Rose is a relatively good cook, because her mom wasn’t always up for it, and she wanted some variety from easy to cook boxed meals. She generally made enough for herself, her mother, and leftovers for easy reheating. She also can make drinks like a champ, but as she got older and more bitter about her mom’s drinking, she’d just throw some juice in with a tiny bit of vodka, with the hopes it would slow her down a bit.
John doesn’t know how to cook, or do the laundry, or any of the self-sufficient things he really should, because his dad usually did them. He was forced into enough baking bonding time to be great at that, despite his wishes not to be.
Dave can’t cook that well, since it was best to be in and out of the kitchen, lest he get interrupted. Since his kitchen was generally useless anyway, and his brother made a good amount of money, he’d grab takeout, pizza, and whatever other cheap, cooked meals he could walk to most of the time for dinner, and have non-cooked food like cereal and sandwiches for breakfast and lunch.
Jade is capable of making food, but is rather blown away when she starts regularly eating well-cooked meals for the first time; she’s not used to so much flavor, from spices, or such a large variety of things to eat.
AU where people age until they reach 18 and then stop aging until they meet their soul mate so they can grow old together.
i’d never die
but imagine already being in a relationship at 18 and then at 22 you’re both sitting there looking at each other and realizing that you both haven’t aged a day
imagine platonically moving in with ur best friend at 18 and then realizing a few years later that you’ve been aging together
imagine purposely never finding your soul mate so you can reign eternal
holy shit i think we may have stumbled upon the greatest romance/adventure concept ever
What if you killed your soul mate so you’d make sure you never aged.
This just makes me really want a story where the main antagonist is someone who has been killing their soulmate for centuries whenever they find them, and the main protagonist is the newly re-incarnated version of their soulmate
I’d read the hell out of that :O
Personally, my first assumption was that killing one’s soulmate would start the post-18 ageing process, and I was more focused on people who lived for centuries as a matter of course because there was no reincarnation and their soulmate was just not around yet. Like, centuries of life experience, but still a “kid” in some important ways, according to society. Plus, loneliness angst.
I would read the crap out of this.
Ok realtalk: this is honestly how I read Marquise Mindfang in Homestuck canon. Maybe not so much with the other long-lived Ancestors, but Mindfang very much has a “well I know my serendipitous matesprit isn’t around yet so there’s no reason not to treat that area of my life with adolescent flippancy for centuries on end” vibe. (And then she did awful shit with that attitude, because she’s a Serket and being awful is what they do.)
how the fuck could Jane’s death possibly be considered Just, though
how is it just for her to be killed by one villain while mind controlled by a rival villain, unconscious, and in such circumstances that an attempt to defend her was sufficiently Heroic as to permakill Jake
Okay, so we all love our thieves and rogues, and like to classify them according to what Callie told us. The problem with that is Calliope isn’t always right. Our thieves are Vriska and Meenah, who share something in common other than the class. Now, there are some things to remember:
-There is more to passive/active than just offence/defense and self-benefit/others-benefit.
-This theory is based on the assumption that The Ultimate Reward corrupts the group claiming it. (Caliborn, Squidles) Basically, if the Squiddles made the trolls’ universe, then they were changed into Horrorterrors (48). Also, Caliborn and Lord English are quite different, despite the age difference, it just makes sense that the power or something changes them somewhat.
With that in mind, thieves are rather active. Except for one thing we overlook, both thieves have (pretty unintentionally) shared. Vriska, technically, stole victory for herself by landing the last blow on the king, but Gamzee did most of the work. Vriska also stopped them from claiming the reward by putting John to sleep to cause Bec to be prototyped. And then there’s Meenah, she stole her friends lives. The Condescension killed a lot of things. Each of these events, while benefiting the thief, benefitted others too. I know, it sounds crazy, but let me explain each one.
-Stole victory. They still won, y’know Their team as a whole, it’s not like Sgrub gave more points or more of the reward to Vriska because of it. It was really just the joy of killing that thing she stole. Look, you’re tired, you’ve been fighting this beast for a while, and haven’t ended the fight yet. It doesn’t help that Vriska hasn’t dealt much damage. And then, she deals a final blow. If she had exerted herself like them, nobody knows if someone would of had the energy to deal a final blow.
-Put John to sleep. Chain reaction right here. A ton of stuff happens because she stopped him from prototyping, which led to their claiming of the reward being stopped. Clarification, the universe was made, but they didn’t claim the reward. That reward would have corrupted them. Accept it. They probably would have become power-hungry and started killing each other anyway, but no, Vriska stopped it. Sure, she didn’t know she would, she just wanted to be able to kill Jack, but she did. She knew ahead of time she would stop them from claiming it, and she benefitted them by preventing them from going all reward-crazed corrupt.
-Killed the pre-scratch trolls. Yeah, Meenah benefitted them by stealing their lives. If she hadn’t they’d be worse than dead, they’d be nonexistent. She didn’t even care if it worked for the others or not, as you could tell by her not leaving her dream-bubble palace for a loooooooooong time, all that mattered was her continuing to exist.
-Killed a ton of people. Okay, even I have a tough time with this. The Condescension definitely didn’t care about benefiting others. But she did. She stopped their suffering, haha no sufferer pun intended. But she killed them, yes, many, but by killing them they didn’t have to live under her tyranny anymore. Which is enforced by the fact that she forced the helmsman to suffer more, by making him live longer. Really unintentionally, the Condense was doing a favor to all those she killed/shortened the lifespan of.
Now, use this evidence as you will, but to be clear, here is what I conclude from this evidence. Thieves are the solution/benefit of the problems they cause, or they cause problems to benefit them and others. Vriska stopped their corruption by bringing in Jack. She also insured victory by saving her energy and dealing a blow when it was needed, but made it slower by not contributing along the way. Meenah killed them, but did so in a way that kept them existing. The Condense killed people, which ended the pain they went through by living under her rule. Solution/benefit of their problem. Or problem from the benefit. None of these benefits to others were intentional, except for when it benefitted them. So yeah, all these coincidental times where the “active” class shares. And another possible definition for how the thief class interacts with their aspect. Yay.
The reason that Karkat’s blood is mutant isn’t because it’s bright. Equius has the same luminosity and he’s still considered a highblood. Karkat’s blood is mutant because the bright red color is on both the highblood and lowblood side of the spectrum.
It makes more sense really, since if karkat’s simultaneously the lowest a lowblood can get also the highest a highblood can get, it threaten to wreak havoc on the enitire hemospectrum. (he’d turn it into a hemocircle.)
homestuck au where everything is the same except all the beta kids were raised as siblings by johns dad because jade didnt deserve to be alone, rose didnt deserve to be ignored and dave didnt deserve to get his ass beat on a regular basis. bro is in jail
they get in the game and find out theyre actually two sets of legitimate siblings and instead of being like “why were these two people were not related two raised as our siblings” (because dad is clearly john’s bio father) john and jade are just like. “awwww WE wanna be related to dave and rose too. this isnt fair”
they meet the alpha kids and rose turns to the derse kids and is like “im rose. i think im your daughter? this is my brother dave, my brother john, and my sister jade. what are your names” and dirk actually literally has a fucking stroke
john and jade have lived together their ENTIRE lives as siblings even though theyre technically second cousins? but dave and rose came later. john and dave had been internet friends and one year when theyre in like fifth grade dave comes to visit and when dad sees all these fuckin bruises all over him hes like “what the FUCK” and when dave goes “oh yeah bro and i were fighting. hes training me for something i guess its no big deal rly. the swords are p badass” dad is like JOHN….JADE……SLEEPING BAGS ARE DOWNSTAIRS and later when daves supposed to go back home john and jade go with him and dads like “im taking your kid because youre incompetent and a monster” and bros like “fair.” and then they call the police on him
roses mom and johns dad were dating for a while like two years later and they were all INTIMATELY aware of the fact that she had no idea whatsoever about how to take care of a kid. one day she was like “hey can you babysit rosey for a few hours i gotta do something” and dad went “yeah” and then mom like. never picked up rose. she just kind of skipped town. so dads here with his two Actual children plus johns internet friend whos brother beat him up and this goth eleven-year-old with a negligent mom and hes just. “guess i need a bigger car”
oh also john and jade are on the meteor during the game. thats a thing. the trolls are all like “???????moirails?????” but thats just kind of how the kids have always acted with each other and they see zero reason to stop now. theyd always been super close for siblings (rose thinks its because theyre all roughly the same age) but for some reason they never grew apart like some kids do and just. stayed really close. they love each other dammit
john and jade legitimately do forget that they arent really related to dave and rose btw. like they straight up are like “remember when this thing happened when we were five” and dave is like “i didnt live with you until i was like 9 dude” and john and jade are like “what really”
also like. since jade was raised around people (including john) theyre both EXTREMELY touchy and even though theyd NEVER say it out loud dave and rose are extremely hungry for like. healthy physical contact that didnt involve fighting ESPECIALLY dave so they have movie nights and shit and they all fall asleep in one big pile??? jade’s got her arms around rose who’s holding hands with john whose legs are tangled up with dave who’s got his face in jade’s hair and despite the logistical speed bumps its literally the most comfortable any of them have ever been as some dumb movie plays on the television and they dream
john’s a prep jade’s a jock dave’s a nerd and rose’s a goth. they all go to public school and have no friends aside from each other for almost two years because since the strilondes dont look like theyre related to the harleyberts people assume that john/rose and jade/ dave are couples and therefore Do Not Interact
one day jades like “blah blah blah my brother dave” and whoever shes talking to is like…..”dave strider? i thought he was your boyfriend” and jade says without skipping a beat “his name is dave egbert and no offense but i would actually rather die”
dave and rose have simultaneous identity crises in sixth grade. “oh jesus oh fuck were not legitimate harleybert siblings what if john and jade dont think were valid” so they sneak out one night to the 24-hour drugstore, pool their allowances to buy enough black hair dye to make rapunzel a goth, and spend two hours together silently destroying their hair as they soak it in cheap dye long enough to literally make it black almost permanently. john gets up to get a glass of water at 2 am and opens the bathroom door to see dave wearing a shower cap and rose frantically scrubbing off the dye stains on the sink and walks right back out again. jade wakes up the next morning and sees two dark-haired people she doesnt recognize asleep next to her and almost has a fucking heart attack
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