MSPA Fanfiction VI: Trashy Rainbow Drinker Fanfiction

[ArcFour]

Okay, the first of the Heart classes, as promised. Here's the Prince!

1 – Prince

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You are the Prince of Heart, and you aren’t quite sure what the hell your Title is supposed to mean.

It’s like, what are you supposed to do, sit around and wait until you’re the King of Heart? And what do you do then, rule over the great and grand kingdom of Heart?

Seriously, it makes no sense.

But little about this Game does. Alchemiters and Denizens, Consorts and Dreamselves, Godtiers and Giant Freaky Frogs; Sburb is one big mass of confusion pretending to be a game when it’s obviously the creation of some mad inventor who went twenty-five feet off the deep end.

That’s an exact measurement, and you’re sticking to it.

But, despite this all, there’s one thing that really makes it all worthwhile.

The Maid.

You may not understand what your title meant, but hers fits her perfectly. A young maid, beautiful and sweet, and perfect in every way.

Except, of course, for the fact that she isn’t actually YOUR young maid. She’s someone else’s.

The Knight already had his claws (and you’ve never met him but you’re sure they’re claws) in her, and had suckered her in, drawn her into some sort of spell (with Sburb, anything was possible, after all). And the Bard been trying to convince you that it’s really just love, true love, and that if you looked elsewhere you might be able to find your own true love, but you think that maybe the Bard doesn’t have all her marbles in the right place.
You’ve decided to prove to the Maid that the Knight is no good for her. She deserves a Prince.

Time passes, and things change. The Game starts to make more sense to you, and you are beginning to have an inkling of what your title might mean.

You defeated him. You didn’t have powers, or magic, or science; you didn’t even really have skill. Just some dumb luck. But you stood victorious over his unconscious body, and turned to the Maid, sure that she would see now that the Knight was worthless.

Her face had contorted with rage, and as she went to attack you, weapon in hand, your heart broke. You considered, for a moment, one single, dark moment, doing something irreversible to her. Murder tempted your thoughts.

You turned them aside, and let her hit you.

You awoke in the arms of the Bard, crying her eyes out. You were bleeding, profusely, but even worse, you felt empty. You should be dead, but the Bard kept you alive, and you wondered why. Your mistakes, your arrogance, your jealousy, had just been laid bare in front of her eyes, in front of everyone’s eyes. Why had she bothered?

It took time for you to learn the answer to that. Time and some soul searching. The Knight had survived (though he would never fully recover), and the Maid had calmed herself before she killed you outright. The others despised you, and probably would, for a time.

All of the others, that was, except for the Bard.

She stood by you when others would have abandoned you, and cared for you as you recovered.

She was batty at times, perhaps, and maybe sort of awkward, but she was there for you when you didn’t deserve you.

You don’t show yourself to your team for days, but when you do, it’s with the Bard at your side, and repentance in your heart.

You are the Prince, and you’ve learned a harsh truth; that sometimes, your first choice, your first desire, is not the one that will bring you happiness. Sometimes, it is the second fate that will bring you what you are looking for. You have to accept that you were wrong.

In time, they will forgive. And in the meantime, you have the Bard at your side.

You think that maybe, you've found some measure of happiness.

Okay, yeah, it's pretty similar to Eridan in setup, but I had to have some of the Princes have happy endings, and this seemed one of the better ones to give it to.

So, next is the Witch!

[ArcFour]

Okay, so, while I was figuring out the Witch, I had an idea; let's see what you guys think of it.

Basically, for each Element set that I finish, I'll do one short based on a non-canon (that is, one that doesn't appear in Homestuck) class and element. So, to make my list of elements and titles, I used that handy dandy Character generator, and wrote down the first twelve unique elements and classes. Basically, you guys get to choose which class and which element I use for each short. The catches are this; first off, I will only do one short for each completed Element set (so, right now, I could do 2 to catch up, because I finished Time and Mind, but no more until I get Heart finished up). The second thing is that I will only use each unique element and class once, and the list won't change.

So, here's the list!

Classes:

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Squire
Corporal
Ninja
Intern
Duchess
Outlaw
Priestess
Scourge
Rebel
Forger
Chieftain
Baron

Elements:

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Umbrage
Kindness
Toil
Ego
Might
Self
Oath
Guile
Faith
Impact
Choice
Sound

So, place your votes, and remember, I'll only use each Class and Element ONCE. I'll write the two ones that get the most votes (or the ones I like best :P), and in the meantime I'll continue with the Heart set.

So, VOTE!

[ch00_bakka]

Forger of Sound. A ventriloquist, I suppose.

[Paosheep]

Bluuuuuuh. So much stuff. And it's all so gooood. Only two places in particular where I really have anything to say more than that, though.

First! @felicitousArtisan! You!

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I like your story, and I hope you keep at it, regardless of how canon decides to invalidate it. I feel like, at least for the characters you've used so far, you understand them and you treat them well. If you can do that in a fanfic, you've got a good start, and I hope you keep it up.

Two pieces of light concrit, though, one per chapter, to be taken or dismissed as you see fit: In the first chapter, I felt that John finding the trolls was a little abrupt. A little foreshadowing would have been nice. If John had been missing for a day or so, and his friends were just starting to wonder where he was when we messaged about the trolls, it would have been a little bit smoother transition. Or if, when John goes out on patrol, you closed out the scene with him seeing something strange on the horizon, or maybe he heard something weird in the wind, that would have done it for me, too. (Also, though this is more fridge logic than anything I noticed at the time, why did John just fly back home and go to sleep? That sort of news seems like the kind of thing I would get my friends out of bed for.)

And in chapter two, I had a bit of a crowd issue. When the kids and trolls met, it felt intensely awkward to me that the kids immediately found their patron trolls and started some moderately intimate conversations while everyone else just kind of stood there and shuffled their feet. In my mind, the first order of business would be finding some place to put everyone that wasn't on a mountain, and then maybe finding food, and then, once things were a little settled, splintering into smaller groups. That's what feels natural to me, but, maybe you'd do it how you wrote it, or, more precisely, maybe you feel like this group in this situation would do it the way you wrote it.

Just thought I'd throw my opinion out there. ^_^; Like I said, take it if you want it, or don't if you don't. It's your story, and you are the author.

Second! @ArcFour! You!

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I'm really impressed with what you're doing. I really liked the Time-series, but I was a little worried when you said you wanted to do ALL the aspects because... well, c'mon. 144 chapters in a story like this, even short ones, are probably bound to get a little repetitive. But you really wowed me with the Mind-series! (aside: how the heck did you write them so fast?!) Some of the characters you created for this series were just phenomenal, and if you do decide to write some callbacks in future series, I'd love to see more of the Page or the Witch of Mind's respective sessions. A part of me kind of wants to see something from the Prince's session, too, but I feel like that'd probably be cheating someone out of their deserved spotlight.

Or, if it's what you want, just keep doing new ones! If you can keep making characters that draw me in so well, I will be more than happy to read them. ^_^

One other thing I hope you keep doing: even if the Heir of Heart isn't "the same sort of awesome" as the other two Heirs, I still hope you'll save her for last, and I really hope that it will also be in first person. I really like the way the perspective shift closes out each series; it does funny tingly things to my spine when I read them all in a row.

(spoilered for oh my god I talk too much)




Edit: Oh, look! More ArcFour! My vote is definitely for the Scourge of Self, because I want to see how you would play it.
Or, failing that, the Scourge of Kindness, because I think that title is hilarious.

[The Black Watch]

@AceFour

I'm really enjoying these. And I'd love to see the Outlaw of Choice.

[ArcFour]

Okay, here is the Witch!

2 – Witch

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You are the Witch of Heart, and you don’t really understand your title.

You’ve done research, of course, but it seems to have come for naught. There’s a fair amount of information about Witches, but none of it seems to fit you. Seriously, Control without Understanding? That seems almost trite, and in no way applicable to you.

It doesn’t help that your title hasn’t actually given you any power. You Alchemized a nice Ring that’s allowed you to manipulate some pretty awesome powers, but your Title itself doesn’t give you a damn thing.

Your Page contacts you, but you brush him off. You used to love talking to him, but you are far too busy. This Game isn’t going to win itself, and you have to know your role if you’re going to fill it.

You continue your research as you explore your land, translating ruins full of writing and old tomes somehow written in a coded version of English. Others talk to you from time to time, but you ignore them. When your Page doesn’t stop bugging you, you snap at him. You feel bad, afterward, but you don’t apologize; the fate of at least one world is at stake, and you have to figure this out.

You bury yourself in the research; your waking hours are spent in ruins and fragments, and your dreams in the library of Prospit. You shun all contact, and find yourself becoming more vehement in your anger at interruptions.

But the Page won’t stop bothering you, and you find yourself getting angry.

You used to like him. Perhaps more than just like. But he just doesn’t seem to understand that right now, there are more important things going on. You have to focus, and you can’t with him bothering you at every turn.

So you say some things to him. They aren’t pleasant.

He stops contacting you.

You’re left in sweet silence, and you continue your work.

Work that, in the end, is useless. Sburb is a game designed not to be understood, and it foils your every move to work it out.

In the end, you break down. It’s over. It’s done. You’re tired, and you’re distraught, and you never want to read another word again.

So you try to find someone to talk to, but everyone is curt and tense with you. So you go to your Page.

He blocks you.

Distressed, you try to find him. Eventually, you do, but when he looks you in the eyes, there’s a coldness there that wasn’t there before.

He walks away without saying a word, and you realize you’ve lost something precious.

You are the Witch, and you’ve figured it out. You had it. You had a deep friendship that might have been something more, but because you couldn’t be bothered to understand, because you denied a distressed friend in need, you have lost it.

You stand in the fragments of a relationship you don’t think you can mend, and you cry, knowing that it’s your fault.

You know, eventually, I'm going to have to have a HAPPY Witch. >_>

So, notes!

@Ch00: Ahahah, that would be awesome. Forger of Sound will definitely get my vote! Definitely not what I assumed would be picked first; I figured people would choose Ninja or Rebel, hehe.

@Paosheep: Wow, thanks Pao! Yeah, I think that it's a bit of a crazy goal, but that's half of the fun of it, aye? That's why I'm trying to do some of the harder ones first, like Heart, that way I can finish off with the fun ones, like Breath and Doom. And I have no idea how I'm writing them so fast; I seem to be on a roll, hehe. One thing I might do at a later date is pick some of the better shorts and expand them into full stories, but I'm not sure yet. If I do, though, I suspect that the Witch of Mind would definitely be one of them; she has a lot of potential! Also, as for the Heir of Heart, you're hope is correct; all of the Heirs are the last of their sets, and all of the Heirs are first person. Mostly because it does tingly things to my spine too! xD Also, Scourge of Self sounds difficult, but possible. And Scourge of Kindness sounds hilarious.

Also, It occurs to me that while I've had dark stories, sad stories, happy stories, and triumphant stories, I haven't had any funny ones.

THAT WILL SOON CHANGE.

Because there's no way I'm not making the Mage of Heart funny. And, luckily for you all, it'll be fourth in the Heart set. BEWARE.

And hey, keep voting for the non-canon stories, guys! After I write this next one (the Page), I'll be writing whichever two votes catch my fancy.

But I do suspect that Forger of Sound is one of them. ^_^

[Dermonster]

No chaos

Yeah, scourge of kindness sounds neat, but it would probably me a sorta reversal thing.

I vote Intern of Might!

[ArcFour]

3 – Page

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You are the Page of Heart, and that makes no sense to you.

Matters of the Heart have never really made sense to you, anyway. You suspect you know the reasons why (and words like ‘abandonment issues’ and ‘unwanted child’ bounce around in your head, but you ignore them), but knowing the reasons why doesn’t solve the problem.

You find your friends barely tolerable, at the best of times, though you admit that your life would be considerably more boring without them around to talk to. And then there’s that annoying girl who is always far too comfortable with being intrusive (though a part of you knows that ‘inquisitive’ is not the same as ‘intrusive’, and you ignore this as well).

She asks about your life (boringly rich), your hobbies (alarmingly few), and your guardian (you don’t talk about your Aunt, and you tell her so sharply), but when your curt answers are given, she simply gives a little text *shrug* and starts talking about her own life.

You know everything about her, it seems, but you understand nothing, and not understanding makes you even more terse, and a little ruder with each conversation.

It doesn’t deter her.

When Sburb comes, it is a pleasant distraction. You never cared for the world, and the few people that you might have felt distraught at losing are right here with you.

And with the Game comes something that you’ve lacked; privacy.

Your server doesn’t bother you, and most of the others are too busy with their own issues to bother you, even the annoying girl, and you find yourself pleasantly alone (though a part of you wonders what the girl might say about your consorts, or your planet, or your title, and you surprise yourself with the fact that you already know what she would say, but you ignore the thoughts telling you that maybe you understand her more than you thought).

You get stronger, you fight, and for a time you don’t hear from the annoying girl.

And strangely (though you always expected it, and you ignore the thought again), you find yourself missing her text.

So, for the first time in the whole time you’ve known each other, you contact her first.

You’re curt and rude, of course; not that much has changed. But she hasn’t changed either, and she’s still as brightly undeterred by your attitude as ever.

You end the conversation quickly, but you soon find yourself missing her text once more. So you contact her again.

It’s strange, this dialogue you have with her. You are short and rude and not a very nice person, but you keep coming back to her, and she never seems to mind (and you know why. It’s harder to ignore this thought.).

Then something changes.

You contact her, but instead of her typical happy response, all you get is two words.

It hurts.
You panic, and in panicking something within you breaks through.

You verbally tear through your friends until you figure out her location, and as soon as you do you go. You find her surrounded by monsters and in pain, and you descend (like a fiery chariot, like a guardian angel, like someone with something dear to protect, and you can’t ignore the words any longer).

They die, and you hold her dying body in your arms.

You know what to do.

You’ve figured out much about the game, and you know about the Beds. You take her to her own.

She passes away as you place her on the bed, and you can only hope you got there soon enough.

Your answer comes in a flash of light, as she Rises Up.

She soon finds you, and you can’t find it in yourself to be snide at the black hooded pajamas she’s wearing. You think that might be progress on your part.

You are the Page, and you must learn the Lessons. But some lessons require a Teacher, and you are lucky to have found yours.

You take her hand, and you don’t plan on letting go.

So, a happy one, if odd. Most of the Pages will be pretty positive, in the end, methinks.

Also, this character seems very funny to me. Almost like a more sophisticated Karkat or something, hehe.

So, my next short will be the Forger of Sound; in the meantime, voting is still out for the second one! So far, I see Outlaw of Choice, Scourge of Self, and Intern of Might. Place your votes, folks, while you still can!

[armeggedonCounselor]

Oh gog that witch. I wanna give her a hug. She needs a hug.

Why do I have such a thing for broken girls?

[ArcFour]

Okay, here's the Extra class for the Time set; the Forger of Sound!

Classes of Time Bonus: The Forger of Sound

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You are the Forger of Sound, and you understand the Noise.

It’s interesting, really, how much of the world is made up of Noise. Ambience and white noise calm the mind and soothe the senses, and if removed, put the listener on alert. It’s like when the fridge motor kicks off, or an idling car stops, or the drip in the faucet stops dripping.

You’ve understood the power of Noise for a long time.

Sburb calls you the Forger, but you don’t just have the ability to mimic Noise where there is none; you have the ability to keep people from hearing the Noise that should be there. You can create the ambiance, and you can remove it, at will.

It’s so amazing, what a simple change in background sound can do to a person. An alert person can be lulled to close his eyes for a few seconds, an idle person can be persuaded to look for a sound that isn’t there, and when done right, even the most stable of people can be frightened out of their boots by nothing but Silence.

And when you enter the game, it makes you a terror.

When you’re awake, you play the game like normal, depending on your Lazer Yo-Yo. Alchemizing is awesome. And, mostly, you avoid using your power.

But when you sleep, that’s when the fun begins.

Your dreamself is in Derse, and you know exactly how to create the perfect sort of ambiance to make you completely inconspicuous. Nothing to see here, folks.

You sneak right into the castle, and you begin your reign of terror.

Carapace people find themselves unable to sleep; odd sounds echo in the halls, slight scratched inside what should be solid stone, and an occasional strange wail, cut off at its peak.

In the day, work is interrupted by occasional crashes, moods ruined by strange, nearly undetectable buzzing noises, and already tired carapaces are lulled to sleep when they should be busiest.

Within days, everyone in the castle is useless, and you’re still perfectly undetected. Within a couple of weeks, Derse is in chaos, and you are in control in the shadows.

Your crowning moment, however, has to be the Queen.

You interrupted her sleep the most, and even with her mighty prototypings she was unable to discover it’s source. Most of your manipulations were subtle, and soon the Queen is constantly irritable, and even deadly to be around. But the best moment, by far, would be her last on Derse; irritable, tired, and on edge, she takes a wrong turn and bumps into certain, specific button.

That button had no right to be there, but you had made sure that certain documents were signed by tired, uncaring workers, and certain orders were misheard by distracted builders, and certain plans misread by angry, irritable engineers.

The button itself was connected to a specific machine. A teleporter, to be precise, placed under the feet of the very same Queen who had bumped into the button.

The teleporter led directly into an errant asteroid in the Veil, accidentally sent on its way towards Skaia by a strange combination of events involving wet blueprints, explosives, and one loud bang behind the demolitions expert.

The Queen found herself Exiled from your session due to a hilarious string of mishaps, mistakes, and misdemeanors, all masterminded by you.

It was Glorious.

You are the Forger, and you’re a goddamn master.

Okay, I found this one hilarious. It wasn't what I planned on writing when I started, but it was too fun not to do.

So, thanks to ch00 for the choice!

And, folks, as for me, I'm going to head to bed. Tomorrow morning will be the Mage of Heart, and whatever I choose for the Mind Set Extra Class. Enjoy, all!

[ch00_bakka]

"You're a goddamn master". Oh yes. That is awesome. So awesome. I laughed. ArcFour, you need to keep writing these. You are the goddamn master. You are like the King of Fics or something.

[SkaianRedeemer]

Is the voting done? Good, I didn't want to interrupt.

Okay, I'm out of town today, so am forced to post this in the middle of nowhen, but:

Scratch the Thread

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Echidna slithered back and forth about her chambers. Soon. It was all but time. Soon they would come to scratch the Fanfic thread.

She had to think this through very carefully! She had already planned on her side of the bargain, to subtly embed herself in the next thread and sow seeds of discord and destruction among them (she would make Denizenshipping a thing or die trying), but now she had to come up with a way to make their next session stronger. In a subtly destructive and faustian way, of course!

But the faustian touch could wait. She was having trouble as it was coming up with a way to make the thread technically better. What was "better," anyway? Obviously they had failed to kill the Black King with their fics but she was sort of under the impression that that was a stupid plan. They would be far more effective trying to kill him with a ventriloquism thread, but that wasn't her call. So what to do?

What about a universe where character swap fics were far more common? Where Sionnan writes about Vriska's lusus' struggling, yet touching, relationship with her charge, in between chews. Or where Red Pen writes The End and What Came After, detailing the scullduggery at John Egbert's job as a data entry clerk.

No no no! That's ridiculous. There's no way she could add a more hellish touch to minimum wage! Echidna took pride in her personal touch and no one was going to mess with it! Maybe she should focus on some way to increase the overall hit count. What about blatant, hit-farming gimmicks? People love gimmicks! Though it would be hard to restrain it to the forums. adamantApoplectic would write Red Dead Virgo: The Choose Your Own Adventure. With 413 branching endings, it would take a while for anyone to realize how many end with Kanaya slipping into a puddle of tragic loneliness. And draconicAlgorithm would surely create Wizardstuckmore, where readers could be sorted into houses, play minigames, and read an exhaustive timeline explaining exactly when the fic is actually set.

She could try another one of her patented players/guardians swaps. Yes! She could make Homestuck the forgotten older fic and Problem Sleuth the one everyone is writing about! Not much would change. Jim Groovester would still be writing a fic about the early adventure's initial premise played straight: John and Rose's Let's Play The Sims 3. And SkaianRedeemer would be knee deep in a 150 000 word epic about life in a 30's space brothel with full details on the social consequences of never knowing if you're picking up your purse or a live canister of napalm, complete with Pighearst intermission, fourty-three drabbles and a collectable card game, updated bi-annually.

Or maybe she could just swap out the characters and the authors. She didn't want to suffer through Dave and Terezi's poorly illustrated depiction of a Prohibition-Era AU starring Decker as the enterprising rum-runner (the red blob) and invalidGriffin as the rookie cop (the teal blob), but surely things would come out on top in the end.

Of course they wouldn't. Who was she kidding? It was times like this she just wished she could create a new universe with a lower western age of consent. After all, pornography is the crude, lard-filled lifeblood of hit-baiting. As a monster programmed to mislead children to their mutilated deaths, she was not exactly bound by conventional morality. Unfortunately it still went against her core programming, where just before the line about disembowelling, a line of AI code told her that children were in no circumstances to be allowed on beds. She had never quite understood if the second line was meant only in context of the previous, but did not want to chance it.

Ah! Disembowelling. Of course. It was so obvious. She could just to the Troll Thing again. Doc Scratch would have the next generation murdering themselves into a caste system based on writing skill in no time. Sure, ArcFour's series would be limited to a 12-part series entitled Just Rage, Really but that was a fair price to pay for watching them all tear one another apart over a pencil.

Ah, Echidna loved her job.

But seriously.

Page 98 and a half. I don't imagine many of you here today were with us when we all survived the Great Party of Thread V over half a year ago (really?), so I'm here as a representative of the Fanfic Fogeys guild to tell you how this is going to go down. This is the part where we all shout out gag names for Thread VII, in fear that any fic we post will end up being ignored as everyone else shouts out gag names for Thread VII. Now I advise you all to think this through because this thread was significantly lacking in Trashy Rainbow Drinker Fanfiction. Fanfic thread. I am disappoint.

...*sniff* No I'm not. I'm ashamed. This is as much my fault as anyone's! I have to fix this before it's too late.

Smoulder

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"No, Countess Arachnia!" She threw herself in the way of her beloved. "Do not expose yourself to the moonlight, or they shall see you for what you really are!" Time was running out. Already, the telltale sign of Troll Day-Glo was gleaming off of Arachnia's heaving Troll Aphrodite-esque bosom. She interposed herself between them. Only the truth could stop Arachnia now. "I think," she said, "we both know that the only one you should be exposing yourself to..."

"...is me."

That's better.

Anyway, don't nobody kill themselves. First to page 100 wins a priiiiiiiize.

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(The prize is work.)

"She interposed herself between them." ...Wait, what?

[Paosheep]

Very nice, Skaian! But, just for the record, I always thought it was painfully obvious that Echidna and Typheus were totally... you know...



going steady.

[SkaianRedeemer]

Very nice, Skaian! But, just for the record, I always thought it was painfully obvious that Echidna and Typheus were totally... you know...



going steady.

-- monsterMom began brooding over Doomed Threadline ---

MM: someone needs hints about commitment!!!!
MM: and he needs to stop hiding under mountains whenever there's work to be done and coming of age storylines to mysteriously support or derail!!

-- sisyphianSeabeast began brooding over Doomed Threadline ---

SS: Mother, with all due respect, these sort of juvenile, subversive, fanfiction-based tactics demean us all.
MM: now don't get me started on you little miss!!
SS: For goodness' sake, Hephaestus and I are just busy with work.
MM: fish eating and sword fetching aren't work! now what about the nice denizens from the last session??
SS: Last I inquired, they did not even have names, and are by all definitions...
SS: Now how do I put this...
SS: "Dead."
MM: don't be silly you can just date a non-canon denizen!

-- ferociousFrostbite began brooding over Doomed Threadline ---

FF: madam, while i appreciate the v0te 0f confidence
FF: this j0ke is t00 0bscure t0 even be ir0nic

[Jim Groovester]

Fanfiction VII: Doc Scratch's Bedtime Stories
Fanfiction VII: The Trashy Rainbow Drinker Fanfiction Saga: Trilunar Solar Obfuscation
Fanfiction VII: The Gospel of the Signless, Her Imperial Condesce's Version
Fanfiction VII: A Hand in Holding Hands Won't Finish in This Thread Either
Fanfiction VII: When MSPA Isn't Enough MSPA

She could try another one of her patented players/guardians swaps. Yes! She could make Homestuck the forgotten older fic and Problem Sleuth the one everyone is writing about! Not much would change. Jim Groovester would still be writing a fic about the early adventure's initial premise played straight: John and Rose's Let's Play The Sims 3.

Oh man that would be a terrible fic oh wait I wrote about it for some reason.

John and Rose's Let's Play The Sims 3, Part 55

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-- ectoBiologist [EB] began pestering tentacleTherapist [TT] at 17:30 --
EB: rose, what are all these tombstones doing out here?
TT: ...
TT: Why do you ask?
EB: they're kinda creeping me out.
EB: they came from nowhere.
EB: and i don't remember my house being a graveyard before.
TT: Are you certain you don't like them?
TT: I think they add a nice touch.
EB: and how come they're all around this pool that only has a diving board?
EB: or inside that shack with the fireplaces and end tables and no door leading outside?
TT: Don't worry about them. They're nothing.
TT: Although if you know what's good for you, you won't wander downstairs after six o' clock.
EB: how come?
TT: No reason.
TT: Anyways, you need to work out for the next ten hours on the exercise machine until you're ready to collapse from exhaustion. And then you need to get four hours of sleep and work another ten hour day after that.
EB: awwwww, not again!
EB: rose, can we play something else? this isn't even fun anymore.
EB: it's starting to feel a lot like...
EB: well, work!
TT: John.
TT: I take your success very seriously, even if you don't.
EB: fine.
EB: mumble grumble stupid caring friends.
TT: That's a good boy.

[sebastian]

Okay, so, while I was figuring out the Witch, I had an idea; let's see what you guys think of it.

Basically, for each Element set that I finish, I'll do one short based on a non-canon (that is, one that doesn't appear in Homestuck) class and element. So, to make my list of elements and titles, I used that handy dandy Character generator, and wrote down the first twelve unique elements and classes. Basically, you guys get to choose which class and which element I use for each short. The catches are this; first off, I will only do one short for each completed Element set (so, right now, I could do 2 to catch up, because I finished Time and Mind, but no more until I get Heart finished up). The second thing is that I will only use each unique element and class once, and the list won't change.

So, here's the list!

Classes:

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Squire
Corporal
Ninja
Intern
Duchess
Outlaw
Priestess
Scourge
Rebel
Forger
Chieftain
Baron

Elements:

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Umbrage
Kindness
Toil
Ego
Might
Self
Oath
Guile
Faith
Impact
Choice
Sound

So, place your votes, and remember, I'll only use each Class and Element ONCE. I'll write the two ones that get the most votes (or the ones I like best :P), and in the meantime I'll continue with the Heart set.

So, VOTE!

Damn, they all sound interesting, but two out of the bunch

Scourge of Self

and Forger of Choice

[Graven_Image]

MSPA Fanfiction VII: There were 6 before this 1, 2.

[Dermonster]

MSPA Fanfiction VII: Seriously everyone here is a huge dork.
MSPA Fanfiction VII: MY EYES, THEY BURN!
MSPA Fanfiction VII: You cannot grasp the true headcannon.

[ArcFour]

MSPA Fanfiction VII: And It Was Good
MSPA Fanfiction VII: Moirails and Auspistices and Kismeses, Oh My
MSPA Fanfiction VII: I Don't Think We're In Alternia Anymore, Totobeast
MSPA Fanfiction VII: Here To Write Fics And Chew Bubblegum

(also, I will be writing the Scourge of Self as the Mind Set's Extra Class. Thanks for voting, folks!)

[billybobfred]

MSPA Fanfiction VII: Spoilers, Everyone Dies

[unrepentantCreeper]

My vote goes for any seemingly contradictory element/class pairing. Baron of Self, Seer of Rage...

[ArcFour]

Well, luckily for you, uC, the Seer of Rage will actually be one that I write, eventually. I'm considering doing the Rage classes after Heart.

[ch00_bakka]

MSPA Fanfiction VII: Show Them Your Scripts
MSPA Fanfiction VII: These Fics Are Diamonds
MSPA Fanfiction VII: <Insert Imaginative Name>
MSPA Fanfiction VII: I'm A Writer, Not A Doctor!

[appositeNautilus]

Have to confess, I'm not much for those Class titles, most of them just seem like variations on the theme of the canon 12. I like the idea of a Priestess of Ego though.

Heartfics so far have been...interesting. Don't want to explain why until I get further with my altsession epic. But yes. Liking.

MSPA Fanfiction VII: Get A Fucking Pen
MSPA Fanfiction VII: Dope Tales. So Dope.
MSPA Fanfiction VII: We're Going To Need More Buckets

[ArcFour]

@aN: When you say 'class titles', are you talking about the non-canon choices up there? (Priestess and Outlaw and such?) If so, yeah, some of them seem pretty similar, but I just picked the first twelve unique ones to come up ^_^. Also, you've got me interested/apprehensive now; hurry up with your altsessionfic so that you can explain! :P

Is your altsession epic up somewhere for reading? I'd like to read it, if so!