>>3992151I’m glad someone likes the pilot enough. Sorry if the thread gives you unwanted spoilers. Regarding the mystery aspect, Homestuck pays much attention to its world and background, and how events pan out aren’t always clear-cut. At varying points throughout the story, there were non-linear scenes, unexplained stuff happening, fragmented concurrent storylines, meta narratives, characters misunderstanding things, hidden backstories and a buttload of lore and worldbuilding. Homestuck back then was a routinely updated comic that had allowed interactions, feedback and suggestions from the readers to affect the story, so readers would give Hussie ideas, get misled, have expectations subverted, require external clarifications or need to parse through a lot of details early on in the webcomic that might appear innocuous but actually foreshadowed plot elements great in advance, which fueled speculation in between updates. The biggest criticism of Homestuck is that by the end of the comic and even the epilogues, there are still unanswered questions and dropped plot threads, possibly because Hussie might have gotten burnt out.
