[Fic] "Four by Four" part 1 -- Homestuck
Feb. 22nd, 2012 08:27 pm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
*crosses fingers*
Anyway! Here is a thing I wrote last night but forgot to point to. It is theoretically part one of a chaptered story, but each scene is designed to work as a standalone fic if necessary. They are linked more by being about the same people within the same conceptual AU than by any semblance of plot or character arc.
The prompt is as follows: Basically a Sedoretu is a type of poly-marriage from Ursula K LeGuin's stories. Everyone is split into two groups (or moieties), the Morning moiety and the Evening moiety. Children belong to the moiety of their mother and you CANNOT sleep with someone that belongs to the same moiety as you. (I'd like to see this rule upheld in the fill, pretty please?) A marriage happens when a man and woman from the Morning moiety marry a man and women from the Evening moiety. They would each be expected to form a sexual relationship with the couple from the other moiety, but not with the partner from their own.
Sooo let's say that Morning/Evening were Prospit/Derse instead? A Beta Kid Sedoretu would have John/Rose, John/Dave, Jade/Rose, and Jade/Dave, with John-Jade and Rose-Dave being in a close, but nonsexual relationship.
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This is exactly the sort of thing my worldbuilding obsession latches on to. I have so many ideas for this AU, you don't even know. But I am trying to channel them into story scenes instead of historical and sociological essays, so.
Four by Four: John, Jade, Rose and Dave meet in a chat room on Jade's thirteenth birthday to talk about nothing in particular. Sedoretu AU, no spoilers for once! (1,400 words)
[ETA: You can now read the revised and expanded final version of this chapter on AO3!]