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Homestuck is an Internet fiction series created by American author and artist Andrew Hussie in the first half of the 2010s. The fourth and best-known of Hussie's four MS Paint Adventures, it originally ran from April 13, 2009 to April 13, 2016. Though normally described as a webcomic, and partly constituted by a series of single panel pages, Homestuck also relied heavily on Flash animations and instant message logs to convey its story, along with occasional use of browser games.
If you're reading this you've stumbled upon a fansite created for Homestuck launched on June 12th, 2023. It has now been well past the length of Homestuck in time since Homestuck ended.
While this site contains a multitude of Fanecdotes aimed to shed light on the intricacies of the fandom's history, this page acts as quick glance at the comic as a whole to bring those who have not read it up to speed.
If the Post-Apophis world can sustain an anthropologist or if an extraterrestrial explorer combs our long-dead seas and either such being finds this site but Homestuck remains lost to the ages, this page strives to offer the context neccessary for our stories to be understood.
PART 1: MEDIUM
Homestuck is presented as roughly 8,124 web pages. The majority of them contain one comic panel, 650x450 pixels in size, and accompanying narration below. Many, many pages deviate from this stylistically, featuring multiple images, embeded games, videos, character dialog, external links, etc.
While often credited as the fourth story of this format by Andrew Hussie, it is the sixth entry on the website. The often counted ones are Bard Quest (Unfinished), Jail Break (Unfinished), and Problem Sleuth (Finished), with the additional two being Bloody Spades (Teaser Page Only) and Homestuck (Beta Version, Cancelled)
PART 2: CHARACTERS
John Egbert
A fairly average boy living in suburban Washington with his father, on whose birthday our story begins. He is the Heir of Breath of his session and the de facto leader. His Chumhandle is "ectoBiologist", formerly "ghostyTrickster". He has filed a pair of STRIFE SPECIBI in his STRIFE PORTFOLIO: HAMMERKIND ABSTRATUS and BUNNYKIND ABSTRATUS. He is a clone of Nanna Egbert and Grandpa Harley's paradox ghost slime, and is Jade's biological brother.
Rose Lalonde
A girl with a fondness for psychoanalysis, writing, and wizards, who lives with her mother in an isolated mansion situated atop Rainbow Falls in New York. In Sburb, she is the Seer of Light. Her Chumhandle is "tentacleTherapist". She has allocated her STRIFE SPECIBUS with the NEEDLEKIND ABSTRATUS. She can play haunting refrains on her violin. She is a clone of Mom Lalonde and Bro Strider's paradox ghost slime, and is Dave's biological sister.
Dave Strider
A boy unceasingly devoted to the pursuit of (what he perceives to be) irony in all aspects of life, who lives with his Bro in an apartment in Houston, Texas. In Sburb, he is the Knight of Time. His Chumhandle is "turntechGodhead". He had allocated his STRIFE SPECIBUS with the BLADEKIND ABSTRATUS, but an incident with Bro and a "cheap piece of shit" turns it into the 1/2BLADEKIND ABSTRATUS. He is a clone of Mom Lalonde and Bro Strider's paradox ghost slime, and is Rose's biological brother. He is also the author of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.
Jade Harley
A quirky, upbeat girl living alone on a remote island off the northeast coast of Australia, guarded only by her "dog" Becquerel and the taxidermied body of her late Grandpa. In Sburb, she is the Witch of Space. Her Chumhandle is "gardenGnostic". She has allocated her STRIFE SPECIBUS with the RIFLEKIND ABSTRATUS and PAPERKIND ABSTRACTUS. She is a clone of Nanna Egbert and Grandpa Harley's paradox ghost slime and is John's biological sister.
Beta Trolls
Long before the formation of planet Earth, there was a world called Alternia. Alternia was a world ruled by the trolls, a species who, at least externally, look like humans with grey skin, fangs, yellow eyes, and striped horns. The trolls, too, have found Sburb (or rather, Sgrub), and over the course of the adventure we meet twelve troll children who play it together, split into two sessions of six. However, sometime during the course of their quest, something goes very wrong, and they begin a campaign of petty internet harassment against the kids, who they blame for the incident. Despite their monstrous looks, sinister screennames, and character profiles composed of mixes and inversions of traits from one or more of the kids, the trolls mostly aren't that bad; they were introduced properly in their own sub-adventure arc in Act 5 Act 1, also known as Hivebent, before essentially becoming part of the main cast on par with the kids in Act 5 Act 2.