History Characters / TheHomestuckEpilogues

This is a page for tropes concerning characters and their iterations introduced in the epilogues. For more complete pages on the characters in their entirety, look [[{{Characters/Homestuck}} here.]]

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!! John Egbert
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Gives one to Terezi, but perishes halfway through it.]]
* FinalDeath: [[spoiler: Succumbs to the poison in Lord English's golden tooth and dies [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Terezi's arms,]] with the usual methods of revival unavailable.]]
* LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler: Realizes his feelings for Terezi and they get together at the end of reality.]]
* WreckedWeapon: [[spoiler: Lord English ate every single one of his hammers.]]


!! Rose Lalonde
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler: Is brainwashed and kidnapped by Dirk near the end of Meat, forcing the remaining heroes to embark to rescue her.]]

!! Dave Strider

!! Jade Harley
* LittleBitBeastly: Moreso than in canon. Here, she has a dog-like tail, and is heavily implied to have a canine penis.

!! Jane Crocker
* FaceHeelTurn: Heroic in ''Homestuck'', but here, she's a huge xenophobe, and a sexual abuser.
* PresidentEvil: [[spoiler: Despite Dave and Karkat's efforts, she becomes President of Earth C.]]

!! Roxy Lalonde
* {{Transgender}}: [[spoiler: He ends up identifying as male.]]

!! Dirk Strider / [[spoiler: Ultimate Dirk]]
* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: [[spoiler: As Ultimate Dirk, after taking over the narrative, he is too reckless and threads too close the Black/Green Hole, which alerts Alternate Calliope, who establishes a stable vessel and proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle demolish his control with almost zero effort.]]]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler: After his powers passively evolve into becoming his Ultimate self, he shapes up to be this. He only shows his hand halfway into ''Meat'', but unlike Jane in Candy (who is limited as an antagonist to that route alone), Dirk's hijacking of the narrative and his long term plans take over both routes.]]
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: Ultimate Self Dirk is an incredibly powerful RealityWarping meta-villain, but Alternate Calliope was able to usurp the narrative out of his hands effortlessly the moment she obtained a vessel in Earth C.]]
* DeathActivatedSuperpower: [[spoiler: He gains the power of an Ultimate self thanks to his Candy counterpart's suicide.]]
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Eventually becomes one to Hussie himself once he's Ultimate Dirk, serving as an interactive author figure in conflict with most of the characters. Emphasized in ''Homestuck^2'', where unlike Hussie's command to "keep drawing Homestuck or something", the only suggestion box command Dirk recieves tells him to ''stop''.]]
* FatalFlaw: His need to be the center of attention and make everything about himself, even when it [[BeingEvilSucks makes him miserable]], is what convinces [[spoiler:Ultimate!Dirk to become the villain of the narrative to retain relevance]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:Ultimate!Dirk's need to be the center of attention, even as a villain, is what motivates him. His megalomania and self-hatred make it impossible for him to not attempt to feed his ego.]] The concern he shows Rose is even less about her as a person and more about how she is the one member of their family most like him, making it about himself.
* NarratorAllAlong: [[spoiler: He's the narrator of Meat - and the one calling the shots.]]
* PetTheDog: His convoluted gambit to get Dave and Karkat together after they've repressed their feelings for years [[spoiler:(Even using ''Jane's entire presidency'') solely to make Dave happy. As he is [[ItsAllAboutMe more concerned with himself at this point]], it ends up showing that he still does value his son-brother and his happiness, even trying, and failing, to let them do it of their own volition until Dave gets fed up with Narrator!Dirk and does it himself.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler:He repeatedly and intentionally misgenders Roxy, despite Alt!Calliope correcting him on multiple occasions. In ''Homestuck^2'', his rant on Yiffy's existence has him claim she was created for the "woke police" to fanwank over.]]
* RogueProtagonist: [[spoiler: During the timeskip between ''Homestuck'' and the ''Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues'', it's revealed that his power of Souls/Heart has rapidly evolved in a manner far more aggressive than Rose's own. This results in the beginning of a merge into his Ultimate self... which is an unbelievably bad thing for Dirk as his alternate selves include ''Lord English'' and ''Doc Scratch'' (as well as the less dangerous but no less awful [[AbusiveParents Bro Strider]]). After this process is complete in ''Meat'', he becomes a RealityWarping meta-villain who usurps the narrative in a megalomaniac rampage.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: A massive one for Dave and Karkat. It leads to his PetTheDog moment above.
* WalkingSpoiler: It is ''exceedingly'' difficult to talk about the Epilogues as a whole without talking about Meat!Dirk's role in the story as it involves spoiling the big twist of the Epilogues, and arguably one of the biggest twists in Homestuck's entire story: [[spoiler: the breakneck whiplash of a reveal that is Meat!Dirk's FaceHeelTurn by ascending to his Ultimate Self, literally hijacking the narrative, and resigning himself into becoming the main villain of Homestuck.]]

!! Jake English
* ReallyGetsAround: To the point Jane slut-shaming him is an election tactic.

!! Karkat Vantas

!! Kanaya Maryam

!! Gamzee Makara

!! Calliope
* AmbiguousGender: [[spoiler: They end up identifying as non-binary.]]

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!! John Egbert
* CassandraTruth: He seems to the only one who realizes how strange everyone is reacting to things such as Gamzee being EasilyForgiven, Jane becoming more and more cruel and other things. Naturally no one believes him, and it only gets worse [[spoiler: when he tries to kidnap Tavros to remove him from his abusive household.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: He grew a mustache during the timeskip, signifying his settling down and growing into a more fatherly role. When he finally decides to help the rebels out, he [[ImportantHaircut shaves it off]].

!! Rose Lalonde

!! Dave Strider

!! Jade Harley
* AdrenalineMakeover: While part of the Rebel army, she wears face paint and camo fatigues.
* LittleBitBeastly: She's got a dog-like tail she lacks in canon.

!! Jane Crocker
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: [[spoiler:Karkat and Dave, at least, unambiguously describe her actions later on as fascist, and given that she's formed a military dictatorship to exterminate trolls entirely, it's hard to completely disagree.]]
* ArcVillain: [[spoiler: She's the main antagonist of the ''Candy'' route, after Dirk's suicide and Gamzee's release makes her slowly go haywire, basically becoming a human version of the Condesce. She's still somewhat of a threat in ''Meat'', being Karkat's opponent for the world presidency, but her policies never escalate into the borderline Nazi-like ideals she has in ''Candy'', not to mention Ultimate Dirk being the actual main problem.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Even compared to her Meat version; while her Meat version has some terrible opinions, her Candy version devolves to the point where she becomes a xenophobe seeking outright Troll-genocide, with multiple characters specifically describing her as fascist.]]
* RogueProtagonist: [[spoiler: Over the seven-year gap until the ''Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues'', she became a far more threatening figure with varyingly xenophobic ideals. While the reasoning behind some of these is sound (which even Terezi acknowledges), in ''Candy'', she goes completely haywire after Dirk kills himself, becoming a rambling, rapist human supremacist by the end.]]

!! Roxy Lalonde
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: While she doesn't transition or change pronouns [[spoiler:like her Meat counterpart]], Candy!Roxy does begin her relations to the idea of gender.
* CharacterDerailment: Invoked, subverted, and discussed. [[spoiler:John finds her submissive behavior to be increasingly out-of-character, to the point where he thinks she isn't even real because she isn't her 'canon' self. When they finally talk about it, she reminds him that people can legitimately change over time or behave in unexpected ways.]]

!! Dirk Strider
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: In the ''Candy'' path, he realizes he is in an irrelevant world and commits suicide to give his powers to his Meat counterpart. We get to see in detail in ''Meat'' what that this causes, and [[RogueProtagonist it's]] [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain not]] [[FallenHero pretty.]]]]
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler: His uses his suicide to give his power to his Meat counterpart. This helps Meat Dirk to achieve his Ultimate Self and seize control of the Narrative.]]

!! Jake English
* TheAlcoholic: He turns to the bottle to deal with his hectic life.
* HearingVoices:[[spoiler:By ''Homestuck^2'', Brain Ghost Dirk returns to his mind to help him out.]]
* HenpeckedHusband: PlayedForDrama. His marriage to Jane sees her as domineering, forgetful, and even downright sexually abusive.


!! Karkat Vantas
* EyepatchOfPower: [[spoiler:At some point during one of the timeskips he acquires one of these in the process of taking several levels in badass.]]
* RebelLeader: [[spoiler:Leads the troll resistance once Jane basically goes, in Dave's words, full-on fascist.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Eventually, he becomes the leader of the resistance, to the point where even Meenah ends up willing to follow him.]]

!! Kanaya Maryam

!! Gamzee Makara
* EasilyForgiven: Played for laughs, since it's the very first thing that happens after the reader chooses Candy. Jane, Roxy, Calliope, and society seem to believe his HeelFaceTurn, much to John's consternation and confusion.
* HeelFaceTurn: Subverted and repeatedly lampshaded. After he's freed from the fridge, he claims to have seen the error of this ways, and tells everyone who's listening that he's gone through a "redemption arc." While he no longer goes on murderous rampages, Gamzee continues to be the unsettling person he always was, if not more than before.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:(Vriska Serket) killed him to save Vriska Lalonde-Maryam.]]
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He fulfills his role as a Bard of Rage by [[spoiler: inviting the unpleasant decay/destruction of everything and everyone he interacts with, as of the literal SECOND he is brought back into the Candy timeline. Everything in the timeline is unambiguously worse with his inclusion, which is probably why his reintroduction is the very first thing to happen in Candy. Even him dying just causes more problems with everyone since Jane, despite finally throwing Gamzee out on his ass, uses his death as an excuse to further her own xenophobia.]]

!! Calliope

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!! Tavros Crocker
The son of Jane and Jake, and Harry Anderson's cousin. He's a bundle of nerves. His chumhandle is glutinousGymnast.
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* DeadGuyJunior: Is named after the late Tavros Nitram.
* ExtremeDoormat: Just like his namesake, he's very submissive.
* GenerationXerox: He acts almost identically to the previous Tavros, being very meek and easily dominated. He also has similar relationships with Gamzee (who acts as an HonoraryUncle to him) and Vriska Lalonde-Maryam (to whom he has black feelings for).
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Looks incredibly similar to his father Jake, just with a different outfit, rounded specs, and a flipped hairstyle.

!! Vriska\Vrissy Lalonde-Maryam
The adopted Troll daughter of Rose and Kanaya who has slimiaries to the orginal Vriska. Her Chumhandle is "adamantGriftress".
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* DeadGuyJunior: As far as Rose and Kanaya were concerned, Vriska Serket is dead, so this troll (who just so happens to be Vriska's clone) was named after her.
* GenerationXerox: She's basically exactly like the main-timeline Vriska, right down to having similar relationships with John's son and with her generation's Tavros.
* {{Goth}}: Dresses like one.
* HappilyAdopted: Loves her adoptive mothers dearly, though she can sometimes get embarrassed by their affection for her.
* InSeriesNickname: In ''Homestuck^2'', she takes on the nickname of Vrissy to help differentiate her with the original Vriska.
* MulticoloredHair: Downplayed. She has a small streak of cobalt in her otherwise black hair.
* ScrewYourself: As we learn later on, Vrissy really, ''really'' likes Vriska. She admires her devil-may-care attitude, strength, and confidence, and fully confides to Harry Anderson that her talking to Tavros didn't bother her in the slightest--it was the fact that she couldn't get close to ''Vriska'' that was the problem.

!! Harry Anderson Egbert
John and Roxy's biological son. His Chumhandle is "thespiansGlamor".
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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Anderson Harry Anderson]], a comedian and magician who stars in ''Wise Guy''.
* PrettyBoy: Took after his mother Roxy in terms of appearance, making him a ''very'' pretty boy.
* ShearMenace: His Strife Specibus is Scissorkind, after incorporating his sewing scissors into it.
* ToothyIssue: Buck teeth runs in the family.

!! Barack Obama
* ActionPolitician: The 43rd and last President of the United States, and a Sburb player who reached the God Tiers.
* LightEmUp: He's a hero of Hope.
* ProjectedMan: The Obama that Dave meets isn't the real Obama, but a holographic copy made from a captchalogued ghost imprint of his brain.

!! Swifer Eggmop
A jadeblood troll in charge of watching over the eggs. She was designated Matriarch since Kanaya left to be part of the rebellion.
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* AscendedExtra: She first appeared in the Credits before getting a bigger role in the bonus patreon pages of ''Homestuck^2''.
* MeaningfulName: She swiffs, and her appearance in the Credits has her mopping an egg.
* NeatFreak: She's an overzealous cleaner.
* TheRoaringTwenties: She speaks like a parody of a 1920's newsboy.

!! Cliper Borden
A skilled data analyst and Swifer's moirail. While he's served a similar role in Karkat's rebellion, he's eventually captured and sentenced to work in the Cake Mills.
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* MeaningfulName: He's good at data analysis, so he's typically seen with a clipboard in his hand.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Exits the story fairly early when he gets sentenced to prison.
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!! Aradia Megido

!! Tavros Nitram

!! Sollux Captor

!! Terezi Pyrope

!! (Vriska Serket)
* HumiliationConga: In short order, just as she is about to fight Lord English, [[spoiler: she gets stabbed in the forehead by a shard of reality, gets sucked in by a black hole after getting impaled by another shard into her chest, making her miss the entire fight just as John arrived. Then ends up in the Candy timeline after falling from the sky and is found by John who not only tells her how crappy the world is, but also her name was taken by Kanaya and Rose's daughter, leading to her name becoming (Vriska). She then finds out that Terezi was looking for her, and all the while she's bagging John to send her back. Then Gamzee appears and more or less puts her into a forced Kinemesis relationship with kissing, and then she meets Vrissy, after killing Gamzee. By the time she gets to Harry's house in ''Homestuck^2'' it's clear she's trying not to have a breakdown.]]
* EyepatchOfPower: Once again she lost her Sevenfold Vision eye, and now wears an actual eye patch over it.
* OneSteveLimit: Because of the presence of Vriska Lalonde-Maryam, Vriska Serket is referred to as (Vriska) from page 31 of Candy onwards, just like the alternate timeline (Vriska) that dated Meenah. Eventually in ''Homestuck^2'' they resolved this by having the teenage Vriska use the nickname of Vrissy.

!! Eridan Ampora

!! Feferi Peixes

!! Aranea Serket

!! Meenah Peixes
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: She managed to steal the Ring of Life from John and uses it to revive herself.]]
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Her Alterna self put down Karket's ancestor's religion and rebellion and now she's second in command in Karket's rebellion.]]
* PungeonMaster: Averted, she stopped making fish puns when Candy!Karkat told her to stop.

!! Davepetasprite^2

!! Lord English
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:The CardCarryingVillain who was obsessed with being the center of attention and the most powerful being in the universe dies off-screen, weakened and powerless.]]
* DiskOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: He might've been the biggest threat in canon, but in the epilogues, he was taken out only a third of the way into Meat.]]
* EatingTheEnemy: [[spoiler: He tried to eat Meat!John like he ate all his hammers. It didn't quite work.]]
* ExtremeOmnivore: [[spoiler: He ate all of Meat!John's hammers. All of them.]]
* VillainousLegacy: Even if [[spoiler:he gets defeated and killed, he becomes part of Ultimate Dirk and is probably one of the main reasons of the boy's transformation into a villain.]]

!! Muse!Calliope
* CannibalismSuperpower: [[spoiler: This is what she intends to do to the critically-weakened Lord English.]]
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler: She's quite sure that when Lord English arrives in the Candy timeline, he will be far too weak to take on her, even on his best day.]]
* GoodCounterpart: To her alternate timeline twin, Lord English [[spoiler: and to the other narrator of the Epilogues, Ultimate Dirk.]]
* PossessingADeadBody: [[spoiler: She took control of a dead Jade slain by Lord English.]]

!! Juju Rose, Dave and Jade
[[spoiler:Recruited from canon]] at the start of Meat, imprisoned in the house juju[[note]]How long it feels to them is not exactly precised[[/note]] and unleashed against Lord English.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: Muse!Calliope takes control of Jade after her corpse is dropped in the Candy timeline.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Jade gets skewered by broken space.]]
* NotEnoughToBury: [[spoiler: Rose gets vaporized by one of Lord English's beams.]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: Dave dies in battle after Lord English bites his head off.]]

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* DeathActivatedSuperpower: [[spoiler: He gains the power of Ultimate self thanks to his Candy counterpart's suicide.]]

The son of Jane and Jake, and Harry Anderson's cousin. He's a bundle of nerves.

* DeathActivatedSuperpower: [[spoiler: He gains the power of Ultimate self thanks to Candy counterpart's suicide.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: [[spoiler:He repeatedly and intentionally misgenders Roxy, despite Alt!Calliope correcting him on multiple occasions.]]

* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Eventually becomes one to Hussie himself once he's Ultimate Dirk, serving as an interactive author figure in conflict with most of the characters. Emphasized in ''Homestuck^2'', where unlike Hussie's command to "keep making Homestuck or something", the only suggestion box command Dirk recieves tells him to ''stop''.]]

* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:Eventually becomes one to Hussie himself once he's Ultimate Dirk, serving as an interactive author figure in conflict with most of the characters. Emphasised in ''Homestuck^2'', where unlike Hussie's command to "keep making Homestuck or something", the only suggestion box command Dirk recieves tells him to ''stop''.]]

* CassandraTruth: He seems to the only one who realizes how strange everyone is reacting to things such as Gamzee being EasilyForgiven, Jane becoming more and more cruel and other things. Naturally no one believes him.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He fulfills his role as a Bard of Rage by [[spoiler: inviting the unpleasant decay/destruction of everything and everyone he interacts with, as of the literal SECOND he is brought back into the Candy timeline. Everything in the timeline is unambiguously worse with his inclusion, which is probably why his reintroduction is the very first thing to happen in Candy.]]

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Swifer's moirail.
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* SatelliteCharacter: Thus far, he's only appeared in scenes with his pale buddy Swifer.

The son of Jane and Jake.

* AscendedExtra: She first appeared in the Credits.