A young man stands in his bedroom. But don't be decieved. This is where Homestuck goes to die.
Ligmastuck
is a Homestuck fan webcomic created by Ymi. Initially seeming to follow the events of the canon timeline, it quickly goes Off the Rails as Dave contracts Ligma and John has to find a cure.
An official trailer can be viewed here.
Examples:
- Adaptational Jerkass: Jade is much more aggressive and bitter due to the trauma she went through at the hands of a mysterious assailant trying to kill every alternate version of her.
- All Just a Dream: It turns out that John didn't travel the imaginary realm physically after all.
- Arc Number: Parodied. John's introduction is full of the number FOURTHIRTEEN, to the point where it impedes any actual information being shared, but it never shows up again.
- Ascended Extra: The original iteration of Yiffany was a one-note character intended to be the butt of a joke: The perfect sort of character to be turned into a major one in Ligmastuck.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Bartender!Jude, literally.
- Call to Adventure: When the doctor gives John the list of items needed to cure Dave's ligma.
- Literal Metaphor: John's magic chest is where he keeps his magic.
- Determinator: John will save Dave, no matter what ridiculous shenanigans he has go through to do it.
- Eldritch Abomination: Homestuck's horrorterrors are present in the background, although the only one seen in the story so far, Huggabuggashuganoth, is a clear parody. (He's just a baby.)
- MacGuffin: Nine of them!
- Magic A Is Magic A: Zig-Zagged. While Ligmastuck often goes in surreal or nonsensical directions at the drop of a hat, some rules are adhered to consistently. For example, John's fast travel ability, originally introduced as a joke, is stated to have a 50-page cooldown.
- Mind Hive: John, together with all of his alternate selves, after his descendascension. Downplayed, in that he (mostly) has access to them, rather than being controlled by them.
- Me's a Crowd: Every single one of the imaginary city's mafia bosses is an alternate version of Caliborn.
- Off the Rails: Exaggerated. The story goes off the rails midway through the first sentence of the story.
- Nice Guy: John Egbert, probably to an even greater extent than in canon.
- Next Tier Power-Up: Ultimate Tier.
- Running Gag: Among Us references.
- Title Drop: A Self-Deprecating, Fourth Wall Breaking example in the midst of an extended reference to The Matrix at the beginning of Act 2.JORPHEUS: For the longest time I wouldn’t believe it, and then I saw the website with my own eyes.JORPHEUS: Watch them meme the canon so it could be transmuted into content.JORPHEUS: And standing there, facing the pure horrifying perversion, I came to realize the obviousness of the truth.JORPHEUS: What is Ligmastuck?JORPHEUS: Copium.JORPHEUS: Ligmastuck is a manufactured garbage to keep us invested in a pointless plot to keep the idea of Homestuck alive.
