Why John Egbert got royally fucked.
This was originally in a discord chat so sorry if it’s weirdly formatted. Also none of the ship mentions in here are meant to be negative or positive, simply my own opinions on what I saw in the comic. If you interpreted something differently, hey man, that’s cool, good on you for being independent.
Okay so, first off I’d like to start off strong with saying there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY IN HELL John would live alone at the end of the series. After Act 7, the MSPA snapchat depicted many people living with others, such as davejadekat, rosemary, dirk and jake, etc. However, we see John huddled in his house alone. This is fucking bullshit, because if you think that Dave or Jade wouldn’t live with him, you’re absolutely wrong. Dave and John hadn’t seen each other for YEARS and while I understand the fact that Dave and Karkat were a budding couple, I still firmly believe that Dave would have convinced Karkat to live with John as well. Jade on the other hand, WATCHED HER BROTHER EXPLODE and was alone on the ship for at least 2.5 years, wracking her mind as to why he had to die. She would ABSOLUTELY want to live with John at least for a little bit to catch up and enjoy being with her brother again.
Moving onto relationships. We all know the romance between John and Rose was essentially thrown out the window, but that happened honestly way before the ending, so despite my Salt™ about it, I’m gonna move onto the relationship with Roxy. The chemistry between the two was apparent the literal moment they met, citing Roxy’s immediate “hmm boyfriend material?? prolly def” when she was listening to him talk. Also the fact that when John teleported himself and Roxy to the new timeline, they were being cute as fuck and blushing bc they had to hold hands!! This, combined with the fact that the two of them mentioned the other in other conversations that 100% had hints of a romance, or at very least a crush. However, when the comic ended, this was completely thrown out the window, as you all know. Yes, there was a brief shot of the three of them walking, but this honestly means nothing because it’s SO obvious that the ghostwriters wanted RoxyCallie canon rather than JohnRoxy canon.I think the only reason John is in that shot is because Hussie himself probably wanted him there.
In fact, I think the MAIN REASON Hussie wanted JohnRoxy endgame was because he was unable to make JohnRose canon due to fandom pressure for Rosemary. But again, due to fandom pressure and now new pressure from staff members and writers, he was forced to throw away any of Johns development for placating the fandom. Another relationship that was given no conclusion was his spade feelings for Terezi as well. This was brief, but honestly I’d argue it was hinted at for a long time as well. All of John’s development and all of his relationships were thrown out the god damn window because of the fandom and Hussie’s staff pressuring Hussie to write what THEY wanted, rather than what he wanted. John was the main character of this story but he got no real conclusion, and the “ending” he got was nothing more than an empty life with no one around him to actually give him the happy life he deserves. Fucking!! Especially after losing his dad too!! Did people really just accept that John was just peachy after all the shit that happened to him?? No!! He was obviously traumatized but he’s just an expert at bottling shit, and that makes it even worse that he lives alone, because if he starts panicking about any of it, there’s no way he’d be able to contact anyone!! He’d try to deal with it himself because that’s how he’s always done it, and he’d be a MESS.
John Egbert deserved SO MUCH BETTER and he got royally fucked by that bullshit ass ending.
Okay, I just want to ask something here. And I know you started the post saying expressly this is your way of seeing things and that doesn’t need to match everyone’s opinions, which, yeah cool! But I do really have to ask.
What staff?
I can understand the frustration about dumped ships and John living alone, and yeah John deserves love and affection, but the fact there’s this blame of Hurr Durr Fandom Is Evil Hussie Was FORCED To Not Make JohnRose or JohnRoxy Canon is kind of… Really extremely iffy.
Like, Hussie if this was about Hiveswap, yeah that’s a more collaborative effort to do stuff, but when it comes to Homestuck itself, and specially the ending… Don’t you think the author that has made the story holds the last word here? Hell so few people liked the ending, doesn’t that precisely show Hussie’s not exactly out there to placate the Fandom?
I don’t agree with any of the Ship Drama going on in this post, let alone the fact that John and Roxy knew each other for less than a day before the ending of the comic, even if they had a cute dynamic (And I DO ship Roxygen), but if you want to blame someone for the development of the characters, don’t look for a scapegoat, Hussie is notorious for doing his own thing and showing us this bizarre epic that more often than not goes to extents we just weren’t expecting and does stuff we weren’t expecting. I don’t think blaming ‘Hussie’s Staff’ for John’s end-game relationships instead of him is really correct.