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Nightfal, the Audiobook (Prologue)
Hi, my name is Tato, and i saw a lot of folks interested in FateStuck, a Homestuck AU me and my friends are working on. These posts are to explain what it is, who the characters are, and what the general idea is.
Parts: 1 (You are here.) [2] [3] [4]
FateStuck's name was chosen on a whim, but thanks to my friend's help we've turned it into a general theme for the series.
FateStuck is the story of a Timeline that shouldn't exist, with players that are effectively Bastards of Paradox Space. their existence was a matter of chance, they are NOT destined to be heroes, and every one of them is in some way doomed to a terrible fate.
Fatestuck is the story of people unwanted by Space and Time, hated by the narrative itself, defying cosmic fate in order to carve their own path and decide for themselves what it means to be worth something.
How it Starts:
FateStuck takes place in a split timeline, starting when Vriska flew off to fight and defeat Jack Noir.
With her friends gone, and her "heroic fight" being for nothing, she decides to send a message to her human friend John earlier in his timeline, just to find something to do.
This creates a timeline split for John and his friends. John, chatting away with Vriska, finds his way to the Ecto Biology lab. John, just mashing buttons on the computer for fun, accidentally causes the machine to make fusions of him and his friends and their guardians. John doesn't really consider the ramifications because he knows this timeline will get erased anyway. So for fun and boredom's sake, Vriska sends some gene samples from their meteor's lab his way to make more. This makes 4 humans and 6 trolls.
John and Vriska decide, with no other options of escape from their doomed timelines, to venture into the Furthest Ring in the hopes of meeting eachother. Vriska teaches John to God Tier early so he can fly there like she can.
By now, Jade has died because she was too slow to enter the medium, Rose won't be able to God Tier soon enough to escape another way, and Dave has merged with his Kernelsprite to try and find some solution, only to discover with his fellow sprites the babies that John made in the lab.
The Kernelsprites, Dave Nanna and Jaspers, realize that not only is this timeline going to disappear, the nearby Alpha Timeline is initiating The Scratch, and the effects will be far reaching enough to even effect this branch of the timeline. Likewise, the Skaia Defense System is going to be redirecting the meteors these babies will be sent on to the new Doomed Timeline.
convinced John had some kind of plan or sense of duty in mind, the sprites decide to follow these children, at least the human ones, into the new timeline to look after them. They all collectively know that this won't end well, but trust John's judgement and proceed.
unbeknownst to everyone, a doomed version of Gamzee Makara is still alive in Vriska's timeline, and uses the yet un-destroyed Ecto Biology lab to create 6 more troll grubs. he and his Mirthful Messiah intend to sink their claws into this offshoot timeline for their own ends.
(Fatestuck is being ghostwritten by me, Luna Stardust. And i am also writing these posts. Happy 4/13 everyone!)