A/N
Hey! It's been a while since I have done a fanfiction on this website. To tell you personally I forgot I actually had an account here. My bad, my fans must have been dying on the ikarishipping story I have been doing (my grammar ain't doing good either).
So please bear with me on this story I'm going to be doing, expect a bit of bad grammar, but if you see some please tell me in the reviews! :D
I've been into homestuck just recently and I saw a picture that inspired me to do a fanfiction on this.
The main couple of this story is KarkatxJade, there also other couples like DavexTerezi, JohnxVriska, and a bit of RosexKanaya.
I'll give you a note on how the story is going to be like.
In the near future, where all humans and trolls coexist. The homestuck kids have found a way to connect some sort of parallel bridge to Alternia and to Earth, however, since Alternia is a toxic wasteland right now, the trolls have moved to earth. Jade Harley (who is now 20) is a famous journalist who works in John's Fashion Magazine company called Inter species Fashionz (in New York), a famous fashion magazine that is read by humans and trolls. They rake in millions of dollars per year due to how many people buy the magazine and read the latest fashion. Being in the magazine is a huge advertisements for fashion companies to promote their new and upcoming fashions. Jade has a new mission; to interview the famous, Rose Lalonde, who designs Lala, a name for her famous products. To fashion and to cosmetics, interviewing Rose is a huge promotion for John's magazine, to rake in more money so that John can achieve his life goal. While interviewing Rose, Jade runs into a huge obstacle, Rose's boss, who runs the company she works for. He is known as Karkat Vantas, the big boss who owns the fashion company called K(the one Rose works for). Jade just knows he is out to get her, however she will not let this get her down. Although the boss being in the way, she will reach her goal and finish it!
I just thought of this story when I don't know much about fashion so bear with me. Anyways I hope you guys enjoy it!
Homestuck is own by Hussie!
Chapter 1
In the loud crowds of New York City people were walking back and forth to their jobs and other businesses to attend to. Jade Harley was one of the people. She was wearing a blue dress with black leggings and a jacket over her dress that was buttoned up. Her hair was tied up into a ponytail so she gets that professional look on her, she also had glasses (despite being a bit old for it). She was about twenty years old now doing what she loved the most, her job. She was a famous journalist for Inter Species Fashionz, a renown magazine for the latest upcoming fashion and trends. John Egbert was the owner of this Magazine company, he was also Jade's brother. It all started out because John wanted to fulfill some life goal. After some complicated procedures he managed to create a magazine company, and Jade was able to get the word out and was also able to get the latest ideas of fashion and trends. Soon it became a remarkable magazine that even lives up to the famous fashion magazines today in the modern world.
Jade reached the building for her brother's company. John made an urgent call while she was still at home writing more stories about the latest fashion trend. Jade went onto the elevator and also greeted her coworkers who help run the company while John is occupied with personal things. She reached the 10th floor of the company building and walked into a hallway that leads into a huge room with a big door. She knocked, as it was a form of being polite (in her opinion).
"Hey John are you there!" she gave a loud voice.
Jade heard a small noise from inside so she guessed that John was in there. She came in and there he was staring at the New York views in his office. It was pretty big. There were a bunch of papers on the floor and some papers coming out of open silver cabinets around his office. John's table was a sky blue color (not much to her surprise) with a bunch of famous actors and actresses pictures taped onto it. She noticed that John was clearly printing out something because she heard the printer making noises. She sat on the silky red couch in his office and puts her feet on the coffee table. Jade was waiting for John to talk but since he's too distracted by looking at the New York scenery she tried to start the conversation.
"John, what was so urgent that you needed me here so quickly? I was writing such an amazing article that was FOR your magazine" Jade looked at John trying to get his attention towards her.
John turned around with a huge goofy smile on his face. He walked towards Jade and grabbed her shoulders, "JADE I HAVE A MISSION FOR YOU!".
Her eyes widen, a mission? A mission after so many weeks of not doing nothing, this seems exciting. John usually calls jobs missions, that was his way of calling it since saying job would be too boring for his taste. Jade gave a big smile and looked at her brother's determined stare. He smiled back at her, you can see his teeth shining because of the sun radiating through the windows.
"I HAVE A MISSION, THAT IS!" John gasped for more air after saying that in a loud tone, "Interview the famous Rose Lalonde who designs the renown Lala fashion that you see runway models wear in those fashion shows!" he gasped for more air, you can tell he was exhausted from talking so much.
Jade raised her eyebrow, she knows that Rose Lalonde doesn't like associating with the media so much. She likes to get famous in her own way. She doesn't like getting promotions or advertisements when people ask her to feature in some sort of bulletin or even a magazine. Rose was an artistic person according to Jade's research. She wanted people to know the beauty of how people can use their hands into making cloth into something beautiful, and trying to interview her for her brother's magazine will be hard. Nevertheless, since her John was so desperate into achieving his goal she wouldn't mind working hard to get this interview for the magazine. It can also help the company a bit if it sells really well, perhaps maybe the best selling issue for Inter Species Fashionz.
"I'll do it for you John, since you are my brother after all; I want to be the one to help you reach your life goal" Jade gave a wide smile and it also made John smiled as well.
John lets go of Jade and walks to his desk and sits down. He lets out a big relieving sigh and turns the chair around and look at the view.
"Manhattan is a wonderful place Jade, there's people everywhere walking and living their life" John gave pleased expression.
Jade gazed at John, even though he can be a knuckle-head at times, he can be a sweet sincere person who just wants to fulfill his goals. She gets up from the couch and grabs her bag. She walked over to John's desk and stood there for a sec.
"Um John, where do I go to do this mission?" Jade scratched her head.
John turned around with a wide look on his face and laughed, "Oh yeah! Of course silly me! I totally forgot that I had to give you directions to go interview Rose".
Jade scratched her head. John was taking this too lightly. Yep, she just easily waltz into Rose's office and asks "Hey can I interview you?", Rose wouldn't take that too lightly, in fact she would be furious and throw her out of the building and told her never to come back again. Jade was indeed a famous journalist, but she goes by a stage name if that's what you call it. Knowing that if she became very publicized, many companies will come to her and ask for an interview to be included into John's magazine and she wouldn't want that. It would cost too much stress for her and John himself since he likes taking things easy. She watched John grab some papers out from the printer and puts it into an envelope. He hands it to her with a smile and thumbs up.
"K, the company Rose works for is at Brooklyn, it's not that far from here if you take the subway" John told Jade.
She nodded and grabbed the envelope from John and went outside of his office. She probably won't be seeing him for a while. She walks into the hallway that leads to the elevator and steps on it. She got the envelope out from her bag and opens it. There were maps that leads to the company where Rose works and pictures of how the company actually looks like. There were also details on which subway to go to since some take longer than the other.
"John was pretty serious about this mission after all huh?" Jade told herself.
The elevator opened and she sees a familiar face. He was tall and had blonde hair. He was always wearing the same sunglasses ever since he was young. Jade gave a small smile and he is unfazed as usual.
"Good afternoon Dave Strider!" she said aloud.
Dave looked at her and gave a small grin. She and Dave were co-workers. Dave was a famous photographer while she was a famous journalist. Dave also went under a stage name. He's the one who takes the perfect pictures of models that is in Inter Species Fashionz. They pretty shared the same interests, they both love animals, particularly anthropic, or the modern term for it is "furries". She and Dave were pretty close to the point where some of the other workers thought they were going out but she had no special feelings for him and neither did he. They just wanted to do their jobs. Dave went into the elevator while Jade left and went outside of the building. She looks at her map again and goes to subway number 21 which is the least crowded subway to go to Brooklyn. Brooklyn was usually only twenty-five minutes to a half hour drive there and if its by the subway it is probably quicker. She sits down on an empty seat and looks around. There weren't many people in this bus. Since the Toxic waste spilled in Alternia, you start to see more trolls often around here. It wasn't really uncommon, it was sort of normal seeing a different species other than humans living around here (at least from Jade's point of view). They had fair gray skin and ivory black hair and horns that differentiate from the other. The horns were pretty cute actually since they reminded her of candy corn or whatnot. After twenty minutes the subway reached her stop. She was now in Brooklyn. It wasn't that different from Manhattan, they both had the same atmosphere to her. She walked around the city trying to find her way to the company Rose was at. She looks at the picture of the building again.
"It's a big silver building with bright blue windows. The letter K is on top of the building and is in purple with black polka dots. And there's a patch of grass around the building and a shiny looking pathway. There's also a huge fountain the has the letter K on it too." Jade was mumbling to herself.
She was so absorbed into looking at the pictures John gave her that she crashed into someone. She drops her papers on the floor and sighed.
"I'm really sorry for bumping into you! I didn't mean to I got lost trying to find a something!" she apologized to the random stranger.
She looked up and saw a man who had gray skin. He had sort of a Mohawk haircut but it wasn't as bad of how guys usually cut it. I guess you would call it a Messe Mohawk. He had large horns that looked like bull horns from the side and ivory black hair. He wasn't human, but a troll. He gave a large smile and help Jade picks up her papers and handed back to her.
"It's okay, you don't have to apologize, it was my fault for standing in the middle of the road" he scratched his head.
Jade looked down out of embarrassment and blushed a bit. That was very unprofessional of her to crash into a random stranger and let them pick up your papers for you. She looked back up and still apologized some more.
"I'm really sorry!" she apologized.
He smiled and scratched his head some more, "It's okay really, it wasn't your fault. And um, sorry to intrude in your business but are you looking for something?"
"Yes! I'm looking for this company building that is labeled K" Jade replied back politely.
"Oh, that explains a lot! Okay if you want to go there you just keep on heading straight until you see a sign that says L.O.V.E.U and then once you see that sign you make a left and head straight and you'll be there, it's not that far of a walk" the young man said.
Jade gave a huge grin and shook his hand, "Thank you very much sir!".
He smiled and also shook her hand. His heart skipped a bit. The girl was so cute, she even had buck teeth. It made him turn red a bit. After the hand shake he sat down on a bench and waved goodbye to the girl. Jade waved goodbye to the kind stranger and started walking and suddenly remembers something.
"Kind sir! What is your name?", she shouted with a grin.
He turned to her with his eyes widen and shouted back, "My name is Tavros Nitram!".
"That's a nice name Tavros! My name is Jade Harley! I hope we see each other again someday!" she waved her final goodbye and ran as quickly as possible to the fashion company.
After the running she reached the big silver building. She saw the K clearly on top of the building and the pathway and everything. She was awed by the appearance of the company. It looked so nice and professional and maybe even clean! Before she goes in the fixes her hair and her clothes. She puts the envelope that John gave her back into her bag (a/n purse however you guys call it). She walks inside the building and looked all around her. Everything was so white,silver, and even purple. It might have been the company's color like how her magazine company color was blue. The place was so clean and organized. There were trolls and humans that were working together, it awed her even more how different species can get along so well. She goes up to the counter where the information lady was. She was a troll but not very professional looking. She had many trinkets around her desks that looked like cats and heck she was wearing a blue cat beanie hat let her horns go through them (it really made her look like a cat).
"At least she's wearing the proper attire for work" Jade thought to herself.
The girl looked at Jade for a bit then went back into looking at her little trinkets. However that was very unprofessional so she looked at Jade again.
"This is the K's fashion industry how may I help you?" she gave a big smile.
"I like to see Miss Lalonde please"
The girl gave her a blank stare. She knows Miss Lalonde didn't like visitors, especially so early in the afternoon.
"Why do you want to see her miss?" she kindly answers back.
Jade grabs the envelope from her bag and opens it. She gave the information lady the letter John printed out in case something like this happens. The girl carefully reads it and hands it back to her.
"I understand Miss, you could see her, she's on the top floor, room 3" the girl told Jade.
Jade nodded, "Thank you miss, may I ask what's your name?"
The girl tilted her head out of confusion but then replied her question, "Nepeta, Nepeta Leijon".
Jade nodded and smile and went to the elevator. It was nice hearing some different names for once. Troll names are so pretty she thought to herself. It's certainly different from human names, the cultures must be different too. Trolls and Humans can't really fall in love though, since they are of a different species. However, nowadays in modern society you see humans and trolls together everywhere so it must have been a normal thing. Even John's magazine is named Inter Species Fashionz, seeing how much he supports the two species together. Jade reaches the highest floor of the building and walks into a hallway. She fins room 3, somehow she was really nervous. She was really going to meet Rose Lalonde, the famous fashion designer of many famous clothing lines. She was prepared to knock on the door but resisted. What if Rose kicks her out of the building and told her never to come back again? That would be terrible and John would be very disappointed in her. She took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
"Come in" someone replied.
Jade took a big gulp and let out a big sigh. She enters in and closed the door behind her. She looked around and saw designs of many things. From underwear to party dresses, it was all over the place. It's like being in a gap between colors. The room was so colorful but mainly purple. You see papers everywhere on the floor with ideas and designs. And there was Rose Lalonde sitting on her chair coming up with more and newer ideas, I guess this is what you call a professional and an artistic one at that. Rose looked at Jade and continued working again. She was wearing a blue blouse with a red ribbon around the collar. The frills were around the wrist and the neck and the design on the blouse was flawless. Jade took a huge gulp and took a step further and further until she was in a good talking distance with her
Rose looked at Jade and stops working, "Now what business do you have with me?".
Jade sucked it up and spoke with confidence, "Miss Lalonde, I really admire your work, you are an amazing designer, an artist even and even greater than others".
Rose nodded, "Continue on".
"I really love your work. And my brother loves it too. I would like to interview you for our magazine called Inter Species Fashionz!" Jade responded.
Rose got up and slammed her hands on her desk. She glared at Jade with a furious look. Jade gulped again but she still has her confidence up, she won't lose.
"I told the media not the interfere with my work! I want you out of my office right now!" Rose shouted.
Jade wanted to cover her ears at that point. She didn't want that to happen and it happened so fast. Jade still looked at Rose with confidence. She was far already why give up now.
"I'm really sorry Miss Lalonde! But please I really want to learn more about you! How you started to become a fashion designer and how that led to your artistic ability and I wanted to show the whole world that!" Jade retorted.
"Why then do you promote these arts into your paper magazines!" Rose argued back.
"Because it is the best of my abilities to! Clothing is another form of art, a form that is performed by hands and I just want to show the world how you designs came to be, and maybe even some people can become inspired and become such artist as you are mam! Besides me and my brother created this magazine to promote the art of clothing, not to promote designers so they could get more famous and we rake in the money! I don't want that!" Jade run out of breath but argued her best.
Rose didn't say anything, she sat back down on her chair and let out a big sigh. She thought and though, maybe even for twenty minutes.
Rose looked at Jade, "Your argument was excellent, I will let you interview me".
Jade gave a big grin. Rose Lalonde actually said yes on her request. Jade really did appreciate the art of clothing. It is indeed beautiful, but she wasn't sure of John's opinion on it. All she knew that John wanted to fulfill a life goal of who knows what. It was a small white lie, it didn't matter much.
"HOWEVER" Rose continued.
"I have to see if you do believe clothing is art. I want to see that myself. So you have to help me out whenever I need you. And once I see that I will let you interview me with all your heart" Rose gave a sly smile.
Jade was kind of disappointed that there is a condition she had to do for this job, but it's all for the John! She will do her best to get Rose's interview and understand more about fashion.
"Thank you Miss Lalonde!" she bowed down.
Rose nodded, "Yes, you are welcome, by the way, what's your name?".
Jade thought about it for a bit. She shouldn't tell Rose her real name. Maybe when she's closer to Rose she'll tell her real name, but for now she will tell Rose her stage name.
"Jade Star!" she replied back in a loud voice.
"Ah, so your that famous journalist that people always mention in magazines. You pretty famous you know", Rose blankly said.
It was hard to believe that people would mention her in magazines, but she was just being too modest. She was indeed famous for getting the news out and everything.
"Okay! But I don't want anyone to know that I'm here so please call me anything you like Miss!" Jade told her.
Rose thought to herself. What should she called Jade? Something that people won't recognize that will lead her to her name.
"What about Jay Virdis?" Rose thought.
Jade nodded, "Yes that's perfect!".
After the conversation ended Jade heard footsteps from outside. It kept coming closing until it knocked on the door and suddenly opens. The man was gray skin and has small rounded horns. He had bangs and his hair was spiked up on the back. He had sharp teeth (which is a common attribute for trolls) and was wearing a black suit and a red shirt under.
"What do you want Karkat?", Rose said expressively.
"You know Rose as your boss I would want you to call me Mister Vantas" he sighed.
Jade looked at him. He was pretty handsome for a troll. There was also a girl beside him. She had red sunglasses and was carrying a clipboard and was wearing a black suit, but instead of pants its a skirt.
"She must be his assistant. She must also be a troll too" Jade thought.
She can't be thinking of this! After making the deal of her life to Rose the boss just has to appear out of nowhere and needed to talk to Rose. It's like some part out of a cliché movie!
"John, what am I going to do now?" she thought.
A/N WOOHOO end of chapter! It was pretty long huh? Sorry if I made many grammar errors and if I did please tell me! I hope you enjoy the chapter! Expect a next one soon!
And also for Jade's fake last name Virdis, Virdis means green in latin. And since green associates with her color I decided to name her that. Also I thought of her persterchum name, GardenGnostic and I got garden out and got green. So yep! Hope that's easy to explain w.