ok so this is gonna be a messy thread i wass trying to talk about this on the discord but it was so shit for discussion and i wanted to start a dialogue about it because it tends to be an overlooked pattern in the comic: guardians in homestuck are often more reflections of the kids they are the guardians of's classpects than that of themselves in their scratched versions almost as if they only gain their own personhood when they are a player of sburb/sgrub like vriska to mindfang and aradia to the handmaid they all only get to serve the purpose of furthering the development of the main characters often even being just a fictionalized version of their ancestor that lived a terrible life and died, their lives are left unfulfilled. even the "cool ones" like alpha dave and rose never get satisfaction with the things they desired the most as their beta selves in being able to reconcile or even meet with their guardians as adults
