Can you go into more detail on what the "shafted" thing means? The only thing I can think of is that certain characters died early on and so we didn't get to see as much of them as we could have...

For example, a lot of people think that Jade’s Character Arc was ruined because she was lonely and sad in the Prospit Ship, and then she fell asleep once she was in the Session and then… Played with the Dogs? Rather than thinking this as part of her Character Development- The isolation and hopelessness, feeling lost and unsure what to do, with Alt Callie’s Guidance to do what she wants and Davepeta’s Reassurance about what she should do next- They see her being sad for two or three panels, and immediately cry that her Character has been Ruined and Shafted by the Story.

And don’t get me wrong, Jade is my favorite character of, like, probably all time, but people get excessively belligerent when anything remotely bad happens to their faves, and I think Jade’s Arc was important to understand Homestuck and its Reality on a deeper level.

Some people consider other characters to have been ‘shafted’ like this by the story and like, yeah, some didn’t get as much screen time? But in general, no one really had any sort of complete Arc closed for them, and ended up kind of just lightly coming to terms with their nuance and kept struggling afterwards.