Fic Rec Friday
It’s been a long time, but hopefully I can get back to doing this more often! You can always request a fandom or pairing that you want to see me rec; can’t say I’ll do it, but I’ll try!
Title: Conquer the Great Divide
Author: Cypher/Laylah (also on tumblr)
Fandoms: Homestuck
Rating: Explicit
Pairings: Karkat/Darkleer
Words: Less than 10,000
Tags: Sex slavery, literal objectification, inflation, ingrained hemocasteism, plugs, size kink, age gap; it’s trolls what do you expect?
Summary: From the kink meme:
The mother grub cannot process slurry direct from a troll, only slurry that’s undergone a biochemical change caused by mixing it with that of another troll - and the biochemical change only happens on mixing if the pair have mutual flushed or pitched feelings. However there’s another way to cause your slurry to undergo this change, and contribute a pail that only contains your genetic material - fill another troll with your slurry until (s)he’s swollen with it, and force him/her to retain it for at least a full day and night. This requires at least three loads of slurry, maybe more if the filler wants that, and usually involves locking some sort of plug into the victim. A troll used for this purpose is called a pail slave (although some highbloods who own pail slaves fill their pails with them more conventionally). Two plot bunnies from this. 1 - Karkat’s blood colour means he can’t contribute conventionally, but he can avoid culling if a highblood takes him as a pail slave, and uses him to fill one of his/her pails 2 - Tavros’ injuries mean he’s incapable of producing slurry, so a highblood takes him as a pail slave to protect him from culling
Why should I read it?: This is one of those “I never knew I was into that!” fics, where suddenly a kink you previously had no interest in before becomes really freaking hot. In this one, it would be inflation/being used to retain genetic material. Before this I would have thought it was weird and then promptly forgotten about it; now it’s hot. Thanks Obama Laylah.
I must admit, though, that I thought about posting this before. Several times when wondering which fic to post I was tempted to post this one, but I couldn’t bring myself to do so. The main reason is that it’s a dead fic; it hasn’t updated in nearly a year, and I try my damnedest to only rec in progress or finished fics. I was also waiting for it to go on Laylah’s AO3, which it never did. However rereading it makes me think it’s time to post it.
Now the reason this fic is so hot, and why it’s a “I never knew I was into this!” fic isn’t because of the kink itself; it’s because of who the kink it is. Karkat Vantas, fandom bicycle, decides to sign up as a “pail slave” in order to not be culled, only to be noticed by E%patriate Darkleer himself, who, in a fit of pity, decides to request him. Darkleer is surprisingly kind and thoughtful of Karkat’s predicament, which simultaneously freaks Karkat out and make his bloodpusher go over time…and that’s where it ends.
Very short, due to the fact that it’s been languishing on the kink meme for going on a year now, but still worth a read. Also bonus points for making me ship Darkleer/Karkat
Night reblog!
