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out of curiosity, will you ever add more to sunlightverse.... it was So Good I Miss It??? im about to reread and review it all, and im just curious, because its so good. asdfghjk this isnt coherent its 3 am
idk. i’ve got some in progress fics but they’ve been in progress for like three years by now and they refuse to get unstuck :( sorry, i can’t tell you, i have no idea myself.
Sunlightverse! :O How about first time Tavros tries to give a blessing/curse on purpose and/or first time he does it by accident?
(tw mention of abuse)
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“Okay. Okay. I can do this. Your cows will love you like you love them,” he tries.
The girl -- young woman? -- who slipped into the Land of Sand and Zephyr to find her lost calf does not see him, stumbling right through his body in her haste. Tavros’ hive door is wide open, waiting for her; the wind brushes sand across her ankles, the calves’ back feet. They’re making plaintive noises, trying to squirm, almost as big as she is, but she refuses to let them go.
She’s neither a Page nor Breath. Maybe that’s why it doesn’t seem to catch. He tries again.
“Your cows will answer your call like you answer theirs?”
... Still doesn’t seem to have worked, and the calves moo in frustrated distress as she hauls them over he threshold. She barely pauses for a shivering gasp before trudging toward the stairs. Sighing, Tavros flutters after her.
He’s pretty sure she could see him now that they’re inside, if she turned around, but she doesn’t.
“It is not any fun at all to be a god when you don’t even get to grant boons,” he confides later to Nepeta and Disciple. “I don’t understand exactly why this didn’t work, or what it takes for it to work, or what conditions must first be met. She was in my Land, doing something I’m supposed to approve of, and I said the words...?”
“I don’t know how it works either,” Nepeta tells him. “It’s just a feeling, it’s there sometimes and you gotta grab it by the tail when it passes by, but I don’t know how to make it come to me --”
A weird look passes on Disciple’s face.
“I think,” she says, and Tavros listens because she’s nice and fun and still an adult, therefore still scary. “I think if you tried it nyow, it would work.”
She looks up at Tavros with her fully green adult eyes and hisses, “Now.”
Tavros flinches back -- off the village bench and straight into his Land. His wings are out and he -- oh. The girl with her calves left his lands, but his lands are still kind of everywhere, and they have left their trace on her; and if he follows the faint air current and steps to the side in just that way...
It’s a valley and a little wooden house in it and there’s yelling, a woman yelling and things breaking and the calf-saving girl saying -- saying she wants to leave, now, saying she will leave and Rakne can’t stop her, not this time, Zania has let her stop her enough times and she went through a god’s underworld, she doesn’t care if Rakne believes her or not and she saved lives and she is strong and never again --
As you came when they needed you, Tavros thinks-whispers-breathes, so will they come when you need themin turn.
There’s a lone moo and then a snort, and then a grunt of effort -- splintering wood, suffling hooves -- anger and panic and none of the animals know why. They still remember being prey, generations ago; they do what prey does best. They run.
Downslope.
The little wooden house doesn’t stand a chance. A tide of cattle breaks on it, around it, drags the walls and the debris right off the foundations; the roof teeters, falls onto panicked beasts that kick and dash out from under it and then in the ruins two women are left, baffled and shocked and somehow unhurt.
The one with the bruises on her wrists straightens up slow, unsure at first, and blinks, and says, “Well, I guess I don’t need your key anymore, then,” and starts picking her way across the debris.
The calves and their mother follow her down the path.
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-- arsenicCatnip [AC] started trolling adiosToreador [AT] --
AC: :33 < did it work? what happened?AC: :33 < disciple says she got a knightly ping, was there a problem?
AT: }:DAT: sORRY, }BD,AT: (iT’S MY PICTOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION, oNLY,, wITH THE SHADES OF COOLNESS ON)AT: nOTHING A LITTLE,, dIVINE STAMPEDE COULDN’T FIX
AC: :33 < :OO !!
AT: i THINK IT WORKED THIS TIME BECAUSE i WAS GLAD TO HELP, aND IT WASN’T JUST BECAUSE i SHOULD AS A DUNGEON MASTER AND i WANTED TO TRY, AT: bECAUSE i KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LOVE SOMEONE, bUT NEED TO LEAVE, bECAUSE THEY ARE POISON,AT: bUT i HOPE THE COWS WILL KNOW BETTER THAN TO TRY FOLLOWING HER INDOORS
If you're still doing Sunlightverse, Karkat and Kanaya discussing their fellow deities?
“Have you figured out which animal was yours to call?” Kanaya asked as Karkat was dragging his feet through the grass toward her. She was sitting by one of the rivulets of water that came out of that weirdass, nonsensical pool at the very top of the island-hill, under the bluest tree.
Karkat paused, frowning down at her, at the way she stared down at her cupped hands, and then sighed. “I asked around. Let’s see yours, then. Hopefully it’ll suck less than mine.”
Kanaya leaned back, opened her hands, unveiling a trio of tiny, jewel-toned frogs. “I wish I could say I was surprised,” she said dryly, though there was still a little smile on her face.
Karkat realized he was about to step on one of the dozens of goddamn frogs gathered adoringly around her in the high, messy grass, and pulled his foot back, almost landing on his ass and rolling backwards down the slope he had just finished climbing. Kanaya caught one of his windmilling arms and reeled him back upwards; Karkat sat, cautiously, on her rock.
“Thanks. Well. Vriska can call spiders, scorpions, and basically anything that scuttles around and can ruin someone’s day with venom,” he said as he leaned closer to politely look at Kanaya’s handful. “Wasn’t a surprise either, but it was still appropriate. Yours is… Yeah.”
One of the frogs jumped on his knee. Karkat sat very still. He wanted to believe it felt something of an echo of their Game duties – the Knight helped the Space hero with the universe frog, right? – but probably it just wanted to be closer to Kanaya.
“It would have been appropriate for Jade or for the Dolorosa, too,” Kanaya replied with a little frown between thin eyebrows. “If we count the frog breeding duties as significant.”
“Jade’s got woofbeasts, which is more significant since she actually was one, and the Dolorosa did jack shit regarding the game in her latest life so pretty much fuck her.”
Kanaya sighed in a vaguely amused way. “She can call slitherbeasts. I don’t know why. Those eat frogs, don’t they? Maybe because she failed to birth a new universe…”
“Maybe because those tattoos look like slitherbeasts,” Karkat said with a snort. “I mean. The scarier Megido goes around with butterflies. Who the fuck even knows why? God tier wings? All the trolls have those. The Game is a random asshole and that’s it. Don’t break your brain over it.”
“Or maybe it’s a death and rebirth symbolism.”
“Oh la la, symbolism.”
“What’s yours, then?” Kanaya asked, smiling at him. Karkat grumbled own at his knee frog. It was looking up at him with its bulbous, unimpressed eyes.
“… I haven’t managed to call up a single thing yet. Maybe they don’t live nearby. But I got annoyed and asked some villagers, and. Um.”
“Yes?”
“Things, I quote, that are not insects but have something shell-like and want to fuck up your day. So yay me, I get snapping shellbeasts. Signless gets the crabdads, how is that fucking fair in any kind of universe?! They’re cranky assholes! Mine was a cranky asshole, anyway. Urgh. Why can’t I get cholerbears.”
Kanaya snickered, and leaned forward to release the tiny frogs into the little stream. A bigger one jumped up on her wrist.
“It’s a nice day, isn’t it.”
Karkat grunted, side-glared at the cheerful, glistening stream and the intensely blue sky. The temperature was perfect for t-shirts, the sunlight a gentle caress on his (still weirdly reddish) skin. “Too bright. Also I really fucking miss the internet. Been trying to keep busy but I swear to God I’ve been having cravings. I’m this close to stealing some surplus computers and teaching the kids in the village how to type so there’s someone new to have a flame war with, but I’d have to teach them how to read first. Ugh. It’s getting claustrophobic with only Sollux. And Dave and Jade and Roxy, I guess, but everyone else is like, oh, I have other things to do outside the hive now. Ugh.”
Kanaya pinched her lips, patted his shoulder gravely, and provided him with a huge lap toad, who croaked disapprovingly at him. Karkat sighed, petted its weird pebbly hide dutifully.
“Which god would you be swearing to?” she mused. Karkat cringed.
“Oh lususfuck on a toboggan, one of us is totally gonna end up god of the internet when it finally gets around to getting created. No. Fuck this. Fuck this up one nostril and down three urethras, I’m going to become a computerless hermit starting now. This is me, Nature Karkat, in my new glade home. How do you do. ”
Kanaya laughed in his face. He was about to keep expounding on the bush that was now his new sleeping room and the damp rocks hiding his squirming future dinner, but then.
“… Kanaya, your frog just shat on me.”
“So that’s a no on Nature Karkat, then?” she asked, laughing with her fangs out, and stood up with a hand held for him to take.
I´m re-reading Sunlightverse after getting nostalgic for old Homestuck fics, and am really curious about whether there was some particular direction in which you wanted to go with that verse
i have a lot of ideas about “the cast deals with Specific Event” such as romantic clusterfucks or little moments of developing godhood or child development, for example, but i don’t have an overarching climax or plot i’m working toward. this series is pretty much just “and they lived”. (it’s the same for covalent, btw.)
i really want to finish the one where karkat gets to do his first act of god, it was BADASS. but it was also started when i still assumed aranea was nicer than mindfang and nurture had a bigger impact on her than it turned out to have, so. hm. also the one where jade, dave and karkat follow a Hero through his trials through their specific underworlds, that was a cool idea. i just kept getting tripped up on that one. :(
Daemons with Karkat and Dave, Sunlightverse?
(if you want to send a more detailed later prompt that’ll be cool, i just don’t really know what to do with them right now)
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TG: and its fucking weird when i see bowie fly by and i blink and she went back two meters
TG: or like
TG: keeps flickering
TG: were already freaks because we dont have technicolor hair but why do the daemons have to reflect the endgame bonus powerup i mean damn i could have lived without a daemon skipping backwards in time i stg thanks for nothing
CG: OH, THAT’S TRUE.
CG: A DAEMON THAT SKIPS HARMLESSLY A COUPLE OF SECONDS IN TIME.
CG: AND DOESN’T EVEN MISS MUCH, SOMEHOW, BECAUSE YOUR CONNECTION IS ~OUT OF THIS WORLD~ ANYWAY.
CG: SO TERRIBLE. THE WORST THING EVER. SOB, ETC, GTFO.
TG: what pissed in your cheerios dude
TG: was it an outrageous time rapping hellbird or
CG: WHAT PISSED IN MY CHEERIOS, HE ASKS.
CG: I WISH IT WAS PISS AT THIS POINT, YOU SHITBARFING WHINEFEST.
CG: MY ASPECT IS BLOOD, REMEMBER?
CG: HOW DID YOU MISS THE THING WHERE KULIRA KEEPS TRACKING IMPROBABLY HUGE TRAILS OF BRIGHT “DINNER THATAWAY“ GROSSNESS *ALL OVER THE VILLAGE*?
CG: OR THE SLOWLY WIDENING PUDDLES EVERY TIME SHE SITS HER FLUFFY ASS DOWN?
CG: OR THE COAGULATING, STINKING MATS IN HER FUR AND ALL THROUGH HER QUILLS THAT **I MUST GROOM OUT THREE TIMES A DAY.**
TG: ok sorry
TG: what bled in your cheerios
CG: ...
CG: WE’RE VISITING YOUR HOUSE NEXT.
godDAMN, your GHB dialog is great. It is funky and hilarious. At your convenience, might you, uh, bestow upon us a sample session of 'GHB-trying-to-get-some-sexting-going-on-with-Dad'?
heheh, thank you. he’s so horrible, it’s so fun. ;__; i think i’m out of practice with his syntax, though. but if i get an idea i will def. write it because oh god GHB no. D:
GHB/Dad from Sunlightverse for the meme?
Which one sexts like a straight white boy?
oh my god GHB sexting. why can i see it so well.
WHAT RAGS IS A MOTHERFUCKER SPORTING ON HIS UGLY CARCASS THEN.
Which one cried during a fucking disney movie?
neither one! ok dad might once have cried with jane but very VERY far in the past and he was moved by other things such as being a single dad but his little girl loved him so much aaahhh.
GHB talks about eating the talking animals with various sauces. :X he also got hella pissed when Scar and Ursula bit it.
Who put a goddamned fork in the microwave?
GHB. microwaves, man, who the fuck even knows. that’s even worse than magnets.
Who does the silly hands-over-the-eyes “Guess who” thing?
GHB. then dad does the OOPS my elbow got misplaced in your guts SO SORRY MY GOOD CHAP thing.
Who puts their cold hands/feet on their partner?
GHB. he really likes that Dad is all warm and shit, and he’s cold everywhere so it’s always fun to see him twitch at every single contact.
Who had that embarassing Reality TV marathon?
Dad’s too busy for that stuff! also doesn’t see the appeal at all. GHB then probably, but he wasn’t embarrassed.
Who laughs more during sex?
GHB. He… He really shouldn’t. is all i’m saying. Honk. Do:
WHO IS THE LITTLE SPOON?
IT IS NOT THIS IMPOSING AND SALTY MOTHERFUCKER I AM UP AND TELLING YOU
(it totally fucking is. oh does GHB’s hate burn bright as that hateful day orb in the motherfucking star tapestry on their planet ceiling.)
what would happen if Kankri and Khepur from your sunlightverse met?
oh god XD
okay so kankri would stare at kpeher like he's some kind of cockroach, and keper would be like oh hey! kid! hey! nice to meet you! and kankri would start lecturing him on his privilege as someone raised outside all hemocastes and on his trying to set himself up as some kind of messiah figure and cult leader srsly what were you thinking and trying very very very hard not to say a thing -- okay, not to say ALL THE THINGS but maybe one or two things about the SLUTTINESS but it's kind obvious that this is actually what he objects to the most.
and kheper starts out startled and a bit taken a back, and then he just... listens and hums and nods and smiles a little bit wider with each minute, because he KNOWS that will piss off kankri like nothing else once he notices. (he's a bit annoyed, he's just had some practice at hiding it; he's talked to crowds where showing negative feels would have gotten him stoned, so yeah that's motivation.) and then he engages him in actual debate while determinedly keeping cheerful and letting his barbs slide off, until kankri verbally attacks disciple or his mom or psii and then kheper is less amused.
he doesn't let himself be dragged into an actual fight, though, the kid is both him enough to get him REALLY well, and different enough that his jabs don't land quite where they ought to. also kheper has been a sanctimonious brat who knew nothing about anything and was safe as houses and never in real danger in his life, and kankri has never been a religious revolutionary in danger of getting brutally killed, plus the age/maturity difference, so kheper has some advantage there.
probably when he's getting tired of dealing with kankri's verbal assault/deafness combo he shuts him up by kissing the first amenable person who passes through.
which is, actually, possibly Dad, or Redglare.
then when kankri is still spluttering he goes all "ok that was a satisfying bit of discourse but i have to attend to the needs of the flesh now how about we both think about This Topic (that you Totally Misrepresented or have a Lopsided Awareness of) until our next meeting bye!"
he knows he likely hasn't accomplished anything, kankri will be too righteously offended to have been sexually assaulted by having to witness a consensual kiss between two fully clothed adults to admit that kheper had any sort of point at all and that he's just out to use shock tactics becahse his rhetoric is too weak to fight kankri's anyway!!!!
but next time kheper will be better prepared for him. >_> dun dun dunnnnn.
