TROLL!COPS: The AU

[frostedWarlock]

Pro tip: dropping the word "klutz" is pretty much cruise control for Mary Sue.

I preemptively solved the problem!!

Edit: Maybe I didn't! I brought the character into the world inadvertently so I will work on making her well-rounded.

[gingerale]

Sue this and that.. Oh for gog's sake, you guys. They're all superheroes and overpowered and always come out on top. All of them. Stop thinking about it too deeply and just have fun with it. It's only a fanmade AU, guys, you should just relax. Her personality will be built over time through fics.

[frostedWarlock]

Sue this and that.. Oh for gog's sake, you guys. They're all superheroes and overpowered and always come out on top. All of them. Stop thinking about it too deeply and just have fun with it. It's only a fanmade AU, guys, you should just relax. Her personality will be built over time through fics.

NO EVERYTHING MUST BE PERFECT ON THE INTERNET Yeah. I still like my idea of giving her hiltKind because she was too scatterbrained to remember to bring batteries, though. Regardless of if she's a Mary Sue or not, it's still an interesting idea!

[Redikalus]

Techwise, how about she just has the glider and the beamsword, and she totally derped and forgot to bring future batteries for the sword so she is forced to have a hiltKind specibus.
Also, I thought she only TRIED to be badass, but whenever showed any discipline it completely throws her off her game and has no idea what to do. That's what the story showed me.
And of course we wouldn't overdo the klutziness. Just enough to make it obvious that she has flaws.

EDIT: ...in retrospect, we just give her Dave's forgetfulness and Jade's occasional derpyness and we're good. We don't need the klutziness.

I also would like to think that she really has no idea what it's like in the 'modern time.' Possibly she comes from a very black and white time (what with the destruction of reality itself), where right now there are many shades of gray spanning the whole spectrum from white (Egbertman) to the middle of the road (Strider Mafia and the Bandit Trio on a good day) to black (Mr. Pupa).

Sue this and that.. Oh for gog's sake, you guys. They're all superheroes and overpowered and always come out on top. All of them. Stop thinking about it too deeply and just have fun with it. It's only a fanmade AU, guys, you should just relax. Her personality will be built over time through fics.

point taken.

[Wigmund]

The Magpie meets Mr Pupa. Shit gets real.
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He hated it whenever someone barged in whenever he has having dinner. It was so cliched. Just like those damned telemarketers, always calling just as he was served his meals. Vigilantes were worse, they left a mess all over his estate.

Especially after the staff arrived to remove the body.

Tavros Nitram, sole heir to the vast Nitram fortune after the tragic murder of his parents by a deranged consort and now one of Alternia City's most beloved philanthropists, put down his utensils, looked forlornly at his medium-rare wagyu and the exquisite sides that beautifully complimented the expensive meal and then up at his latest guest.

It was The Magpie, latest and quickly becoming the most violent vigilante in the city. Like every other crime fighter in the city, she had decided to take down the infamous criminal mastermind, Mr Pupa. He listened to the staff radio as they yelled about the damage to the finely crafted antique front doors of his ancestral mansion - it was going to cost yet another fortune to repair those - and about the path of bodies she left on the way up to his personal chambers. He sighed, those fools hadn't caught on that she was already in his presence.

Right where he wanted her.

The one good thing about these interruptions is that it allowed Tavros to lay out The Game to those who deigned to join it. Everyone must know the rules. Can't have people just running around slashing and robbing others willy-nilly.

It was dreadfully untidy.

The Magpie jumped upon Nitram's thousand-year old solid oak desk. Those boot marks were going to be so hard for the maids to remove. Pulled out her energy sword and pointed at the crippled troll.

"You know why I've come."
"i...uH...cAN'T IMAGINE WHY YOU WOULD BARGE INTO MY ESTATE, DESTROYING PRICELESS ANTIQUES THAT HAVE BELONGED TO MY FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS, MURDER MY HOUSE STAFF AND THEN CONFRONT ME WITH AN ADVANCED PERSONAL WEAPON."
He took a sip of wine.
"uM, wOULD YOU CARE TO EXPLAIN YOURSELFf?"

The Magpie jumped off the desk and started to circle Tavros, keeping her blade pointed at him all the while.
"Drop the act. You're the criminal mastermind Mr Pupa."
"rEALLY?"
"You're singlehandedly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of this beautiful city's citizens, not to mention the untold numbers of consorts."
"dO GO ON."
"You're a threat to this city and to its future, and because of that I am here to take you down."
"tO THE FUTURE? i DIDN'T, uH, REALIZE THAT THERE WERE PLANS THAT DID THAT. i GUESS THEY NEED REVIEW."

As the Magpie crossed in front of his desk, Tavros raised a hand and gestured to a seat behind her.
"pLEASE, mISS...uH..."
"I am The Magpie."
"wELL, mISS tHE mAGPIE, cOULD YOU PLEASE TAKE A SEAT. aS YOU CAN SEE, i...uH...aM JUST A POOR CRIPPLE AND YOUR PACING AROUND ME MAKES IT SO DREADFULLY HARD TO HOLD A DECENT CONVERSATION WITH YOU."
"I'm not here to talk."

Tavros smiled at her.
"yES YOU ARE, oTHERWISE YOU WOULD HAVE ALREADY CUT ME DOWN."
"No...I..."
"wOULD YOU KINDLY TAKE A SEAT. tHIS WON'T BE LONG."
She sat down and as she did, Tavros retrieved his utensils.
"sO, i...uH...iMAGINE THAT AS A NEWCOMER TO THE CITY AT THIS TIME-"
He started to cut his steak into bite-sized pieces, so tender and juicy. He almost didn't need the knife, but just cutting with a fork was just so debasing to a steak such as wagyu.
"-yOU, uH, tHOUGHT THAT YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO JUST TAKE DOWN THE INFAMOUS mR pUPA."
"Why not."
He took a bite and relished it as he slowly chewed the meat. He washed down the bite with another sip of wine.
"aND LIKE EVERYONE ELSE THAT HAS COME BEFORE YOU, yOU LOOK AT THE PHOTOS OF mR pUPA AND THINK 'mY GOODNESS, tHAT'S tAVROS nITRAM!'"

The Magpie leaned back in her chair, rested her elbows upon the armrests and propped her head upon her knuckles.
"Of course, it's a terrible easy facade to see through."
He continued eating his meals as she continued.
"You play up the pathetic cripple act to keep people away as Tavros Nitram, even though your cybernetic legs work just fine and you can more than handle yourself..."
"hUH, i CAN HANDLE MYSELF, cAN I NOT mISS mAGGIE?"
The Magpie stopped cold.
"How..."

Tavros gave the vigilante a sympathetic and forlorn sigh. He always hated when he had to do this to people, but it was always needed to keep order and civility. But first, another bite of his delicious meal.

"nOW, nOW MY DEAR. tHERE'S NO NEED TO WORRY YOURSELF, uH, oVER SUCH SMALL DETAILS AS YOUR NAME OR THE LOCATION OF YOUR HIDEAWAY WITHIN THE lOST dISTRICT."
A sip of wine and a kind smile.
"yOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO WORRY ABOUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO YOUR IDENTITY IF SOMEHOW THE aLTERNIA cITY pOLICE dEPARTMENT FOUND OUT IF SOMETHING TERRIBLY UNFORTUNATE HAPPENED TO CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS."
The Magpie started to get up.
"Go ahead, I have nothing to fear from-"
"aND IT WOULD BE MOST DREADFUL IF SOMETHING MOST TRAGIC HAPPENED TO THAT LITTLE GANG THAT THE INFAMOUS mR pUPA EMPLOYS FROM TIME TO TIME."
She stopped moving and started to breathe heavily. Good.
"wHO IS THE LEADER OF THAT GROUP OF RUFFIANS? oH, uH, yES - kARKAT - tHAT'S IT."
"iT WOULD BE SO SAD IF SOMETHING HAPPENED TO THEM, eSPECIALLY SINCE THAT YOUNG CAT GIRL STILL HASN'T FULLY RECOVERED FROM THE INJURIES YOU INFLICTED UPON HER."
Tavros smiled at the Magpie and motioned that she should sit back down.

"aDDITIONALLY, tHERE ARE SO MANY TRAGIC THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN TO THAT YOUNG dAVID sTRIDER FELLOW. eVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY THAT HE COULD BE EITHER THE dON OF THE sTRIDER mAFIA OR THE VIGILANTE WITH A BIRD THEME REMARKABLY SIMILAR TO YOURS, cROWbRO, aNYONE COULD SUFFER AN ACCIDENT AT ANY TIME."
Her breathing quickened, but then she stopped and forced herself to calm down. Tavros took the time to try out these sides the chef had included with his main meal.
Tavros relished the glorious wonders his kitchen staff had put upon his plate this night.
"aLSO, i BELIEVE THAT THERE'S THAT FINE POLICE OFFICER AND THE PRIMARY INVESTIGATOR OF THE apd, uH, mISS tEREZI pYROPE AND THAT ENTERPRISING INVENTOR CURRENTLY WORKING WITH THE MILITARY AT fORT sKAIAN, mADAME jADE hARLEY."
Brown gloved hands gripped the armrests of the chair set opposite Tavros.
"What makes you think I care about them?"
"uM, nO PARTICULAR REASON. i WAS, uH, jUST REMARKING THAT THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS CITY THAT COULD MEET TRAGIC ACCIDENTS DEPENDING UPON EVENTS ELSEWHERE."
He smiled at the Magpie.
"iF YOU CATCH MY DRIFT, mY DEAR."

The Magpie got up from the seat and started to slowly back away from the crippled troll. He just smiled at her and continued to munch away at his meal.
"oH NO DEAR, uH, i HAVEN'T FINISHED YET. pLEASE STAY."
Now that he had the Magpie right where he wanted her, Tavros decided that this was the time to let her know how things worked.
"uNFORTUNATELY, tHAT'S NOT A REQUEST."

He pushed his meal to the side and leaned upon his hands, looking at what had barged into his room and decided that she could threaten him.
"aS I SAID, tHERE ARE MANY PEOPLE IN THIS CITY THAT COULD HAVE TRAGIC THINGS HAPPEN TO THEM.
i WISH YOU WOULD REMEMBER THIS AS YOU KEEP EVERYONE, iNCLUDING MYSELF, sAFE."

The Magpie clenched her fists and shook with fury.
"nOW, nOW, yOU REALLY SHOULD, uH, lEARN TO KEEP THAT TEMPER UNDER CONTROL."
He gestured at the doorway.
"yOU LEFT SUCH A DREADFUL MESS OUTSIDE.
iF YOU HAD JUST KNOCKED AND REQUESTED AN AUDIENCE WITH ME, i WOULD HAVE BEEN, uH, mORE THAN HAPPY TO MEET YOU."

Tavros pulled his dinner back in front of himself.
"bUT, uNFORTUNATELY, i AM OCCUPIED AT THIS TIME. bUT IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A, uH, cIVILIZED CONVERSATION WITH ME AT A LATER DATE-"
He paused for effect and took a sip of wine.
"-yOU KNOW WHERE TO FIND ME. hAVE A GOOD DAY, mA'AM."

And with that, she left as quickly as she had arrived. Tavros picked up the handset on the security radio and told his staff to allow the Magpie to leave without trouble.

He picked at his steak. It had gone cold during the conversation.

Pity.

He called up one of his butlers, who started to clean the mess left in the master's chamber. While this happened, Tavros rolled himself up to a display case that showed Alternia City and its surroundings in perfect three-dimensional detail, all the buildings, all the roads, even the trees in the parks, all in perfect scaled-down detail.

Next to this map was a complicated chess board not adorned with chess figurines, but small exquisitely detailed replicas of the city's major players. He reached into the case and retrieved the figurine of the CrowBro and looked it over. He turned around to the butler, who was preparing to leave the room and beckoned him.

"wOULD YOU, uH, pLEASE CONTACT MY FIGURINE MAKER?
i HAVE A NEW ORDER FOR THEM."

Notes because Preview showed a conversation going on while I wrote this:

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I agree completely that we need to avoid Mary Sue-ing Maggie.

I have no idea if I'm going that way with her because I haven't written a whole lot with a completely fan-made character to know what to avoid besides the "I'm beautiful/perfect/bestest/etc stuff".

Hopefully you all can help me avoid that with anyone I use in my fics, including canon characters.

EDIT: If you didn't know, the steak Tavros was trying to enjoy in this fic, wagyu, is really god-awful expensive beef.

[Stafykune]

durr where did my post go

anyway, does anyone think the major and minor characters are already seen? it's obvious that that nepeta, karkat, tavros, sollux, terezi, dave and eridan are the main stars of the AU. i don't think the rest are really that developed, especially aradia, kanaya, vriska (of all people), the rest of the kids, and equius. and even then, i still think the cops are kind of underdeveloped...i mean, i like that the villians/antagonists are all established and developed to the point it's genius but the protagonists/"hero group" still need some fleshing out.

i was thinking of drawing more aradia and kanaya later, so i'll contribute properly later.

[frostedWarlock]

durr where did my post go

anyway, does anyone think the major and minor characters are already seen? it's obvious that that nepeta, karkat, tavros, sollux, terezi, dave and eridan are the main stars of the AU. i don't think the rest are really that developed, especially aradia, kanaya, vriska (of all people), the rest of the kids, and equius. and even then, i still think the cops are kind of underdeveloped...i mean, i like that the villians/antagonists are all established and developed to the point it's genius but the protagonists/"hero group" still need some fleshing out.

i was thinking of drawing more aradia and kanaya later, so i'll contribute properly later.

Interestingly enough, in the dA RP, Dave, Tavros, Nepeta, Terezi, and Kanaya are the most developed while Eridan, Jade, Karkat and Vriska are secondary and everyone else is minor/nonexistant. And Kanaya doesn't even have an RPer yet.

[Metana]

Ok, so this is my first post, and I just want to say that you guys are awesome in all of the ways. All of them.

On the subject of Magpie(AKA my head canon):

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- She grew up watching/being told by Dave about Batman, That is why she does the Dark and troubled thing
- She tries to do the whole "no remorse for criminals" thing, but as we saw with the Nepeta story she isn't very good at that either
- She doesn't have the resources(Technonlogy to build chargers etc.) to use her energy sword and other tech for much longer, she knows this and keeps reminding herself to ration its use, but often fails to actually do so.
- She operates primarily in the lost district, hunting down the Secret Wizards
- When she is bored she goes into Detective Eridans room at night and moves stuff about, removing batteries from T.V. remotes etc. Just to mess with him.
- She tries to be dark and edgy, and at heart she really is, but she is just happy to be away from the reality she came from and fails at being dark and edgy.
- She thinks has an idea who Pupa actually is, she doesn't have enough evidence to back it up though.

My Head canon regarding other things:

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- Feferi has two superpowers, The water stuff we have seen, and Time management powers, but that is more mundane so nobody notices
- Rose and Kanaya own a clothing shop, I haven't thought of a snarky name yet though, Snowman shops there for her dresses and Rose sows tracking devices into all of the dresses she makes for her.(I know this contradicts a lot of established canon and all but it was too cute.)
- Sollux did have a large family, he was adopted when his lusus was killed early on in his life, his "siblings" were a mixture of Hybrids, Humans, Caracapeople and Trolls.
- Mayor WV has the most powerful artifact sealed away in a secret place, none of the gangs know about this
- Vriska runs a pirate gang, she rarely joins them on raids though, too many irons in the fire.
- Jade is a military researcher and a S.E.E.R. operative
- Gamzee actually has an artifact inside him, it distorts probablility so that he is surrounded by mIrIcAlEs almost constantly.
- Terezi is one of the best cops in town, to speak her name in the underworld is kind of like Voldemort in Harry Potter
- Kanaya is being watched by the police for links to the shadow organisation S.E.E.R. and Rose Lalonde in particular, Rose knows this and has been keeping her out of S.E.E.R. operations for a while now, Kanaya is not pleased.

Wow, Thats a long post. Sorry for any spelling errors.

[Redikalus]

@Wigmund: Wow, it's hard to tell the difference between Magpie and Tavros. Otherwise, good stuff.
@Metana: Your head canon is quite similar to mine. I like your idea of Terezi being She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

[Wigmund]

@Wigmund: Wow, it's hard to tell the difference between Magpie and Tavros. Otherwise, good stuff.

I know :\ I'm going to edit it so Tavros uses his quirks along with uhs and umms. I wanted to avoid all capping sentences like I have so far with Terezi and Karkat.

[KOACD]

No, I don't think we should make her klutzy.
If she was a klutz, she would screw up and still be powerful, but then she would need to be rescued.
MARY SUE
She would have to not be a Mary Sue the same way Dave isn't a Gary Drew.
He's just too cool to be one.

[frostedWarlock]

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Dual-Backstory of the Pupa and Dave (according to the Troll!CopsdARP)

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- Roughly two decades into the past, Bro is Don Strider and Dave is probably six. For reasons unknown, Bro was somehow directly the cause of Tavros getting arrested for something and sent to jail.
- Tavros is arrested and jailed without proper proceedings, as the prison is running secret child soldier-esque experiments behind the government's back.
- Kanaya, head of this project, takes a special interest in Tavros, and decides to have a lot more experiments done on him than usual.
- Tavros's legs get sawed off and replaced with faulty cybernetics that injure him whenever he moves. The mental stress causes his psychic powers to unlock, allowing him to control living things. However, controlling a complex mind physically hurts him, so he is forced to control animals.
- A little more than two years later, Tavros manages to escape the prison by controlling a lion at The Alternia City Zoo, causing at least seven deaths.
- The newspaper prints a story about the attack, and claims that Don Strider was one of the victims of a lion who somehow escaped from the Zoo. It is Dave's ninth birthday, and at this point he develops his hatred/fear of cats.
- Tavros, at this point developing the name Pupa, keeps Bro, who survived the attack, hostage, not knowing how to get the best possible revenge possible. The Pupa develops a hatred of Alternia City due to what it did to him.
- A week later, Dave is appointed as the new Don Strider, though he does not take on any actual mafia duties until he is much older. The Pupa begins setting up his powerful empire.
-- Skip years into the future (but not many)--
- At this point, Dave is in his late teens.
- The Pupa has kept Bro barely alive over the years as a form of torture, but decides this isn't enough. The Pupa decides to torture Dave, as this is possibly the only way to make Bro even more miserable.
- Dave, getting a little frustrated with the condition Alternia City is starting to develop, begins training to become a superhero.
-- Skip years into the future (but not many)--
- At this point, Dave is an adult, and it is the present.
- Dave has become The SeppuCrow, and has the allies of The Eldritch, EgbertMan, and SpaceLass. He flirts with the idea of a romance with Terezi.
- The Pupa decides to frame Don Strider for a massive heist, claiming as Tavros to being a witness of Dave robbing a whole jewelry store.
- Due to Don Strider's bad publicity, Sollux and Eridan almost immediately arrest him, but Terezi manages to convince them to hold off until they investigate further.
- A pair of iShades is found at the crime scene.
- As forensic research takes place, the SeppuCrow and Terezi work together, and eventually determine that Tavros is the Pupa. However, they lack any evidence and are believed by no one, so they are forced to stop investigating.
- The iShades are proven to have Dave's DNA on them. Terezi is only barely able to convince them to hold off the arrest.
- The Pupa calls Don Strider, telling him that he'll convince the police to drop the case if Dave is able to discover the identity of the SeppuCrow. If Dave tries to pull anything funny, he will instead kill innocent civilians, including Terezi.
- Dave, determining that the Pupa either wants to own or kill the SeppuCrow, decides to, as the SeppuCrow, call the Pupa and reluctantly pledges servitude in exchange for leaving Dave and Terezi alone. The Pupa is satisfied, as despite not getting the secret identity, he still has what he wants.
- The Pupa sends evidence proving Dave's innocence to the troll!Cops.
- Dave tells Terezi what happened and Terezi admits that she can't handle worrying about Dave anymore due to all the drama. She and Dave break up.
- Dave becomes suicidal and goes on a bender, during which he blabs his secret identity to SpaceLass and tells her his situation.
- SpaceLass decides to work on the Pupa case from behind the scenes to help Dave.
- The Pupa decides to force the Bandit Trio to live in the SeppuCrow's Lair, as he knows Karkat hates it when forced to do anything, but also because minions can't do a good job when living off of hobo-grade scraps.
- At some point, the Pupa tries sending in a stray cat to the Base with Nepeta to spy on SeppuCrow, but SC flips the fuck out. Jade discovers Dave's fear of cats and also the death of Bro. Jade decides to take the cat home with her and keep it as a pet until it's healthy.
- Karkat discovers two giant clawsickles in a pile of junk at the Lair, which were apparently a beta weapon for SC before he fully decided on his superhero identity. Karkat also snatches a backpack designed to give him heightened speed and jumping. SeppuCrow reluctantly teaches Karkat how to use both.
- The Pupa orders SeppuCrow and Weasel to go to the Lost District and steal some computers and files from an abandoned home. The Pupa intends to get information from famous roboticist Dr. Chiron.
- SeppuCrow and Weasel reluctantly work together and steal the items in an event that will get fleshed out when it actually gets shown in-story (read as: actually gets RPd).
- The Pupa discovers Jade's identity through the cat and holds it over SeppuCrow's head to taunt him.
- Dave tells Jade the news, but doesn't care that much because the way that Dave tried to break the news to her (inviting her to a fancy restaurant, sitting at a private booth, being nervous) made her think that he was trying to propose to her. This leads to an awkward conversation that eventually leads to Dave and Jade becoming a couple.
- Don Slick contacts Karkat, saying that if Karkat showed more initiative, his trio might get a formal invitation to work with the Midnight Crew, with full protection from the Pupa. Tavros catches wind of this somehow and decides to do something nice for once in an attempt to instill loyalty.
- The Pupa quickly learns that Pounce de Leon has been wandering the Lost District for three years, attempting to find Nepeta. He safely rescues her and eventually ships her to the SeppuCrow's Lair.
- Nepeta is pleased at this (though disappointed to discover Pounce's many scars and skinny frame). Dave flips the fuck out so much that he goes into a weird psychotic state where he acts like a feathery fucking asshole and starts going insane. Jade would've found it hilarious if it wasn't so seriously dangerous. The Pupa discovers that he can control humans as long as their mentality is literally animalistic and manages to use a psychic assault to snap Dave out of it.
- Rose (who learned Dave's secret identity through Jade) decides to try and help by attempting to get Dave past his fear of cats (not knowing about Bro's death). Rose's methods result in Dave falling into a coma out of a combination of extreme stress and fatigue. Rose and Jade discover that Dave has heavy dark bags under his eyes, and that he apparently hasn't had a good night of sleep ever since his bender.

And that's all there is so far. Originally there was a minor subplot where the Pupa framed Mindfang for framing Dave, but it never really panned out and was swiftly retconned away by me twenty minutes ago.

Edit: I just realized that this basically sums up everything that happened in the RP group so far. My impulsive idea to put Dave in a coma was a lot smarter than I initially thought.

[Mp3ii]

Wow these are horribly late but here are the title cards for As Luck Would Have It and Monoculler.

[Metana]

@Mp3ii Oh That is just awesome, I really like it.
@frostedWarlock I'm a bit confused by the whole Don Strider thing, was their a Strider mafia before the timeclones or were they Bro time clones? If the former what happened to them? If the latter then I guess that makes sense.

Someone should probably make a timeline of all the RP and Writing/Drawing stuff, Like when superheroes appeared and when the teapot mysteries took place in relation to all the other stuff.

Also I think Tavros/Pupa should probably have a villainous breakdown at some point because it would just be so good, I have no idea why though(maybe there is a damned army of Crowboobs in the lost district and he realises he had not planned for this?)

[KOACD]

[frostedWarlock]

In the dA Group, the Strider Mafia is not made of timeclones. I realized that having a character who is literally in multiple places at once would be impossible to play without either godmodding or suffering from plot-induced stupidity.

[KOACD]

These are awesome. I love the color schemes on the title things.

[frostedWarlock]

Fix'd.

[Metana]

Ah, that makes sense, besides I doubt the Smafia could survive only on Timeclones for obvious reasons, I was just a bit confused about the Smafia existing before the whole time-clones buisness, but I think that can be explained with time shenanigans(I.E. some timeclones went further back and told Bro to form the mafia in the first place)

[KOACD]

What if Pupa had multiple personalities and that's how he's been able to pull of the Tavros thing so well.

[KOACD]

Thanks, FW! :0 How did you do that?

[frostedWarlock]

Thanks, FW! :0 How did you do that?

Copy Image Location.

[KOACD]

Oh.
Sweet.

[Redikalus]

@Mp3ii: I love your style for the title cards! Keep em up.
@KOACD: Dapper and Evil indeed! Also a nice Gamzee.
@FrostedWarlock: I understand the need for an the RP's background for the Strider Mafia, but I still prefer the paradox clone origin because it's more fun to imagine and write fics about.

Speaking of fics, here's part 3 (part 1, part 2)

S.E.E.ing Double; part 3

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Sollux finally caught up with Feferi when the sun was setting. She was sitting on top of the monument, on what looked to be a two headed beast of some sort, in her usual Culler costume, waiting for him. Sollux walked up to the group of statues and was about to say something before Feferi cut him off.
O)( Officer Captor! It seems we meet again!
She giggled as she stood up.
look, feferii
Feferi corrected him, The CULL-ER!
Sollux sighed.
look, the culler, ii am, er, wa2 doing 2omething important and not iin the mood.
Feferi hopped over to the next nearest statue head and pouted.
Are you saying you don’t want to see me?
no, no, no, that’2 not iit.
it’2 just that ii wa2 workiing on an iimportan iinve2tiigatiion.
T)(en w)(y didn’t any one take over for you like t)(ey usually do?
Sollux hesitated, now the conversation was about to turn awkward.
becau2e… iim the only one who thiink2 iit2 iimportant to iinve2tiigate
If no one else t)(inks its important, then it must not be important.
Feferi slid down the monument and landed right next to him.
W)(at’s really going on sollux?
ju2t that iim iinve2tiigatiing 2omethiing that could briing down one of the gang2 and no one beliieve2 me and iit2 makiing me really fuckiing stressed
Feferi sighed, crossed her arms and turned her back to him.
The Seer was wrong about tonig)(t being a lucky nig)(t…
the 2eer?
ro2e!?
2he2 the one iim iinve2tiigatiing!
Sollux slapped his forehead with realization.
2he2 connected to the 2trider mafia and 2he2 maniipulatiing you to get me off her back!
2he2-
Feferi had whipped around and covered Sollux’s mouth with her hand.
Does Terezi t)(ink Rose is connect?
Sollux paused and then reluctantly shook his head. Feferi released his mouth and placed her hands on the sides of his head, bringing their faces closer together and whispered.
T)(en it sounds like someone is being paranoid.
Sollux blushed.
maybe youre riight.
Feferi began smiling again. But Sollux felt neither happiness nor relief. Years of working with Terezi on the most dangerous cases Alternia had given him a knack for knowing when something bad was about to happen, and right now, that feeling was going off like a fire alarm right next to his ear. Sollux acted quickly and created a small psionic burst in between Feferi and himself that blasted them back a couple feet each. He was not a moment too soon. As Feferi began to cry out with anger and dejection when a figure slammed into the ground right where Feferi was standing moments before. Feferi was right; tonight was not a lucky night. Sollux sprang up, ready for action and thought he recognized his attacker.
Crowbro?

*****

Don Strider was standing, with a good number of the Mafia behind him, before Rose Lalonde and the Alpha Dave in his Crowbro costume. It had been a long time since he had received direct communication with Rose. Don was one of the original paradox clones, and the only one that hadn’t met his doomed fate yet. This longevity had earned him the title of acting leader of the Strider Mafia, sending weekly reports to and only infrequently receiving orders from Alpha Dave and even more rarely from Rose. In fact, this was the first time she had spoken directly to him since they founded the organization. Don had never seen Rose mad before, but now she was downright furious with him.
Sorry? SORRY!? We lose a month’s work of gathering powerful artifacts and protecting them from the other gangs and all you have to say is ‘Sorry’?
look
we didnt know someone had swapped the contents
and since all crates were on 24 hour watches and no problems were reported
we didnt think to check
What I’m hearing from you only tells me that our thief came from inside the Mafia, or that our thief is so good that they outclassed a group of ‘time traveling ninjas’ to the point that you were not even aware something was wrong!
Something tells me that the latter is very unlikely!
Don began to sweat, Rose was right; the most likely scenario was that there was a traitor in the Strider Mafia. That was bad. Very, very bad. Like ‘disband’ the entire Mafia and start over bad.
give me the crate info and we can start investigating from there
Rose continued to glare at him as she recounted the details of the crate and what was supposed to be in it. As she finished, Don was sweating profusely and was wearing an expression face that showed surprise, realization and guilt. Rose caught on immediately.
Is there something that you have been forgetting to tell me Mr. Strider?
uh
that crate
was the crate that i was guarding personally
…
i think i know who stole it
There was a long, awkward pause.
Well?
it was…
oh you wont like this…
Oh?
we were attacked a couple nights ago
And you didn’t think to check the cargo you were protecting afterwards!?
well
the attacker didnt seem to be targeting the goods
just me
and it happened so fast that i didnt think she had a chance to grab the goods
The Alpha Dave spoke up.
so thats what happened to the missing striders
So who was it? Rose asked impatiently.
it was
…
Don continued to hesitate and then mumbled the last part.
our daughter.
Silence spread throughout the room as Rose and Alpha Dave just stared at him. The silence lasted for a full minute before Rose broke it.
What?
Don began to recall the whole ordeal of meeting Magpie, that she was from the future, that she attacked and killed a handful of men, that she was proficient with time trickery, that she didn’t give him ample opportunity to explain the Mafia, and that he had no idea who her mother was. Rose and Alpha Dave just stood there, silent until Don finished his story. Alpha Dave responded first.
and you didnt tell me before this
why
Don scratched the back of his neck.
like I said
we didnt realize she was stealing anything
and the weekly report is tomorrow
so i figured i would bring it up then
Rose walked up to Don, stared at him inscrutably, and then plucked a hair off of his.
ow
what the fuck
I’m going to send this to John.
Hopefully his Ecto-tracker can track her with her father’s DNA and not her mother’s.
Alpha Dave stepped up.
yeah
then we can track her down and get our stuff back
No.
what
No, I’m going to handle this myself.

Ugh, so long. This is alread about twice the size of my next biggest fic and it isn't even finished!

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Whoa KOACD, I really like your sketches! Your style is really great and I will always love more pictures of Gamzee.

Okay so I really don't care if Maggie Magpie is a Mary Sue or whatever, but cD, I think you made her look really tacky. Like, I can get you're trying to factor in the Jade derpiness/Terezi color-loving, but I really don't see any relative of Dave's dressing like that, ironically or not, so I did a sketch of how I see her: