Meteor Dads is a Homestuck Slice of Life Fan Webcomic created by Baban and serving as an AU. In the original comic, after the Scratch was initiated and the kids fled in order to avoid being erased by it, the Wayward Vagabond, one of the carapacian Exiles, was with the group who lived in the meteor.
In this comic, however, all the main Exiles (as well as a bunch of Prospitians and Dersites) are here, alive and well and the main focus is how they all adjust to their new life together in the meteor (but not only). Expect lots of wacky shenanigans.
The comic started in June 2021 and is still ongoing. You can read it here
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This webcomic shows examples of the following tropes :
- Actually Pretty Funny: Dave reacts with amusement towards Karkat and WV's argument.
- When WV and Dave are held by AR during the fake end of the first section, Rose is seen chuckling in the background.
- Adaptational Intelligence: An interesting example with WV. The comic brought him closer to how he was portrayed in the earlier parts of the comic and seem to avoid the flanderization he got in Act 6.
- Adaptational Wimp: Probably zig-zagged. Bec Noir spends all his time avoiding fighting and his body count is less big than in canon but because the plot proper starts after « Cascade », he already slaughtered a bunch of people.
- all lowercase letters: As usual, Dave's speech is written like this but it’s also the same for WV (except when he starts getting angry at Karkat) and AR.
- Alternate Timeline : The version of Feferi who is present here comes from one. She also questions herself about if the timeline the comic takes place in is one itself (which is likely).
- And Now for Someone Completely Different : So far, the comic changed its focus two times:
- John, Jade and Davesprite's life in the ship during their own journey (they are catching a star).
- PM is chasing Bec Noir in the dreambubbles.
- Ascended Extra : All the Exiles who are not WV or PM are this here.
- Badass Bookworm : The White King. The bookworm part is way more present, as he express to Rose the desire of becoming a librarian.
- Berserk Button: WV's hatred of kings returns, hence he doesn't initially get along with WK.
- Big Damn Heroes : PM saving WV, AR and the White King and Queen by sending them on the meteor before they are erased by the Scratch certainly counts as this.
- Call-Back: When Rose discovers that the White King read her fanfiction (and quite liked it), she’s reminded of Doc Scratch (who has admitted before finding her stories entertaining).
- Call-Forward: During his discussion with John, Davesprite asks what would happen if he could merge with alternate versions of himself, know everything and become the ultimate Dave before dismissing it and saying that no one would want to merge with him. Uh, yeah, about that…
- Catching Some Z's: In one panel, we see Karkat snoring in his sleep. The "Z"s are not here but judging by how his mouth is open, it's incredibly loud.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The Exiles on the Meteor — WV is associated with green (due to his love of eating green things), AR with yellow (because of his yellow police tape) and WQ and WK with gold (as ex-rulers of the golden planet of Prospit).
- Continuity Nod: In one panel, Sollux makes a mention of the time he blew up the station of Clubs Deuce, his Exile.
- Deadpan Snarker: AR shows shades of this during some of his conversations with WV.
- Determinator: PM will not stop chasing Bec Noir.
- Jade really wants to help everyone, to the point when she don’t sleep and John and Davesprite are a bit concerned about her. Fortunately, after she catched a star (with the help of the boys), she finally goes to sleep.
- Dramatically Missing the Point: Downplayed. When AR starts freaking out, WV thinks for a few seconds he saw PM and WQ. However, he quickly realizes the truth and starts freaking out as well.
- Everyone Knows Morse: Once again averted, like in the original Homestuck. Serenity can’t still find someone who can understand Morse.
- Flat "What": When Sollux ask Dave if he never met a Carapacian before, the latter tells him that they were only crocodiles on his planet and that no one else was involved with the stock market. The troll’ reaction is this.
- John also has this reaction later when Davesprite tells him that Jaspers’ tomb was a real thing and not a prank Rose played on him.
- Fourth Wall Psych: After Sollux, Aradia & alternate Feferi send the meteor to its destination, the curtains seem to close… and then, they move and AR bursts out of it, seemingly facing the reader. Then, it moves to Terezi asking Kanaya how did she took the time to put up those curtains while AR holds Dave and WV, much to Rose's amusement & Karkat's consternation. It's only after that that the curtains are closed for real.
- Friend or Foe?: Judging by his freak out when the Exiles all arrive into the meteor, Karkat has this mentality. He’s right about the fact that Bec Noir already arrived on the meteor too, but he’s still believing than all the others are also enemies (calling PM a "white Jack", which WV don't take too well).
- Genius Ditz: WV and AR put a surprising lot of effort into the organization of Can Town.
- Gentle Giant: AR is noticeably more buff than he was in canon and he’s very much a good guy. The White King fits this trope even more.
- The Ghost: So far, Eridan & Gamzee are not present in person at all during the story, but are still mentioned here and there (after all, their respective shit-flippings happened not too long ago). Justified for the former, as Kanaya killed him.
- Hidden Depths: The White King and Queen, due to staying alive, reveal way more about what they are and their personalities during their discussions with the others.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: The White King and Queen. The latter is more skinny than tiny, but it still counts.
- Hypocritical Humor: Terezi scolds AR and Dave for being pigs when they start having an argument over chips… then she starts eating extremely loudly.
- Interface Screw: In order to show WV’ slowly acknowledging what is around him after PM teleported him in the meteor, all the dialogues are appropriately blurry (but still readable). The blur comes back when Rose screams into a pillow after she discovered that the White King loved her book.
- Like a Son to Me: The White King and Queen feel very much this way towards Jade.
- Mood Whiplash: It wouldn’t be Homestuck if it wasn’t here. One notable example is Feferi informing WV about John’ survival (at this point, he thought he was dead), which is treated as a serious moment… and then, in the following panel, Karkat yells about the fact that he took a bucket in the face before it devolves into an argument between him and WV, all of this being treated in a less serious way.
- No Place for Me There: Sollux leaves the team early in the comic because he thinks there’s nothing he can do anymore (plus, Eridan blinded him and Gamzee is still out there) and decides to go in the dreambubbles with Aradia and the alternate Feferi.
- Not So Above It All: Downplayed. The White King acts unusually goofy for someone with the position he has, but the guy doesn’t really have a kingdom to lead anymore. Plus, it’s only Rose who seems to be bothered by that. Remember who we’re talking about. A more straight example occurs when AR steals Dave's chips.
- #1 Dime: WV always has his mayoral sash. At least, before he's teleported in the meteor.
- One-Steve Limit : Averted with Davesprite. He’s simply named Dave and has the exact same speech color than the real Dave.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The Exiles never call each other by their full names and it seems they're not the only ones (for example, alternate Feferi calls PM exactly like that).
- Parental Substitute: Even if she's not that present, Nannasprite seems to be this for the kids in the spaceship. She’s baking treats for everyone and is shown to be very encouraging towards John and the others.
- The White King and Queen can also be considered this for Jade.
- Point of Divergence: In canon, WV and PM are the only Exiles to survive, the others being all killed by Bec Noir. Here, everyone else is alive and well, having been brought on the meteor by PM before he can even get to them.
- Psycho Knife Nut: One day, Bec Noir will stop wanting to stab someone. Today is not that day. It’s to the point that thinking about not stabbing people makes him so angry he tries doing it anyway (and PM spots him because of that).
- Reset Button: Of course, the Scratch has this function. And if PM didn’t brought all the other Exiles on the meteor, they would have been erased by it.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Given that the White Queen abdicated and gave her position to PM and that the latter spends her time chasing Bec Noir with the intention to kick his ass, yes, PM counts as this.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: WV and AR gain new clothes, courtesy of Kanaya, when they’re in the meteor, as well as the White Queen.
- Skewed Priorities: Davesprite is more interested by making a new Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff comic than helping John and Jade catching the star. They have to be more persistent in order to convince him.
- Spared by the Adaptation : AR, the White King and the White Queen are still alive and on the meteor while in canon, Bec Noir killed them.
- Spit Take: WV spits out his soda when him and AR see Jade's drawings of Becquerel, which trigger their fears of Bec Noir. They threw them into the fire.
- Suddenly Voiced: A text example. The only times in canon we see the Exiles talk is whether the narration mentions it or when they type commands. Here, they have proper conversations between each other in the form of logs and they can be quite talkative at points.
- Terrible Artist : When AR, Dave & Terezi discuss Gamzee's potential current location, she shows them a portrait of him she made for identification. Even Dave is flabbergasted at how bad it is and this is Dave we're talking about.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Inverted! Here, we really get to know several characters who originally got killed after having very few screentime.
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Bec Noir is really struggling with his red feelings for PM. The narration even starts namedropping the latter trope. Justified, because Jack is a misanthropic, kill-happy jerkass whose only relationships before were black.
