#homestuck epilogue rose

[perishrad]

was goofin around with a mouse

[bootpoot]

COMPLETE!!!! dirk is now awesomer

[orangelemonart]

Tired of seeing this meme with dudes

CHICK TIME.

[vegetabletaxi]

im having thoughts...

[kocoloco]

Am I really that bad?

This took so much longer than it should have! Very sorry chat ✌️

Deeply sorry if I misused any character designs, I have not read the epilogues/homestuck^2 and don’t plan on it unless the live read takes a turn.

If u wanna check out the tiktok of this vid here you go!

BUT in less than 20 hours is the LIVEREAD!! Please go check it out man, so hyped

[outtheoiseaux]

I think post-canon Dirk would be impossible to locate at any given time.

That story about the 8 euro cafe breakfast is true, by the way. Paris breakfasts are strange and full of carbs

[faygos]

Have you ever read the epilogues or hs^2?

i have not read hs2!! i read the epilogues when they first released. they mostly didn't tickle my fancy (i like the art/visual storytelling nature of original homestuck), but i think they had some cute moments, case in point:

[aradidnt]

so um,

I hate the epilogues.

[classpectpokerap]

going to go completely bugfuck insane for a little bit here. we need to talk about ultrose

Ultimate Rose, Pt. 1 (establishing facts)

so

ultrose is a fucking bundle of contradictions, huh?

i think its worth immediately establishing postcanon rose as a liar. specifically, there are a few crucial lies -- lies she tells herself as well -- that define the basis of ultrose. (im mostly going to be looking at candy timeline here, because meat ultrose is a whole other tin can of worms.)

the crucial scenes to compare are the last scene where she talks to john at the peak of the war, and the scene where she plays her hand in beyond canon.

i'm going to skip around this scene (candy 33), but stick with me.

this rose.

this rose right here. this rose who is happy. who loves her wife. who has *a* daughter.

this rose, as she herself describes.

is not "true."

rose firmly believes that knowledge means suffering. which, given the state of her body at the start of the prologue, probably feels deeply true! and her ailment disappearing coincides with her sight vanishing, and her knowledge of The Shape Of Postcanon slipping away. (candy 4)

"For some reason" "whatever it was she felt"

i think it's extremely important to establish here that rose wiped her own mind.

or maybe roxy wiped her mind. or the severing of meat/candy wiped her mind, but that last one feels very unlikely to me considering that this mind-wiped-state is at-will.

and we know that, because during the candy timeline, she is two things:

blind to the world

happy

and in beyond canon, this very same rose, days later, is:

too-aware, and in touch with her powers

deeply miserable

she stopped trying the moment the comic came back. she stopped trying because she never started. that was a whole ass different rose. one without the memories or powers.

if you'd allow me to be insane, i think i know which rose.

from ultdirk describing his experiences (with supplementary text from davepeta), we know what being ultimate is like. we understand that he has access to every splinter of himself, some more prominent than others.

so if rose is able to prioritize bringing one iteration of herself to the front of her mind... which rose would be the best?

which rose would be the happiest, the most pleased by living on earth c? the one blissed by love, the one who would be happy with a daughter and a wife.

it's not our main rose. she was not happy during her wedding. she didn't enjoy her life. she didn't think she'd ever be happy until after the meat/candy split happened.

you know who would have loved that?

what

what is this...... very very important thing doing here?

why is she "correcting" herself? why is she making this distinction? we haven't heard a word spoken about complacency of the learned, maybe at all, in the entire epilogues. and we know rose never really finished the story. it was just some amateur wizardfic.

but say there was another rose. a member of the gestalt, who actually DID finish writing complacency. who fought her whole life for the right to have a family, but ultimately failed.

say there was a rose who was an author.

yeah. i think the rose who gets to act out the bulk of the candy timeline (notably NOT yiffy. that was alllllllll ultrose) is alpha rose. roxy's mom. the one who fought the condesce and lost. and i think she's here simply because she's the best choice.

i mean, fuck, in hs2 rose straight up says it.

so . yeah. this is all establishing stuff for my Insane Theory. my real one about why shes doing all this. how shes doing all this. i have been sitting on this theory for months and if you thought "candy rose is alpha earth rose" is unhinged you aint seen nothing yet

gloves are canon

part 2 is here.

[insufferable-homestuck]

bad ref sorry

[abbylikestodraw]

John has a tough choice to make. Aradia knows best.

I'm currently translating (and rereading) the homestuck epilogues to french. You can check that (among other stuff) on my website: abbylikestodraw.neocities.org

[bottlehawk]

imagine being as goth as rose lalonde and finding out that you had to wear orange for the rest of your life. and not just orange but orange and yellow and bright fucking. blue ballerina shoes. and that's what everyone in your new universe remembered you in. and commemorated your image as. forever. would lowkey kill myself

[sadevergreen]

part 2/? of my post canon designs. just rose for this one because dave’s been taking too long XP

PART 1

[cringefail-clown]

lmfao hes such a dad. just cant say no to her

[bolasmasivas]

i cant stop making them someone please euthanise me

[art-izz-blog]

I just had a realization…..