The Homestuck Epilogues: Meat, Epilogue Four

Meat, Epilogue Four
“there. can you hear it? of course you can’t. but if even you could, it would sound like nothing at all.”
Start	Meat: Chapter 18
End	Meat: Chapter 27
Length	10 chapters
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Meat, Epilogue Four is the fourth epilogue in the Meat narrative of The Homestuck Epilogues. It consists of chapters 18 to 27 of the Meat route.

Synopsis

• John, drifting in the abyss, finds his Dad’s wallet.
• Jade pitches the Karkat question to Roxy and Calliope. She learns of the two’s nonbinary identities, as does Dirk. They talk about gender. Jade collapses.
• The other Jade plummets towards the black hole. Alt!Calliope makes her move.
• Karkat and Dave watch the miracle of natural troll birth. Kanaya agrees with them about Jane. Kanaya finds out Rose is with Dirk.
• John encounters Meenah in the abyss. She steals the Ring and leaves.
• Kanaya knows Dirk is up to something. She plans to come to him.
• John sees Terezi in the abyss.
• As Rose becomes an apparition of Light, she and Dirk discuss philosophy 101. Rose discovers the narrative layer, sees events depicted elsewhere– John in the abyss, the entire Candy timeline.
• Dirk tries to stop other!Jade from falling through the black hole. Alt!Calliope wins the push-and-pull.
• Jade wakes up with Roxy and Calliope, only to become a vessel for Alt!Calliope, who gains the lead as new narrator. Dirk interjects about katanas, his voice fades.