@lyndis i highly recommend just reading the epilogues + hs2 + beyond canon again now that it isnt 2019 anymore. Back in the day i was also dissapointed bc they weren't what i was expecting, but they're so much better if you treat it as A Story and not As Fanfiction, if that makes sense? Ive read too much fix-it postcanon fanfic back in the day so i wasn't prepared for the "what if we made them worse" attitude of the epilogues, but if you know what's coming and don't particularly care whether they are nice or not to your favourite character, they're really great. Especially the Jade stuff, if you read it nowadays she did Nothing wrong. Yes she is sidelined into doing nothing in much of meat, but (one of) the point(s) of the epilogues is that the main characters didn't ""fix"" their major character flaws in homestuck proper and that putting them into a Straight Marriage With Kids epilogues Will make them worse. Dirk started out mildly controlling his friends, but if unchecked he will kill himself and manipulate his friends for the Greater Good (narrative significance). Jane was your Average American Girl who loved parks & rec and the like, and if unchecked descends into fascism (much like the country). And John moves through his life in a haze of denial and forced positivity bc of massive gender dysphoria, and if unchecked the epilogues happen. The epilogues are worth it just for the June Egbert Egg Moments, and a lot of the other parts are really funny if its not 2019 anymore and you were hoping for Anything But This from the homestuck epilogues.

That said, in the wider discussion on Gender and Homestuck, what are the thoughts on the whole June thing? My thoughts (theory?) is that its quite similar to celeste. In the beginning Hussie wrote Egbert as the average teenage boy, not realizing that it was egg behavior because they didn't know that they weren't cis. And now the epilogues and beyond canon are here, hussie is openly nonbinary and the characters are getting more explicitly trans because of that. (Pesterquest canonically trans Vriska and Sollux will never be taken from me)