History Webcomic / HSETAU

The ''[[https://mspfa.com/?s=32611&p=1 Homestuck Extra-Terrestrial Alternate Universe]]'' (Labeled as HSETAU for short) is an AlternateUniverseFic of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' and ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth''. It is created by Consuelo Higdon (a.k.a. Tropers/CalamityJane), the creator of ''Webcomic/DontNameIt''. It is set in an alternate universe where the trolls are humans and live on Earth, but the carapaces are extra-terrestrials.\\\

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: ZigZagged. While some carapaces have a better understanding of the English language than others, they're not exactly fluent and their biology makes it so that they can't pronounce certain sounds. In the dreambubbles however, humans and carapaces can understand each other perfectly due to dream logic.

** The Midnight Crew are ik'ladi-- in other words, they're in a polyamorous relationship. The five heroes of ''Problem Sleuth'' are ik'ladi as well.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange:
** The characters of ''Problem Sleuth'' are now carapaces in this fic. Team Sleuth and friends were heavily implied to just be normal humans in canon.
** The trolls have become humans in this.

* AscendedExtra: In a sense. Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido were two extracanonical characters invented for a ''Homestuck'' music album about two agents of Prospit and Derse who were once enemies until receiving the truth behind the Ultimate Riddle. In ''HSETAU'' they are not only physically shown, they aided in the jailbreak of the Midnight Crew.

* DysfunctionJunction: Many of the Alternian Trailer Park residents have negative pasts they left behind or mental illnesses. Vriska even refers to their friend group as such.

The plot starts when Speid Spriveska (Spades Slick), an alien from the planet Derse, crash-lands onto planet Earth. From there, he is found by siblings Karkat Vantas-Maryam and Kanaya Vantas-Maryam, who take him in. Upon waking up, he finds out he has been taken to the fictional Alternia Trailer Park, the home of Karkat, Kanaya and most of the other trolls. From there, Speid tries to figure out a way to return to Derse and find the remaining members of the Midnight Crew. But first, he has to deal with the residents of the Alternian Trailer Park, and make his way through that human emotion called friendship.\\\

The creator's Website/{{Tumblr}}, which contains information on the AU, can be found [[https://consuelodoodles.tumblr.com/hsetau here]].

** In canon, while there was some ShipTease between John and Rose ([S] Seer: Descend comes to mind), it went nowhere and Rose got with Kanaya. In ''HSETAU'', John has a crush on Rose.

** The trolls have become humans, and they are living on Earth.

** The adult WK [[AdorablyPrecociousChild is a young child]] in this AU.

* CoveredWithScars: Karkat has scars all over his arms and chest, no thanks to his parents' abuse.

** Slick opens [[https://mspfa.com/?s=32611&p=211 one of Teresa's books]] and notices it's written in Braille. He doesn't understand what it says, but the letters are the first few lines of the entire ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie'' script.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Midnight Crew are {{Nominal Hero}}es at best in canon. ''HSETAU'' frames them in a much more sympathetic and friendly light due to the comic's nature as an AlternateUniverseFic.

* AdaptationalHeroism: The Midnight Crew are {{Nominal Hero}}es at best in canon. ''HSETAU'' frames them in a much more sympathetic and friendly light due to the comic's nature as an AlternateUniverseFic.

* AdaptationalHeroism: The Midnight crew are {{Nominal Hero}}es at best in canon. ''HSETAU'' frames them in a much more sympathetic and friendly light due to the comic's nature as an AlternateUniverseFic.

* IntentionalEngrishForFunny: Some of WV's shirts have intentionally garbled English grammar on them. Like one that says [[https://mspfa.com/?s=32611&p=175 "Almost Philosophy of all the Star"]] and [[https://mspfa.com/?s=32611&p=178 "Who the FUCK is Jegus"]].

* AscendedExtra: In a sense. Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido were two characters invented for a ''Homestuck'' music album about two agents of Prospit and Derse who were once enemies until receiving the truth behind the Ultimate Riddle. They didn't actually exist in ''Homestuck'' proper. In ''HSETAU'' they are not only physically shown, they aided in the jailbreak of the Midnight Crew.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Licorice the dog is scared of Vriska because she (accidentally) ran the former over while recklessly riding on her bike.

* AdaptationalSpeciesChange:

** Slick was jailed, beaten and forced into Derse's super soldier program.

* DitzyGenius: Roxy, mostly due to AlcoholInducedIdiocy. She is a self-made billionaire who does advanced genetics research, but she doesn't want to buy an x-ray machine to examine WQ and WK because they're pricey, so she purchases an infrared sauna instead. Rose [[StatingTheSimpleSolution suggests that she should borrow the horse x-ray machine at the veterinarian clinic]], and Roxy realizes not only is that a more reasonable solution, she also realizes that assembling the sauna is probably a fast track to getting cancer.

** Slick was jailed and forced to become a super soldier.

** John has a crush on Rose.
** Nepeta and Equius are married.

** Slick was jailed, put into prison and forced to become a super soldier.