you will also notice a trend with a lot of what’s been said to you up until this point, which is: most of the treatment you describe of these characters has nothing to do with them being gay, and has everything to do with them being men. this is because misogyny is a major theme in homestuck, and the fact that this theme is often explored with gay characters is a side effect of the majority of the male cast of homestuck being queer.

side note: i‘ve seen this thrown around a bunch, but i genuinely don’t understand how the epilogues “walked back” davekat? i don’t particularly care about twitter confirmations and other shit, that’s vague and barely counts imo. by the end of homestuck, we have: dave confirmed gay (as in attracted to men, specifics of his sexuality don’t really matter) to an extent, karkat also confirmed to be into men. davekat gets brought up in one conversation where no answer to whether they are together is given, and karkat throws a tantrum when the topic gets brought up, so it’s dropped. and then the epilogues open on dave and karkat living together, everyone knows they want to be together but they themselves don’t breach the topic. what was walked back, exactly? i don’t think that just because dave asked dirk about coming out it then necessarily tracks that off screen dave had a big coming out moment and immediately went to kissing karkat. to me it makes perfect sense if the epilogues take it in the direction of “they don’t really get together because of personal hang ups”, because there’s a big difference between dave slowly opening up about being gay in hypotheticals and very personal conversations, and going ahead and getting into a relationship with a guy and telling all his friends about how gay he is. similarly for karkat, he’s very emotional and pretty bad at romance. it makes perfect sense to me if they have a homoerotic dynamic for a while and don’t get into a proper relationship right away? i genuinely don’t understand what doesn’t track from homestuck proper to the epilogues when it comes to their relationship progression.