hs_olympics | BONUS ROUND 5

Bonus Round 5

Tales from the Road

Hey, shippers! HSO is winding down, so we thought we'd take a look back at the journey, so to speak. With that in mind, this next bonus round is going to be roadtrip-themed! Give us a little taste of your characters' life on the road, whatever form that takes.

Rules

Submit prompts! Prompts should consist of one ship (friendship/gen is fine too!) and a location. This cannot be your team's ship! This round we will not be giving points for prompts.

Look through the prompts and fill whichever you like!

You may not fill prompts for your ship, nor may you fill your own team's prompts.

Fills should be posted as replies to the prompts which they are for, following the format below. They may be any medium.

Title Format
If you are starting a new thread, please use this format in your title.

Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team YOU belong to; please use the characters and quadrant, not whatever portmanteau or nickname you've come up with.

If you are filling a prompt, use this format in your title.

Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team YOU belong to; please use the characters and quadrant, not whatever portmanteau or nickname you've come up with.
If your team name is not in this format and in the title we cannot guarantee that it will be counted.

Posts not using this format in the title will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, no matter what they contain. They, like all comments on the comm, are subject to the Wank Policy.

Scoring
For fills (as stated here):
First 5 entries in each post: 30 (per entry)
Entries 6-10 in each post: 20 (per entry)
Entries 11-15 in each post: 10 (per entry)
Entries 16+ in each post: 5 (per entry)

All scored content must be created/assembled new for this round.

If you have any questions, please ask them at the FAQ post here, or email them to us (homestuck.shipping at gmail). Otherwise, we cannot guarantee that we will see them in a timely fashion!

Bonus Round 5 is now closed!

16/08/12 Comments are unscreened again, for the sake of comments on fills. No new fills are being counted for points.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Wow great ha I'll try to have this finished in a few days!

awesome!! :D

Pretty

Karkat learned a lot in wriggler school.
He learned how the city was built. He learned how it was kept running. He learned how being pretty made everyone on equal terms, with biology not getting in the way.
He learned about the old quadrant system, how hate used to be so widely accepted. He learned how the hemisphere system used now was far superior. He learned why moirails were so important(although most of that was learned outside of school).
He learned about the old blood order, and how barbaric and unfair it was. He learned how he, as a mutant, could live even longer than a tyrian blood, as long as the unique bloodpusher problems didn't kill him in the meantime.

Kanaya learned a lot in her wrigglerhood.
She learned that playing hemisphere games were the stupidest thing you could ever do, not just for the two involved, but countless others around you(it took her weeks to convince Karkat that she hadn't actually been pale for Vriska).
She learned how to calm her moirail after the months of agony of being in a red/black triangle, in which everyone was black for everyone as well as red. When the other two eventually became matesprits, she talked him out of stooping so low as to take up one of their blatantly black advances(the other had gone black with someone else, and a fight that had gone too far had made an example of why trolls only have hemispheres now(both involved had been understandably mortified and didn't speak to each other anymore)).
She learned that the pretty purple blood on the other side of the dorm was scared of getting attached to a jade blood who would more than likely go into the breeding caverns as soon as she could get out of New Pretty Town.
She learned that blood still mattered, it was just that hating a warm blood meant you were bigoted, and that hating a cold blood meant you were too bitter about the past. She learned more blood slurs than she ever cared to hear.
She learned that there were precious few wrigglers that she could relate to, and adult trolls simply didn't talk to wrigglers beyond the classroom and tutoring. They had lives in Pretty Town, with all the other Mid Pretties.

Karkat and Kanaya learned a lot about each other in their wrigglerhood.
Karkat knew that Kanaya was wise beyond her sweeps and no wriggler she could truly socialize with was so mature, intelligent, and cunning. Karkat knew she was so trapped in her own mind. Karkat knew that she pined over(one of) his flushcrushs' best friend, and that the stupid cold blood was too logical, too farsighted, to consider her own(very apparent) feelings. Karkat knew Kanaya was completely trapped in her blood. Karkat knew she would be considered equal to everybody after she was pretty. Karkat knew she couldn't wait for the operation that would somehow make her look more elegant, more refined, and that it would somehow fix all her problems. Karkat knew she completely trusted the operation. Karkat knew she thought she was trapped in her age.

Kanaya knew Karkat hated his blood, because it made him the center of attention wherever he went. Kanaya knew he hated his blood mostly because of the pain that crippled him at times, because when he was tired of taking 5 pills a night, he simply wouldn't take them, and then be retching with pain before midnight. Kanaya knew that Karkat put up a front unlike any other. His cruel words and insults had him looking like a sweep old grub, when he was really just smart enough to know it would keep wrigglers their age away. Kanaya knew that Karkat sometimes did it because he hated black feelings, and so he gave everyone some of his contempt, but under where he even wouldn't acknowledge, he did it because he was waiting for his contempt to be returned. Kanaya knew Karkat hated his base instincts, but couldn't help lowering himself to black. Kanaya knew that he really only hated others so much because he hated himself so much, and thus all other hatred had to go up too, like a ratio(Kanaya also knew that Karkat secretly loved all sorts of maths and sciences, although he may hate the place where he was taught these "amazing" subjects(he would sometimes even make math jokes/puns when they were alone)). Kanaya knew Karkat didn't trust the medical operations the city provided, because in his eyes, they never fixed a problem permanently.

They both would do anything for the other. Kanaya would calm him from his fits of misdirected black rage. Karkat would look forward to the freedom of New Pretty Town with his moirail.

They worked well together.

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Haha oops it doesn't really fit road trip very well, and kinda morphed into an all-out AU.

This will be a multi chapter, an will be up on ao3 on Monday by latest. It will be under the title "Pretty" and my username is Claudiaasd. Hope you like this fill, and will check out the rest of this fic when it goes up.

I mixed up the dates on when this roun closed, so when I though it was closing tomorrow, I just realized it closed yesterday. Welp. :I

sighs dreamily

homestuck uglies au

karkat kanaya

this is pretty much everything i could hope for <33

hey don't you apologize. (i was kind of hoping for a full au anyway oops). heck yes i am going to be checking the multi-chapter fic out. B)

BONUS ROUND 5

Bonus Round 5

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Re: PROMPT: TEAM DAVE<3JADE

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