History Recap / Homestuck

Although not an Act, the credits detail the lives of surviving characters after the ending. There is further content detailing extra-canonical and post-canon facets of the universe. After this, several SpinOff materials were released, before a proper epilogue chapter and an [[Webcomic/Homestuck2 official, extra-canonical sequel]] would come out as well.

#"The Homestuck Epilogues": At the end of Act 7, all time loops that make up the story are closed, except for one, in which John and the rest of the Beta kids must travel back in time, fight Caliborn, lose and get caught in Caliborn's juju, then be released and help defeat Lord English. John is urged by a deathly ill Rose to stop putting it off and start recruiting younger versions of the cast to complete the time loop, or else the timeline they currently occupy will become non-canonical, which would effectually make it unravel into more or less fanfiction in a cosmic meta way. It is split into two possible "routes", Meat and Candy, based on whether John ultimately chooses to travel back into the story proper, or stay and actually try to enjoy his life. Both timelines offshot from this later lead into [[{{Webcomic/Homestuck2}} Homestuck^2]].

* Both timelines would carry on as separate stories in {{Webcomic/Homestuck2}}.

''Homestuck'' is incredibly long, so to make navigation easier, it's been conveniently divided into acts by its creator.

# "The Note Desolation Plays": Starts on the main character's (named John Egbert) 13th birthday. He is looking forward to playing a game called sburb with his internet friends. He strives to avoid his father and get his copy of Sburb. Later, he starts up the game with Rose Lalonde as the server. It appears at first to be a VideoGame/TheSims-like game in real life. Unfortunately, a meteor hits and seemingly destroys John's house.

* "Post-Canon": Although not an Act, the credits detail the lives of surviving characters after the ending. There is further content detailing extra-canonical and post-canon facets of the universe.
** "Skaianet ARG": A website in relation to the Harley family's company, Skaianet. Hosted on skaianetsystems.com
*** Contained files labelled "Cursed Histories" which can be read on the Wiki, detailing the rise of the Condesce and the timeline of Grandpa Harley and Nanna Egbert.
** Epilogues: A series of mock-fanfiction texts released to accompany the credits, focusing on the main cast. It is split into two possible "routes", Meat and Candy.

# "Raise of the Conductor's Baton": Years in the future, but not many, a wayward vagabond finds a computer screen which shows him the panicked visage of a young boy: John Egbert. Lost and scared in a shadowy new dimension, John begins to discover the scope of Sburb and his role in it while getting strange suggestions from the vagabond watching him.

# "Flight of the Paradox Clones": John and Rose explore the Sburb world with increasing interference from internet trolls and their "exiles." As they enjoy the game's mechanics, Jack Noir gets into a workplace conflict with his boss, the Black Queen. Eventually, he kills her and starts to take over.

* "Post-Canon": Although not an Act, the credits detail the lives of surviving characters after the ending.

# "The Note Desolation Plays": Starts on the main character's (named John Egbert) 13th birthday. He is looking forward to playing a game called sburb with his internet friends. He strives to avoid his father and get his copy of Sburb.

## "INTERMISSION": The Midnight Crew ransack the mansion of a rival mob boss, Lord English, and kill his fifteen men along the way. Initially, this seems to be a complete left turn from the main plot, but this intermission is more relevant than it may at first seem.
# "Flight of the Paradox Clones": John and Rose explore the Sburb with increasing interference from internet trolls and their "exiles." As they enjoy the game's mechanics, Jack Noir gets into a workplace conflict with his boss, the Black Queen.

# "Post-Canon": Although not an Act, the credits detail the lives of surviving characters after the ending.

# "Post-Canon": Although not an Act, the credits detail the lives of surviving characters after the ending.

## "I'M PUTTING YOU ON SPEAKER CRAB": The original cast from before Act 6 all are shocked by how fast three years went past on the very day they are set to meet up with Jane and her friends. The only one not frantically preparing is John, who's entered the afterlife through his dreams and finds a treasure that plays with the very reality John is bound to.

### "GAME OVER": As John and Caliborn scuffle, the battle on the Land of Frost and Frogs begins. Karkat is burned alive, Gamzee is cut in half, Kanaya is incinerated, Jake and Jane are impaled together, Dave is cut down trying to recover Jade's corpse, Rose is left bleeding from the chest before Roxy grabs takes her off the planet, four planets are smashed into each other, Terezi is thrown across the planet, and Aranea is thrown into a volcano. John beats Caliborn to a pulp, but teleports away before finishing the deed. John arrives in the aftermath of the battle, shocked by what's left of the game.

### "[=F1X TH1S=]": John wanders the ruins of the Alpha Session, only to witness Dirk be broken apart by glitches and Rose bleed to death by Roxy's side. All seems lost, until Terezi arrives and forces John to visit his denizen. In his denizen's lair, John discovers how to control the retcon/teleportation power English's house treasure bestowed upon him, wipes ''Homestuck'' clean of Caliborn's glitches, and teleports his planet outside of the narrative of the comic. From there, he uses his retcon powers, on Terezi's instructions, to slightly change small points throughout the narrative to bring about one core change: Vriska is alive, and she rallies everyone in the Post-Scratch human session in preparation for the final battle.
### "Masterpiece": Caliborn concludes ''Homosuck'' by crudely recreating a vision he had. In this vision, Caliborn saw himself after obtaining the immortality that would empower Lord English, just as the eight Kids arrived in his session via John's power. Caliborn responded by using his Home treasure to absorb and imprison the four Pre-Scratch kids, leaving them stuck in a titular manner. He then dominates the Post-Scratch kids in battle until Jake unleashes his Hope to subdue him, allowing Dirk to force Caliborn's soul into Lil Cal and Roxy to banish this doll to the void. This act ends with a timeline of what happened to Lil Cal from that point on, and how it lead to Lord English to appear as we knew him.

### "F1X TH1S": John wanders the ruins of the Alpha Session, only to witness Dirk be broken apart by glitches and Rose bleed to death by Roxy's side. All seems lost, until Terezi arrives and forces John to visit his denizen. In his denizen's lair, John discovers how to control the retcon/teleportation power English's house treasure bestowed upon him, wipes ''Homestuck'' clean of Caliborn's glitches, and teleports his planet outside of the narrative of the comic. From there, he uses his retcon powers, on Terezi's instructions, to slightly change small points throughout the narrative to bring about one core change: Vriska is alive, and she rallies everyone in the Post-Scratch human session in preparation for the final battle.

# "The Rapture": The seventh and final act of ''Homestuck'' sees the Kids finally witness what happens when Sburb is completed, as the BigBad enters his final battle.
# "Post-Canon": Although not an Act, the credits detail the lives of certain characters after the ending.

## "Void": Jane and friends spend six months searching their largely session.

!!''Homestuck'' By Acts

Act one:
Starts on the main character's (named John Egbert) 13th birthday. He is looking forward to playing a game called sburb with his internet friends. He strives to avoid his father and get his copy of sburb.