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CRUCIBLE OF CREATIVE POTENTIAL: The Homestuck Request Meme
ACT TWO
(also known as SHITSTAIN ASSMASTER)By popular demand, a general request meme for MSPA, at long last. Have an idea you want to see drawn or written? This is the place to ask. Both romantic (of any kind, het or slash) and general prompts are accepted. Reply to those comments with art

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Karkat hurt/comfort

[anonymous]

What Karkat's been through recently is horrifying and then some, and I just want to give him a hug. So I'm requesting something where, in the future, everything has been somehow worked out (without more deaths, plz ;_;) and there's no universe-threatening danger anymore, but Karkat is still traumatized as hell. I want to see his matesprit being there for him and helping him work through it -- paranoia, nightmares, breakdowns, inability to sleep at night, whatever makes sense. Just... someone lovingly comforting Karkat whenever he needs it and helping him get back on his feet after all that's happened.

Preferred pairing is John/Karkat, but feel free to replace John with Jade, Terezi, or anyone within reason as long as it's redrom. Make me b'awwww, make me d'awwww, and most importantly, make Karkat feel better.

Re: Karkat hurt/comfort

[anonymous]

So I'm looking through some of the older prompts on this thing, and I stumble onto this thing

I might have to fill this, I've been looking for an excuse to write something like this and now I have it

Stay tuned

Re: Karkat hurt/comfort

[anonymous]

"Might have to fill this" became "definitely am filling this", it is being written as we speak

I'll probably wait until it's finished to post it though

Is anyone even reading this? Watch this space if so!

[FILL] Of All This Blind Ambition [1/?]

[anonymous]

The guy who said he was filling this earlier here, it's finished!

I am not getting full marks for this fill, I'm aware. I'm missing out on the preferred pairing bonus (I'm going with Karkat/Terezi instead of Karkat/John) and it all takes place in-game instead of post-game as per the request.

But I hope you can still enjoy it, all the same.

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You are TEREZI PYROPE, and you are kind of in a hurry.

There isn't a moment to lose after you finally confront Vriska. In light of new evidence and an additional witness, your case against the thief is dropped, but a dangerous serial killer still prowls the halls. You will have justice this day.

The three of you (the legislacerator, the goddess, the daywalker) stick together. You may very well be the last suvivors of the bard's purge, and it is with not a little despair that you make note of this. You cannot shake the sight of broken nubs and pools of bright red from your mind's eye, no matter how hard you try

Re: [FILL] Of All This Blind Ambition [2/?]

[anonymous]

"What the motherfuck happened?"

The four of you (the lawyer, the thief, the rainbow drinker, the blind prophet) surround Gamzee, weapons drawn (in Sollux's case, Feferi's old trident), as his eyes blink back open and he returns to the waking world. At your insistence, he was kept alive ("the guilty must stare down justice with both eyes open!" you said) but that didn't mean you were taking any chances. He is restrained and tied to the leg of a table that is not so much bolted to the floor as it is molded from it. If the Bard of Rage still has murderous intent, he will not be able to unleash it here.

"Whoa, fuck. I can't fucking move my arms and legs. What's going on here?"

He struggles against the chains binding him uselessly before noticing the four of you standing above him, brandishing your respective weapons.

"...oh, shit. Am I in trouble?"

You can practically feel him turning the words over in his mind as he says them.

"Oh, fuck. Fuck, fuuuuuuuuuck. Tell me I'm motherfuckin' imagining this shit

Re: [FILL] Of All This Blind Ambition [3/?]

[anonymous]

It's day, or what passes for day in the Veil, which means everyone's asleep. Except you, because you volunteered for today's guard duty. Someone has to keep an eye out for the Demon, after all. As you patrol the hallways of the astroid facility, you can hear what sounds like a low rumbling coming from deeper within the complex

Re: [FILL] Of All This Blind Ambition [4/?]

[anonymous]

Days of this pass, as you wait for the humans to prepare to cross over into your session. Sometimes Karkat manages to leave his respiteblock, clinging to your arm like he would risk falling into oblivion were he to let go. He does not venture outside for long, mostly just long enough to use the gaper or eat something (always at your insistence, you have to pressure him into it but he does eventually begin eating regularly again

Re: [FILL] Of All This Blind Ambition [5/?]

[anonymous]

Days later, the four of them (the trickster, the therapist, the godhead, the gnostic) tear a hole in reality itself and arrive in a flash of light and a deafening crash. The survivors in the Veil are all present to greet their creations in person for the first time.

Except one.

After a brief and obligatory art jam session with Dave (who smells like cherries and cream and is just as cool in person as you imagined him), you excuse yourself. "I don't know where Karkles is, probably moping in his respiteblock again. I'm gonna go try to find him, we'll draw again later!" Of course, John is worried at hearing this ("Is Karkat okay?" You don't have the heart to tell him just yet that no, he is most definitely not okay) but you assure him things will be fine.

You are a little worried when you open the door to his respiteblock and do not find him. You are little more worried when you enter the makeshift kitchen and he isn't here, either. You are worried to the point that you are calling his name as you comb the facility for him when he is

Re: [FILL] Of All This Blind Ambition [6/?]

[anonymous]

When he finally regains some measure of control over his emotions, you take him to meet the humans. The whole walk back, he still hugs your arm for dear life, but there's a little less desperation to it now

Re: [FILL] Of All This Blind Ambition [7/?]

[anonymous]

The meeting is over quickly. Plans are hatched, discussed, and discarded at length before one is brought up that may just work. The idea would be to lure Jack back to the humans' session and trick him into activating the Scratch, resetting the session and erasing him all at once. How you will accomplish it will be a discussion for another time, as it is getting late, everyone is tired, and nobody is firing on enough cylinders to work out the specifics yet.

You escort Karkat back to his respiteblock, as you have done every day for almost a perigree. You take your place beside him, as has been your routine. You kiss his cheek, as you do every time, and he follows it up with one of his own. You sniff the air and finally, finally, you catch what you've been looking for (hoping for) ever since this began: under the gunpowder black and mixed with the metallic grey, just barely, you catch the faintest hints of candy apple. It is not the red he has worn so often lately, borne from fright or frustration or sheer exhaustion, but a red formed

Re: [FILL] Of All This Blind Ambition [9/10]

[anonymous]

You are usually the first to wake, and the following night is no different. You are walking toward the door to meet the others for breakfast (John has promised a human delicacy he calls "pan cakes") when Karkat stirs.

"Terezi."

"Karkles?"

"Why do you do it, Terezi?"

"Stay with you, you mean?"

"Yeah. Why do you put up with my hoofbeastshit? Anyone else would have given up on me."

"Hehehe. I'm not just 'anyone else,' I think you would have figured that much out by now!"

"Well yeah, but..." He turns your words over in his mind and you think he might honestly be incapable of processing them. The idea that anyone, even you, his matesprit, could see him for everything he's worth (and not once has he ever honestly believed he was worth much) and still choose to remain by his side is a concept that is so very alien to him.

"I never..." He is struggling to find the words. "I never found any fault in you, Terezi. You have to understand that, even the day the humans came, not once did I think... God, what do I even fucking say here,

Re: [FILL] Of All This Blind Ambition [9/9]

[anonymous]

Derp, lost count of my numbering. The last one was part 8, THIS is part 9 and there is no part 10!

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You are JOHN EGBERT, friendchef extraordinaire, master of breakfasts. You have left no bacon unsizzled, no pancake unflipped, no glass of orange juice unpoured in your conquest of the kitchen.

"Breakfast is ready!" you call to your hungry pals, and they line up, eager to take their plates. Not long after everyone else has been served, the two of them (the knight, the seer) finally show up

Re: [FILL] Of All This Blind Ambition [9/9]

[anonymous]

Herp, just now realized I completely forgot to actually post the AO3 link

http://archiveofourown.org/works/193464

There it is, with misspellings and typos and such completely stamped out, I hope

Re: [FILL] Of All This Blind Ambition [9/9]

[xiaoninger]

oh my good god that was so cute and amazing and aaaaaaa ;A;

man i've never read a terezi/karkat fic before this but it is now way up there in the favorites pile. really, just so outstandingly sweet. ;A;