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In other words, you think that Homestuck has too many little details that don't have enough relevance to the main plot to warrant so much elaboration. I like the elaboration, but I can see where you're coming from. Homestuck does tend to be somewhat overly elaborate and meandering.
>Epics have always been more about characters and plot anyway, with the setting taking a back seat.
To me, Homestuck's setting is a big part of what makes it epic. It's about a game that creates and destroys entire worlds, and has done so countless times before. I'd actually like to see more than one other session for comparative purposes, so we can see just how the game and its offspring differ across the realities. It would be hard to tie them into the plot, of course.
>I doubt Hussie would even want to fill out a big ass wiki or documentary on Dersian and Prospitian marital traditions, games, architecture, language etc. on the level of Tolkien elves have been established.
Not that much, obviously, but I think the Light and Dark Kingdoms suffer from too little development. We know that Derse are the bad guys and Prospit are destined to lose the war, but we haven't delved too deeply over why they're fighting the war or how their culture or government works. We know that there's a king and queen, and they have some subordinates, and that's pretty much it. There have been some snippets of Prospitian mythology here and there, but we haven't seen the "big picture", so to speak. The trolls had the same problem until recently. So did the consorts, come to think of it.
Then again, putting in too much detail would make the comic even more of a convoluted mess than it already is. And wouldn't leave as much room for fanworks. Or maybe it could inspire more fanworks; who knows?
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