* NOTE: I tried to make this post two months ago, but apparently tumblr hates any and all formatting? Ā And after an hour of googling formatting tips and following instructions to the letter and still seeing everything get ignored or fucked up, I flounced off in a huff. Ā Iām too used to blogging platforms being, you know, usable. Ā Iāve heard thatās something tumblr has issues with, but I had no idea it was this bad. Ā (incidentally, hereās the LJ post this is based on, with actual colored text, and more details on the troll players re:psionics etc.)
So last spring, while enthusiastically procrastinating from my senior seminar course, I solidified a DGM-characters-playing-Sburb/Sgrub scenario I was moderately happy with. Ā It involves two teams of adolescents, one from each planet, informed that their world and species are going to be wiped out and they have one chance to compete against a group of aliens for the privilege of creating a new world to live in. Ā Same RL universe, shared Medium, shared Prospit/Derse moons; no Scratch or alpha/beta versions of guardians involved.
I have a semi-fleshed-out storyline for this, involving all but six of the players (three from each team) dying horribly, with the survivors realizing the game was rigged from the start and having to team up to stay alive. Ā Thereās sordid teenage romance and psychotic breaks and mercy kills and so on and so forth, and I have a detailed shipping chart and character-death timeline. Ā Wonāt be posting any of that today, though--this is a basic list of whoās who.
There are nine players per team; I ignored about half the Noahs because I donāt know enough about their characters to get into their heads, and assigned them to the troll team, with the humans being mostly Exorcists because I am an unoriginal hack. Ā Disclaimer: I spent like a month angsting over classpects based on my understanding of them, but my headcanon may not be accurate; also,the last HS post I read involved Jade meeting Calliope in a dream, and the last D.Gray-chapter I read was, like, 203. Ā I need to get caught up.
FORMAT:
> Full Name (Nicknames)
> [Handle if decided]
> Title
> [Symbol if decided]
> Text/Blood Color
> Typing Quirk
> Strife Specibi
> Dreamer Type
HUMAN PLAYERS:
* note that I didnāt even bother trying to apply HS human-name-length conventions
YU KANDA /Ā ē„ē°ć¦ć¦ (most call him Kanda)
[handle was fuckOff before Lenalee made him change it]
PRINCE of LIFE
[that dreamstateless aum symbol]
deep blue
types like this dumbshit Ā (EXCEPT WHEN HES GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU RABBIT)
Fistkind, Swordkind [+dual-wielding]
Prospit dreamer
LENALEE LEE /Ā ęäø½åØ (Lena, Lenalady)
>Ā
MAID of BLOOD
[butterfly or dragonfly symbol]
amethyst-purple
Types like this! Sheās pretty easygoing. :3
Bootkind
Prospit dreamer
LAVIĀ āBOOKMAN JR.ā
>Ā
MAGE of HEART
>Ā
red-orange
types like this yuu~ 8D 8D 8D hv u hrd frm lena??? Ā (Except when shitās going down.)
Hammerkind
Prospit dreamer
ALMA KARMA
mayonnaiseEnthusiast
BARD of SPACE
[sooo tempted to make hir symbol a jar of Helmannās or Miracle Whip]
golden yellow
fairly casual!!! :D
Polearmkind
Derse dreamer
HOWARD LINK (everyone calls him Link)
>Ā
KNIGHT of DOOM
[crow silhouette]
bronze-brown
(Very serious and formal when typing.)
Daggerkind, Paperkind
Prospit dreamer
ARYSTAR KRORY III (everyone calls him Krory)
[gothicGardener???]
HEIR of RAGE
[rose blossom]
deep purplish-maroon
Nervous when typing? And ends a lot of sentences with question marks? Ā (EXCEPT WHEN HEāS IN BATTLEFACE MODE.)
Gauntletkind, Swordkind
Derse dreamer
MIRANDA LOTTOĀ (Mira)
>Ā
SYLPH of TIME
[analog clock or hourglass symbol]
dark brown
very, very nervous when typing, I, IāM SO SORRY!!!
[clockkind? keykind?]
Prospit dreamer
NOISE MARIE (most call him Marie)
noelOrganon
SEER of MIND
>Ā
jade-green
Serious but easygoing when typing.Ā [through Dragon or another transcriber?]
Wirekind
Prospit dreamer
DAISYA BARRYĀ (ācall me Big D!ā ...no one calls him Big D.)
>Ā
THIEF of BREATH
[soccerball symbol]
sky-blue
ttly formal typist (haha psych)
Ballkind
Derse dreamer
TROLL PLAYERS:
* note that I didĀ do the six-letters thing here, though Iām not 100% satisfied with the results
AILLEN WALKER
[crownedClown? pokerFace?]
KNIGHT of HOPE
[upside-down pentacle symbol]
rust (āmaroonā)Ā blood
Formal style, amiable. :)
Clawkind, Riflekind, BFSkind [this kid believes wholeheartedly in backups for your backups]
Prospit dreamer
ERHODE KAMLOT (most call her Rhode)
sweetDreamer
WITCH of VOID
[astrological Saturn symbol]
seadweller (āvioletbloodā)
Semiformal typing style; can be maAaAaAaddeningly cryptic... ;)
Needlekind, Daggerkind
Derse dreamer
TYCATL JEMIKK (most call him Tyki)
[cardShark???]
PRINCE of RAGE
>Ā
yellowblood
amiable, casual typing style Ā (Except when heās looking forward to watching you bleed.)
[brassknucklekind? saikind?]
Derse dreamer
WISELY VIZDOMĀ (Wise to friends; Wiseass when theyāre pissed at him)
>Ā
MAGE of MIND
>Ā
tealblood
Types like this most of the time. Ā (exceptduringmigraineswhyrustilltalkingtome)
[scarfkind? switchbladekind? ...eyeballkind?]
Prospit dreamer
JASDER & DEVITT BONDOMĀ (Jasdevi)
[twinTerrorists???]
BARD of HEART
>Ā
indigo (āpurpleā) blood
Devitt types like this yo / AND JASDER TYPES LIKE THIS HEEHEEHEE / Dammit jas shut up / (heeheehee)
[pistolkind? hairkind???]
[one body, two dreamselves; canāt remember if I ever decided which twin for which moon]
ELIADE AKHAMAĀ (El or Elli to friends)
[sooo tempted to make her handle helloNurse]
THIEF of LIFE
>Ā
ceruleanblood
Doesnāt Usually See The Point In Communicating Via Text.
[stilettokind...in both senses of the term]
Prospit dreamer
LUBELL LUSTULĀ (most call her Lulu)
>Ā
MAID of SPACE
[some kind of feline symbol?]
blue (āindigoā) blood
Doesnāt talk much.~ But when she does youād better listen.~
Whipkind
Derse dreamer
SACHKO CHOMSKĀ (Sachi or Cho to friends)
>Ā
ROGUE of TIME
>Ā
oliveblood
easygoing & casual~cho!!
Bombkind
Derse dreamer
SZKINN BOLICKĀ (Sweet Tooth)
>Ā
HEIR of DOOM
>Ā
brownblood
do you like sweets ? go awaY . Ā (CAPSLOCKY WHEN HES LOSING IT)
Chainkind
Derse dreamer
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(for convenience, all Noah/troll lists are in rainbow order from Tyrian purple to rust red, with mutations at the end)
Naturally I wound up with three separate scenarios, none of which really apply to the D.Gray-stuckĀ I talked about last post. Ā I'll do these in ascending order of how much time they took me to work out:
(this one could apply to D.Gray-stuck if you find a replacement cherub, like Apocryphos or something. augh why is Homestuck so complicated.)
NOAHCESTORS
01/09 Earl as Emperor, Road as Tyrian descendant
04 Desires' descendant Sheryl as seadweller (wealth, influence, and genocidal mania)
03 Joyd's descendant Tyki as indigo
07 ...Mercym... as b100 (STRENGTH and sunglasses)
05 Wisely('s descendant that poor homeless kid in Paris or wherever) as cerulean
06 ...Fiddler... as teal
13 ...Mightra... as jade (all wrapped up to hide the glowiness?)
12 Lustul's descendant Lulu as olive (catgirl; add animal control, or leave to Skinn?)
10-11 Bondom's descendants Jasdevi as yellow
08 Wrathra's descendant Skinn as brown (animal-whisperer, or leave to Lulu?
02 ...Tryde... as red (psionic spirit medium?)
14/15 Neah's descendant Allen as mutant
NOAHSPECTRUM
01/14 Earl as Emperor, Neah as heir/archrival/overthrower/troublemaker
04 Sheryl as seadweller
10-11 Jasdevi as indigo twins (how did I miss this?)
02+06+07+13 Tryde/Fiddler/Mercym/Mightra filling out the blues and greens, maybe Tryde as a justice-obsessed teal? Mightra as psychic blue or green? Fiddler as...uhhh...some type of green? oliveish maybe?
09 Road as jade (works surprisingly well, especially considering how hard she is to kill)
05 Wisely as yellow (ridiculously powerful and ridiculously useless when he has a headache/is busy sulking)
03 Tyki as a yellow-brown (psionics etc.)
08 Skinn as a red-brown (maybe he hears the voices of the unavenged dead?)
12 Lulu as true red (one of those lowbloods who's weirdly into the social order that's busy screwing them; also, psionics--sort of a Handmaid or Damara character maybe?)
15 Allen as mutant (that Neah decides is a perfect candidate to help reform the world order; Allen thinks Neah is completely insane and a little scary, so acts like he's going along with it but plots escape routes)
The latter two of the scenarios is applicable to an alternate Kids/Game thing that I've been trying to work out ectobiology for and just succeeding in confusing myself further, and I'm pretty sure this sentence is an abomination unto the English language but whatever:
THE 'PARENT' GENERATION (ALPHA KIDS?)
- Kanda Yuu/Yu Kanda (Prospit) + Alma Karma (Derse)
- Lenalee Lee/Lee Lenalee (Prospit) + Lavi Bookman (Derse)
THE 'CHILD' GENERATION (BETA KIDS?)
- Miranda Lotto (Prospit) + Arystar Krory III (Derse)
- Daisya Barry (Prospit) + Noise Marie (Derse)
(couples and sibling pairs split between dreaming moons because nothing else made sense)
FAMILY STRUCTURES:
- Kanda as a Bro-like figure for Krory? post-Scratch, knowing of and benefiting from Krory's work?
- Alma as a Mom-like figure for Miranda? post-scratch,Ā knowing of and benefiting from Miranda's work?
- Lenalee as a Nanna-like figure for...uh...Marie? with Komui as a Dad? post-scratch, Marie as Poppop sorta for Lenalee?
- Lavi as a Grandpa-like figure for...uh...Daisya? and vice versa?
-- Kanda and Alma never meeting prescratch? or a Mom/Dad tragic romance kind of thing? or growing up together? (I'm leaving it up to whoever for Alma's gender identity. cis male, cis female, MTF, FTM, genderqueer, intersex, whatever.)
-- Lavi and Lenalee growing up together prescratch? siblings or neighbors? or never meeting?
-- postscratch, Miranda and Krory teaming up?
-- postscratch, Marie and Daisya growing up brothers?
GUARDIANS:
- beta trolls: Lero, raising the Earl?
- alpha trolls: Timcanpy, raising Allen? (because no lusus? or tragic lusus accident reminiscent of Mana?)
- beta kids: Link (because I love Link too much to leave him out of this AU), bossing Miranda or Marie or something?
- alpha kids: Bookman, raising Lavi?
(Cross-posting here because the only other crossover headcanons I found were on this site. Ā @classyartist, @pinkromantic, @starcrossed_soul, @starcrossed_sky, &c. Ā Jesus Christ how many times can I say the word 'cross' in a sentence.
By now you may have noticed that I have a particularly bad case of chronic teal deer. Ā Though this isn't as bad as the SSU post, consider yourself warned.)
~D.GRAY-STUCK~ (not to be confused with D.Troll-man)
[DISCLAIMER
-- I haven't actually caught up with the canon DGM chapters from 204 onward...I keep intending to, and not doing it
-- and the last thing I remember keeping up with re: Homestuck was John waking up from his tantrum-induced dreambubble convo with Vriska and Tavros
-- and of course I read through the first few thousand pages of HS on a device that refused to view the Flash pages, which was super confusing and it's only the recaps that helped me understand anything at all; I'm trying to finish remedying that now, and also catch up, but it's pretty time-consuming]
The Earl of Millennium is a Time Lord* Lord of Time (seven-thousand-year-old sorcerer with game-breaking powers and evil-god levels of final boss difficulty); the setting itself can be played as straight AU or as a sort of weird alternate-dimension reincarnation fic: where the Earl lost the war but could not be destroyed, and was sealed away from the universe/world he so dearly wanted to lay waste to, and nursed a massive grudge until the time when he could come at the problem from a different angle--19th-century vendetta, 19th-century style; 21st-century vendetta... Ā No longer a quasi-steampunky shadow holy war where he's pulling all the strings, but a quasi-cyberpunky dimension-hopping game interface similarly orchestrated so that the dice are loaded in his favor and the poor suckers caught up in the middle of it have little choice other than to die horribly. Ā (D.Gray-man is not a pleasant setting. Ā Homestuck isn't either, but both stories are told in such a way that you're frequently distracted from the bleakness of reality.) Ā My notes describe as being influenced by the era: 19th-century style was a holy war with chosen apostles and religious magic; 21st-century style is sci-fi mindfuckery with grey aliens and video games.
*I'm assuming someone's made this joke about Caliborn/Lord English already.
(So if it's the sequel to D.Gray-man, then the Earl finds a way to yank at Allen/Neah from where he's been banished, and resets their existences--three of the Exorcists closest to Allen (who died around the same time as him? this AR probably involves a pyrrhic-victory ending where the world is saved but all your favorite characters are dead or horribly maimed) are pulled along into the Earth time period where the Earl's trying to do-over the war, the Noah are reborn in a new world specifically designed by the Earl so that they too can enter the 'game' and be given the chance to join him and benefit through his victory, and Neah--since he is the one the Earl most wants to punish--winds up, by the rules of this new existence the Earl is setting up, as his alter ego. Ā This is not ideal for the Earl, but it was difficult enough to arrange all this from being trapped outside of space and time, so sacrifices must be made. Ā This way, he gets to destroy the Earth and its ungrateful inhabitants, take revenge on Allen Walker and the 14th, reunite with those most deserving in his family, and torture some other exorcists as a side benefit.)
I'm undecided as to how to organize the Noah--it's tempting to try to align them along the eastern or western zodiacs, but I don't think it'd fit them very well--and there's only twelve of them this way, and JasDevi would feel awkward not both being Gemini. Ā I'll probably just go with the numbering scheme, and/or assign haemospectrum values. Ā And in terms of lusii...oy. Ā I'll get back to you on that.
For world guardians I'm going with Timcanpy, and maaaybe Lero, still undecided about that.
So! Ā I've mostly been working with the Fab Four/Kids angle. Ā Here's what I've got so far:
KID -- Allen Walker
SYMBOL -- *ace of spades? upside-down pentagram?* the Crown Clown mask? a clown-paint face? the cross on his hand?
COLOR -- red and grey and silver and white; theme a deep blood red
TYPING HABIT -- almost stiffly proper grammar and punctuation and capitalization, if a bit shaky on spelling...until he's pissed off, in which case propriety falls by the wayside and he gets a bit more vulgar
SCREEN NAME -- word bank: crown clown pierrot red black white cross grave 14 mask poker ace royal flush; candidates: whitePierrot, whiteClown, crownClown, pokerFace, royalFlush, paintedMask, crossGrave, numberFourteen...
STRIFE SPECIBUS -- clawkind (dunno how to address the sword/lightsaber/gun thing)
GOD TIER TITLE -- Knight of Hope; also considered Heir of Hope, and he works as a Hero of Blood, or maybe Doom or Heart (I was sooooo tempted to make him Prince of Time because of Hevlaska's prophecy, you have no idea)
LAND NAME -- idea bank: circus, tents, clowns, snow, ice, frost, graves, graveyards, wandering...something to do with his aspect as well maybe. churches? Land of Snow and Churchyards?
EARTH HOME -- somewhere in Britain, or maybe India
ASSOCIATED PEOPLE ETC. -- Timcanpy, Cross, Mana...Mother, Baba, Cosimo, Allen-the-dog...
KID -- Yu Kanda/Kanda Yuu
SYMBOL -- *the truncated aum?* the hourglass lotus?
COLOR -- blue and black and red; theme a dark navy blue
TYPING HABIT -- he doesn't give a shit about capitalization or punctuation or spelling; gets capslocky when pissed
SCREEN NAME -- word bank: mugen 6 illusion(s) sword khanda 2 second lotus alma; candidates: sixthIllusion, muGen, secondLotus, illusoryBlade, gofuckYourself...
STRIFE SPECIBUS -- swordkind (/bladekind?)
GOD TIER TITLE -- Prince of Life; also considered Knight of Life, and he might work as a Hero of Doom or Rage
LAND NAME -- idea bank: ponds pools caves drought lotuses blue-skies...aspect too? Land of Drought and Lotuses?
EARTH HOME -- China or Japan or Britain maybe
ASSOCIATED PEOPLE ETC. -- Alma...Zuu, Edgar, Twi, Bak...Tiedoll, Marie...
KID -- Lenalee Lee/Lee Lenalee
SYMBOL -- *butterfly?* dragonfly? high heeled shoe? chocolate cake? shackles?
COLOR -- violet/purple and pink and red and green; theme some type of purple--lavender? royal purple? *amethyst?*
TYPING HABIT -- casual (lowercase) but proper, with perfect spelling/grammar/punctuation, which can get a little enthusiastic!!! when overly excited or pissed off
SCREEN NAME -- word bank: butterfly dragonfly chocolate boots shoes feet shackles; candidates: blackBoots, dragonFly, butterflyFeet, butterflyBoots, butterflyShoes, butterflyShackles...
STRIFE SPECIBUS -- bootkind (/shoekind?)
GOD TIER TITLE -- Maid of Space; also considered Heir of Space, Witch of Space, and she works as a Hero of Blood, or maybe Breath (she works better as these than as Space, but I needed a Space player and she fit best; she's Maid and not Witch at least partly because I didn't want overlap with the eight living Kids and the twelve main Trolls--Porrim and the rest of the Anscendants don't count because reasons)
LAND NAME -- idea bank: uhhh. I haven't spent as much time concentrating on Lavi and Lenalee's headspaces as I should.
EARTH HOME -- somewhere in China or maybe Britain...or Korea?
ASSOCIATED PEOPLE ETC. -- Komui...Jeryy, Matron, Reever...
KID -- Lavi Bookman(?)
SYMBOL -- eyepatch? hammer? 49? scroll? book?
COLOR -- green and orange and brown and red; theme maybe a drab olive or brighter leaf green, or even a darkish dusty/browny orange?
TYPING HABIT -- lowercase and sloppy and full of unnecessary emoticons when 'in character', but in times of great danger/seriousness/'bookman mode' his grammar and punctuation and spelling fix themselves up
SCREEN NAME -- word bank: tessei oozuchi-kozuchi hammer eyepatch apprentice 49 deak alias record seal stamp history war librarian; candidates: eyepatchApprentice, alias49, historyNut, secretHistory, warHistorian, apprenticeLibrarian...
STRIFE SPECIBUS -- hammerkind
GOD TIER TITLE -- Mage of Time; he works as a Hero of Heart, or maybe Light or Mind (similar case to Lenalee--he's great for Heart like she's great for Blood, but none of the boys worked for Space and Lavi was the best for Time)
LAND NAME -- idea bank: puzzles riddles libraries cemeteries mass-graves mummies tombs labyrinths mazes battlefields ummm.
EARTH HOME -- somewhere in North America, or maybe North Africa or the Middle East or Central/North Asia???
ASSOCIATED PEOPLE ETC. -- Bookman...Dag?...Deak???
==> DGM: LOOK AT YOUR LIFE, LOOK AT YOUR CHOICES. To be honest, you're not really sure what is going on anymore. You think you may have just banged your MOIRAIL and now your MATESPRIT is texting you. Or maybe it's the OTHER WAY AROUND??? You still have a lot of shipping problems. And now you have to redo your paint. AGAIN.
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You are D.GRAY-MAN FANDOM and you're hanging out with your best buddies AO NO EXORCIST FANDOM and NO.6 FANDOM. AnE is your brosis because EXORCISTS HAVE TO STICK TOGETHER. You both are teaching NO.6 the JOYS OF FANDOM. She looks a little terrified. But maybe that was just the bee you passed by. After all, NO.6 is DEATHLY AFRAID of BEES.
Not sure I'm happy with No.6's design. She just looks like a lovechild of Shion and Nezumi. I doubt the fandom would mind that though. Sorry, I'm not the best at panel-editing.