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edenfallingHomestuck is now invading my dreams.
For example, a couple weeks ago I had a dream that resulted in a Dave<>Aradia fic that I am noodling around with. The rough draft is currently 3,500 words or so. It went very fast at first, but now I've hit the stage where I need to bash it heavily around the edges so it runs on story logic instead of dream logic.
And last night, I dreamed that trolls and humans had both colonized a marginal sort of planet and then the new colonies got abandoned in the muddle of a vast interstellar interspecies war. The world they were on contained a lot of vicious psychic monsters, and the two species took different approaches to dealing with them. The humans used genetic engineering to give some people specialized powers that mimicked the native animals' abilities. The trolls, who already had some psychic powers, instead of took advantage of a quirk of the hemospectrum.
You see, it turned out that candy red blood was NOT an unknown mutation. It was just very, very rare... and trolls with that kind of blood could be bound to the biggest, scariest native predator the trolls could find, which they then set as a sort of guardian threat near their colony. The catch is that if the red-blood troll died, the predator would then turn on and eat the trolls instead of protecting them. So any tyrian-blood troll would have to use her or his powers to keep the red-blood alive until another red-blood was born.
There is a big potential for abuse of power here. And the Condesce began abusing it, setting herself up as a dictator in the shadows with the Sufferer's life as her knife at the colony's throat.
Until Karkat and Feferi were born.
And then there was a complicated plot involving organized crime, Karkat and Feferi being forced to work together to save their colony, Nepeta tracking illegal fertilizer shipments, Sollux and Aradia conspiring to break the Sufferer out of his prison and transfer the psychic bond to Karkat, Karkat getting roped into town council politics against his will (he secretly wanted to be a kindergarten teacher or the troll equivalent thereof), etc. And there was some kind of spillover from the bond, so Karkat got a bunch of the bond monster's instincts and appetites and was NOT HAPPY about that.
And then the humans and trolls, who had colonized different continents on this planet, finally bumped into each other and went, "Ack, the enemy!" and there was a giant diplomatic mess on top of the younger trolls trying to oust the Condesce from her shadowy position of power so she couldn't keep blocking everything they did democratically out in the open.
Also Nicolas Cage drove a speedboat along some canals, but I don't think that was relevant to the main plot thread. *wry*
...
And now to bed. After I take another Benadryl. *blows nose, curses early spring*
For example, a couple weeks ago I had a dream that resulted in a Dave<>Aradia fic that I am noodling around with. The rough draft is currently 3,500 words or so. It went very fast at first, but now I've hit the stage where I need to bash it heavily around the edges so it runs on story logic instead of dream logic.
And last night, I dreamed that trolls and humans had both colonized a marginal sort of planet and then the new colonies got abandoned in the muddle of a vast interstellar interspecies war. The world they were on contained a lot of vicious psychic monsters, and the two species took different approaches to dealing with them. The humans used genetic engineering to give some people specialized powers that mimicked the native animals' abilities. The trolls, who already had some psychic powers, instead of took advantage of a quirk of the hemospectrum.
You see, it turned out that candy red blood was NOT an unknown mutation. It was just very, very rare... and trolls with that kind of blood could be bound to the biggest, scariest native predator the trolls could find, which they then set as a sort of guardian threat near their colony. The catch is that if the red-blood troll died, the predator would then turn on and eat the trolls instead of protecting them. So any tyrian-blood troll would have to use her or his powers to keep the red-blood alive until another red-blood was born.
There is a big potential for abuse of power here. And the Condesce began abusing it, setting herself up as a dictator in the shadows with the Sufferer's life as her knife at the colony's throat.
Until Karkat and Feferi were born.
And then there was a complicated plot involving organized crime, Karkat and Feferi being forced to work together to save their colony, Nepeta tracking illegal fertilizer shipments, Sollux and Aradia conspiring to break the Sufferer out of his prison and transfer the psychic bond to Karkat, Karkat getting roped into town council politics against his will (he secretly wanted to be a kindergarten teacher or the troll equivalent thereof), etc. And there was some kind of spillover from the bond, so Karkat got a bunch of the bond monster's instincts and appetites and was NOT HAPPY about that.
And then the humans and trolls, who had colonized different continents on this planet, finally bumped into each other and went, "Ack, the enemy!" and there was a giant diplomatic mess on top of the younger trolls trying to oust the Condesce from her shadowy position of power so she couldn't keep blocking everything they did democratically out in the open.
Also Nicolas Cage drove a speedboat along some canals, but I don't think that was relevant to the main plot thread. *wry*
...
And now to bed. After I take another Benadryl. *blows nose, curses early spring*
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Date: 2012-03-20 03:03 am (UTC)the monster was fun in a creepy way. not too smart, is it. XD now aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa SOMEONE SAVE HIM ;___;
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Date: 2012-03-20 03:22 am (UTC)Yeah, this whole backstory is nothing but ouch, ouch, and more ouch. But someone does save him eventually! (...I kind of want to write that now, since the 'someones' in question are Sollux and Aradia, and given this whole mess with the Psiioniic, that's not going to go down without complications. *angelic smile*)
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Date: 2013-07-08 08:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-07-09 02:53 am (UTC)