I suddenly feel oddly validated for not finishing a single page of the epilogues. What I had understood of them via osmosis from others who had... suffice to say they so soured me on Homestuck content I began reading alternate continuation fanventures (something I had previously refused to do on principle of “the original comic is better”) out of spite. I did not even give HS^2 / HS:BC a fair shake until some time later, and even then I tried my best not to get invested (failed, I am now unfortunately very much invested in seeing what they do with both Jakes).