Hey guys! School's starting pretty soon, so my sporadic updates will probably become even more sporadic. However, it's going to be my senior year, so after college applications it should be okay. I don't own homestuck! Please R&R! =3

There is a young troll sitting in a wheelchair in front of a window in a small dorm room. He has very large horns and the sides of his head around them have been shaved, leaving a black fauxhawk. His back is facing the door as it opens to reveal a heavily muscled troll with a broken horn.

== Be troll with large horns

Your name is TAVROS NITRAM, and you hear your roommate walk up behind you before he says, "Lowblood, may I request that you move away from the window. Your wheelchair being in this position interferes with access to my workbench."

You wheel away from the window and say, "Uh, hey, Equius?" he turns to face you, "I, uh, was wondering if, uh, you might want to, uh-"

"For shucks sake, lowblood, spit it out," he spits at you after you stutter yet again.

You grab your bag and wheel yourself towards the door, "Uh, never mind."

Once you're in the hallway you look in your bag to make sure you have everything you need. You seem to have everything, and begin wheeling yourself towards the door of the residential hall. You and Equius live on the first floor due to your disability, so it doesn't take long for you to get outside.

After going outside you head over to a bus station on campus, which will allow you to board the bus to the mall, not that you want to go to the mall, but it's close enough to your destination for you to head over there. It takes about 10 minutes before a small crowd of students grows around you at the station. You don't pay much attention to them until you hear a cackling laugh.

You'd know that laugh anywhere. You turn around in your chair and see Terezi Pyrope standing around with some other trolls and a few humans. You also recognize your roommate's moirail, Nepeta Leijon, who is paying attention to a human boy with blonde hair and sunglasses.

Just as you're about to call out to Terezi, she sniffs the air and notices you. She walks over and leans on the back of your chair, saying, "Tavros! Are you going to the game store too?"

"Uh, yeah. Did you go, uh, check it out?"

"Yep! Me and my friends are going there now."

"Then, uh, I guess I'll let you go hang out with them. I don't, uh, want to intrude."

"Don't be silly, Pupa! You gotta hang out with us!"

You shyly wheel yourself the few feet over to where Terezi's friends are standing. You count 6 people, not including Terezi, and she introduces you to them. The human with the sunglasses is Dave, and the other human is a girl with long black hair and buck teeth, whose name is Jade. The trolls are Nepeta, a girl with messy hair and ram-like horns named Aradia, a very short troll with nubby horns named Karkat, and a very tall troll with polka-dot pants named Gamzee, who looks like he's not quite sure where he is.

Pretty soon after the introductions are finished the bus pulls up, and you go to the side-door meant for raising wheelchairs into the bus. You're expecting to be ignored once you're on the bus, but Terezi and her friends sit down in the seats around you. You start to try and talk to Terezi, since you don't really know anyone else, but she's having an argument with Karkat, and you'd feel bad if you interrupted them.

You feel an awkward silence beginning to set in before Nepeta looks at you closer and says, "Hey! You're roommates with Equius!"

"Who's that?" asks Jade.

"My meowrail!"

You look up from where you'd been examining the stitching of the bag on your lap and say, "Yeah. I, um, tried to get him to come with me. But, uh, he didn't really listen."

"Let me text him and tell him to drive opurr to the store! He'd have fun playing with us!"

You nod and are surprised when Jade suddenly asks, "What's a meowrail?"

You start to say, "Uh, Nepeta means moirail," but Karkat suddenly flies over and looks at Jade intensly.

"Don't you know ANYTHING about troll romance!?" he shouts at her before going into a very elaborate and thorough explanation of troll quadrants, which seems awfully inappropriate for a public conversation in your opinion

By the time Karkat is finished, most everyone's face is a bright shade of red or olive or rust or bronze. The only people who seem unaffected are Dave, Terezi, Gamzee (who you think is stoned out of his mind), and Karkat himself.

About 5 minutes after the rant is finished you all arrive at the mall, and everyone waits for your chair to be lowered from the bus before heading over to the store. You all head over, with Terezi pushing you while chattering about what games you should all play tonight. You almost protest to being pushed, but you realize that Terezi just wants to help you because she blames herself for your disability. You never really blamed her, you weren't sure if you even blamed Vriska. You were weak, and weak trolls are lucky to survive at all.

The store is busier than you've ever seen it before, though that means there are only maybe two dozen people inside. College students are scattered around tables set up in the open section of floor in the middle of the building. Some others have gone into the old café and put the tables within back to rights, and a small group of trolls sits around one, playing a game of cards against humanity.

Rufioh quickly notices your group and steps out from behind the counter, where he had been involved in a conversation with a troll girl that looked very similar to Aradia, but was wearing a skirt much shorter.

You smile at Rufioh when he walks up to your group, and he ruffles your hair. "There's a fiduspawn tournament about to start over there," he tells you and points at a table.

"Okay, thanks," you wheel yourself over to the table and take out your fiduspawn set as Rufioh begins chatting with your group of friends.

There we go! I'll be posting another chapter immediately after this because I'm on a road trip to Iowa to tour a college, so I'm writing when it's not my turn to drive.