>>38312735>>38312769>>38312797Homestuck was a webcomic in the early 10s created in a pseudo-CYOA style, as a spiritual successor to Problem Sleuth, from the same author: Andrew Hussie. It chronicles the story of John Egbert and his 3 friends on his 13th birthday, wherein he participates in a game called Sburb. The game (and comic for that matter) itself is a long-winded creation tale where the four children must "enter" the game to avoid the oncoming apocalypse.
Along the way, they are aided behind the scenes by a group of as-of-yet unknown third party children, who are eventually revealed to be trolls: aliens from another universe that have played/are playing their own version of Sburb: Sgrub. As the games progress, the two teams realize that they are actually talking to each other at different points in each others' timelines, and eventually come to realize that the games they are playing are what set off the world-ending apocalypses in their respective universes, via extremely (and intentionally) convoluted time travel and paradoxes.
They discover that the ultimate goal of their games is to birth the Genesis Frog which gives birth to the universe itself. Blocking their paths are an ongoing war between white and black carapacian races and the ever-present threat of an unknown third party: the omniscient and omnipresent Lord English, whose real identity is unknown.
Along the way they learn that a key part of completing their games is "growing" as people, understanding the roles they have been given, and fulfilling those roles. Each kid and troll is given a class and an aspect, much like a typical RPG, whereby their powers manifest in a multitude of different manners. For instance, Dave is the Knight of Time, who has the ability to control time in ways such as creating clones using short-term time travel, rewinding/fast-forwarding objects' states of being, as well as travel through time through stable time loops (non-paradoxical). Compare that to Aradia, the Maid of Time, whose time powers manifest in the form of being more of a guardian of time, overseeing the closing of time loops and preventing paradox/alternate timelines.
That's the version without spoilers. Also, it turned out that the author was/is actually a huge schizo, so pretty much everyone jumped ship and the only people that stuck around are actual asylum patients.
