This is a 17th century based Pirate (sorta?) au yup, Homestuck belongs to Andrew Hussie.
Rated M for later chapters (possibly?)
- Wake as the main character
He seems to be in the middle of something.
- And we care why?
Augh fine, you are now KARKAT VANTAS and you are 17 years old. You're an orphan kid, and being so makes you extremely poor.
You are currently trying to quickly push out the bricks from the corner of your cell, pfft putting children in cells the people who run this orphanage are all smoking something, and you are doing this while trying not to wake the porker who likes to call himself the guard, when he's really just the husband of the woman who runs the place.
One more brick, and there we go. You slide out under the gap, narrowly though, and quickly push the bricks back in.
This has to be the fifth time this week that you're breaking out of that hellhole, and it better be the last because you are not going back there until hell freezes over.
- Now to get some food before you double over in starvation.
Food would be much appreciated but Jesus isn't going to ascend from the sky and hand it to you on a silver platter, oh no you'll need to get it yourself mate.
And that's why you've found yourself here in the market. Now doesn't that look like a nice roll of sourdough bread. It sure does, it's almost beckoning you, roping you in 'Karkat, Karkat take me, eat me Karkat,' okay no that's absolutely fucking weird.
You wait behind a pillar until the owner of the stall has his back turned and that's when you snatch a couple loaves and dash off. Unfortunately for you, your oh so swift movements had actually, made a noise and you now have him hot on your heels. Fan-fucking-tastic. He'll toss you back into the orphanage where you already swore you would not go back to, because if you do go back there, you're in for one hell of a caning, and they show no mercy.
So right now, you're trying your stamina to see how fast you can go and how quickly you can hide. Left, left, right, left, right, stop. You crouch behind a wash bucket and hear the footsteps behind you fade away. Thank god for that.
"Hey," a voice whispers in your ear. Holy SHIT.
You jump up immediately and your faced with a girl, with long black locks tumbling down her back, and is that an eyepatch? Behind her are two other girls, one with emerald eyes and short hair, and the other with ginger hair and red lens glasses. Great, you, Karkat Vantas, have wandered into the hideout of the nutters. Just what you needed.
"Soooooooo, what brings you down here?" she drawls, smirking at you.
"I don't believe that's any of your business, now if you'll excuse me, I'm off," you deadpan, trying to make your way out between the bucket and the ginger.
She grins and pushes you back while chiming "It's not going to be that easy~!"
"And Terezi's right! Getting out of this sticky spider's web will, not be that easy, but we can both benefit from this!"
"I don't see the benefit in sticking around a bunch of Barmy's," you spit back, causing the glasses girl to giggle. Who even wears glasses like that for a start?
"He's cute can we keep him Vriska?" she mocks blinking at you with huge puppy eyes, behind those freaky red frames.
"I'm not a fucking puppy, so no I'm not for your sick keeping!" you snap at her causing her to burst out into another fit of giggles.
"If I recall the original idea of this was for you to rope him into our crew, yes Vriska?" emerald eyes pipes up looking quite bored with the whole ordeal.
"Ugh, you ruined all the fun Kanaya! Fine, we have an offer! You see messy hair, we can easily turn you into that fat chap over there, oooooooor," she says a sudden glint in those cerulean eyes.
"Do I even want to know because, I'm not playing 'rip the head off the doll' with you,"
She doesn't say anything at first, but a finger reaches out to stroke underneath your chin, tilting it up, "Charming, but sadly, no, instead I suggest, you join my crew!"
It had taken about 3 minutes of debating that the powerpuff bunch wasn't insane, 5 minutes on what it was this crew even did, and another 5 on living quarters and provided food before you had grudgingly accepted the offer.
- Meet the rest of the crew.
Considering how 'pleasant' the first three had been, you'll pass, you've had enough sugary sweetness for a day.
- Ah but that Mr Vantas, is not for your deciding.
What? Are you kidding?
- No, not really.
Goddamit, FINE.
The first person you met after the trio was a girl named Aradia. She was pleasant enough, quite energetic, and incredibly enthusiastic about fossils. What good fossils were to a 17 year old girl however was beyond you. You discover she's head Carpenter around here, not that you especially care much.
Moving along.
Second in line was an Italian boy, who stuttered so much it took you about 4 minutes to properly get down his first name. Although you assume if you had been just a little easier on the scowling the name would've been handed to you faster. Tavros. He had the sides of his head shaven clean, with a strip of brown hair slicked back. What an intimidating look for such a shy kid.
You're not really up for the whole 'meet and greet session so you cut it short for the day with another person with peculiar glasses. Yes, everyone loves their wacko specs. It was an Irish kid with the most godawful lisp you've heard. It was this lisp that made you call him 'Thollux', purely convinced this was his name. You were wrong. Being wrong earned you a smack across the shoulder.
- Resign to your room and better know your roommate.
Sleep instead of bonding would be preferred, sign me up for that yes?
- You don't have a choice, she seems to be initiating conversation.
Oh bloody hell as if you needed more insanity filled into your brain.
"So, you're name's Karkat am I right?" the ginger asks, legs swinging freely from her bed.
"Good job on figuring that out! You gained a little bit on the social interaction and intelligence level! Now the next few points would be earned by, leaving me the fuck alone," you groan pushing yourself up anyway to look at her.
"Wow how sassy, with a hint of delectable insecurity! Delish," she replies, grinning that, as you now call it, shit eating grin of hers.
"Okay, let's get this straight princess, I am nowhere near insecure, and neither am I delicious," you snap.
"Yum, a fresh platter of snappiness too,"
"Shut it,"
"My name's Terezi, if you weren't perking those ears up just now! Nice to meet you," she says outstretching a hand for you to shake, leaving it there to hover until you finally shake it several minutes later.
"Wonderful to know, can I go back to sleeping now?"
"Oh no Karkles, you're not getting any beauty sleep today,"
"Karkles? Is that a thing that will be occuring? Karkles?" you ask altogether quite disturbed by her.
"I believe it is Mr Grumpy socks,"
"God what did I do to end up with a girl who wears red glasses indoors, and gives people the dumbest nicknames her abilities can muster,"
"I wear these glasses because I'm blind,"
"...Oh." you murmur. Well that was um unexpected.
"Any other inquiries that you have? The Pyrope information counter closes in approximately five," she says mock bowing to you.
"No, I think I'd rather not," you reply rolling over on your back as you hear the girl behind you shuffle around and plop down on the bed as well.
This is going to be one hell of a voyage.
A/N: Well then, if you've reached this section it means you have successfully braved through this without the sudden impending urge to claw out your eyeballs. Clap, clap, I do congratulate you. Really the congratulations is necessary.
This idea sorta just came to me in the shower and I didn't do much thinking before it was written, although a considerable amount as compared to my other fics! So anyway I will try to update this as much as I possibly can! And if you have yet to tell, the main ship here is Karkat/Terezi. Anyway reviews would be nice, thank you!