From Ruin - [1/??] - Alpha Dave + Alpha RoseundersaffireskyMay 5 2012, 01:25:37 UTC
Nothing says "tragedy" like giving people legs to stand on first. Plenty of 'last moments' in here then some. But this is honestly a lot more than you asked for in on your prompt tin, so I hope you don't mind. I'm guessing not??? I also don't usually update things in segments without something being "complete" in some way (e.g., a chapter), but I decided to try it here in smaller installments. It's essentially a one-shot at heart pretending to be something bigger.
Title: From Ruin Fandom: Homestuck Alt Link: Livejournal. Pairings: None. Though you can ship how you like, I guess. This is mainly an Alpha Dave + Alpha Rose 'fic, exploring their sibling-esque relationship and what went on during the time they were alive and so on. Characters: Alpha Dave and Alpha Rose, who serve as POV characters. The Condensce. Mentions of others in canon. Warnings/Ratings: PG-13. Nothing particular to warn for. There's nothing in here that you wouldn't see in the original comic or wouldn't know was coming already from canon (and the prompt itself).
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From Ruin - [2/??] - Alpha Dave + Alpha RoseundersaffireskyMay 5 2012, 01:33:21 UTC
IThis is an entirely different type of darkness from the kinds Rose is used to. This isn’t the midnight shade common to the night hours of the temporal world, nor is it the inky blackness that verges on purple that she can sometimes envision when she closes her eyes and is neither asleep nor awake. This is certainly not the dark she finds when she strains her ears and tries to catch the singing whispers of guttural voices that she can sometimes understand. The darkness here is not so much black as it is a hazy gray gradient that bleeds into almost darker but not-quite-black gloom around oddly circular edges. The greys in the middle are fluid and remind her of shadows, but are fuzzy and less defined
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From Ruin - [3/??] - Alpha Dave + Alpha RoseundersaffireskyMay 5 2012, 01:42:29 UTC
-(ø)-Rose first meets Dave by coincidence. Well, not entirely by coincidence. Rose has come to terms with the fact that very few things that happen in the world are completely coincidental
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From Ruin - [4/??] - Alpha Dave + Alpha RoseundersaffireskyMay 5 2012, 01:49:39 UTC
She approaches him. It’s hard to tell with his shades obscuring his eyes, but his attention seems directed at the large corporate building across the street next to a bank. It's painted in the same shade of red that’s coloring the majority of the bodies making use of the sidewalks.
“Strider.”
He turns, head snapping over his shoulder, but that’s as much of a reaction as she gets, besides the longer-then-normal pause that follows when he actually looks at her.
Perhaps he’s thinking, Holy shit you look like my mother when she was twenty-five.
(Except he’s never seen his mother. He has no photo of her for him to remember her by, except perhaps in the guesswork of his reflection. It’s not his fault, of course. She hasn’t been flung meteor-first to earth yet, and won’t for centuries to come.)
Perhaps he’s thinking, Jesus Christ, Lalonde, what took you so long? I was beginning to think you were six feet gone like the rest of them.(Except he hasn’t been around Rose long enough to miss her. Not yet. He’s never met her, he doesn’t know
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From Ruin - [5/??] - Alpha Dave + Alpha RoseundersaffireskyMay 5 2012, 01:55:47 UTC
“Fuck this,” he says, and almost before her eyes can register it, Dave is running after them. A sword appears in his hand, and he grasps the hilt of it with strained white knuckles. Rose pauses for a moment, considering, but in the end she’s only a few seconds behind
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From Ruin - [6/??] - Alpha Dave + Alpha RoseundersaffireskyMay 10 2012, 14:54:38 UTC
Title: From Ruin Alt Link: LJ Fic Journal. Pairings: None. Though you can ship how you like, I guess. Characters: Alpha Dave and Alpha Rose. The Condensce. Mentions of others in canon. Warnings: None. Comments: As I'm posting this as I go, the meme version of this story doesn't have the advantage of being able to be looked at as a whole. As such, scenes as I post them might differ in order, content, etc. from the compiled version of the finished product. I'm just seeing where this takes me.
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When Rose first suggests to Dave that she fight the empress alone, the rising emotions pulsing underneath the otherwise unreadable lines in Dave’s face suggest that he’d rather throw himself out of the high-rise apartment they have been lying low in and let himself drown first.
“Fuck no,” he says, just as she guessed-knew-he would.
Rose shrugs, seated in a blue-checkered chair that’s an affront to both of their aesthetic sensibilities. "I suppose a positive response was too much of me to hope for
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Re: From Ruin - [7/??] - Alpha Dave + Alpha RoseedenfallingMay 13 2012, 01:46:16 UTC
This continues to be fascinating!
A seagull screams from just outside their window, and Dave slams it shut just as a sky-whale darts past the glass and crushes the seagull in its mouth, swallowing it whole as it plunges back into the ocean that has been consuming the city like cancer. I really like this line, for the way it shows the world going wrong and also alludes to Dirk.
Re: From Ruin - [7/??] - Alpha Dave + Alpha Rose
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June 4 2012, 01:28:15 UTC
“And I’ll follow you. Wherever that gets me.”
I love this so goddamn much.
The imagery is beautiful. It's great at making it obvious how ugly their world has become, as edenfalling said. And Dave and Rose are both just so perfect. This is how Alpha Rose and Dave were, no question about it.
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Title: From Ruin
Fandom: Homestuck
Alt Link: Livejournal.
Pairings: None. Though you can ship how you like, I guess. This is mainly an Alpha Dave + Alpha Rose 'fic, exploring their sibling-esque relationship and what went on during the time they were alive and so on.
Characters: Alpha Dave and Alpha Rose, who serve as POV characters. The Condensce. Mentions of others in canon.
Warnings/Ratings: PG-13. Nothing particular to warn for. There's nothing in here that you wouldn't see in the original comic or wouldn't know was coming already from canon (and the prompt itself). ( ... )
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“Strider.”
He turns, head snapping over his shoulder, but that’s as much of a reaction as she gets, besides the longer-then-normal pause that follows when he actually looks at her.
Perhaps he’s thinking, Holy shit you look like my mother when she was twenty-five.
(Except he’s never seen his mother. He has no photo of her for him to remember her by, except perhaps in the guesswork of his reflection. It’s not his fault, of course. She hasn’t been flung meteor-first to earth yet, and won’t for centuries to come.)
Perhaps he’s thinking, Jesus Christ, Lalonde, what took you so long? I was beginning to think you were six feet gone like the rest of them.(Except he hasn’t been around Rose long enough to miss her. Not yet. He’s never met her, he doesn’t know ( ... )
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I in no way mind and am already in love with this fic. Rose's power and her determination and eeeeee.
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Thank you so much for taking this on, underasaffiresky!
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Alt Link: LJ Fic Journal.
Pairings: None. Though you can ship how you like, I guess.
Characters: Alpha Dave and Alpha Rose. The Condensce. Mentions of others in canon.
Warnings: None.
Comments: As I'm posting this as I go, the meme version of this story doesn't have the advantage of being able to be looked at as a whole. As such, scenes as I post them might differ in order, content, etc. from the compiled version of the finished product. I'm just seeing where this takes me.
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When Rose first suggests to Dave that she fight the empress alone, the rising emotions pulsing underneath the otherwise unreadable lines in Dave’s face suggest that he’d rather throw himself out of the high-rise apartment they have been lying low in and let himself drown first.
“Fuck no,” he says, just as she guessed-knew-he would.
Rose shrugs, seated in a blue-checkered chair that’s an affront to both of their aesthetic sensibilities. "I suppose a positive response was too much of me to hope for ( ... )
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A seagull screams from just outside their window, and Dave slams it shut just as a sky-whale darts past the glass and crushes the seagull in its mouth, swallowing it whole as it plunges back into the ocean that has been consuming the city like cancer. I really like this line, for the way it shows the world going wrong and also alludes to Dirk.
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I love this so goddamn much.
The imagery is beautiful. It's great at making it obvious how ugly their world has become, as edenfalling said. And Dave and Rose are both just so perfect. This is how Alpha Rose and Dave were, no question about it.
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