Homestuck, Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 5: She's 8ack

Homestuck Webcomic #19, Part 10 of 11

by Andrew Hussie

Genres: Comics, Fantasy, Humor, Graphic Novels, Webcomic

635 pages, ebook

First published April 2, 2016

About the author

Andrew Hussie is the creator of MS Paint Adventures, a collection of webcomics that includes Homestuck, as well as of several other webcomics, books, and videos.

Reviews

[Ale✝ · Rating 5 out of 5]

**20-27 dec. 2015**

ESO FUE HERMOSO :'D

Si la perfección tuviera nombre se llamaría Acto 6 Acto 6 Intermedio 5.

Hussie. Lo hiciste bien. Por fin :D

En resumen este acto fue un chingo de feels. Creo que significó mucho para cualquier persona que ha llegado tan lejos como a esta altura. ¿Casi 10000 páginas? Alguien debe estar loco para darle tanto tiempo y dedicación a un web cómic tan absurdo como Homestuck, pero bien, aquí estoy yo y no me arrepiento de nada. En este acto, finalmente, Andrew Hussie decidió no matar a nadie y dejar que las cosas fluyan de manera natural, así como el esperado (muy esperado) encuentro de todos los personajes :'33 (sip, hasta los muertos y los que no salían desde hace miles de páginas literales) todos trabajando juntos para poder vencer cualquier obstáculo que se les interponga en su camino para poder lograr su deseada misión: Vivir.
Amé, AMÉ, PERO AMÉ ver esto. Como todos han llegado tan lejos. Luego de tanta trama (y drama), dolor, pérdidas (muchas), batallas, lágrimas, sudor y sangre...finalmente se ve como todo poco a poco se está solucionando de una manera hermosa y perfecta para darle fin a esta épica aventura que durante años ha tocado el corazón de miles de personas.
Encuentros, rencuentros, promesas y despedidas. Todos preparándose y trabajando juntos para la batalla final. ¿Debo explicar más? Esto todo lo que he pedido y Andrew Hussie finalmente me da.
Y aún no he mencionado el hermoso final que Hussie le puso a este acto. Tenía miedo de ver ese flash por que me dijieron muchas cosas sobre él y no sabía que esperar. Pero una vez que lo acabé lo tuve que volver a ver. Fue demasiado hermoso. Realmente me hizo pensar "Mierda, ¿por qué la gente dice que esto es una estupidez cuando ni han leído más de un acto?"
Terezi Remem8er. ESO, eso sí fue merecedor de todas las lágrimas. La amistad de estas dos me llegó justo al alma. No importa lo que pase, no importa lo que hagan, no importa si viven, no importa si mueren. La amistad que ellas tenían es irrompible. Ese flash me enseñó que simplemente todo lo vale. El dolor, las pérdidas e injusticias. Todo estará bien y si no lo está aún nada ha acabado. El amor siempre encuentra el camino.

Por lo general trato de escribir en inglés ya que así todos pueden entender (creo) pero no había forma de escribir todo esto en inglés porque no tengo palabras para escribirlo simplemente. Tal vez así de paso alguien se anime a leer esta maravilla.

Pude darme cuenta de como poco a poco cada lazo se va atando para llegar al final, y me alegró y conmovió mucho que está teniendo el final que Homestuck merece. Ahora solo me queda esperar al 13 de Abril (Sí. Hussie es un maldito y eligió esa fecha tan significativa y especial para el último update) para poder darle una triste despedida a esta hermosa y épica aventura. Y para despedirme de cada personaje que para ser sincera, no los olvidaré jamás.

Así que nada, LEAN HOMESTUCK.

Les juro que se pone mejor :)

[SYD!!!!! · Rating 5 out of 5]

astoundingly fantastic tour-de-force. as many fans and critics have said before, andrew hussie truly abandoned multiple dramatic plot threads at the tail end of his story and had his characters just kind of talk about their feelings ... and it WORKS.

this entire act is setting the stage for the ultimate conclusion: COLLIDE. before the action-filled ending, we have an emotional climax. dave and dirk have perhaps my favorite interaction in the entire comic, neatly tying dave's character arc into the nicest bow i have ever seen. the contrast of dave being terrified to meet bro vs dirk being so excited to meet dave... is so heartbreaking. the scene where dave hugs dirk, ultimately concluding that this man who is so terrified of being evil could never be the ontologically evil man his older brother turned into?? im already crying.

kanaya was hilarious but knocking karkat out was so sad ! his epic speech ultimately being "oh man i hope dave is okay..." im crying again even harder

TEREZI: REMEM8ER!! a flash animation i dont think ive ever TRULY understood until this moment. terezi remembers every single terezi's life and character development, and we get a resolution to all of the characters lost throughout the story's many timelines. do you remem8er me is a beautiful song on top of it all!

sure i love the plot relevant stuff. i wish they had resolved a huge number of plot lines. i do always wish there was more of a distinct tie between lore and character such as in act five act two. but ultimately, as our final goodbye to these characters, act six act six intermission five quietly demonstrates how much everyone has changed, mostly for the better, throughout the story.

[Xylene Qien · Rating 4 out of 5]

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the what reference

it's near 3am for me now


welp. i finally did it. read through all the pages from bottom to top and again at some point on halfway lane.

there is just
so many to say
and feel
in this arc

john fixed the doomed alpha line
alpha and beta kids reunite
their feels
i'm feeling the striders all the way
and poor jake :(

there is just so many
character buildup here
nearly all of them!
things really are gonna end aint it

although the sprite squared is total jackassary
but who knows what kind of effect it'll take

the last flash
omg i cant believed i cried
the friendship ness and hardship ness
it hit me too hard and i didnt know it?

oh god oh god oh god

even eridan get a repentive cameo

and all those many deaths of many alt characters and

god

i cant believe how tht

for a webcomic

it has such a dramatic impact and

for just a webcomic!

i dont know what to say!

i think

i have found the perfect fiction or whatever is the case on the genre

to idolise over

it is truly a remarkable masterpiece
albeit unfinished

now i'm part of the homestuck trash

listening to their amazing songs

shipping so badly at headcanons

and all those feels

while waiting for this

omegapause

to end

and drop the final curtain

[Ellie · Rating 5 out of 5]

and with this (wordcount = 88k) plus the two ending animations, I have finished all of Homestuck! Really love how the whole series wraps up like "forget about half of those ongoing plot threads, they don't matter, what you guys really want is lots of very long conversations about feelings right?" and I said yes thank you.
so maybe the final Dave & Dirk conversation made me cry, AND WHAT OF IT

[Kris Ritchie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ugh, so close to the end. This volume largely focuses on the different "homecomings" and final meetings of characters that need to sort out all their family drama. Then the stage is set for the final four fights. Also, Vriska is back and as a team leader is just kicking ass.

[Ilona E. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Damnit stop making me have feelings Homestuck

[freya · Rating 5 out of 5]

i don't think anything i could say right now could ever get across how i feel about this. gonna have to come back 2 me dude.

[Len · Rating 4 out of 5]

Something feels deeply off to me about the fact that most of the characters in this Act come from a completely different timeline than the one we have been following so far. I get that this is the time to stop and take a breath, to review what has happened in the game and assess everything: the good, the bad, the failures, the quests. However, I cannot shake the feeling that... I don't know these guys, and I don't get their motivations.

For instance, Karkat's sudden disinterest with his role as a leader is particularly jarring. Apparently he has had the time to accept that he failed, fully relinquishing power to Vriska in the process. Ok, but... Last time we saw him, Karkat was still trying to help Terezi however he could. His constant as a character is that he deeply cares about proving his worth. How is this Karkat he suddenly so ok with a secondary role? What happened to him?? Just saying "he changed" does not clarify anything for the reader who thought to know Karkat as he is/was.

Rose is another mixed bag. Her drinking problems in the meteorite had a very concrete reason. The sudden disappearance of her addiction because of Vriska's presence is a quite unsatisfactory explanation. One would imagine that she had to undergo a deep internal transformation to overcome her addiction, but we don't get to see any of it. Yet another profound and rather sudden change in a character's personality that we are supposed to just accept.

Frankly, it feels as if the author was trying to close story arcs left and right before the big battle. They all talk at length about how much they've changed without us actually seeing any reasons why these changes happened. I'm just saying, some of this characters feel as rewritten versions of themselves, and we audience are quite disconnected from their new versions.

Alive Vriska is the worst. I hated that the narration constantly vindicates her by rewarding her with a big confrontation with the ultimate boss which she didn't deserve. Dead Vriska's character arch was so much more interesting, and it was deeply insulting that once again, Alive Vriska got to be the MC by yelling and berating her Dead version. Indeed, worst character ever.

Terezi: Remem8er the best thing of this Act. Also, Dave and Dirk's conversations. Beautifully honest and deeply touching moments, both of them.