Main Cast: Kids, Pre-Scratch; Kids, Post-Scratch; Trolls (Lowbloods, Midbloods, Highbloods, Pre-Scratch); Cherubs Supporting Cast: Guardians & Ancestors; Sprites; Exiles & the Midnight Crew; Agents & Monarchs; The Felt (Leaders); Others Expanded Universe: Post-Canon; Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff; Hiveswap (Troll Call)
This is a page for tropes concerning characters and their iterations introduced in the "Post-Canon" era of Homestuck, starting with The Homestuck Epilogues and continuing into Homestuck: Beyond Canon. For more complete pages on the characters in their entirety, look here.
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Introduced in The Homestuck Epilogues
Warning: this section contains unmarked spoilers for Homestuck. Pre-Existing Characters (Meat)
John Egbert
- Dying Declaration of Love: Gives one to Terezi, but perishes halfway through it.
- Killed Off for Real: Succumbs to the poison in Lord English's golden tooth and dies in Terezi's arms, with the usual methods of revival unavailable.
- Last-Minute Hookup: Realizes his feelings for Terezi and they get together at the end of reality.
- Wrecked Weapon: Lord English ate every single one of his hammers.
Rose Lalonde
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Dirk coerces her into ascending into her Ultimate Self, her consciousness abandoning her physical body and needing to be transplanted into a robot while her mortal coil is kept on life support.
- Badass in Distress: Is brainwashed and kidnapped by Dirk near the end of Meat, forcing the remaining heroes to embark to rescue her.
Dave Strider
- Mayfly–December Romance: He's incredibly worried about the prospect of outliving Karkat. On top of not knowing just how long he'll live for considering his hemospectrum mutation, the only thing stopping Dave from living forever is a Heroic or Just death.
Jade Harley
- Little Bit Beastly: More so than in canon. Here, she has a dog-like tail, and is heavily implied to have a canine penis.
Jane Crocker
- Face–Heel Turn: Heroic in Homestuck, but here, she's a huge xenophobe, and a sexual abuser. While not as bad as her Candy counterpart, she is still blatantly racist and is considered an antagonist.
- President Evil: Despite Dave and Karkat's efforts, she becomes President of Earth C. However, she is later forced to win the election legitimately, thanks to Jasprosesprite^2.
Roxy Lalonde
- Making a Spectacle of Yourself: Is seen wearing sunglasses with heart-shaped lenses.
Dirk Strider / Ultimate Dirk
- Awakening the Sleeping Giant: As Ultimate Dirk, after taking over the narrative, he is too reckless and threads too close the Black/Green Hole, which alerts Alternate Calliope, who establishes a stable vessel and proceeds to demolish his control with almost zero effort.
- Big Bad: After his powers passively evolve into becoming his Ultimate self, he shapes up to be this. He only shows his hand halfway into Meat, but unlike Jane in Candy (who is limited as an antagonist to that route alone), Dirk's hijacking of the narrative and his long term plans take over both routes.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Ultimate Self Dirk is an incredibly powerful Reality Warping meta-villain, but Alternate Calliope was able to usurp the narrative out of his hands effortlessly the moment she obtained a vessel in Earth C.
- Death-Activated Superpower: He gains the power of an Ultimate self thanks to his Candy counterpart's suicide.
- Evil Counterpart: Eventually becomes one to Hussie himself once he's Ultimate Dirk, serving as an interactive author figure in conflict with most of the characters. Emphasized in Beyond Canon, where unlike Hussie's command to "keep drawing Homestuck or something", the only suggestion box command Dirk receives tells him to stop.
- Fatal Flaw: His need to be the center of attention and make everything about himself, even when it makes him miserable, is what convinces Ultimate!Dirk to become the villain of the narrative to retain relevance.
- It's All About Me: Ultimate!Dirk's need to be the center of attention, even as a villain, is what motivates him. His megalomania and self-hatred make it impossible for him to not attempt to feed his ego. The concern he shows Rose is even less about her as a person and more about how she is the one member of their family most like him, making it about himself.
- Narrator All Along: He's the narrator of Meat - and the one calling the shots.
- Pet the Dog: His convoluted gambit to get Dave and Karkat together after they've repressed their feelings for years (Even using Jane's entire presidency) solely to make Dave happy. As he is more concerned with himself at this point, it ends up showing that he still does value his son-brother and his happiness, even trying, and failing, to let them do it of their own volition until Dave gets fed up with Narrator!Dirk and does it himself.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He repeatedly and intentionally misgenders Roxy, despite Alt!Calliope correcting him on multiple occasions. In Beyond Canon, his rant on Yiffy's existence has him claim she was created for the "woke police" to fanwank over.
- Rogue Protagonist: During the timeskip between Homestuck and the The Homestuck Epilogues, it's revealed that his power of Souls/Heart has rapidly evolved in a manner far more aggressive than Rose's own. This results in the beginning of a merge into his Ultimate self... which is an unbelievably bad thing for Dirk as his alternate selves include Lord English and Doc Scratch (as well as the less dangerous but no less awful Bro Strider). After this process is complete in Meat, he becomes a Reality Warping meta-villain who usurps the narrative in a megalomaniac rampage.
- Shipper on Deck: A massive one for Dave and Karkat. It leads to his Pet the Dog moment above.
- Walking Spoiler: It is exceedingly difficult to talk about the Epilogues as a whole without talking about Meat!Dirk's role in the story as it involves spoiling the big twist of the Epilogues, and arguably one of the biggest twists in Homestuck's entire story: the breakneck whiplash of a reveal that is Meat!Dirk's Face–Heel Turn by ascending to his Ultimate Self, literally hijacking the narrative, and resigning himself into becoming the main villain of Homestuck.
Jake English
- Really Gets Around: To the point Jane slut-shaming him is an election tactic.
Karkat Vantas
Kanaya Maryam
- The One That Got Away: Kanaya is crushed when Rose is brainwashed by Dirk and abducted by him, barely aware of the true circumstances of her wife leaving her.
Gamzee Makara
Calliope
- Ambiguous Gender: They end up identifying as non-binary.
Pre-Existing Characters (Candy)
John Egbert
- Cassandra Truth: He seems to the only one who realizes how strange everyone is reacting to things such as Gamzee being Easily Forgiven, Jane becoming more and more cruel and other things. Naturally no one believes him, and it only gets worse when he tries to kidnap Tavros to remove him from his abusive household.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: He grew a mustache during the timeskip, signifying his settling down and growing into a more fatherly role. When he finally decides to help the rebels out, he shaves it off.
Rose Lalonde
Dave Strider
Jade Harley
- Adrenaline Makeover: While part of the Rebel army, she wears face paint and camo fatigues.
- Really Gets Around: It's shown that Jade has become more promiscious on Earth C, as it's mentioned she started a polyamorous relationship with a group of Carapacians. She also tried to force herself into Dave and Karkat's relationship, while also having sex with Rose to give her a child to raise. It's implied it's the result of living most of her life on an island in the middle of the ocean.
- Little Bit Beastly: She's got a dog-like tail she lacks in canon, and considering Yiffany, does have a canine penis.
Jane Crocker
- A Nazi by Any Other Name: Karkat and Dave, at least, unambiguously describe her actions later on as fascist, and given that she's formed a military dictatorship to exterminate trolls entirely, it's hard to completely disagree.
- Arc Villain: She's the main antagonist of the Candy route, after Dirk's suicide and Gamzee's release makes her slowly go haywire, basically becoming a human version of the Condesce. She's still somewhat of a threat in Meat, being Karkat's opponent for the world presidency, but her policies never escalate into the borderline Nazi-like ideals she has in Candy, not to mention Ultimate Dirk being the actual main problem.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Zig-Zagged. While Jane is the main antagonist of the Candy route, compared to Dirk, she is completely powerless, and the only thing that makes her a threat is her controlling the world in a vice grip. The only thing that is preventing her swift demise is the fact that, if she dies, there'd be no conflict in the plot.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: She's technically not the President of Earth C, rather she uses her vast amounts of money to bribe and corrupt the government to let her do what she wants, essentially turning Earth C into One Nation Under Copyright, with Crockercorp as the real rulers.
- Face–Heel Turn: Even compared to her Meat version; while her Meat version has some terrible opinions (not at all helped by Dirk's influence), her Candy version devolves to the point where she becomes a xenophobe seeking outright Troll-genocide, with multiple characters specifically describing her as fascist.
- Fantastic Racism: Her main trait is basically being incredibly racist towards Trolls. At first it started with them becoming a problem with populations, due to how the Mother Grub produces tons of Trolls compared to Humans or Carapacians. However, with her relationship with Gamzee, she gradually begins suffering Motive Decay, from going to police entire sectors of Trolls to just outright humiliating them on national TV. By the end, she's basically become the Earth C version of Hitler himself.
- Generation Xerox: She grows up into the exact kind of sadistic, genocidal bully the founder of her company (and Pre-Scratch mother) was.
- Hate Sink: Just take a look at most of her tropes. By Beyond Canon, she's become a full-scale supervillain.
- The Lost Lenore: Her kismesis Gamzee is killed by Vriska towards the end of the epilogues. A sexually romantic hatred is not natural for humans as it is for trolls, and she's utterly conflicted on how to handle the situation and what to announce.
- Ms. Fanservice: In
◊ the◊ epilogues◊ it’s heavily implied that Jane has grown into her curves since the end of Homestuck (not to imply that she wasn’t already curvaceous in the original series),◊ which is emphasized further◊ in Beyond Canon. - Rogue Protagonist: Over the seven-year gap until the The Homestuck Epilogues, she became a far more threatening figure with varyingly xenophobic ideals. While the reasoning behind some of these is sound (which even Terezi acknowledges), in Candy, she goes completely haywire after Dirk kills himself, becoming a rambling, rapist human supremacist by the end.
- Ron the Death Eater: Oddly enough, she's an In-Universe example of this trope. Jane was never "evil" by any means, and the only truly evil thing she did was kill Karkat, only to ressurect him to demonstrate her powers, while she was also mind-controlled by the Condesce. In contrast, the Epilogues and Beyond Canon make her unrepentently evil, essentially becoming the Earth C version of Adolf Hitler. She mainly targets Trolls, due their high birth rates, but its heavily implied she just genuinelly hates them. The exact reasoning is completely unknown, and is mostly Hand Waved, but its also implied that it was the result of the Condesce's mind control tiara messing with her brain. This does not even begin to describe her relationship with her family (and Gamzee), whom she regularly abuses, be it emotionally or physically.
- Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: Suffers this greatly. She was originally one of the main heros, though was Braindwashed And Crazy for a time. In both the Epilogues and Beyond Canon, she is a complete 180 in terms of characteristics, advocating the genocide of a race, and even being outright called a Fascist.
- Villainous Lineage: While not genetically related, she is the great-grandaughter of the Condesce, and is the heiress of Crocker Corp. After [S] Act 7, she seems to have used her connections for good and turned her back on her past lineage... only to become a Facist, xenophobic dictator who wants to exterminate all Trolls.
- Would Hurt a Child: She keeps Yiffy caged like an animal and fits her with a shock collar powerful enough to knock her out in just a few zaps.
Roxy Lalonde
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: While she doesn't transition or change pronouns like her Meat counterpart, Candy!Roxy does begin to question her relations to the idea of gender.
- Character Derailment: Invoked, subverted, and discussed. John finds her submissive and aggressively non-confrontational behavior to be increasingly out-of-character, to the point where he thinks she isn't even real because she isn't her 'canon' self. When they finally talk about it, she reminds him that people can legitimately change over time or behave in unexpected ways, and that her bizarre behavior was due to her own inner struggles and deep insecurities.
Dirk Strider
- Driven to Suicide: In the Candy path, he realizes he is in an irrelevant world and commits suicide to give his powers to his Meat counterpart. We get to see in detail in Meat what that this causes, and it's not pretty.
- Karmic Death: His own sheer level of self-loathing causes his death to be classified Just (firmly averting this trope, but apparently works within the immoral rules of conditional immortality pertaining to God-tiers), and since Jane already revived him after his Heroic death in Collide and her powers work on a one-time-per-person basis, he's gone for good.
- My Death Is Just the Beginning: His uses his suicide to give his power to his Meat counterpart. This helps Meat Dirk to achieve his Ultimate Self and seize control of the Narrative.
Jake English
- The Alcoholic: He turns to the bottle to deal with his hectic life.
- Drowning My Sorrows: It's noted repeatedly with painful irony that Jake finds the stuff quite distasteful, too.
- Extreme Doormat: Jake has always struggled to take a stand against others, but his difficulty with this is tragically taken several levels further when his difficulty opposing Jane and Gamzee results in the destruction of about a decade and a half of his adult life and his son's childhood, not helped by her increasing level of world-dominating power that just about everyone except John is in some way fearful of. Near the end of the epilogue, he takes a step away from this by finally taking Tavros and fleeing from Jane under the cover of night, eventually resulting in their divorce.
- Hearing Voices: By Beyond Canon, Brain Ghost Dirk returns to his mind to help him out.
- Henpecked Husband: Played for Drama. His marriage to Jane sees her as domineering, forgetful, and even downright sexually abusive, and he really struggles to stand up to her for many years even when his son is in the picture and is suffering alongside him.
- Mr. Fanservice: Both adult versions of Jake are pretty thoroughly described as being "himbo" material, and the artists behind Beyond Canon drop a butt-focus shot◊ early on.
- Never My Fault: Subverted - John dryly mentions that Jake "didn't seem that interested" any time he tried to help Jake get Tavvy away from Jane and notes that Jake did have a chance to get out before things got so "stupid", to which Jake protests that it wasn't so simple and that the escalation of Jane's bad attitude and the rest of the situation was far from a simple process, which isn't really incorrect. When he's talking to John about the circumstances surrounding his life, Jake notes that for most of his life, he's felt like nothing is really under his control, in no small part owing to his history with incredibly controlling relationships (the latter of which began when he was inebriated). However, Jake notes that Tavvy being born into this situation was something of a turning point, and he's the one to lambast that he isn't doing right by his child and (perhaps not fairly) say he's making excuses.
- Parents as People: Jake is none too happy with any of what Jane is doing, but his inability to seriously stand up to her and at least do literally anything to get Tavros away from the situation did a whole lot of harm to the kid. Even after he takes Tavvy to John's house, he still has somewhat thoughtless wording and the kid is quickly shown to be far too weary of Jake's drinking habits. However, him at least deciding to take him away from that house late is still acknowledged as being a lot better than not doing it at all. Though he's failed a lot in the past, John notes by the end of Candy that Jake is at least trying now, and that's still unequivocally a good thing.JOHN: jake, i guess i actually don’t know you that well, but i think there’s a difference between making excuses and just giving reasons.JOHN: there’s reasons for what you did, sure. and i guess you can think of it as an excuse, but that’s only if you don’t make the effort to start trying to fix yourself.JOHN: and i mean... okay, look. you left. you’re doing it. you’re making it happen!JOHN: you got your son out of there.JOHN: better a decade late than never. i guess.
Karkat Vantas
- Eyepatch of Power: At some point during one of the timeskips he acquires one of these in the process of taking several levels in badass.
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: He is one of the very few trolls alive who have lived on Alternia, which by default makes him more suited to waging war.
- Rebel Leader: Leads the troll resistance once Jane basically goes, in Dave's words, full-on fascist.
- Took a Level in Badass: Eventually, he becomes the leader of the resistance, to the point where even Meenah ends up willing to follow him.
Kanaya Maryam
- Happily Married: Apart from Rose having a tryst for the sole purpose of making Jade a biological parent, their marriage is much better off than that of their Meat iterations.
Gamzee Makara
- Easily Forgiven: Played for laughs, since it's the very first thing that happens after the reader chooses Candy. Jane, Roxy, Calliope, and society seem to believe his Heel–Face Turn, much to John's consternation and confusion.
- Even Evil Has Standards: This Gamzee might be a reprehensible jackalo who preaches a blatantly harmful and twisted conception of redemption and helps create and enable a horrific government and horribly poisonous environment for Tavvy to grow up in, but he does at least challenge and voice what might be genuine disdain for Jane's policies and even uses the word xenophobic to describe her attitude. Of course he's a troll himself, but there's nothing explicitly suggesting his sentiment is self-motivated and it's resultingly the only thing resembling a well-meaning contribution he actually makes throughout the epilogue.
- Heel–Face Turn: Subverted and repeatedly lampshaded. After he's freed from the fridge, he claims to have seen the error of this ways, and tells everyone who's listening that he's gone through a "redemption arc." While he no longer goes on murderous rampages, Gamzee continues to be the unsettling and amoral person he was before, if not even moreso.
- Killed Off for Real: (Vriska Serket) finally ends his multiversal Joker Immunity streak to save Vriska Lalonde-Maryam.
- My Death Is Just the Beginning: The Candy side of Beyond Canon starts off fresh from his murder at (Vriska)'s hands and the kids' attempt to deal with the body starts off the main plot of that timeline.
- Toxic Friend Influence: Responsible for setting off Jane to become even worse than her Meat counterpart thorough another toxic kismesissitude. Eventually Jane realized how shitty he was and cut him off, but by that point Jane was already even more of a monster than him.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He fulfills his role as a Bard of Rage by inviting the unpleasant decay/destruction of everything and everyone he interacts with, as of the literal SECOND he is brought back into the Candy timeline. Everything in the timeline is unambiguously worse with his inclusion, which is probably why his reintroduction is the very first thing to happen in Candy. Even him dying just causes more problems with everyone since Jane, despite finally throwing Gamzee out on his ass, uses his death as an excuse to further her own xenophobia.
Calliope
New Characters
Tavros Crocker
Uses a lot of trailing commas,,,, instead of periods,,
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: He explains to John that, although he has not been sexually assaulted by Gamzee, he understands the conclusion because it seems like something that would just kind of happen to him. He's distressingly aware that Gamzee is a "very,,, very bad clown uncle" and Jane is actively oppressive.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He takes to adventure better than the other kids, being willing to dispose of Gamzee's corpse (if only to be contrary to Vrissy, who thinks getting involved is a terrible idea) and more accustomed to running. If his reaction to John's attempt to get him out of Jane's house is any indication, he's excited about any prospect of getting away from his horrific mother and her clown-mesis.
- Dead Guy Junior: Is named after the late Tavros Nitram, though it's plausible Jake specifically named him in honor of the strangely absent Gcatavrosprite, who was a helpful friend to him.
- Desecrating the Dead: The second thing he does after realizing Gamzee is a corpse is to jump down from a hovercar and punch him, screaming in anguish before breaking down into tears.
- Extreme Doormat: Like both his namesake and his father, he's very submissive. However, by teenhood he has grown more of a backbone (similar to Tavros's own growth within the Dream Bubbles), likely helped by his much healthier friendship with the similarly better-adjusted Vrissy.
- Generation Xerox: He acts remarkably similar to Tavros Nitram, being very meek and easily spoken over primarily by a bespectacled abuser. He also has connections towards Gamzee and Vriska Lalonde-Maryam, though said relationships are markedly different than any version of the other Tavros' (with the former being a creepy 'clown uncle', and the latter being an actually-healthy and respectful blackrom).
- Harmful to Minors: Tavros has been exposed to a whole bunch of things that no person should have to see, with Gamzee and Jane having zero qualms getting intimate on the same couch he was being cradled by Jake as an infant and Gamzee being morally repugnant enough that Tavros validates the idea of the clown being predatory as seeming like the kind of thing that would happen in his situation.
- Misery Poker: Several kids Tavros knows, like Imode and Harry, don't feel any sympathy for his background because he's richer than all of them combined. Of course, this mindset completely ignores how little personhood he actually has in his familial relationships, and how all the money in the world can't make him forget the fact that he's related to a political tyrant.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Looks incredibly similar to his father Jake, just with a different outfit, rounded specs, and a flipped hairstyle.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: In Epilogues, he was your archetypal abused child: quiet, solemn, and never ever doing anything that might upset the adults in his life or draw their attention. Even his room was kept obsessively neat.
Vriska "Vrissy" Lalonde-Maryam
Mostly the Same Rules as Vriska........ Also Capitalizes 8rief parts For Proper Emphasis ::::).
- Dead Guy Junior: As far as Rose and Kanaya were concerned, Vriska Serket was dead, so this troll (who just so happens to be Vriska's clone) was named after her.
- Generation Xerox: Genetically speaking, she is Vriska's true descendant. She's basically exactly like the main-timeline Vriska, right down to having similar relationships with John's son and with her generation's Tavros.
- Good Counterpart: She is an Earth-raised Vriska with actual grown-up parents instead of a murderous spider lusus: proud, impulsive, and a little mean, but much more capable of admitting she's wrong and having meaningful relationships."Whatever. I'm just ... being a bitch. Forget about it."
- Goth: Dresses like one.
- Happily Adopted: Loves her adoptive mothers dearly, though she can sometimes get embarrassed by their affection for her.
- In-Series Nickname: In Beyond Canon, she takes on the nickname of Vrissy to help differentiate her from the original Vriska.
- I Just Want to Be Special: With Vriska's arrival, Vrissy becomes acutely aware of how mundane her life is and desperate to do something exciting.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Her rebellious spirit encourages Tavros to tap into his own anger and be more than a glorified doll for his mother.
- Screw Yourself: As we learn later on, Vrissy really, really likes Vriska. She admires her devil-may-care attitude, strength, and confidence, and confides in Tavros that her talking to Harry Anderson didn't bother her in the slightest—it was the fact that she couldn't get close to Vriska that was the problem.
- Secret Legacy: She doesn't actually know much about the original Vriska, because all the game's survivors were unwilling to talk about her. She learned her name in school, but that's about it.
- Yearning for a Nemesis: How her kismessisitude with Tavros works. It's not that they sabotage each other, but that having someone around who is the opposite of everything Vrissy wants to be helps her define herself, and be brave.(deciding to help Tavros and Vriska smuggle a corpse) "I can’t stand watching you two fuck up this fucking bad."
Harry Anderson Egbert
no capitals, but otherwise proper grammar.
- Named After Somebody Famous: Named after Harry Anderson, a comedian and magician who stars in Wise Guy.
- Not Hyperbole: When Vrissy texted him saying she was disposing of a corpse, he thought she was joking. She wasn't, and is peeved that he didn't come over to help.
- Pretty Boy: Took after his mother Roxy in terms of appearance, making him a very pretty boy.
- Real Men Wear Pink: He's fond of sewing, and his room is rife with fancy clothing.
- Shear Menace: His Strife Specibus is Scissorkind, after incorporating his sewing scissors into it.
- Toothy Issue: Buck teeth runs in the family.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: He is sensitive on the issue of his father, despite trying to be cool in all other ways.
Barack Obama
Barack Obama. The last U.S. President of both the A1 and A2 universes, before the Batterwitch dominated earth and put Juggalos in the white house. Presumed to have died ordinarily, the Candy version of Dave Strider makes a chance encounter with his hologram.Speaks without any crazy quirk, though with frequent pauses. Speaks with perfect syntax and grammar.
- Action Politician: The 43rd and last President of the United States, and a Sburb player who reached the God Tiers.
- Adaptational Badass: In Homestuck, Barack Obama is generally presumed to have led a mostly similar life to what his real-life counterpart would have done up until the comic's events, not being implied to have gotten deeply involved within the otherworldly powers entailed by the story. In the Epilogues, it's revealed that not only did he enter the Medium, but he ascended to the God Tiers and attained a level of understanding almost unparalleled, including likely the most complete and helpful comprehension of the Hope aspect displayed by any character and a full knowledge of the enigmatic and powerful state known as the Ultimate Self, having even built a robotic vessel for Dave in preparation for his ascension.
- Chekhov's Gunman: President Obama was established as having existed in both the pre and post-scratch versions of earth from Homestuck, being brought up semi-frequently by Dave for comedic purposes, but he was never encountered and presumed to have died like most of humanity. The appearance of his digital phantom not only reveals he had a lengthy story of his own involving a Sburb session and even several versions of the heroes, but he's been waiting for many years to help Dave with his own journey, showing up to provide him with a listening ear, some inspiring words, and the means to achieve his Ultimate Self.
- Hero of Another Story: He's revealed to have led his own adventures, including forays into the Medium of an unknown Sburb session and encountering the Dirk Strider we know from Homestuck, all of which happened off-screen and much of which is classified.
- Light 'em Up: He's a hero of Hope, though his class goes unrevealed.
- Projected Man: The Obama that Dave meets isn't the real Obama, but a holographic copy made from a captchalogued ghost imprint of his brain.
Swifer Eggmop
A jadeblood troll in charge of watching over the eggs. She was designated Matriarch in both universes after Kanaya leaves to answer the call.Uses mostly proper grammar, capitals an' all!
- Ascended Extra: She first appeared in the Credits before getting more information established in the Epilogues, and receiving a bigger role in the bonus patreon pages of Beyond Canon.
- Meaningful Name: She swiffs, and her appearance in the Credits has her mopping an egg.
- Neat Freak: She's an overzealous cleaner.
- The Roaring '20s: She speaks like a parody of a 1920's newsboy.
Cliper Borden
A skilled data analyst in the Troll Kingdom and Swifer's moirail, at least in Meat. While he's served a role in Karkat's rebellion in Candy, he's eventually captured and sentenced to work in the Cake Mills.⁂drops his endinns and doesnt use punctuationn or capitals⁂
- Ascended Extra: While he only shows up near the end of the original comic and his Candy counterpart was sent off to the Cake Mills, the Meat version of Cliper gets a bigger role with Swifer from the start.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Exits the story fairly early in the Candy timeline when he gets sentenced to prison.
- Meaningful Name: His name sounds a lot like "clipboard", something he carries around often due to his talent.
- Satellite Character: In the Meat timeline, he's only appeared in scenes with his pale buddy Swifer.
Characters inside Paradox Space
Aradia Megido
Tavros Nitram
Sollux Captor
Terezi Pyrope
(Vriska Serket)
- Attention Whore: She is fond of Earth C's paparazzi, and its hordes of normal civilians she can impress."I thought this planet was gonna be a snoozefest desert devoid of both agency and fun, but I am honestly having a great time."
- Humiliation Conga: In short order, just as she is about to fight Lord English, she gets stabbed in the forehead by a shard of reality, gets sucked in by a black hole after getting impaled by another shard into her chest, making her miss the entire fight just as John arrived. Then ends up in the Candy timeline after falling from the sky and is found by John who not only tells her how crappy the world is, but also her name was taken by Kanaya and Rose's daughter, leading to her name becoming (Vriska). She then finds out that Terezi was looking for her, and all the while she's bagging John to send her back. Then Gamzee appears and more or less puts her into a forced Kinemesis relationship with kissing, and then she meets Vrissy, after killing Gamzee. By the time she gets to Harry's house in Beyond Canon it's clear she's trying not to have a breakdown.
- Eyepatch of Power: Once again she lost her Sevenfold Vision eye, and now wears an actual eye patch over it.
- One-Steve Limit: Because of the presence of Vriska Lalonde-Maryam, Vriska Serket is referred to as (Vriska) from page 31 of Candy onwards, just like the alternate timeline (Vriska) that dated Meenah. Eventually in Beyond Canon, this is resolved by having the teenage Vriska use the nickname of Vrissy.
Eridan Ampora
Feferi Peixes
Aranea Serket
Meenah Peixes
- Back from the Dead: She managed to steal the Ring of Life from John and uses it to revive herself.
- Irony: Her Alterna self put down Karkat's ancestor's religion and rebellion and now she's second in command in Karkat's rebellion.
- Pungeon Master: Averted, she stopped making fish puns when Candy!Karkat told her to stop.
Davepetasprite^2
Lord English
- Death by Irony: The Card-Carrying Villain who was obsessed with being the center of attention and the most powerful being in the universe dies off-screen, weakened and powerless.
- Disk-One Final Boss: He might've been the biggest threat in canon, but in the epilogues, he was taken out only a third of the way into Meat.
- Eating the Enemy: He tried to eat Meat!John like he ate all his hammers. It didn't quite work.
- Extreme Omnivore: He ate all of Meat!John's hammers. All of them.
- Villainous Legacy: Even if he gets defeated and killed, he becomes part of Ultimate Dirk and is probably one of the main reasons of the boy's transformation into a villain.
Muse!Calliope
- Cannibalism Superpower: This is what she intends to do to the critically-weakened Lord English.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: She's quite sure that when Lord English arrives in the Candy timeline, he will be far too weak to take on her, even on his best day.
- Good Counterpart: To her alternate timeline twin, Lord English and to the other narrator of the Epilogues, Ultimate Dirk.
- Possessing a Dead Body: She took control of a dead Jade slain by Lord English.
Juju Rose, Dave and Jade
Recruited from canon at the start of Meat, imprisoned in the house jujunote and unleashed against Lord English.- Demonic Possession: Muse!Calliope takes control of Jade after her corpse is dropped in the Candy timeline.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Jade gets skewered by broken space.
- Not Enough to Bury: Rose gets vaporized by one of Lord English's beams.
- Off with His Head!: Dave dies in battle after Lord English bites his head off.
Introduced in Homestuck: Beyond Canon
Warning: this section contains unmarked spoilers for The Homestuck Epilogues. Candy Timeline
Yiffany Longstocking Lalonde Harley
Jade's secret daughter and Vrissy's long-lost adopted sister. She's initially held hostage by Jane in order to draw out the rebels.- Defiant Captive: When given food, she refuses to eat it and instead throws it at Jane's screen (and possibly intended for it to hit Jane herself).
- Little Bit Beastly: Unlike her mother, she fully retains her dog ears and tail.
- In-Series Nickname: Her mother calls her "Yiffy".
- Punny Name: Several rolled up into one, absolutely corny epithet. Yiffany is a pun of "yiff" (a notorious Furry Fandom term) and "Tiffany", and her nickname turns her name into a pun on Pippi Longstocking.
- School Uniforms are the New Black: She's introduced in an open blazer and uniform shorts. Justified, as she was likely kidnapped at school prior to her introduction.
- Shock Collar: Jane fit her with a Crockercorp-branded one as a grim reference to her canine origins.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She looks like a mixture of her mothers, with some of Jade's looks and Rose's hair "color".
- Wild Child: She acts like a very angry dog while captive, to the point of communicating only through barks and growls. It doesn't help that her ecto-aunt already treats her like one. Subverted when she's been rescued, which reveals she's a typical moody teen under less threatening circumstances.
Silas P. Beauregard III
A girl from a wealthy family who knew Tavros from social gatherings.- Gender-Blender Name: Silas is usually a name given to boys.
- Preppy Name: Unusually for the trope, this is combined with Hayseed Name, as she's got an old-money southerner motif.
- Youthful Freckles: She's in high school and sports a couple on each cheek.
Avril Thorpe
A popular sportsman and model. no regular grammar and tends to talk in a mix of hashtags and normal speech #aboutme #quirks
- #HashtagForLaughs: Speaks like he's making a social media post, including a lot of hashtags for emphasis.
- Meaningful Name: He uses a lot of hashtags in his speech, and another word for the hashtag symbol is octothorpe.
- Skeleton Key: Keeps one on him to get good locations for his photos. It only works on doors from before Crockercorp fitted most buildings with their brand of locks, which thankfully the clock tower still had.
Imode Kurita
A well-known influencer on Pestergram, and an aquaintance of the main Candy kids. uses 😀👀💣💦 in place of 📝
- Meaningful Name: They use a lot of emojis in their speech, and Shigetaka Kurita is one of the supposed inventors of emojis.
- Painting the Medium: Their emojis aren't just a part of their text, but they're recognized in-universe as spoken emojis.
Meat Timeline
Motter Ataxia
An indigo-blooded Troll running as Jane's vice president.- 0% Approval Rating: Thanks to his association with the notoriously xenophobic Jane, his ratings are low in the Troll Kingdom.
Jasprosesprite^2
The sprite fusion of Rosesprite and Jaspersprite who reappeared after hiding for centuries to kidnap President Jane.- Reality Warper: As usual, she still retains her powerful powers, which allows her to summon Fenestrated Planes, and is fully aware of Ultimate!Dirk's powers over the narrative.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers one to Jane by calling out her cruel behavior and xenophobia on top of rigging the election to win despite not being in the majority vote, and not even knowing the first thing about government.
Midnight City (Spoilers!)
Problem Sleuth
A well-known private eye. Despite his newfound business after finally leaving his office, he's still the same old sleuth. For more information on him, see this page.- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He may now be doing some actual sleuth work in town, but he's still the bumbling detective we knew him for.Why is getting out of your office always so goddamn difficult?
- Complexity Addiction: Presumably as a result of his previous adventures, he can't so much as leave his office without tearing the place apart. Even when the door itself isn't locked.
Dad Crocker
- Muscles Are Meaningless: He doesn't look all that strong, but he's got enough mangrit to accidentally slap Spades Slick through a wall.
- Papa Wolf: He grabs Droog by the collar when he refers to his photographed daughter as a broad.
Diamonds Droog
A man that had used to run with a notorious band of gangsters, but is now washed up.- Jaded Washout: After leaving his gang behind, his job well has dried up. He gets defensive if anyone even hints at his situation.
Spades Slick
Snowman
- Meta Guy: One of her duties is to keep the narrative (at least of the Diamonds, Dames and Dads story) on track.
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