Homestuck

Buckle up I’m counting this animation as several pages. This is another one of those critical moments in the story. It starts a bit awkwardly. Since we never actually saw Dave unlock the egg to get the medium. The story kind of skipped that to try and trick us with the Davesprite timeline.

So the animation starts with that event. As Dave was climbing up the radio mast to get the egg the bird sprite started to peck at his head. The result was Dave and the egg falling off of the tower. The giant meteor would have landed directly on him at that time. But, what Dave may not have seen was that the meteor was split in Half. This gave him the extra split second he needed. Though we don't see Dave actually crack the egg it's implied. Dave is rescued by his brother's rocket board. When the meteor came down Bro was riding on top of it, He split it in two with his sword saving Dave. We then see present Dave in his red tux looking towards his first gate. Though he didn't see his brother at that moment he likely knew that he was there protecting him. This is why he’d been thinking of him in the last panel.

Next we see the starship that Jade's Grandpa is piloting flying closer to Skiai. Roses mom has a mean looking sniper rifle, Dad has a pipe in his mouth and a cake in hand. They are going to kick some ass or something.

When we last left Jack, he’d just slain the black king. The army of the Warweary Villein(WV) was surrounding him as they’d come to do the same thing. But though they had the same goal they are not allies. Jack begins slaughtering the army as WV watches on in horror. Using the ring, Jack summons miles of red vines. These vines begin to cover the battleground destroying everything in their path. They even rip the planet itself asunder. An underling surrenders the scepter to Jack. Though he uses this to start the reckoning.

Jack then flies to Prospit and destroys it using the same Red Miles. He also severs the chain holding the moon of Prospit causing the moon to fall towards the Battleground.

Before this we See the former white queen and her entourage escaping. We’d see a ship leaving just as Jack arrives implying that she escapes. Also you may notice one of her entourage is holding a bucket of paint. This character is actually important later.

Also on Prospit is Jade and John’s dream selves. Jade is awakened and currently in the dreamworld of Prospit. But John has never awakened and has not yet gained control of his dream self. Jade know she needs to wake John up but now with the moon falling towards the Battleground she needs to move fast. As the moon falls John falls from the tower. Jade catches him but she is now between Skiai and a falling moon about to smash into it. She tries desperately to wake him, including slapping him around but he will not awaken. In disparity she throws him out of the path of the moon. But, she cannot escape. Jade's dream self is killed. I’ll note she was still wearing the ring of power from the white queen when this occurred. Being disconnected so violently from Jades dream self the dreambot explodes. This caused Jade's awake self to fall from her tower in the waking world.

Also John finally awakens in the dream world. Too late. lazy bastard.

the Battleground is not destroyed but the moon of prospit leaves a massive creator. We see about 30% of the planet's surface, another 30% is by the red miles.

Jacks rampage continues as he moves to the Land of Heat and Clockwork (LOHAC) where Dave currently is. But he encounters Big Bro instead on a huge turntable. They fight, we only see the fight end with Bro destroying the turntable they are fighting on.

There is an intermission involving Squiddles for some reason. I’m sure there is actually a deep point to the Squiddles stuff. Relate to the old gods, but in this instance they are just a tension cut. It’s not related to the story.

John is with the babies as the Reckoning clock counts down. Watch baby has an item with it.

• John has the colonel sassacre.
• Jade has the “modified” half knit bunny
• Rose has the unmodified oil stained bunny
• Dave has Maplehoof (interesting..)
• Johns Grandma(?) had the oil stained fedora
• Roses mom(?) has Mewtini
• Jades Grandpa(?) has the dueling pistols
• Big Bro(?) has Lil Cal

Odd that John's guardian isn't actually his dad but his grandmother. But anyway the babies are pulled towards the Battleground by the Reckoning but fall through portals. Warping them through time and space.

We also see The “Draconian Dignitary” (DD) who uses the MEOW book on the machine. The machine is targeting Halley, the normal dog. The creates the usual sludge copy but the machine goes haywire with green sparks. The Authority Regulator (AR) watches in terror at the situation. It seems this is the birth of Bec? We see Dave and Rose fighting their way to their first gates. With Rose we see an explosion by her gate and her flying away.

Lastly, we see Bec outside Jade's tower in the waking world. There is a massive meteor in the sky and the part of the tower where her room was is just a smoking limb.

Before ending this I’ll gush about the animation here. It’s friggin’ amazing. The way the animation moves to the music, another piece by Toby is well coordinated. There are moments of the music which highlight the motifs of the characters involved giving them their own sound profiles. This one also has a lot of visual artist involvement including some of Lexxy Douglass’ work. I think she’s my favorite of the visual artists for Homestuck.