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hmmmm i mean. that’s kind of a paradox within itself bc if i actually knew who the most underrated homestuck character was, they would automatically stop being underrated by law. that being said i think i’ll go with “who is one of the most influential players that is overlooked by the other characters and is NOT jade harley”, which is hyperspecific but like, i digress.
anyway i think we need to talk more about the mayor being this traumatized veteran who used to be a farmer and watched carapacians fall around him as he was spared for seemingly no reason, and how he like, lives on a meteor and has a can village and is adored but not necessarily understood or respected, and also how honestly i think it’s incredibly fucked up that he and PM were just…..abandoned to raise civilization while everyone zapped forward in the future. tbh i think dave would’ve stopped because while like, it’s obvious that none of the kids fully understood the gravity of WHAT the mayor was, the mayor was dave’s…vessel, ig? some kind of hope for a future turned sentient? hell even rose had an undeniable pull towards him (drunk rose. cantown. CIVILITY)
basically eridan isn’t an allegory for the obama administration. the mayor is
