[Fic] "Trollstuck," part 3 -- Homestuck

[edenfalling]

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Trollstuck, part 3
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====>Troll Vriska's moirail

You can't do that because Vriska does not have a moirail! She would be a LOT easier to live with if she did. Probably.

Actually, the only people you know who have filled their pale quadrant are Nepeta and that sweaty weirdo Equius, though you have suspicions about Davven and Terezi, and you think Sollux and Aradia are probably leaning toward pale instead of flushed. You think Nepeta is awfully lucky. If you had a moirail, it might be easier to figure out what to do right now.

(Tavros totally does not count. That is completely and utterly platonic, because he is such a wet floor surface cover and lets Vriska and Davven and everyone else walk all over him. But you don't think he'd be any good at helping sort out your problems, and one-sided moirallegiances are just asking for trouble. Look at what happened with Feferi and Eridan before they flipped ashen with Alonde four perigees ago! That was such a giant mess. Almost as big as this FLARP mess you're trying to sort out now.)

====>Get distracted thinking about romance

This is easy because it's a thing you do a lot! When the nights are too short for you to visit Nepeta in person and play hunt-and-pounce in her forest and make sure she hasn't accidentally destroyed the garden you planted for her, you spend a lot of time talking about her shipping wall. Sometimes you argue about which ships ought to become canon, but not angry arguing. (Nepeta's too cute to get angry at her.) Most of the time you just gossip, or pretend one of the completely crazy ships is actually canon and try to figure out how on Alternia it could have happened. Things like Davven <3 Alonde, or Sollux <> Eridan, or Tavros <3< anybody.

Nepeta's awesome.

The only other person you know who cares about romance is Karkat, and the less said about him the better. (No matter how big Nepeta's flushcrush is.) Oooh, he makes you so furious! You have never had a single conversation with him that didn't degenerate into capslock insults! He is such a jerk!

Especially when he's right. Which does happen. Very, very, very, very, very, VERY occasionally. It's probably just the laws of statistics taking pity on him, though you can't see why they'd bother when he is such a fuckass!

====>Have a brilliant idea

It suddenly occurs to you that the reason you're not thinking clearly is because you're upset and worried about Aradia but you don't have anybody to help you focus and channel that anger so it's just piling up like a giant heap of fertilizer and stinking up your thinkpan. What you need is a good, cathartic fight to get it out of your system.

You know just the person to troll.

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So clearly you do not get to vote on who Jarlia trolls next -- it's going to be Karkat -- but suggestions for what they can argue about are very welcome. :-)

Also! Please consider other people's suggestions when you make your own, and feel free to explain your reasoning and discuss amongst yourselves! So far people have been suggesting pretty much every available possibility, which in practical terms is the same as no suggestions at all because I have no consensus to work from and just choose whatever I feel like doing at the moment. :-(

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Random formatting note: The spaces around the shipping symbols are there because apparently I need one after the spade sign to stop DW from interpreting it as bad html, and damn it, symmetry is important to me. >_<

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In real life news, I slept funny on my right shoulder and upper arm Friday night. My shoulder hurt a little bit on Saturday, but from Sunday through now, it has been killing me. I have to take ibuprofen in order to get to sleep and even then have not been sleeping especially well.

I think if it doesn't start getting better in the next couple days, I should look into seeing a doctor, because this is A) getting ridiculous and B) interfering with my quality of life. I mean, I hope it will improve since I have Wednesday off work and therefore won't be lifting heavy objects, but then again I need to do laundry so I am not wildly optimistic. :-(

Comments

[askerian]

Yay Karkat next! (... black jadekat plz????? *_* i am detecting some HOSTILITY.)

Alas I have zero idea about what they should be chatting about. @_@

[marici.livejournal.com]

Hmm, well if you're trying to collapse Karkat, make it about how he's failed his friends. If you're trying to detonate him, mock or challenge him. Explosions are way more fun, so let's do the latter. Hmm. Karkat bonds with Terezi about leadership and badassness, with Sollux about programming. I suppose he and Jade bonded over otherself distress and who has the more sensible approach, but you could probably pick anything that Jade is always, effortlessly better at than he is. Independence? Marksmanship? Kickass lusii?

[edenfalling]

Definitely going for an explosion rather than a collapse. Blue Screen of Death does not help anybody.

[edenfalling]

(... black jadekat plz????? *_* i am detecting some HOSTILITY.)

You got it! :-D