What would be the worst ending to Homestuck?

[cinereousSynesthete]

The worst would be it keeps on going, and going, and going, as unresolved side plots and new characters began to snowball together into a huge cancerous lump. Because of this increased load, characters become flat and uninteresting, the plot becomes convoluted past the point of any kind of comprehension, and Homestuck as a whole loses its appeal, as Hussie adds more and more junk for the sole purpose of keeping it moving along. Many fans leave, while some stubbornly stay behind to defend the hideous, retching remains of a good story, long ago marred beyond recognition by the twisted claws of time. Homestuck is no longer known as the beautiful story it once was, but as the long running mess it has become. Finally, after chapter 170569, Hussie pulls the plug on the horrible slowly dieing, once great series known as Homestuck.

I think I just made myself sad.

This could still perform a double reach around into Awesome territory if the resulting snowball turned into Act 6 Intermission 2: The Sitcom

I just want more Can Town

[fireicedog]

The Condesce and Lord English killing everyone and destroying all universes then making out.

They manage to kill everyone except Karkat who is forced to watch Lord English, the Condesce, and their sloppy makeouts for eternity!

[cinereousSynesthete]

They manage to kill everyone except Karkat who is forced to watch Lord English, the Condesce, and their sloppy makeouts for eternity!

And then it turns out that both Lord English and the Condesce were Nepeta and she tortures him fur a further eterkitty

[NotPete]

This could still perform a double reach around into Awesome territory if the resulting snowball turned into Act 6 Intermission 2: The Sitcom

I just want more Can Town

Oh sure, you would get some Can Town, but that would be between Hussie juggling universe b, universes q-v (pre and post scratch), alternate timeline clones, Lord English the 77th, Lad English, Lady English, Lord Finnish, Jake's 413 ecto-clones, GCat Noir, a crappily written GCat Noir & Bec Noir slash fic, the IV zombie apocalypse, Can Town IX: Now With Butter, SBAHJ: The Movee: Teh Gam: Sequll: thepreqel: Te Webcomic, the 16 trolls from the cowboy dimension, Problem Sleuth 3: Electric Boogaloo, the ill-fated Mutie spin off, jazz hands, John's 7th funeral, Vriska opening a charity-fund/orphanage, science-bonanza, That Thing That No One Talks About EVER, That Thing With John's Dad We Never Got Around To Naming, FedoraFreak reaching Omega-God tier (Its after the Super, Ultra, Mega, and Saiyan), FedoraFreak coming in at the last minute and saving Matt while simultaneously killing Lord English's 31st Reincarnation, that crap with the batterwitch's evil cousin that takes over after her even though she was NEVER mentioned before, the evil versions of the kids, the good versions of the kids, the aqua-marine versions of the kids, Jaspers becoming the Genesis Frog, the sprites combing to form a giant buzz saw, Tavrisprite's drinking problem, and the 9th coming of Jegus.

[fireicedog]

Oh sure, you would get some Can Town, but that would be between Hussie juggling universe b, universes q-v (pre and post scratch), alternate timeline clones, Lord English the 77th, Lad English, Lady English, Lord Finnish, Jake's 413 ecto-clones, GCat Noir, a crappily written GCat Noir & Bec Noir slash fic, the IV zombie apocalypse, Can Town IX: Now With Butter, SBAHJ: The Movee: Teh Gam: Sequll: thepreqel: Te Webcomic, the 16 trolls from the cowboy dimension, Problem Sleuth 3: Electric Boogaloo, the ill-fated Mutie spin off, jazz hands, John's 7th funeral, Vriska opening a charity-fund/orphanage, science-bonanza, That Thing That No One Talks About EVER, That Thing With John's Dad We Never Got Around To Naming, FedoraFreak reaching Omega-God tier (Its after the Super, Ultra, Mega, and Saiyan), FedoraFreak coming in at the last minute and saving Matt while simultaneously killing Lord English's 31st Reincarnation, that crap with the batterwitch's evil cousin that takes over after her even though she was NEVER mentioned before, the evil versions of the kids, the good versions of the kids, the aqua-marine versions of the kids, Jaspers becoming the Genesis Frog, the sprites combing to form a giant buzz saw, Tavrisprite's drinking problem, and the 9th coming of Jegus.

At first, I thought your idea of Homestuck dragging on endlessly would make for a bad ending when Hussie finally pulled the plug; but after you listing all of these rad things that would happen, I would really like to read this version. Sure there would be no real end, but I'd get to meet the 16 trolls from the cowboy dimension AND Omega - God tier FedoraFreak! Much cooler than boring Saiyan - God tier FedoraFreak!

[NotPete]

At first, I thought your idea of Homestuck dragging on endlessly would make for a bad ending when Hussie finally pulled the plug; but after you listing all of these rad things that would happen, I would really like to read this version. Sure there would be no real end, but I'd get to meet the 16 trolls from the cowboy dimension AND Omega - God tier FedoraFreak! Much cooler than boring Saiyan - God tier FedoraFreak!

Yes, well, after that it just gets silly.

[ImperatorMortis]

And then it turns out that both Lord English and the Condesce were Nepeta and she tortures him fur a further eterkitty

And then the hate smooches came.

[runicArtist]

Worst ending? It was all a dream, Or that Lord English dies before the heros get to him, so they have nothing better to do then talk about troll romance all day,every day.

[xooxu]

The ending that goes "The End".

I know a lot of devoted readers that have been around since 2009/2010 are really disappointed with the sprawling plot and ridiculous amount of characters, but I so far haven't lost interest in a character that I had previous interest in. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do with my spare time if Hussie ever stops updating.

Although, I do think Hussie has a problem with the idea of minor characters. He tends to give every single entity significant to the plot in anyway mentioned a back story/mission/personality X10. I think the entire fan base would be fine if some characters dropped back a bit from the spotlight.

[ImperatorMortis]

The ending that goes "The End".

I know a lot of devoted readers that have been around since 2009/2010 are really disappointed with the sprawling plot and ridiculous amount of characters, but I so far haven't lost interest in a character that I had previous interest in. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do with my spare time if Hussie ever stops updating.

Although, I do think Hussie has a problem with the idea of minor characters. He tends to give every single entity significant to the plot in anyway mentioned a back story/mission/personality X10. I think the entire fan base would be fine if some characters dropped back a bit from the spotlight.

How is this a bad thing? Also I wouldn't say every character is significant. What about Nepeta, Equius, Dad, and.. Um.. Thats all I've got.

[fireicedog]

How is this a bad thing? Also I wouldn't say every character is significant. What about Nepeta, Equius, Dad, and.. Um.. Thats all I've got.

New idea: Hussie drops the current story and turns Homestuck into the Nepeta, Equius, and Dad show! It's a sitcom where Nepeta and Dad have to raise their adopted child Equius. They spend eight seasons helping Equius through his many problems using convenient plot elements. In the last season, Dad finds out Nepeta had been cheating on him after walking in on Nepeta having an afur with their neighbor, Crazy Dave. The last episode is their divorce; and Equius, unable to take this in, runs away, never to be seen again.

[xooxu]

How is this a bad thing? Also I wouldn't say every character is significant. What about Nepeta, Equius, Dad, and.. Um.. Thats all I've got.

It's just really hard to keep up with. It does tend to stretch your feelings out, and I sometimes forget who's story goes where and when. I've compensated by just focusing on characters I like and skimming through the other's stories.

Nepeta's story is sure to come. Hussie's hinted at it at least twice. And I think Dad has a story. I actually find him to be one of the most interesting characters, maybe because he's mysterious.

Equius might not have a story really. I don't even know if he's alive right now ... But he's got a very developed personality, at least.

The lusus are maybe the only really minor characters.

edit:

New idea: Hussie drops the current story and turns Homestuck into the Nepeta, Equius, and Dad show! It's a sitcom where Nepeta and Dad have to raise their adopted child Equius. They spend eight seasons helping Equius through his many problems using convenient plot elements. In the last season, Dad finds out Nepeta had been cheating on him after walking in on Nepeta having an afur with their neighbor, Crazy Dave. The last episode is their divorce; and Equius, unable to take this in, runs away, never to be seen again.

YUS. THIS IDEA IS WIN.

[mas369]

The worst would be it keeps on going, and going, and going, as unresolved side plots and new characters began to snowball together into a huge cancerous lump. Because of this increased load, characters become flat and uninteresting, the plot becomes convoluted past the point of any kind of comprehension, and Homestuck as a whole loses its appeal, as Hussie adds more and more junk for the sole purpose of keeping it moving along. Many fans leave, while some stubbornly stay behind to defend the hideous, retching remains of a good story, long ago marred beyond recognition by the twisted claws of time. Homestuck is no longer known as the beautiful story it once was, but as the long running mess it has become. Finally, after chapter 170569, Hussie pulls the plug on the horrible slowly dieing, once great series known as Homestuck.

I think I just made myself sad.

I'd just like to point out that this is the reality that we have been living in since Hivebent.

Equius might not have a story really. I don't even know if he's alive right now ... But he's got a very developed personality, at least.

Equius's romance with Aradia was effectively his story.

[Karaktakus]

Hussie makes a flash file ending so big and so awesome that no internet service anywhere can host it. Nobody save for a few see it, and they can't share what they saw because all the major sites go down indefinitely, and we are plunged into a dark age without internet.

He somehow also crashes the phone networks.

[ASBusinessMagnet]

Hussie makes a flash file ending so big and so awesome that no internet service anywhere can host it. Nobody save for a few see it, and they can't share what they saw because all the major sites go down indefinitely, and we are plunged into a dark age without internet.

He somehow also crashes the phone networks.

I need to fanfic this.

I imagine the few lucky ones who saved the file burn it into a Blu-ray Disc (or worse, camcord the entire flash) and go around in real life, spreading Homestuck everywhere.

And then the flash would probably start making it into the cinemas.

[ArtemisTheHuntress]

Hussie makes a flash file ending so big and so awesome that no internet service anywhere can host it. Nobody save for a few see it, and they can't share what they saw because all the major sites go down indefinitely, and we are plunged into a dark age without internet.

He somehow also crashes the phone networks.

I need to fanfic this.

I imagine the few lucky ones who saved the file burn it into a Blu-ray Disc (or worse, camcord the entire flash) and go around in real life, spreading Homestuck everywhere.

And then the flash would probably start making it into the cinemas.

Oh yes

This is the best idea

Not the best ending - this would be a horrible ending - but the BEST idea

[LMLYP]

The worst would be it keeps on going, and going, and going, as unresolved side plots and new characters began to snowball together into a huge cancerous lump. Because of this increased load, characters become flat and uninteresting, the plot becomes convoluted past the point of any kind of comprehension, and Homestuck as a whole loses its appeal, as Hussie adds more and more junk for the sole purpose of keeping it moving along. Many fans leave, while some stubbornly stay behind to defend the hideous, retching remains of a good story, long ago marred beyond recognition by the twisted claws of time. Homestuck is no longer known as the beautiful story it once was, but as the long running mess it has become.

some might argue that this has already happened

(it has, imo, except for "flat and uninteresting characters" and "hideous, retching remains of a good story")

andrew has a definite ending planned; he's not going to keep it rolling forever. he's stated that homestuck is "just a warm-up for something else".

[ASBusinessMagnet]

InternetPocalypseStuck

"Andrew Hussie finally finishes Homestuck with an ending closing all the plot ends packed with the most awesome ever. This however does not go well."

Early morning, April 13, 2015

"Compiling file Homestuck_End_of_Act_7.mp4 (1:34:00, 5.1 GB)... (99.990%)"
Andrew Hussie was sound asleep in the office chair behind his computer as the last ten thousandths of percent counted down.
99.997... 99.998... 99.999... complete.
A buzzer went off as the compiling finished, startling Andrew from his sleep. He was dreaming about something revolving around Jane hitting a Crockercorp mook with her fork and switching it to the spoon, killing the mook. These dreams just mangled End of Act 7 more horribly and horribly. There was one feature-length movie-long epic, period.

Andrew then drew the last update Homestuck would ever receive. John, Rose, Dave, Jade, Jane, Roxy, Dirk and Jake stood in front of the obliterated universe, on top of the dead corpses of the Condesce and Lord English, each holding the combinations of each other's weapons. This took quite a time, but time was at a premium.

At the precise moment of 2015.04.13 11:13:00 UTC, which translated to 07:13:00 here on Massachusetts, where he lived, a dedicated torrent server would turn on, immediately broadcasting the update which Andrew already nicknamed "Homestuck: The Movie"-

"[S] Conclude." The man behind Homestuck corrected himself on the thought train.

The update would be broadcast to anyone and everyone wanting to watch it, and, by the advantage of torrent, even if this server went down thousands- no, millions of Homestuck fans everywhere hopefully would have collected every single facet, every single minute of the update and there would be a massive exchange throughout the Internet. The mistakes of AlterniaBound, EoA 5, EoA 6 and that other game-update would not be repeated. The Internet was safe.

Or so he thought.

He put the finishing touches on the last update ever, as EoA 7 was uploading to the torrent server, and wrote for the textual completion of the update:

"> John, Rose, Dave, Jade, Jane, Roxy, Dirk and Jake: Pose as a team. Shit finally was brought to an end.

And thus concluded the most epic showdown ever in paradox space.

END OF ACT 7.

Thanks for playing!"

Now only to wait out the transfer. Andrew watched as the numbers ticked down some more, one set to 100% of the uploading, the other to 07:13:00.0. Conventions probably were held everywhere as people watched the countdown to the conclusion of Homestuck...

Or countdown to the doom of telecommunications.

As the last five minutes ticked, Andrew took out the flash drive with the entire video file, turned off the computer, and plugged it off entirely from the Interned and from the power lines. They were safe, and the epic that should be spoken about for centuries was intact.

Four. The man took out his iPhone 5 and looked at the live internet activity graph, slowly but steadily growing up. F5-ers? Andrew shook his head. He clearly warned not to F5 the entire internet out. He pocketed the iPhone back, and waited.

Three. After Homestuck, Andrew didn't know what else to continue. The webcomic could not be out-done by something even more epic, so the MS Paint Adventures site would probably not be updated anymore, and his dedicated artist team and himself would probably be sent spoils from the mass adventure for the rest of their lives, and Andrew himself would denounce everything.

Two. Everything was completely planned out. Nothing terrible could happen to the Internet. Maybe except for the event that would be spoken about even by people who didn't have an Internet connection. 7.2 billion people would be rocked out, and everything would be finished out.

Last minute. Andrew rushed to the dedicated server, ready to formally flip the switch and record himself doing it.

Thirty. "I, Andrew Hussie of the MS Paint Adventures fame, hereby announce the ending to Homestuck, and the ending to MSPA.*Commencing ending in ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One."

The switch was finally flipped. "Enjoy."

Conventions everywhere were literally rocked out by the first chords of the beginning of Conclude. The man really did it this time. A year-long wait, and then this.

But the worst was just ahead.

--

I'm posting this here, but I won't want to write the entirety of this fanfic.

[Karaktakus]

Hussie invites a guest musician or writer-

guest writer

Ryan North takes over Homestuck.

All my worst endings seem to involve other people. Maybe it's because Hussie alone cannot ruin Hussie's work. Wait, no, there is a way.

Hussie uses the Lavender Town theme (Red/Green original) and people start complaining about headaches and the Lavender Town Tone Conspiracy sends the forums to flaming hell.

[NotPete]

some might argue that this has already happened

(it has, imo, except for "flat and uninteresting characters" and "hideous, retching remains of a good story")

andrew has a definite ending planned; he's not going to keep it rolling forever. he's stated that homestuck is "just a warm-up for something else".

Except it keeps on going until is spirals out of control, and is 100x worse. I know he's got an ending planned, and I am frankly glad for that.

[Karaktakus]

Except it keeps on going until is spirals out of control, and is 100x worse. I know he's got an ending planned, and I am frankly glad for that.

If Homestuck is the warmup, then the thing AFTER is far more likely to spiral out of control.

[NotPete]

If Homestuck is the warmup, then the thing AFTER is far more likely to spiral out of control.

If Homestuck's a warmup, then the next thing should be facemeltingly awesome. I think it's awesomeness should kill us before it spirals out of control.

[vriskabelle]

I had a dream that it just kept going and going and just scratching and restarting and it never ended. But the worst ending would be if it was someone's dream or if someone was in a coma and imagined it all up and they finally woke up after years and found out it wasn't real.

Either way, I'm going to sob when it ends, sweet jesus.

[Qmark]

Oh sure, you would get some Can Town, but that would be between Hussie juggling universe b, universes q-v (pre and post scratch), alternate timeline clones, Lord English the 77th, Lad English, Lady English, Lord Finnish, Jake's 413 ecto-clones, GCat Noir, a crappily written GCat Noir & Bec Noir slash fic, the IV zombie apocalypse, Can Town IX: Now With Butter, SBAHJ: The Movee: Teh Gam: Sequll: thepreqel: Te Webcomic, the 16 trolls from the cowboy dimension, Problem Sleuth 3: Electric Boogaloo, the ill-fated Mutie spin off, jazz hands, John's 7th funeral, Vriska opening a charity-fund/orphanage, science-bonanza, That Thing That No One Talks About EVER, That Thing With John's Dad We Never Got Around To Naming, FedoraFreak reaching Omega-God tier (Its after the Super, Ultra, Mega, and Saiyan), FedoraFreak coming in at the last minute and saving Matt while simultaneously killing Lord English's 31st Reincarnation, that crap with the batterwitch's evil cousin that takes over after her even though she was NEVER mentioned before, the evil versions of the kids, the good versions of the kids, the aqua-marine versions of the kids, Jaspers becoming the Genesis Frog, the sprites combing to form a giant buzz saw, Tavrisprite's drinking problem, and the 9th coming of Jegus.

So basically Homestuck would become either a typical superhero comic or a typical shonen anime? Eesh.

Okay, how's this for worst ending: The comic stops just as the kids are about to fight Lord English, leaving it ambiguous as to whether or not they manage to defeat him in a "draw your own conclusion" sort of way. Cue longtime fans tearing their hair out in frustration.

[xooxu]

Oh sure, you would get some Can Town, but that would be between Hussie juggling universe b, universes q-v (pre and post scratch), alternate timeline clones, Lord English the 77th, Lad English, Lady English, Lord Finnish, Jake's 413 ecto-clones, GCat Noir, a crappily written GCat Noir & Bec Noir slash fic, the IV zombie apocalypse, Can Town IX: Now With Butter, SBAHJ: The Movee: Teh Gam: Sequll: thepreqel: Te Webcomic, the 16 trolls from the cowboy dimension, Problem Sleuth 3: Electric Boogaloo, the ill-fated Mutie spin off, jazz hands, John's 7th funeral, Vriska opening a charity-fund/orphanage, science-bonanza, That Thing That No One Talks About EVER, That Thing With John's Dad We Never Got Around To Naming, FedoraFreak reaching Omega-God tier (Its after the Super, Ultra, Mega, and Saiyan), FedoraFreak coming in at the last minute and saving Matt while simultaneously killing Lord English's 31st Reincarnation, that crap with the batterwitch's evil cousin that takes over after her even though she was NEVER mentioned before, the evil versions of the kids, the good versions of the kids, the aqua-marine versions of the kids, Jaspers becoming the Genesis Frog, the sprites combing to form a giant buzz saw, Tavrisprite's drinking problem, and the 9th coming of Jegus.

This sounds like the most amazing crack ever.