MSPA Fanfiction III

[Wigmund]

So yeah, First Snow was supposed to be a one-off fic. But I realized I wanted to do more with alive!Aradia.

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John found her sitting up on the roof of the house.
Hey Aradia are you alright? Dinner's ready. Dad and Mom sent me out to find you.
I'm quite fine J0hn. I just wanted t0 watch the sn0w fall.
It's been s0 l0ng since I was able t0 enj0y s0mething like this.
John clambered up onto the rooftop and sat next to Aradia. She was just sitting up there, watching the sun set and the snow fall.
Oh yeah, the others told me you were rather emotionless while you were dead.
How do you like being back in a body again?
It's w0nderful. Th0ugh it is weird t0 ackn0wledge that this is n0t my 0riginal b0dy.
But, t0 actually feel anything, t0 be able t0 eat, t0 be able t0 smile and cry and breathe.
I w0uldn't g0 back t0 being a wandering spirit, gamesprite 0r trapped within that r0b0t shell.

Aradia floated in the air. John noticed she was frowning. Oh dear, did he bring up terrible memories of what happened before?
I'm sorry I brought up memories of all that.
Huh? 0h, yes the mem0ries are difficult.
But it is s0mething I must deal with.
If I remember Karkat's rambling about your session - you were the Maid of Time, right?
Indeed. I had these beautiful crystalline music b0xes. Still have them actually.
But they d0n't alter time anymore, just like Dave's turntables.
I used t0 l0ve music b0xes. But my c0llecti0n was destr0yed when I died.
Is that so.
Dave told me he spent about a month or so in our session even though it was a day long for me, Rose and Jade.
How long did you spend in yours?
I l0st c0unt after the first hundred sweeps.
S0 many times spent g0ing back and trying t0 fix what went wr0ng.
S0 many times I g0t t0 watch my friends die.
Oh great John, you made her cry.

John scratched his head, trying to think of what to change the subject to.
Oh jez, uh.
So what's up between you and Equius.
It was kinda creepy when you were in that robot body.
Aradia looked at him. She was confused by his statement, but then she remembered these humans didn't have the quadrants.
She smiled and drifted back beside him. Light below showed that someone had opened the door to look outside.
Y0u are telling me. I g0t t0 deal with him trying t0 put a l0ve chip in me.
Equius entered view, he was looking around outside. For Aradia? Or had Nepeta gotten out again and was hiding in the snowbanks?
I hate him, but n0t as much as when I was in the shell.
Aradia spied a large rock nearby and used her powers to heft it.
He's a creepy shit, but he's n0t truly w0rth my kismesisitude.
The rock flew off and hit Equius squarely in the back of the head. He went down and twitched for a moment.
I'll just satisfy 0ur spite by t0rmenting him 0ccasi0nally.
She smiled as the blue-blooded troll got back up, looked around for the source of the attack and went back indoors.
If you don't hate him, what was that for?
I d0n't want any0ne t0 interrupt 0ur chat up here.
I'm enj0ying it.
So am I.
G00d. H0w are things g0ing with y0u, R0se and Kanaya.
Are y0u having tr0ubles sharing a l0ve?

John blushed.
I wouldn't call it love.
0h c0me 0n. It's s0 sweet t0 watch y0u three t0gether.
Oh alright, everything's great.
Rose seems to fret about the set-up, but Kanaya and myself are more than happy to share someone so wonderful.
John laid back on the snow-covered roof, the stars had come out. Weird to see so many at night and no light pollution hiding the dimmer ones.
Dad and Mom seemed a little freaked by the relationship at first.
But I think Mom was fine with it right off the bat.
I think Dad wanted to congratulate me for getting two girls, but then I told him that it was Rose who had myself and Kanaya.
He seemed confused, but he's happy as long as we're all happy.
Y0u and R0se have such w0nderful parents.
I kinda wish I grew up with s0mething like that.
Well, they're all of our parents now.
Aradia hugged her legs and looked across the snow-covered landscape.
If we're gonna talk about relationships, what about you?
Whatever d0 y0u mean?
Aradia blushed and looked away from John. He smiled at her sudden bashfulness.
You can be honest with me.
Who do you like? It's not a hard thing to admit.
Aradia looked at John. She was obviously trying to find a way to admit this.
She looked away again and put her hands up to the sides of her head. The way her pinky and thumbs stuck out, it reminded John of...
Tavros?
Aradia nodded.
I think I've always liked him.
Even when I was with S0llux, Tavr0s was always a cl0se friend.
He's just s0 kind and caring.
She stared off into the distance and frowned yet again.
But he's with Vriska.
There's n0 way I c0uld tell him ab0ut h0w I feel.
I don't think they're actually together.
Vriska just drags him around because he doesn't fight back and is nice to her.
Kinda like she did with me.
Aradia stared at John.
Besides, I think Tavros might feel the same way about you.
Now she was blushing fiercely and floating in the air.
N0 he d0esn't....d0es he?
I take it then you haven't seen him watch you fly around.
The guy was the one to suggest using the ectobiology lab and equipment to create your body.
I th0ught that it was y0u...
I pulled the knobs and levers and pushed buttons.
But it was Tavros who gave me the idea.
Aradia was positively beaming now. She fly in close to John and kissed him on his cheek. Now it was his turn to blush.
Thank y0u.
Thank y0u f0r this b0dy.
Thank y0u f0r telling me ab0ut Tavr0s.
And thank y0u f0r being s0 kind and sweet.
I just can't resist guys like that.
John watched her fly back inside. He looked back up at the stars and smiled.
He climbed back off the roof and went indoors, time for dinner and to watch the fireworks when Aradia talked to Tavros.

That was pathetic wasn't it?

[Metaflare]

Wig, please write more alive-aradia.

[Kerensky287]

So yeah, First Snow was supposed to be a one-off fic. But I realized I wanted to do more with alive!Aradia.

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John found her sitting up on the roof of the house.
Hey Aradia are you alright? Dinner's ready. Dad and Mom sent me out to find you.
I'm quite fine J0hn. I just wanted t0 watch the sn0w fall.
It's been s0 l0ng since I was able t0 enj0y s0mething like this.
John clambered up onto the rooftop and sat next to Aradia. She was just sitting up there, watching the sun set and the snow fall.
Oh yeah, the others told me you were rather emotionless while you were dead.
How do you like being back in a body again?
It's w0nderful. Th0ugh it is weird t0 ackn0wledge that this is n0t my 0riginal b0dy.
But, t0 actually feel anything, t0 be able t0 eat, t0 be able t0 smile and cry and breathe.
I w0uldn't g0 back t0 being a wandering spirit, gamesprite 0r trapped within that r0b0t shell.

Aradia floated in the air. John noticed she was frowning. Oh dear, did he bring up terrible memories of what happened before?
I'm sorry I brought up memories of all that.
Huh? 0h, yes the mem0ries are difficult.
But it is s0mething I must deal with.
If I remember Karkat's rambling about your session - you were the Maid of Time, right?
Indeed. I had these beautiful crystalline music b0xes. Still have them actually.
But they d0n't alter time anymore, just like Dave's turntables.
I used t0 l0ve music b0xes. But my c0llecti0n was destr0yed when I died.
Is that so.
Dave told me he spent about a month or so in our session even though it was a day long for me, Rose and Jade.
How long did you spend in yours?
I l0st c0unt after the first hundred sweeps.
S0 many times spent g0ing back and trying t0 fix what went wr0ng.
S0 many times I g0t t0 watch my friends die.
Oh great John, you made her cry.

John scratched his head, trying to think of what to change the subject to.
Oh jez, uh.
So what's up between you and Equius.
It was kinda creepy when you were in that robot body.
Aradia looked at him. She was confused by his statement, but then she remembered these humans didn't have the quadrants.
She smiled and drifted back beside him. Light below showed that someone had opened the door to look outside.
Y0u are telling me. I g0t t0 deal with him trying t0 put a l0ve chip in me.
Equius entered view, he was looking around outside. For Aradia? Or had Nepeta gotten out again and was hiding in the snowbanks?
I hate him, but n0t as much as when I was in the shell.
Aradia spied a large rock nearby and used her powers to heft it.
He's a creepy shit, but he's n0t truly w0rth my kismesisitude.
The rock flew off and hit Equius squarely in the back of the head. He went down and twitched for a moment.
I'll just satisfy 0ur spite by t0rmenting him 0ccasi0nally.
She smiled as the blue-blooded troll got back up, looked around for the source of the attack and went back indoors.
If you don't hate him, what was that for?
I d0n't want any0ne t0 interrupt 0ur chat up here.
I'm enj0ying it.
So am I.
G00d. H0w are things g0ing with y0u, R0se and Kanaya.
Are y0u having tr0ubles sharing a l0ve?

John blushed.
I wouldn't call it love.
0h c0me 0n. It's s0 sweet t0 watch y0u three t0gether.
Oh alright, everything's great.
Rose seems to fret about the set-up, but Kanaya and myself are more than happy to share someone so wonderful.
John laid back on the snow-covered roof, the stars had come out. Weird to see so many at night and no light pollution hiding the dimmer ones.
Dad and Mom seemed a little freaked by the relationship at first.
But I think Mom was fine with it right off the bat.
I think Dad wanted to congratulate me for getting two girls, but then I told him that it was Rose who had myself and Kanaya.
He seemed confused, but he's happy as long as we're all happy.
Y0u and R0se have such w0nderful parents.
I kinda wish I grew up with s0mething like that.
Well, they're all of our parents now.
Aradia hugged her legs and looked across the snow-covered landscape.
If we're gonna talk about relationships, what about you?
Whatever d0 y0u mean?
Aradia blushed and looked away from John. He smiled at her sudden bashfulness.
You can be honest with me.
Who do you like? It's not a hard thing to admit.
Aradia looked at John. She was obviously trying to find a way to admit this.
She looked away again and put her hands up to the sides of her head. The way her pinky and thumbs stuck out, it reminded John of...
Tavros?
Aradia nodded.
I think I've always liked him.
Even when I was with S0llux, Tavr0s was always a cl0se friend.
He's just s0 kind and caring.
She stared off into the distance and frowned yet again.
But he's with Vriska.
There's n0 way I c0uld tell him ab0ut h0w I feel.
I don't think they're actually together.
Vriska just drags him around because he doesn't fight back and is nice to her.
Kinda like she did with me.
Aradia stared at John.
Besides, I think Tavros might feel the same way about you.
Now she was blushing fiercely and floating in the air.
N0 he d0esn't....d0es he?
I take it then you haven't seen him watch you fly around.
The guy was the one to suggest using the ectobiology lab and equipment to create your body.
I th0ught that it was y0u...
I pulled the knobs and levers and pushed buttons.
But it was Tavros who gave me the idea.
Aradia was positively beaming now. She fly in close to John and kissed him on his cheek. Now it was his turn to blush.
Thank y0u.
Thank y0u f0r this b0dy.
Thank y0u f0r telling me ab0ut Tavr0s.
And thank y0u f0r being s0 kind and sweet.
I just can't resist guys like that.
John watched her fly back inside. He looked back up at the stars and smiled.
He climbed back off the roof and went indoors, time for dinner and to watch the fireworks when Aradia talked to Tavros.

That was pathetic wasn't it?

Thesaurus.com lists "touching" as a synonym of pathetic so I'll assume you meant that. By that definition, sure! It was pathetic as hell.

It really makes me realize how unfortunate it is that we saw so little of alive!Aradia in canon.

[Ember]

Kass: Other people have said this already, but yes, Rose being awkward about speaking out loud makes so much sense, and also makes me relate to her even more than I already did. Also the silent freak-out about aliens, because it is "first contact," and out of all of the kids she's definitely the most likely one for that to mean something too. (And poor Kanaya is adorable as always.)

cT: That was hilarious. Enough said.

[geeP]

In the mean time here is a thing that I wrote. It was, I confess, done to procrastinate translating Plato, so its quality may be debatable. Also: I've never written fanfiction before. WHAT HAS THIS COMIC DONE TO ME. In any case: it's Rose's perspective on meeting the trolls IRL for the first time.

Contact

Solid! Also I can relate on the spontaneous Homestuck-induced fanfic writing.

[SkaianRedeemer]

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He climbed back off the roof and went indoors, time for dinner and to watch the fireworks when Aradia talked to Tavros.

I can't blame him. I'd want to see this. And I always love seeing alive!Aradia.

In the mean time here is a thing that I wrote. It was, I confess, done to procrastinate translating Plato, so its quality may be debatable. Also: I've never written fanfiction before. WHAT HAS THIS COMIC DONE TO ME. In any case: it's Rose's perspective on meeting the trolls IRL for the first time.

Contact

Solid! Also I can relate on the spontaneous Homestuck-induced fanfic writing.

It is in the middle of some sort of outbreak and I would not for one minute discourage it.

[Kassiopeia]

You guys, you guuuuuys. You are all unbearably sweet. (Rose is drawn mostly from my own experience of having a far larger written than spoken vocabulary when I was littler - so it's nice to see that struck a chord.)
(also I am even now working on another thing, oh god. It is going to be longer and nastier. We shall see whether it makes it up here.)

[KilroyWasHere]

Kassie, everything you create is pure splendor. Each and every thing. I too, know of having a wider written vocabulary - I still pronounce unison as unision, from when I thought that I was there.

[Katrika]

Oh man, I'm the same way. It used to be a running joke in my family that I had trouble pronouncing (or pro-nunc-ing) words right because I only ever read them. But I knew what they meant!

I'm going to leave off on Backfire for a while. That incident left kind of a bad taste in my mouth. Sorry.

[Metaflare]

I'm still having trouple pronouncing words i've only ever read.

"Hey Zach, how do you say this word?" *writes out psuedo*
"puh-sway-doh"
"WRONG."

This was four months ago.

[Katrika]

Hahaha. I still have SOME trouble, but my family will correct me kindly and I try to remember.

...oh god.

Now I'm paranoid.

What if there's words that I use and I'm saying them wrong but they're so uncommon that people don't know to correct me? THIS GREATLY DISTRESSES ME.

[KilroyWasHere]

Woah woah Meta. We are both Zacks. This is distressing, as I assumed you to be female.

[Katrika]

It's the avatar. That avatar is clearly a female.

=P

I, for one, am female. Even my username is no garuntee, though!

[Kassiopeia]

I used to think "hitherto" was pronounced "hith-ER-toe". Also, when I read the Worst Witch series, aged six, I thought the main characters were called Ennid, Eethel and, uh, Mewed (Enid, Ethel and Maud). My family still think this is so hilarious they still remember it 13 years later...

[Metaflare]

Woah woah Meta. We are both Zacks. This is distressing, as I assumed you to be female.

Internet identities: more confusing than homestuck.

[Katrika]

I used to think detritus was spelled detrius and pronounced as such. That's right, for years, I consistantly skipped a letter. I read so fast, see. 400 pages in maybe 2 and a half hours if it's a good book. And that's my natural rate. I don't know how to slow it down, even though sometimes I want to so I can burn more time, but then I get drawn into the plot and wanna see what happens next so I go fast again, and finish too early.

[Ember]

Meta, up until a couple years ago I pronounced "psuedo" as sweh-doh. I think the only reason I knew better than to try to pronounce the p was my familiarity with words with the "psych" root.

Also it occurs to me that while Rose may very well have read the word "rendezvous" many times and only ever heard it once or twice, for John with all his action movies it would be the exact opposite. She's in for a lot of teasing if he figures out what she's trying to say before she figures out how to say it.

[Katrika]

It's all the fault of that damn 'z'. I'm sure she could figure out the frenchish 'vous' without it. =P

Anyway, that part of the fic TOTALLY resonated with me.

[Summergale]

Bwaaah, more alive!Aradia. Clearly this is too adorable. It is also related to what I have a snippet of which I'm going to rewrite because blurg OOC? It's not even colourtagged.

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twinArmageddons [TA] began trolling carcinoGeneticist [CG] at ???

TA: kk
CG: OH LOOK, IT'S THE AMAZING HACKER.
CG: SO YEAH WHAT DO YOU WANT IDIOT.
TA: ii need your help wiith 2omethiing
CG: SEE MY PREVIOUS STATEMENT, RE: YOUR HACKING SKILLS.
CG: WHAT COULD I POSSIBLY HELP YOU WITH.
TA: do you remember u2iing the ectobiiology lab?
CG: COULD I EVER FUCKING FORGET?
CG: SERIOUSLY, IF I EVER SEE SO MANY GRUBS IN ONE PLACE AGAIN
TA: yeah yeah acrobatiic2 and a handle wiill be iinvolved
TA: ii hear iit enough off the iin2ufferable priick
TA: back two my oriiginal poiint
TA: ii need your help workiing the ectobiiology equiipment
CG: WHY?
CG: AND I MEAN THAT AS IN 'WHY SHOULD I EVEN FUCKING CONSIDER HELPING YOU' AS WELL AS 'WHY DO YOU WANT TO USE THAT SHIT'.
TA: fiir2tly becau2e you are the only one who can work that 2hiit
TA: and 2econdly ii'll tell you iif you meet me in the lab
CG: UGH, FINE.
CG: FIVE MINUTES.

twinArmageddons [TA] ceased trolling carcinoGeneticist [CG] at ???

Ten minutes later, Sollux was leaning against one of the many consoles, flicking through his notes. They were sheets of information, ripped from the coding of the game itself. Most of it was indecipherable, written in a language he had no knowledge of. He caught scattered references to Alternian (or English; funny how that had worked out) words, or he could simply assume from context. An incredibly rough translation, performed with the aid of more codes than he would have cared to count, had told him what he wanted.

"Okay, I'm here. What the fuck did you want to say?"
Sollux glanced up coolly through his mismatched shades and stowed away his notes. He turned to the machinery behind him and sighed slightly before speaking. "I need you two thhow me how to clone thomeone uthing thith thtuff."

derp sucky

[mythmonster2]

D'awww, so many great fics recently! Am LOVING all the alive!Aradia!

[SkaianRedeemer]

On the subject of mispronunciations, I have plenty, but I will always remember how long it took me to stop saying "metabolism". For some reason I was saying "meta-blasm". I... don't really even know. Also, minutiae as "minu-tay". Luckily, no one had any idea what word I was trying to pronounce when I did that one. This is why I have Dictionary.com in my Firefox search bar: audio pronunciation button.

@Summergale: An alive Aradia ORIGIN STORY! I really wish I had some sort of famous comic book cover to pastiche here in this comment but I really wouldn't even know where to begin. Just keep writing it!

[Douhneill]

It's all the fault of that damn 'z'. I'm sure she could figure out the frenchish 'vous' without it. =P

Anyway, that part of the fic TOTALLY resonated with me.

Aha! my French upbringing wins again!

Although I totally understand what you guys are saying.

[Quixotic]

Alive!Aradia is the new Dead!Aradia.

[raequiem]

All this talk of pronouncing things and alive!Aradia, you do know that you're forgetting something important, right guys? Guys?

Sigh... What Day Is It?

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They were plotting something, Dave just knew it.

Jade had disappeared right after breakfast, claiming vaguely that she had "stuff to do". A few hours later she had come back into the main room to pluck at John and Rose's sleeves. Their frantic three-way whispering match was quickly interrupted by a curious Terezi, who was dragged gleefully into whatever plan they were making. Karkat stuck his nose in, and was shushed before he even started shouting. And so the group grew, slowly, as people left and returned dragging others along.

Dave was wasting time (he certainly had it to waste) drawing up new comics, but every time he so much as turned his head in their direction, he was met with inscrutable looks and complete silence. You'd think they'd remember that I'm wearing shades, he mused.

The group broke up into smaller groups - each kid heading for a different wing of the lab, leading a handful of trolls. All still whispering. Dave was getting sick of whispering. Eventually it was just him and Aradia in the big common room, awkwardly silent.

Dave wasn't sure how to feel about the Maid of Time. Sure, they shared an element, but her robotic chassis reminded him uncomfortably of puppets and mannequins (and Bro, but he really didn't want to think of that right now). The girl was seated stiffly on one end of the couch, eyes dark. For all the world she could have been just an empty shell.

Eventually he couldn't stand it anymore, so he strolled over as casually as he could and flopped down opposite her. "Sooo... you have any idea what that was all about?"

Her eyes blinked on, and she turned smoothly to face him. "That?"

"You know. The big whisper-orgy the rest of them had going on."

She was silent for a moment, then something appeared to click. "0h. Yes, I kn0w what they were talking ab0ut."

More awkward silence. He was really beginning to hate that. "Care to share with the class?"

She turned away. "N0, I d0n't think s0."

He felt like exploding. "What do you mean, 'n0'?! We're the 'of Time's! We're supposed to look out for each other!"

"It w0uldn't hurt y0u t0 figure things 0ut y0urself, y0u kn0w," she intoned stiffly, then softened. The corner of her mouth lifted just a bit in a metallic smile. "Besides. I w0uld like t0 see y0u be surprised by s0mething for 0nce."

"Oh, come ON! Just a hint?"

"N0. Abs0lutely n0t."

"Come on, you have to give me something. Anything."

Another long, awkward pause. "Well... y0u sh0uld keep better track 0f y0ur timelines. Perhaps that will be en0ugh 0f a clue." With that, her eyes went dark again, and nothing Dave said or did could get another word out of her.

He flopped back against the couch. He was not pouting, he told himself. Pouting is something only small children, Jade, and Nepeta do. He absently flicked an invisible speck of dust off of his suit. Timelines, eh?

Well, the last major occurrence in the Alpha timeline was Jade's birthday. From Dave's perspective it had been seventeen days since then, but with all the back-loops he'd been making, the actual time elapsed was probably much shorter. He grabbed some paper and a forgotten pen from the table, scribbling and adding and subtracting until-

"Oh fuck no!"

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I may continue this, I may not. If someone else wants to that's fine too.

Part 2

[Kerensky287]

He felt like exploding. "What do you mean, 'n0'?! We're the 'of Time's! We're supposed to look out for each other!"

I love how Dave and Aradia always seem to have a teamwork thing going on in fanfics (the 'of time's) but Dave and Karkat (the knights) are always at each others' throats.

But yeah please continue! I'm pretty sure I know what the whispering is about but I want to see what exactly they've got planned for it.