus Time Capsule enabling item transport between Earth and the Incipisphere.

In this temple, the genetic code for Jade's omnipotent dog Becquerel , the first guardian of Earth, is created. They are sent back to the past on meteors during the Reckoning as well, to set in motion the entire chain of events.

Some of these meteors even become the meteors that hit the kid's houses in the first place - the heroes slowly realize that the whole game is based on a series of stable time loops and paradoxes. They also learn that they are not the only group of people playing the game. Countless other sessions of players, on other planets in other dimensions, also exist.

But even as they get better at the game, a sense of dread emerges in their minds that something is wrong. They are contacted by trolls who tell them their mission will end in failure and attempt to dissuade them from continuing or goad them into making mistakes. The trolls, despite seeming nasty, unwittingly assist the kids in completing paradoxical events; one of them tricks John into dying in a doomed timeline, but Dave travels back in time with his newfound abilities and becomes his own self's sprite.

However, the troll's warnings come true, as a weapon Jade tries to give to John accidentally ends up in the hands of Jack Noir , the nefarious archagent of Derse. He commits double regicide against the monarchs of Derse and grabs the Black Queen 's ring, granting him the Kernelsprite prototyping.

He becomes the Sovereign Slayer, wreaking destruction wherever he goes — something never intended to happen in the game. He also destroys Prospit's moon, killing Jade's dream self in the process. Learning this, the White Queen tasks a Parcel Mistress with protecting her ring , but she eventually loses it and later goes on to become exiled to the future Earth in While the kids continue playing their game, the author switches focus to the trolls who have been contacting the kids. The trolls are players from the planet of Alternia in another universe, who played a session of Sburb or, as they called it, Sgrub long ago in the past.

Trolls are an interplanetary alien race with a vastly different and yet similar culture to humans. Trolls' guardians are creatures called lusii. They reproduce by contributing their genetic material to a Mother Grub and do not know their own parents, although some believe they are descended from certain ancestors. They have a complicated system of romance.

They have a blood-based caste system of many different colors; depending on blood color, some trolls have longer lifespans than others and can have a range of psychic abilities, with the purple and fuchsia seadwellers at the top and 'lower' bloods treated as expendable, second-class citizens. Trolls are expected to be vicious and ruthless to survive.

These twelve players are led by the cantankerous and insecure Karkat Vantas. The other players include fatalistic ghost Aradia Megido , disabled and timid Tavros Nitram , cynical hacker Sollux Captor , romance-minded huntress Nepeta Leijon , dutiful and motherly Kanaya Maryam , mischievous blind justice-seeker Terezi Pyrope , manipulative and glory-seeking Vriska Serket , traditionally-minded roboticist Equius Zahhak , intoxicated clown Gamzee Makara , aristocratic seadweller Eridan Ampora , and cheerful heir to the throne Feferi Peixes.

These twelve started out in two competitive teams, but soon realized they were part of one single session. Despite their differences - including grudges held over a revenge-fueled series of incidents that left some of them disabled - they managed to cooperate long enough to win their game.

Their session was similar to the kid's; they had their own planets and their own hero roles. Their version of Jack and his fellow agents helped them dethrone the Black Queen and exile her; these agents would later be exiled themselves to the post-apocalyptic Alternia, where they would become the Midnight Crew , a gang of mobsters in rivalry with a gang called the Felt.

Much of the information that allowed them to win came from a mysterious source: D o c Scratch , the omnipotent and omniscient first guardian of Alternia. In the end, the twelve players beat the Black King and discovered the ultimate purpose of Sburb - to create new universes.

The universe the Trolls created was none other than the home universe of the human kids - the universe home to Earth. However, something went wrong, and an indestructible, omnipotent demon was unleashed into their game. Before the trolls could gain access to the new universe, they were stopped by his appearance in the space-time continuum.

They fled into a laboratory on a meteor in the Veil and hid there while he went on to destroy the rest of their session; it is here where, with Karkat's leadership, they began to troll the kids through Trollian - where they can access them from any point in their life before the mysterious Scratch - believing the kids responsible for their plight.

As Jade enters the session and Becquerel prototypes her sprite with himself, it is revealed that this demon was actually a fully-prototyped Jack Noir 'Bec Noir' ; due to Bec's omnipotence, Jack is now capable of teleporting around the session, murdering at random and without warning.

He would later, mysteriously, get into the session of the trolls and prevented them from winning the game. Realizing that Jack is as much the kids' problem as it is the trolls', the trolls begin to shift their approach from antagonism to a begrudging cooperation.

Kanaya and Rose talk to each other to learn more about each other's species. Terezi takes an interest in Dave and starts to help him through his quest, which includes an extensive amount of time travel. Vriska begins manipulating the humans, including being responsible for putting Jade to sleep throughout her life and allowing Bec to prototype himself. However, she helps John realize his abilities as a Heir of Breath, and she leads him to his Quest Bed , where he is killed in his sleep and ascends to god tier , a higher level where players have a certain degree of immortality.

Jade, meanwhile, is struggling to catch up after her dream self was killed. She has a nightmare, making her cranky and unwilling to cooperate with the insufferable Karkat, who had been nasty to her in the past. This only becomes worse when she prototypes Becsprite with her own dead dream self.