History FanFic / HerdingCats

** Recently, [[spoiler:Eridan]], desptie 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 releived to hear this since it now means he and [[spoiler:Virska can act out their flushed feelings for each other.]]

* FriendsWithBenefits: Or " 'rails with pails" as Vriska calls them. It's already happened with [[spoiler:Eridan/Gamzee]], seems about to be happening with [[spoiler:Vriska/Tavros and Terezi/Aradia]], and [[DidTheyOrDidntThey may or may not have already happened]] with [[spoiler:Sollux/Feferi]].

This Nepeta Quest 2012 is one of the longest Homestuck fanfics out there and at currently 21 chapters and over 260,000 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 already stable from the start. So far four more moirallegiances, four matespritships, two kismessitudes, and two auspitices have occurred, with one more moirallegiance, two more matespritships, four more kismessitudes, and two more ausptitices to go. Or in simplest terms, that's 13 relationships down, 9 to go.

This Nepeta Quest 2012 is one of the longest Homestuck fanfics out there and at currently 20 chapters and over 240,000 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 already stable from the start. So far four more moirallegiances, four matespritships, two kismessitudes, and two auspitices have occurred, with one more moirallegiance, two more matespritships, four more kismessitudes, and two more ausptitices to go. Or in simplest terms, that's 13 relationships down, 9 to go.

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 permenately 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]] immedeately 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.]]

** A gentler TakeThat is made in Chapter 20 as the trolls discuss the nature of the Auspistice quadrant and [[LampshadeHanging realizing how confusing and ill defined it is especially in comparison to the other 3 quadrants]], speculating that whoever came up with the quadrants just [[ShrugOfGod threw it in to complete the set]], intending to be nothing more than the butt of a few cheap jokes that everyone ended up taking completely seriously (which Hussie admits is percisely what happened with the Auspistice).

** A gentler TakeThat is made in Chapter 20 as the trolls discuss the nature of the Auspistice quadrant and [[LampshadeHaning realizing how confusing and ill defined it is especially in comparison to the other 3 quadrants]], speculating that whoever came up with the quadrants just [[ShrugOfGod threw it in to complete the set]], intending to be nothing more than the butt of a few cheap jokes that everyone ended up taking completely seriously (which Hussie admits is percisely what happened with the Auspistice).

* HeterosexualLifePartners / PlatonicLifePartners: The moirails. So far we have Nepeta/Equius, Vriska/Tavros, Gamzee/Eridan, Terezi/Aradia, and Sollux/Feferi with hints of Karkat/Kanaya for the remaining couple. The moirails of the same gender (Gamzee/Eridan, Terezi/Aradia) are HLPs, while the moirails of different genders (Nepeta/Equius, Vriska/Tavros, Sollux/Feferi, Karkat/Kanaya) are PLPs.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Did Feferi get into a threesome with Sollux and Aradia? Feferi insistently denies it while Sollux and Aradia lather on the innuendos and winking emoticons like this: " ;)" .

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Did Feferi get into a threesome with Sollux and Aradia? Feferi insistently denies it while Sollux and Aradia lather on the innuendos and winking emoticons like this: ";)" .

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Did Feferi get into a threesome with Sollux and Aradia. Feferi inistently denies while Sollux and Aradia lather on the innuendos and winking emoticons like this: ;).

* FriendsWithBenefits: Or " 'rails with pails" as Vriska calls them. It's already happened with [[spoiler:Eridan/Gamzee]] and seems about to be happening with [[spoiler:Vriska/Tavros and Sollux/Feferi]].

* HeterosexualLifePartners: The moirails. So far we have Nepeta/Equius, Vriska/Tavros, Gamzee/Eridan, Terezi/Aradia, and Sollux/Feferi with hints of Karkat/Kanaya for the remaining couple.
** Although a couple of these moirallegiances [[spoiler:Virska/Tavros, Eridan/Gamzee, Sollux/Feferi]] are [[FriendsWithBenefits crossing the line here.]]

** And it's about to happen with Aradia/Sollux/Feferi.

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 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 permenately 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.

This Nepeta Quest 2012 is one of the longest Homestuck fanfics out there and at currently 19 chapters and nearly 220,000 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 already stable from the start. So far four more moirallegiances, four matespritships, one kismessitude, and one auspitice have occurred, with one more moirallegiance, two more matespritships, five more kismessitudes, and three more ausptitices to go. Or in simplest terms, that's 11 relationships down, 11 to go.

** Nepeta/Eridan have been confirmed to be kismesis for each other. The remaining pairs are hinted to be Kanaya/Feferi, Karkat/Terezi, Vriska/Sollux, Equius/Gamzee, and Tavros/Aradia.

* CantSpitItOut: Sollux is like this in all of his relationships, which is especially frustrating for Feferi (she'd be just as happy to be his moirail or matesprit, but which is it?) and Vriska (who wants to be his kismesis).
** Terezi is also having this problem in trying to become Aradia's moirail.

** GoodbyeCruelWorld: [[spoiler:Sollux]] says these words saracstically, knowing it's a cliche, but still full means it.

* TheEeyore: Both Sollux and Aradia. In ''{{Homestuck}} their pessimism is fully justified. Here it's not.

** Inverted to the point that Terezi/Aradia's investigation bears a closer relationship to NeroWolf /Archie Goodwin, where Aradia/Goodwin does all the investigating while Terezi/Nero comes up with all the solutions. Terezi even says at one point, "[[SherlockHolmes Elementary, my dear Megido,]]" implying that it's Aradia who's the true Watson in this investigation.

** HappilyAvertedSuiced: Since the troll who saves [[spoiler:Sollux]] from killing himself is the same person he was committing suicide for in the first place.

This Nepeta Quest 2012 is one of the longest Homestuck fanfics out there and at currently 18 chapters and nearly 220,000 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 already stable from the start. So far four more moirallegiances, four matespritships, one kismessitude, and one auspitice have occurred, with one more moirallegiance, two more matespritships, five more kismessitudes, and three more ausptitices to go. Or in simplest terms, that's 11 relationships down, 11 to go.

This Nepeta Quest 2012 is one of the longest Homestuck fanfics out there and at currently 18 chapters and over 200,000 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 already stable from the start. So far three more moirallegiances, three matespritships, one kismessitude, and one auspitice have occurred, with two more moirallegiances, three more matespritships, five more kismessitudes, and three more ausptitices to go. Or in simplest terms, that's 9 relationships down, 13 to go.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: The moirails. So far we have Nepeta/Equius, Vriska/Tavros, Gamzee/Eridan, and Terezi/Aradia, with hints of Sollux/Feferi, and Karkat/Kanaya for the remaining couples.
** Although a couple of these moirallegiances [[spoiler:Virska/Tavros and Eridan/Gamzee]] are starting to cross the line here.

* OfficialCouple: Vriska/Kanaya, Tavros/Gamzee, Eridan/Terezi. The future couples are hinted at being Equius/Feferi, Sollux/Aradia, and Karkat/Nepeta.

*** [[DontExplainTheJoke This is a parody of the opening line of]] [[EdgarAllanPoe ''The Cask of Amontillado''.]]

** -->FGA: [[EdgarAllanPoe I Have Borne The Thousand Injuries Of Your Treacherous Improprieties To The Best Of My Ability]]

*** [[DontExplainTheJoke This is a parody of the opening line of ''The Cask of Amontillado''.]]

** -->[[EdgarAllanPoe FGA: I Have Borne The Thousand Injuries Of Your Treacherous Improprieties To The Best Of My Ability
--> FGA: But When You Venture Upon Insulting My Fashion Sense I Can Do Naught But Vow Revenge]]

** -->[[EdgarAllenPoe FGA: I Have Borne The Thousand Injuries Of Your Treacherous Improprieties To The Best Of My Ability