Even if the world ends, hope survives. I think John finds this tagline a bit more inspirational than it actually should be, but that’s fine. There are many parallels between Homestuck and Deep Impact. If you have read the webcomic before, this tagline may remind you of Dave or Jade entering the game. It may remind you of the kids’ hopeful thinking of saving the world. Perhaps Homestuck could have ended with the kids bringing a bomb into space and blowing themselves up. There is a clear moment when the Deep Impact parallels stop.
Spirited self-sacrifice doesn’t make you a hero in Homestuck. The heroes in Deep Impact throw themselves into dangerous in order to save other people, but Hussie explicitly subverts this type of heroism in his webcomic.
Because, you know what? Hope survives.
And John believes it.
