Ugly Story - An Eridan Ampora Fansong by PhemieC

“Fuck you my child is completely fine!” Ma’am your child is a prince and they live in a ship and they aim their rifle and they shoot from the hip and they have a friend they pity quite a bit

'if yellow's the new purple then bleeding's the new breathing' honestly ? art

happy 4/13, if homestuck was written in 2019 karkat would be calling people incels

Eridan was 13 while he was dealing with all of this. With grappling pretending to believe in the hemospectrum, thinking he needed to be a villain, wanting to be loved, not wanting to be abandoned, jealousy, abandonment, his bitterness, and his resentment. Through his lines both in the comic and PQ you really see how much he hates himself and how much he just does his fake plans of slaughter for attention and because he believes to be a proper “high blood” he NEEDS to be that way.

What gets me is that he says “I have a friend I pity quite a bit” Pity is the troll’s version of love. Oof

One thing that always hurts my heart is that Eridan is the Prince of Hope. The Prince class is a class of destruction, so he was literally destined to destroy hope itself, both in himself and in those around him. It's tragic.

I know that people really don't like Eridan, but I just feel bad for him. He's the equivalent of 13, nobody has it figured out by then. He's just an emotional kid with not so good self esteem doing what he thinks is the correct way of interacting with people. All the "I'm pathetic" stuff sounds annoying to be sure, but it really shows whats going on behind all the douchey stuff he does. He's that kid in middle school who bullies you because he's insecure and doesn't know how to cope with it.

this song did eridan's entire arc more justice than the comic itself

When you're still Homestuck in 2018 edit: its 2020 and im still stuck someone send help WELCOME TO 2021 FUCKERS ALL ABOARD THE HELL TRAIN CHOO CHOOOO 2022 I don't think I'll ever escape :))

'And I don't mean to be hurtful, but if yellow's the new purple, well then bleeding's the new breathing' holy shit, that sent chills down my spine

Just realized “I’m a prince” refers to both Eridan’s class and his social standing in the hemospectrum. God I love PhemieC (/p) so much.

moral of the story: he's a prince and he lives in a ship and he aims his rifle and he shoots from the hip edit: i cant believe that this entire reply section came together to sing this entire song i love it here

Whenever I hear " if yellows the new purple, then bleeding is the new breathing." I can't help but think of the Blood and Breath aspects since they're the opposite of each other

ive been avoiding this song for like three years bc i used to be obsessed with it when i was a homestuck and i was cringy as fuck but holy hell this song is so beautiful alshsgsjb

Ya know the whole of Homestuck is so interesting. I always forget that everyone we are following are in fact, children. They all act so much more mature than that (generally speaking) but when you think about it, these are a bunch of barely teenage kids responsible for making choices that have dire consequences. They are children that have been given this burden, while still having to learn who they are and, to some degree, what the difference between right and wrong is. It’s truly tragic when you think about it that way.

When I first heard this song I thought that Eridan was a backround character that was a pirate in some kind of a videogame. He was a prince, but he wasn't a good one, he was desperate for attention that he never got so he'd go to bars and such and one night he played a card game with 11 "people" but he broke the rules in the game and ended up killing all of the other players. "And now I think my calling is to break apart and fall to pieces" He can't overcome the fact that he had to run away and hide because he's now an outlaw. "Better yet invent a brand new method of ascension" He wants to make his own rules and be the prince he was supposed to be. "I'm impressed you've managed to survive" A girl pirate finds him and recognizes him to be the prince. "But rest assured we'd all be better of dead than alive, cause when they get ahold us we'd all be better fried" The king is killing every outlaw in horrible ways. "I'm suprised that nobodys considered switching sides" Eridan is suprissd that the pirates and outlaws don't just hand themself over and be spared but continue fighting bravely. "So here I am, repectfully and royally destroying any chance of getting back on your good gills" The girl pirate who found him started teaching him about how to be a pirate, and he knows he's dissapointing his dather but he doesn't care. "And I dont mean to be hurtful but if yellows the new purple, well then bleedings the new breathing" He's one of the pirates now, he wants no harm to his family, but he wants things to be right. Something happens here and the pirate girl hurt Eridan in some way. "I might be your killer but you'll never be my queen" Out of anger he kills the pirate girl. "So put away your laughter" The last thing the girl did was laugh. "I'm done with black black-handling and red pandering, it seems" He's done with trying to save the world in his own way "That I am just pathetic" he feels guilty about killing her. "I wont be overlooked" She had said something that made him really mad. "I'm past the point of fishing to get back up on your hook" He knows he can't go back to his old home "I've made a manifesto" He knows everyone wants him killed because of what he had done "I've been bested by a crook" He got into a bad fight and at this part he got hit by some weapon "But never more!" Sike he wins the fight and gets cool scars "I'm planning on reclaiming what he took" Eridan is going to try to get the throne from his brother that took the lead after his father randomly died. "So what did you want me to say- sorry?" He had a fight to get the throne but he lost and his brother said if he'd say sorry he'd get to live "Should I apologize when you ignore me?" Eridan was always ignored while his brother was praised "Didn't ask to be right" Eridan still thinks his actions were right, even if many innocent died "Or to be lonely" he had always been left out "Or to be hatched into an ugly story" He wished he was never born. "This pantomime is getting gory" He's bleeding to his death. In the end his life flashes through his eyes as he dies. After reading homestuck I realized I was so wrong.

We all can't lie, we all like to revisit our Homestuck phase. Whether it be beautiful music like so, or fanfic written to please you, we all love and still revisit this fandom. It's nice to see that it's been alive since 2009. Impressive I must say. You did a good job Hussie, GG dude.

I hated that we didn't get a redemption ark for Eridan , i really liked him as a character.

I know this isnt a new statement, but its easy to forget that they are kids. Actual children. And when you look at eridan especially in the light of a moody 13 year old whose also a member of an already emotionally volatile murderous species, everything he does makes sense. Its not morally right, but it makes sense

“I’m surprised that nobody’s considered switching sides” gives me chills.