I'm very caught up on Beyond Canon, despite the fact that each update seems to either leave me tired or frustrated, I always crawl back in the hopes that the next one will magically make everything okay.

I think that Jane's turn into a fascist dictator kind of cheapens the ending of Homestuck, where Nannasprite (x2) both offered to be her guides into adulthood, seeing as they lived a more subdued and down to earth existence. Except, as of the Epilogues, the sprites were all just gone, with 0 explanation. Only to come back for Vriska's quest into once again re-doing her character arc that she experienced as (Vriska).

Dave and Karkat seemed rather solidly confirmed as a couple by the petal platform discussions; the epilogues walked that back to them just dancing around it (which I understand was to more confidently explore their relationship ON screen, but the culmination of their confession came at the hands of coercion by Dirk's narrative power, which left the whole ordeal feeling tainted.)

Jade and Rose's decision to name their real child a nsfw furry joke felt rather *insane* to both of their characters. A consequence of which the story doesn't really seem to grapple with in any serious degree; none of the other adults present think it's fucked up that Rose and Jade did that to a child, only Dirk calls it out in a side story to which he is mocked for it. (I know it's addressed by Karkat, but even he just glazes over the fact Jade has engaged in an insane act of child abuse for the sake of instead zeroing in on Jade wanting Dave.) Jade's whole character arc seems to be focused around relationships as a whole.

Each time I want to engage with the complex nature of the story and find the joy in the narrative, I always get reminded of these facts that loom over it and can't find a way to de-tangle the context.

In the end, John's arc surrounding being depressed that their life as a protagonist has left them adrift without purpose in this new world; in particular because they lost their very close father figure (and had the healthiest relationship with their onscreen guardian) feels the most poignant and is the one that I'm most interested in exploring, but even that story feels like its not certain where it's supposed to go. John is simultaneously correct in their assertions about Candy's integrity, but also wrong for wanting to abandon it wholesale, even by the likes of Roxy, who was alright with ditching the Game Over timeline if it meant saving *a* version of her friends.

I want to be able to just see this as *a* continuation of the characters and not *the* continuation of the characters, but the fandom doesn't really treat it in such a way as a whole and I don't really see much fanart or fan discussion about any *other* versions of the story. Ultimately, BC and its preceding works are (even though touted otherwise) *the* continuation that everyone fixates on, because it was the one that got the big endorsement at its beginning, with a loose outline by the original author. How do you rectify that perspective? I'd love to divorce the importance of this version from my mind. @lizardanya