An alternate ending to Homestuck from Game Over onwards. The major nail in the story being that John didn't go back in time to receive instructions from Terezi, meaning that he didn't go back to prevent Vriska's death. Instead John goes back just before the events of Gameover and Roxy restores everyone's memories by removing the nonexistence of those memories, catching everyone up to speed on the situation.
What comes next is a fic that tries to continue the character development from before the retcon while also dodging the plot holes created from the original ending.
The story can be found on MSPFA
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Considering that this is an alternate ending, there will be spoilers for Homestuck.
This fanventure provides examples of:
- Aborted Arc: One of the main reason for the fanventure is the amount of these caused by Homestuck's sudden ending.
- Adaptational Badass Kanaya and Calliope both go god-tier
- Brought Down to Badass: Jade knocks the Green Sun out of the range of the session, losing all the powers that she gained from being fused with Bec. She's still a god-tier Witch of Space.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Karkat and Kanaya know that the Condense needs them alive to bargain with Echidna. They use the opportunity to call her out for a few things.
- No Waterproofing in the Future: Lampshaded. It's how they defeat the mind-controlled Jane.Rose: You'd think an aquatic subspecies would make waterproof technology.
- Other Me Annoys Me: Dave and Davesprite.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Erisolsprite gives one to Jake, telling him that while he always asked for advice he never bothers to actually consider the advice given to him.
- Screw Destiny The story ends with Calliope killing Skaia, preventing another Sburb session and removing its power to effectively command what will happen in the timeline
- Ship Tease: This is Homestuck.
- Shout-Out: Jane's response to finding John and Rose is the first few lines of GLaDOS's from Portal 2.Jane: Oh. It's you. It's been a long time. How have you been. Disregard that. It has not been a long time at all. Time has not elapsed in any significant manner since things got out of hand.
- Upon being informed of Dirk's Auto-Responder and Sprite, Dave asks if there are any other Dirks he should know about.
- When he is confronted by a Caliborn-possessed Jake, Dirk notes that he's looking inside himself and asking what he was willing to put up with today, and comes to the conclusion that it's "not fucking this".
- When Jane and Jake are finally hashing out their issues with each other, Roxy expresses a desire for them to get along like they did in middle school, perhaps even baking a cake filled with rainbows and smiles.
- Stepford Smiler: Downplayed. Jake tries to act that he completely forgiven Dirk and Jane for what happened between the trickster incident and Game Over. Neither one of the two buys it.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Considering that John doesn't retcon all the way to before the Scratch, Davesprite doesn't get killed by Bec Noir.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Unlike in canon, Rose witnesses her timeline's Roxy's demise instead of finding the body a long time afterwards. She's genuinely upset that no one told her about the doomed Roxy.
- You Kill It, You Bought It: The Condense as in canon is under an immortality curse where she has eternal life in exchange for being a slave to Lord English. Whoever kills her gains the curse. while in canon this is later forgotten about, here Jane decides not to kill her for this very reason, opting instead to capture her.
