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tanoraqui · 4 years

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I just wanted you to know that I just read all your hellmurder castle 'verse posts and I LOVE THAT AU SO MUCH

what you have to understand about my Hellmurder Castle AU (Homestuck set in the world of Girl Genius, if you haven’t read it) is that it was born specifically from my spite exasperation with all the long, epic AUs about either only the trolls or the trolls + beta kids, with alpha kids appearing as background characters at best and often not at all. Many of these fics are great, and many of them were written or at least planned before the alpha kids even appeared in canon, in which case it’s not the authors’ faults at all. But I LOVE my alpha kids, and Roxy may be my favorite and Dirk is a delight, but I was ALSO tired to tears of how even in fics featuring the alpha kids, it was almost always Derse-heavy.

So I basically said “fuck it”, yeeted them all into the world of Girl Genius (which was inevitable), figured out the torrid backstory of the beta kids and ancestors and how the dancestors and trolls fit in, and set about focussing the plot and character development exclusively on the alpha kids, particularly Jake and Jane. Particularly particularly Jake, because a) I thought him more underappreciated than Jane, and b) the idea of a Heroic Adventurer who constantly has to resist his own reflex to be a minion is fucking funny.

Let’s elaborate, shall we? Because I’m okay again, after the epilogue. I have forgiven. So, the hypothetical pfennig novels/fics in a series:

Jake English: Escape from Castle Lalonde

In which Jake leaves home, and meets a number of interesting people.

covers from basically that scene of Roxy capturing him through Jake escaping with Jane, and them agreeing to be adventuring partners. A lot of the middle consists of Jake helping Roxy and Dirk win back Roxy’s ancestral home of Castle Lalonde, defeating whatever villainous spark - probably an OC - had taken up residence.

Jake means to leave, but Roxy and Dirk need help cleaning up, and getting their labs running, and with interesting projects…and possibly they put a shock collar on him so he can’t leave the grounds…or at least tell him that’s what the collar does, and prove it, like, twice, and then turn it off because they don’t actually want him crippled in an emergency; mostly he’s just a great minion and Roxy is pretty sure he’s destined to be part of their team for defeating the Batterwitch, as laid out in the obscure and highly metaphorical prophecy her mother left her in a wizard book.

this is not at all good ground for either friendship or a healthy minion/master relationship, which is why Jake is pretty damn game to help Jane escape and then run away with her.

Jake English and the Red Miles

in which…I actually have barely any memory of wtf is supposed to happen in this one. Presumably, they have to survive the Red Miles at some point, with some ridiculous series of revivificationsthe trolls show up at Jake and Jane’s camp (okay fine, I love them, too), and after some alarmed mutual weapon-pointing, explain that Jake’s grandmother, Lady English, made them after Jake left, except now she’s died so they’ve come to find Jake and either bring him home or, at least, join his adventuring team and keep him safe

(yeah, Jade instilled some loyalty, which is Sketch. In fairness, when she lost control of the original generation of trolls, all her best friends were killed and/or disappeared, presumed dead. she has reasons)

I wonder if there was supposed to be a timeskip between this and the previous book, or if Escape from Castle Lalonde happened later into Jake going out adventuring than I think, or if Jade just got bored and made 12 new people like…3 hours after Jake left home

for pacing, the trolls should probably show up pretty early in this story, so they have a long time to be around before shit hits the fan

a lot of this book, aside from whatever shenanigans they’re dealing with re: Red Miles, would be Jake dealing with the fact that he is suddenly responsible for 12 people who keep looking to him for orders, and somewhere in the distance is an entire town (Hellmurder Village) that’s likewise.

they do not go back to the Castle at the end of this book, even though they arguably should bc Jake has responsibilities. But he also has adventuring to do, by golly, and…hm, it’s one of the Rings that causes the Red Miles, isn’t it? So maybe they get it at the end of this book, and now they have to track down the other one. Which brings us to…

Jake English and the Rings of Skaia

In which Jake and Jane (and Roxy and Dirk, and 12 young trolls) explore a castle, learn a little history, and generally level up their friendshipsI split up the aspects of Castle Heterodyne in this au: Jake has the recently inherited Castle with the terrifying, nigh-magical power source buried in its depths, and Jane has the abandoned derelict that is fully sentient, most automated, and even more malicious than it is trapped. This is the story of that castle, and the Ring of Life hidden somewhere in it

Jack Noir. The castle’s sentience is Jack Noir. Or perhaps more accurately Spades Slick? Who cares.

I had a very elaborate mythology/history thought up at some point about the twin spark queens of Derse and Prospit and their great enmity, and the saga of betrayal and heroism that marked their reigns and left behind this castle and two super magical scientific rings of power, and I do not remember ANY of it now.

This is the bit where that scene of Dirk ripping out Vriska’s soul comes from. He and Roxy are here for the fabled treasure as well - possibly the castle only appears/is accessible at certain specific times? And they don’t know the trolls are with Jake, so…clusterfuck, there.

Jake English and the Troll Queen

in which the big bad is reveeled

there’s trouble brewing in the countryside, idk, monsters or pirates or something that can be traced, after some investigative heroing, to the self-styled Her Imperial Condescension, still unfortunately at large

mostly this fic is Jake growing into leadering a little more but also addressing the question of that inbuilt loyalty Jade gave this generation of trolls, because really, that was Sketch - and in general, who are we as people defined by who we follow, what groups we ally ourselves with; is it birth or genetics or who raised us or the family we choose or…

i kinda think Dirk and Roxy are conducting concurrent but generally not overlapping investigations to Jake&Jane’s(+the trolls) (dirk and roxy having pretty neatly answered all the above questions years ago by choosing each other, but still being kind of insular about it, and need to relax just enough to trust other people)

in the end there’s some confrontation with the Condesce and she convinces ½-2/3 the trolls to join her bc, honestly, why shouldn’t they

Jake English and the Castle in the Lake

in which…okay, in this one bit of fic I implied her base was in the ocean but I totally had this title written somewhere, so what is the truth??

in the above linked scene, the trolls who stayed with Jake and Jane were Karkat, Terezi, Kanaya, Gamzee, and Feferi, but idk about that. If Feferi’s there, why isn’t Sollux? And, like, Aradia would probably have just fucked off in her own direction completely, given the chance…

our heroes are trying to sneak into HIC’s base and disable it, okay. that is the plot of this one. probably they have to find it first, which is tricky, and basically a D&D dungeon crawl, and that’s before Jane gets tiara’d. Which definitely happens climactically. and then everyone else gets captured, with the possible exception of Dirk, who probably gets beheaded instead. things do not look good for our heroes…

Jake English and the Lost Hero

in which we find out exactly what happened in the previous generation

maybe even alternating chapters, past/present?

what happened basically is that the first generation of trolls, the Ancestors, went absolutely batshit roughly as per homestuck canon. The Condesce, being OP, started just conquering land. She was stopped, eventually, mostly by the epic sacrifice of Rose and Dave. And John…except Rose and Dave’s bodies were found, and in a clusterfuck of inventions warping time and space and reality itself, John’s never was

Jade survived, of course. obviously.

John did, too, it is revealed. He was just disconnected from the time-space continuum, stuck popping up in random times and places, sometimes close to those he loved and sometimes not, mostly uncontrollable…

he’s appeared here and there throughout the stories, probably, a mysterious figure in blue who nearly has time to say something before dissolving into fizzing wind. Now he appears more frequently, and for longer periods as the story goes on, including just enough to help break Roxy and Jake out of prison. And whichever trolls were stubbornly sticking with them - if the Condesce wasn’t just mind-controlling all the reluctant ones…let’s be real, she was…lotta “I know you’re in there somewhere” fights here, probably

also, Vriska reveals herself to still be trying to help our heroes, because it is SO Vriska to try to double-cross Her fucking Imperious Condescension

this double-cross is revealed partly from her using Jake’s minioning safeword that he developed with Grandma Jade, way back when; meaning roughly “I don’t want to do this but I’m not sure I can stop”. It’s pumpkin, of course.

they revivify Dirk on the way out, and either stop in the Condesce’s lab to get sparkily distracted trying to pin John into reality or they make it back to Hellmurder Castle before doing that?

What am I saying. The Condesce is probably working on some spacetime-warping tech of her own, and Roxy, Dirk, and Jake use it to fully anchor John for the first time in…who knows, subjectively? It’s possible he stays behind to buy them time to run

Jake English and the Battle for the Green Sun

in which things come to a head

aka the Battle for Hellmurder Castle, and it’s mysterious and terrible power source

Jane and half or so of the trolls start out on the Condesce’s side, but if you thought there were good “I know you’re in there” fights before, just WAIT until Jake saves Jane with the power of friendship

ultimately, it’s alpha kids + Alternian trolls + dancestor-clanks VS Her Imperial Condescension

it’s close

it’s very close

I would have krilled for an H–EIR—ESS CHALLENGE X3 COMBO, ie, Jane, Feferi, and Meenah vs. the Condesce, so that happens

John maybe appears one last time-displaced time, for him before the events of Lost Hero, to deliver a well-timed hammer swing

I love Jake, but I’ll give Homestuck this one: Roxy getting the final blow with an ancestral Strider sword? Perfect.

in the denoument Jake awkwardly invites everyone to live in Hellmurder Castle, because he feels vaguely like he should stay and look after it, and of course he wants his chums around. Jane, Roxy, and Dirk are all like, “well, a real lab or seven would be amazing…but also…adventuring. Why don’t YOU come with US?” Jake is like, “oh JEEPERS yes!” The trolls and dancestors meanwhile talk out among themselves who genuinely wants to stay and who wants to go out adventuring, either with these idiots or just to make their own way

#homestuck #girl genius #jake english #jane crocker #roxy lalonde #dirk strider #hellmurder castle au #my fic #ficlet #ministro spei #virgine vitae #hs trolls #dancestors #latrone nihil #duce animi #random anon asks

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homericverse · 5 years

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Le roman antique se caractérise par une forte concentration de scènes dialo-guées, à travers lesquelles l’action se déroule. Parfois, ces répliques consti-tuent de véritables discours, semblables à ceux auxquels les élèves s’exerçaient dans les écoles de rhétorique : fabula, comparatio, descriptio, suasoria, controuersia, autant d’exercices préliminaires (progymnasmata) mis en situation au milieu de l’action romanesque. La question que l’on peut se poser est celle de la place et de la fonction que ces discours occupent au sein de la trame narrative : quel est leur impact sur l’action ? Tel ou tel dis-cours tenu par un personnage incite-t-il son ou ses interlocuteurs à entre-prendre telle ou telle action déterminante pour la suite de l’histoire ? Ou parle-t-on dans les romans juste pour le plaisir de parler ? La question touche à la nature générique du roman antique, un genre fortement marqué par la rhétorique et qui se distingue par sa texture dramatique ou mimétique, dans le sens où il met en scène des personnages dialoguant les uns avec les autres. Dans la mesure où discours et dialogues sont, dans le genre du roman com-me ailleurs, une façon de peindre des caractères – ils sont des éthopées – il peut être intéressant de vérifier s’il y a véritablement adéquation entre ce que disent les personnages et ce qu’ils font. C’est ce que je me propose de faire dans cette étude, en me penchant sur deux discours fameux du Satyricon de Pétrone qui ont donné lieu à une littérature très abondante, mais que je vou-drais considérer à mon tour en regard de l’action romanesque.

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Le premier d’entre eux est l’échange qui ouvre le roman tel qu’il nous est parvenu, la controverse sur l’utilité des déclamations qui oppose Encolpe, le narrateur principal, et Agamemnon, un professeur de rhétorique :2Num alio genere furiarum declamatores inquietantur, qui clamant : “Haec vulnera pro libertate publica excepi ; hunc oculum pro vobis im-pendi ; date mihi [ducem] qui me ducat ad liberos meos, nam succisi poplites membra non sustinent ?” Haec ipsa tolerabilia essent, si ad eloquentiam ituris viam facerent. Nunc et rerum tumore et sententiarum vanissimo strepitu hoc tantum proficiunt ut, cum in forum venerint, pu-tent se in alium orbem terrarum delatos. Et ideo ego adulescentulos exis-timo in scholis stultissimos fieri, quia nihil ex his, quae in usu habemus aut audiunt aut vident, sed piratas cum catenis in litore stantes, sed ty-rannos edicta scribentes quibus imperent filiis ut patrum suorum capita praecidant, sed responsa in pestilentiam data, ut virgines tres aut plures immolentur, sed mellitos verborum globulos, et omnia dicta factaque quasi papavere et sesamo sparsa.« N’est-ce point les mêmes furies qui tourmentent nos déclamateurs ? Entendez-les s’écrier : “Ces blessures, c’est pour la liberté commune que je les ai reçues ! Cet œil, c’est pour vous que je l’ai sacrifié. Donnez-moi un guide pour me conduire à mes enfants, car mes jarrets tailladés ne peuvent plus me porter.” Encore cette emphase serait-elle tolérable, si el-le ouvrait à leurs élèves la route de l’éloquence. Mais tous ces thèmes boursouflés, et tout ce ronron de phrases creuses, à quoi servent-ils fina-lement ? Les jeunes gens, lorsqu’ils débutent au barreau, se croient tom-bés dans un autre monde. Pour dire toute ma pensée, ce qui fait de nos écoliers autant de maîtres sots, c’est que, de tout ce qu’ils voient et en-tendent dans les classes, rien ne leur offre l’image de la vie : ce ne sont que pirates avec des chaînes embusqués sur le rivage, tyrans préparant des édits qui condamnent des fils à décapiter leurs propres pères ; répon-ses d’oracles à propos d’une épidémie qui ordonnent l’immolation de trois vierges ou plus encore ; périodes mielleuses et mollement arron dies ; bref, paroles et faits, tout est pour ainsi dire saupoudré de pavot et de sésame. » Ce préambule fait référence pêle-mêle, pour mieux les rendre risibles, à dif-férents personnages et situations types de l’univers déclamatoire : le héros de guerre (vir fortis), qui brandit volontiers ses blessures pour susciter la pitié des juges,3 ainsi que le tyrannicide, que son acte héroïque pour la restaura-tion de la liberté peut amener à perdre ses mains.4 L’emphase d’Encolpe s’envole ensuite pour épingler, dans un pluriel caricatural et avec force exa-gérations, les types négatifs du pirate et du tyran (qui ne jouent pourtant qu’un rôle secondaire de « catalyseurs » de conflits)5 et les thèmes faisant état d’une épidémie et de sacrifices de vierges.6 Sa critique porte aussi sur le style déclamatoire7 et sur le fossé séparant la réalité du forum et l’univers fictionnel des déclamations : un fossé qui pouvait conduire à des mésaventu-res comme celles que rapporte Sénèque le Père dans son recueil de contro-verses à propos d’Albucius et de Porcius Latron.8De fait, la tirade d’Encolpe n’est pas un fait unique, elle est même abso-lument convenue. L’invraisemblance des situations proposées aux élèves, le caractère stéréotypé des personnages et l’emphase du style déclamatoire furent l’objet de multiples critiques qui, à force de se répéter, finirent par ressembler à un exercice de style adaptable à différents genres : Sénèque le père s’y plia dans plusieurs passages de son recueil d’extraits de controver-ses et de suasoires, tout comme Quintilien dans l’Institution oratoire, ou encore Messalla dans le Dialogue des orateurs de Tacite, qui situait l’une des causes de la décadence de l’éloquence dans le système éducatif moder-ne.9 Les correspondances que ce dernier texte présente avec celui de Pétrone sont si nombreuses qu’elles ont été utilisées soit pour compléter telle lacune dans le Dialogue des orateurs, soit comme argument pour une datation tar-dive du Satyricon.

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ventdeface-blog · 6 years

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Alea jacta es

Has autem provincias, quas Orontes ambiens amnis imosque pedes Cassii montis illius celsi praetermeans funditur in Parthenium mare, Gnaeus Pompeius superato Tigrane regnis Armeniorum abstractas dicioni Romanae coniunxit.

Duplexque isdem diebus acciderat malum, quod et Theophilum insontem atrox interceperat casus, et Serenianus dignus exsecratione cunctorum, innoxius, modo non reclamante publico vigore, discessit.

Excitavit hic ardor milites per municipia plurima, quae isdem conterminant, dispositos et castella, sed quisque serpentes latius pro viribus repellere moliens, nunc globis confertos, aliquotiens et dispersos multitudine superabatur ingenti, quae nata et educata inter editos recurvosque ambitus montium eos ut loca plana persultat et mollia, missilibus obvios eminus lacessens et ululatu truci perterrens.

Isdem diebus Apollinaris Domitiani gener, paulo ante agens palatii Caesaris curam, ad Mesopotamiam missus a socero per militares numeros immodice scrutabatur, an quaedam altiora meditantis iam Galli secreta susceperint scripta, qui conpertis Antiochiae gestis per minorem Armeniam lapsus Constantinopolim petit exindeque per protectores retractus artissime tenebatur.

Haec ubi latius fama vulgasset missaeque relationes adsiduae Gallum Caesarem permovissent, quoniam magister equitum longius ea tempestate distinebatur, iussus comes orientis Nebridius contractis undique militaribus copiis ad eximendam periculo civitatem amplam et oportunam studio properabat ingenti, quo cognito abscessere latrones nulla re amplius memorabili gesta, dispersique ut solent avia montium petiere celsorum.

Montius nos tumore inusitato quodam et novo ut rebellis et maiestati recalcitrantes Augustae per haec quae strepit incusat iratus nimirum quod contumacem praefectum, quid rerum ordo postulat ignorare dissimulantem formidine tenus iusserim custodiri.

Haec et huius modi quaedam innumerabilia ultrix facinorum impiorum bonorumque praemiatrix aliquotiens operatur Adrastia atque utinam semper quam vocabulo duplici etiam Nemesim appellamus: ius quoddam sublime numinis efficacis, humanarum mentium opinione lunari circulo superpositum, vel ut definiunt alii, substantialis tutela generali potentia partilibus praesidens fatis, quam theologi veteres fingentes Iustitiae filiam ex abdita quadam aeternitate tradunt omnia despectare terrena.

Denique Antiochensis ordinis vertices sub uno elogio iussit occidi ideo efferatus, quod ei celebrari vilitatem intempestivam urgenti, cum inpenderet inopia, gravius rationabili responderunt; et perissent ad unum ni comes orientis tunc Honoratus fixa constantia restitisset.

Incenderat autem audaces usque ad insaniam homines ad haec, quae nefariis egere conatibus, Luscus quidam curator urbis subito visus: eosque ut heiulans baiolorum praecentor ad expediendum quod orsi sunt incitans vocibus crebris. qui haut longe postea ideo vivus exustus est.

Non ergo erunt homines deliciis diffluentes audiendi, si quando de amicitia, quam nec usu nec ratione habent cognitam, disputabunt. Nam quis est, pro deorum fidem atque hominum! qui velit, ut neque diligat quemquam nec ipse ab ullo diligatur, circumfluere omnibus copiis atque in omnium rerum abundantia vivere? Haec enim est tyrannorum vita nimirum, in qua nulla fides, nulla caritas, nulla stabilis benevolentiae potest esse fiducia, omnia semper suspecta atque sollicita, nullus locus amicitiae.

Nihil est enim virtute amabilius, nihil quod magis adliciat ad diligendum, quippe cum propter virtutem et probitatem etiam eos, quos numquam vidimus, quodam modo diligamus. Quis est qui C. Fabrici, M'. Curi non cum caritate aliqua benevola memoriam usurpet, quos numquam viderit? quis autem est, qui Tarquinium Superbum, qui Sp. Cassium, Sp. Maelium non oderit? Cum duobus ducibus de imperio in Italia est decertatum, Pyrrho et Hannibale; ab altero propter probitatem eius non nimis alienos animos habemus, alterum propter crudelitatem semper haec civitas oderit.

Excogitatum est super his, ut homines quidam ignoti, vilitate ipsa parum cavendi ad colligendos rumores per Antiochiae latera cuncta destinarentur relaturi quae audirent. hi peragranter et dissimulanter honoratorum circulis adsistendo pervadendoque divites domus egentium habitu quicquid noscere poterant vel audire latenter intromissi per posticas in regiam nuntiabant, id observantes conspiratione concordi, ut fingerent quaedam et cognita duplicarent in peius, laudes vero supprimerent Caesaris, quas invitis conpluribus formido malorum inpendentium exprimebat.

Illud tamen clausos vehementer angebat quod captis navigiis, quae frumenta vehebant per flumen, Isauri quidem alimentorum copiis adfluebant, ipsi vero solitarum rerum cibos iam consumendo inediae propinquantis aerumnas exitialis horrebant.

Equitis Romani autem esse filium criminis loco poni ab accusatoribus neque his iudicantibus oportuit neque defendentibus nobis. Nam quod de pietate dixistis, est quidem ista nostra existimatio, sed iudicium certe parentis; quid nos opinemur, audietis ex iuratis; quid parentes sentiant, lacrimae matris incredibilisque maeror, squalor patris et haec praesens maestitia, quam cernitis, luctusque declarat.

Post hoc impie perpetratum quod in aliis quoque iam timebatur, tamquam licentia crudelitati indulta per suspicionum nebulas aestimati quidam noxii damnabantur. quorum pars necati, alii puniti bonorum multatione actique laribus suis extorres nullo sibi relicto praeter querelas et lacrimas, stipe conlaticia victitabant, et civili iustoque imperio ad voluntatem converso cruentam, claudebantur opulentae domus et clarae.

Adolescebat autem obstinatum propositum erga haec et similia multa scrutanda, stimulos admovente regina, quae abrupte mariti fortunas trudebat in exitium praeceps, cum eum potius lenitate feminea ad veritatis humanitatisque viam reducere utilia suadendo deberet, ut in Gordianorum actibus factitasse Maximini truculenti illius imperatoris rettulimus coniugem.

Per hoc minui studium suum existimans Paulus, ut erat in conplicandis negotiis artifex dirus, unde ei Catenae inditum est cognomentum, vicarium ipsum eos quibus praeerat adhuc defensantem ad sortem periculorum communium traxit. et instabat ut eum quoque cum tribunis et aliis pluribus ad comitatum imperatoris vinctum perduceret: quo percitus ille exitio urgente abrupto ferro eundem adoritur Paulum. et quia languente dextera, letaliter ferire non potuit, iam districtum mucronem in proprium latus inpegit. hocque deformi genere mortis excessit e vita iustissimus rector ausus miserabiles casus levare multorum.

His cognitis Gallus ut serpens adpetitus telo vel saxo iamque spes extremas opperiens et succurrens saluti suae quavis ratione colligi omnes iussit armatos et cum starent attoniti, districta dentium acie stridens adeste inquit viri fortes mihi periclitanti vobiscum.

Atque, ut Tullius ait, ut etiam ferae fame monitae plerumque ad eum locum ubi aliquando pastae sunt revertuntur, ita homines instar turbinis degressi montibus impeditis et arduis loca petivere mari confinia, per quae viis latebrosis sese convallibusque occultantes cum appeterent noctes luna etiam tum cornuta ideoque nondum solido splendore fulgente nauticos observabant quos cum in somnum sentirent effusos per ancoralia, quadrupedo gradu repentes seseque suspensis passibus iniectantes in scaphas eisdem sensim nihil opinantibus adsistebant et incendente aviditate saevitiam ne cedentium quidem ulli parcendo obtruncatis omnibus merces opimas velut viles nullis repugnantibus avertebant. haecque non diu sunt perpetrata.

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tanoraqui · 9 years

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know what, I’m just going to start a list of the best things in this upd8:

[it became a list of my reactions and some theorizing based on the upd8, and sorta long, so cut]

Dave calling Roxy “Mom”, correcting it to “Roxy”, and repeat. And repeat.

“my best best best best best friend”

the oh-so-delicate attempts to dance around the subject of Dirk/Bro. “Attempts” is the key word here.

Dersedorks: a friendly family psychiatry business

Rose is enjoying herself far too much rn

Dave evidently has two modes, Obsessive Projection of Image vs. No Filter Whatsoever and I’m completely loving it

he also totally ships John/Roxy

Dave really really does have a problem with making everything into an innuendo, geez.

Roxy seems okay with the implication of Dave/Jake though.

update on the first bullet point: it gets even better oh lord

update on the third bullet point. ALSO GETS EVEN BETTER. “and maybe a better person to have it with than me” “…” “do you like orange soda” “no” “NO??”

Dave saying “y’all” when talking to a single person is also great btw. more people need to write this kid with a deep Texan accent because you know he has one.

“what about your quest” THANK YOU, DAVE. {I firmly believe all the kids are going to have to complete their quests or at least talk to their denizens before this is over, and Rose’s was clearly important.)

“I can't squeeze it in before the battle. And after, we'll have supposedly "won"” *hysterical laughter from reader who knows better not even because Caliborn’s shitty vines but oh Rose, have you been living the same comic I’ve been reading? last time there was a Plan you created the Sun you were trying to destroy…*

THIS IS A FANTASTIC USE OF SPRITE KERNEL OH MY GOD ARE WE GOING TO DO JOHN NEXT AND HAVE ALL THE BETA KIDS THIS IS SO GREAT. she’ll probably die because having repeat players seems unallowed (unless - no, even if Davesprite is out there somewhere.) But OMG GOOD GOING JASPERSPRITE YOU’RE THE BEST GHOST KITTY/GAME CONSTRUCT EVER.

“DAVE: thanks ghost cat great job” “JASPERSPRITE: :3 :3 :3″ Damn straight.

aahhhh Light players and their projections of narrative (I mean they’re not technically wrong, just…generally wrong.) Oh Rosey-posey, no sweetie, don’t you feel like you have no goal and you’re nothing but an observer. You are a magnificent fucker-upper of shit, you analyze and organize and tbh could probably totally lead your session though it’s true that John’s a better, um, center of the group. Though it’s also true that I don’t really see Rosesprite going anywhere - if Rose touched her, would she be absorbed into the sprite or would she become a Spritely God Tier like Jade? SUPER SEER. seems fair; John also has extra powers now, and Dave as the Supermegaultra Pimp-Slaying Sword of Destiny.

seriously though, love how Dave’s questions are all Let’s Be Friends get-to-know-you level and Roxy’s are all Sleepover level. Y’all are adorable and I for one cannot wait until Roxy formally adopts Dave. There will be papers and a ceremony I’m sure. Dad and his kids will provide the desserts.

#homestuck #better tag...#centurione temporis #propheta lucis #latrone nihil

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