Awakening Rift



Awakening Rift is an online webcomic inspired by Homestuck. The comic was released on April 25, 2020, following the story of twelve trolls that live on the planet of Kraisa play a "relatively simple game with only one rule". Excluding the first page, the comic is 281 pages long with 15485 words, 86343 characters, and a little over 2 minutes of flash content. The story contains foul language, graphic depictions of violence and abuse, flashing images, and other adult themes. The comic is currently hosted on MSPFA, not much has been said otherwise.

Inception
Awakening Rift was created by Serphoz (also known as Kalokari) and Dabosser. The comic shows to have several major archetypes and themes of Homestuck. Its 'fantroll' community, and the typical fan adventures created for and by that community. Most notably, the main cast of the comic, the Trolls, are all lovingly based on tropes commonly found in characters created by the fanbase. There is an obvious connection between Homestuck and Awakening Rift. That being the concepts of a reality-altering game that induces the end of the world. The frog temple, universal creation, and of course, Aspects. Despite all the similarities, most of these concepts have dramatic changes to their purposes, execution, and functions of the game.

Act 1:
In a pitch black realm, a stranger has a small exchange with The Arclight, with the latter saying "Let's get started", hinting at the initiation of the game. The perspective inmediately after that switches to the perspective of a troll "celebrating" her wriggling day, alongside her, many of her friends are introduced as well, such as Tyrian Irenal, Runaan Illeya, Yuupia Neerav and Alliya Arjuna, The Arclight contacts Yuupia while they were traveling through Prospit, explaining their significance in the events to come, their conversation comes to an abrupt end as The Arclight is made aware of an "intruder", shortly after Tyrian makes a memo explaining all the 12 participants the game. Tyrian and The Arclight have a short conversation of which the audience cannot participate in viewing, all that is known is that they were there to warn him.

Frilia, while getting her package for the game, has an encounter with someone who recognizes her. Shortly before this, dream Tyrian wakes up on Derse, surprised that his head is clear and his migraines are gone. However, his time there is cut short by his assassination done by a Dersite citizen. The Arclight hints that this was their doing, telling him, although indirectly: "This is what you get for ignoring my warnings" The narrative gets hijacked by the Stranger, and brings Tyrian with it into a dark, obscure realm stuck between realities, where no sound can be heard, kept in there so no powers are utilized in the stranger's favour. Tyrian approaches a being with a similar appearance to him, save for its eyes and mouth replaced with an ink-like subtance. Tyrian is sent away from the realm, returning to the condition he was in on Derse, right before he was brought into the realm.