#not to FUCKING mention during the bit during the echidna fight where she's like
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other taylor gold morning moment that i will never be over is when glastig uaine spends like twenty minutes comparing her to eidolon and panacea and shit and then she goes and thinks “Yeah I’m definitely a lot closer to someone like Uber or Leet than Eidolon” because she is fucking insane. also that time during the echidna fight when miss militia is like “yeah we don’t want people to find out how much damage powers can do, even the lame ones that suck” and taylor is like “i have one of the lame ones that suck right” and miss militia is just like. “N. Nnooo.” it is a genuinely well-written and impactful indication of the fact that her self-esteem never fully recovered from the bullying, but it’s also just really fucking funny.
“yeah, i’m basically a cringefail loser like leet,” says master 10 about to launch an attack on god.
#worm#not to FUCKING mention during the bit during the echidna fight where she's like#woah. eidolon's cape looks so cool. thank god i didn't bring a cape#or i'd be so insecure about my cape not looking cool that i wouldn't be able to function#and she's thinking all of that while micromanaging like a million bugs at once. because she is insane.
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flawsome bandits pt. 11 ♡ sonic
Flawsome Tessering
Part 11, coming at you! This part doesn’t have too much Sonic x Y/n, but don’t worry my darlings, I am saving that for the next chapter ;) This one includes some mother-daughter relationships and tons of foreshadowing. Enjoy!
Warnings - slight angst, robotnik x stone mentions
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“Why so down, Sonic?” A man with a head as smooth as an eggshell asked his pet boulder as it sat next to him in his poorly repaired drone. The boulder had tiny little dents in its craters that were obviously created by Robotnik to form a dopey grin and two misshapen eye sockets. The man chortled to himself as he tapped the cracked glass where an electric blue quill sat, charging up his entire machine. “Aww, are you sad because I’m coming back home?”
Robotnik stared intently at the little boulder, watching as it practically began to sweat under his intense gaze. He finally sat back up and let out yet another loud chuckle, filling the silent air around him for miles. “Sorry to disappoint, bud, but you and your little girlfriend are going to be toast as soon as I wrap my hands around your puny little necks~” He sang out the last part, his time spent in isolation taking an immense toll on his sanity. His tethered and gloved hands expertly found their way across his very dented control panel, clicking on a bunch of buttons that ended up making the drone begin to whirr. The air surrounding him that reeked of fungus began to churn at the new winds.
“Come on, baby,” Robotnik grumbled, pushing his prized invention to the limit as it began to levitate its misshapen and damaged body a couple feet off the ground. The engines worked in tandem with one another, struggling to compensate for the extreme damage that had been inflicted upon them. Even Robotnik’s expert repair jobs using the emergency kits Stone had made him place in every one of his drones wasn’t enough to make up for it all.
He guessed Stone was right for once. Shocker.
The erratic energy being extracted from Sonic’s quill mingled with the artificial power he was able to save. As the drone began to sputter, he quickly grabbed onto the throttle in an attempt to steady the drone, even his hideously long mustache hairs twitching with anticipation. He had to do it. He had to make this work. He couldn’t stand another second trapped here with Mushroom Bertha, Mushroom Kick-Sonic’s-Ass, Mushroom Carl, and Mushroom I-Want-A-Hedgehog-Skin-Rug or IWAHS for short. After a couple of minutes spent in agonizing suspense, a little glimmer began to form in the air before him. A malicious grin made its way across his lips as he realized that his plan was working.
The energy coming from his drone was enough to cause a small rip in the universe, mostly due to Sonic’s alienated DNA and ability to tesser between universes. The tear grew a decent size wider, its edges glowing an abnormal white and a very faint image of what he presumed to be Green Hills glimmered within it. It was right there. He was going to make it! It was barely big enough for him to pass through, but it was all he needed. With a surge of energy and Robotnik practically gritting his teeth until they chipped, the drone shot through the portal in a flash of blinding light, crash landing onto a very mossy green ground. The impact made Robotnik slam his face against the throttle, but luckily his gigantic mustache hairs cushioned the blow. The drone slowly began to let off steam, already having used all of its juices to float for less than thirty minutes. A steady blow of steam began to shoot up into the air from one of the drones' important capsules, and Robotnik was quick to regain consciousness, standing up and practically falling back down into his seat from the excitement. He looked around the area, hoping taking over his entire internal chemistry as he looked at his surroundings. The hope died almost instantly as he came to a horrific conclusion.
This… this wasn’t Green Hills!
What the actual fuck?!
There were oddly misshapen trees and abnormal creatures waddling around the perimeter and LOOP-DE-LOOPS?! The anger got the better of him as he picked up the boulder sitting next to him and screamed at the top of his lungs.
“God damnit, Sonic! This is all your fault!” And the tiny boulder was sent flying out of the drone to land against the grass, where it rolled down a hill.
It was safe from the evil man’s clutches at last.
Robotnik let out another frustrated groan and slammed his fists down onto the dash, causing even more smoke to secrete from vital components of the drone. But he didn’t care right now. He had been working on building up all of that power for months. To have it all lost getting him somewhere that wasn’t even where he needed to be - where those goddamn hedgehogs were! And now he was stuck in this crazy backwards land with nothing to defend himself with. At least back with the mushrooms the only predator was sleep deprivation.
And of course, that was self inflicted.
“Oh thank god.” A sudden voice broke through his frustrations. Robotnik’s head snapped up so quickly he was sure he heard his neck crack. He was expecting the worst: three headed bear, snake crossed with a lizard, horse sized horsefly, something deadly and positively hideous. So when he saw a little black and red hedgehog staring at him intently with ruby irises and what looked to be a gun and a little bag situated around his hips, he was very, VERY surprised.
“Well, who the fuck are you supposed to be?” Robotnik couldn’t help but blurt. The hedgehog looked incredibly relieved as he came closer to the drone, showing his gloved hands in a means of presenting no harm.
“My name is Shadow. I was created by your assistant, Agent Stone.” Robotnik’s heart stopped at the sound of his name. “He sent me through the different universes to find you. It’s taken forever, but I finally did it. I have more rings left to get us back to the planet where Hedgehog Sonic and Hedgehog Y/n reside.”
Robotnik was floored, to say the least. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Agent Stone, the little guy who made delicious lattes and who knew him better than anyone else, MADE a hedgehog and sent him to help Robotnik defeat the two once and for all?
He owed him a thank you. Or maybe more than that, if you catch my drift ;)
“W-Well then, I suppose it’s nice to have you on board, Mr. Shadow. Unfortunately, my drone was a bit destroyed during the movement here, so unless you have a giant bag of tools next to your gun there, I-”
“Don’t worry, Sir, I’ve got it handled,” Shadow interrupted him, turning around to point into a throng of bushy trees. “I met an Echidna along the way who might be of use to us. Perhaps we could brainwash him into assisting us.”
Damn. Agent Stone really did a number on this guy. Robotnik liked it.
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A few hours later and a lot of impressive manipulation, Shadow and Robotnik had recruited yet another member onto their team: Knuckles the Echidna. He was a very burly red thing with intimidating eyes and an unfortunate lack of brains. But, he had resources and his muscle could even out Robotnik’s brains and Shadow’s apparent fiery temper. They were able to convince him that Y/n and Sonic were two beings from a far away planet that were power hungry and had a plot to destroy the entire universe, including this planet. Of course, Knuckles was petrified and said that they must be stopped immediately. The guy was also pretty handy with supplying the needed instruments to fix up Robotnik’s drone.
Of course, it wasn’t the best job, but it would have to do for now. After Robotnik had done his little patch job, the trio were beginning to prep for their return to earth.
“I assume that you are very excited to defeat the two hedgehogs, Doctor,” Shadow spoke with authority. “But I think it would be better to hide out in a secluded spot for a little while in order for us to build up our resources. We wouldn’t want to go straight into battle without being prepared.”
Even though Robotnik was really looking forward to crushing Bonnie and Clyde, he had to admit that Shadow had a point. He nodded slowly. “We’ll hide out in the woods in order to gather resources and start the formation of Metal Sonic. Agreed? Agreed.” Even though he wasn’t looking for a confirmation, the two nodded despite. Everything was going according to plan. Robotnik had gathered two allies and had already begun his plan to form a metal-based version of Sonic. For two reasons, really. The first was to use Sonic’s greatest power and turn it into his weakness, and the second was to try and trick Y/n into not being able to fight the one that she loves. They were going to destroy the two hedgehogs once and for good, donating their bodies to Robotnik’s favorite charity: science.
But what these little twerps didn’t know was that a certain fox had been spying on the three of them ever since Robotnik had crash landed a couple feet away from his lab. It was finely secluded within the weeping willow trees, so he hadn’t been able to see it. But his security measures sure saw the mustache guy.
The little fox’s stomach began to fill with dread as he thought about all of this. These guys were obviously up to no good. Anyone who loved the color combo red and black was obviously up to no good. Especially someone who grew their mustache past five inches.
On each side.
Those two hedgehogs they had been mentioning… What were their names? Bonnie and Clyde? Funny named for hedgehogs, but he guessed that their world was different than his. He began to rummage through the different gizmos and gadgets he had spent ages on until he finally gathered all of the materials he needed. His little gloved fingers found their way to his energy-tracker as he calibrated it to their energy sources. Funny, he thought. One of them was stronger than the other.
He narrowed his eyes in determination, steadying himself as he thought of the realm they lived in and tossed one of his golden rings. The second the portal opened, he jumped through, landing on what appeared to be a cliff looking over a small town. Relief filled his orangish-yellow chest as he looked across. He hoped he knew what he was doing.
Extending his two tails, he leapt off the cliff.
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“M-Mom?” Maddie stirred in her sleep.
“Mommy?”
The young mother’s eyes slowly opened to be greeted with the sight of her daughter who had tears streaming down her cheeks. The sight of her daughter in distress kicked all of the sleep out of her as she instantly shot up in bed and immediately started wiping away the tears. Most of them got brushed into the fur around her eyes, but she didn’t care.
“N/n, baby, what’s wrong?” She asked softly, trying her best not to wake up her husband who still lay sound asleep behind her. Y/n only continued to cry harder, her e/c eyes glowing in the dark.
“I-I’m sorry, Mommy. I-I didn’t w-want to see i-it, I-” Maddie gently shushed her, standing on her feet and expertly lifting up the frail hedgehog onto her hip, holding her like she was a toddler.
“Y/n, honey, you’re not making any sense.” She glanced over at the clock and realized it was barely five in the morning. What on earth was she doing up this late? Y/n was in such hysterics that all she was able to do was plant her face into Maddie’s shoulder and continue to cry, her chest feeling like a million daggers were being dug into it. Maddie’s heart was ripping at the seams for her daughter, as the last time she had seen her this upset was when Sonic had died. She quickly and quietly took the weeping hedgehog out of her room, making sure not to make a sound as she closed the door to leave her sleeping husband alone, and continued through the darkened halls until they made it to the main bathroom. She closed the door behind them and set the hedgehog onto the counter, grabbing a wad of tissues and quickly dabbing her eyes while Y/n wrapped her arms around her trembling torso.
“I-I’m s-sorry-” She hiccuped, choking on the mucus being created from her tears. Maddie’s gaze softened.
“Sweetie, what on earth could you have to be sorry for?” To her surprise, Y/n’s eyes only filled with guilt and self-disgust as she looked down at the floor.
“...what happened?” Maddie gently cupped her daughter’s furry face in her hands and stared into her liquid e/c eyes. The deeper she looked into them, the more she was able to picture Y/n before she had turned into a hedgehog, back when she was a human. The little hedgehog exhaled a shaky breath and wrung her hands together.
“I… I woke up to singing. And I followed it outside, and there was this… thing out there. It was calling to me, and when I touched it, this is going to sound insane, but it showed me pictures of the future. I-I saw Robotnik, and I saw me and Sonic with two other people and then… the last one… M-Mommy, it looked like someone was trying to k-kill me-” Maddie’s heart stopped in her chest, her eyes widening in horror. Fresh tears began to spill down Y/n’s cheeks even faster. “I-I don’t want to die!”
Maddie quickly enveloped her in a tight hug, pressing her daughter’s head into her chest and stroking her quills gently. “Shh, it’s okay, baby. You’re not going to die.”
“H-how do you k-know that? M-my powers are growing a-and I don’t know how to s-stop it, I don’t want to kn-know how we’re going to d-die, I-”
Maddie hushed her, continuing to stroke her quills. They sat like this for quite some time, with Maddie consoling her hysterical daughter until her sobs finally died down and were replaced with melancholic sniffles. Maddie’s heart continued to pound, however, fear and confusion coursing through her veins. She was trying with all her might to wrap her brain around the matter, but she was the one who had had the worst time figuring out how Sonic and Y/n’s powers worked in tandem with one another. Even Tom relatively understood better than she could. She knew that Y/n had vocal telekinesis, but seeing the future? Little wisp-like creatures? It didn’t seem like those had ever been mentioned or used before.
What was going on? Was her daughter truly in danger?
Her grip around her tightened. Y/n exhaled softly and it was then that Maddie realized she had fallen asleep. A small smile crossed her lips as she picked her daughter back up and began to make her way back into the living room. She could have just taken her to her bedroom, but in all honesty, she felt safer leaving her with Sonic than by herself. As she walked through the darkened hallways, she tried to silence the red alarms blaring endlessly throughout her mind.
Something was wrong.
She could feel it. She didn’t even need magical powers to feel it. Her breath hitched in her throat as she made her way down the stairs, making sure not to trip as she entered the living room. Sonic still lay sound asleep on the couch, not having moved an inch since Y/n had woken up. Maddie gently set her daughter down on the couch, resting her head on Sonic’s chest and covering the two with a fleece blanket. Her fingers softly traced Y/n’s jawline as she slowly stood back up, a small, yet sad, smile staying on her lips.
“Don’t worry, sweetie,” she whispered into the silence. “I won’t let anything happen to you.”
♡ a.a.
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on “operation blow us all the fuck up”
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ARANEA: Ok then!
ARANEA: Has everyone settled down? Do I have everyone's attention?
MEENAH: attention huh
MEENAH: whoda thought
MEENAH: you would want any of THAT
ARANEA: Just stop. Please?
ARANEA: I know it's only 8een minutes since you died, and you pro8a8ly aren't thrilled to see me for any num8er of reasons.
ARANEA: 8ut for me it has 8een millenia! I have 8een waiting a long time to see you again, and orient you to the afterlife.
ARANEA: However, I don't think much of it will make sense without some major contextualization.
ARANEA: There's really quite an amazing amount of nuance to the full sequence of events. Many different players, personalities, conflicting agendas, all interwoven together.
ARANEA: I'll need a little time to set the stage for everything to 8e comprehensi8le, if you all don't mind indulging me for a while.
ARANEA: You could say it all started during our darkest hour, when it 8ecame clear our failure was inevita8le. I took it upon myself to venture into the palace of my denizUMPH.
please be aware that these were MY PERSONAL NOTES. theyre full of me deciding things and arguing with myself and putting ideas out there to see what sticks so i can come back and refine it when i can
Aranea and Meenah meet up upon a large floating lily pad over what used to be their Battlefield before it was destroyed prematurely by the Reckoning. The time has come. It was made clear long ago that their session was bleak. There would be no winning for them. Aranea Serket headed directly to her denizen, Echidna, to ask what route should be taken. Echidna of course informs the Scorpio girl of a method called The Scratch, initiated only once a game has become unwinnable. Echidna continues to explain that the kids will cease to exist and will reincarnate as average people on a different planet. You know. The basic deal behind The Scratch.
Meanwhile, out in the Void, Meenah is communing with the Horrorterrors who are very adamant that Meenah use the Tumor to kill everyone just before the Scratch so that they will continue to live on in the dream bubbles (this is in part mostly to carry Horuss who is carrying Calliope over into continued existence). As one would expect, Meenah is thrilled with the idea of staying around and being immortal and in charge forever.
Now the logistics and details behind this are a bit shady, but it boils down to this. Aranea and Meenah have only just recently had a fight with each other that really shook their friendship. Aranea is skeptical that the Horrorterrors’ plan even works. Why should you trust a bunch of octogods anyway? Aside from that, an eternity of death doesn’t sound exceedingly pleasing, nor does the idea of a mass suicide to accomplish that.
The two set off to accomplish their goals. Aranea accompanies Damara to transport the Cardinal Movement to the Battlefield for their final goodbyes. During this time, Meenah has retrieved the Tumor and is ready to begin her part. Aranea and Meenah continue to have conflicted opinions on how to go about this. Aranea is excited for her new potential life!
Each of the girls have acquired half of their crew to debate what they should do. Aranea has accumulated Rufioh who claims that he couldn’t even manage to face death to reach god tier and the idea is just too gruesome for him and Horuss who says he would not want to keep on existing forever without his beloved. Cronus joins in as well, claiming that he finds it sexier when women aren’t trying to kill him. He also makes a passing comment that Aranea would give him favors for siding with her (which she did not. And if she did they were not sexual). Latula thinks that conceptually it’s not really a solid plan and there is nothing suggesting it is a good idea. The entire idea just sounds grody. Mituna joins her because DOOM.
On Meenah’s side she is accompanied by Kurloz who simply stares vacantly at everyone with a wide smile on his face and Damara who is only siding with her because she refused to be with “the cheaters” and who just wants to start the damn Scratch already and get it over with finally. Both are also interested in Lord English’s propagation. Kankri believes that he will be able to help spread social justice in the afterlife. Porrim claims she is obliged to go with him, not daring subject an afterlife to Kankri without her intervention. This is mostly joking as she also admits it might be fun to get to keep living so to speak and that SOMEONE has to protect the little guy too. There were a lot of things in her life she never felt were complete. Similarly, Meulin believes in the optimistic concept that there is much to do- even if all she gets to do is talk to Kurloz forever, it is something to do. Kurloz may have also convinced her to join him because Lord English.
The two begin to face off in whose plan should work, and who should be allowed to be Scratched if that is what they want. If nothing else even just half of them can blow up while the others leave to be Scratched. Either way, the numbers are tied and no conclusion can be reached.
Flashback time for explanations!
[calliopes soul is involved with this somehow, i mentioned this in a previous post]
(Meenah’s oven, Porrim’s mannequins, Latula’s coins, Rufioh/Damara’s egg timer, etc . Die’s voodoo doll does not count. He has had the doll since he joined. Then again so did Biscuits and Eggs. This is not important. Stop riding me.)
There is also the matter of a First Guardian. This Guardian is cool. And unlike Scratch they are neither creepy nor do they fuck up the entire planet. Though they do claim to have a great interest in watching and observing the story. This is mostly because the Guardian is stuck in a dimensional pocket. Something like the Void. They are incapable of acquiring power from the Green Sun. As such, they’re black. Fizzled out in the Void, powerless. Unlike Scratch’s lit-up white. This is in part because Horuss/Calliope’s soul was used to ectobiologically birth them. And because I fucking said so. This is similar to how Lil Cal embodying Caliborn’s soul created Doc Scratch. A puppet linked to Caliborn. Whereas this Guardian is enveloped in the Void housing an antithesis of Scratch, one who embodies Calliope. But she’s not going to explode from their head or anything like Athena or Lord English. They’re just. The antithesis. They will only acquire their First Guardian powers once they have been summoned into their universe proper.
For some reason or the other Aranea has Quarters’ quarters. Maybe from during her fling with Latula or maybe Latula gave them to team members for whom the numbers/colors fit. Also I’m not sure on the specifics of this but BASICALLY she is intent on flipping them. Specifically Snowman’s. Because it’s a double sided 8 coin. What more of this decision could I POSSIBLY answer. Now it could be a few things. Perhaps she knows what it does. And she intends on flipping it to summon-kill herself so that she may be Scratched and avoid the afterlife. With… her teammates somehow? Maybe she somehow wants to flip it to decide what they do. I do not know. Like I said. They were shaky and hazy. THE POINT IS: Aranea flips the stupid Eight Ball Snowman Coin. She uses her Luck powers to make a favorable outcome… whatever that might be considering both sides are the fucking same. Maybe she bet that the coin would land on its side and if it did Meenah wouldn’t blow everyone the fuck up.
Anyway, Damara’s sick of this. Probably Damara. Someone has to shoot. But Cronus doing it wouldn’t make much sense. So Damara shoots the coin midair. Presumably Aranea’s Luck only ends up affecting how Damara hits the coin. Because it goes straight through the center. It is now just a black circle with a hole through it. But do you know who else is associated with just a black empty circle? THE FIRST GUARDIANNNNN. So it lands and they appear in a flash, all green and white and flickerin and makin people pass out because that’s just too much.
Now their influence is only right then. They can’t just go back in history and have always BEEN ALREADY THERE. They just can’t. They don’t even really HAVE that time stuff. I guess. ITS’ NOT IMPORTANT. POINT IS. FIRST GUARDIAN SNATCHES UP ALL OF THE JUJU AND ON THE SCRATCH THROWS THEM INTO PARADOX SPACE WHERE THEY APPEARIFY WITH DOC SCRATCH. Doc Scratch then distributes them to the leprechauns before Caliborn even meets them. There. Now they have their stupid Juju. Idk, they probably do some other capricious plot-altering GARBAGE too.
Anyway, for some godforsaken reason Aranea and the crew agree to not get Scratched and Meenah’s like yessssssssssssssssssssssss. Maybe because of the First Guardian being summoned being taken as a sign. Maybe Meenah does it without consulting them. I don’t know. So Damara starts the Scratch, and Meenah gets the Tumor at the ready for just the prime moment. I don’t really get what’s going on. Basically everyone agrees with Meenah but Meenah and Aranea are still kind of bitter and feuding. However Aranea gets scared and like what if this is the last time they ever even see each other? So she begins to apologize to Meenah and
SYSTEM ERROR: MEENAH PEIXES BLEW YOUR SESSION THE FUCK UP
SYSTEM REBOOT INITIATED. SCRATCH COMMENCING.
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Character Arcs and Ghost Army’s
So I thought of something while at work and it got me wondering, am I the only person that was kind of disappointed with how the Ghost Army came together in the end?
Someone has probably written this meta before but really, Tavros bringing together the Ghost Army with the power of friendship was probably one of the least satisfying ways for that resolution to come about. In reality, I honestly believe Karkat should have been the one to orchestrate bringing the army together with help from Tavros and GO Karkat, more meta and context under the cut-
Tavros
First off, Tavros is good natured and sweet but he’s not exactly the best at being inspiring or organizing large groups, or even really making friends (like remember how awkward and cringey his interaction with Jade was) and more importantly, bringing the Ghost Army together as a resolution to his arc(?) gives the idea that all along Tavros’ problem was that he wasn’t useful. Yes, he got to shove it in Vriska’s face a bit, which was satisfying and we got to see him be relevant to the climax of the plot but the thing is, the way to end a character’s arc should never be through them gaining the approval of their abuser.
Tavros’ problem was never that Vriska was right about him but that he believed she was right and thought that he deserved to be treated that way by her for not being confident enough to stand up for himself. In that same vein, any sort of parallel to the Summoner shouldn’t have been involved in his resolution either because being more like Rufioh or becoming a hero was what he THOUGHT would fix him in a way Vriska would respond to, ignoring the fact that Tavros didn’t need fixing in the first place.
We never had any indications Tavros didn’t like who he was before Vriska’s abuse started and I would have loved for the story to actually reinforce that it was always just Vriska’s imposing on him these fantasies of being like Mindfang and building him to his greatest potential that was the REAL issue and the resolution to that being him to realize he didn’t need to be what she wanted. Tavros didn’t need to raise an army to jauntily dance in Vriska’s face, I honestly would have preferred if he didn’t even care enough about her to do so.
Karkat
So. Fuck, this arc conclusion. Yeah, Karkat jumping straight into LE only to get obliterated was kind of funny and we got to see him defeat the undefeatable Clover because he became romantically interested in Karkat was appropriate but you know what I would have loved to see? Karkat getting closure with his other selves. Karkat getting to realize the true depth of his path as a knight of blood player, which is all about bonds and weaponizing them for the benefit of the party.
Sure, we’re told he’s a vital part of victory due to Echidna and that he’s destined to become troll President in the new world. That’s nice. But honestly the fact that Vriska, who apparently knows the whole ins n outs of the new session but somehow wasn’t aware of the Ghost Army being disbanded before Meenah’s debriefing was just .... weird. Along with the fact that she never considered to contact Karkat to even ask for advice on how to reband it even though she herself is canonically on record for admitting he was almost too great at bringing the two troll parties together during their session, is also just bleh. Like why the fuck wasn’t Karkat even a little involved in this plan just bewilders me because in accordance with his entire role of Hivebent, he would have been by far the most capable of it. Like yeah, he had given up on the idea of leadership and his being more concerned with just being involved as an equal to the rest of his friends was a great development, but then actually let him be involved. All the other kids got to do these grandeur things like take on the two Jacks, Condy, even Jake got to take on the entirety of the Midnight Crew.
Sure, Karkat got to defeat Clover, but the thing is, Karkat’s whole situation was never about HIM fighting or beating anyone, instead it was about surrounding himself with actually strong players and helping them work cohesively enough together to reach a common goal. Sort of sounds like bringing together a bunch of disinterested ghosts to form an army, right????
Lastly why the heck was the last convo he ever had with himself from the first intermission in Act 6 when so much of Act 5 was taken up with it and was built up to be one of the biggest failings of his personality? Like we have good junks of conversations just referring to how much he hated himself and how ridiculous it was of him to think he was his own kismesis. Why did that all get dropped like a steamy hot shit instead of being later on used to show how much he matured and changed? fucking y’all, I have to stop here cause I will and can go on. Anyways
How I wish things would have gone down.
Ok, now that I’ve set up some context for why I wish things were different, here’s how I’d actually go about doing it.
Have Vriska on the lilypad mention Karkat refusing her offer to build the army together, include Karkat giving his big spiel about not being a leader anymore.
Jump to when Meenah and Vriska meet up and have the debriefing, and when Meenah asks what they’ll do about it, just have Vriska says not to worry about it.
Jump to Kanaya and Karkats visit to Echidna, but instead of the conversation they had happening, we see her flying to Derse as she’s messaging Rose about how her mission was complete and she was heading to the Batterwitch battle, and have her reveal what Echidna said there, last panel jumping to show a knocked out Karkat. (Not only does this work with my idea but fuck yes one last private Rosemary pesterlog, where hopefully they say “ I love you “ at the end.)
Anyways Karkat wakes up in the dream bubbles but instead of meeting Meenah he instead!! meets GO karkat!! You could even make the panel parallel with that panel of Vriska and Tavros meeting face to face after their sprite exploded, GO Karkat just waking up too, after his death.
(cut it off there to the strider reunion just for pacing sake)
When we see them again they’re arguing, GO angry because of course this is what his death would look like and wow YOURE the alpha karkat what the fuck, why are you asleep your whole group is in a battle rn and Retcon is just like BITCH PLEASE WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU DIED when suddenly enter in Tavros (you could also throw in sollux and the girls in the bg, sollux reasoning for not coming closer to say hi being he wanted to avoid himself arguing with TWO karkats and how embarrassing it would be)
anyways Tavros enters into the conversation and surprisingly these two karkats are a lot easier to calm down and auspicize than when Jade did it during Beta session. Tavros mentions that he’s glad he could be useful and feels like he’s done a good thing, even if its really small like this.
Upon which the Retcon Karkat mentions he had thought about Tavros during his three year trip and how he wished he had given him more special attention as his teammate (since they were both on red) instead of allowing him to get so close to Vriska and how Vriska was the real problem in that whole situation (sort of explaining his exaggerated hostility towards her) and how he wished he could tell his Tavros that. GO speaks up about how he never thought of it himself cause he was too distracted during his trip but that he actually agreed with it and passes that onto Tavros since technically that’s his tavros (lmao pissing off retcon for stealing his idea)
This leads on to the other conclusions Retcon had come to over the trip about his failings in being a leader and how he would change, (GO disagreeing with some of them, leading to more explanation, and GO agreeing, along with giving his own perspective to the disaster that was the Beta timeline) they have the conversation about Abraxas during this too and how they both wish they could still do something to help the alpha session.
Tavros speaks up about the Ghost army, which GO remembers but Retcon has no clue what the fuck he’s talking about.
Shoot back to Vriska who is still talking to Meenah, and when the army comes back into convo checks her phone and says it’s taken care of, showing one last memo created by both the karkats calling all other karkats in the viel to gather the ghosts. All the karkats bring their session trolls along with alphas and other ghost friends they made along the way.
Vriska and Meenah arrive at the army and Vriskas glad her plan work (she had no way of knowing this would happen but she’ll take credit for it)
She sees Tavros in the crowd and calls to him but he ignores her and instead is seeing meeting Aradia. She assumes he just didnt hear her.
GO and Retcon are seen together on the outskirt of the army and they say goodbye, GO saying he much rather find some ghosts from his session instead of fight (he died today he is tired) and Retcon surprisingly respecting his decision, and GO admits he doesn’t know how or why this Karkat got to live but that a part of him was glad he did. They give a heart warmingly flip eachother off and seperate, Retcons convo with Meenah is slightly different but takes the same course mostly.
During Collide we briefly see GO Karkat while Retcon gets obliterated (with Jade and Dave) losing his mind.
THE FUCKIN END
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