Miracle Child is a {{Webcomic/Homestuck}} fanfiction by Bramble-Patch. Originally written for the Homestuck Kink Meme, it centers around Gamzee.

The basic set-up is that post-Sgrub Gamzee goes out to the conscription ships, fully expecting to be culled for his sopor slime habit. Thanks to the influence of the Grand Highblood, he is sent to undergo Subjugglator training instead. The fanfic is about how he adapts to sobriety and the violent life of a novitiate. Add in a rebellion in the works led by Karkat, the terrifying personality that is the Grand Highblood, a cast of beautifully written OC classmates, and a truckload of world-building backstory available on the work's Tumblr, and you have the formula for a very good fic.

Find it on the [[http://homesmut.livejournal.com/10240.html?thread=17991424#t17991424 Kink Meme]] or [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/266683/chapters/419402 on]] Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn. World building, extra characterization, and other such goodies can be found on its [[http://miraclechildask.tumblr.com/ Tumblr account]].

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!! This fanfiction provides examples of:
* AllThereInTheManual: There is a lot of world building on that Tumblr. It's not necessary to understand the story, though.
* AlternateUniverseFic: Where the trolls were put back on Alternia post-game, some with their in-game powers and all with their memories intact.
* ArchnemesisDad: The Grand Highblood toward Gamzee, in a way.
* CircusOfFear: Carnival, where the occasional death or bloody merriment is considered normal.
* EyepatchOfPower: Sollux has one to cover his one dead eye.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: As his moirail, Karkat is this to Gamzee; after weeks of SanitySlippage due to his sobriety and stressful new life, one long conversation with Karkat calms him right down.
* KickTheDog: The Grand Highblood really didn't need to have Jormun culled, much less order Lazapi to do it.
* MistakenForAnImposter: A digital version. Though considering that Terezi and Karkat thought Gamzee was dead at the time, who can blame them?
* NailedToTheWagon: Gamzee, who is banned from Sopor on pain of being culled.
* OriginalCharacter: Surprisingly popular ones at that.
* PowerIncontinence: Gamzee's lack of control over the chucklevoodoos does not endear him to the other trolls.
* PsychicPowers: Gamzee and the other indigobloods can inflict fear on other trolls.
* ReluctantPsycho: Gamzee has become one of these, now that he's kept sober.
* SanitySlippage: Gamzee has this from time to time, usually indicated by his Sober!Gamzee typing quirk, or by alternating between speaking normally and shouting.
* ShootTheDog: Jormun's death.
* SleevesAreForWimps: The Subjugglator uniform.
* ThePenIsMightier: Lazapi's main strife specibus.
* TrustPassword: Gamzee uses these when he first contacts Terezi and Karkat and neither believe it's really him. With Karkat he uses the tried-and-true "what I got you for your last 12th Perigee present"; with Terezi, he references their Sgrub titles.
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