Two Pawns and One Queen
Ten drabbles about the Homestuck Exiles - (first batch of five)
As explained above, these are ten small drabbles of fifty about the Kids Exiles (focusing mostly on PM, WV and AR). As these were written based on single word prompts, there isn't a specific genre (happy, sad, shippy, etc...)
Enjoy!
#01 – Comfort
It was slightly odd, really. All her life, nestled in the security of Prospit, she had always considered the dark colored carapaces of Derse as something to be wary of. But now, silently watching her black skinned companions sleep on the rough sand, PM realized that their presence gave her a sort of comfort and security she hadn't felt in a very, very long time.
#02 – Kiss
Time is so very odd, isn't it? Five lone minutes can seem like an eternity but a whole year can be gone in less than a heartbeat. When reunited with the White King, time seemed to come to a standstill for the White ex-Queen. But sadly, time does not give preferential treatment to royalty and in less that a few seconds, the hands of time brought forth the kiss of death to their royal reunion.
#03 – Soft
There was a time where you could describe PM with the word “soft”. There was a time where the prospitian would have never dreamed of hurting, much less wanting to kill, someone but times had changed. Manipulation, trickery and suffering had slowly whisked away whatever “softness” she once had and replaced it with anger and hurt. There was a time where you could describe PM with the word “soft”.
Not anymore.
#04 – Pain
A not too bright bumbling fellow who waved his arms around like a fool. A child-like adult who imagined silly fantasies about a fictional town made of cans. That's how everyone saw 'the mayor'. He couldn't blame them, though. That was his way to cope. To cope with the Warrior inside him who tried to stand up and was rewarded with the senseless murder of all his comrades. To cope with the Vagabond inside him who had found two precious creatures to love and was rewarded with the murder of one and being separated from the other.
To cope with the hole in his stomach that, even if healed, had left inside him a pain that reached his heart, clawing into it. A pain that could never be healed by a witch of life.
#05 – Name
It had all started with a sincere, curious string of questions. Terezi had inquired if WV had any friends he wanted her to draw in New Can Town and, after WV described two carapaces, Dave turned around and asked what their names were. WV opened his mouth but no words came out... The mayor stood still in place, his eyes wide open like the eyes of someone who just realized something terrible.
Peregrine Mendicant and Aimless Renegade. Those weren't names, they were statuses. WV felt sick to his stomach...in all the time he had been with them, all the time they had been friends and all the time they had fun together...
He never once bothered to know their real names.
And now, he'd never get to ask them.
#06 – Rules
As they began to spend their days together, rules began to arise within the exiles. No one was to touch AR's weapons without his permission, any new construction in Can Town had to be approved by WV, etcetera etcetera. These rules were usually established in a nice way except for one that the two dersites learned the hard way.
You see, one fine day, PM was looking for supplies in her base while WV and AR waited outside, bored out of their minds. Trying to figure out what to do, they noticed a bunch of letters peeking out of PM's bag and decided it couldn't hurt if they read one or two out of curiosity. Fifteen minutes later, PM returned to find the two dersites sitting next to a small pile of opened letters, completely entranced in their 'reading'.
They turned to look at PM and the expression on her face was enough to scare them into learning never to touch her stuff again.
#07 – Chocolate
During one of the raids AR and WV did in search for food, they happened to find three bars of chocolate in AR's tower. Upon bringing back supplies to PM, the dersites offered the chocolate bars to PM seeing as they had eaten some of the supplies while actually looking for them. She kindly accepted them and just as she was about to eat one, she seemed to have noticed something. After a few moments, she thanked them again but said that, since they reminded her of something special, she had decided to save them instead of eating them.
AR and WV stared at PM in confusion. What the heck did two bars of black chocolate and one bar of white chocolate remind her of?
#08 – Happiness
If someone had offered the Parcel Mistress a glimpse of her exiled future and asked her if she considered that to be happiness, she would have been quick to say that her future looked anything but happy.
If someone had asked the Peregrine Mendicant if her current life was happy, she'd have replied that with her new friends her life was alright but saying it was happy would be a little of a stretch.
If she wasn't busy chasing a demonic dog and someone asked the Prospitian Monarch to look back at her days in apocalyptic earth and answer if she thought that was happiness, she'd recall her companions and the long nights spent watching the stars, talking and laughing together and the Prospitian Monarch would have replied without a beat that no, that wasn't happiness...
It was bliss.
#09 – Telephone
“This is so ridiculous it must be totally illegal,” muttered the Aimless Renegade, standing atop his tower, a makeshift can-telephone in his hand. He looked down and saw WV and PM looking back at him from the ground, a similar can-telephone in PM's hand. AR followed the string attached to PM's can with his eyes all the way until he reached his own can and, just as he was ready to roll his eyes, he heard PM's voice calling to him from inside the can.
Down below on the ground, PM and WV couldn't help but laugh at AR's “THIS IS SO COOL IT MUST BE SO ILLEGAL!”
#10 – Ears
“EARS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY, MS PAINT,” Hussie whined as Ms Paint pulled the adult by the ear, completely unphased by his howls of pain.
No one escaped eating their soup while she was around.
No one.
~~~~~~ The end!
Hope you liked them! Writing these took a little longer than I anticipated so the next batch might take longer to be posted (give or take an hour or two). After I finish all five batches, I'll finish another larger fic I'm working on and then I'm doing a few drabbles based on entries from this wonderful askblog asdfg