I hadn't known there was bonus content for Beyond Canon until like today, and so I went and read it and was happy to see this one, which to me is cool:
https://beyondcanon.com/bonus/a-threat-sensed/1
idk if Hussie was writing this one or not, but it's still pretty neat because Dirk is saying what I and a lot of other people were saying when the whole Yiffy reveal happened. "This is stupid and dumb, and why would anyone want to read this? Everything's so OOC and makes no sense, there's no order to this at all, it's STUPID."
And it is obviously like that on purpose; it makes everyone incredibly angry. Hussie's ragebait was so goddamn effective I stopped reading Homestuck for 5 whole years because of a single panel. And yet I kind of do like Yiffy now.
Which is crazy because before I couldn't even stand the idea of seeing her, but now I'm like actually excited to read more about Yiffy and want to see more from her. I think the later updates after the Yiffy reveal and when act 1 ended were what made me think that I was perhaps a bit wrong about Yiffy.
But this isn't really about that, this is about "Why Dirk is afraid of Yiffy" and I think it is simply because Yiffy isn't a character who was made out of a love for the characters in Homestuck. She exists purely to piss off the audience of people who read Homestuck. And that is terrifying to a man who wants to control his part of the story and not have anything or anyone interfere with what he thinks is the best way to tell it.
Yiffy is a representation of the way stories can often escape and run off on their own away from even the audience's wants, and how it's totally out of anyone's hands what happens next.
And guess what? She's coming straight to him. Her and all of her equally as paradoxically chaotic friends are all going to explore the great beyond.
And that's a sign to Dirk at least that he is indeed like the rest of the characters in Beyond canon in that he is not really the "Main character" anymore. That can be quite scary indeed for a near omnipotent god but also it has me excited for when the rest of the story releases.
