#integration fic

did you ever want to see a relatively early draft of integration chapter 6?

no? ahahah im gon post it anyway because ray was so nice to type this at 2 am when i had no hand2

/rollllllz

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> john is drunk > karkat is a little bit buzzed

> dragging piano up to roof DON’T YOU NEED A CHAIR? great idea karkat! grab that box! ARE YOU SURE?? grab the box!!!!

john sitting down to play piano > box collapses > pulls karkat down > why john!!!!!!

> now laying on the floor > karkat laying on john > karkat flops off

THIS IS WHY I HATED YOU SO MUCH IN THE BEGINNING karkat: i hated your guts for like two months john: /rolls/ you hated me in the beginning? WHHHHYYY john: karkat i need to know do you hate me now? karkat: obviously not you dumb shit

> roll around for a while

> looking at stars

this is kinda like camping have you ever been camping? I HATE CAMPING. whyyy camping is fun! I HATE IT ON PRINCIPLE. THE CONCEPT IS A TERRIBLE IDEA. hehe karkat you’re funny! :D so you haven’t actually been camping? we need to fix this! you should come to my house! i have this balcony thing and we could totally do the tent thing on the thing!!! THIS DOES NOT MAKE THE CONCEPT SOUND ANYTHING LESS THAN A TERRIBLE IDEA. but it would be fun!! I’VE HEARD THESE LIES BEFORE. REMEMBER THE GOSLING VIDEO i’m sorry!! that was two years ago! how many times do you want me to say i’m sorry how do you remember that THE INNOCENT VISAGE OF THAT TINY FLUFFY BABY BIRD BOUNCING DOWN A CLIFF OF DEATH WILL FOREVER BE BURNED INTO MY MEMORY, JOHN.

speaking of dead babies when you weren’t looking i tried one of your grubflakes and it wasn’t that bad what’s scary is it doesn’t taste that bad but it’s DEAD BABIES /john losing his shit/ IS THAT WHY I RAN OUT SO FAST THIS WEEK i’m sorryyyyyyy!!!!! i was hungry! and also lazy! NO SHIT SHERLOCK.

i still don’t get troll culture! where do these dead babies even come from!!! ALTERNIA WHERE ELSE that’s fucked uuuuuup!! THAT’S MY CULTURE YOU INSENSITIVE FUCKWIT. i’m sorry it’s still fucked up!! DULY NOTED JOHN. I WILL NOTIFY THE APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES AS SOON AS I GET BACK.

did you know that the first time i met you we called you a disney princess? :D IT WAS STRIDER, WASN’T IT. I WILL MAKE HIM EAT HIS FUCKING SHADES.

so what are you doing after graduation? > karkat gonna try and work for the empress? WE NEED ORDERRRFRRRRRR

hi aibari ! thanks i’m glad you like Integration’s North Korea Alternia haha. 

I have some ideas for oneshots/ potential sequels but none of them really go into Alternia’s history/ political situation. I guess I could write something about Fef or Eridan but that’s quite a departure from the stories currently in the ‘verse. It’s mostly interpersonal relations and character exploration and inner conflict.

though... now that you mention it, it could be interesting.

if you let me know what you want to hear about and a suitable mathgeek title, i will seriously consider it lol.

Integration is officially done! I’m really happy with how this fic turned out. It’s meant to be read as a one shot but it’s also 23k thereabouts haha.

Thanks to ssjohnkat2014 who organised this. Thanks for all your hard work and your understanding, sorry for taking so long!

Thanks to crabapples97, my giftee, for giving me free reign to do basically anything I wanted, and for the nice comments in the tags! Sorry this took so long, and has spun madly out of control. Your patience is much appreciated and I hope you enjoyed this ride!

Thanks to tonguerocker! For listening to my complaints, for going through the story with me, for pretty art that keeps me motivated, and for being hands when I had no hands ability. I am honoured to put this kid through school w you rayrayl and I promise to start your commission soon im so sorry. I literally could not have done this without you, you were a gr8 help <> <> <>

Thanks to everyone who read, liked and reblogged this! Integration’s been a great run! 

There are 2 sequels and 2 same verse oneshots planned but they won’t be so nice. They’ll be less cute/fluffy and more jaded if anything because I will feel much less obligated to have a happy ending. My sadstuck trash friends will love/hate me for the sequels if I write them. BUT no promises because I already have people out for my blood for two of my longfics, haha. 

Will very happily take asks on this verse still though!

Tuiteyfruity  on Chapter 6  Wed 06   May 2015  01:49AM EDT   

no but I am really interested in why there are trolls on earth. I mean, i can just accept they are because AU and just go with it. But if there is a reason, like, if you have a reason I would love to hear what kind of thing you imagine would cause this strange, and strained allegiance between Earth and Alternia.

Integration [Homestuck, john/karkat] COMPLETE— Universitystuck but not humanstuck. Living together. – On AO3. On tumblr: integration fic tag, the tag in chrono, Part 1, Part 2, Part 2 notes, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 (end)

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Hey! Thanks for the question, I never really had reason to write down all the details so this was fun!

In this AU trolls crash landed ages and ages ago (think ancient Egypt) in the Middle East/ North-Central Africa after the home planet became uninhabitable for reasons. Their technology, being biotech, degraded and Earth has no ability to support the new growth of space travel tech.

Trolls created a force field/ bubble/ sphere to reduce gravity in the middle of a desert in Africa. It's done by psionic slavery and hybrid bio-artificial fabricated circuitry tech. The Mothergrub and lusii cannot leave this sphere. Because of the vulnerability, trolls defend airspace and borderlands with extreme prejudice. Doesn't matter who you are, if you're remotely a threat, you die.

The general area that the bubble is in was called Alternia, in honour of the troll homeworld. Later on, it was formally recognised as a country with that name.

Historically trolls are the 'superior' species, and used to wander freely outside of Alternia in early history. BUT there were a couple of really bad genocides both ways. There was a relatively recent, semi-accidental event (one country acted unilaterally) about 20 years back which was a pollutant introduced to the atmosphere and killed off almost all trolls outside the bubble. Those who survived carried a resistant gene which has since been contributed to the slurry and the new generation is resistant.  (Karkat's is one of the first few batches to have the resistance.)

Alternia, of course, responded with threats against the world. The best weapon they have are drones. Similar to drones used in human war IRL, they are not considered people, but they are bio-artificial tech automated killing machines that are able to target.

A lot of countries have an anti-troll political party. Doesn't help that there was a show of force/ kind of invasion, where drones were sent to sweep the countries bordering Alternia. It created a ghost town zone. It's mostly inhabited by adolescent trolls who've inherited the resistance genes but have been indoctrinated with basic schoolfeeding and propaganda.

The Empress now doesn't leave the sphere because of that. But Propaganda is still shown of her. In fact, it's super important because the trolls who leave are now more unreachable/harder to influence.

Humans don't know much about the inside of the sphere. All humans, without exception, are disallowed from Alternia. There is a lot of conjecture of course.

Recently, it's become slightly better about letting trolls out, but not humans in. It is mostly because 1, Alternia learns more about the enemy, and 2, vicious overcrowding within the sphere.

Leaking information means death so trolls who leave are carefully screened or just killed. Inside Alternia there's only an intranet, so you can talk to other Alternians but can't get word out. Trying is death. (Sollux did it anyway. No one found out.)

TL;DR-- trolls were historically aliens but now have their own country that's basically north korea

Betaray: i feel like we just put a kid through school

YEAH, THAT ME. IT’S ****DONE****** HALLELUJAH HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

It’s just a draft but at least it’s all there. It’s been sent to the betaray. 0u0

aaaaaaaaaaah my first longfic ever completed. it looks about 23k which doesnt look like a lot but i have never finished a multipart before SO LIKE. WHATEVER. THIS IS GREAT. IM PSYCHED. ((IM SO FUCKED FOR REAL LIFE THINGS HAHAHAHA))

i cried a little bit while writing it so I HOPE ALL Y’ALL CRY TOO 

it’ll probably take quite a while to beta/ go back and forth but in the meantime!

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Wow, you’re actually kind of a crappy friend.

You feel bad. Karkat is really great for putting up with you. Karkat deserves good friends.

Hm, what can you do to make it up to him?

It has to be special too! If it was just store bought stuff, he could totally get it on his own. You bite your lip and wish you had an oven in your apartment.

Probably best you didn’t, you didn’t know recipes with no sugar anyway.

Well, you could write him a note. It wasn’t super nice, but you could do it quick and it would still be meaningful.

You grab some paper and scribble a border with a blue whiteboard marker so it wouldn’t look so sad. Then you sit down and write—

‘hi karkat’

--and then it hits you that you’re writing goodbye.