MSPA Fanfiction VI: Trashy Rainbow Drinker Fanfiction

[ch00_bakka]

Man, ArcFour, these are just epic. So epic. Do you know what element you're going to do after Mind?

[ArcFour]

Thanks, Ch00! I was thinking of doing Heart next, if only because it'll be pretty different (most of them don't have special powers, in my headcanon). After that, I had a good set of ideas for Hope and then Life. I figure if I do the hard ones first (heart, blood, life, hope, rage), it'll make doing the easier ones more fun (breath, void, light, doom, space). Have any specific title requests? I don't have to do them all in order, after all.

[armeggedonCounselor]

Actually, the Bard as Historian works really well. We think of bards as songwriters and poets, but they were, before that, the keepers of history. They wrote down what happened, and made it into a story. Usually in poetic form, mind you.

So yeah. That may in fact have been intentional, I realize, but....

[Dermonster]

What about chaos? I'd like to see a Mage of Chaos. (No, none of the Homestuck characters have this aspect, but that doesn't mean there are only the 12.[There's a sburb random role/aspect creation thing somewhere and I liked the sound of mage of chaos.])

[ArcFour]

Okay, here's the Thief!

9 – Thief

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You are the Thief of Mind, and it is all yours. Every goddamn bit of it.

From the smallest to the greatest, the weakest to the mightiest, the minds of all who oppose you are yours to command.

It’s like a dream come true; to take, and in taking, grow. To grow, and in growing, change. To change, and in changing, become who you were meant to be. Who the Clouds always told you that you would be.

You grew up poor and pathetic, beaten down by a World that didn’t care. But you always knew what was coming, and so you waited. The Game comes, and the World ends, but you’ve always known (and never cared anyway), so there’s no surprise for you, only a vehement anticipation of the spoils to come. In the End, it’ll be your World, anyway.

Your friends start out frightened, but you expected that. They didn’t dream of this. This is all brand new to them. But you’ll bring them into it, and if you have anything to say about it, they’re going to be as good as you.
This game, and its rewards, is yours and theirs alike, in the end.

You enter the game, and are given the Title you always knew you would have. And with it comes power.

And so you Take.

You build your army slowly. A few imps here, and a few there. You can’t Take them all, however; you have to climb the echeladder, after all. But you Take, and sequester them, and you build your army.
Soon you progress further. Ogres and basilisks, of all shapes and sizes, join your army. Soon come others, carapace people from either side of the conflict, and they, too, are Taken.

And soon, as you always knew you would, you find your Quest Bed. You take your own life there, and you Rise Up.

All according to plan.

Immortal, and even more powerful than before, you Take another; the fabled White Queen of Prospit.

With her at your side, you kill the White King, and give his scepter to the Black King. Suspicious, but willing, he initiates the Reckoning.

Just as you wanted.

The White Queen is not as strong as her Derse counterpart, but with the power of your army at her back, she defeats the Black Queen handily.

Then, you Take the Black King, last of the Derse Royals. And, as your dominion over the Medium seems complete, you execute the second to last step of your plan.

You exile your whole army, bit by bit, onto the ruined, forsaken Earth.

Your team, nervous at the actions they have watched you do, but unknowing of the true scope of your plan, play their way through the Game, and slay their Denizens. They create the Ultimate Alchemy, and prepare to enter the Doorway into the World they had created.

They open the Door, and it’s there, waiting. But you don’t go through. You Take them, but only for a few moments; just long enough to walk them through the door, and close it, forever, behind them.

You turn, and fly away, to the last, solitary asteroid of the Veil. You watch it draw ever closer to Skaia, and soon, Skaia opens one last portal to save itself.

You Exile yourself to Earth, ruined and devastated, and smile as you survey the sands.

Your Army is scattered, at the moment, but they will find you.

Your People are lost, but they will come to you in time.

Your Nation is fledgling, and it will take time to strengthen. But you have the Eternity of Godhood behind you.

You are the Thief, and you know the Prize. But the Prize was far greater than just a Mind, for that was simply the means to an even greater Prize. You knew the true Reward to be obtained, and you Took it.

The World is Yours. Every goddamn bit of it.

Long Live the King.

So, yeah, mostly the Thieves are going to be on the darker/less successful side. By nature the Thief seems like it would be a difficult class to make work within the team, especially since it usually is more than just related to skill, it's an indicator of personality. But some of them win, and some of them will win BIG. Just like this fella here.

@Armeggedon; Haha, yeah, actually, that was exactly the thought process that we came up with. Most of the Bards in this will be the typical, song playing ones, but at least one had to be History related, and because I had already written the Bard of Time (I suppose I could rewrite it, but meh), I chose Mind. Good job on catching that! Also, I'd like to thank shieldman for his help on figuring these out; the Bard was one of the ones we hammered out together.

@Dermonster; Chaos would be cool, I admit, but I see a lot of that in both Doom and Void (it wouldn't be impossible to make it, of course, but yeah). Also, the way I figured, with twelve classes and twelve elements, that's 144 titles to write. I've got plenty to write before I start making up classes and elements whole cloth, hehe. However, I might do a batch of 'non-canon' elements and classes. That would be fun! If I do, Mage of Chaos will be first.

Also, as before, if anyone has any of the titles on the list they'd really like to see sooner rather than later, let me know!

[Dermonster]

Thanks, I mostly ask because of a game on another forum. As for mind, the page please! Save Heir for last.

[SilverKunama]

I liked writing Heart.

But sure. I had a spoiler full of plans for most of the titles, you can pick and choose from it if you want, I guess.

[ArcFour]

Yay! Thanks, Silver!

And yes, the Page is next. In fact, here it is!

10 – Page

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You are the Page of Mind, and you think that maybe, just maybe, you can do this.

You’ve never been intelligent. You’ve never been clever. You’ve never been cunning. You’ve spent your life trying to be more than what you are, but mostly you fail.

You can’t read quickly; it doesn’t come to you well, and every word feels like a struggle.

You aren’t good with numbers; anything beyond basic addition and subtraction causes your mind’s gears to grind, and it all seems to stop.

You aren’t really intelligent at all. You’ve been called stupid, and dumb, and a million other things. You’re slow. But you still try.

Because your Dad never called you slow. He’s never called you dumb. He’s never called you stupid. He might be bound to a wheelchair, but he still tries and succeeds at what he wants to do, and he’s taught you to do the same.

So you try, because that’s what your Dad would do. You try so goddamn hard, but the words still won’t flow, the numbers still fog your mind, and all you can think of is ‘slow, slow, slow’.

Then the Game comes.

Your friends are terrified, but also excited. You’re just terrified. They’re smart. They’re capable. They will do well in the Game, but you? You’re going to fail, hard.

But knowing that you’re going to fail doesn’t stop you from trying. Because that’s what your Dad always taught you, right?

Page of Mind, the game called you, and it feels mocking; pages have never brought you anything good, nothing but molasses words and foggy numbers. And Mind? It makes you laugh. Even the Game is making fun of you.
But.

But for all that, you still give it your best shot. You have a Bat, and you aren’t very good with it, but pretty soon the Imps stop bothering you, and soon after that the Ogres start looking a little wary, and something in you glows at that.

Then you find the puzzles.

To progress through your world you’ve got to solve these goddamn puzzles, and everyone knows you’re too stupid to figure it out, but your friends are too busy solving their own puzzles, so you sit down and stare at them. There are great big walls full of text, clues and instructions for the puzzles ahead, but you can’t make heads or tails of it, because you’re too goddamn slow.

But you sit anyway, and you read.

The reading comes slow, but it does come. A few hours, perhaps, or longer, but bit by bit the words start to come together. The clues start to jump out at you, and when they do, you give a little shout of joy.

You follow the clues into the next puzzle, and of course it’s number, it had to be numbers, because the Game is still mocking you. But you sit anyway, rock in hand, and start drawing on the floor. The rock leaves a nice white trail, and you start trying to make sense of the numbers. You have to scuff out a lot of what you write when you get things wrong, and soon almost the whole floor of the large room is covered in white markings that are hardly making sense, but there’s a picture here, there’s an answer starting to pull itself together, and you can feel it. So you try.

And you succeed, and something in you is glowing.

It brings you to the next step, and the next, and the next, and it takes time, lots and lots of time, but your knowledge almost seems to grow with it. Reading starts to become easier; it’s still slow, but sentences and words almost start putting themselves together. The numbers become more difficult, but you have a big floor, a good rock, and lots of time, so you scribble and write and calculate as best you can. You screw up a lot, but you’ve got time.

You haven’t contacted your friends in a while, but when you do, you find that they’re all stuck, befuddled by the quest their planets give them. It shocks you to realize that you have been succeeding, actually progressing, where even your friends could not.

So you decide to go help them. You’ve got one more puzzle left on your own planet, but you’ve got friends to help as well, and for once you feel like maybe you can actually do this.

You have time, and you might not be smart, but you’re persistent. And maybe that’s what matters.

You are the Page, and you have been learning the Lessons. What you were not given freely, you can gain with Experience. And with Experience you can wield your gift with Wisdom, because you know what it’s like to Lack.

And you think you’re making your Dad proud.

There we go! The Witch is up next, here pretty soon. And this evening I hope to have the Heir up. Yay!

Also, yeah, if anyone has any ideas for how to do a Title or anything like that, go ahead and let me know! I may be the one writing it, but figuring it out has been a group process for a number of them. If you have ideas, weigh in!

[ArcFour]

Okay, here we go; the Witch!

11 – Witch

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You are the Witch of Mind, and you don’t really understand anymore.

You thought you had it all worked out. All of your life you’ve been tossed around by your so called ‘friends’. They’ve taken everything from you; your dignity, your leg, your lusus. They’ve blamed you, and used you, and taken you for all that your worth, and had the gall to call you scum when you reacted in kind.

But then the Game came, and you were given hope.

You have Control, now. You started with the Imps, and while it was good practice, they were worthless for your own schemes.

You had a Plan, and you were going to Make Them Pay.

You could be overt about it, but no, that would be too easy. You wanted them to tear each other apart, but that would be tricky. You’d have to be subtle.

You Controlled your Knight, and made her say a few select words to your Rogue, and as you relinquished control, watched the argument you started last for an hour. Here you Manipulated your Seer as she was about to advise the Mage, and made her give information that was just slightly off. The Mage was injured, and he blamed the Seer.

You continued to do this; you sowed discontent among your team (and with fourteen of you there, there was much discontent to sow), placing arguments, giving snide remarks, creating disinformation, and soon your whole group was in disarray. Within days, they were ready to tear each other apart.

But then it all changed.

Within the course of an hour, the arguments you had worked so hard to start, the relationships you had worked so hard to destabilize, the mistakes you had tried to cause them to make, all seemed to disappear. Somehow they clued into the fact that there was an outside force working on their minds, and when that happened, they all turned to you.

You denied it, but they knew, and you couldn’t figure out how they knew, how they figured it out so quickly.

Your leader says it was because you didn’t understand.

Understand what?

Understand them. Understand their personalities, their quirks, their lives. You didn’t understand all the little things that made them who they were, and so your manipulations quickly fell. To manipulate, you have to know, and you didn’t.

You tell him that you understand perfectly well. All of them, every one, is despicable and vile, and your Control was perfect, bringing out the worst of them against each other, brought out the hatred that they had all leveled out against you. You understood them better than they understood themselves.

He looks sad, and that makes you furious. Why should he look sad? You don’t want his pity. You want his heart on a platter, and you wanted it to be subtle, you wanted a grand plot of machinations and wheels within wheels to bring them to their knees, but you can settle for less.

You can settle for ripping it out yourself.

So you charge forward, but he’s much faster than you, and you fall to the ground, stunned. He binds you with something, like chains, but more so, more than just physical, and you feel your power fall away.

And you don’t understand.

You are the Witch, and you had Control, but you lacked the Understanding to bring your own schemes to completion. You don’t understand, and so you fall.

How could it all have gone so wrong?

This went so much better than the Witch of Time, let me tell ya.

So, later on will be the Heir of Mind! Dun dun DUN!

[Unibear]

ArcFour these are just great. i love lore in video games and this is a damn good example of how it should be done.
:3 Do you know what element you'll do next?

[ArcFour]

Thanks, Unibear! I'm doing Heart next, I'm pretty sure. It won't have as many "EPIC POWER CHARACTERS", and instead will focus on the Personal Destinies of the players and how their Title reflects that.

My theory on titles is that, while some of them indicate Powers (like the Thief of Mind), others indicate Grand Destinies (aka, their place within the game, like the Knight of Time, meant to use Time as a weapon to defend his team), and a few indicate Personal Destinies (destinies that really don't matter to the game, but are important to the players). A good example of that is Gamzee; he doesn't get any of his strength, his insanity, or his MiRaClEs from his Title. Instead, his Title was merely a clue that he had been, through sopor, subduing the Rhythm of his Blood, his Rage, his Birthright, and eventually, that Rhythm would make him dance to its Tune. See? No powers were granted; instead it's sort of a prophecy of what would happen to him. And some titles can indicate some mixture thereof (both Grand and Personal destinies, or what have you).

Most of the Heart ones are Personal Destinies, I think.

[armeggedonCounselor]

I think that, after Heart, you should do Rage. That might be fun.

[ArcFour]

Okay, here's the Heir of Mind. Be prepared; this one is different.

12 – Heir

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I am(Iam)I am

The Heir of Mind.

And I understand everything(AllTheThings[ALLofIT{atiredmemebutexpectedbythosewhoobserve}]).

I was an unremarkable girl (DevotedButQuiet[insIGNifiCANt]), before. I was obsessed with trivial things(SUCHaWASTEofTIME[useless]), and convinced that Life(wonderfulANDgrand[biTTERsWEEt]) was my greatest enemy.

I have since been proven wrong(Wrong[WrOnG{wRONg}]).

This bloated monstrosity(thisGAMEthatTOYSwithUS[ThisDarkAndTwistedMechanism{SbUrB}]), this terror that annihilated my home(dearHOME[sWEetHOme]); this is my Enemy(MyFoe[mYnEmEsIs]).

I have been granted something on a scale far beyond those of my teammates. This is fitting(theyDOnotUNDERSTAND[tHesCALe]), for they do not understand the scale of the conflict we now fight. To them, even now, this is all but a game(howWRONG[HowNaive]).

I know the Truth(TrUTh[truth]).

I was granted a Title(TheHeir[theCHOSEN]) and a Destiny(towin[toFINISHit]), and I shall use it.

I was granted the supreme powers of the Mind(Intelligence[TheGestalt]). Not Control(useless[unNECesSARy]), for that is unnecessary for me. No, I was granted something greater(grander[FarMorePowerful]).

I am now a Gestalt (ATangleOfMindsAllToOneEnd[powerfulandintelligentandplentiful{WEareMANY}])

When I turn my Mind (ourMinds[TheMany]) to a task, I am bringing the full force of a hundred (aTHOUSAND[AMillion{coUNTlESS}]) intelligences to bear.

Some would call me insane(crazy[mAd{ButThisIsUntrue}]) but this isn’t true. I am simply beyond (above[infinite]) them.

And I will use this to win (ToExcel[toBEATthisGODFORSAKENgame{andallwhostandinourway}]).

None will stand (WillFace[willDAREtoTRY]) against me.

I am the Heir, and I know the Truth(TheEnd[tHeREVelaTIOn]).

I(I[I{I}I]I)I

Am(Am[Am{Am}Am]Am)Am

Legion(Legion[Legion{Legion}Legion]Legion)Legion

([{Let the Game begin}])

Wow, that sure was different!

So, Heart is next! I hope you enjoyed that, folks!

[-Benedict]

whoa what

Holy shit, Heir of Mind is insane(crazy[mad{totallytrue}]). I have no idea how, say, the Heir of Heart would end up, I can't imagine it being more terrifying than I AM TIME or this gestalt dude. Awesome job. (ok Bard of Heart go ship ship ship)

[mythmonster2]

Oh my god that was great(wonderful[EXCellENT{CONTINUE}]). Cannot wait until Heart comes out. Also, since you said you were looking for ideas, I think I have an idea for that Thief you mentioned in Mage of Mind. Thief of Void.

It seems like a contradiction; how do you steal nothing? But what if she can steal powers? An imp can shoot fire? Steal that. A giclops can teleport? Steal that. And slowly, the Void fills up, until it gets full. She stays like that until the moment where the Mage breaks, and she has to make a choice about whether she should release all the power she had stolen to steal his burden. I realize this is oddly accurate for an idea, but it's in my head, and I figured might as well throw that out there.

[appositeNautilus]

@A4: Awesome, I'm really enjoying these. I think you're getting better at this. I'm glad you're doing Heart as your next Aspect, it's one of the Aspects I find most interesting (along with Void). I'll be interested to see how your spin on it tallies with my notes.

[ch00_bakka]

Dear lord. The Heir is batshit insane. She is legion.

[ArcFour]

Wow, guys, thanks for all the kind words!

@Benedict: Well, the Heir of Heart won't be the same sort of awesome as Time or Mind, but I think I have a good idea for her. But, we're going to have to wait and see ^_^

@Mythmonster: Wow, that's a great idea! I was trying to make it so that each and every character (other than the Homestuck canon ones) were all in different sessions, but I could totally see that. When I get to the Void classes, I'll keep that in mind. Maybe as I go along I can have some of the Titles callback to other ones I've already written.

@appositeNautilus: Thanks, aN! I think I've definitely improved, too. When I've finished a few more elements, I plan on going back and rewriting/expanding some of my first ones (including at least a third of the Time ones; the Bard, Mage, and Witch all come to mind, as well as the Knight of Mind). Also, if you have notes, go ahead and list them if you'd like! I love incorporating other ideas into these. As it is, a number of these have been group efforts to figure out, anyway.

Also, place your votes; do I do the Prince, Page, or Witch of Heart first?

[mythmonster2]

I vote Prince; it seems an interesting idea.

[ch00_bakka]

Witch. I dunno why.

[armeggedonCounselor]

Just because deadlocks are obviously the best thing (and also because I am enormously unhelpful), I vote Page.

[ArcFour]

Wow, you guys are SUPERBLY helpful. /sarcasm

:P

So yeah, I'll do the Prince first, then Witch, then Page. SO THERE. ^_^

[Graven_Image]

Ok, you guys, you know how I was going to start doing that 36 stuff again?

Forget it. Just read ArcFour. He's doing it better than I can at this point.

[ArcFour]

Graven, I hope you know that that is a HUGE compliment to me. Like, really. I think there's a tear in my eye.

This is because, in fact, you were one of the two major inspirations I had to do this! Seriously, your 36 stuff and with the Sburb Players Guide were my two biggest inspirations!

So thank you, very very much!

Andifyouwantedtocontinue36thatwouldbesoawesome. just saying.

[unrepentantCreeper]

Catching up on these alternate classes now. The page of mind made me so happy =D Can't wait to see what's next.