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The structure of Homestuck's universe explicitly allowed for fanfiction. AdvertisementДЄn army of ghosts from dead-end Homestuck timelines and fanfiction, getting ready to fight the series' evil character Lord English. Caliborn manipulated and murdered his twin sister Calliope, who represented a kinder, more community-based fandom, and eventually gained the power to reshape spacetime however he wanted, starting by murdering Hussie's avatar in a spectacular example of Death of the Author. The most important of these battles was with Caliborn, a younger version of Lord English who was an avatar for a particularly abusive type of real-life fan.

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Hussie eventually became frustrated enough to steal his story back, setting off a series of battles between Hussie and his characters for control. Doc Scratch was glib, providing little information in many words in order to misdirect the reader. The narration was picked up by Doc Scratch, an animated doll with a featureless cue-ball head who was preparing the universe for the arrival of his creator, the evil time traveler Lord English-both a reference to Richard вЂњLord BritishвЂќ Garriot of the Ultima games and an extended billiards metaphor that Doc Scratch was also a part of.

Who is telling the story?ДЄt any moment in Homestuck, who is narrating and what are their biases? The answers to these questions suddenly became important when control of the story was stolen from Hussie's in-story avatar. In establishing himself as a series character who could speak directly to his fans, Hussie connected HomestuckвЂ™s universe with the real world and created an opportunity for both his fans and his characters to share his power as narrator-or even to steal it. But that apparent cruelty hid a surprising lesson that turned out to be a core theme of Homestuck. HussieвЂ™s tyranny did nothing to diminish his appeal to engaged fans. Death in the Homestuck setting is cheap and reversible, so it often felt like Hussie was threatening to kill off beloved characters-or keep readers in suspense for their resurrection. HussieВ took responsibility for this cruelty through an in-story avatar trapped within the comic by the fourth wall, who occasionally reveled in the angst he caused his readers. He did this most blatantly with so-called вЂњtrollвЂќ characters, introducing 12 of them in quick succession and then allowing one of them to go on a murderous rampage and kill half of these new characters, including a fan favorite. Fans would ask questions about characters who were mentioned briefly or casually Hussie would drop them into the story and then find ways to murder them. But requests kept pouring in on social media, so Hussie decided to acknowledge them with the cruel irony embodied by several of his characters. He shut down the suggestion box while offering the fantastical, fictional explanation that it had been destroyed by meteor showers from the comic. Be careful what you wish for, fansД®ventually, Hussie changed gears. But one thing that remained constant and set a tone for how creators would operate online in the years that followed is the tight-knit relationship between Homestuck's author and his fans.

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It's built on media tropes from when it was written, and its aesthetic evolved with the Internet's tastes, from jokes about TV shows and adventure games to social media and anime references as the story wrapped up in 2013. They learn to work together in spite of cultural differences, individual traumas, and the feeling of isolation that comes from being an adolescent in a rapidly changing world-and, in doing so, they defy an evil time traveler with the power to create a new and вЂњbetterвЂќ universe. (Its arrival within the appropriately named MS Paint Adventures, or MSPA, spoke to its modesty.)ДЇrom there, the series gradually expanded in scope to become an epic science fantasy story about children from different cultures coming of age without adult supervision. It debuted in April 2009 as a one-off lark from avid webcomic maker Andrew Hussie, and its modest premise-four teenage friends playing a video game-could have been a one-and-done comic miniseries. Rewind to the Internet of 10 years ago and youвЂ™ll find an era that made sense for an odd, beloved webcomic like Homestuck.

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