WARNING: THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK IS MENTALLY INSANE

The Final Upd8.

I finished watching the last upd8 before the Omegapause, and I feel like I need to put this somewhere where it's out there but a lot of people won't see it, but a few will care.

The link to the final upd8 before the Omegapause is here: http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=009859

The first thing I noticed was the beginning of the track "Do You Remem8er Me?"

This is a very important song to me. When I was first discovering Homestuck, I loved this track and I put it in my drawing playlist. So whenever I start to draw, I hear this song. It brings back so many memories for me, that I got emotional right from the get go.

Then we see Vriska--the one from the [s]Game Over timeline--walking through the Furthest Ring, in time to this beautiful and melancholy music. 

Vriska is also really important to me. Not only is she my favorite character above all others--when I look at her, I see some parts of me reflected back. That's why I love her so much. She shows me my flaws and my strengths, and has the capacity to do things I can only dream of doing. She doesn't actually exist, but I am so emotionally connected to Vriska that it doesn't really matter.

And then we see the deceased Terezi, also from the [s] Game Over timeline, who gets up from her chalk outline and realizes...that she's dead. That it's over. And in the background of all this, we see memories from both Scourge Sisters, how they grew up with each other. Like actual sisters.

The flash goes on to show the other characters from the [s] Game Over timeline waking up. And who do we have but Ikimaru to illustrate?

Ikimaru is a very big inspiration to me. She was one of the reasons I decided to pick up art--and I'm glad I did. She opened up an entire world for me, and I will never forget that.

Jake and Jane wake. Eridan wakes, whole, to the sights of a living Aradia, half-dead Sollux, and dead Feferi. Equius is shown relaxed, murder weapon and twisted face gone, meeting his moirail in death. All these images scroll by--reunions left unshown until now.

And then, finally, Vriska and Terezi reunite, and stand beneath the cracks of the Furthest Ring together. And it's at that point that I realize, I'm crying.

I'm crying because to me, this is so much more than a webcomic to me. Homestuck has shown me worlds I'd never imagined, and not just fictional ones. Ones of real people and places and issues and futures. All aspects of my life have been affected by this powerful, emotional story. 

But with that in mind, I do miss the days before Act 6, even though I wasn't in the fandom at that time. When I think Homestuck, I don't think of the serious craziness of Act 6. I think of the absurdness of Act 1, the silliness of Acts 2 and 3, the drama of Acts 4 and 5. The days when sprites weren't to the second power and everything was much simpler.

When Vriska and John were talking to each other. When Karkat was important. When Aradia and Sollux and Feferi and hell even Eridan were relevant. 

I miss the lightheartedness when everything was so simple and while not fun at times, was certainly more fun to read than at the current time.

But regardless, Homestuck means so much to me. I don't know what I'll do when it ends. But know this for sure: it has given me so much, and I'm never going to forget what this funny little(well not little its actually pretty fucking long) webcomic has done for me and so many others.