Everyone is a mass murderer: a multi-author fanfic

[reignonyourparade]

The idea recently came to me of a 12 part fanfic in which each of the canon trolls has at least one doomed timeline where they went crazy and killed everyone. I'm looking for 11 fellow writers to make this idea a reality. I'd prefer to avoid deus ex machina getting used to make any of the trolls go crazy, so I'm going to wait until ideas have been established for all of the trolls before chapters are assigned, but please say right now which trolls you would be willing/like to cover!

Record of what's been discussed:

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Aradia: one idea is that each individual kill was an attempt to prevent someone from dooming the timeline. the problem is that this idea is rather silly. Problematic because aradia is the one who needs to go back and fix things also. Reign, crash826 and Kaana have expressed interest
Tavros: Ultra has expressed interest
Sollux
Karkat
Nepeta: motives undiscussed, most dangerous game suggested as inspiration, reign and Kaana have expressed interest
Kanaya: Kaana has expressed interest
Terezi: JUST1C3
Vriska: motives haven't been discussed, but there was a little idea of having aradia's killing of vriska been to prevent vriska from killing everyone down the line
Equius: something happens to nepeta, he goes crazy and kills everyone, zebtrestalala has expressed interest
Gamzee: this one is so bloody obvious it doesn't even need discussing. Kaana has expressed interest
Eridan: maybe doesn't get killed by kanaya, except this makes it hard for aradia to go back and change events. Fish expressed interest
Feferi: Horrorterrors, Walksoftly has expressed interest.

People who've expressed interest in the project but not a particular troll: OrangeAipom, Arcfour, TacticGamer

[OrangeAipom]

So which character chapter thing are we going to design first?

[reignonyourparade]

Hey look it's the answer to a question that no longer exists.
Well, I've got a pretty good idea in mind for Aradia, which i think is one of the harder ones to rationalize since she has to kill everyone and THEN go BACK to STOP herself from killing everyone which is just silly, but if someone else thinks they've got that down I will gladly hand the reins over.

[OrangeAipom]

I am just an inappropriate ninja post editor.

[reignonyourparade]

It's not so much "let's all decide how on earth we will possibly explain gamzee going berserk and killing everyone that's unbelievable, that is what we are figuring out right now" and more "well i was thinking about how on earth gamzee might go crazy so whoever ends up doing him should keep that in mind"

[crash826]

Can I do Aradia's mass murder?

[OrangeAipom]

It's ok, someone else may have that question anyway. Please uncross it out so other people can read it.

[ArcFour]

This sounds like a neat idea! Couple of questions:

What sort of length are you looking for? Short, long, or A4?

What sort of perspective? 2nd, 1st, 3rd?

Pesterlog? Nonpesterlog? Fic+Pesterlogs?

Altblood or non-altblood?

[reignonyourparade]

Not short, but not necessarily superlong either.
Standardized perspective, I'm partial to 1st but only if people are confident enough in being able to carry the characters in the 1st person. If most people want to do it in second that's okay to.
Fic, pesterlogs optional.
Only the canon trolls.

[OrangeAipom]

Would 1st person mean writing with their quirk?

[ArcFour]

God, that would get annoying FAST.

I'd probably just insert occasional references to their quirk, personally.

[reignonyourparade]

It could.

Another thought is that they could all be from aradia's perspective.

[OrangeAipom]

It could.

Another thought is that they could all be from aradia's perspective.

How about it's from the perspective of the killer unless the killer's narration would be too incoherent and false for consumption.

[reignonyourparade]

I don't like having exceptions, I'd rather have an explanation of what went on afterwards. Maybe that being aradia as she figures out what she needs to prevent from having happened.

[OrangeAipom]

I don't like having exceptions, I'd rather have an explanation of what went on afterwards. Maybe that being aradia as she figures out what she needs to prevent from having happened.

Ooh! What if Aradia kills Vriska to prevent Vriska from killing everyone?

[reignonyourparade]

That would be a nice tie in, yes, I like that.

[TacticGamer]

I don't like having exceptions, I'd rather have an explanation of what went on afterwards. Maybe that being aradia as she figures out what she needs to prevent from having happened.

Ooh! What if Aradia kills Vriska to prevent Vriska from killing everyone?

it should go like

"shit i gotta kill karkat because hes gonna kill everybody and i know it"

"NO WAIT FUCK I WAS WRONG i killed him for no reason and now im going to kill nepeta cuz shes going to murder everyone im certain that this is the right one"

"god dammit, it was actually eridan"

"wait"

"no its feferi"

etc etc

[Ultra]

I love these "What if" type stories! I'd be happy to write tavros' section!

[reignonyourparade]

well strictly speaking it's not quite "what if" since we know there were doomed timelines and we know there were LOTS of them since there were LOTS of aradia bots. It's more "these are probably things that actually happened"

[reignonyourparade]

something for whoever does nepeta to consider

[Ultra]

something for whoever does nepeta to consider

Ohey I actuall read that.

[zebtrestalala]

I have an idea for Equius, if you don't mind me snatching him.

[OrangeAipom]

I have an idea for Equius, if you don't mind me snatching him.

what is it?

[zebtrestalala]

He is left without someone to keep his rage in check, and is therefore swallowed by the dark, tempting void of wrath and violence, and a chain of him slowly losing himself and enacting "revenge" leads him to kill everyone. Starts with Eridan, who is most culpable, and I guess would go on from there.

[reignonyourparade]

Yeah that's pretty much the most reasonable way for the equius one to go. I don't want people calling "dibs" but the fact that you want to do equius will certainly be kept in mind.