2 things. One: i know you are probably sick of homestuck asks at this point, but I am curious why you do not like act 6 all that much? Two: have you ever heard of the webcomic Bear Nuts?
Meulin spawned a lot of nice fanart, but contributed literally nothing to the plot or anyone’s character development. Not only that, she was left in a bad situation of being mind controlled by her evil boyfriend, which is the kind of plot thread you expect some form of resolution of down the line. Not only is that plot point never picked up on, but neither she, Kurloz, Latula, Rufioh, Mituna, Kankri, Horuss, or Cronus said anything, did anything, or were even mentioned after their introduction.
And it was not a short introduction. Fucking hours were spent on these idiots, many of which had dangling plot threads (Mituna’s “great sacrifice” that gave him brain damage being another one. There were a lot of theories on that one, but it never was mentioned again).
Meanwhile, the Act 6 protagonists basically did nothing. Or, as one of them put it after 1000+ pages of their misadventures
TT: See, to be perfectly honest, we are a party of losers.
TT: Heroes make shit happen. But that’s not what we do, or what we’re even SUPPOSED to do.
TT: We wait.
TT: We wait for literally everything. We wait for other people to reach out first so we can fix our relationships. We wait for these legendary heroes to arrive and bring competence and promise to a futile situation.
TT: Even now. Look at us. What are we waiting for?
TT: To kill ourselves? For someone to come along and do it for us?
TT: It doesn’t even matter.
TT: As the four nobles of the void session, we do what we were created to do.
TT: We sit around on our asses.
TT: Waiting.
And whenever they did do anything
It was utterly pointless, dropped unceremoniously, and never mentioned again.
And then John started retconning shit, causing the comic to make negative progress. Vriska’s character development was discarded as she was replaced with a Vriska who’d learned nothing fron anything and went on to save the day.
There’s a huge flash of Terezi remembering all the things that happened in the pre-retcon timeline. He’s her dialog from the rest of the comic after that point, in its entirety:
DAVE: did someone just bark
DAVE: terezi was that you
TEREZI: WH4T? NO 1 D1DN’T B4RK
TEREZI: 1 THOUGHT TH4T W4S YOU
DAVE: why would i bark
TEREZI: W3LL WHY TH3 FUCK WOULD 1 B4RK???
DAVE: ok this exchange is asinine it was probably just jade
TEREZI: BY3, 1D1OT
TEREZI: WH4T3V3R
TEREZI: L3T’S HOP3 TOD4Y, OF 4LL D4YS, 1S NOT TH3 D4Y SH3 FUCKS 3V3RYTH1NG UP
DAVE: yeah
TEREZI: SO WH4T’S TH3 D34L, DUD3S
TEREZI: YOU BOTH DON3 W1TH YOUR ROOFTOP F33L1NGS J4M?
Wow, she sure learned a lot from that revelation!
Honestly, Act 6 comes off like Hussie had the idea to do full-on animation for Act 7, but it took forever to get made, so he just kept stalling for time and introducing new elements that had no role in the story and didn’t factor into the ending at all
These characters have no reason to exist.
It was all just a fucking waste of time. Act 6 was about ten times longer than it needed to be, and most of it was padding.
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