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[Title] Beta Kids: Wake Up
[Fandom] Homestuck
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] Jade likes to think about how her friends live, even though she's never seen their homes. (It's quite a while since I read the first act of Homestuck. So apologies for any canon errors. Or maybe Jade just isn't as accurate as she thinks she is ^^)
Sometimes Jade forgets she’s never met any of them. There’ve been so many dreams and chats and asides and strange gifts sent from an ocean away that she feels as though knows their lives as well as she knows her own.
So, she wakes up early when it’s still cool, because the birds caw outside and Bec nudges her awake, cold nose against her hand. She can already feel the promise of heat in the air and she’ll have kicked her covers off in the night. The floor’s deliciously cold on her feet and the air smells of plants.
John has an alarm clock - she thinks it’s a Ghostbusters one now? The Call to Pranksters one got smashed in a hilarious incident involving a spring-loaded catapult? - and when it goes off he rolls over and pulls the covers over his head until his dad knocks on the bedroom door, maybe greets him by making a clown toy peer round it.
Rose mostly doesn’t even need to set her alarm clock - she’s one of those people who can wake up when they want to - but she does anyway, so that her mom can’t get one on over on her by coming to wake her up. Jade doesn’t get why this is a big deal exactly but at any rate, Rose sets her alarm way earlier than she needs to and then is up and dressed and taking a moment to read one of the weird grimoire books she likes before she all casually strolls out to get breakfast.
And Dave likes to tell them that in his apartment they only set their alarms when they’re trying to stage an ironic re-enaction of a wacky sitcom opening, that his bro is too cool to care whether he makes it to school on time, but Jade’s knows that half the time he’s up before dawn so he can scope out the apartment before his brother’s awake. The other half of the time he’s woken up unexpectedly and unpleasantly by some weird creepy trick probably involving puppets that his brother’s pulled.
Jade usually wanders into the greenhouse, picking up some fruit on the way - melon or mango or guava - and munches as she walks through the flowers, bare feet earth-smeared, the concrete just beginning to warm up. She stays until the sun’s too high and the greenhouse is baking. Okay, she’d probably stay all day if she were on her own, but Bec will show up and nudge her back into the rest of the house, tail swishing.
John eats sugary stuff for breakfast, stuff where you get a free gift. Jade thinks he cares more about the gift than the taste of the food, but she can imagine him slurping down cereal, milk spattering his glasses. Sometimes, she knows, his dad tries to chat with him at breakfast - John says it’s a big pain - other times John eats on his own ‘cause his dad has gone into his study with a cup of coffee. John feels like the kind of person who’s always slightly late for everything, who bolts down his breakfast and runs for the bus, probably taking the day’s goofy cereal toy along with him in a pocket.
Rose doesn’t like eating breakfast but her mom doesn’t either so Rose goes downstairs and makes something like porridge and pretends to eat it while she’s reading a book. Rose says porridge is the best because it has so many associations. Her mom can tell her it will make her fat, or Rose can imply that she needs to eat it because she never gets a home-cooked meal, or her mom can decide to try and make it from scratch while already sipping on a martini, or Rose can use it to deflect a surprise gift of blueberry pancakes. Rose also never eats breakfast without a book on the table. She says it’s vital for controlling the ebb and flow of the conversational tide. And she watches the clock, working out the optimum minute to leave.
Dave says he doesn’t care about breakfast either, that the guerrilla warfare expeditions into the kitchen to find food are for stealth practice. Sometimes he doesn’t need to go forage in the kitchen; sometimes he’s got bagels or rolls stowed away in his room. He’ll eat sprawled on his bed, IMing with one or another of them or catching up on that Midnight Crew webcomic or working on his own (which often looks like it was made by someone with only one hand free who was focused more on whether bagels and anchovies go together. It’s supposed to, though). Dave’s mostly late because his shoes have disappeared or his schoolbooks have been replaced by puppets and he has to solve a bunch of clues to find them again.
Jade cuddles Bec and scritches him behind the ears and puts herself into her friends’ lives. She pretends that when each of them steps out into the daylight, it’s to her that they’re catching a bus to.
Other times she wonders whether she’s dreamt them all up herself, but she tries not to think like that.
[Fandom] Homestuck
[Rating] G
[Notes/Summary] Jade likes to think about how her friends live, even though she's never seen their homes. (It's quite a while since I read the first act of Homestuck. So apologies for any canon errors. Or maybe Jade just isn't as accurate as she thinks she is ^^)
Sometimes Jade forgets she’s never met any of them. There’ve been so many dreams and chats and asides and strange gifts sent from an ocean away that she feels as though knows their lives as well as she knows her own.
So, she wakes up early when it’s still cool, because the birds caw outside and Bec nudges her awake, cold nose against her hand. She can already feel the promise of heat in the air and she’ll have kicked her covers off in the night. The floor’s deliciously cold on her feet and the air smells of plants.
John has an alarm clock - she thinks it’s a Ghostbusters one now? The Call to Pranksters one got smashed in a hilarious incident involving a spring-loaded catapult? - and when it goes off he rolls over and pulls the covers over his head until his dad knocks on the bedroom door, maybe greets him by making a clown toy peer round it.
Rose mostly doesn’t even need to set her alarm clock - she’s one of those people who can wake up when they want to - but she does anyway, so that her mom can’t get one on over on her by coming to wake her up. Jade doesn’t get why this is a big deal exactly but at any rate, Rose sets her alarm way earlier than she needs to and then is up and dressed and taking a moment to read one of the weird grimoire books she likes before she all casually strolls out to get breakfast.
And Dave likes to tell them that in his apartment they only set their alarms when they’re trying to stage an ironic re-enaction of a wacky sitcom opening, that his bro is too cool to care whether he makes it to school on time, but Jade’s knows that half the time he’s up before dawn so he can scope out the apartment before his brother’s awake. The other half of the time he’s woken up unexpectedly and unpleasantly by some weird creepy trick probably involving puppets that his brother’s pulled.
Jade usually wanders into the greenhouse, picking up some fruit on the way - melon or mango or guava - and munches as she walks through the flowers, bare feet earth-smeared, the concrete just beginning to warm up. She stays until the sun’s too high and the greenhouse is baking. Okay, she’d probably stay all day if she were on her own, but Bec will show up and nudge her back into the rest of the house, tail swishing.
John eats sugary stuff for breakfast, stuff where you get a free gift. Jade thinks he cares more about the gift than the taste of the food, but she can imagine him slurping down cereal, milk spattering his glasses. Sometimes, she knows, his dad tries to chat with him at breakfast - John says it’s a big pain - other times John eats on his own ‘cause his dad has gone into his study with a cup of coffee. John feels like the kind of person who’s always slightly late for everything, who bolts down his breakfast and runs for the bus, probably taking the day’s goofy cereal toy along with him in a pocket.
Rose doesn’t like eating breakfast but her mom doesn’t either so Rose goes downstairs and makes something like porridge and pretends to eat it while she’s reading a book. Rose says porridge is the best because it has so many associations. Her mom can tell her it will make her fat, or Rose can imply that she needs to eat it because she never gets a home-cooked meal, or her mom can decide to try and make it from scratch while already sipping on a martini, or Rose can use it to deflect a surprise gift of blueberry pancakes. Rose also never eats breakfast without a book on the table. She says it’s vital for controlling the ebb and flow of the conversational tide. And she watches the clock, working out the optimum minute to leave.
Dave says he doesn’t care about breakfast either, that the guerrilla warfare expeditions into the kitchen to find food are for stealth practice. Sometimes he doesn’t need to go forage in the kitchen; sometimes he’s got bagels or rolls stowed away in his room. He’ll eat sprawled on his bed, IMing with one or another of them or catching up on that Midnight Crew webcomic or working on his own (which often looks like it was made by someone with only one hand free who was focused more on whether bagels and anchovies go together. It’s supposed to, though). Dave’s mostly late because his shoes have disappeared or his schoolbooks have been replaced by puppets and he has to solve a bunch of clues to find them again.
Jade cuddles Bec and scritches him behind the ears and puts herself into her friends’ lives. She pretends that when each of them steps out into the daylight, it’s to her that they’re catching a bus to.
Other times she wonders whether she’s dreamt them all up herself, but she tries not to think like that.