All the trolls are great but I especially love Nepeta. Vriska is cool as fuck though and Karkat is basically my spirit animal

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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Maybe formulaic is a better description. I saw it at the time as here's a character, here are their stats, they are evil in some way. At least with some characters. Perhaps I was hoping to learn about them more slowly and organically. Though when you need to introduce a bunch of new characters things are too quick.

Mind this was just over a decade or two ago, and my more recent (sadly partial) re-read did let me appreciate things a bit more.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Fair enough, though I would argue we do learn a lot about them organically, specifically through their relationships to other trolls, past actions they've done, and blink-and-you-miss-it moments in cutscenes. Their introduction scenes moreso set up the framework of the character, and a lot of them develop on that, though some remain somewhat static, but I blame them not getting enough screentime (which is fair due to the sudden influx of characters).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Honestly a big concession I'd make to my own argument is the music. The characters themes helped a lot for me to get the tone of the characters. Though if I remember correctly the tracks often came (at least to bandcamp) sometime after the characters introduction arks. One of those things I could enjoy more in my re read is listening to the various themes of each character

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    The character themes are quite good. I still listen to Killed By Br8k Spider (Vriska), Fuschia Ruler (Meenah) and Hate You (also Meenah), plus other songs from the comic (Sunslammer and Elevatorstuck mainly). I was doing a read through with my bestie and I did try putting on HS music for her while we read but I couldn't catch the right one for it and Homestuck is so much longer than all of it's tracks put together could handle lol.

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