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"Yes, but that was only two [members of the Felt]. To overcome and kill the other 13, (not 14 becuz keep Handmaid alive cuxz i like trolls), you must go through a jorney. Well, you have gont through a jorney, but IT HAVE JUST BEGUN. The rest of the jorney will have Pikmin, love n-drangles, tanks, volcainos, genderswaps, tits, brits, mits, hits, and, amung other things, Solid Snake naked."
— Geno, chapter 3.

Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals is a Homestuck fan fic, the seventh fan fic in the Stylistic Suck SBIG series by Great Pikmin Fan, and is a spinoff to Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals. It takes place in the same universe and timeline, but focuses on some of the people who used to be side characters.

John, Rose, and Jade are playing an MMORPG when a strange "white orc" character kills all of their avatars and messes up their gameplay. Irritated (for the second time in Rose and Jade's case), they get Roxy to track down the person responsible and find out that it's Doc Scratch, of the Felt. For some reason. After their first attempt at killing him fails when the entire Felt tries to fight them at once, the eight humans seek help from the trolls, who first train them and then hire them as part of their group. Originally, the trolls called themselves the Zodiacs and the humans the Housestucks, but since the humans make the group not fit the Zodiac theme they rename themselves the Rainbow Crew. From there on out, the story focuses on the Rainbow Crew as they slowly grow in member count and go on various adventures, less than half of them (by chapter count and especially by actual "mission" count) involving the Felt themselves.

Similar to Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals, the main conflict is between two organizations: the Felt and the Rainbow Crew. Completely unlike HUC, however, over half of the fan fic will consist of various side story chapters dedicated to developing the characters and the world. That's right. An attempt at "Character Development" and "Worldbuilding" in an intentionally badly done fan fic. This goes about as well as one might expect. Word of God says the relationship between HHC and HUC is similar to that between The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time respectively, just done really badly. Also, apparently everyone is a die-hard fan of Futurama.

Unlike a majority of Troll Fics, the spelling and general structure in this (and its preceedor) actually gets better over time, to the point where the later seasons are almost typo-free.

See also Sweet Jade and Hella John, which is basically another, if less direct, attempt to succeed Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals, if being this fic's Spiritual Antithesis.

The fan fic concluded on September 13th of 2015, three years after HHC's beginning and a fourth year after HUC's. The fan fic, as with its preceedor, updated every three days during a "season" (basically arcs) until that season ended, which leads to a break.

Seasons by their chapters:

  1. Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals Parallel (Chapters 1-4)
  2. Alpha Troll Army (Chapters 5-8)
  3. Pikmin Rebellion (Chapters 9&10)
  4. Jury Duty Quests (Chapters 11-14)
  5. Felt Tower Invasion (Chapters 15-17)
  6. Weird Romance Shit (Chapters 18-23)
  7. The Final Season (Chapters 24-26)

A spinoff/semi-sequel titled Housestuck: The Split, focused primarily on an alternate timeline created in the events of late Hurrcain, was published on the final day of 2017. It can be read here. Split is the Grand Finale for a good chunk of the SBIG stories, even those that seem completely unrelated to it at first.

Possible spoilers in the trope descriptions, especially as the story's first three seasons alone contain a bit of Late-Arrival Spoiler! All spoilers dealing with Homestuck canon are unmarked!


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  • Aborted Arc:
    • According to Word of God (the actual author, not the false persona "making" the story), the Love Dodecahedron became this after trying to induce Divergent Character Evolution and the romance started getting played a little more straight. He did this by having each chapter of season 4 (14 being the only exception) end with all of the groups suddenly confessing love for eachother in two 12-sided relationships and one 4-sided, which while it doesn't completely remove the subplot, it greatly simplifies it now that "ingroup" relationships and which ones exist and which ones don't don't have to be worried about anymore.
    • Anything related to the Ichigo Blades, since the fake-author fully admitted that he didn't like to restrict Feferi, Nepeta, Rose, Eridan, and Roxy to the swords all the time when they could just spam guns like most of the Rainbow Crew. Ichigo himself was killed off late into season six as a result.
  • Absurdly Youthful Mother: John's mom seemed to have conceived him at youngest legal age (for Illinois) possible. The pattern seems to go for the rest of the guardians as well, with the exception of Bro and Sis, who obviously did not conceive their respective patronee.
  • Anachronic Order:
    • The story as a whole to Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals. It's not a prequel or a sequel, but during the first seventeen chapters of this both of the storylines are going at the same time. (Well, sort of. A bit happens each day on the Housestuck side that happens at night in Hecksing, but thanks to timezome complications those may as well be going on at around the exact same time.)
    • Chapter 4 is a pretty big offender, having three random flashbacks, two of which are events that happened within the time span, but from a different perspective. The events leading to Damara taking up Meenah's mission and the reason for why the helicopter taken to the ship was destroyed could have been told in chronological order.
    • All chapters of season four are in chronological order with the exception of the usual flashbacks, but they all start from roughly around the same time and tell how each group does in different points. However, everything from Luffy's quest onwards in chapter 14 is after the events of 11, 12, or 13.
  • Animated Actors: Implied. Similar to HUC, this universe's ways of how fiction works is... bizarre, to say the least.
  • Another Side, Another Story: The entire plot thusfar almost completely parallels with Hecksing, even though as of now the Rainbow Crew and Hecksing have almost no direct influence on eachother, and what indirect they have is very little. Though according to the timeline the author posted on his sandbox, following season five this will expand past the last non-Distant Finale chapter of HUC.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
    • The costumes that the ancestors (of the original pre-scratch trolls) have generally get increasingly outrageous as it goes up the hemospectrum, with Kurloz and Cronus's ancestors practically wearing nothing but in rather abstract ways. Then it ends with Meenah's ancestor, whose sling bikini is actually pretty normal compared to the rest of them. The fact that it wasn't described as prose-y as the rest of the outfits hammers this in.
    • The description of the hotel in Alternia in chapter 19.
      They rented a cheap-ass hotel and paused for a minute as they looked in the room. There was shit everywhere (not literally Alternia isn't that gross), there were giant spiders and not lusii spiders, the sink water was brown, a giant piece of the ceiling fell on the ground, and instead of a swimming pool there was a hot tub that was always cold.
  • Art Initiates Life: The Hitler tattoos have the ability to come to life and turn into ink monsters.
  • Artifact Title: "Housestucks" is the name of the group of eight humans at the beginning, however when they merge with the Zodiacs both groups are renamed into the Rainbow Crew. This happened near the end of the first chapter, meaning that the story's title stops making sense as soon as it really begins. To a much lesser extent the same goes for the "Hurricane"/"Hurrcain" part of the title, as it seems to imply some connection with John and his Heir of Breath powers. Classpect abilities haven't really been used since the first chapter (the first half of which, to boot) so far, as the story looses its more mystical and supernatural backgrounds and becomes a more pseudo-science fiction/Badass Normal-focused series.
  • Artistic Licence – Geography: For one thing, the author thinks that Mt. Fuji is in Hawaii.
  • Ascended Extra: Several characters, even up to the premise.
    • John and Jade only got a little mention in chapters 9 and 13 of Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals and ultimately contributed nothing to the story. Here, John's the main character (Jade... not as much, but her relevance is definitely growing) and the other members of the Homestuck cast gets to appear.
    • In Hecksing, Wiggim only makes one brief cameo when he arrests Integra. He's never mentioned again, not in the court case itself or even the epilogue. In Housestuck, he's a threat within chapter 3 and reappears in chapter 14 before suddenly getting Killed Off for Real out of his own stupidity.
    • Even Pip, who's decreased status in HUC was pretty much his entire joke. He actually speaks more than two lines in this, albiet as a ghost.
    • For less-meta examples, there's the A1 trolls (AKA the "Alphas" trolls in this world), many of whom were joke characters in canon. Here, they kind of still are, but there's an entire season around uniting them. Damara got this especially, and Kurloz is the driving force behind the Pikmin Rebellion Season.
    • The guardains. Prior to season four, there was only the faintest signs of them and even in the second chapter, which takes place in Rose and Lily's house, there's not a word on their whereabouts. However, not counting the properties of season four's "read it in any order," they, the other six guardains, and the ancestors have had perfect attendance from then on out, appearing in one chapter of season four, then in chapter 15, then 16. (Even if they don't all have lines in some cases.)
    • Nepeta started out barely getting mentioned outside of Love Dodecahedron issues in season one, to just knocking on doors in season two, to losing a role and not doing much in season three, to being a driving force of a major element near the end of her part of season four (hijacking Cartman's tank; not to mention her suddenly-revealed lethal ass attack), to once again losing a role in season five... to being built up as a much bigger character throughout season six, to the extent that when it came out she was added to the tags.
  • Ass Kicks You: Unlike most examples of this trope, this one is lethal. While Vriska, Gamzee, and Eridan re-create their rampages, Gamzee's comes to a premature end when Nepeta tries to fight him. She jumps backwards ass-first at him, and its apparently so strong that it causes his head to explode. Karkat naturally takes advantage of this by shoving in as many ass puns as possible. Seven chapters later, one of the haters (who are gonna hate) tries kicking Nepeta there, just to get his foot broken.
    Karkat: WOW. NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL AN ASSASSINATION. YOU SHOULD CHANGE YOUR TROLLTAG TO ASSENICCATNIP. I GUESS WE SHOULD TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY WHENEVER YOU BUTT IN ON CONVERSATIONS. GAMZEE'S LAST WORDS SHOULD HAVE BEEN "THAT IS ONE BAD ASS, MOTHERFUCKER." I BET NOBODY WANTS TO BUTT-HEADS WITH YOU NOW. THAT'S WHAT I CALL ASSASSIN'S CRE— wait I already made an assassin joke. Um... THAT JUNKIE (ASSUMING IT MEANS DRUG ABUSER) SURE MET HIS END WITH THE LAST KIND OF JUNK HE'D WANT. Or first if he's a butt pervert. GAMZEE HAD ALWAYS BEEN THE BUTT OF HIS OWN JOKES BUT THIS IS NEW. YOU REALLY REAR-ENDED HIM, JUST LITERALLY BUT ALSO A BIT MORE FIGURATIVELY DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU CONSIDER LITERAL OF THE TERMS. HE WENT OUT MAJORA'S MASK STYLE: TOOK A DIRECT HIT FROM A MOON. GAMZEE TRIED TO BURST MY BUBBLE BUT THEN YOU BURST HIM WITH YOUR BUBBLE BUTT- wait hold on that doesn't make any sense-"
    Nepeta: Are you done with the ass jokes?
    Karkat: YES BUT I HAVE A QUESTION. HOW THE HELL IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?
    Nepeta: You guessed right when you said I have a bubble butt. It's round, so it can be used like a weapon just like I did now.
    Karkat: oh that makes sence
  • Author Appeal: Both chapters 12 and 13 have had references to Tony Hawk's: American Wasteland, and even uses a few of its songs. The latter much more than the former. According to Pikmin Fan in the latter chapter, he actually was pretty fond of that game.
  • Ax-Crazy: The Troll Empress. Just about nothing that comes out of her mouth really makes sense logically, but she uses it to threaten people into doing what they wanted.
  • Back for the Dead:
    • In chapter 18, Alucard is revived! ...But gets blown up by the oil rig ultimately exploding.
    • Chapter 22 suddenly kills off Ichigo for good thanks to Jaws.
  • Badass Normal: Meenah. She builds a long, complicated dungeon under a day that stumps the entire Rainbow Crew, leaves the Felt and manages to steal heavy amounts of "Vitamin Scratch" from them with minimal consequences (keep in mind that it's implied they try to kill people who leave the Felt — as with Damara's case), and duels Porrim — who has extreme regenerative skills and super strength and speed — in a battle that amounts to a draw. Her only natural alien abilities are a long natural lifespan and the ability to live underwater, neither of which are even used in any of these feats.
  • Berserk Button:
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Apparently this is why Feferi killed the Stalfos in chapter 8:
    Feferi: Hey I want you all to remembers that I can still be mean. I'm not all that noice.
  • Big Bad: Doc Scratch is one overall, but each season so far has an overarching "final villain" to it:
    • Season one: Still Doc Scratch, this is the only season where the Rainbow Crew/Felt war is absolutely central to the plot (as Word of God does not want it to repeat Hecksing vs the Millennium; even in seasons five and seven, there's a bigger focus on side-characters).
    • Season two: Meenah. Though she pulls a Heel–Face Turn at the end... sort of.
    • Season three: The "Pikmin God"/Waterwraith.
    • Season four: While the events in the chapters only happened because the Troll Empress forced the Rainbow Crew to do it, Omega Drew Pickles had sent a minion after the ancestors/guardians for each group, endangering them and leading to ODP as a more "direct" Big Bad of the season or a physical obstacle, whereas the Troll Empress was more of a rules-type obstacle.
    • Season five: Doc Scratch again, with Stickdawg serving as a this-season-only dragon.
    • Season six: Jaws, the shark that ate Chief Wiggim. The Troll Empress also played a huge part in the first half, before being cut in half by Meenah.
    • Season seven: Goes back to Scratch again.
  • Big Good: Rose and Karkat, the leader and second-in-command of the RC respectively. In chapter 18, Rose resigns her position as leader and re-elects Dirk to be one.
  • Big "NO!" Vriska's reaction to the fact that her ancestor is a virgin.
  • Bottle Episode: Actually a few, admitted by Word of God:
    • Chapter 2 was just a simple reinactment of the Valentine Brothers arc in Hellsing. It was very short and had little to it that wasn't 100% plot relevant. Right after this was the longest and most complicated chapter out of its respective arc.
    • Chapters 9 and 10 essentially make up an entire bottle mini season. Chapter 9 was rather short, only mainly focused on Stylistic Suck character development for the Rainbow Crew, and half its plot was taken from the Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. 10 was also short and half of it was Weird Romance Shit. It's between season 2, the fic's first real Story Arc focused on (re-)introducing twelve characters who will then be permanently added to the cast, and season 4, which is full of lengthy chapters that finally really shake the status quo that has been applied to the Rainbow Crew.
    • Chapter 16, while its definitely not shorter than the average other season 4 chapter by any sense and isn't really filler (elaborating on a lot of the pasts of characters who haven't gotten one), is still a little shorter than chapter 15 and was practically written with the "minimal use" in design. Aside from the beginning and end, the entire chapter consists of an extreme Truth or Dare game that the Rainbow Crew plays, first while they're stuck in a cave-in (well, more like apartment-in) and continuing after their guardians/ancestors/lusii come to save them. It's pretty much nothing but character development, which makes sense considering the creation of the counterparts at the end of the last chapter. The game, both in-universe and out, serves to be their first form of development, and attempts to establish how they are different from their originals. It should also be noted that there are no time skips during this scene; everything bar the longer dares plays out in real time (though the "rounds" (one person asking another truth or dare) move by pretty fast — about three to five lines — and every round is an elimination), and the line breaks literally only serve as "checkpoints" in case someone stops reading mid-chapter.
    • Chapter 17 was originally this, wrapping up the Felt Tower arc quickly and rather anti-climactically, but it was since edited in a massive redo called the "Great Typo Cleanup" that made it longer and had a bit more harmless filler. The revised chapter contains a lot more villains and a small explanation on the ancestor's lives. Plus, they and the guardians take on villains on their own.
  • Brick Joke:
    • The list of the author's "comments" on the first four acts mentions that they'll reference John wanting to "spades Betty Crocker." The chapter in question never does... until near the end before the Meenah-Stalfos conversation.
    • At the beginning of chapter 9, John and Damara are watching a Conker's Bad Fur Day movie where one of Conker's lines is "I'm a badass! I drive a Ford!" In chapter 16, he is briefly seen crashing a car into a house and being arrested for it, commenting "Note on the file that this is a Ford." The cop asks "Why," and he answers with "So they'll know I'm a badass!"
    • An even bigger example: On the very first chapter towards the very beginning of the story, Roxy ends up calling John over to go attack Scratch's apartment for the first time, except John was on the can while it happened. Finding no toilet paper left, the scene ends with him fiding a copy of Twilight and deciding to use that. Flashforeward all the way to chapter 16, where one of the dares is to read one page of the worst book with them, and John takes out a ripped copy of Twilight outright calling it "toilet paper" before admitting that that was a bit more literal than he would have liked it to be.
    • A Running Gag in season two is that Vriska constantly objects to the Crew getting new members left and right. Cut to chapter 15, when Rose hires the guardians and ancestors. Vriska's objections come back after not being mentioned for the last two seasons, and she completely flips.
    • Latula's Rainbow Crew outfit from chapters 9 onward is a Zero Suit Samus cosplay. In chapter 13, Samus notices her outfit and compliments it. Similarly, Damara's outfit is a cosplay of Brenda. In chapter 24, when they meet one-another, the story says that the two of them "just kind of stared at eachother."
  • Brother–Sister Incest:
    • John and Jade have been all-but confirmed to not be related in this story. However, there is a less "meta/in another world" example in the terms of Ardion's weird crush on Aradia. Normally this would be Screw Yourself, but at least everyone in the Rainbow Crew seems to treat counterparts as siblings (much like Sweet Jade and Hella John does with all alternate selves). And that some counterparts, Ardion and Aradia included, do not appear to have that much in common personality-wise. Commented with Roxy calling out "INCEST! WOOOOO!"
    • Dualscar and Dolorosa's relationship turns out to be this, and any other ancestral relationship, on account of them all finding out that they are siblings in chapter 19.
  • Brought Down to Normal: By the end of chapter 18, all the jadeblooded trolls lose their rainbow drinker powers thanks to some mechanics with the oil rig's stem cell-revival machine. This stuck for the rest of the story.
  • The Bus Came Back:
    • The inn-runner from chapter 3 returns for chapter 16 after a 12 chapter long absense, naturally flustering Karkat.
    • To a lesser extent, Conker's first appearance was chapter 9. He returns in chapter 16 as well, a six chapter-long break. Getting arrested for drunk driving.
    • Naruto and a few others return near the end of chapter 23, making brief cameoes. Nearly everyone comes back in the final season.
  • Butt-Monkey:
    • In spite of how season four established them as being an incredibly tight group and how he holds the role of second-in-command, the Rainbow Crew as a whole seems to have a lack of respect towards Karkat.
    • Even the character who is supposed to be pre-scratch him fits this, as he is the only ancestor out of the "lowblood six" to be unable to help Mituna in any way, and his profession is significantly less impressive.
    • The bullet point on Karkat can be said, minus the second-in-command part but doubling everything else, to Vriska. Following chapter 1, almost nobody takes her seriously.
    • They may not be related anymore, but it seems that Scorpio trolls fall under this, as this story has a habit of disrespecting Aranea. Rose holds a gun up to her when she first finds the Rainbow Crew for breaking a television,she has to do something for them before she can join (for all other Alpha trolls it's the other way around, depending on how you count Meenah), and in chapter 13 she's the only character to not make a direct hit on Darkhorse and gets stomped on the groin several times. And it's implied that whatever trolls have down there, either sex getting hit hurts as much as guys getting hit in the same region. It gets even worse in chapter 16, where all of the Scorpio trolls are the first ones to be eliminated.
  • The Cameo:
    • There are Ren & Stimpy clips in this fan fic along with Hecksing, this one shown in chapter 8.
    • Chapter 9 opens up with a scene of a Conker's Bad Fur Day movie.
    • Less in-universe example: The girl who appears in the library by Santa Monica is heavily implied, and then confirmed, to be Connie from the past of one of the author's more sincere stories (Carl Stevens Universe), especially given how it outright states that Porrim isn't the only vampire she bests with a specific book. In said story, she partakes in a plan that gets another, vampiric character eliminated from a paintball match. It Makes Sense in Context. This now means that CSU is implied to be "canon" even in the events of HUC and HHC, and it's not just limited to the other way around (to an extent).
    • Noah appears in chapter 14. Complete with a lack of any typoes. The fact that the prior two sentences are in spoilers only makes that much sense for those that read Hecksing.
    • Fan's original story 360 Degree Duck has made a few cameoes. In chapter 21, Duck appears with his old roommate from the beginning, Tyler, to check out the Crew that went past them. And the 360 themselves are still working with Kamina (as revealed in Hecksing: the Dawn), which is an important plot element to chapter 22.
  • Captain Ersatz: Word of God says that the Rainbow Sisters were inspired by the Koopa Bros. from Paper Mario. Down to missing a blue member until it's revealed that Jade filled that role for about a week.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: Jade to John. At first. But then Geno decides to help her...
    Geno: HAY DINGUS (john) JADE LOVES YOU!
  • Celebrity Crush: Doc Scratch has a crush on Undercover Brother.
  • Celebrity Paradox: This fan fic has a truly absurd example even by the trope's standards. For starters, most of the shows not only exist as their own shows, but the characters seem to be Animated Actors. Hank Hill being an example of this, as he says he would go back in time and start the show itself. Then there's Carl from Hecksing/Hellsing's plotline, who was a No Celebrities Were Harmed of Charlie Sheen, before an offhand comment by Giant David Hasselhoff reveals that there is also a Charlie Sheen hanging around.
  • Chain of Deals: Kurloz's sidequest in chapter 8 becomes this, where the Crew goes around getting one object to another all in exchange for a rare whistle.
  • Character Rerailment: Invoked. Seasons four onwards are said by the author to be the point where he intends to lessen on the Stylistic Suck just a little and, among other things, start having the characters act more like their canon selves. This will not be through offscreen changes, however, but instead through "Character Development."
  • Characterization Marches On: Specifically the B1 group, as they are the only group that have all recieved real focus in the first season. While almost everybody was out of character, what character they had in place changed. This does not count the attempted Character Rerailment in season four, or at least what was gradually happening. (For cases like Nepeta's.)
    • John was initially a hyperacive idiot, which Jane's guardian Pop eventually became an exaggerated version of. Sometime around chapters 3 or 4 this dropped a bit and his signs of toying around with the other characters began to show. He's still a little dorky, though, as evidenced by his Freudian Slip in China. He also used to be pretty anti-nudity and pretty vocal when people end up naked around him. By chapter 16, he actually thinks Roxy's Strip Truth or Dare idea is something tame. This, however, might just be because of his Obfuscating Stupidity, and involve his mind games with Jade... somehow.
    • Jade used to suffer from a basic Cannot Spit It Out, and had a bit of a running gag of trying to see if she can get John to say if he likes her or not. Geno confesses for her midway through chapter 4, John openly says he's not interested, and the John/Jade dynamic quickly becomes a lot more complicated.
    • Rose playing an MMORPG along with John and Jade seems a bit too nice for this characterization of her considering her cold personality later on. Though unlike the others, it does show as early as chapter 2 when she doesn't take Gamzee spilling Faygo on her rug lightly.
    • Dave almost completely switched places with John in terms of character. By the beginning, he was the more rational one, in contrast to John's... oddness. His loose grip on reality didn't really come into play until season two.
    • Jake's initial quirks were limited to dropping a random form of alternate speech or slang into what he says. This vanishes before season two, and it takes a while before his sometimes great, sometimes horrible social skills kick in. Between then, he's just a Butt-Monkey, which is almost redundant considering how Vriska's role in that is pretty constant. Aside from....
    • Karkat was said to straight-up be a Jerk with a Heart of Gold in the first chapter, and even yells at Nepeta. In actual anger, not surprise. Later on in the series, he loses his jerk elements and just becomes a Large Ham who gets surprised at and overreacts to everything. And despite shouting all the time, he doesn't appear to have a single mean bone in his body anymore.
    • Pretty much the only thing Nepeta did was knock on doors in the first three seasons. And thicken out love x-drangles. By season four, she inexplicably Took a Level in Badass (moreso than Ichigo's other four students, whom this trope seemed to invoke on.) and practically merged with her Sweet Jade and Hella John self.
    • ...In chapter 1, Vriska managed to cheat Karkat into losing strip poker. She also puts up a decent fight against the Housestucks, and she even gets a say in starting the fight. Considering her Butt-Monkey status later on, her Running Gag in season two of objecting to the Alpha-troll hiring, and the general fact that her fellow Crewmates love ignoring her (rampage in chapter 12 aside), this is unusual.
    • A case of Real Life Writes the Plot: Damara becomes a lot more vulgar and mischevious during season two. Season one was written before her canon introduction (and even during the Great Typo Cleanup, the first few chapters actually mostly ignored her canonical characterization to keep in line with the original story), and back then the only thing anyone had to go by for her was Handmaid and that she was willing to perform a scratch.
    • Aranea was implied to be a bit of a prick early into season two. (Especially when she flat-out tells the Rainbow Crew that they have no chance against Meenah.) This seemed to have dropped completely (until it's brought it up again in chapter 16), and in chapter 13 it's something of a gag that she manages to do next-to nothing against Darkhorse.
  • Chekhov M.I.A.:
    • The ancestors are an odd example, as they were mentioned to not exist in the world, before season four reveals them to exist.
    • Unlike his appearance in SJAHJ (though this might be because Cartman and co. are "real" here and a projection from the Silencer in that story), Cartman mentions Stan and Kyle in chapter 12. They, along with Kenny, appear in chapter 15, and accidentally send Doc Scratch an SOS from Omega Drew Pickles that convinces him to attack the Crew again.
    • Damara's lusus was very, very briefly mentioned once, when talking about her house. She actually appears in chapter 16, although the lusii group as a whole is more important, particularly Feferi's.
    • Way back in chapter 3, Geno mentions that he's supposed to be the bodyguard to one "Calliope." Guess what? Calliope finally makes her appearance at the tail end of chapter 23.
  • Chekhov's Gun:
    • Remember that paper Dave was working on in chapter 4? That turned out to be the script for a song that he will sing at the end of chapter 8 to earn redemption.
    • The whistle Kurloz wants.
    • In chapter 14, Dave is upset that he can't do anything to Rose since she never physically abused another member of the Rainbow Crew (punishing Kurloz for doing something that was bad in the first place not counting), and she would probably outmatch him verbally. Then Rose hits Jade, and Dave suddenly has an excuse to fight.
    • Season five in general loves these, retroactively or established earlier in the season. Karkat passing the time by trying to make a shield, only to have his progress halted by the lack of any lime blood? After his counterpart, who thanks to a bizarre side-effect of the Ballad of Duality, is created, he does get the blood color he needs to finish the design, and uses the completed sheild to protect the Crew against Stickdawg.
    • Chapter 10 has a poem, after it is read the narrator insists that it will not become relevant on chapter 15. Come chater 15, and the narrative keeps its word (er... its not-word, rather). Say hello to the counterparts!
    • The "time bomb" in chapter 20. Later on, it comes up and sends the second generation plus Hank Hill back in time.
    • Dirk having an Auto Responder is very, very briefly mentioned in an earlier chapter and even then it seemed like a synonym for "shades computer." Much later his and Dian's both turn out to be sentient and sending information to the Troll Empress the entire time, and then both of them merge into a Wonder Mask-like object used to power up Jaws.
  • Chekhov's Gunman:
    • Tony Hawk appears/is mentioned in chapter 13 skating around in the background. Later on, he acts as a semi-important character when he gives some words to Latula and when he reveals that he has the ability to turn into an actual giant hawk.
    • Cross-fic example: The shark that apparently shoots and then eats Wiggim is implied to be the same shark that stole Rip's musket from Carl in Hecksing.
    • Wiggim himself was a cameo in HUC who became a minor antagonist in chapters 3 and 14 of HHC.
    • That girl implied to be Connie from chapter 13? A brief train ride confirms that it is her. However, all that happens during that ride becides the trolls being attacked by Itchy is that Porrim makes up to her for trying to attack her over a book, and the trolls give her a communication device. Porrim eventually uses that device to contact her and invite her to the party in chapter 24.
    • Hecksing's epilogue says that Homer Simpson was reincarnated into Hank Hill and that John and Jade have Opposite-Sex Clones of them created. Both Hank Hill and those counterparts come into play in chapter 15, with the former even helping to create the latter. And it's not just John and Jade; it's the entire Crew, not counting the interns.
    • Another cross-story example was Giant David Hasselhoff, who appears in chapter 8 of HUC to transport Carl and the Master Chief from the Grand Canyon to London, then he transports John and Jade from London back to the United States.
  • Chekhov's Skill: Ghost-Pip mentioning at the end of chapter four that he has the ability to revive six people. Sure becomes useful when exactly six people die and would have stayed dead in chapter 12.
  • Chekhov's Volcano: The volcano in Hawaii, "Mt. Fuji," erupts.
  • Chicago: Halfway through chapter 1 reveals that the Rainbow Crew lives in Chicago. But Chicago itself usually doesn't get much focus, and when it does it doesn't often focus on the elements featured in other media. In fact, the city seemed to just be picked because it was a popular and well-known city, which is likely the same reason why The Eds' EDventure takes place in Los Angeles.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: This is Pikmin Fan's first Homestuck SBIG installment that leaves out the Carapases. Similarly, this continues Pikmin Fan's streak of not having in many of the Sburb constructs at all, something even his one story that actually takes place in a Sburbverse seems to do.
  • Clone Angst:
    • Solid Snake has three clones of him (not Big Boss): Liquid Snake, Gas Snake, and Plasma Snake. Except this trope is inverted; Solid is the one who feels inferior to his clones, thanks to having far poorer Elemental Powers and not really being made of rock as the other three are made of and can turn into their respective elements.
    • Averted with the counterparts, who are all more-or-less clones in an extremely technical and not literal sense, but generally aren't on the complete fodder scale (if they were to be killed off, chapter 18 would have been the best opperunity), but their respective originals do find them mildly annoying. With some exceptions.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: The flashback at the end of chapter 8 implies that Dave has a really poor grasp on what's reality, to the point where he can't tell that Marge Simpson was just a conjure.
  • Colon Cancer: The title to the faux-blue ray of season 3: "Housestuck Hurrcain Crconikals: The Complete Third Season DVD: Uncensord Editshon: With a extended director's cut of the Carival seen in China."
  • Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch: In-universe, Dirk does this to Sonic the Hedgehog. Equius doesn't want him to. The faux-author says that this trope is not an OK thing to do, unless the work in question is Twilight.
  • Continuity Porn: Several previous events in completely unrelated arcs are referenced often. In chapter 19, Karkat's battle with the Troll Empress even takes both of them around one point that approximately represents each chapter.
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment: Rose's punishment to Kurloz after she found out he was helping the Waterwraith? To get a voluntier to spank him with a dead porcupine.
    Kurloz: YIKES! And you think YOUR job is a pain in the ass!
  • Covers Always Lie: Intended. The cover (seen on the page image) does not depict anything that happens in the story so far, and was eventually confirmed to be a lie. Sburb is not even mentioned in the story, thus getting rid of the Jack, Skaia, and God Tier outfits part. Not even nods to the God Tier costumes show up, as the original outfits of the Rainbow Crew members weren't described until their stripperiffic redesigns, which certainly have nothing to do with the powerups. It also shows John and Vriska near the bottom, as with the in-story summary talking about John/Vriska being one of the final pairings. While John is a major character with a lot of screentime, (this is pretty much the only thing accurate about the image) Vriska is just a side character Butt-Monkey who so far has not even had a Ship Tease moment with John (which is an achievement considering the large heaps of Weird Romance Shit), and Hecksing (and the tags and the opening warning) gives away that John's final partner will be Jade.
  • Crack Fic: At first, it seems like it's going to be a standard High School AU, albeit one with crossover (in this case, Twilight). "At first" meaning literally the first four paragraphs, because right after that Alucard Badguy comes out of nowhere, shoots Edward, and one of the subplots gets kick started. And from then on out the story only gets weirder.
  • Crapsack World: Alternia. Not the brutal dictatorship in canon, it's rather an extremely poor country thanks to the craziness of their leader blowing their entire budget. The troll's "main" homeworld is reduced to an island out in the Pacific. Even one of the pricier hotels is full of trash and Giant Spiders, there's practically no middle class, and there's only one hospital in the entire country.
  • Crack Pairing: Invoked with things such as a Nepeta/Sollux/Rose love triangle (which just gets bigger and worse as the fan fic goes on and more people are added into the fray until it becomes outright polygamy), and John/Damara, the second person in the later couple not even being introduced at the time of writing season one.
  • Crossover Punchline: The very beginning has Kanaya making out with Edward Cullen before Alucard suddenly comes in and kills Edward. This actually isn't as random as it seems if you read Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals's fourth chapter.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: The (temporary) fate of Gamzee:
    Gamzee could only say "What the" but not fuck as Nepeta huntressed her way out of his grip and suddenly jumped at him, except this time she jumped backwards and her ass hit his face. Gamzeee was so hit by it that the front of his skull caved in the back part of his head and skull exploded and his brains shot out like his head had diarrhea. He fell back, and for the first time in the history of Homestuck there was a dead Gamzee and he's NOT going to God Tier. Karkat gasped because this was not what happened in canon but instead somebody got spared by the adaptiation as TV Tropes would put it.
  • Curse Cut Short: John at the end of chapter 9, in the "end of episode cutoff" variant. Odd, because this fan fic doesn't shy away from swearing. Subverted in chapter ten after the short Homer intermission, which picks up exactly where John's statement left off.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle:
    • Rainbow Crew (or more specifically, Vriska) vs the Rainbow Sisters. In fact, the battle just consists of "they lost" until it's finally elaborated upon in chapter 15.
    • Waterwraith vs Onions.
    • All four of the Felt battles during the roadtrip portion of chapter 15 are embarassingly short, and end with the Felt member getting quickly and suddenly killed by someone. In Crowbar's case, he gets blown up by his own jetpack after it's exposed to Horuss's flamethrower.
  • Cute Clumsy Girl: Aranea. Although the Rainbow Crew does not find it cute when she trips and breaks their HD TV. Rose actually threatens to shoot Aranea over it.
  • Darkhorse Victory: The winner of the Truth or Dare game was Porsiv, Porrim's hippie-ish counterpart. The fact that he of all people is the winner and not a more major character like John or Jade shows just how pointless the entire game was, except for introducing the counterparts (or mainly, the troll's counterparts).
  • A Day in the Limelight:
    • This focuses on the events of Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals from John and Jade (and the other Homestuck character's) perspectives, and every last member of HUC's chapter 9 jury is supposed to get some mention as well. Also, the epilogue will elaborate on as to what happened to Dracula.
    • Each of season four's chapters focused on a different "team," split between what canon session they had.
    • Chapter 16 is one to the counterparts, revealing their names and a bit of their personality while also giving them equal importance to the other Crewmates, something chapter 17 hasn't really done. Only time will tell with option will stick.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Damara to Scratch, before she leaves the Felt.
  • Dead Person Conversation: In chapter 4, Jade talks to Pip Bernadotte's ghost after his death with Carl's spaceship falling on him. John can see his ghost too.
  • Decoy Protagonist: The first chapter begins with Kanaya and Edward Cullen. Edward dies and Kanaya runs away, then the perspective switches to the humans with Kanaya receiving little focus after. The fake-author later outright says that this was basically a viewer-grab technique, saying that the way to write an effective Homestuck fan fic is to start on the trolls and let people think the story's about them.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: Somewhat how the Zodiacs merge with the Housestucks, also what happens with Meenah.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Rose finally begins this in chapter 14, going on her way to become a nicer and more easy-going leader for good.
  • Die for Our Ship: Parodied/invoked; John/Dave is a really blatant metaphor for Owen/Izzy in fanon; they both have a similar incident happen, and that incident is used as evidence #1 that they should break up. (Even though Owen/Izzy had been fine in canon even after the serial killer incident — though they break up, it's for a different reason). John/Dirk is, of course, a metaphor for either Izzy/Noah or Izzy/Ezekiel. Or, it was.
  • Dirty Old Man: Mituna surprisingly acts something like this. His rant to the RC before he found out they weren't Jehova's Witnesses even sounds like a stereotypical "GET OFF MY LAWN!" dialect.
  • Disproportionate Retribution:
    • Wiggim shooting at the Rainbow Crew for speeding on segways, without even so much as giving them a chance to pull over. Even odder, in chapter 9 of Hecksing, Wiggim just arrests Integra for speeding. This is revealed in chapter 14 of Housestuck that, thanks to Mom, Wiggim has learned to calm down a little.
    • John breaking up with Dirk over a diet proposal.
  • Distracted by the Sexy:
    • Karkat to the nudist woman who runs the Hawaii town's inn. Nobody else seems to care. This goes to such an extent that when John uses "wet dream" to describe the Geno incident (see Shout-Out below for clarification), Karkat misunderstands and thinks he's talking about the woman.
    • Six chapters later, John to the dancers in China.
  • The Ditz: Porrim, oddly, acts like a complete and total idiot. She even forgets her own name at one point. She does get smarter in chapter 13, and seems to stick that way... but her counterpart, Porsiv, keeps playing it straight in her place.
  • Divergent Character Evolution:
    • In the beginning, there were a lot of Rainbow Crew members that were pretty interexchangable and generic. (All of the troll girls except Aradia and Vriska; Tavros, Equius, and Eridan. To a lesser extent, Dirk and Dave for the "interexchangable" and Jake, Jane, and Rose for the "generic" part.) This number went down considerably each succeeding season, and they got even more unique in seasons four and five.
    • This story seems to be built on making the guardians/ancestors into seperate characters, in contrast to canon drawing a ton of similarities between them. Giving them all different names, for one thing, as it was once implied that Poppop was still named John.
    • Similarly, right from their introduction HHC has been attempting to make the A1 trolls vastly different from their A2 stand-ins, though what they have in place of being Flanderized versions of them changed during season 3 or 4.
    • Chapter 16 seemed to be an experiment as to how to induce this on 32 characters at once, being devoted to establishing the counterparts as their own identities and not just literal gender-bent clones of them with different colors.
    • The remaining members of the Felt as of chapter 15 get a line or too that tries to give them all "quirks" to an extent that hints at personalities.
  • Does Not Know His Own Strength: Porrim is by far one of, if not the, strongest members of the Rainbow Crew, with vampire powers rivaling Alucard Badguy himself. Too bad she is also (at least at the start of the fic) a complete and total moron who doesn't even know half of her abilities.
  • Domed Hometown: In chapter 20, the Troll Empress places a giant dome over the Rainbow Crew treehouse, keeping them trapped in there. Rip eventually finds a way to break it down though.
  • Don't Explain the Joke: There are several moments where characters or the narrator explain the punchline to a joke.
  • Door Stopper: This is currently the longest work Great Pikmin Fan has on his fanfiction.net page, although many of the other works have comparatively took off (such as Total Drama World Tour Rewrite, which by design must have at least 26 chapters, yet only two are out right now). And the chapters are considerably longer than that of the rest of SBIG, not counting Sweet Jade and Hella John. To give a comparison, the first chapter of this is about as long as Hecksing's longest chapter, and while there are a few decreases, it generally only goes up in length from there. After reaching its conclusion, its total length is over 300,000 words. By definition, six times the length of a novel.
  • Double Standard:
    • This story goes to such a point in averting these that it's implied that the culture of the Crconikals world is changed so that even it doesn't have them. Which is unusual, considering Seras and Carl in Hecksing. The fact that they take place in different countries might aid in explaining that. To give one example, both sexes seem to be equally pressured into having sex, evident by Carl's implied Virgin-Shaming shtick back in HUC and how Vriska is horrified to discover that Mindfang is a virgin in chapter 12 of HHC.
    • Although so far there has been one blatant one pointed out in chapter 12, but that can be judged to Karkat's personal preference. Especially seeing as Karkat isn't exactly the Only Sane Man of this story. But still, it gives the idea that guy flashing his ass = good prank, girl flashing her ass = just fanservice.
      Vriska responded by mooning him but because she was girl and not guy Karkat found that hot and not enraging.
  • Dreaming of Things to Come: John confessed to having erotic dreams about Dirk in chapter 3, saying that it could be something of "the destinies" since they're in a relationship. The very next chapter shows that he's wrong, thus subverting the trope.
  • Drives Like Crazy: Cronus. Although it's not really a case of him not caring about what's on the road as much as it is him being extremely neglectful while driving.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him:
    • Geno, who gets killed off suddenly by a Hitler tattoo that came to life. Said tattoo's ability to come to life wasn't even foreshadowed in the slightest, and it's killed shortly after going active.
    • Pretty much all five of the remaining Felt members, bar Doc Scratch (and Stickdawg, if he counts), in chapter 16. They all get katamari-balled by the RC's uniforms. Subverted at the end of chapter 18, where Ross brings them all back to life using Die's doll.
    • Ichigo is quickly killed in chapter 22 thanks to Jaws.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: The first season had no concrete plot connecting the four chapters, unlike seasons two, three, four, five, seven, and to a lesser extent sixnote . It also had very vague and brief references to class and aspect powers, like Roxy simply voiding out Doc Scratch's vision of the heroes. This was not brought up again until it was later revealed that the powers were all BS to begin with and ret-conned out. In a similar vein it's also somewhat unusual how the first chapter lacks the Rainbow Crew treehouse and even moreso that in the second chapter Rose's own house is being used as a base until Fin and Trace's invasion wrecks it up, seeing as the treehouse will then become an established main location. And speaking of that, it's unusual that the first two chapters have scenes in the human's house without any mentions of their guardians, especially with, again, chapter two taking place almost entirely in Rose's house. And that's not even getting into the characters, which are covered in Characterization Marches On.
  • Easily Forgiven:
    • In season three, Kurloz helped a ghost-like abomination trick a bunch of Pikmin and nearly get Jake castrated just to fulfill a strange goal of his. He just takes a spanking and things are fine and dandy by the rest of the Crew.
    • Vriska also seemed to be forgiven for killing Tavros (Gamzee had some serious problems and his mind wasn't right, and Eridan was possessed. Vriska had no excuse), but Terezi's revenge-kill might have worked out and helped.
  • Elemental Powers:
    • Solid Snake has (very weak) earth powers, Plasma Snake has fire powers, Gas Snake has wind powers, and Liquid Snake has water powers. The latter three are even made of their respective elements, however Solid Snake isn't made of earth because "HUMENS ARE ALREADY SOLID, IDIOTS."
    • John and Jade themselves develop fire and ice powers respectively after studying up on them from info scrolls they bought on their way back home, and that and light powers are occasionally looked into by the rest of the Crew. Equius is the main user of light powers.
  • Escort Mission:
    • Mituna's sidequest is essentially this, escorting him and his gaming magazines so that they aren't attacked by ninjas. Vriska lampshades this and says how much she hates this trope.
    • Later on, Jane, Jake, Roxy, and Dirk help assist the Peach Creek kids deliver candy to South Park.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Meenah, who was the main villain for an entire arc, refuses to get a tattoo of Hitler on her ass.
  • Every Car Is a Pinto: All cars — and vehicles in general — that crash explode shortly after. Except Wiggim's cop car. Cronus is really lucky to be alive.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep":
    • Cletus is only referred to as "Incest Guy," something of a Call-Back to Hecksing's "Card Guy" (Tubalcain Alhambra) and "Lawyer Guy" (An OC who later appears in HHC himself).
    • The various monsters like the Stalfos, Waterwraith, and Hydra, whom have only been called by their species name in spite of each of them seeming to be sentient.
    • Chapter 15 averts this with half of the guardians, revealing their actual names. note . Chapter 16 goes forth and reveals the other four names.note . Finally, chapter 17 gives the ancestors namesnote .
  • Expanded Universe: This story, as a sort-of spinoff (even though the storylines are only really related by extremely small tangents, jury duty quests arc aside) to Hecksing. The expansion really started with a HUC/Steven Universe/also cameo of King of the Hill crossover, and it seems to just be growing from there, with a prequel to HUC by the name of Hecksing: The Dawn, and a possible split-story from this called Housestuck: The Split.
  • Expy:
    • Porrim was this of Lindsay from Total Drama. As of chapter 13, however, she smartens up.
    • Past-Aranea of Leshawna (from the same series), complete with saying Leshawna's introduction line.
    • Rose's portrayal was an expy of Integra's portrayal in Hecksing before quickly becoming meaner.
  • Extremely Short Timespan: Each of the first five seasons takes place over no more than the course of three days. And every season except the first, as well as the fifth in a way (as the first chapter mostly takes place at the same night at the end of season four, but it skips to the next day near the end and chapters 16 and 17 take place on that same day), take place over the course of one day. Season six, however, is stated by Word of God to finally break away from this, only for the seventh and final season to go back to it in taking place over one day (discounting the Distant Finale).
  • Famous Ancestor: After denying that they would appear, the original ancestors would finally make their proper debut in chapter 12. The problem is, it turns out that all of the stories about them were either rumors or downright lies. Except Darkleer and Highblood's, but to paraphrase they themselves their jobs weren't as interesting in the first place. The ancestors that are supposed to correspond to the pre-scratch trolls appear themselves in chapter 13, as O.C. Stand-ins.
  • Fan Disservice: The Hotter and Sexier elements are intended to be pretty jarring, because of how much Stylistic Suck "Fanservice" is being shoved down your throat. Especially how the story grinds to a halt in five different chapters (9 and everything from 11 to 14) to go on about the very impractical outfits.
    • This gets even worse once the guardian's relationships actually come into play on-screen. What makes matters even worse is that the most "active" relationships are between characters who, in canon, are biologically related.
    • The Truth or Dare game in chapter 16 was also intended to come off as disturbing. Lampshaded when, before the Crew even returns to the Felt tower, Rose asks Roxy what the hell is wrong with her. A highlight is Roxy getting spanked... so hard that her pimples all pop and a ton of snot comes out of her nose. Which Gamsis proceeds to eat. And Roxy's mouth starts bleeding too, and her spanker Gamsis left a dent in her ass. Even though it's all text, this is probably the closest thing HHC has to a Grossup Closeup.
  • Fanservice Costumes: The Rainbow Crew in general, though many of them don't have a trope to them and all generally fall under Stripperiffic. The Condesce is probably one of the most ridiculous that still has something, since she "wears" absolutely nothing but her twin-sided trident glued to her front.
    • Barely-There Swimwear: Along with the swimsuits of the guardians, Fuchsian's (Meenah's ancestor) "sling bikini."
    • Body Paint:
      • Near the end of chapter 10, Jane tries to show John that she can be impulsive by sneaking into his room "wearing" nothing but a Mystique cosplay "and censor bars" in a scene admittedly ripped from an episode of Family Guy. John, for some reason, at first thinks that she had just killed Equius and Horuss and was running around naked and covered in their blood. (Jane corrects him before he does anything stupid.) Then it turns out, Jade did the exact same thing Jane did.
      • Disciple's usual outfit is nothing but random splatters of paint.
    • Diamonds in the Buff: Inflamed (Rufioh's ancestor), for no particular reason.
    • Fundoshi: Basically, Darkleer's outfit is a fancier, more complicated version of this.
    • Leotard of Power: Basically Feferi's outfit again, the one-piece swimsuit.
    • Theiss Titillation Theory: Invoked with nearly all of the outfits to an extent (Disciple and Dolorosa having a variant; they make it look like you could see nudity (nothing under the former's paint and all of the clothing layers of the latter being see-through), but they're not (there is something opaque under both outfits)).
    • Vapor Wear: Most of the Rainbow Crew members wearing something resembling a skirt don't have anything underneath.
    • Walking Swimsuit Scene: Fuchsian (in the "sling"-variation) and Feferi (a more traditional, modest one-piece swimsuit), among some others.
  • Fantastic Racism: The trolls turned out to have been oppressed several hundred years ago by another alien race known as the Zergizocks. Then the Troll Empress went and completely wiped them out, even though the majority of them were innocent.
  • Felony Misdemeanor: "INNOCENT?" yelled Meulin. "THOSE FUCKETS [Bulborbs] TOOK OUT A HUGE CHUNK OF MY ARMY IN OEN SAVE FILE!" And then dramatc closeup! "AND IT WAS NO RESET RUN!"
  • Flanderization:
    • Invoked with Aradia, who used to be incredibly stoic and spends most of her screentime staring off to the skies.
    • Played straighter with Nepeta, who is turning more and more into something like her characterization from Sweet Jade and Hella John.
  • For the Evulz: Revealed in chapter 12 to be Vriska's only motivation for doing... pretty much any negative thing she does in that chapter.
  • Foregone Conclusion: Depending on which fan fic is read first.
    • The final chapter of HUC reveals the outcome of the Jade/John/Rose&Dave love rhombus before HHC was even thought up.
    • In the first chapter, Dirk comments that there is a rumor that Family Guy might get canceled. According to Seras's and Carl's comments in chapter 13 of HUC, it was.
    • Homer's fate.
  • Foreshadowing: Oddly enough, because of how HHC and HUC are in relation to eachother, this sometimes makes for some retroactive foreshadowing depending on which fan fic is read first.
    • In chapter 3, John saying that he will only marry someone "on his team." According to HUC, he will be in a couple with someone from that team. (Jade.)
      • In addition to this, in season four the Crew is once again split into teams, this time based on what session they were in in canon wheras the last split was based on what planet they dreamed on. Now, who's the only other Prospit-dreaming B1 player?
    • During a flashback in chapter 4, The narrator comments that Kamina seems too awesome to die. His death in the original series aside, he dies in HUC while fighting Hitler.
    • Non-HHC example. In the middle of chapter 8, John says that he would rather go through the five Ocarina of Time temples with Jade than go through Meenah's dungeon. Guess what the premise behind a secret-until-new-year's-eve-2012 work, Temples, featuring John/Jade is about.
  • Four Is Death:
    • Chapter four involved losses on both sides: For the Rainbow Crew, Geno dies. For the Felt, they lose both Damara and Meenah, the latter of which they just got.
    • John and Jade during the jury duty arc. Hoo boy... for starters, it occurs during season four which is split into four chapters that face the same rough Majora's Mask style of biome visiting (swamp, mountain, ocean, canyon — in that game, by the way, the direction you go through those regions maps out the number "4"), the Rainbow Crew goes into four different groups with John and Jade's having four people in it at first, and the chapter focusing on their group ends with the number four. They are being threatened with death for this, by the way.
  • Four Lines, All Waiting: Averted. While there are many, many subplots, (Kanaya's revenge on Alucard, anything side characters give to the Rainbow Crew, Homer's story line, mysteries such as the poem in Waterwraith's cave, etc) most of them completely take backseat to whatever the Rainbow Crew as a whole is dealing with, and they are almost always dealt with one at a time.
  • Freudian Slip: When talking to the Stripperiffic Chinese dancers, John asks them for erections— er... directions.
  • Full-Frontal Assault:
    • From chapter 9 onwards, Nepeta goes around fighting completely nude. Several other members of the Crew barely wear much more.
    • In chapter 16, Porsiv gets naked to add his own clothing to the ball of the other Crew member's clothes, and runs around to guide it like a Katamari ball against the Felt.
    • The Crew gets naked a lot more often in season six, and continues to fight on despite that. In fact, in chapter 18 they manage to kill Cthulhu while in the buff.
  • Funny Afro: Aranea used to sport one. Then Meulin accidentally cut part of it, and it's implied that she shaved off the rest and kept it that way.

    Hurrcain Tropes G - Q 

  • Gag Penis: Giant David Hasselhoff is revealed to have this. Upon meeting him, John jokes "If you're going into porn, you have the wrong kind of 'big.'" GDH drops his swimsuit. The resulting "censor bar" extends down a freeway and into a cult's place.
  • Genki Girl: Dirk flat-out describes John as a Genki Boy in the first chapter. It eventually turns out that John isn't this, but it was just an act instead.
  • Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Most of the villains can be considered this, as per the norm of SBIG.
    • The "crow ninjas" in China really have no reasoning behind their existance. Then there's the Grim Reaper-esque figure they turn into.
    • Darkhorse, even compared to two of the other threats prior in the season who were Millennium members in SJAHJ. He quite literally comes out of nowhere, and dies just as fast and suddenly.
    • Stickdawg, Doc Scratch's dog that looks more like a giant preying mantis/cue stick hybrid than a dog. At no point in the story earlier has he been mentioned.
    • Near the end of chapter 18, Cthulhu comes out of nowhere just to get killed by the Crew as a whole.
  • Going Commando:
    • Near the end of chapter 18, Nepeta elaborates that she used to do this before switching to the Rainbow Crew uniform where she goes completely nude. She doesn't even own underwear.
    • Kanaya switches to this in chapter 19 while her outfit is normally one of the few that does have both over and underwear. The Crew finds out after Mituna abuses the Portal Rock to look up her dress.
  • Gratuitous Japanese: Used a little in the first chapter by some words by Dirk and Jake (especially the latter). Dropped for the rest of the fan fic so far, however, outside of Dirk's attack list.
  • Groin Attack: The angry Pikmin interns plan on firing a laser at Jake's groin, castrating him. He's saved by the Onions just in time.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: The Crew seems to be way more open to getting people to help them out than Hecksing is, considering other character who might fit the bill like Luffy, Tony Hawk, Ichigo (more than once), etc.
    • The ancestors and guardians subvert this, first openly being stated to not be a part of the Crew yet but they do temporarly help them out with some missions. The subversion comes when Rose hires them all as official members.
    • Geno and Homer are the only characters so far who were "official" members of the Rainbow Crew, yet they were never in for more than two chapters, as they both die shortly after their addition.
  • High-Heel–Face Turn: That or High Horn Face Turn: Damara betrays the Felt and joins the Rainbow Crew, but Geno specifically said to keep her alive only because he "liked trolls," and being the only female member had nothing to do with it. It seems that even if one of the male trolls filled in Damara's place, he would join the RC anyway.
  • His Name Really Is "Barkeep":
    • Subverted with the ancestors, who turn out to have names different from their canonical other-scratch self... but then double-subverted with Handmaid, whose first name really is "Maiden."
    • The Troll Empress's name is Troll Empress, as named by the Imperial Drone who raised her. He even said that he'd "FUCK THE 6-6 NAMING SYSTEM!" This also marks the Troll Empress as having an Odd Name Out.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard:
    • Chapter 16. Roxy makes a loophole to get one of the players of the Truth or Dare game eliminated. She gets offed by pretty much the same loophole.
    • The same chapter has the Rainbow Crew using Egg's and Biscuit's duplication abilities against Cans by rolling their copies into a giant katamari-like ball until it's big enough to take him and all of the other remaining members out.
    • Emperor F. is the ruler who created the law about imperial drones. He's killed thanks to his own rule (he failed to get a mate), despite the fact that the law as a whole was started as an excuse to get him laid.
  • Homage: The latter half of chapter 1 reads like a parody of Total Drama fan competitions, as many involve "go out and look for something" as the first challenge.
  • Hotter and Sexier: Do not let the fact that the cover art looks like it came straight out of the rather tame (sexual-wise) Sweet Jade and Hella John, or the fact that SJAHJ was one of the author's previous installments, fool you. This is a little more out-there than the norm for SBIG, and it's even pointed out in the opening AN. From chapter 9 onwards, the hero group start dressing in revealing outfits.
    • Parodied with the citizens of the world. Hawaii consists of nudists, and then there's the reporter in chapter 4. And everything about the ancestors and guardians completely blows the previous examples out of the water. Hecksing didn't shy away from "hot" background characters itself — the dancers in Brazil — but that was one of the only moments, it was added retroactivley, and it didn't go in as much detail about it.
    • The guardians and ancestors play this for laughs. While the entire fan fic talks about sex and features nudity way more often than Homestuck (which, admitedly, isn't saying very much, especially if you don't count Act 6 Intermission 3), these guys go absolutely overkill with it.
  • Hypocritical Humor:
    • At the end of chapter 4, when Jade says that the amount of time it takes before chapter 5's update depends on how long it takes for the introduction of the rest of the Pre-scratch trolls, John flat-out breaks the fourth wall (as Jade did) and complains about how the updates up to this point have been about his canon self complaining about everything and not getting to the trolls... and then he proceeds to complain about everything himself.
    • More meta example: John and Jade's first Crconikals appearance was in Hecksing, where they and their Opposite-Sex Clones (of which Word of God said that a later chapter of HHC will elaborate on) were the only Homestuck characters to appear or even be mentioned. There was a fake-author's note about Homestuck saying that "It not all trolls," and yet in the fake-author's notes of chapter 5 he mentions that bringing up the trolls first is a good way to hook in readers and that those works that not doing so would just get people skipping parts of the story without them.
    • John, who had been against any of the RC troll/RC troll relationships once the Surprise Incest had kicked in, would later sleep with the past version of his mother.
  • I Am Not Shazam: Invoked, with Conker (within a movie) being referred to as "Conker's Bad Fur Day."
  • The Immodest Orgasm: Implied:
    Snake: Now, Samus and I are going to have sex right here- wait, right?
    Samus: Yes.
    Snake: and [sic] if you don't want to see or hear I suggest going at least one mile away. I'm giving you one minute to leave headstart. No wait, even cars take a bit to go that fast... an hour.
  • Incredibly Lame Pun:
    • Karkat's "SPONGEBATH NOPANTS" comment.
    • Damara commenting that she caught Scratch trying to get marijuana red handed... and then saying it's more like him being caught "green handed" because of the subject of what he was buying.
  • Indy Ploy: Equius fires a light arrow at Homer Simpson's ghost, having no idea as to if it will work or not. Not only does it get rid of the problem, but it changes it into something... better. Much better.
  • Inherited Illiteracy Title: Just like what it's a spinoff to.
  • Insane Troll Logic:
    • Latula's way to "prove" that she is a Gamer Girl is by completely exposing her breasts. (The event where that happened was SFW.) John, in a panic, calls her naked by mistake — prompting her to tell him what "naked" really was by actually getting naked.
    • Mindfang uses the visual similarities between the Virgo and Scorpio signs to cite that her being a virgin shouldn't come off as a surprise.
  • Intentional Engrish for Funny: As of season five, the general writing style shifts from being filled with intentional typoes to being filled with this. Any exposition-giving character especially is filled with it.
  • Interface Spoiler: If you haven't already been spoiled by HUC's ending, don't look at the character/pairing tag. Heck, even if it wasn't tagged as a pairing, the fact that the listing oddly shows John and Jade and the warning in the opening AN about not reading if you're offended by incest can give away one of the endgame pairings before the Ship Teasing between them even begins.
  • Irony: The Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals version of the Alucard vs. Rip (or rather, Jan) fight was not as close to what happened in canon as John, Jade, and Geno vs Damara. While neither was an exact recreation, for one thing, the carrier Alucard battles Jan on is blown up by Jan and flat-out kills Alucard, whereas for HHC, the carrier arrives on land similar to how it did in Hellsing.
  • Jaw Drop:
    • The Stalfos when Meenah announces that she's planning on turning the Rainbow Crew onto her side.
    • All 72 trolls do this after finding out John's mom Beth, as well as the other guardains, is actually a pretty big pervert.
  • Jerk Jock: John himself was one in the past, before undergoing a sudden and unexplained muscle shrinking. He still sort of is in 2011. Jade even references the trope by name.
  • Jerkass:
    • Geno frequently insults his own teammates, up to and including blatantly admitting that he thought the doll he would possess looked stronger than Karkat, Terezi, and Gamzee.
    • Rose is an asshole. She underestimates everyone, kicks people off the treehouse computers to look at porn, and even threatens to kill Aranea for breaking a TV. Her reaction when first meeting Latula is to assume that she's "broken" (whatever that means) and advices the other RC members to go away. From chapter 14 onwards she starts drifting away from this.
    • Homer Simpson, who butts into the personal lives of others and seems to enjoy going around trying to kill/double kill people for practically no reason.
    • The teenage haters (who are gonna hate) are pretty much every stereotypical bully-type hero haters ever. One of them even tries to literally kick Nepeta's ass completely unprovoked, but thanks to its irregular... something, it ends up breaking his foot up instead. The story even describes them as jerkasses.
    • Jaws is pretty much evil and pestering others around for the hell of it. He also has a very unhealthy fixation on Aradia, for comitting the "crime" of carrying around a spell book that gave him his resurrection spell.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Karkat. His first appearance in this fan fic was him shouting at Nepeta and threatening to fire her over a mistake. Terezi then elaborates that he donates to children in need every day.
  • Karmic Death: Homer's ghost brags about being able to not just kill the Rainbow Crew, but wipe out their ghosts as well with a beam. He gets a light arrow fired at him from Equius, which changes his soul into that of Hank Hill's and gives him the fitting body. Even though HUC's epilogue says that Homer was reincarnated, this isn't a simple case of that — Homer's essense was changed at its base, effectively making the Homer as we know it Deader than Dead. The same fate he tried to induce on the Crew.
  • Killed Off for Real: Like most of SBIG, this doesn't shy away from killing off heroes and villains at all. The heroes side has none of the "main" Rainbow Crew, but Geno and Homer have suffered from it. Out of the villains, it's easier to list the currect exceptions: Waterwraith (he just gets slapped by an Onion, re-appears in chapter 17 to fight the ancestors then the second generation and loses to both of them but is still currently alive), Doc Scratch (survived every encounter as of chapter 17, though Word of God is that he will die in the final season), fellow major members of the Rainbow Crew (usually give Heel–Face Turns, and this counts Meenah too), Noah (he loses the crown though), the Rainbow Sisters (faught twice, first battle even being a curb-stomp, but nobody saw any reason to kill them off permanently), Rocket Blaster (flies away), and Alucard (on the count of already being dead during the first direct fight against him, and his death being offscreen in the events of HHC).
  • Kinky Spanking: Averted. While Roxy intended this to be the losing punishment for the Truth or Dare game, it really, really doesn't come off as that in the story. Mostly because almost all of the spanks happen off"screen." (As in, they don't get described at all and there's often not even any indication that any spanking happened.)
  • Large Ham:
    • Karkat is depicted this way, as thanks to the sheer weird crap that happens in the story, his caps locks comes off more like he's overreacting in surprise rather than shouting in anger.
    • Vriska may also count, being a little overly dramatic in her For the Evulz route.
    • Unlike herself in canon and Carl Stevens Universe, Connie. This is her first line in the story:
      "PLEESE I HERD GOOD THIGS ABOUTT THIS AND I TRAVEL A LOT OF BEACHES AND COULD NEVER FIND A LIBRARY WITH A GOOD COPY AND THIS IS MY LAST DAY HERE BECAUSE MY DAD'S GONNA GO TO ANOTHER PLACE AND I'M LEAVEING TOO AND I DON'T KNOW WAHT ELSE TO FIND AND THIS LA CITY IS ALREADY FULL OF CRIME AND DEATH AND GANGSTERS AND I'M JUST GETTING SOMEWHAT LONELY SINCE I YET TO MEET A FRIEND. Oh fuck did I flip out on you?"
    • DARKHORSE, DESTROYER OF LIGHT.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler:
    • Geno? He dies. Doesn't become a permanent member of the Rainbow Crew. The same thing can be said for Homer.
    • Season two may have been building up to Meenah being a final battle that isn't actually added to the Rainbow Crew, but she sorta-pulls a Heel–Face Turn and joins them.
    • This makes no secret at all of the fact that in Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals, Alucard dies. Chapter 14 also gives away Integra's death. Though in both cases, they are actually somewhat plot relevant as they do affect the Crew to varrying degrees.
    • Most of the relationship-related stuff. John doesn't end up with Dave. Or Dirk. Or Damara. Things are so far going... okay with Jane, but see Interface Spoiler above.
    • Nepeta is a lot more important and major than she initially appears to be.
  • Leeroy Jenkins: Geno, who once goes charging into an aircraft carrier conflict wrecklessly unprovoked.
    "ALCARD! BADGUY!"
  • Leitmotif: Ignoring Vriska's preference to "redneck music," chapter 12 confirms one song associated with a character: Green Day's Holiday with Nepeta. If you look at the lyrics, a faint few of them actually match up to the point of her character in SJAHJ, and possibly HHC itself if her killing Gamzee instead of the other way around is any indication.
    Hear the sound of the falling rain
    Coming down like an Armageddon flame
    The shame, the ones who died without a name
    ...
    I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
    This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
    On holiday
  • Let's Split Up, Gang!: John's head randomly flat-out morphes into Fred from the Trope Namer to say this during chapter 3, where the Rainbow Crew splits based on who was a Prospit dreamer and who was a Derse dreamer (except Sollux — who had one dreamself one each planet — who fills in the Derse side to even out the teams). However, the splitting doesn't actually occur until far after its proposal and is only brief until half of the Derse team members meet up with the Prospit team.
  • Lighter and Softer: This fic itself is this to... well... three different other fan fic ideas, only one of which (SJAHJ) was actually published:
    • Sweet Jade and Hella John. At least in terms of the plot. In terms of humor, HHC is much, much, much worse.
    • An unpublished, unfinished (and possibly discontinued) set of "intermissions" that was supposed to be within The Eds' EDventure. According to his comments, Pikmin Fan drafted it whilst reading Homestuck's Midnight Crew intermission and not liking it, and wanting to write off his frustration by making a shock-value filled series of stories planned to be longer than the original chapter that the intermission was in. He eventually declined because of the style of humor (comparing it to Family Guy) and put the series on indefinite hiatus.
    • Perhaps the most bizarre out of the three: That's So Cliche, which wasn't even supposed to be a Homestuck fan fic outside of a briefly considered crossover. Rather, it was a Total Drama fan fic that specifically (as the title says) parodies cliches within the fandom. Pikmin Fan said that it was a little more blatant on the Total Drama parody elements than HHC, and the idea was scrapped because it would seem overly redundant.
  • Like You Would Really Do It: invokedChapter 12 provides something of an inversion. Some faint signs point to half of the trolls getting killed off and staying that way, and the fake-author thinks that it would take ANs to convince the readers that they won't stay dead.
  • Loophole Abuse: Turns out that the Troll Empress containing all twelve non-mutant blood types doesn't put her off the hemospectrum. Rather, somehow, this is counted as her blood rank adding up, placing her dosens of spots above even the fuchsia bloods with nothing in between.
  • Love Dodecahedron: So John's crushing on Rose and Dave, and Jade has a crush on John. Seem simple so far? Good, because it won't be for long: John confesses to Dave just before they think they're going to die and they become a couple until the bear incident where they break up, then John starts flirting with Dirk and they become a couple by the end of chapter 1. Dirk is also apparently "tsundere" to Jake, and Roxy has flirted with every male out of the humans except Dirk. Nepeta has also had a crush on Sollux, but then Rose starts flirting with him too before she begins dating Eridan for the hell of it. But Eridan likes Feferi. And Sollux apparently likes Aradia. Meanwhile, John and Dirk break up over a diet proposal and John goes out with Damara, whom he barley even met. And it's implied that there was something between Meenah and Aranea. Lampshaded in chapter 1 when Tavros attempted to keep track of the romance but just gave up.
  • Love Makes You Crazy: Averted with Horuss; he was just sad about Rufioh suddenly breaking up with him.
  • Magic Music: The Sonata of Castles, which seems to have an exclusive ability to just expose the Waterwraith's lair, and the Ballad of Duality, which heals injuries and creates a counterpart to the user(s) at the cost that it may only be used once for each person. (Though Hank, the teacher of the latter song, implies that there is a way to improve on it so that it can be used multiple times.)
  • Magnetic Hero: The Rainbow Crew as a whole. Or, actually, the Housestucks. They just so happened to find the "Zodiacs" trolls, manage to completely band together the "Alpha" trolls, and get Geno and Homer to join them before they both die.
  • Major Injury Underreaction:
    • Edward getting his face lit on fire after Alucard pours holy water on it. "No. My beautiful bishie face. It is becoming ruined. It is al burned now."
    • When Homer is mortally injured by the Stalfos (in fact, he only survives by getting mutated), all he says is "Ow! That hurt a little!"
    • Jake gets a really deep cut in his arm thanks to Hydra. He does act pretty hindered, but then invokes this after his mother offers a quicker but more disturbing healing sollution that involved drinking her milk.
      Jake: Nevermind! I'm fine! I'll just walk this off!
  • Mama Bear: Ma English is highly energetic and a little ditzy, but after Jake gets kidnapped by Hydra she suddenly flips out and goes barging into poison that literally sets stuff on fire to save him. Even her appearance changes.
  • Meganekko: This story has quite a few of them, and out of the Rainbow Crew many of them have more spotlight than the others. John and Jade are the main protagonists, with Jane and Jake getting more focus than the other A2 teens. There's also Vriska (thanks to Badass Decay), Aranea, Feferi, Meenah, and Eridan (also thanks to Badass Decay). All nine of these each have an Opposite-Sex Clone as of chapter 15, and that same chapter (which, by Rose's word, lampshades how mostly the Rainbow Crew members under this trope are important) confirms that all of their guardians or ancestors fit this. Crossover/side characters who fit this in HHC or HUC include Connie, and finally for now Rip, (after giving up a life of being a villain and chosing to get herself fired. When she joins Hecksing in HUC, she plays this pretty straight for the most part).
  • Mind Screw: Rip's series of odd "illusions" in chapter 20. She makes Rose wait for the other seven trapped members, John is put in his normal house and sees Beth dating Carl, Jade is in a house like her canonical one (when it seemingly doesn't exist), Dave is in a Stanley Parable-like narrated location, Jane is just put in a graywashed version of the dome with Rip taunting her, Jake is in a mansion full of attractive nudist women, Roxy is in a dungeon and has to fight off a dragon, and Dirk goes to a simple training course.
  • Monster Modesty: Hank Hill seems to be part-plant in a way, and was born with fig leaves all over him appropriately.
  • Mr. Exposition: Hank Hill. As he was infused with elemental light, this gave him knowledge of how many things work, including his own future.
  • Mr. Fanservice/Ms. Fanservice: While the entire Rainbow Crew is pretty fanservicey in some way or another, Jane is apparently considered very attractive, and Nepeta's appearing completely nude during the Crew's announcement earned them far more money than any other character. So the MF is tied between Jane or Nepeta. Gamzee, in the earlier chapters, was apparently the male fanservice provider-parody, adressing the viewers as "sexy."
  • Mundane Utility: Kiriki dares Karkta to use her limeblood/"yellowgreen" powers to teleport some KFC into the area. This ignores the more obvious idea of teleporting everyone out for good. Adding insult to injury, Karkta does teleport out — but only herself, and only to actually pay for and legally buy the food.
  • The Mutiny: Meenah is planning on taking over Rose's job as the leader, although through promotion. Given how this is Meenah we're talking about here, she's being nice. Yet she has reason to act nice; Equius is threatening to kill her if she does anything against the productivity of the Rainbow Crew.
  • Mythology Gag:
    • The "parallel chumhandle initials" system from SJAHJ returns here, only it's more conherant in regards to the humans. note  Since fanfiction.net cannot yet support colors and the fic itself doesn't actually say any of the chumhandles, this makes it a little easier to tell the difference between who's talking.
    • During chapter 5 in the expansion on Damara's flashback from chapter 4, when Damara is kidnapped, Aranea says "No!" Then when Meenah betrays the Alphas, Aranea shouts "Double no!" Like how Integra did to the Alucard's death/Walter's reveal situation in Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals. Except after, there's a "Triple no!" when part of Aranea's afro gets sliced off by Meulin.
    • John and Jade pick up fire, ice, and light scrolls at a shop by Dracula, their intended purpose being used for arrows. They eventually harness the powers of the first two, and manage to use them to simply make the elements in their raw forms ala Fire and Ice Flowers. The catch? John's the one who primarly uses fire powers, while Jade is the one who primarly uses ice powers. Sweet Jade and Hella John had alternate selves of them, John's alt with fire abilities and Jade's with ice.
    • The existance of Hydra, Death Mecha, Darkhorse, and Omega Drew Pickles, to the same story. They are even confirmed later to be a part of a group.
    • Dark Ezekiel calls Nepeta "cutebutt." In Total Zeksmit Plains, this is more-or-less Kathy's pet name for Lindsay when trying to creep her out. Unlike Kathy though, Dark Ezekiel seems genuine about this.
  • Naked First Impression: Porrim is first met in nothing but a towel that she soon discards. The first time the majority of the Rainbow Crew sees Meenah, she's half naked.
  • Naked on Revival: The entire Rainbow Crew (except Nepeta, Netimp, and Disciple, who didn't die, but used the same machine to regenerate their wounds and injuries) and Alucard are butt-naked when revived via the stem-cell machine in chapter 18. The machine itself wrecked up their clothes.
  • Naked People Are Funny: Hawaii mostly consists of nudists in this universe. The Rainbow Crew gets naked a lot from season three onward.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Kurloz's ancestor is given the title of the Scalper.note  Though his birth name is Kuddle, ironically...
  • Never Trust a Trailer: The in-fic summary is very misleading. It says:
    "John Egbert is the Air of Brenth in this fan fic he must God Tier and Ascent to Skaia to take out Jack the evil villain. Pairings include John/Vriska Rose/Kanaya Dave/Terezi Jade/Karkat Roxy/Calliope Jane/Dirk/Caliborn trigale Eridan/Noone. But when John have to do dirty work, he rob bank and haz to avoid cops? Wow 1"
This is a SBURBless/Post-SBURB AU (It says it's the latter but it's really the former), which by itself wipes out the entire first sentence. Doc Scratch is the "evil villain," while Jack isn't even mentioned. John ultimately ends up with Jade while Jade appears to be Johnsexual for the entire story. The narrator and later Kanaya herself comments that she does not want to jump to another relationship after Edward's death, seriously hindering Rose/Kanaya. (Until Kanaya finds news about Alucard's death, and especially after Edward confesses that he was an asshole.) Chapter 3 hinted Terezi/Dave, but then again it also hinted Terezi/Latula and Terezi/Karkat. As for Eridan's "noone" thing... that's jossed as early as chapter 3. By the epilogue, the Rainbow Crew ended up as one polygamous clusterfuck. There was a cop chase in the same chapter, which is perhaps the closest thing the summary got right. What certainly doesn't help in any of this is the fact that the cover (which is also this page's image) seems to agree with at least the God Tier, Jack, Skaia, and maybe John/Vriska parts. In chapter 16, it's openly admitted that both the summary and the cover are flat-out lies.
  • Nightmare Face: According to "concept art," Stickdawg's got a pretty unattractive grin.
  • No Fourth Wall: It's even worse here than it was in Sweet Jade and Hella John. Jade even says that the carrier trip will be longer "on a fourth wall level," whatever that's supposed to mean.
  • No Name Given: Subverted. For the first ten chapters of the story, Roxy and Dirk were only known by their first names — in complete contrast to just about every other major character. They were revealed in chapter 11 as Drunkie and Coolkid respectively. (According to the author, the former's supposed to be from Spain and the latter was the result of Dirk's father being named with a different last name.)
  • No Pronunciation Guide: There isn't a single clue in-story as to how differently, if at all, the names of the counterparts, the new surnames of the A1 trolls, or how the new first names of the guardians/ancestors are supposed to be pronounced.
  • Not His Sled: In chapter 12, the trolls begin killing eachother in a very similar manner to their deaths in canon. While its obvious that they won't die for real (especially after reading chapter 13 first, as none of those trolls die and it wouldn't make sense to kill off half of the post-scratch group yet let the pre-scratch ones live), we begin with a very familiar scenario of Vriska killing Tavros. Then Eridan kills Feferi, "kills" Kanaya, and knocks out Sollux, with the only difference from canon being the order. Gamzee later strangles Equius, and Nepeta faces off against him. It seems like she, too, will be killed... and then she suddenly turns it around and ass smacks him to death instead. Partially justified, as thanks to upcoming events in a completely different story, no Leijons can be killed off until Simpsons ends (in real life) in the author's fan fics, and thus something like this had to be written to go around remaking the murder arc.
  • Not the Fall That Kills You…: The humans survive a several story fall from Scratch's appartment through two different ways; Rose falls in Tavros's arms, and the other seven land on Terezi. Surprisingly, none of them appear to suffer from any permanent injuries.
  • Not Using the "Z" Word: Like Hecksing, this trope in inverted. While ghouls/zombies haven't appeared yet, we've seen rainbow drinkers, who as of chapter 12 are just "troll vampires."
  • Not What It Looks Like:
    • John thinks this is the case near the end of chapter 10, where an Imperial Drone bursts through his house after he's basically in his bedroom with a nude Jane and Jade in only Body Paint. It turns out the drone was going to break in anyway, to deliver a message.
    • At the end of the Truth or Dare game, everyone is piled up thanks to Karkat tripping. Scratch thinks they're having an orgy, which isn't helped by the fact that most of them are naked and the ones that aren't are wearing almost nothing.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity:
    • John, spending the earlier parts of the series acting like a hyper idiot before quickly showing his colors and siding with Rose. It seems to be a way to justify his Characterization Marches On.
    • It's revealed in a flashback in chapter 15 that Rip Van Winkle used this, after an assault on the Harley manor made Rip realize that Jade reminded her of herself once she got Jade into a state of helplessness. Rip then spends everything from that moment on trying to get herself fired from the Millennium. (It's implied that they would kill her if she quit, as for some reason their versions here are much less harsh on people they fire than people who quit) As revealed in HUC, she was such an asset to them thanks to her "charm" ability that it takes literally sleeping with the enemy (Carl) to succeed. It explains why she suddenly gains a ton of brains shortly after joining Hecksing.
  • Obviously Evil: Pretty much any antagonist.
  • O.C. Stand-in: The Alpha troll's ancestors were written when absolutely nothing was known about their canon counterparts (bar a very brief mention of Meenah's), so as a result they were an odd mix of Generation Xerox and were expies of the Zodiac trolls. They also have several original elements in them too.
  • Off the Rails: When the trolls are all killing eachother, not only are there a few differences from canon like Gamzee and Eridan having a one-on-one battle (the closest thing we got had Vriska thrown in, and a fight didn't actually happen as instead Kanaya broke in), but the biggest by far was that Gamzee died instead of Nepeta. Karkat's reaction should speak for itself.
  • Once a Season: The Rainbow Crew goes to the Grand Canyon. Specifically, in chapters 1, 8, the second half of 9 and most of 10, 14, 17 (technically the beginning of 18 as well), and 21, while it's unknown when in season seven they'll go there.
  • Once Done, Never Forgotten: Nobody seems to forgive Dave for using John as a human shield against the bear. Well, except maybe Roxy. Until Dave redeems himself with a song at the end of season 2.
  • Opposite-Sex Clone: The counterparts started as this, with a few more differences than simply being the opposite sex. Gets confusing since the Crew as a whole can apparently switch their own sexes back and forth, original or counterpart. Bottom line is that the counterparts have the opposing gender, but the Ballad of Duality inexplicably gives the users the power to change their sex. (It's implied that the fake-author is just using that as an excuse to increase the fanservicey-female cast for his... "own" material.)
  • Opposites Attract: This is what the fake-author came up with as the reason for why John/Dave is more popular than John/Jade.
  • Other Me Annoys Me:
    • So far, very few characters have gotten along with their counterparts. Probably because most (but not all) of them are like jerkish versions of their original selves. Karkat especially hates his, thanks to her very light atittude about everything and Extreme Doormat personality.
    • Dirk is one of the few characters who managed to get over his counterpart problems as of chapter 23, complete with paralleling to Garnet/Ruby and Sapphire. However, he still has an example in the form of his own Auto Responder as well as Dian's. Since both of them turn out to be evil and following under the Troll Empress, he and Dian both have enough reason to hate them.
  • Our Dragons Are Different: The Hydra. Each of its heads not only breaths a different substance, but they also apparently give the main body/other heads abilities as well. For example, the blue head also somehow enables the other heads to breathe under water, and with out it they can drown.
  • Our Ghosts Are Different: What little has been revealed about ghosts is mind-boggling. For one thing, it seems that they can only stay on Earth by using magic, and if it's drained then they are forced to Heaven or the Four Hells. Perhaps the weirdest thing is that while humans can see ghosts, vampires can't unless they're vampire ghosts. And vampire ghosts in general aren't the ghosts of vampires, but rather ghosts who somehow drew vampire energy.
  • Overly Narrow Superlative: According to Haily, the Ship Shitters are "THE HITLER REVIVAL GROUP THAT HAS THE BIGGEST FLYING WARSHIP THAT IS CURRENTLY ATTACKING CHICAGO!"
  • Painting the Medium:
    • When Kurloz is talking to the Waterwraith between Cronus's sidequest and assaulting Meenah's dungeon, his "bone text" is represented in all caps and bold, even with the quotation marks being bolded. Kursis has something similar, but with lower-case letters instead. This is evident in the narration:
      ...and even the quotation marks are in bold for emphashism.
    • Everything Darkhorse says is written in all caps, and like Kurloz's "bone text," everything — including the quote marks — is written in bold.
  • Palette Swap: Dark Ezekiel in chapter 19, who looks like... a "dark"-themed Ezekiel.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise:
    • A flashback shows Doc Scratch going to a drug store (the pharmacy kind) to get marijuana. His only "disguise" is a pair of Ben Stiller shades. Considering what Scratch looks like, this trope really comes into play.
    • At the beginning of chapter 16, the Rainbow Crew all towers up to disguise as a pizza guy. The problem with this? There were sixty-four of them on this mission and in this exact disguise, and as a result they look ridiculously tall. Then Aramin runs in and the rest of the Crewmates are knocked off of the tower, to which Sawbuck thinks he accidentally killed them.
  • Parental Incest:
    • There's a reason why Cletus is reffered to as "Incest Guy"
      "OW that stupid motherfucker..." he said before laffing, "I guess I"M the motherfucker becuz I fuck my mom since I'm into that" it's funny because it's incest. Anyway Incest Guy died.
    • The story slightly implies that John's mom is trying to hit on him. When she comes in during the Truth or Dare game in chapter 16, she grabs the bottle when John is about to spin it, points it to herself, winks at him, and flat-out tells him to kiss her. She was just joking... maybe. Then in chapter 20, John in turn gets extremely protective of her once he finds out that she appears to have something going with Carl. In chapter 21, John outright sleeps with the past version of his mother, with the "excuse" that he wasn't 100% sure that they were related (and just before doing the deed she told him something that convinced him otherwise).
  • Parody Sue:
    • The kid in the Hawaii inn is a nod to Stus, his appearance outright being described as a "parody of fantrolls."
    • Bororo from the prologue of 496 Reasons makes a return for this story.
  • Piss-Take Rap: Conker. Given the scene in the movie shown and what happens in that part of the game later on, this could become literal, but it doesn't on-screen.
  • Please Put Some Clothes On: John, the only humanoid guy alive at the time in one particular group, apparently didn't like how Damara ditched her Felt wardrobe. Nor did he like Porrim being naked on her introduction. By the time Latula gets naked as some bizarre means to prove her Gamer Girl status, John runs away in discomfort. He also runs when he came across Meulin accidentally exposing herself to show off the marks she put on her belt whenever Cronus does something deceitful. Eventually it's implied that the whole thing might just be an act, and he's trying to make himself look a lot more innocent than he really is. Especially once season three rolls over with revealing outfits for the Crew and John doesn't mind one bit.
  • Plot-Relevant Age-Up: The Rainbow Crew members are aged up somewhere from 16-18, making the sheer amount of fanservice and sex talk a lot less disturbing than it would be otherwise. Especially since, after 20 chapters of the second generation remaining celibate (outside of very mild implications far and between), John finally bangs Beth, then two chapters after that he bangs Jade.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain:
    • The Rainbow Sisters. (Not to be confused with the Rainbow Crew or the Real Life group with the same name.) It gets much worse when Jade elaborates in a flashback when she used to work with Rainbow Red.
    • The Troll Empress. Not only is she an active follower of the hemospectrum, but as revealed in the tail end of season five, she's really misogynistic.
      Troll Empress's Army Propoganda Speech: ...And I say men because I know that you're the strong ones. You're the ones who hit harder, and take harder hits. Women, you already have the agonizingness of periods to worry about, you don't deserve the war to harm your weak little selves. Kay thanks, bye!
  • The Pornomancer: John, before the Crew's outfit switch in chapter 9. He's been around every time a female character gets naked either through stupidity or slapstick, not to mention how he (and the rest of the RC) just-so-happened to visit China during carnival. In addition to that, his mother just-so-happens to have a very active sex life.
  • Portal Pool: Doc Scratch has one in a point in his tower, the bridge going over it acting as the unnoficial border between the "lair" part of the building and the "apartment" part of it. It leads to the Grand Canyon, because Stickdawg lives there.
  • Power Creep, Power Seep: Despite what the fake-summary may imply, God Tiering and class/aspect powers don't exist, essentially balancing the Homestuck cast with everyone else.
  • The Power of Rock: What Ichigo uses to open portals to Hell. Though he's oddly later seen closing a portal with a very strange ritual that involves candles.
  • Power Perversion Potential:
    • Mituna uses the portal gun to sneak a peek up Kanaya's dress. Despite seeing her naked yesterday.
    • In chapter 21, Beth implies that John put his sex-shifting powers to... interesting use when they did it.
  • Precocious Crush: He might technically be a late teenager, but Karkat has a crush on the obviously older woman who runs the Hawaiian inn.
  • Purple Prose:
    • Aranea's recap of the first season. (Which is actually pretty mild compared to most examples; it helped that the author was rushed in writing the second half.) Tweleve paragraphs to cover only four chapters, whereas Hecksing's recap narrated by Rip took ten paragraphs to cover nine chapters.
    • This is the go-to dialogue of Ardion, Aradia's counterpart. He talks like a mock-old-time poet.
  • Put on a Bus:
    • The Pikmin interns are pretty terrible offenders. In spite of season three's central plotline centered around them, they are left out of season four entirely because Rose had them remodel the treehouse, and they don't appear much in season five because... well, no real reason is given on that. They do have an important role in the first chapter of season six, but that's really just to tie a loose end and explain how the Crew gets back home.
    • While crossover characters do have a habit of coming and going pretty much whenever the story needs it, Connie was put on a train to Canada in chapter 15 in spite of, depending on how you count season four's "can be read in any order" gimmick, pretty much getting two chapters in a row's worth of appearances. But it should be noted that she was shown on the train in chapter 15, and that is in fact how the Rainbow Crew encountered her and how she made an appearance in said chapter.
  • Putting the Band Back Together: The main plot for season 2 in regards to the "Alphas" trolls (the pre-scratch trolls in canon). Unlike canon, they succeed at this, and they become permanant members from there on out. Meenah included, but not part of the orignal plan.

    Hurrcain Tropes R - Z 

  • R-Rated Opening: Sort of, and by its standards. While the rest of season one is actually pretty tame, its opening involves Alucard burning Edward with holy water in what seems to be the vampire equivilent of throwing acid on his face. But it helps that Edward gives a Major Injury Underreaction.
  • "Rashomon"-Style: How the B1s tells about their battle on the bridge. Subverted earlier since the original version is shown:
    • John's story paints himself as a Gary Stuinvoked, and he takes credit for most of the battle.
    • Jade's story is supposedly done in the appearance of a children's cartoon, with Zabuza being in CG. She praises John endlessly, and dresses Dave and Jane (who wasn't originally there, though she does also appear in John's story) as stereotypical prostitutes as they have both either dated John prior or are dating John.
    • Rose's story is told in bland, typoless Purple Prose (Rose doesn't speak clearly in this story, by the way) and, like John's, she mocks everyone else.
    • Dave's story paints him as a Stu, has a few irrelevant details, everyone fawns over him, and is supposedly a musical before Ichigo interrupts him before he can start.
  • Real Life Writes the Plot: Milder examples compared to most usages of the trope.
    • The amount of time it took before the final part of Act 6 Intermission 3's walkaround to be published determined the publish date for season two and, by proxy, the chapters afterward. In a similar situation to... what was once planned for Sweet Jade and Hella John, this is so that the last three A1 trolls are properly introduced, which would actually affect the plot.note  Although this didn't stop Pikmin Fan from using Damara during the first four chapters, when next to nothing was known about her. And now that her personality had been revealed....
    • Chapter 12 would have ended on a cliffhanger with the trolls going off a literal cliff, before it quickly says that they crash into an abandoned hospital which cushions their fall. The part about the hospital would have not been mentioned, however the author said that he wasn't sure when to even start season five, so the cliffhanger will be made longer than necessary. It turns out the break between seasons four and five would be relatively short compared to the rest of the breaks.
  • Really 700 Years Old: The Troll Empress is hundreds of years old. The Imperial Drone that works by her side is even older, as it turns out he's the one that raised her.
  • Reference Overdosed: The amount of works crossed over is insane, even by "SBIG" standards. Covering them all as of the latest update, it's a Homestuck story that begins with The Twilight Saga and Hellsing crossovers, then it downplays them until Geno enters the fray and directs them to Ichigo. (The first season was way more focused on the Rainbow Crew's battle with the Felt than the background aspects of the world, something that not even the fifth season has been replicating so far despite the RC-Felt conflict coming to light again.) Season two introduces Link, Stalfos, Xenomorphs, and various Simpsons characters. Season three briefly mentions the Master Chief, (not by name, but he does appear in HUC as a semi-major character) and introduces some characters from Pikmin. Season four just gets crazy, with Ed, Edd n Eddy, Sonic the Hedgehog, the Nintendo 3DS AR games (sort of), South Park, Mega Man, Metroid, Metal Gear Solid, Steven Universe, a cameo of Tony Hawk, Naruto, Rugrats (sort of), One Piece, and Total Drama. Season five so far adds Dracula, a mention of Bowser and his crew, a ton of horror game parodies, another celebrity cameo (David Hasselhoff, though he debuted in HUC) and King of the Hill into the mix and confirms aformentioned Steven Universe, but there's still two chapters to go. Then there's the actual references. Not only is the story mostly a really warped play to Majora's Mask, but Conker's Bad Fur Day, Futurama, The Ren & Stimpy Show, and Family Guy have either been talked about or bits of them have been seen. In Conker's case, his game was either made into a movie or it was a movie to begin with.
  • Reset Button: Downplayed. In chapter 12, the trolls begin killing eachother, with only half of them remaining by the time they begin their battle with Death Mecha. However, Pip's ghost makes a return from eight (going purely by chapter number, and not counting season four's ability to be read in any order) chapters ago, and revives the dead ones. The downplaying comes from the fact that the characters did ultimately learn something from this, and it did stick around to teach them about acceptance or... something like that. And the ability of said reset button was mentioned eight chapters ago.
  • Retcon: In order of when the ret conned-event started:
    • All of the class and aspect references are ret conned in chapter 16, admitting that Roxy's "voiding" was just a reference to her somehow being able to hack Doc Scratch's partial omniscience... or something.
    • An earlier chapter outright stated that the ancestors do not exist. Then comes chapters 12 and 13: The former introduces the more familiar ancestors, the latter introduces new ancestors that are supposed to stand in for the currently unelaborated ancestors in Beforus.
  • Romantic Plot Tumor/Strangled by the Red String: Parodied/invoked. Around half of the Rainbow Crew have romance troubles, but what takes the cake (pun unintended) is John. He starts out having a crush on Dave and Rose, but during a risk of death he suddenly swoops Dave in and kisses him. Then Dave, without really thinking, tries to use John as a human shield against a random bear, causing John to break up with him... which after he's suddenly flirtatiously hitting on Dirk. Until they break up in chapter 4 over a diet proposal. Then he hooks up with Damara and their relationship lasts for a whopping seven chapters, before Damara breaks up with him and he starts to love Jane. And then there's Jade's crush on him. And then there's the scene in chapter 3 where he discusses with every other Prospit Dreamer (Except Karkat and Vriska) about what it would be like if he married them. And that's all within the first nine chapters.
  • Rotating Protagonist: The author admits in chapter 7's closing notes that he was trying to give the Rainbow Crew members roughly equal screentime. Particularly during Horuss's quest.
  • Rouge Angles of Satin: While most of the typoes avert this, there are still some straight (intended) uses. Like Plasma Snake "ejaculating" into smoke instead of evaporating.
  • Rule of Three:
    • In chapter 12, while Nepeta is working towards reviving the dead trolls, the narrative suddenly brings up three times that if the author was Andrew Hussie (obvious issues as to why the HELL Hussie would write a story like this aside), then the revivals would be fake-outs.
    • In the same chapter, Karkat has an Imagine Spot to the Hawaii-inn runner three times. One very early on, twice when his team encounters Jane's.
  • Rule 63: This one is actually a little bit complicated. First, after finally getting back to Chicago and entering Scratch's tower, the Crew is capture by Stitch and he genderbends all of them for kicks. After the Crew breaks free and Stitch runs away, they encounter Ichigo trying to seal a portal to Hell that Scratch had opened prior. He gets distracted by the Crew's arrivals long enough for Homer's ghost to sneak through and threaten to kill and double-kill the Crew. Equius fires a light arrow at him, reincarnating him to Hank Hill who teaches them the Ballad of Duality, which reverts the gender changes (and undoes all injuries) and creates an Opposite-Sex Clone of every member of the Crew. According to Hank, the fact that the Crew was genderbent prior had nothing to do with their counterparts being genderbent, nor that both originals and counterparts can each switch their sex around at will, which is what makes it a tad bit more... well, complicated.
  • Running Gag:
    • The "Alphas" flashback constantly reminding the readers that the trolls are 13, complete with saying, to give an example, "13 year old Aranea" every time the character is mentioned. Even in dialogue within the flashback. Flashbacks that happened later in the series seem to be thankfully avoiding this.
    • Vriska complaining whenever an "Alpha" is added to the group (even Aranea, who actually had to do something for the RC instead of the other way around) and bringing up the solid sweep she had to train in combat before she could join the Zodiacs. Rose deciding to add Meenah is the only time where she doesn't bring up the sweep, but the spoiler'd action in question was so out-there that Vriska threatened to quit and join the Felt.
    • In all four chapters of season 2, there is one person out of the two/three Alpha trolls recruited (Mituna, Porrim, Latula, and Cronus) that initially think that the Rainbow Crew is a bunch of Jehova's Witnesses trying to inform them.
    • Chapter 9 has the Pikmin intern's chance of "PUNISH HIM! PUNISH HIM!" Whenever the Crew tries to negotiate, and Jake's responding "NOOOOO DON'T PUNISH ME!"
    • Extremely cheesy chants for magic spells. Like Pip's reviving Tavros, Feferi, Equius, Gamzee, Eridan, and Vriska: "Alakazam! Biggity boo! Life!" Or how Stitch uses his powers in this fic (he is the only Felt member whose powers are modified that wasn't dead by the start of the canon intermission): "Oogala boogala, CHANGE THEIR SEX!"
    • Each chapter of season four has the team encountering a certain "X People" in the regions, who are all described as being halves of three things, and all turn out to actually be friendly.
    • Chapter 19 has the haters who are gonna hate. Each time they are mentioned, the story also says that they are gonna hate.
  • Sacrificial Lion: Geno is introduced in chapter 3 and seems to be a major character that will become very important later on. Similar to Carl in Hecksing. However, he dies the very next chapter.
  • Sassy Black Woman: Aranea acted somewhat like this when she was 13.
  • Script Fic: While it doesn't use script format, there are several scenes (especially during season 2) where it mentioned things such as a "dramatic closeup" or that the budget of the fan fic is low.
  • Self-Deprecation:
    • A flashback shows Cronus driving a train — and crashing it. What that happens, Porrim comments, "Yikes! That's a bigger train wreck than Great Pikmin Fan's Total Drama World Tour Rewrite!"note 
    • When Roxy keeps tacking more rules on the Truth or Dare game in chapter 16, Rose asks, "Jesus are you Ezekiel Smithy?" Ezekiel, given the last name Smithy in aformentioned fic, had a habit of going on about the rules of the challenges in Total Zeksmit.
  • Sequel Escalation: The first 17 chapters may take place during HUC, but it's still the closest thing it has to an actual sequelnote , and right now the closest thing the author planned to one after putting Hecksing Ulumate Crconikals 2 back into hypothetical-only territory. This is twice as long by chapter number alone, all of its chapters are on average significantly longer than HUC's and generally get longer from there, the hero cast is far larger, so much more of the world is expanded upon — helped by the fact that the Rainbow Crew both encounters populated areas and interacts with their population, while Hecksing rarely did the first or especially the latter — it's has a lot more "content," and there's a far bigger variety of villains that are outside of the Quirky Miniboss Squad the story is supposed to focus on. Fan even went out and said that Housestuck makes Hecksing feel claustrophobic by comparason. Pretty much the only thing the latter has above the former is the percentage of heroes that dies, but this contributes to the "smaller"-ness of it.
  • Series Continuity Error:
    • Doc Scratch's level of knowledge is extremely inconsistant. To the point where his motivation for killing John, Jade, and Rose's avatars in the MMORPG makes no sense if you think about it.
    • A big one involving the premise. It says that the "player characters" are aged up (possibly aged down in the case of the pre-scratch trolls, depending on if they really were 19 or they just started playing the game at a younger age) to 16 or 17, but a comment in HUC's final chapter says that they were 13 during what would be the events of this fan fic.
    • Whether or not classes and aspects still applies to the characters seem to flip-flop between being so (such as how Roxy voids out Scratch's vision) and not being mentioned. As of season four, however, it seems to have finally settled on "not being mentioned." And chapter 16 even admits that it isn't going to happen.
  • Serial Escalation: The way Meenah leaving the Alphas was handled was possibly done even worse than Walter saying that he can't give Integra a cigar because he is part of the Millennium in Hecksing.
  • Sequel Hook: Ends with a sneak-peek showing the events of the split timeline, which would eventually form the foundation of Housestuck: The Split.
  • Sexy Discretion Shot: No sex ever happens on-screen. The closest is in chapter 23, when John and Jade finally get at it. The only description given to the readers is Jade's hand slapping against the glass opening to a door.
  • Shameless Fanservice Girl: And Shameless Fanservice Boy. The Rainbow Crew for the most part does not mind being near-naked at all. Nepeta (and Netimp) exaggerate this, as their "outfit" is to go around completely naked, and in chapter 18 Nepeta reveals that she didn't even like wearing clothes before the RC uniform portion. She doesn't even own pajamas, swimsuits, or underwear.
    • Parodied with Porrim. Or for that matter, most of the female cast (and a lot of the males too). But especially Porrim.
    • Jake's mother has no problems taking off her top in front of others.
    • Pretty much the whole Rainbow Crew after chapter 9 only bothers wearing clothes in the first place to troll people with how easy it is for them to lose them.
  • Shaped Like Itself: Used often, such as Medicman saying that she can't legally change Mituna's pervertedness. She repeatedly says that there's no legal thing she can do.
  • Ship Tease: Following Sweet Jade and Hella John, this usually (but not always) teases several crack pairings rather than popular ones. In fact, during the volcano run, John comments what it would be like to be in a relationship with each Prospit dreamer except Karkat and Vriska, the two people out of that group he's arguably shipped with the most. To add insult to injury, at one point Jade says that John has commented on a relationship with every teammate but her — in spite of Karkat and Vriska not asking.
  • Shipper on Deck: The Shipperworm is a rather dark take on this, being that its race is parasitic in nature and survives as long as the person they're in is in a comited relationship, and some malicious ones will posses that person to stay in the relationship longer.
  • Shout-Out:
    • The end of the third chapter contains another reference to Undercover Brother. Scratch point blank quotes the Chief, complete with accidentally saying Undercover Brother's name instead of the person he was reffering to. (Meenah.)
    • John reffering to the Geno incident as a fan's wet dream is a reference to one of Chuggaaconroy's early videos.
    • Rose's introduction of Meulin and Porrim to Karkat, Terezi, Kanaya, and Gamzee is this to the opening of Total Drama World Tour, complete with using several lines. Given that copy-pasting lines from canon word-for-word has been admitted to be a pretty big pet-peeve of the real author, this could be something of a Take That! at fan fics that do such.
    • Doc Scratch destroying the bridge over his Portal Pool and sending the Rainbow Crew falling into it resembles Knuckles's bridge destructions in Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
    • Chapters 15 and 17 draw similarities between the Felt Tower and the Stone Tower Temple from Majora's Mask. (Flipping upside down, light arrows being used (bonus points for indirectly becoming the cause of the upside-down flipping), and having a strange portal that leads out into the middle of a desert.) This isn't too surprising, given how Majora's Mask was a huge influence for the "sidequest"-centricness of the story, and the entire previous season was about the Rainbow Crew going to places aligning up with the four dungeon areas (swamp, mountain, ocean, canyon).
  • Lady Swears a Lot: Connie practically swears in every line she has.
  • Slapstick Knows no Gender: Despite being a SBIG installment, there is actually surprisingly little of what can be consider actual slapstick. However, it shows up in chapter 16, and just about nobody is safe from getting hit in the rear. Hell, to hammer it in, the game covers every potential gender combination of who smacks who, even if you factor in "counterpart male" and "counterpart female" as two additional "genders."
  • Speed Sex: A gender-inversion happens in chapter 23. Jade apparently has very poor control, based on the jokes John makes about their... experience.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Liquid Snake, Gas Snake, and Plasma Snake start also being referred to as Water Snake, Wind Snake, and Fire Snake respectively. After this change happens, it stays this way for the rest of chapter 13. The change, by the way, starts mid-paragraph.
  • Stacy's Mom: John is revealed in chapter 11 to have a crush on Jake's Ma, who almost everyone else thinks is generally very absrud.
  • Status Quo Is God: While a lot of things change — including and especially relationships — any drastic changes made to the Rainbow Crew that don't involve additional members will likely be reversed. For instance:
    • In chapter 12, six of the trolls are killed off. Then Pip comes back, putting his "I can revive six people at once" skill by bringing those exact same trolls back from the dead.
    • Six chapters later, Everyone save the Leijons is killed in the oil rig war. Thankfully they are also all brought back, this time thanks to a machine in the oil rig.
  • Stylistic Suck: No crap, it's a SBIG installment.
  • Suddenly Voiced: The mooks of the Felt, Feferi's lusus (who, thanks to no longer having eldritch ties, can talk without killing all of the trolls), Link (lampshaded in that his first line sounds like one of his cries, but it's really him clearing his throat), the Imperial/Message Drones, the random Stalfos, Waterwraith (again), and all of the guardians/ancestors who didn't already have dialogue like Nan(na), Mindfang, and Condesce.
  • Super Cell Reception: John can apparently contact Jane via Pesterchum from Hell. But according to Word of God, it's because the signals travel through a portal that was present nearby, hence how they are able to type to eachother.
  • Surrounded by Idiots:
    • Inverted with Doc Scratch, but hardly to the point where it's Surrounded by Smart People. While the rest of the Felt seems pretty competant, Scratch is a complete pothead idiot.
    • The Rainbow Crew as a whole are a good guy version, as most (but not all) of the people they meet seem to be idiots. Especially the characters from Simpsons.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial:
    • In chapter 12, Karkat's reaction to Kanaya using just one hand to chainsaw Eridan in half. "WOW SOMEBODY'S BEEN FAPPING!" Karkat shouted. "AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT MYSELF BECAUSE I TOTALLY DON'T DO THAT.
    • The narrator has done this at least twice so far.
      • Chapter 5 says that Roxy glared like Redglare but she's from a different timeline. It turns out she isn't.
      • Chapter 10 has a poem on Waterwraith's chamber, which will definitely not be mentioned in chapter 15. Nope, not at all. Said poem reflects the counterparts.
  • The Stations of the Canon: Parodied with the Wave Country mission, where Team Seven (in the Leaf Village) and Team Three (in the RC, and dealing with the "Session" split instead of the "Prospit/Derse" split) encounter the same Demon Brothers, later encounter Haku, even recreate a little of the "run up trees" portion... things finally get derailed on the bridge battle. Of course, as this is only the first part of three missions in the chapter, and the third is supposed to be the only one with actual length, this is all ran through in brief.
  • Stealth Pun:
    • The title is a Naruto reference.
    • At one point, Futurama is 'mispelled' as "Futarama."
    • There's irony behind John's crush on Ma. Realize that Ma, as Jake's guardian, is the HHC version of Grandma English (just younger and likely with a vastly different personality and... body shape), who in turn is the post-scratch version of Jade. So John does like a Jade in a way, just not the Jade in HHC's world.
  • The Stinger:
    • The first three chapters had a scene with Damara and Scratch, plus a signoff by Gamzee. Chapter 4 lampshades this by saying that there can't be something like the latter every chapter, because this isn't like the Simpsons. Season 2 picked this up by having each chapter ending with a scene of Meenah having a conversation with a Stalfos, except chapter 8 given how the Stalfos is dead and Meenah has joined the Rainbow Crew. Season three is the first season to not have anything resembling a stinger at all, and neither do seasons four or five.
    • At the end of chapter 17, there is a "video" by the Troll Empress, saying that an invasion broke out and an attack was led on an oil rig. She then tells people to sign up for the army, to fight it back. End of season five.
  • Suddenly Sexuality: Inverted. The very first lines are of Kanaya — of all people — making out with Edward Cullen.
  • Surprise Incest:
    • Oddest example ever; this shocked the fake-author, having never read acts 1-4 until making season 2 of this fan fic. He found out that John and Jade were related after teasing them so much in the first four chapters (and hooking them up in Hecksing), but ignored this because Jane and Jake are shipped together as well as Dirk and Roxy, and said author thinks they're related too.Note 
    • An in-universe example occurs in chapter 19. It turns out that the Troll Empress did a Mother Grub directly and the twenty-four ancestors were her offspring, making all the descendant trolls cousins. Both the descendants and the ancestors have been in several relationships with eachother since then, and Dualscar and Dolorosa are even married. This reveal doesn't seem to hit them that much though.
    • Downplayed in chapter 21. John outright sleeps with the past version of his mother without "fully knowing" and being led to think that their relation is disproven. He completely ignored the similar looks, names (in addition to the names of all of her friends) and a few details on the past of her life, so it shouldn't really be a surprise.
  • Take Our Word for It: "So THAT's what a troll's junk looks like!" (It's not dirty in context.)
  • Take That!:
    • Depicitions of the Rainbow Crew members are usually a jab at something. Either an exaggeration of how fans commonly mis-portray them (Mainly the humans, what with John's innocense, Jade's shyness, Roxy's mind always on sex, etc.), an inversion of mis-portrayals (Usually with the trolls, since some of the Beforans already covered the previous depiction type in canon: Eridan becoming a pimp, Vriska being a near-Harmless Villain), some odd mix of the previous two (IE Gamzee's pseudo-Mr. Fanservice status), a reference to Total Drama fan fiction (Meulin, Porrim, and Aranea — but this was put to a pretty quick end), or a parody of another stereotype. (Such as Rose, if the author's short story on his profile of her beating up an alternate Ezekiel from one of his other fan fics is any indication.)
    • The fake jabs at Twilight from HUC return here, including the first scene of the fan fic.
    • The ending of chapter 4 accuses The Simpsons of being too repetitive and formuletic.
    • John's rant about Meenah's dungeon (Bold emphasis not in the fan fic):
      "ARGH! I can't take it! Theres' too many keys and doors and stupidly complicated puzzles and overpowered enemies! The keys! The keys! If this was a Zelda OOT temple than this would be the Key Temple! In fact, I swear at once point that we get a key, use it on a door, and on the other side of that door is a room with nothing but another key in it! this is a few JPEGS from becoming a Arise game!"
    • What Highblood's "outfit" "symbolizes" is a potshot at Gamzee. The last sentence in the paragraph states it outright.
    • Less blatant than that, but there's the fact that Kanaya's rainbow drinker/vampire reveal and revival is compared to Nepeta being able to easily smack Gamzee so hard his head explodes. Karkat's reactions to both explainations are even the same.
    • After making fun of people who make fun of Twilight, it finally deals one itself when Edward possesses a dead Eridan, and confesses that he watched his previous girlfriend and Kanaya sleep. Kanaya's reaction is to chainsaw Eridan's body again, thus killing Edward either twice or a third time — depending on how you count the Alucard vs Jan fight.
    • Chapter 13 has two parallels drawn to creepypastas, both of these mentioning blood. This is a jab at stories that have an overuse of blood for scare factor.
    • Chapter 14 has Jade mocking sit-coms that are overly reliant on Lampshade Hanging and general meta humor yet don't do anything to correct the problems. She is saying this during the chapter where she, John, Rose, and Dave finally break a little bit out of their designated "roles" that they had for the past ten (not counting the rest of season four) chapters. No Hypocritical Humor there!
    • Now that chapter 14 elaborates a little more on Wiggim and answers one of the mouses Hecksing left hanging, every Simpsons character who has ever appeared in Crconikals has died. In Quimby's case, he was brought back as a vampire, but he still technically died and underwent a rather painful death at that.
    • Chapter 16 makes a dig at Chocolate Mix Skittles, with pretty much everyone agreeing that they taste terrible. To the extent that it's even a dare to eat them, and the Felt refused to steal the bag Kanaya brought with her while the Crew was knocked out.
    • The main plot of chapter 19 is parodying fans who misunderstand the quadrants. To the point where the trolls don't even understand their own culture.
    • Chapter 23 can mostly be summed up as this: Great Pikmin Fan hates love potions.
  • Tempting Fate: The very first lines in the fan fic are about Kanaya and Edward saying that they don't want anything to ruin their little date. Then Alucard comes and kills Edward.
  • There Is Only One Bed... in an entire aircraft carrier. Though John and Jade's stay in it was far from romantic, continuing their streak of being in a one-sided crush stalemate and Jade farting at one point, driving them both out of the room for a while.
  • Those Two Bad Guys: Fin and Trace, mimicking Jan and Luke in Hecksing.
  • There Was a Door: The Messenger Drone at the end of chapter 10 bursts a hole through a wall in John's room and says that he couldn't find the entrance. He then bursts through another section of the wall when coming out, this time having no excuse.
  • Toilet Humor: At the end of chapter 19, the whole Rainbow Crew (sans Gamzee, but even he was sick in the previous day) is poisoned thanks to Bororo. The chapter ends with their ship crashing thanks to rushing to get back to the treehouse, and Rose yelling at John and Jane to keep rowing their little lifeboat to get back.
  • Tonight, Someone Dies: Near the end of chapter 3, Gamzee says that for the next chapter someone will die. That someone turns out to be Geno.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Chief Wiggim, as he dives into the ocean from the top of a car that's going non-stop in a direction away from him. To retrieve a football. He is then shot and eaten by a shark afterwards.
  • Took a Level in Badass:
    • This was sort of the point of Ichigo's lessons to Rose, Roxy, Eridan, Feferi, and Nepeta, although it served as a dig against fans who generally thought any of those five were weak to begin with.
    • Nepeta specifically. For the first three seasons, she did very little other than being the designated door knocker and occasionally using her Ichigo-taught skills. Then she's suddenly good enough to take down Humongous Mecha Death Mecha, essentially by herself. And kill Gamzee just by hitting him with her ass. And carry Sollux, Tavros, Feferi, Equius, Gamzee, Eridan, and Vriska at the same time in one giant stack, which was done after catching all seven of them after they fell (Sollux from losing his mind honey and being unable to levitate further; the others from being revived in mid-air). Subverted as she appears to be this badass the entire time, but was holding back for some reason or another.
    • Compared to canon, the pre-scratch trolls. Damara and Rufioh at least showed having remarkable abilities in their battle against the Xenomorph, Meenah is the Crew's Badass Normal by a long shot, their fight against Darkhorse was much longer and flashier than the other battles against Omega Drew Pickles or his minions and it was a more even match (contrast to the post-scratch trolls needing strategy, convenient nitroglycerin, and Pip reviving everybody, and both sets of humans getting assistance from their guardians), and Aranea flat-out says that without them, the Crew would stand no chance against Meenah at all.
    • Despite being the same people as them in canon, the ancestors of the original post-scratch trolls are revealed to invert this. They all really lead mundane lives and only shrouded themselves in stories to seem impressive, and they are all implied to be less-than-decent fighters.
  • Took a Level in Dumbass: Inverted with Porrim and John. The former started out as a Dumb Blonde parody before reading up on activism and suddenly, inexplicably acting a lot more rational. The later was basically a hyperactive, relationship-hopping idiot before turning more and more into a borderline Jerk Jock.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: John and Rose, especially in chapter 14. In chapter 12, Vriska suddenly becomes evil and kills Tavros for almost no reason (he gets revived, though).
  • Torches and Pitchforks: The Pikmin interns use these at the beginning of chapter 9. Also, the pitchforks glow for some reason, but not as brightly as the torches.
  • Trailers Always Spoil: The summary during chapters 11, 12, and 13 gave away the fact that the ancestors and guardians will be appearing on those respective chapters. Chapter 14 doesn't, and especially since the summaries have changed, this isn't an issue anymore.
  • Unfortunate Names: Tavass.
  • Troll:
    • Stitch seems to be one, given how after being attacked by Rufioh, he swaps the entire Crew's sex for practically no reason, and then leaves them to stumble onto a trap.
    • Rose goes from being a rather unpleasant leader to this, especially to Dave. She openly admits at the end of chapter 15 that she says outrageous things just to get Dave angry.
  • Troll Fic: Averted on the surface, though this is one of those fanworks that's less "parody/exaggerate cliche fan concepts" and more "hit as many Fandom Berser Buttons as possible." Like giving Kanaya a boyfriend, said boyfriend being the unliked lead of an unliked novel (Twilight, no less), a focus on an ecto-incest pairing, actual incest being implied when John's own mom hits on him, the fake-author admiting that s/he skipped to Act 5 (but did read the Intermission, oddly enough), and needless sexualization of Homestuck as a whole.
  • Unexpected Character: Frankly, going by number each chapter of season four gets more extreme in this regard. Chapter 11 has alternate versions of the B2 kid's guardians/would-be guardians, which is a little unexpected but seeing as we've seen John's and Dave's before it isn't too far-fetched. Chapter 12 has the ancestors, which despite being more popular than the B2 guardians, were flat-out stated to not exist earlier. Chapter 13 has the would-be ancestors of Beforus, characters who have not been elaborated on at all in canon, each given new names and interpretations. While chapter 14's group, the B1 guardians, are nothing too surprising at all (especially if you read season four in numerical order), the chapter itself contains Noah, a character who in both HHC and HUC alike has been said to be from a different anime/webcomic.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: As a Stylistic Suck Crack Fic that even when cut in half is arguably novel-length, there are naturally several moments that make almost no sense, context or no.
    • After this quote, Cronus looks at the other directions as if there's nothing that bad happening in the direction of the shark. He also seems pretty lax in general about the fact that there's a shark in the water with him.
      Mituna was drowning so Cronus ran up to him and grabbed him and then began looking around for methods to get to surface. Towards the slope east and up to the beach he saw a man getting mauled by a shark so he knew that wasn't an option (AN don't worry he's going to get hospitaled back to health later on)....
    • In general, all of the Rainbow Crew runs around wearing either very little or just generally absurd and impractical outfits. Nobody says a thing. It's implied that this isn't that big of a deal outside of the US in this world, and even in the US it's extremely lax.
    • There's also a point in the story where a UFO shoots down an airplane and the former's inhabitants, Xenomorphs from Alien (except sentient), get into a fight with the inhabitants of the airplane — or at least, one of the Xenomorphs. The rest are all much saner, and decide to hail taxis and get no flack for this in spite of being... well, Xenomorphs. Then again, trolls completely co-exist with humans so it's implied that aliens aren't that odd of a sight in this world.
    • Doc Scratch. He's finally revealed in chapter 15 to be a giant puppet brought to life with dark magic in this verse, and other lines imply that he shares the same appearance he does in canon. His apartment is also revealed to be a giant, green Evil Tower of Ominousness that sticks out of the rest of Chicago. Yet everyone treats him like a regular citizen.
    • Generally any celebrities with special abilities. Like Tony Hawk, who in this story is capable of turning into a literal giant talking hawk and uses this to break into a library to help the Crew fight against a half-demon-horse, half-skeleton monster who goes by the name of Darkhorse. All that happens is that he gets shushed by the librarians. Or David Hasselhoff, who became a hundred feet tall after eating Mario mushrooms (the fake-author of the work believes that he was giant in his appearance in the Spongebob movie, and this was apparently a reference to it, not that Spongebob and Patrick were tiny).
    • Averted with the Death Mecha in chapter 12; after being freed, he proceeds to wreck up the fortress he was sealed in and the people inside freak out and call the military.
  • Verbal Tic:
    • Edward Cullen. Has a little habit. Of breaking up his clauses. Into seperate sentences.
    • Kanaya mixes words together or adds completely unnecessary suffixes to them, just to try to make her speech sound more complicatedifcationized. As shown with... that, the results aren't even real words.
  • Video Game Settings: Word of God implied that there will be quite a few settings featured in later chapters. Listed chronologically (by chapter count in the case of season four), we have:
  • Villain Ball: Doc Scratch, definitely as of season five. It's been only one chapter focused on the newer Felt apartment (now called a "tower"), and already it lifts itself from the ground and flips itself upside down after a certain button is pressed at the bottom, which is supposed to be a way for Felt members to get out (getting the required 64 person-weight needed by making clones via time travel) even if it's inconvenient. This was intentional, as the original plan was for the button to simply spring them out, but the author thought that a needless inverse of the tower (complete with knocking Scratch on his ass) would be funnier.
    Scratch: WHY THE HELL?
  • Walking Spoiler:
    • Homer Simpson. Practically every development in the story on his side — his trip from Meenah's moronic minion, to being fired and joining the Rainbow Crew, to getting knocked into nuclear waste by Meenah's Stalfos, to getting killed by the Master Cheif while trying to attack Integra (the reason Integra's there is because Alucard's dead by this point), to being reincarnated as Hank Hill — is a spoiler. Just about the only things that aren't are how much of a jerkass he is, and even that's the driving force to his arc
    • Hank Hill himself, as his origin gives away... pretty much everything in the above bullet point.
    • Practically each season bar the first has an "unexpected addition" of an ensemble. Season two had the A1 trolls, and a Late-Arrival Spoiler of Meenah deciding to join the Crew. Season three had the Pikmin and their Onions. Season four had the ancestors and guardians, the only groups so far confirmed to not be "permanent" additions to the Crew (although they do help them out frequently starting from here, and have even joined them in both the jury duty quests and the trips back home). Season five has the counterparts. And season six has the leprechaun members of the Felt joining after being brought back to lif and being clumsily revealed as Good All Along.
    • The counterparts specifically, because they don't appear until over halfway through the story, only get the slightest hints to their existances, are implied from the first chapter they appear in to give insight on their original selve's character by form of being slightly different yet similar to them, and their origins are tied to at least two more walking spoilers. (Hank and Homer.)
    • John, Jade, and Rose. Given that their actions and development in the later half of the story is all about their backstories, they quickly become this.
    • Speaking of the guardians and ancestors listed above, John's mother Beth can now count as this, as she doesn't particularly get that much character development/doesn't even appear until over halfway through the story and completely subverts the expectations one might have for an alternate version of Jane/Nanna. (Or as the mother of John, who in the first three seasons was pretty "innocent" before his background showed.) Something similar can be said about Jade, Jane, and Jake's guardians, but with John's it's by far the most extreme.
    • Nepeta is implied to have a Dark and Troubled Past and quickly roller-coasters around from "parody of her canon self's role as canon fodder" and "super important," but hasn't reached Sweet Jade and Hella John-levels. Yet.
    • Because of the way this story and what it's a spinoff to is structured, it's impossible to completely and uttery avoid spoilers of the other story unless you had them both open and read the chapters of both of them in chronological order.
  • Wangst: In-universe, everyone thinks this about Aradia's backstory. Really, losing a basketball game to Michael Jordan isn't that bad of a thing. It wasn't even Jordan — it was Sollux and Equius in a very elaborate disguise. Yeah... whether it makes it better or worse is up to you
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: Geno is kill unceremoniously by the Hitler Ass Tattoo in chapter 4, a meme single chapter after his debut and addition to the Rainbow Crew.
  • Wham Episode:
    • Chapter 15 sees a return to the Felt plot (after it's been seemingly dropped in the past three seasons without an appearance from anyone) and leads to the creation of the counterparts.
    • In chapter 18, nearly everyone in the Crew dies and then gets brought back. That's not the plot twist. What is is that Nepeta definitely knows more than she lets on to, and is implied to be faking her idealism and happyness seen earlier in the story. Also, the Felt's mooks are back, and this time they're allied with the Rainbow Crew.
    • Chapter 21 is implied to lead to a spinoff what if fic titled Housestuck: The Split, reveals a lot more concepts on the past, the first generation turns out to have been lying about not seeing the future selves of their offspring for their whole lives, and also, John fucks his mother.
    • Chapter 23. John fucks Jade this time, also dating her and finally breaking up with Jane. Roxy unleashes a hate plague tricked into thinking it's a love potion, Nepeta's apparently been hiding even more stuff in her journals, Dirk has gotten along with his counterpart while blowing up AR and, by implication, going shadeless for the rest of the story, Chicago is wrecked, arc villain Jaws is finally killed, Jade proposes to John with a kiss and it ends by introducing Calliope.
    • Chapter 24 once again gets back into the Felt plot, then throws several developments at once through casual conversation. [[spoier:Hank, Kamina, Alucard, and Rose Quartz were actually "Sages" the entire time, along with the previously-unseen Brenda (from Perfect Hair Forever, this is the character Damara cosplays as) and Sheldon (Big Bang Theory). John, Calliope, and Scratch have something called a "Triple Force" power. The Rainbow Crew successfully makes it through Scratch's Felt Tower, if at the cost of Hank's death, and Karkat has a spiritual conversaion with a version of himself with lime blood. No, not Karkta, it's another Karkat. Implied to be from the events of Housestuck: The Split.]]
  • What Happened to the Mouse? Meenah's plot about trying to rebel against Rose is seemingly dropped in season 3. It's not known if a future season will answer this.
  • Whole-Plot Reference:
    • Chapter 3 to Super Mario RPG. Well, at least the first half is a reference to the Forest Maze portion. John lampshades this several times.
    • Chpater 9 and the first half of 10 to the Deku Palace portion of Majora's Mask. To make it even more obvious, the Sonata of Castles is just the Sonata of Awakening backwards.
  • Wolverine Publicity: Parodied, in chapter 5's AN it's revealed that the fake-author only had the fan fiction's opening centered around Kanaya and Edward even though the actual story is more about John, Jade, and Rosenote  because they wanted to use the trolls as means of getting the reader's attention and attempting to drag them in.
  • The Worf Effect: The first thing Darkhorse does after appearing is effortlessly knock out Samus and Snake. While Snake did not fight up to this point in the story, Samus's introduction was taking out the Yellow Devil in one shot. Granted, Samus was in her "robot form" in the Yellow Devil fight, but still.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Almost everyone, given the author's preference of equality when it comes to tropes like these.
    • In general, all of the villains thusfar.
    • John, reluctantly. "Aw man, killing cute girls wan't part of mishin! But I have to do it anyway!"
    • All four of the human males did not seem to have a problem with fighting Vriska. Though Dirk is the only one who actually does fight her, that's because Vriska just got lazy right after and changed the challenge.
    • Nobody had any problems fighting Meenah, and the only reason a girl (Porrim) ends up being the only direct one to battle her is because both she dashed head-on to attack her first upon realizing that Meenah was a villain, and because shortly after the battle Meenah gives up and decides to join in with the Rainbow Crew.
  • Writers Cannot Do Math:Invoked.
    • The Crew is all on "Floor -2," then falls to "Floor -5." Nepeta says this:
      "Oh no according to this WE HIT FIFVE FLOORS BELOW! That was A TWO FLOOR BIG FALL!"
    • The jungle/tundra/sea/desert people are all half human, half X, and half Y. And to add insult to injury, some of these "halves" don't make any sense. Like "half poison."
  • Wrong Genre Savvy:
    • Sollux and Karkat, for labeling certain trolls as "canon fodder." They couldn't be anywhere near wrong. After being disproven, they seem to stop.
    • Meenah and Cronus seem to think similarly to anyone who isn't Meenah or Damara, and Darkhorse thinks the same about anyone who isn't Meenah or Aranea. Again, they (including Darkhorse) are proven wrong in the Darkhorse battle.
  • You Can't Fight Fate: Subverted. The end of chapter 1 shows that Aradia can have visions or can see into the future. But in chapter 2, when asked if the Rainbow Crew will be able to survive the attack from Fin and Trace, she says that it depends on how they do, implying that the Crconikals verse has a flexible timeline, unlike the Homestuck verse.
  • Your Normal Is Our Taboo: Non-alien example, but John's unusual dislike towards even interacting with someone if they're on seperate teams. He breaks his own rule with Jane during season four, though that may have been because they already hooked up.

    Housestuck: The Split 

  • Body Paint: In addition to this being Disciple's usual outfit again, Aibur and company are entirely clad in painted on suits with golden, glowing leo signs (even though most of them are not trolls, if not none of them are trolls). Based on the way the leo signs glow, they have some sort of power to them.
  • Double-Meaning Title: The title of Chapter 1 is "It's About Time." It could either mean that it's about time that Housestuck: The Split was finally released, or how the chapter itself is about a time-based being. Or how the whole story is about time travel, specifically an alternate timeline being made.
  • Expy: Design-wise, Aibur is a clear expy of Felicia. Plot-wise, she's a lot like Prince Vorkken in that she's an opposing counterpart to the main group of heroes that is seemingly more powerful than them and has her own group of warriors. Unlike the main characters, each member of Aibur's group is of a completely different species.
  • Grand Finale: Acts as one for most of the SBIG series, and it's confirmed that this is planned to be Great Pikmin Fan's final intentionally poorly written fic (not counting updates to other continuities, such as SBIGlets and Sheldin and Lenard) until further notice. It should be noted that Stealth Parody stories of his, such as Escape From Fanservice Island, are not counted as the SBIG series.
  • In Spite of a Nail: The split timeline has changed a lot of things thanks to the Rainbow Crew of both generations being absent. However, Pip is still killed by Carl.
  • Mythology Gag: The story's cover is a "graph" where both axes are labeled "time." Sweet Jade and Hella John uses a similar gag when explaining the timeline of the PDA. Both cases also serve as joke-references to the amount of confusing time travel present in Homestuck canon.
  • Remember the New Guy?: Aibur was apparently a friend of Nepeta's that was barely even hinted at existing back in Hurrcain. This is justified in that she was killed in the loop timeline when she was only around five years old.


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