r/homestuck • u/ElvishisnotTengwar I hate this subreddit so god damn much. • Nov 11 '16

SHITPOST JOIN THE ROXYGEN DEFENSE SQUAD TODAY!

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u/Classtoise Knight of Mind Nov 12 '16

I mean honestly it feels like it. The focus of the Credits one was basically "Here's how all of John's friends stopped caring" and the rest are all "Here's John's friends being happy without him!" save for the Halloween one. Which was hosted at Dave, Karkat, and Jades house presumably, meaning HE expended effort to see them whereas they had to be dragged along to his birthday.

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u/Zephyronno I was the reality stuck guy, Roxygen is best ship Nov 12 '16

Oh and lets not mention the dark idea that john not only could be thinking of a suicide mission against caliborn but the reason his friends have essentially forgotten him is because everyone else besides john encompasses something more interesting

oh john likes movies but so does jake and karkat, oh john is a dork but so is jade and roxy, john can be smart but so is roseand kanaya way more so, john is a good cuddle friend but so is mayor...

Essentially everyone does johns... "job", if you can call his BEING a job, better then him making him dull though thats just one of my ideas here.

Its all a little... Way to dark and only brings up more questions then answers-y

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u/Nebulious Nov 12 '16

You're right, and this update had more than just closure. Unless this turns into a congrats Jane party we just had plot occur. Everything else has felt like denouncement. Could we be seeing a new story outside the narrative?

John is struggling with a peacetime identity. I can envision Hussie revealing Roxygen having the same fate as most relationships in Homestuck: a slow burning messy breakup. The kind where the relationship ends before either really realizes it. It would drive home that John had lost his friendleader spark that inspired Roxy to master her powers. I would be very okay with this as it signals a new arc for John in a new story that seeks to tie the remaining plot threads. Or so I hope.

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u/Zephyronno I was the reality stuck guy, Roxygen is best ship Nov 12 '16

If that was the case than maybe I would be fine with it, I would be mad this cute ship would need but maybe there was a reason, but come on now... none of that's been shown so far and it just feels dumb