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Why is Aranea so underrated as a character?

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Overshadowed by Vriska.

Shit, son. Aranea's the best character from Act 6, and one of the only characters in the comic that got a complete, logical arc.

Plus, she was way more sympathetic than Vriska.

>Live alone because you can always hear the thoughts of your peers to the point you have to become emotionally disconnected
>Crave adventure
>get adventure
>No matter what you can never, ever succeed
>Nobody else cares and sends you to be the lone person to figure out how to destroy the adventure you desperately wanted
>die
>Wait countless billions of years for your best friend
>Best friend upgrades to a 'better' version of you
>complete with high fiving over your back after both mock you behind it
>but you know 'cause you're an empath
>you try to be more like the new friend so you can win the respect of your old friend back
>Failure
>Annihilation

The worst part? She was right all along. The key to beating Lord English WAS Calliope, shittily enough.

>Why isn't there more porn of Aranea?

ftfy

Aranea deserved better. At least she appears to be the only character to escape the story for good.

New question, why did she end up alone like our favorite human boy?

Because John/Aranea would be too pure a ship for this world.

John could retcon-save her. They could kiss a little bit, and hold hands.

Think Vriska would get mad, maybe even a little shocked that John wasn't crawling back to her, and instead chose Aranea?

I'm more mad that that went nowhere.

>Resolve it offscreen by handwaving it away. "It didn't work out with your alternate self."
>Vriska is brought back from a time before the failed date, and getting socked like that has shown to make her red as fuck
>Hi John!!!!!!!! On the lilipad
>Then nothing.

All Homestuck was at the end was canonizing Shelby's ships.

This is why an Author shouldn't bring anyone else on to their work. Their influence will seep into the work, and most of the time not for good.

>has shown to make her red as fuck
She got fucking knocked down unconcious.

Worst, if you even mention the -idea- of Vriska with John, you get called a homophobe or your words are twisted into being them just being friends.

Maybe? Aranea was just a really enjoyable character. The foreshadowing was all there, and her circumstances were pitiable enough that she maintained a mote of sympathy even as her world came crashing down.

I have no doubt that if the comic dragged on, she would have come back. From a narrative standpoint, Vriska asking Meenah what she would do if she saw Aranea again was a pretty big indicator that she might return. I'm thankful she stayed dead, though. Her narrative arc would have failed if she returned.

Also that Condy was so fucking strong vs. Aranea then died like a chump to the kids.

John clocking Vriska was a callback to Kanaya clocking Vriska, and how did Vriska react when Kanaya did that?

>John clocking Vriska was a callback to Kanaya clocking Vriska.
Yes.

>and how did Vriska react when Kanaya did that
Not being unconcious?

I don't get why Aranea got so much hate. I found her much more interesting than Vriska ever was.

yaaaow you sure showed'em!

It's because she killed the gays in [GAME OVER].
She became black sheep after that.

I always saw her to be Vriska with a lot of Rose's personality. She's not very entertaining.

I'd like to underrate her if you know what I mean

This.
A character arc making sense doesn't matter if the character is boring as a doorknob and has no better characters to properly bounce off of.

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>let's see YOU do better!
Not only is that always the stupidest response, it's pretty easy to outdo Cohen

She was introduced among a bunch of joke characters and was mainly exposition until she started to do stuff

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I almost forgot that Andrew could be funny.

Was this the last worthwhile thing he ever wrote?
>implying the last acts of homestuck weren't ghostwritten notwithstanding

>john get bored of earth C so he just random retcon jumps through time
>john ends up saving aranea.
>they get along pretty well.
>Aranea gets around johns facade and senses his depression.
>john is actually nice to aranea and listed to her long winded stories.
>they become an item.
>Romance all up this 8itch
>get married and return to earth C
>No one noticed he even left
>john gets a day job and aranea becomes a happy housewife
>eventually terezi finds vriska and bring her back
>they go to John house.
>Aranea answers the door just moments john returns from work wearing a filthy wifebeater
>John:reunite with your loving wife and daughter.swf

ship it

I think my 11th grade script of HomesmutVoices could do better than Cohen.

Everything but the wife beater was nice. Don't think Aranea would be one to housewife it up though. She'd be more active.

>that one humanfic where Aranea seduces and fucks the sufferer who is a high-ranking pure virigin priest

>the fic is real

>only character to escape the story for good.
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>John's surface level thoughts are always readable to her
>She senses immediately that John is very sad because he is isolated from the people he thought were his friends and misses his Dad
>She also had the feelings of isolation and being left behind
>John isn't sure he should be mad at her anyway since her actions are what caused him to get his retcon powers tamed down
>he forgives her like he forgave Terezi for killing him earlier in Homestuck

G A R Y S T U

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>BESS STINGAN UP YOUR AYESS?

kek don't know what the fuck was going on with me that day

still can't name a single reason wwhy sollux deserved better treatment you motherfucker;
fuck you

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My sappy porn fics ARE better than Cohen.

if that was you, you angry dick, I was the guy you were replying to. I hope we can be friendos. I never even liked sol

I think you are forgetting about somebody...

but at what cost

I can't read the second sentence and onward. I don't know if it's because of the cringe or not caring for it... but fuck it either way honestly.

>I never even liked sol

THAT'S EXACTLY THE THING YOU STUPID CUNT

He's the most boring piece a shit ever. Nothing goes wrong for him. Anything that does, only exist for pity-fuel (aradia's death), ship-fuel (being the last player to enter the game) or to make him look cool (battle with eridan).

Why am I supposed to like him if I'm not a fujoshitter?

it's also funny how he dies a bunch of times, goes blind, breaks all of his teeth, and he becomes a happy-go-lucky kind of guy with little actual consequence to his character as a whole.

maybe his character arc is just too dense for some people to comprehend

>She’s smiling now, and it’s kinda a really nice smile. Like, happy in a really genuine way. Like how he imagined Jodie Foster would have smiled at Matthew McConaughey when they reunited after the use of the alien device in Contact. Except if she was Jodie Foster did that make him Matthew McConaughey? Not that McConaughey wasn’t awesome, especially in that role, but wouldn’t it be better if he knew her better?
This part really felt like a good old fashioned John ramble and made me miss how John used to be more of a movie nerd that'd slip into weird tangentially related topics during something going on.

It feels like Sollux lacks autonomy. When did he try and seek out his goals?

Sshhh...
He is in a better place now.

I've noticed most porn artists get Homestuck better than Cohen.

his goal from the get-go seemed to be to just not play along. Like an infinitely more apathetic rose. He didn't want to enter, and was sort of forced into the session. He didn't want to deal with half of the cast of trolls. I think it's stated he didn't care for his quest or any of that shit. He didn't want to bother the humans even /after/ he found out they're the reason bec noir came along, and the last action he did before becoming a half dead/blind ghost was help save his 'friends' during cascade, which he did reluctantly.

After that he absconded from the story until collide, where he was presumably destroyed be LE. I'd say he met his goals, or lack thereof. He even helped out a lil' along the way.

Thanks Sol.

You don't know sad and sappy until you've read "John and Vriska: Eternal Winter"

I don't want sad, I want sappy and happy smut.

Thanks Sol. For being mostly useless.

It's sad and sappy. Ghostly Vriska trying to jog his memory, and feeling alone with a stranger when he can't.

What part of "don't want sad" don't you understand. If I want sad I'll watch videos of penguins in oil.

>sollux is an allegory for andrew
really gets your noggin joggin

Wasnt jess haskins the writer at that point

Who?

Probably. It doesn't read like Cohen, it has an actual joke, even if it isn't great, and the tone is closer to Homestuck's than Cohen's super safe special snowflake land.

"I really enjoyed Gone Home"

Still seems funnier than Cohen

He was my favorite character because he didn't give a shit. Dude was a cool kid who was like "well I guess I have to save the princess now." And then fucks off to fuck a fish and cat. He truly had the best ending. Only thing that pissed me off was other people thinking he was a bigger nerd the Wizard

Except then he got sucked into a black hole or something.

this is genie aranea and she only grants 8 wishes

but with detailed explanation of each wish

i wish she would poop on my dick

A Spoonful of Descent is what you want, then.

Does that genuinely sound like a cool guy, like someone you'd hang out with?

>nyeh I don't want to do this I don't want to do that
>why even live. leave me alone
>thiis sucks shiit

Sounds like the virgin character from that one meme comic

He should just fuck the wizard.

>le jade is a sex goddess in disguise meme

Stahp

Would Dirk have been a better character if he wasn't a MLP Tumblr FOTM character and was literally just like Bro but it exposed him as an abuser rather than Dave going "I think Bro was abusive"

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She was raised by the internet, don't underestimate the internet.

She was pretty forgettable, and tended to be overshadowed by annoying Vriska, annoying Terezi, and that green lesbian whose name I forget.

sounds like me desu

What happened to her character was a fucking disgrace. She was one of the BEST things that happened in Act 6, and everything was fucking retconned as an excuse to characterize and revive Vriska.
Seriously, I love everything since Aranea's revival until after Game Over. That shit was gold. I don't understand how one can fuck it up so majorly after that.

Why should he be abusive instead of just an incredibly socially inept and slightly incompetent savant?

It wouldn't require the dumb "abuse" sideplot, or maybe make a funny resolution to it where it turns out "oh he was just a confused weirdo." It would also be funnier in general.

>Final Fantasy VI poster
Why did it get removed? Fuck, that's my favorite game.

kanayanon you are shit

Does she wear panties under that skirt? If yes I don't care about her

This gif made me realize I'd love for that 3d Adventure Time dude to do a Homestuck game

>resolution to it where it turns out "oh he was just a confused weirdo."
But that's literally how it was resolved. People, both on tumblr and Sup Forums, always ignore the end of that conversation, but as soon as Dave realizes that Dirk is gay he admits he assumed a lot of things about Bro (his toxic masculinity) that probably were wrong.

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Jokes on her she'll just wake up in a dream bubble

Jeez Jade, just because you got banned from furaffinity doesn't meant it's the end of the world

This might sound stupid and I know the only reason we keep coming back to these threads is because we're bitterly disappointed and defeated by what became of Homestuck as a whole, but should we make any effort to preserve this weird kind of fractured community and maybe do something useful with all of this anger and resentment?

the forums are dead, the massive tumblr audience has largely moved on, HSG has been banned here for years and /hst/ gets removed regularly.

The only place still kicking is rebbit and I've never been there. your best bet is there for the optimistic crowd

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haha NO

Besides people already tried making shit like act 8, various forms of explaining it wasn't shit and so on. Now it's time to wallow in aggrieved apathy for the rest of time and to post your shit waifus in the threads.

I'm not going to forgive you and I'm going to be grumpy about it because you hate on Equius. And that's no good. >:(

I'm doing my own fanventure so idk about you.

link?

Your waifu is shit, mine is not.

I mean making the plot not actually running it.

nice numbers.

mind giving an outline of your fanventure?

>jade
>when roxy exists

LITERAL TRASH

The act 6 rewrite ive been memeing you to make for me.