In topic: "Homestuck Feels like it has a Discomfort With Achillean Romance and Characters."

Monday, September 1st, 2025, 6:34 PM17 days ago

I'm not really sure how to feel about CallieRoxy in general. By the end of Homestuck, I thought it was another kind of victory for the lacking front of sapphic romance that was only really championed by Rosemary and left forlorn by Vrisrezi, but then the epilogues deconstruct a lot of their gender identities and present two alternative outcomes so it becomes very difficult to figure out how I'm *supposed* to read them.


All in all, I have more trans thoughts about Callie and Roxy and less Achillean ones? That also might just be because my perception of Roxy as a character is a very difficult one to stomach, too. I like everything they stand for, I just kind of wish the story would do more to unpack how fucked up a lot of the things Roxy did in the early story were; and that goes the same for all of the alpha kids, but it strikes a bit closer to home with Roxy because of afformentioned things.


As the story stands now, Roxy kind of got to wash hands of a lot of the negative things they did so I'm left in a state of limbo. I want more Roxy content and I want more Roxy exploration because I think Homestuck does catharsis well when it has a chance to. :)

Dandy