Romantic Fanart IV: Clover Lover Over Dover

[Phantos]

Hahahaha homo

[The Dr.]

Hahahaha homo

is it wrong i took a brief moment to giggle at that comment

[The_Second_Beast]

Cross-posted from the main fanart thread. It was relevant to the conversation going on there, but it really belongs here.

Okay, as a fan of Pushing Daisies (which was a TV show about Ned and Charlotte, lovers who could never touch or she would die), I am not intimidated by the least touching romances of all. You just need to be more creative. I remember in this one episode...

Ned: It's hard enough being in a relationship where we can't touch. But… we improvise, figured out ways around that. I've even built contraptions.
Emerson: Do you understand how a head works? Do you? Because very time you say something I got to think it. You say “Monkey in a bellhop suit driving a car,” I think “Monkey in a bellhop suit driving a car.” Don't tell me what you all do together.

Oh, god, Ned as Equius and Emerson as Karkat. IT WORKS TOO WELL.

[kmsumrall]

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Someone requested Tavros/Nepeta and I did this so here it is.



Sympathy hugs.

I saw the above picture on deviantart and got inspired.

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Nepeta's ears perked up to the sound of distant buzzing. Where was that coming from? It sounded like GA was waving her chainsaw around. Such a silly girl, thinking no one knew. Always trying to appear uptight and proper and all that jazz. You can't hide anything from the kitty detective!
The cat girl stretched upwards and licked her paw. Even with the impending battle, everyone was sleeping fine. Still, maybe this sneaky kitty would go observe her friend playing around. Maybe take some sneaky kitty pictures for later.
Nepeta snicked at the thought and stalked out of the room. Thinking a moment, she want back in and grabbed her solid snake skin sneaking suit. This was much better for getting around quiet like and being all stealthy. Keeping to the shadow, the troll got to the door of GA. But the buzzing wasn't coming from there? Her acute cat senses picked up the smell of good smelling scents. GA the only one who did that, said it was only proper girls didn't smell of sweat and battle. Nepeta always liked getting close to take a whiff. Twitching her nose, she bounded down the hallway.
But soon, another scent mingled in with the nice one. It was sharp, cheddery. Could that be-
Nepeta burst open the door and saw a sight that ran her blood cold. Brown was splatter across the walls. Brown stained GA's dress. Brown dripped off her chainsaw. Brown dribbled from Tavros's mouth. And his chest. And his legs.
“T-T-Tavros?!” the cat girl howled. “Nooooo! You cut him in half! You-horrible-Meany!”
GA stood silent, merely taking the legs. Nepeta leaped at her, knocking the murderess away and Tavros's lower half to the floor.
“Don't touch him! I gotta put him back together!” she said, grabbing the legs. The cat girl pushed the parts to each other. “We need tape!”
She took off her coat and started tearing it into strips when a loud voice boomed. “Stop. You will stop.” Nepeta froze.
Equius stepped out of the shadows. “Put the legs down, Nepeta. You shouldn't be here. Leave now.”
Nepeta shook her head.
“I am getting agitated. You will drop the legs. Now. You will leave. Now.”
“W-Why are you d-doing this?” Tears started forming at corners of her eyes.
“Stop that. You are above crying like a gutterblood. This is for his own good.”
“Noooo!!!” Nepeta leaped forward, tears streaming behind her. She hit Equius square in the chest and bounced off, falling next to Tavros. And stared into his face. He looked so peaceful. “You killed him...”
The broken toothed trolled picker her up with one hand and put her outside. “He asked for this. I made him agree to my conditions. Leave.” And with that, he slammed the door shut.
Nepeta walked slowly down the hallways, no longer stalking, no longer sneaking. Just walking. What was the point? She couldn't argue with Equius. He knew best. Always knew best. No one stepped out of there rooms, despite the commotion. No one cared to help, to ask what was wrong, to do anything. No one cared at all.
In her room, she grabbed her pillow and cried to sleep.

Loud clangy mechanical footsteps echoed down the hall. Nepeta didn't care. It didn't matter. Just another stupid robot by a big dumb jerk with a broken horn for his silly beat-em-up catastrophe. Her door slowly opened. Great, the big jerk face was going to tell her she needed-
“Uhhh, Nepeta?”
She jumped up quick and turned around. There in the doorway was someone who couldn't have been standing there at all. She stared at shiny metal legs.
“CT built these for me,” said the troll at the door. “I didn't want to, uhh, be a burden to anyone anymore...”

“Nepeta?”

“T-T-Tavros?!” the cat girl shriek with joy and leap towards him, hugging him tight. “You big dummy!” she said through tears. “Why did you do that? Why didn't you tell me?”
Tavros waved his arms to balance himself. “Careful! I'm still newborn on these things. I wanted it to be a surprise.”
Nepeta hugged him tighter, and he awkwardly put his arms around her. “Don't care, Nepeta. I don't like it when you cry.”
Warm liquid fell on top of her horns. “I'm s-sorry. I thought you had died...”
The two stood a moment long, and then broke apart. “Just one thing-” started Tavros.
Before he could continue the cat girl grabbed his hands. “We can go out and walk around and look at stuff and play with stuff and beat up imps and get grist and there is this cool mountain I found you can see all of Skaia I didn't tell you before cause there is no path for the chair but now-”
“I can't!” shouted Tavros, scaring Nepeta. “Sorry, I can't. I promised Equius I would... would stay away from you...”
“Wha-What?”
“Yeah... Sorry... I'm no good stuck in the chair. No good for anyone. Not good enough for you. Karkat has a plan for beating the Black King, but he needs someone upfront. I guess I got the strongest body, but with the chair... I'm sorry, but I have to go.”
Tavros clumsily turned around, clanking and creaking, and started to walk out of the room. Nepeta stood shocked. For her? Never see her again? Battle the Black King up front? Was this... a end before it could begin?

Nepeta leaped high and landed on his shoulders, grabbing his horns for balance. She leaned over and licked his nose. “We'll just see about that!” :33

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"Ow!" "uhh, sorry, low ceiling.

Alternate Ending

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GA took her chainsaw and cut off Nepeta's head and ate both of the bodies.

Alternate Ending x2 combo!

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Tavros stared running down the hall to show his favorite girl his new legs. Unfortunately, they were poorly made and exploded, killing everyone.

x3 Alternate Ending!

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You attempt the fabled x3 Alternate Ending and fail.

[FauxMonstur]

I saw the above picture on deviantart and got inspired.

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Nepeta's ears perked up to the sound of distant buzzing. Where was that coming from? It sounded like GA was waving her chainsaw around. Such a silly girl, thinking no one knew. Always trying to appear uptight and proper and all that jazz. You can't hide anything from the kitty detective!
The cat girl stretched upwards and licked her paw. Even with the impending battle, everyone was sleeping fine. Still, maybe this sneaky kitty would go observe her friend playing around. Maybe take some sneaky kitty pictures for later.
Nepeta snicked at the thought and stalked out of the room. Thinking a moment, she want back in and grabbed her solid snake skin sneaking suit. This was much better for getting around quiet like and being all stealthy. Keeping to the shadow, the troll got to the door of GA. But the buzzing wasn't coming from there? Her acute cat senses picked up the smell of good smelling scents. GA the only one who did that, said it was only proper girls didn't smell of sweat and battle. Nepeta always liked getting close to take a whiff. Twitching her nose, she bounded down the hallway.
But soon, another scent mingled in with the nice one. It was sharp, cheddery. Could that be-
Nepeta burst open the door and saw a sight that ran her blood cold. Brown was splatter across the walls. Brown stained GA's dress. Brown dripped off her chainsaw. Brown dribbled from Tavros's mouth. And his chest. And his legs.
“T-T-Tavros?!” the cat girl howled. “Nooooo! You cut him in half! You-horrible-Meany!”
GA stood silent, merely taking the legs. Nepeta leaped at her, knocking the murderess away and Tavros's lower half to the floor.
“Don't touch him! I gotta put him back together!” she said, grabbing the legs. The cat girl pushed the parts to each other. “We need tape!”
She took off her coat and started tearing it into strips when a loud voice boomed. “Stop. You will stop.” Nepeta froze.
Equius stepped out of the shadows. “Put the legs down, Nepeta. You shouldn't be here. Leave now.”
Nepeta shook her head.
“I am getting agitated. You will drop the legs. Now. You will leave. Now.”
“W-Why are you d-doing this?” Tears started forming at corners of her eyes.
“Stop that. You are above crying like a gutterblood. This is for his own good.”
“Noooo!!!” Nepeta leaped forward, tears streaming behind her. She hit Equius square in the chest and bounced off, falling next to Tavros. And stared into his face. He looked so peaceful. “You killed him...”
The broken toothed trolled picker her up with one hand and put her outside. “He asked for this. I made him agree to my conditions. Leave.” And with that, he slammed the door shut.
Nepeta walked slowly down the hallways, no longer stalking, no longer sneaking. Just walking. What was the point? She couldn't argue with Equius. He knew best. Always knew best. No one stepped out of there rooms, despite the commotion. No one cared to help, to ask what was wrong, to do anything. No one cared at all.
In her room, she grabbed her pillow and cried to sleep.

Loud clangy mechanical footsteps echoed down the hall. Nepeta didn't care. It didn't matter. Just another stupid robot by a big dumb jerk with a broken horn for his silly beat-em-up catastrophe. Her door slowly opened. Great, the big jerk face was going to tell her she needed-
“Uhhh, Nepeta?”
She jumped up quick and turned around. There in the doorway was someone who couldn't have been standing there at all. She stared at shiny metal legs.
“CT built these for me,” said the troll at the door. “I didn't want to, uhh, be a burden to anyone anymore...”

“Nepeta?”

“T-T-Tavros?!” the cat girl shriek with joy and leap towards him, hugging him tight. “You big dummy!” she said through tears. “Why did you do that? Why didn't you tell me?”
Tavros waved his arms to balance himself. “Careful! I'm still newborn on these things. I wanted it to be a surprise.”
Nepeta hugged him tighter, and he awkwardly put his arms around her. “Don't care, Nepeta. I don't like it when you cry.”
Warm liquid fell on top of her horns. “I'm s-sorry. I thought you had died...”
The two stood a moment long, and then broke apart. “Just one thing-” started Tavros.
Before he could continue the cat girl grabbed his hands. “We can go out and walk around and look at stuff and play with stuff and beat up imps and get grist and there is this cool mountain I found you can see all of Skaia I didn't tell you before cause there is no path for the chair but now-”
“I can't!” shouted Tavros, scaring Nepeta. “Sorry, I can't. I promised Equius I would... would stay away from you...”
“Wha-What?”
“Yeah... Sorry... I'm no good stuck in the chair. No good for anyone. Not good enough for you. Karkat has a plan for beating the Black King, but he needs someone upfront. I guess I got the strongest body, but with the chair... I'm sorry, but I have to go.”
Tavros clumsily turned around, clanking and creaking, and started to walk out of the room. Nepeta stood shocked. For her? Never see her again? Battle the Black King up front? Was this... a end before it could begin?

Nepeta leaped high and landed on his shoulders, grabbing his horns for balance. She leaned over and licked his nose. “We'll just see about that!” :33

I'm glad I could provide some inspiration. c:
That was mega cute

[Nitramite]

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Tinkerbull has a thing for sensitive guys.

This is wonderful.

I really like the style you drew them in! Never stop making things like this.
Have a candy corn!

Or two.

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[Feyla]

okay, I'll be the first to ask. Equius being dominated by Gamzee.

[Doctor Tess]

I was just about to post and suggest the same thing.

Come on you guys, go go go.

[cynicalCanasian]

Aww, no imps and Gamzee eating pie together?

EDIT: Goddammit, wrong forum.

GAMZEE/IMP RELATIONSHIP THEN.

[*Sigh*]

Well, there WAS a pic of an imp eating sopor slime while karkat rains down scythe-filled rage from above. Not Romart, though, and no Gamzee.

[Whap]

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-- ectoBiologist [EB] began pestering gardenGnostic [GG] --
EB: hey jade...
EB: are you there
EB: its cool ill wait
GG: hiiiii! sorry john
GG: my grandpa just gave me a big lecture about how to be as dangerous as possible with a gun
GG: UGH so annoying
GG: but what is it you wanted john
EB: Fu7?FuVW
GG: ooooh what is it?
EB: its the captchalogue code to my heart...

[BlastYoBoots]

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-- ectoBiologist [EB] began pestering gardenGnostic [GG] --
EB: hey jade...
EB: are you there
EB: its cool ill wait
GG: hiiiii! sorry john
GG: my grandpa just gave me a big lecture about how to be as dangerous as possible with a gun
GG: UGH so annoying
GG: but what is it you wanted john
EB: Fu7?FuVW
GG: ooooh what is it?
EB: its the captchalogue code to my heart...

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GG: huh? well ok i'll try it
GG: ok it looks l-oh god why did you give me this its still beating

[V_HappyLurker]

Completely non-suggestive, milk-stained edit.

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Don't give me that impure 2% swill. I only drink homogenized milk. I LOVE HOMO

Heheheheh. "Homo".

Is it wrong of me to want some Equius being all macho-manly man with Tavros being super fey now?

[CasMat]

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-- ectoBiologist [EB] began pestering gardenGnostic [GG] --
EB: hey jade...
EB: are you there
EB: its cool ill wait
GG: hiiiii! sorry john
GG: my grandpa just gave me a big lecture about how to be as dangerous as possible with a gun
GG: UGH so annoying
GG: but what is it you wanted john
EB: Fu7?FuVW
GG: ooooh what is it?
EB: its the captchalogue code to my heart...

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GG: huh? well ok i'll try it
GG: ok it looks l-oh god why did you give me this its still beating

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EB: yeah i know, it's weird huh?
EB: anyway, i wanted you to combine it with one of those cool robots you have lying around.
EB: and then give me the code.
EB: oh man, i'm gonna have a robot me any second this is so sweet!

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I'm sorry. The original post was really cute if that makes up for it.

[Whap]

On reflection, it should have made an issue of RED CHEEKS.

Also, thank you.

[clorinspats]

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Don't give me that impure 2% swill. I only drink homogenized milk. I LOVE HOMO

Heheheheh. "Homo".

Is it wrong of me to want some Equius being all macho-manly man with Tavros being super fey now?

I second this motion.

[NemFX]

I vote for Gamzee x some imps cake party. Maybe make two of the imps making out so it's romart? whatever. i'll leave you to figure it out.

[Rastea]

Weird little fic I pulled out of nowhere because the recent update wanted me to do something with Gamzee again.
That and I really like the idea of GamzeexEquius for some reason now. xP
Bah. Not my best.

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The laboratory the trolls lived in was by no means small, but with twelve of them what space they did have was quickly filled. That wasn't even counting the room their various egos took up. The lack of real beds was only problematic in the beginning. Each troll found a way to get comfortable in the cold rooms of machinery and metal coils.

Gamzee yawned as he wandered through the computer room. What was going to have been a couple minutes of staring at the stars turned into a couple hours. Nearly everyone was asleep by now. He could see GA and Vriska had fallen asleep at their computers. Viriska's head was rolled back, mouth open wide as she snored loudly. GA looked like she had started sleeping on her keyboard but she had slid off, now laying in Vriska's lap. Looking up at them, Gamzee wasn't watching his feet, and almost tripped on another small pile of trolls. Karkat had apparently fallen asleep on Sollux as the later was still working on some things. Gamzee bent down to pull the wires from Sollux's hands. Better safe than sorry, ya'know?

Seeing all of his buddies conked out just made him sleepier. He hurried down to the halls. Most of the trolls had claimed rooms for themselves for some semblance of privacy, though obviously some didn't make it there to sleep.

The doors were blank, but Gamzee knew where he was going. Four doors down on the left. The room was dark when he went in. It was always dark, but with learned ease he made his way through the mess of metal parts and tools to the warm body curled up in the cleanest corner.

It stirred as he settled down next to it and hugged it like a teddy bear. The others might have curled their noses at it, but he liked the scent of metal and sweat his friend had.

"You are exceptionally late..." Equius grumbled, barely awake.

Gamzee smiled, "Sorry man, stars were motherfuckin' beautiful tonight."

His friend grumbled, but said nothing more, shifting to make sure he was in a position to keep him from rolling and hurting Gamzee in the middle of the night. Gamzee nuzzled his face into Equius's back like he would a pillow, getting makeup all over his shirt. He was the only one who never complained about it.

[Nakkirz]

Weird little fic I pulled out of nowhere because the recent update wanted me to do something with Gamzee again.
That and I really like the idea of GamzeexEquius for some reason now. xP
Bah. Not my best.

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The laboratory the trolls lived in was by no means small, but with twelve of them what space they did have was quickly filled. That wasn't even counting the room their various egos took up. The lack of real beds was only problematic in the beginning. Each troll found a way to get comfortable in the cold rooms of machinery and metal coils.

Gamzee yawned as he wandered through the computer room. What was going to have been a couple minutes of staring at the stars turned into a couple hours. Nearly everyone was asleep by now. He could see GA and Vriska had fallen asleep at their computers. Viriska's head was scrolled back, mouth open wide as she snored loudly. GA looked like she had started sleeping on her keyboard but she had slid off, now laying in Vriska's lap. Looking up at them, Gamzee wasn't watching his feet, and almost tripped on another small pile of trolls. Karkat had apparently fallen asleep on Sollux as the later was still working on some things. Gamzee bent down to pull the wires from Sollux's hands. Better safe than sorry, ya'know?

Seeing all of his buddies conked out just made him sleepier. He hurried down to the halls. Most of the trolls had claimed rooms for themselves for some semblance of privacy, though obviously some didn't make it there to sleep.

The doors were blank, but Gamzee knew where he was going. Four doors down on the left. The room was dark when he went in. It was always dark, but with learned ease he made his way through the mess of metal parts and tools to the warm body curled up in the cleanest corner.

It stirred as he settled down next to it and hugged it like a teddy bear. The others might have curled their noses at it, but he liked the scent of metal and sweat his friend had.

"You are exceptionally late..." Equius grumbled, barely awake.

Gamzee smiled, "Sorry man, stars were motherfuckin' beautiful tonight."

His friend grumbled, but said nothing more, shifting to make sure he was in a position to keep him from rolling and hurting Gamzee in the middle of the night. Gamzee nuzzled his face into Equius's back like he would a pillow, getting makeup all over his shirt. He was the only one who never complained about it.

Oh dear god that was adorable. I like the hints at other pairings that you snuck in there.

Also, a paltry offering of my own:

Hit two birds with one stone! (The crossdressing Equius bird and the Gamzee/Equius bird, to be precise. )

[RKayDee]

Weird little fic I pulled out of nowhere because the recent update wanted me to do something with Gamzee again.
That and I really like the idea of GamzeexEquius for some reason now. xP
Bah. Not my best.

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The laboratory the trolls lived in was by no means small, but with twelve of them what space they did have was quickly filled. That wasn't even counting the room their various egos took up. The lack of real beds was only problematic in the beginning. Each troll found a way to get comfortable in the cold rooms of machinery and metal coils.

Gamzee yawned as he wandered through the computer room. What was going to have been a couple minutes of staring at the stars turned into a couple hours. Nearly everyone was asleep by now. He could see GA and Vriska had fallen asleep at their computers. Viriska's head was scrolled back, mouth open wide as she snored loudly. GA looked like she had started sleeping on her keyboard but she had slid off, now laying in Vriska's lap. Looking up at them, Gamzee wasn't watching his feet, and almost tripped on another small pile of trolls. Karkat had apparently fallen asleep on Sollux as the later was still working on some things. Gamzee bent down to pull the wires from Sollux's hands. Better safe than sorry, ya'know?

Seeing all of his buddies conked out just made him sleepier. He hurried down to the halls. Most of the trolls had claimed rooms for themselves for some semblance of privacy, though obviously some didn't make it there to sleep.

The doors were blank, but Gamzee knew where he was going. Four doors down on the left. The room was dark when he went in. It was always dark, but with learned ease he made his way through the mess of metal parts and tools to the warm body curled up in the cleanest corner.

It stirred as he settled down next to it and hugged it like a teddy bear. The others might have curled their noses at it, but he liked the scent of metal and sweat his friend had.

"You are exceptionally late..." Equius grumbled, barely awake.

Gamzee smiled, "Sorry man, stars were motherfuckin' beautiful tonight."

His friend grumbled, but said nothing more, shifting to make sure he was in a position to keep him from rolling and hurting Gamzee in the middle of the night. Gamzee nuzzled his face into Equius's back like he would a pillow, getting makeup all over his shirt. He was the only one who never complained about it.

Awww. That's just plain cute.

[deathsbuddy]

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Hit two birds with one stone! (The crossdressing Equius bird and the Gamzee/Equius bird, to be precise. )

Oh god what

[Friendly_Troll]

Hahahaha
YSSS
Both of those. SO awesome. I am thoroughly in favor of this.
Also now my prior concept of Equius being all hatemancy with Karkat is, in retrospect, oddly hilarious.

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...I guess i have no choice but to do some Equius/Gamzee now.

[Zuki]

I'm not sure how I find the notion of Equius/Karkat hatemancy, but I will admit that the one trollog we've seen so far on it was well-written and made it a kind of plausible.

What I find interesting is this contrast between them. Karkat is likeable because of his ceaseless, impotent, rage. He gets angrier and angrier and never can do anything really satisfying about it. Equius's rage is...very potent. Dangerously, problematically, so.

[Varkarrus]

KARKAT CAN'T BLUSH: HE HAS GRAY BLOOD

use the above scentence to make something awesome

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and do a Popeye/Skipper Plumthroat thing, too

[Rastea]

Oh dear god that was adorable. I like the hints at other pairings that you snuck in there.

Also, a paltry offering of my own:

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Hit two birds with one stone! (The crossdressing Equius bird and the Gamzee/Equius bird, to be precise. )

Thankies. I was going to add more pairing hints, but I felt that would have dragged it on too long.
And yaaaaaay crossdressing.

Hahahaha
YSSS
Both of those. SO awesome. I am thoroughly in favor of this.
Also now my prior concept of Equius being all hatemancy with Karkat is, in retrospect, oddly hilarious.

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...I guess i have no choice but to do some Equius/Gamzee now.

Psh, I love me some Equius/Karkat too. Then again, I've mentioned before I like ALL pairings. So my opinion is moot.

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Oh but please do.