homestuck

📅 Updated:2026-08-15

🕒 Created:2011-08-02

🆔 ID:2310

Description

Homestuck is a multimedia webcomic made by Andrew Hussie. It tells about four children who play a video game that alters reality, giving them fantastical powers and putting them into contact with several alien races.

As part of MS Paint Adventures, it can be read here:
https://www.homestuck.com

As of 10/25/2019, Homestuck: Beyond Canon, previously known as Homestuck^2, has begun. This continuation of the canonical Homestuck storyline can be found at https://beyondcanon.com.

List of Characters

This is a work in progress!

Sburb/Sgrub players

Beta Kids

The first group of characters we are introduced to who play the Sburb Beta.

John Egbert
- June Egbert tag for trans woman interpretations.
Rose Lalonde
Dave Strider
Jade Harley

Alpha Kids

The "scratched" version of the Beta Kids' guardians who play the Sburb Alpha.

Alternian Trolls

AKA the Beta Trolls who play Sgrub.

Beforan Trolls

AKA the Dancestors or Alpha Trolls, the pre-scratch version of the Alternian Troll’s Ancestors, who played Sgrub.

The Cherubs

Skeletal siblings from a destroyed Earth who play Sburb

Calliope
- Alt Calliope - A godtiered Calliope from a doomed timeline
Caliborn
- Lord English the adult form of Caliborn

Sburb/Sgrub characters

Sprite Characters

Sprites guide the player through Sburb/Sgrub, and are prototyped by inanimate objects as well as corpses and living creatures. Each sprite can be prototyped twice.

Beta Kid’s Sprites

Harlequinnsprite
- Nannasprite
Jaspersprite
- Jasprosesprite^2 prototyped in the Alpha Kid’s session
Crowsprite
- Davesprite
  - Davepetasprite^2 prototyped in the Alpha Kid’s session
- Calsprite Doomed Dave’s sprite
Becsprite
- Jadesprite

Alpha Kid’s Sprites (Pre-Retcon)

Alpha Kid’s Sprites (Post-Retcon)

Carapacian characters

A species native to Sburb modeled after chess pieces, these characters live on the planets & moons of Prospit & Derse. Sburb will reuse the same major carapacians, but with different names.