D/C: you get it by now i hope

stress reelif

Your name is JANE CROCKER and you think you may very possibly be having FAR TOO MUCH FUN WITH THIS.

This being the game.

You get to extract quite a bit of stress reelif, much to your delight (and the worry of your friends, but you're pretending not to notice.)

You've lost track of time, not sure how long you've been in this game.

Your DAD is dead.

This dark, cold feeling inside is getting darker and colder and there is this weird pain deep in your chest, but you're

having

fun.

Jake bothers you.

He asks how you're doing, how you're holding up.

You assure him you're doing absolutely marvelously. These stupid imps can't handle your prankster's gambit.

He laughs and agrees, saying nobody could outprank or outwit his friend Janey.

Friend.

You feel ugly again. Uglier than you did before, and that pain and that dark, cold feeling are getting worse.

You suddenly are overcome with the need to go strifing again.

Instead, you agree. Of course not. Nobody can out-prank you. You are the pranking master. It's you. You even kind of pranked yourself, telling Jake to go ahead with Dirk, pushing who you had been certain was the love of your life into the arms of Dirk motherfucking Strider.

How silly you had been! He's not the love of your life, he's only your friend.

{Hideous!}

And you are his and that's totally okay, completely keen as cake, absolutely darling.

You cease bothering him. You need some more of that stress reelif.

You also kind of want to talk to Jake for some reason. Not bothering, but actually talking to. Face to face. How queer! But then, isn't it normal for friends to talk to friends? Yes, of course; you would converse with Dirk and Roxy as well. Totally normal.

You bring your spoon down onto another imp's head, and they explode into grist, and you are smiling that weird, twisted smile again.

You should go find Jake.

[Author's Note!: okay i should actually say something now. three chapters in whoops. anyways i've got like three or four more chapters written already, as this is on AO3 already and has been ongoing for a couple of weeks now. it's actually my first Homestuck work and i do apologize for any horrible characterization or anything of that sort! thank you for reading and i hope you're enjoying it so far c:]