So you've found yourself at the The End of the World as We Know It. Don't panic. You can still save yourself and your friends with a simple game.
World of Homestuck is an on-going online RPG based around Homestuck involving a cast of characters, both humans and trolls, that have been roped into playing a game to save their races. Or kill them all. It could go either way. It has been going for a year now, with a total of 12 active players, more or less. The game runs on a sporadic schedule, but the players spend spare moments doing character developing chatlogs between each other in the downtime between sessions. The game is played with pre-determined groups using a FATE system.
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World of Homestuck provides examples of:
- Abhorrent Admirer: Boomerpimpsprite is this to Mahtah.
- Action Mom: The post-scratch Colonel Heston is most definitely this, as well as a Team Mom for the other post-scratch adults at the Base.
- Adults Are Useless: While the adults do some stuff, the kids- especially in the post scratch- almost always find ways around it, and most adults end up dying anyway.
- Affectionate Parody: The henshin pens are a parody of Sailor Moon and other magical girl animes.
- The Ageless: Because plenty of characters God Tier, they become this.
- All Just a Dream: The individual scenes in the tunnels on LoAaF were just illusions.
- Anyone Can Die: As is custom with most roleplaying games, depending on characters' actions or players' activity.
- Bad Future: Anything involving Doomed Timelines. As the Seer of Doom, Sorser can actually see these failed timelines and try to prevent them.
- Bag of Holding: Again utilizing the source material's idea of abstract inventory conventions, most characters have a Hyperspace Arsenal at their hands.
- Battle Theme Music
- Blow You Away: Breath players like Sami and Balish have wind-based powers.
- Body Horror: Plenty of characters have their eyes removed, limbs cut off, bodies dissected, or a whole host of other gory things done to them.
- Calling Your Attacks: While they don't actually have to do this, some of the sillier characters do it anyway.
- Cerebus Syndrome: WoHstuck is generally a lot more lighter in the beginning than it is later on.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Most of the players around Doir find themselves taking on this role often.
- The Cynic: While most of the characters take on a cynical attitude over time, Nate stood as the lead Cynic for a while.
- Dead Guy Puppet: The TikTok versions of the dead players are effectively this.
- Deadpan Snarker: Most, if not all, of the characters have their moments of this.
- Death Is Cheap: Despite over half of the characters dying, most of them came back in a way with the post-scratch, and Beau came back through Be!au.
- Death Is the Only Option: Subverted. If they die, eternal dream bubble hell. If the god tiers don't die, but fail, they become horrorterrors. If they don't win, their only hope is to find a way to die in a just or heroic manner.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: Most of the parents end up dead or missing.* Destructive Saviour: In order to finish the world quest on LOLWAT, they had to destroy the magic castle Leon had made.
- Demoted to Extra: Leon was originally a PC whose player ended up bowing out early in the game. Leon was then made into an NPC character by the DMs.
- Due to the Dead: Sami and Kate plan to gather Beau's ashes, and Sami spends a while mourning Beau's death.
- Dumb Blonde: Sami, Doir, and Lily. Inverted with Beau.
- Eats Babies: Rilset almost definitely does this.
- Emotion Control: Maenam has the ability to affect emotional connections between people as a blood player.
- Eye Scream: Both Nullar and Lily have their eyes gouged out. Jossik lost an eye during his entry. Maenam has her eyeball split in half.
- Face Palm: Or rather, pinching the bridge of your nose. Quite popular among the post-scratchers, particularly Thiago.
- Failed a Spot Check: When the characters fail a notice roll.
- The Fashionista: Humorously subverted with Maenam. She believes she is a fashionable trendsetter, but her creations are all colorblind mish-mashes.
- Fate Worse than Death: Becoming a Horrorterror by not being able to die in a Just or Heroic manner.
- Fetch Quest: The quest of LoTaC.
- Fire-Forged Friends: A lot of close friendships were made through the hardships, especially between teammates.
- Fourth Wall: Ryspor at one point teleports behind it and meets one of the GMs.
- From Bad to Worse: Things rarely ever get better for the characters.
- Gender Bender: The henshin pens cause this for boys.
- Genius Ditz: Maenam, sort of. She has a surprisingly extensive knowledge of literature and (Troll)Shakespeare.
- Hammerspace: All characters (or, at least, all players) have an inventory in the form of a captchalogue deck.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Doir goes back and forth with his morality bi-weekly.
- Hollywood Hacking: Doir's backdoor hack hacks like this.
- A Homeowner Is You: To an extent, as the game the characters find themselves in involves modding their client's homes in order to progress in-game.
- I Am a Humanitarian: Rilset's upbringing and love of plantlife has led him to be a carnivore. What or who the meat is from doesn't really concern him.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Balish fills this role. Most of his Jerkass comes from the insanity from his blood caste, but he still desperately wants to be a decent person. Sorser shows signs of this during his private moments.
- Luck Stat: The Light players are able to manipulate luck and give themselves and others luck boosts.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Half the cast, most notably Nate and Rilset, have this mentality.
- Noticing the Fourth Wall: Ryspor and Doir get all existential about it.
- Second Law of Gender-Bending: Doir quite enjoys his henshin pen, and stays as Dina for most of the Ark ride.
- Smart People Play Chess: Beau. She also applies to Crazy People Play Chess to a lesser extent.
- Sociopathic Hero: Thiago.
- Time Master: The Time Players usually end up using their powers to terrifying extremes.
- What the Hell, Hero?: When Ilva is injured because Doir forgot about her, she calls him out on it.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Mahtah's notable aversion to anything sexual. She managed to remain functional after seeing her mother murdered and having her tongue ripped out, but even vaguely-sexual situations weird her out enough to send her into spastics.
