rereading some of your posts about grandpa and i think its almost poetic how, just like nearly all the characters of homestuck, many of the actual fans of homestuck are oblivious of all the horrors that surround jade’s early childhood lol. it’s a sad story

mmmmalo:

Yeah! I think it’s really interesting how Hussie textually represses things the kids themselves repress – it says it right there in the text you ARE John, you ARE Jade, etc etc. If that character is repressing it, it’s obscured from the reader as well, encoded in symbols and manifestations and word associations. Keeping things hidden really gives a sense of how resistant the kids are to certain ideas – the only thing is that since the 2nd-person artifice is ultimately false, you don’t always get to see what happens when the kids learn what you learn.