TROLL!COPS: The AU

[Deeum]

Loving this thread, the writing is great.

Oh, Deeum, you missed the civilian bios near the bottom of page 4.

Wha- Well shit, so I did. Thanks for letting me know. I'll get to it now.

[Deeum]

to elaborate on WV past of vigilantism.

In his youth WV was the Watchful Vigilante, the first and most famous defenders of Alternia city, with his trusted sidekick firefly Serenity he spread the light of justice in the dark underbelly of the city, he especially went against the Felt, he is the principal reason they are not the main power of the criminal underworld anymore (he is also one of the few people that know about Doc scratch ties with them, but he was never able to get solid proofs about it, Doc was always two steps ahead of him, it is almost as if he was omniscient) of course in doing so he opened the way for the the midnight crew and the other criminal organizations to fill the void, this made him see that vigilantism is at best a short term solution and this together with the fact that he wasn't getting younger made him decide to drop the vigilantism to enter in politic as mayor to try to fight crime with a different approach.
He also adopted a young troll, Feferi Peixes and as fate wanted one day she found one of the Watchcaves he had hidden all around the city and used the gadgets still hidden in it to become the CutllefishCuller, he knows about it, of course, and while worried for her he is also proud of what this young daughter of him is doing and keep a watchful eye on her both as a mayor (giving subtle hints to the authorities to give her some slack, expecially when she is in one of her criminal "phases", and focus on more pressing problems) and as a ex-vigilante.

More important, years ago he have found the four orbs ring that many gangs of the city search, he refuse to use it because he consider it too dangerous, but he watch it closely, hidden in his mayoral sash which never leave his person.

What do you think? Too much?

Imagining his voice as Adam West makes this so awesome.

[battlerek]

Now I can't help but imagine WV in the 1960's batman costume.

[crepuscularDissembler]

I may have to draw WV and Feferi as Batman and Robin now.
(Unless someone has a better idea for a sidekick. The second comparison kiiiinda works, I mean they're both known for their incredibly awful puns.)

[inexpediency]

That sounds

really adorable.

I demand you do it

[gingerale]

I may have to draw WV and Feferi as Batman and Robin now.
(Unless someone has a better idea for a sidekick. The second comparison kiiiinda works, I mean they're both known for their incredibly awful puns.)

Don't forget, 60's Batman. Not the dark and edgy Batman.

[inexpediency]

)(oly glub, WV!

[flutterShy]

... brb going to add this to the DevArt page

[kayak]

Sort of inspired by the recent update.
Sketch of Sollux vising Aradia in the hospital.



They told me that they took her soul and put it in a new body, a better body, but they're wrong. Whatever that thing is isn't my Aradia. My Aradia is in the hospital, laying in white sheets, beautiful as an angel. They tell me it's just an empty shell, but whatever is there is more her than that clanking tin can. A monstrosity with her symbol and horns. But her eyes... sometimes, for the slightest moment, they flicker, so bright and alive, just like she had been. They're what keep me coming back to the hospital, waiting for her real eyes to flutter open, for that smile to return, for her.

[FieryBlacksmith]

... I hate you.

[kayak]

[FieryBlacksmith]

No really, I do. Never do that to Aradia, or any other troll/kid/exile/guardian/other again.

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But don't stop drawing, the picture looked great.

[naoe31]

Kayak this made me sadder than the update did ;__;

Also there was a journal from Karkat in the rp that says that it's all his fault and now Nepeta's hurt etc. So I decided to draw it.
Spoilered for... I don't know, it's kinda crap really looking back at it.

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You guys are so amazing. This rp this thread they make me so happy. All the ideas and writing it's soalskjfeoij it just makes me super happy

[Deeum]

Sort of inspired by the recent update.
Sketch of Sollux vising Aradia in the hospital.

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They told me that they took her soul and put it in a new body, a better body, but they're wrong. Whatever that thing is isn't my Aradia. My Aradia is in the hospital, laying in white sheets, beautiful as an angel. They tell me it's just an empty shell, but whatever is there is more her than that clanking tin can. A monstrosity with her symbol and horns. But her eyes... sometimes, for the slightest moment, they flicker, so bright and alive, just like she had been. They're what keep me coming back to the hospital, waiting for her real eyes to flutter open, for that smile to return, for her.

Oh god, fighting back the tears. I had thought about doing something similar to this, but I have yet to get the time to m'self for it.
Great job on it!

*blubber*

Now I have this song stuck in my head.

[nvo]

New to this AU, but I just wanted to say that it's kick ass!

It got me thinking about a BBC show I used to watch called Life on Mars (it's actually a cop show, even if it doesn't sound like it from the title). Anyway, there is an awesome character named Gene Hunt who has dialogue that reminds me a lot of Dave. I don't know, maybe an older, more cynical stable time loop / alternate timeline Dave could be the gruff, older, completely inappropriate cop who still winds up being right 99% of the time.

I can just imagine some ?tense!Dave saying some these lines, although with Gene Hunt's english accent replaced with Dave's southern drawl.

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Gene Hunt: He's got fingers in more pies than a leper on a cookery course.

Gene Hunt: She's as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot.

Gene Hunt: Now. Yesterday's shooting. The dealers are all so scared we're more likely to get Helen Keller to talk. The Paki in a coma's about as lively as Liberace's dick when he's looking at a naked woman, and all in all this investigation's going at the speed of a spastic in a magnet factory.

Sam Tyler, aghast, drops the radio he is holding.

Gene Hunt: What?

Sam Tyler: Think you might have missed out the Jews

Gene Hunt: What?

Sam Tyler: I think we need to explore whether this attempted murder was a hate crime.

Gene Hunt: What as opposed to one of those I-really-really-like-you sort of murders?

Gene Hunt: Now is not the time to have a one night stand with your conscience.

then again I may just be crazy.

[crepuscularDissembler]

I think in this AU, Vriska would be responsible for Aradia's death in a more abstract "you didn't do your job and now she's dead" sort of way. That also works for Sollux and Terezi forming a pair after Aradia dies/Terezi realizes how out of line and dangerous to those around her Vriska is (she likes to play it fast and loose and will subvert the mission plan if it doesn't suit her).

[Wigmund]

After exploring the illicit romantic tension between Officer Sollux Captor and The CuttlefishCuller, I found myself with the sudden urge to do something similar for Police Detective Terezi Pyrope.

Just a warning: This was also inspired by a recent update...

Blinded By Time

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Terezi Pyrope was laying down on a bench in one of the many parks that made up a green barrier between the upperclass portions of town and the lower-class wards of The Narrows and The Settlements. They were really quite lovely if you didn't think about the reason they were built. She always loved sitting just in the right area so she could contrast the sharp smells of all the glass and steel from the skyscrapers, the somewhat natural greenery of the parklands and the well-lived and sometimes unidentifiable odors drifting from where people actually lived. It was a masterpiece that only she could perceive.

While she was basking in the glory of Alternia City, something else caught her nose. She sniffed and figured it was coming from a most-definitely-not-suspicious man that was walking by her. She put on her broad smile and sat up.

"Hmmm...You know 1 lov3 ch3rr13s."

The stranger stopped in front of her and probably smiled, but his mustache and impressive beard hid his mouth. He sat down next to Terezi and pulled out a package of bird seed.

"Whatever could you be talking about Detective?"
"My, my, how 3v3r d1d you d1scov3r my s3cr3t? 1 w4s so w3ll d1sgu1s3d."
"Just taking off your police garb and wearing street clothes isn't a disguise. Despite the fact that no one has ever seen the master investigator of the APD out her uniform."
"Th4t's not tru3. Th3r3's 4t l34st on3 p3rson th4t h4s."
Terezi turned her head away from the bearded man feeding the pigeons.
"4nd 1 would l1k3 1t 1f h3 would stop by my pl4c3 ton1ght."
The man stopped feeding the pigeons and looked up towards the Mayor's Tower.
"What...oh...uh...yeah, I think he would like that as well."

He got up and raised his hat to Terezi and walked off. She watched in her own way his departure and sighed. Now she needed to get home and clean her filthy apartment up. Her guest wouldn't like wading through piles of cheap Prospitan take-out stir fry containers.


That night, Terezi rested after a busy day of trying to make a dent in the mess. She eventually got the worst of it cleaned away...she was going to miss those smells...and pushed the rest into a couple of closets to be dealt with 'later'.

She got up when she heard a knock at her window that faced one of the unknown number of darkened alleyways of The Narrows. She smiled, the last person who did that found himself on an express trip back down to the ground far below, but this one was expected. It was the only safe way they could meet up.

Terezi and her guest embraced for several minutes. They relished these fleeting moments. Separated by the worlds they lived in, but they still sought out each other.

Terezi pulled Dave over to the couch and brought out a couple of drinks. Dave took one and handed Terezi a gift.

A box of chocolate-covered cherries.

Expensive ones.

The ones she loved so much.

"H3H3H3H3H3
D4v3, you br1b3ry of 4 pol1c3 off1c3r 1s t3rr1bly 1ll3g4l. Th1nk 4bout th3 f1t Comm1s1on3r 4R would p1tch 1f h3 found out."
Dave pulled Terezi down next to himself on the couch and held her. He sank his face into her dark hair, taking care not to poke himself on those horns.
"Your commisioner can live with it. Besides, if he hasn't figured out what's been going on between us by now - I'm not too worried."

Dave took a good look at Terezi's face and noticed something was wrong.
"Oh come on, I didn't mean it. He's doing a decent job with what he's been-"
Terezi hushed him and sighed.
"1t's not th4t...1t's just th4t..."
"What?"
"W3 found on3 of your t1m3 clon3s...h3 w4s d34d...1t look3d l1k3 th3 M1dn1ght Cr3w got 4hold of h1m..."
Dave leaned back, slightly surprised by this. He knew he lost one of his many doomed time clones recently. He usually made sure his other clones retrieved the body before anyone found the corpse, but sometimes shit like this happened.
"I'm sorry about that Terezi, but I'm still here."
Terezi wiped a tear away from underneath her red shades.
"1 know...1 know...1t's just th4t 3v3ry t1m3 w3 f1nd on3 of your clon3s...
1'm 4lw4ys worr13d th4t th1s t1m3 1t won't b3 4 clon3, but 1t w1ll b3 you."
She hugged him tightly as he rubbed her back.
"D4ve...1 don't know wh4t 1 would do 1f 1 lost you...
1 c4n't los3 you..."
"I'm sorry Terezi. I'm sorry I put you through this.
I wish I didn't..."
He propped up the crying troll and looked directly into her shades.
"I wish I could take back everything I've done to keep you from being hurt.
It hurts me far more than anything else to see you cry."
She sniffed loudly and pulled in the don of the Strider Mafia and Crowbro in close and kissed him.

"4nd 1 now th4t. But r1ght now w3'v3 got th3 n1ght w1th 34ch oth3r."
Dave smiled at her as he turned off the lights.
"Let's enjoy it."

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Another illicit affair?!

After seeing the update where Terezi cried and ran off after seeing Felt Dave being murdered by Noir inspired this. I can only imagine the pain Terezi feels everytime she has to investigate the killing of one of Dave's time clones who gets caught by one of the rival gangs.

And I wanted to insert it, but it felt too silly within the story above, but Terezi is under watch for stuff like this. It's just that Equius stands across the street from the front of her apartment building and watches the entryway. Always watching. Thankfully, he's too dense and proper to think that people can clamber up the backsides of said building...plus he doesn't think about removing his uniform.

[myu2k2]

Vriska = Corrupt Cop... maybe she's "taking in" a bit of somethin'-somethin' on the side from the Gangs.

[precariouslyAware]

I just re-read the 'civilian' descriptions on page 4 and I was inspired. I figured that Rose's mystery needed some expansion, so I figured - hey, why not create yet another secret organization.

S.E.E.R.

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Society for the Elevation of Ectotechnological Research

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Rose sat idly in front of the computer that housed the vast archives of the National Library of Alternia City underneath the massive building that took up several blocks of City Central. She did not truly enjoy her job as the archivist of these records. But it was easy work and excellent pay. She usually spent her time reading long forgotten tomes about what was considered lost knowledge.

Well, not lost, just misplaced on the shelves by some idiot shelver decades ago and then idly tossed into the archive's department where it eventually ended up in Rose's paws.

But today, Rose was passing time by scanning the archives for any works on the lost Skaian ectotechnologies. Her other job needed some information that was most likely here. She smiled at the irony that what served as her cover job was now being used to help her real one.

Rose was a founding member and Oracle of S.E.E.R. - a secretive group devoted to finding the old technologies and artifacts of the Skaians and what came before. They operated in secret, but they didn't keep what they discovered secret...unless it was something dangerous - and most of what they found was dangerous, but the rest was made available to the public through a vast array of front companies who would claim the tech as their own inventions.

Rose smiled as she taught about the irony that she was also the secretive group's public face.

Well, in a way. She provided information to groups and individuals who needed it that was provided by old Skaian devices that could provide brief glimpses of possible futures and other tech that could communicate with the horrorterrors themselves. Usually it was the Alternian Police Department when they were stumped by some case involving one of the many gangs that roamed the city with access to Skaian ectotechnology that S.E.E.R. had not obtained itself, well, that is until said criminals are apprehended and S.E.E.R.s mole in the APD made sure said tech mysteriously vanished from the police's lockup. But sometimes Rose found herself helping those groups that the APD worked against. Like with her own twin, Dave Strider who was both the mass murdering vigilante CrowBro and the head of the similarly violent Strider Mafia, both roles he was manipulated into by Rose herself to protect him and to gain access to the city's vast underworld.

Rose knew the dangers of both glimpsing the possible and talking directly with the old gods, but she was willing to do it if it meant the safety of her home and those she loved. It was ironic that in trying to protect her friends and loved ones, she used means that put them into harm's way. John, Jade, Kanaya. They were all threatened if someone found out their secrets.

The Oracle was interrupted from her daydreaming by her communicator...it was the APD's...chiming to get her attention. She brought it up on her personal laptop and waited to see who was trying to get ahold of her.

It was Kanaya.

Rose sighed in relief. Kanaya was never used by the APD to contact her for business, this was a personal call.

"Greetings Officer, how may the Oracle help you today?"
Kanaya smiled over the webcam feed. Unfortunately at this time, there was never a similar feed going out from Rose to whomever was contacting her. It was safer that way. But at times like this, it made her feel so terribly lonely because this was the only way for weeks at a time she could see those she loved. But this lack of sight on Kanaya's part didn't stop Rose from smiling as well.
"Salutations To You As Well Oracle. I Indeed Needed Your Help With Something Of Dreadful Importance."
"What is that Medical Officer Maryam?"
"Oh My, You Mysteriously Figured Out My Identity. Your Powers Are Quite Great, Seer."
Rose couldn't help but enjoy the sarcastic banter and she waited for Kanaya to continue.
"I Was Wondering If You Had Foreseen Any Free Time For Yourself Within The Next Two Weeks."
"Let me consult my sources..."
"Of Course You Do Rose."
"Alright, alright. Why do you ask?"
"Well, It Is Due To My Recent Choice To Use Several Weeks Worth Of Vacation That I Had Accrued During My Time Working With The Police Department."
"Paid vacation sounds lovely."
"It Is. And I Was Wondering That If You Would Be Open To Passing These Next Two Weeks Together?
Considering How Irregularly And How Little Time We Spend With Each Other, I Have Missed You Terribly."

Rose leaned back and looked over at the archival computer. She had built up several weeks worth of vacation herself from the Library and the search for those books had no deadline.

Rose made her decision.

"Of course my love.
I can't wait to see you again and for what will be a too short period of time."

A/N:

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Are you all fine with this? Rose, John, Jade and Kanaya working for their own organization that has some mysterious goals and methods.

This was dreadfully short, but it quickly became a brief explanation of the group and an excuse for Rose-Kanaya dialogue X3

Rose is exactly what is described before, an information broker. She has more strings tangling across the city than anyone else. Even Mr. Pupa has nothing on her web. I imagine the information Dave obtained about the Rings could actually have been stuff that SEER leaked so that he'd be drawn down the path he ended up on.
Kanaya is actually a mole in the APD who pipes Skaian artifacts confiscated from apprehended criminals to SEER.
I imagine Jade is a civilian researcher for the military at Fort Skaian in the R&D department (Section 10-25) where she gets access to any lost tech the military finds and recovers during its 'patrols' beneath the city. She usually doesn't steal the technology after they obtain it, just forwards the specs to SEER - unless it is something no one should have access to, especially the military.
As for John, I have no idea what he'd do for the organization. Maybe he was drafted because he ran across Rose or Jade doing SEER stuff and it was an easy way to keep the boy quiet. Hell, they could have given him the Egbertman idea and some low-grade tech to power him.

I'm VERY glad you just made that happen. I really like this idea.

[GEMPadre036]

After exploring the illicit romantic tension between Officer Sollux Captor and The CuttlefishCuller, I found myself with the sudden urge to do something similar for Police Detective Terezi Pyrope.

Just a warning: This was also inspired by a recent update...

Blinded By Time

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Terezi Pyrope was laying down on a bench in one of the many parks that made up a green barrier between the upperclass portions of town and the lower-class wards of The Narrows and The Settlements. They were really quite lovely if you didn't think about the reason they were built. She always loved sitting just in the right area so she could contrast the sharp smells of all the glass and steel from the skyscrapers, the somewhat natural greenery of the parklands and the well-lived and sometimes unidentifiable odors drifting from where people actually lived. It was a masterpiece that only she could perceive.

While she was basking in the glory of Alternia City, something else caught her nose. She sniffed and figured it was coming from a most-definitely-not-suspicious man that was walking by her. She put on her broad smile and sat up.

"Hmmm...You know 1 lov3 ch3rr13s."

The stranger stopped in front of her and probably smiled, but his mustache and impressive beard hid his mouth. He sat down next to Terezi and pulled out a package of bird seed.

"Whatever could you be talking about Detective?"
"My, my, how 3v3r d1d you d1scov3r my s3cr3t? 1 w4s so w3ll d1sgu1s3d."
"Just taking off your police garb and wearing street clothes isn't a disguise. Despite the fact that no one has ever seen the master investigator of the APD out her uniform."
"Th4t's not tru3. Th3r3's 4t l34st on3 p3rson th4t h4s."
Terezi turned her head away from the bearded man feeding the pigeons.
"4nd 1 would l1k3 1t 1f h3 would stop by my pl4c3 ton1ght."
The man stopped feeding the pigeons and looked up towards the Mayor's Tower.
"What...oh...uh...yeah, I think he would like that as well."

He got up and raised his hat to Terezi and walked off. She watched in her own way his departure and sighed. Now she needed to get home and clean her filthy apartment up. Her guest wouldn't like wading through piles of cheap Prospitan take-out stir fry containers.


That night, Terezi rested after a busy day of trying to make a dent in the mess. She eventually got the worst of it cleaned away...she was going to miss those smells...and pushed the rest into a couple of closets to be dealt with 'later'.

She got up when she heard a knock at her window that faced one of the unknown number of darkened alleyways of The Narrows. She smiled, the last person who did that found himself on an express trip back down to the ground far below, but this one was expected. It was the only safe way they could meet up.

Terezi and her guest embraced for several minutes. They relished these fleeting moments. Separated by the worlds they lived in, but they still sought out each other.

Terezi pulled Dave over to the couch and brought out a couple of drinks. Dave took one and handed Terezi a gift.

A box of chocolate-covered cherries.

Expensive ones.

The ones she loved so much.

"H3H3H3H3H3
D4v3, you br1b3ry of 4 pol1c3 off1c3r 1s t3rr1bly 1ll3g4l. Th1nk 4bout th3 f1t Comm1s1on3r 4R would p1tch 1f h3 found out."
Dave pulled Terezi down next to himself on the couch and held her. He sank his face into her dark hair, taking care not to poke himself on those horns.
"Your commisioner can live with it. Besides, if he hasn't figured out what's been going on between us by now - I'm not too worried."

Dave took a good look at Terezi's face and noticed something was wrong.
"Oh come on, I didn't mean it. He's doing a decent job with what he's been-"
Terezi hushed him and sighed.
"1t's not th4t...1t's just th4t..."
"What?"
"W3 found on3 of your t1m3 clon3s...h3 w4s d34d...1t look3d l1k3 th3 M1dn1ght Cr3w got 4hold of h1m..."
Dave leaned back, slightly surprised by this. He knew he lost one of his many doomed time clones recently. He usually made sure his other clones retrieved the body before anyone found the corpse, but sometimes shit like this happened.
"I'm sorry about that Terezi, but I'm still here."
Terezi wiped a tear away from underneath her red shades.
"1 know...1 know...1t's just th4t 3v3ry t1m3 w3 f1nd on3 of your clon3s...
1'm 4lw4ys worr13d th4t th1s t1m3 1t won't b3 4 clon3, but 1t w1ll b3 you."
She hugged him tightly as he rubbed her back.
"D4ve...1 don't know wh4t 1 would do 1f 1 lost you...
1 c4n't los3 you..."
"I'm sorry Terezi. I'm sorry I put you through this.
I wish I didn't..."
He propped up the crying troll and looked directly into her shades.
"I wish I could take back everything I've done to keep you from being hurt.
It hurts me far more than anything else to see you cry."
She sniffed loudly and pulled in the don of the Strider Mafia and Crowbro in close and kissed him.

"4nd 1 now th4t. But r1ght now w3'v3 got th3 n1ght w1th 34ch oth3r."
Dave smiled at her as he turned off the lights.
"Let's enjoy it."

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Another illicit affair?!

After seeing the update where Terezi cried and ran off after seeing Felt Dave being murdered by Noir inspired this. I can only imagine the pain Terezi feels everytime she has to investigate the killing of one of Dave's time clones who gets caught by one of the rival gangs.

And I wanted to insert it, but it felt too silly within the story above, but Terezi is under watch for stuff like this. It's just that Equius stands across the street from the front of her apartment building and watches the entryway. Always watching. Thankfully, he's too dense and proper to think that people can clamber up the backsides of said building...plus he doesn't think about removing his uniform.

...
Awwwww...
This was...
Awwwww...

[Domoz]

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Because apparently most everyone in the DA ships Eridan and Terezi (Well I mean I do too... :V )

[jellinScyphozoa]

At one point I will put together all of my Terezidan logs and put them here.
Or try to.

Being the Eridan player, I should not bias myself on a ship but I really am starting to fall for that pairing out of the sheer drama that goes on in the AU IC chat.
Jeez I am happy the RP group is going so well.

[Masterly]

Seppucrow reminds me of Hakumen.

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And then when you take into account the alternate timeline thing, it really comes full circle...

[Ford Johnes]

Whoa, this thread flies by like no tomorrow.

For some reason, I like the way everything just... fits.

[Redikalus]

This thread is amazing!

Now I want to write about the bandit trio before they meet Mr. Pupa...