Academystuck is an Alternate Universe Homestuck fanfiction by CJ Croen 1393.
In a world where kids develop superpowers at a young age, a man named Andrew Hussie opened a huge school known as the "Hussmeister Academy for Special Individuals"—at the Academy, there are twelve Fractions for students to be placed in depending on their powers: Breath, Blood, Light, Void, Hope, Rage, Heart, Mind, Life, Doom, Space and Time. One boy, Karkat Vantas was sent to the school despite the fact that his powers hadn't awoken yet, and there, he meets Dave Strider, John Egbert and Wally "WV" Valiant, members of the Time, Breath and Mind Fractions respectively. From there, things get crazy...
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Tropes:
- Academy of Adventure: The titular Hussmeister Academy itself.
- Adaptation Species Change: All the trolls, carapacians, cherubs and leprechauns are changed to humans here.
- Age Lift: WV, PM and Snowman were adults in canon, but are students here.
- Alternate Universe Fic
- Anti-Magic: Crowbar's main power—unlike his canon counterpart, his crowbar nullifies all superpowers, not just Time ones. In the first installment, it doesn't work on Karkat because his powers hadn't completely awakened yet.
- Arch-Enemy: Caliborn to Dave, Betty Crocker to John, Jack Noir to WV.
- Big Bad Ensemble: According to
Word of God, Caliborn, Jack Noir and Betty Crocker will be this. - Blind Seer: Terezi.
- Cool Teacher: Mr. Hussie is a cool headmaster. Mr. Himaruya qualifies too, to the point that he doesn't even give letter grades—instead grading with anime faces (frowning for bad grades, smiling for good ones).
- Deadpan Snarker: Dave and Karkat.
- The Dragon: Diamonds Droog, to Betty Crocker.
- Establishing Character Moment: Caliborn is introduced beating up Karkat and later trying to throw Tavros off of a roof.
- Gratuitous Spanish: Tavros is frightened enough to lapse into Spanish when Caliborn threatens to throw him off a building.
- Immune to Mind Control: In John's story, John and Terezi are the only ones who are not affected by Betty Crocker's mind control, due to John's hatred of cake and Terezi being blind (the nanobots that instigated the mind control worked via sight).
- Me's a Crowd: Jack can do this.
- Nice Guy: John, as usual. Dave and WV were both quick to make Karkat part of their circle of friends too.
- Posthumous Character: Dirk Strider, who was murdered before the story started by an unknown assailant.
- Ship Tease: Dave/Karkat and Tavros/Sollux are both teased.
- Teens Are Monsters: Caliborn.
- True Companions: John, Dave, Karkat and WV.
- Wham Line: From the installment focusing on Dave, after his narration spent several paragraphs gushing about Dirk:
- Winged Humanoid: Aradia has a pair of insect-like wings on her back. Jack sprouts two large birdlike wings on his back as well. WV and PM are also capable of this due to the power their rings grant them.
