i honestly really like how insane everyone is in candy. in retrospect it's fairly obvious that a group of characters with as weird of an upbringing as the homestuck cast has will not grow up to be functional adults, so when they start forcing themselves into what they think is normative it falls apart completely. like, the conceit of the entire thing is the characters settle down and start trying to do Real Adult Things, but none of them have a proper grasp on what Real Adult Things are so it very quickly spirals. in a way it's a parallel to the ongoing theme of homestuck of characters emulating their ancestors/parents, except it's taken to its extreme in part because of the whole "fake fanfiction world" thing, and in part just because the longer you stay in an environment where you try to emulate adulthood to the best of your ability without being questioned because you're literally a god and all your friends are equally maladjusted, the worse you get. it's part of the reason why meat doesn't go as far timewise as candy gets, because the point is that with every time skip these characters just get worse off screen because every time skip they marinate more and more in their respective self-made environments and delusions.