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%%* PenultimateOutburst: From Tavros.

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%%* * PenultimateOutburst: From Tavros.Tavros in [[CourtroomEpisode chapter 15]] when they hold a trial on Nepeta. The others were just trying to get her to admit her feelings, therefore making the trial a mockery that rightfully irks Tavros, the one presiding it.

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* [[spoiler:DeathBySex: Sollux's eyes explode during a round of hatesex with Vriska. Subverted in that he's brought to his Quest Bed and then [[CameBackStrong ascends]]... and then they get right back to it.]]
** [[spoiler: Feferi accidentally kills Equius during sex because they were trying erotic asphyxiation and he didn't use the safe-word. Like Sollux, he's taken to his Quest Bed and ascends.]]


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** [[spoiler: Feferi accidentally kills Equius during sex because they were trying erotic asphyxiation and he didn't use the safe-word. Like Sollux, he's taken to his Quest Bed and ascends.]]
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* TakeThat: Vriska's deconstrucion of the DeathIsDramatic trope could be seen as a TakeThat at the [[CerebusSyndrome darker]] [[KillEmAll tone]] that ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' has taken.

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* TakeThat: Vriska's deconstrucion of the DeathIsDramatic trope could be seen as a TakeThat at the [[CerebusSyndrome darker]] [[KillEmAll tone]] tone that ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' has taken.

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* AccuseTheWitness: Nepeta accuses Eridan of faking her bloodstains on his coat.



%%* [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove Anguished Declaration of Moirallegiance]]: Terezi to Aradia.
** [[spoiler: And later Karkat to Nepeta.]]

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* AmbulanceChaser: Eridan tries to claim that he's the Alternian maritime equivalent, a "submarine chaser". No one buys it.
%%* [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove Anguished Declaration of Moirallegiance]]: AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Terezi to Aradia.
** %%** [[spoiler: And later Karkat to Nepeta.]]



* TheCourtroomIndex: Chapter 15 with the mock trial of Nepeta uses quite a few tropes from this index:
** AmbulanceChaser: Eridan tries to claim that he's the Alternian maritime equivalent, a "submarine chaser". No one buys it.
** CourtroomEpisode: What Chapter 15 is all about.
** DecoyTrial: No one seriously believes that Nepeta was trying to murder Eridan as charged. They're just trying to get her to admit that [[spoiler: she and Eridan are now kismeses.]]
** HangingJudge: Feferi but more for the 2 rebels in the audience, Tavros and Gamzee than for Nepeta.
** KangarooCourt: Tavros accuses this trial of being a "kangaram" court.
** PenultimateOutburst: From Tavros.
** StockLegalPhrases:
*** Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you "Her Imperious Condescension"?
*** How do you plead?
*** I plead the fifth. Eridan makes this without knowing what it's called.
*** Objection! Defendant is quite clearly "muskbeasting" the witness!
*** Objection! Relevancy.
*** Permission to treat the witness as hostile? (To which Feferi responds "This is an Alternian courtblock. You ALWAYS have permission to treat the witness as hostile!")
*** Silence! Order in the "courtblock"!
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*** EaglelandOsmosis: Feferi has the witnesses cross examined, which is [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]] isn't done in Alternian courts. Feferi does it anyway [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem "because I say so!]]" (Also it resembles the type of trial we're familiar with.)
** CourtroomAntic:
*** AccuseTheWitness: Nepeta accuses Eridan of faking her bloodstains on his coat.
*** ThePerryMasonMethod: How Nepeta is forced to admit she's [[spoiler: Eridan's kismesis]].
*** SmokingGun: Done twice against Nepeta. First, video footage of her hive shows her leaving on the night in question when she tries to claim she spent the entire night at her hive. She then changes her story, by claiming she went out to go on some game quests. Terezi then produces the video footage of her attacking Eridan.


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* DecoyTrial: No one seriously believes that Nepeta was trying to murder Eridan as charged. They're just trying to get her to admit that [[spoiler: she and Eridan are now kismeses.]]


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%%* HangingJudge: Feferi but more for the 2 rebels in the audience, Tavros and Gamzee than for Nepeta.


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%%* PenultimateOutburst: From Tavros.
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* SmokingGun: First, video footage of her hive shows her leaving on the night in question when she tries to claim she spent the entire night at her hive. She then changes her story, by claiming she went out to go on some game quests. Terezi then produces the video footage of her attacking Eridan.
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%%** I plead the fifth. Eridan makes this without knowing what it's called.
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%%** Objection! Relevancy.
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* AliensMadeThemDoIt: Double Subverted. Psyche's rules state that Nepeta can't force the trolls to fall in love or tell anyone that their lives are on the line. On the other hand, Nepeta knows that if she doesn't ship everyone, Psyche will allow their timeline to fall out of existence, so at the very least this trope applies to her.
** Seemingly played straight in Chapter 13 when Equius nearly gets Nepeta to admit her feelings for Karkat. Just as she's about to in her pesterlog she types "not the right time" in familiar pink typeface of Psyche's lines from Chapter 1. Nepeta's confusion after that suggests that at that moment, Psyche briefly possessed Nepeta to keep her from breaking one of her three conditions.
*** It is implied that this is more of Psyche subtly telling her that this isn't the right time by nudging her response, as it shows up a lot more in chapter 26 when [[spoiler: Karkat declares his feelings for Nepeta.]]
* AlphaBitch: Vriska, of course, [[CharacterDevelopment but only at first]].

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* AliensMadeThemDoIt: Double Subverted. Psyche's rules state that Nepeta can't force the trolls to fall in love or tell anyone that their lives are on the line. On the other hand, Nepeta knows that if she doesn't ship everyone, Psyche will allow their timeline to fall out of existence, so at the very least this trope applies to her.
** Seemingly played straight in Chapter 13 when Equius nearly gets Nepeta to admit her feelings for Karkat. Just as she's about to in her pesterlog she types "not the right time" in familiar pink typeface of Psyche's lines from Chapter 1. Nepeta's confusion after that suggests that at that moment, Psyche briefly possessed Nepeta to keep her from breaking one of her three conditions.
*** It is implied that this is more of Psyche subtly telling her that this isn't the right time by nudging her response, as it shows up a lot more in chapter 26 when [[spoiler: Karkat declares his feelings for Nepeta.]]
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%%* AlphaBitch: Vriska, of course, [[CharacterDevelopment but only at first]].



* [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove Anguished Declaration of Moirallegiance]]: Terezi to Aradia.

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* {{Adorkable}}: How Terezi feels for Eridan.

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''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/349720/chapters/568917 Herding Cats]]'' is a ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' FanFic by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/childishGambino/pseuds/childishGambino childishGambino]].

Nepeta has completed all of her tasks in her portion of the game and goes to confront her Denizen, Psyche. Psyche declines to fight Nepeta, but offers instead to give Nepeta an important task. As the Hero of Heart, Nepeta must ship all 12 of her fellow trolls (including herself) until they each have a [[OfficialCouple matesprit]] and a [[HeterosexualLifePartners moi]][[PlatonicLifePartners rail.]] Psyche reveals that they're in a doomed timeline, but offers to keep the timeline from being destroyed like the other doomed timelines while Nepeta completes her task, and that this timeline can even exist permanently if Nepeta succeeds. Psyche has 3 conditions: 1) Nepeta must only use her heart powers to guide, not force, her fellow trolls into relationships, 2) she must tell no one why she's doing this, and 3) she must save the matespritship for herself and the boy she loves, Karkat, for last, and tell no one of her feelings for him until it's time.

So Nepeta posts a memo she calls "The Shipping Wall". [[AlphaBitch Vriska]] immediately shows up to mock and laugh at her attempts to ship everybody, saying Karkat would go ballistic over it. But Karkat shows up and actually approves of the idea, mainly because he's spent a week having to put up with everybody's relationship problems, and is so sick of it he's more than eager to foist the task onto Nepeta. He even orders her to ship Vriska first, mainly to keep every memo from devolving into [[ItsAllAboutMe Vriskachat.]]

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''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/349720/chapters/568917 Herding Cats]]'' is a ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' FanFic {{Fanfic}} by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/childishGambino/pseuds/childishGambino childishGambino]].

Nepeta has completed all of her tasks in her portion of the game and goes to confront her Denizen, Psyche. Psyche declines to fight Nepeta, but offers instead to give Nepeta an important task. As task; as the Hero of Heart, Nepeta must ship all 12 of her fellow trolls (including herself) trolls, herself included until they each have a [[OfficialCouple matesprit]] and a [[HeterosexualLifePartners moi]][[PlatonicLifePartners rail.[[PlatonicLifePartners moirail.]] Psyche reveals that they're in a doomed timeline, but offers to keep the timeline from being destroyed like the other doomed timelines while Nepeta completes her task, and that this timeline can even exist permanently if Nepeta succeeds. Psyche has 3 conditions: 1) Nepeta must only use her heart powers to guide, not force, her fellow trolls into relationships, 2) she must tell no one why she's doing this, and 3) she must save the matespritship for herself and the boy she loves, Karkat, for last, and tell no one of her feelings for him until it's time.

So Nepeta posts a memo she calls "The Shipping Wall". [[AlphaBitch Vriska]] immediately shows up to mock and laugh at her attempts to ship everybody, saying Karkat would go ballistic over it. But Karkat shows up and actually approves of the idea, mainly because he's spent a week having to put up with everybody's relationship problems, and is so sick of it he's more than eager to foist the task onto Nepeta. He even orders her to ship Vriska first, mainly to keep every memo from devolving into [[ItsAllAboutMe Vriskachat.]]
Vriskachat]].



* BiTheWay: Nepeta's equal opportunity in suggesting matespritships of the same gender. Among the other trolls, the one most Bi is Vriska, who even after happily becoming matesprits with Kanaya, still has some flushed feelings for Tavros.
** Equius is a subversion. At first, he wants Nepeta to ship him with Gamzee, but that's only because Gamzee is a [[FantasticRacism highblood.]] Equius admits he likes nothing else about Gamzee, [[spoiler: and later becomes his kismesis.]]
** Recently, [[spoiler:Eridan]], despite having a matesprit in [[spoiler:Terezi]], has got caught up in a "flushed infidelity" with [[spoiler:his moirail, Gamzee. Gamzee's matesprit, Tavros]] is actually relieved to hear this since it now means he and [[spoiler:Virska can act out their flushed feelings for each other.]]
** And now [[spoiler:Terezi's]] getting into it with [[spoiler:Aradia]].
** And now thanks to another maroonion, [[spoiler:Sollux]] is riding the [[IncrediblyLamePun bi-cycle]].

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In 2019, in response to Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues, childishGambino rebooted the story under the name ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18612844/chapters/44129887 Herding Cats All Over Again.]]''

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In 2019, in response to Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues, ''Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues'', childishGambino rebooted the story under the name ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18612844/chapters/44129887 Herding Cats All Over Again.]]''






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*** The name Feferi gives it is [[SoulPlane Captain Antoine Mack.]]

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This Nepeta Quest 2012 is one of the longest Homestuck fanfics out there at 31 chapters and nearly 500,000 words. It's length is justified because while Nepeta is the main character, all 12 trolls have important roles to play, and all 12 of them will have all 4 of their quadrants filled. This means no fewer than 22 different relationships (6 moirallegiances, 6 matespritships, 6 kismesissitudes, and 4 auspistices) will be explored in this DoorStopper of a tale, with only one of them - the moirallegiance of Nepeta/Equius - is stable from the start. According to the author, there were just two epilogue chapters remaining, though the story has been marked as 'completed' since 2013.

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This Nepeta Quest 2012 is one of the longest Homestuck fanfics out there at 31 chapters and nearly 500,000 words. It's length is justified because while Nepeta is the main character, all 12 trolls have important roles to play, and all 12 of them will have all 4 of their quadrants filled. This means no fewer than 22 different relationships (6 moirallegiances, 6 matespritships, 6 kismesissitudes, and 4 auspistices) will be explored in this DoorStopper of a tale, with only one of them - the moirallegiance of Nepeta/Equius - is stable from the start. According to the author, there were just two epilogue chapters remaining, though the story has been marked as 'completed' since 2013.



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* EasilyForgiven: Denied in the case of [[spoiler:Vriska and Tavros's ship. Rather than their contentious relationship resolving into a moirallegiance immediately as in the original, the two of them decide that they're just not compatible for each other.]]
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* ContinuityNod: Some of the story directions from the original are mentioned in the first chapter, such as Nepeta's shipping sweeps, and Chapter 2 has Aradia straight up dump the fact that they're in a doomed timeline rather than spending half the story investigating it.

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* ContinuityNod: MythologyGag: Some of the story directions from the original are mentioned in the first chapter, such as Nepeta's shipping sweeps, and Chapter 2 has Aradia straight up dump the fact that they're in a doomed timeline rather than spending half the story investigating it.

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!!>Story: Have tropes

* AccidentalAimingSkills: [[spoiler:Feferi]] helps Equius fire his first successful arrow from a bow. [[BrickJoke A little while later]], it punches through a wall and straight through Vriska's knee. ''On the other side of the Medium''.
* {{Adorkable}}: How Terezi feels for Eridan.
* AliensMadeThemDoIt: Double Subverted. Psyche's rules state that Nepeta can't force the trolls to fall in love or tell anyone that their lives are on the line. On the other hand, Nepeta knows that if she doesn't ship everyone, Psyche will allow their timeline to fall out of existence, so at the very least this trope applies to her.
** Seemingly played straight in Chapter 13 when Equius nearly gets Nepeta to admit her feelings for Karkat. Just as she's about to in her pesterlog she types "not the right time" in familiar pink typeface of Psyche's lines from Chapter 1. Nepeta's confusion after that suggests that at that moment, Psyche briefly possessed Nepeta to keep her from breaking one of her three conditions.
*** It is implied that this is more of Psyche subtly telling her that this isn't the right time by nudging her response, as it shows up a lot more in chapter 26 when [[spoiler: Karkat declares his feelings for Nepeta.]]
* AlphaBitch: Vriska, of course, [[CharacterDevelopment but only at first]].

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* AccidentalAimingSkills: [[spoiler:Feferi]] helps Equius fire his first successful arrow from a bow. [[BrickJoke A little while later]], it punches through a wall and straight through Vriska's knee. ''On the other side of the Medium''.
* {{Adorkable}}: How Terezi feels for Eridan.
* AliensMadeThemDoIt: Double Subverted. Psyche's rules state that Nepeta can't force the trolls to fall in love or tell anyone that their lives are on the line. On the other hand, Nepeta knows that if she doesn't ship everyone, Psyche will allow their timeline to fall out of existence, so at the very least this trope applies to her.
** Seemingly played straight in Chapter 13 when Equius nearly gets Nepeta to admit her feelings for Karkat. Just as she's about to in her pesterlog she types "not the right time" in familiar pink typeface of Psyche's lines from Chapter 1. Nepeta's confusion after that suggests that at that moment, Psyche briefly possessed Nepeta to keep her from breaking one of her three conditions.
*** It is implied that this is more of Psyche subtly telling her that this isn't the right time by nudging her response, as it shows up a lot more in chapter 26 when [[spoiler: Karkat declares his feelings for Nepeta.]]
* AlphaBitch: Vriska, of course, [[CharacterDevelopment but only at first]].
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* AmateurSleuth: Aradia. She knows this is a doomed timeline, is mystified by why it isn't being destroyed, and is determined to find out the truth. Terezi later starts helping her out.
* [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove Anguished Declaration of Moirallegiance]]: Terezi to Aradia.
** [[spoiler: And later Karkat to Nepeta.]]



* FixFic: A Homestuck where the trolls manage to get their relationship shit together.
* TheMatchmaker: Nepeta's task.
* TitleDrop: In Chapter 26 in the original, Chapter 1 of the reboot.

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* AccidentalAimingSkills: [[spoiler:Feferi]] helps Equius fire his first successful arrow from a bow. [[BrickJoke A little while later]], it punches through a wall and straight through Vriska's knee. ''On the other side of the Medium''.
* {{Adorkable}}: How Terezi feels for Eridan.
* AliensMadeThemDoIt: Double Subverted. Psyche's rules state that Nepeta can't force the trolls to fall in love or tell anyone that their lives are on the line. On the other hand, Nepeta knows that if she doesn't ship everyone, Psyche will allow their timeline to fall out of existence, so at the very least this trope applies to her.
** Seemingly played straight in Chapter 13 when Equius nearly gets Nepeta to admit her feelings for Karkat. Just as she's about to in her pesterlog she types "not the right time" in familiar pink typeface of Psyche's lines from Chapter 1. Nepeta's confusion after that suggests that at that moment, Psyche briefly possessed Nepeta to keep her from breaking one of her three conditions.
*** It is implied that this is more of Psyche subtly telling her that this isn't the right time by nudging her response, as it shows up a lot more in chapter 26 when [[spoiler: Karkat declares his feelings for Nepeta.]]
* AlphaBitch: Vriska, of course, [[CharacterDevelopment but only at first]].
* AmateurSleuth: Aradia. She knows this is a doomed timeline, is mystified by why it isn't being destroyed, and is determined to find out the truth. Terezi later starts helping her out.
* [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove Anguished Declaration of Moirallegiance]]: Terezi to Aradia.
** [[spoiler: And later Karkat to Nepeta.]]



* FixFic: A Homestuck where the trolls manage to get their relationship shit together.



* TheMatchmaker: Nepeta's task.



* TitleDrop: In Chapter 26.


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* ContinuityNod: Some of the story directions from the original are mentioned in the first chapter, such as Nepeta's shipping sweeps, and Chapter 2 has Aradia straight up dump the fact that they're in a doomed timeline rather than spending half the story investigating it.
* TamerAndChaster: One of the reboot's objectives. [=childishGambino=] felt that at times the original story got a little ''too'' smutty, considering that by the end of it all of these troll kids - worth reminding that the equivalent human age is 13 - were casually talking about having sex and listing all their kinks.
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* AccidentalAimingSkills: [[spoiler:Feferi]] helps Equius fire his first successful arrow from a bow. [[BrickJoke A little while later]], it punches through a wall and straight through Vriska's knee. ''On the other side of the Medium''.



** And Equius to Aradia- he breaks up with her because he knew neither of them were really happy and he wanted her to be happy.

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** And Equius to Aradia- Aradia - he breaks up with her because he knew neither of them were really happy and he wanted her to be happy.



* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 12 is largely a memo celebration of the matespritship of Eridan/Terezi. Everyone (except [[TheEeyore Sollux]]) seems to be having a great time...and then a heartbroken Karkat shows up with his outburst.

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* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 12 is largely a memo celebration of the matespritship of Eridan/Terezi. Everyone (except [[TheEeyore Sollux]]) seems to be having a great time... and then a heartbroken Karkat shows up with his outburst.



* OhCrap: The unanimous reaction between Terezi and Vriska when they realize that [[spoiler:A) Aradia and Tavros are starting to have sloppy hatemakeouts and B) that said makeouts are being ''livestreamed to everybody else''.]]



*** And, furthermore, various characters refusing to explain what a maroonion is.



** Eridan calls these things a "calliginous diatribe". He gives one to Nepeta that's only partly this trope, but is mostly about why kismesis is an essential part of the quadrant.

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This Nepeta Quest 2012 is one of the longest Homestuck fanfics out there and at currently 31 chapters and nearly 500,000 words is STILL a WIP. Fortunately, it updates fairly regularly (usually a new chapter is added between one and two weeks). It's length is justified because while Nepeta is the main character, all 12 trolls have important roles to play, and all 12 of them will have all 4 of their quadrants filled. This means no fewer than 22 different relationships (6 moirallegiances, 6 matespritships, 6 kismessitudes, and 4 auspitices) will be explored in this DoorStopper of a tale, with only one of them - the moirallegiance of Nepeta/Equius - is stable from the start. So far all of these troll romances have happened or are about to happen. According to the author, there are just two epilogue chapters remaining.


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This Nepeta Quest 2012 is one of the longest Homestuck fanfics out there and at currently 31 chapters and nearly 500,000 words is STILL a WIP. Fortunately, it updates fairly regularly (usually a new chapter is added between one and two weeks).words. It's length is justified because while Nepeta is the main character, all 12 trolls have important roles to play, and all 12 of them will have all 4 of their quadrants filled. This means no fewer than 22 different relationships (6 moirallegiances, 6 matespritships, 6 kismessitudes, kismesissitudes, and 4 auspitices) auspistices) will be explored in this DoorStopper of a tale, with only one of them - the moirallegiance of Nepeta/Equius - is stable from the start. So far all of these troll romances have happened or are about to happen. According to the author, there are were just two epilogue chapters remaining.

remaining, though the story has been marked as 'completed' since 2013.




*** It is implied that this is more of Psyche subtly telling her that this isn't the right time by nudging her response, as it shows up a lot more in chapter 26 when [[spoiler: Karkat declares his feelings for Nepeta]]

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*** It is implied that this is more of Psyche subtly telling her that this isn't the right time by nudging her response, as it shows up a lot more in chapter 26 when [[spoiler: Karkat declares his feelings for Nepeta]]Nepeta.]]



* GenderFlip: ''Possibly'' [[spoiler:Eridan and Terezi; at one point they refer to each other as "Miss Ampora" and "Mister Pyrope"]] though whether this actually has any meaning remains to be seen.

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* GenderFlip: ''Possibly'' [[spoiler:Eridan and Terezi; at one point they refer to each other as "Miss Ampora" and "Mister Pyrope"]] though whether this actually has any meaning remains to be seen. [[spoiler:Later implications are that they're just both into crossdressing.]]


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* OffTheRails / GoneHorriblyRight: Vriska's plan to [[spoiler:get Kanaya and Feferi to admit their black feelings for each other by 'innocently' flirting with Feferi starts going wrong when Feferi works out what she's doing and starts taking it into her own hands.]]
** This also happened in Chapter 23. [[spoiler:The end goal of the Team Charge Reunion FLARP session was to get Tavros and Aradia to admit their black feelings, but it all happened a lot quicker than Eridan anticipated because [[SpannerInTheWorks Vriska]], who was the only one LockedOutOfTheLoop, messed with the drops.]]

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