Avlesi, one of the twelve main characters.
"Welcome to Doomtlis a place where weirdness is the most important thing for us"
— The comic's description.
Welcome to Doomtlis
is an Elsewhere Fic of Homestuck created by Mr. Tsuyo. It centers around a planet named Doomtlis, an Expy of the planet Alternia. On the planet Doomtlis, your worth is not determined by your blood color, but your mutation. Every single troll on Doomtlis is born with a mutation, and these mutations range all across the board from good to useless. On the planet Doomtlis, there are 12 trolls waiting to play a special video game called Novterra. But as it turns out, fate might have more in store for them than just that...
Tropes found in Welcome to Doomtlis include...
- Accidental Murder: Olycka accidentally instigates Dream!Truroz falling out of his window by removing his Cool Shades.
- April Fools' Day:
- This update was done for April Fool's day. It was soon replaced by an actual update shortly after.
- This update later continues the trend, taking its audio from a Sr. Pelo video.note Underneath a set of spoiled text, Mr. Tsuyo mocks the viewer for being a fool.
- This update
- Arc Number: November 9th, or 9/11.note
- Art Shift: Multiple artists work on the comic, and thus there are different art styles to be found.
- Bait-and-Switch Character Intro: The narration commands to play as someone else instead of Tsuyo. The panels show the viewer the cliffs of LOWAF, cutting to a mysterious helmeted biker... only to reveal that the viewer is seeing the perspective of a nearby imp instead of her.
- Blessed with Suck: A lot of the characters have mutations that either are useless, or cause them extreme amounts of pain and suffering.
- Book Ends: Tape 1 began and ended on November 9th.
- Born Unlucky: Olycka. Partially due to being Blessed with Suck.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: When Truroz gets kicked into a hole by Dream!TFB, he falls out of Ms Paint Fan Adventures entirely!
- The Cameo: When Khiome discusses the extinction of fuschiabloods, Feferi Peixes and Gl'bgolyb make a brief appearance.
- Childhood Friends: Avlesi and Khiome, as well as Avlesi and Drolen.
- Dartboard of Hate: Skigin has one with a crude drawing of Avlesi's face on it.
- Decoy Protagonist: The trolls as a whole are this, with their story possibly being some sort of framing device for Tapequest, a story about two human kids attempting to play Sburb on their own.
- Dying Race: Limebloods supposedly are this in Welcome to Doomtlis, as opposed to just being outright extinct in Homestuck. Olycka mentions that she is possibly the only limeblood left in Doomtlis.
- Easter Egg: If you translate TFB's binary messages, they usually lead to either a secret message or a tinyurl link. If you follow those tinyurl links, you are greeted with a special message or secret that you have to decode. These messages usually foreshadow things to come, so you better get cracking if you want to find those secrets.
- Elsewhere Fic: Doomtlis uses the troll species and the similar setting of a planet with two moons and a hierarchy based on worth, but that's about it.
- Everyone Is a Super: Everyone in Doomtlis has a special mutation.
- Expy: Doomtlis is one of Alternia, being a planet with two moons, green and pink, and full of trolls who enforce a Fantastic Caste System.
- Face-Revealing Turn: When Truroz touches his dead dreamself's shoulder, his dreamself turns to reveal that his mouth and eyes are empty holes with TV static inside of them. (Flashing Image Warning!)
- Fantastic Caste System: The caste system in Doomtlis is based not on your blood color, but your mutation. People with Useless mutations are treated like dirt, but people with higher mutations are treated much better.
- Fictional Video Game: X QUEST, a game within a web comic. It does actually exist as a fan adventure Mr. Tsuyo had made.
- Flipping the Bird: Skigin has a tendency to do this.
- Friendship Trinket: Khiome's flower was a gift to her from Avlesi when they were young.
- Homage: As a part of the "TACITURN" ARG, a playable minigame is done as a deliberate reference to the Five Nights at Freddy's Atari-style minigames.
- Horrible Housing: Skigin's "house" is basically a cave. And his recuperacoon is the size of a ball pit.
- I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: Doomtlis.
- Interrupted Suicide: Whenever Avlesi tries to kill himself, his deaths get reversed every time.
- Last of Their Kind: Olycka and Khiome are the only limebloods and fuschiabloods left in Doomtlis. Fuschiabloods are extinct, but limebloods are just very rare, according to Word of God.
- Like Brother and Sister: Skigin and Khiome.
- Medium Awareness:
- With this being a command-driven comic, most of the characters tend to interact with the commands.
- Also, many characters tend to point out the fact that there are words in the sky, those words being the comic's title.
- Mood Whiplash: After an ominous scene of a scientist talking about how he should not have created "him", we get a silly scene of Khiome jumping into a pile of treasure.
- Ominous Visual Glitch: Common in the story when certain things happen (such as the reversal of death).
- Percussive Maintenance: Tsuyo tries to do this on the green TV after it shuts off. Predictably, he just ends up destroying the television.
- Precocious Crush: An extremely rare platonic version of this occurs with Skigin and Khiome. Skigin has a pale crush on Khiome, but Khiome only thinks of him as a little brother equivalent.
- Running Gag:
- People pointing out those words in the sky.
- Characters interacting with their worms-on-a-string.
- Characters being named insulting things.
- Characters falling from high buildings.
- Self-Deprecation: Subtle, but according to Mr. Tsuyo, The Fucking Buffoon is an Author Avatar. Now think about his Trolltag for a moment.
- Shout-Out: Several.
- This◊ Variant Cover is a reference to the "Virgin Vs. Chad" meme.
- Truroz is apparently a fan of the video game Lands of Organs.
- This page's Art Shift is a reference to fellow Ms Paint Fan Adventure I'm Good, I'm Gone.
- This page is a reference to the "Pathetic." meme.
- The images flashing on the green television set are edited screencaps of Dragon Ball, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Osomatsu-san, Pop Team Epic, Pokémon and Mob Psycho 100.
- This
- Slasher Smile: All of the squires seem to have this.
- Slippery Skid: Olycka's bad luck mutation causes Curuxu to slip on a banana peel and fall into a hole.
- Take My Hand!: Olycka tries to catch Truroz this way after his dreamself falls out of his tower. She fails, and his dreamself dies.
- Take That!:
- When Avlesi turns on the TV to watch The Simsons, he comments the new episodes are "total garbage".
- One of the banners◊ created for Doomtlis's one year anniversary states "WTD DOES WHAT VE DON'T".
- When Skigin looks up news on Novterra, the developer, "Aledex", is listed as considering his game as a great game despite its extremely long development time, a jab at Yandere Dev's infamously long development on the lackluster Yandere Simulator.
- Terrible Artist: Skigin. Khiome seems to think he is a talented artist, but it's unclear if she genuinely means it or if she's lying so she doesn't hurt his feelings.
- Transplant: Avlesi and Drolen are two characters from Mr. Tsuyo's cancelled fan adventure, Sburb Omega, that were repurposed for Welcome to Doomtlis.
- Vagueness Is Coming: So far, there have been hints towards possible future events, but for now it is unknown what those events even mean or what they mean for the plot.
- Variant Cover: Every time you refresh the first page, the title screen will change to a variation on it.
- Wham Episode:
- The beginning of Act 1 reveals that The events of Tape 1 were all just watched on the green TV by Tsuyo, and it possibly was a Show Within a Show in his eyes.
- This flash reveals the scenario that Tsuyo is in. He's already in his land, and he was playing Sburb the whole time.
- Wham Line: "Be safe dO_Own there please. She will make things even harder fO_Or yO_Ou." This line indicates Curuxu is in on getting the trolls to play Novterra.
