History Literature / TheHomestuckEpilogues

However, in spite of the ambiguously-canon nature of the story, an “officially commissioned” sequel, aptly named ''Webcomic/Homestuck2'', picks up from the events of ''The Homestuck Epilogues''. It began on October 25, 2019 of the same year, and features a recap of this story on its main page.

* NoEnding: [[spoiler:By the time Candy ends, the pillars of canon have been so thoroughly warped that the story no longer follows a narrative arc at all, and there are no true endings outside of narratives. We never get to see how the war is resolved, how Jade reacts to Dave's sudden disappearance, whether Roxy and Calliope leave Jane, whether Terezi will ever see (Vriska)'s texts, or anything else, and it's implied that [[{{Fanon}} fans will have to finish the story themselves]]. Webcomic/Homestuck2 thankfully picks it back up.]]

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* StrawNihilist: John, of all people, becomes one. [[spoiler:He's become convinced that the non-canon nature of his timeline means that nothing in it matters, so he doesn't even see the point trying to rebuild relationships with his estranged family. Jake and Roxy snap him out of this.]]

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Wayward Vagabond, everyone's favorite Carapacian mayor, died sometime before the start of the Epilogues. Since Act 7 showed that he and PM went back in time to help start a civilization, it's likely that he died of old age (assuming Caprapacians can die that way).

* AnythingThatMoves: Jade is mentioned to have slept with people of all different species, including the carapacians/chess guys, whose anatomy or ability to have sex is never specified.

** Karkat and Dave have been clearly orbiting each other for a decade without admitting they want be closer than just friends. [[spoiler:In Meat TheyDo become a couple, but in Candy they never manage to accomplish the same, with Jade's well-meaning efforts to pull (all three of) them together inadvertently push them further apart. When Jane's anti-troll policies eventually force Karkat to flee and form an underground resistance, it puts a damper on any further development.]]

* UncannyValley: [[IntendedAudienceReaction On purpose]]. The opening of Candy is jarringly [[SugarWiki/{{WAFF}} happy and saccharine]] in a way which feels totally fake and disturbing, and John is [[OnlySaneMan the only character to pick up on it]]. As time goes on, this facade of perfection shatters hard.

* ExtremeLibido: Jade has developed a disturbing addiction to sex by the time the Epilogues start. It's implied this is partially due to the dog hormones caused by her merger with Bec.

** On a more meta-level, the idea of trying to continue a story after its ending and how it contradicts with the characters having a HappilyEverAfter, due to the idea that the audience wants to see the characters struggle.

* BisexualLoveTriangle: After a polyamorous relationship with the two falls flat, Dave is trapped between his safe marriage to Jade and his attraction to Karkat, the latter having has left their family to become a revolutionary.

* {{Gaslighting}}: [[spoiler:Dirk]] does this to several characters using [[spoiler:his power over the narrative]] to warp people's thoughts and gradually change their perceptions and feelings about other characters.[[spoiler:He subtly manipulates Kanaya, making her doubt whether Rose ever really loved her, and does the same to Jake to gradually make Jake obsessively in love with him]].

** To a lesser degree: The Jade/Dave/Karkat pairing takes a rather hard hit as well [[spoiler: Despite their ThreesomeSubtext, in Candy Karkat and Dave don't love Jade in the way that she loves them and her attempts to push the relationship and their unwillingness to open up end with the three pretty unhappy and breaking up. In Meat, only Dave and Karkat are pushed together, Jade had been possessed the whole time.]]

** TheBusCameBack: ...however, thanks to getting sucked into the black hole, Aradia, Sollux, Eridan and Feferi all appear in the Candy timeline, after being OutOfFocus or absent for the latter parts of Homestuck proper.