History FanFic / Cultstuck

* AllThereInTheManual: The author often responds to comments, and has clarified many things about the fic's setting.

--> [[spoiler:You should have thought of this before, are the words all sloshing in the inside of your thinkpan when you lie back on the floor. Your motherfucking best friend was always up in your case about quitting the pies, and you wanted to make him happy, really you did. And you really should have thought of trying before now, when he wasn't all of being around being his tiny little breakable self where the thoughts in your head keep telling you about it over and over.]]
--> [[spoiler:If you put the hurt in your brother, you'll just — you'll up and throw yourself into the sea, is what you tell yourself while you stare up at the ceiling, your guts all twisted up and cramping and asking for pie. And then you squeeze your eyes shut until they hurt because your thinkpan is trying to conjure up a thought of his little thin arm bent all out of shape, and it's horrible, and you're horrible.]]

--> CA: thinkin hes this big fuckin genius because he thought a contactin us under kars name
--> CA: but he doesnt knoww ship aboat kar
--> CA: and he doesnt knoww ship aboat [[TrueCompanions us]]
--> CT: D --> That is a remarkable display of incompetence

--> He walks by without any sign of acknowledgement, and you already have a very bad feeling even before you hear the shuffling behind you.

** Another example in Chapter 2, when Karkat disagrees with the Greenblood Cultist's plan to commit suicide (for the sole purpose- or so Karkat thinks- of intimidating the Empire). The Cultist sees this as an awe-inspiring expression of the Sufferer's nobility and compassion for all beings, to the extent of writing poems about it. Karkat sees it as doing what any sane troll would do and preventing a pointless waste of life.

** In [[HomeStuck canon]], Karkat is actually left handed.

--> Lower than the lowest, higher than the highest. Scream of the Sufferer echoing through time, his Blood now Returned to redeem our crime. Signless Reborn, the Carrier of Blood. Grubloaf of Life, fill our starving souls. (...) Oh He Whose Blood Runs Purest, Descendant of Suffering! Rekindle the Righteous Rage, burn our shameful world. Oh Shadow's Serene, Pink Moon's Moirail, [[TheSacredDarkness Night of the world!]] (...) Oh, Grace of Blood, Comforter of the Weeping!

* MeaningfulRename: The cultists choose new names that reflect their interests or jobs within the cult; it is entirely possible for them to change their name several times, or indeed as often as they like. The Grand Elder chose his name to reflect his size; on learning that people interpreted it as "the elder who is in charge", [[MyNameIsNotDurwood he attempted to rename himself Big Elder,]] but he seems to be the only person who actually uses the latter form of his name. Even Karkat calls him Grand Elder.
* MullhollandRelationshipMoment: Tavros sees Karkat's blood color [[spoiler:while he is being tended to by the cultists.]]

* ReluctantPsycho: [[spoiler:Gamzee while going through withdrawal]] in Chapter 6. [[spoiler:He gets urges to kill Karkat, and takes sadistic glee in murdering a gang of threshcutioners. But he knows what he has become.]]

* [[spoiler: ReluctantPsycho: Gamzee while going through withdrawal. He gets urges to kill Karkat, and takes sadistic glee in murdering a gang of threshcutioners. But he knows what he has become.]]

--> (...)
--> [[spoiler:You'll do it. You'll ride this one to the end, because your brother is already far on the way back to his hive where you can't put the hurt on him. And if your heart up and tells you to get your chase on, the sea is right over there, you'll jump in, you'll chase the fishes instead.]]

-> There. Now [[{{Mook}} he]] thinks he's got dirt on a super heretic moirail sucker, and with your main Spidersister putting her convince on in his mind that these weak-ass fuckers will know all about where a heretic mutant gets his hideout in, you just have to kick back and enjoy some rest before you get to rid the universe of this one batch of moirail-hunting thresh-holes. Life is good. Time to relax. It's totally okay to let your guard down for now!
-> You know what's going on before you even catch the skittery little tickle in the back of your head. You're not surprised. That's how the spider plays. She really ain't subtle at all, is she?

-> TC: you don't manipulate shit by pushing it off a cliff, spiderbitch.
-> TC: THAT'LL JUST DESTROY IT.
-> AG: [[ClusterFBomb F8CK Y8U F8CK Y8U F8CK Y8U]]
-> AG: [[ClusterFBomb F8CK Y8U!!!!!!!!]]

* LongTitle: Karkat has one thought up by the Cult. We haven't heard it in full, but it includes "Higher than the Highest, Lower than the Lowest", "Comforter of the Weeping" and "[[TheSacredDarkness Night of the World]]".
** ''Earthbent'''s blurb adds to it.
--> Lower than the lowest, higher than the highest. Scream of the Sufferer echoing through time, his Blood now Returned to redeem our crime. Signless Reborn, the Carrier of Blood. Grubloaf of Life, fill our starving souls. (...) Oh He Whose Blood Runs Purest, Descendant of Suffering! Rekindle the Righteous Rage, burn our shameful world. Oh Shadow's Serene, Pink Moon's Moirail, Night of the world! (...) Oh, Grace of Blood, Comforter of the Weeping!

* NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: The cult's Elders. Fortunately, the Grand Elder is there to sort them out.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Eridan’s trolling of the Threshcutioner who was impersonating Karkat (and convincing no one). Apparently, he proposed red once, black twice, referred to himself as Lord High Snappertail, and implied Tavros was his kismesis and Vriska his moirail.

--> ''Love's lance through her breast...''

--> ...which they were, except not in whatever fanciful ways they came up with in their impressionable minds -- but how do you even express that? "I'm not angry because you're doing things wrong, I'm angry because you're such dumbasses about things!" [[SarcasmMode That sure would go over well,]] if they even parsed your words in a way that wasn't completely opaque.

* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Some of the children raised by the cult were picked because the adult cultists thought they were cute and couldn’t bear to let them into the harsh world. The majority are orphans [[note]]Some had their lusus killed by Eridan, according by the author[[/note]] or were too weak/sickly/injured to survive as little grubs, though.

** WordOfGod explains it [[http://elanorpam.tumblr.com/tagged/homestuck-discussion like this]].
-> The system only favors them on a surface level. If you’re a highblood, you have to act as expected from a highblood or be steamrolled by your own peers. Lowbloods will always expect the worst from you, unless they’re quadrantmates. And you’ll have to watch as your lowblood quadrantmates are slowly and inexorably crushed by a system that for all intents and purposes values and favors you — and yet, despite all these resources you theoretically have access to, there’s very little you can actually do for them without losing this favor and becoming a target as well. You gotta be on top of things to preserve yourself and yours, and you gotta toe the line or lose your grip, and toeing the line means giving lip service to the very bullshit that threatens you and yours.
-> After an entire highblood lifespan of losing however many good, decent lowblood friends / quadrantmates / underlings to this ocean of bullshit, all while watching from the top of your safe little boat with full knowledge of how precariously held together it actually is, and surrounded by assholes trying to convince you that it should be in your nature to not give a shit, wouldn’t you be thoroughly sick and tired of upholding this bullshit?

* DidYouDie: Terezi to Sollux.

* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Some of the children raised by the cult were picked because the adult cultists thought they were cute and couldn’t bear to let them into the harsh world. The majority are orphans or were too weak/sickly/injured to survive as little grubs, though.

** InSpiteOfANail: Despite that, some things remain the same. For example, nearly all characterization remains intact, and Gamzee and Karkat still become moirails. Strangely, despite the lack of time travel, Aradia still uses a Cosbytop.

* DarkSecret: Dave claims that every suburban family has one.

** The blog (and ''Cultsuck'''s last chapter) mentions that many [[SpoiledSweet highbloods]] have converted to the Cult, [[TheMole and secretly support it.]]

** The blog mentions that many [[SpoiledSweet highbloods]] have converted to the Cult, [[TheMole and secretly support it.]]

* MillhollandRelationshipMoment: Tavros sees Karkat's blood color [[spoiler:while he is being tended to by the cultists.]]

There are two shorter side stories: ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/728530 Bringing down the moons]]'', about Karkat as a young child, and the in-progress ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/696375 > Karkat: half-heartedly attend your own wriggling day celebrations]]'', which tells the story of what Karkat did on his sixth wriggling day in this universe. There is also a spoilerrific [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1003020 intermission]] set after the main story.

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Karkat does not believe he is TheMessiah, and [[RefusedTheCall does not want to be.]] Unfortunately, ''everyone else'' disagrees. Most importantly, the Empire disagrees, and sends out threshcutioners to [[{{Unperson}} kill him and everyone who knows him.]]

** Which makes sense[[spoiler: since he's Darkleer]], and thus was alive during the Sufferers time.