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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 [[Official Couple|matesprit]] and a [[Heterosexual Life Partners|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.

And so Nepeta starts her epic shipping quest! [[Hilarity Ensues]]! Complications arise! Trolls become pale or flushed for each other! Black rom and ashen even enter the picture! This promising WIP fic is shaping up to be a Nepeta Quest 2012, and updates fairly regularly (usually a new chapter is added between one and two weeks). It's currently on Chapter 15, and is over 170,000 words long.

 

 

* [[Adorkable]]: How Terezi feels for Eridan.

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Vriska, of course, [[Character Development|but only at first]].

*** Permission to treat the witness as hostile?

*** Silence in the courtroom block!

*** [[Eagleland Osmosis]]: Feferi has the witnesses cross examined, which is [[Lampshade Hanging|pointed out]] isn't done in Alternian courts. Feferi does it anyway "[[Screw the Rules, I Make Them|because I say so!]]" (Also it resembles the type of trial we're familiar with.)

** [[Courtroom Antic]]:

*** [[The Perry Mason Method]]: How Nepeta is forced to admit she's Eridan's kismesis.

*** [[Smoking Gun]]: 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.

* [[Death Is Dramatic]]: Discussed and deconstructed by Vriska, of all people, who argues that killing off characters doesn't necessarily make a story more interesting.

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Psyche, keeping this doomed timeline from being destroyed.

** [[He's Back|She's Back]]: After a little [[Slap Slap Kiss|hate snogging]] and mock trial from her new kismesis and his matesprite respectively.

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: The moirails. So far we have Nepeta/Equius, Vriska/Tavros, and Gamzee/Eridan, with hints of Terezi/Aradia, Sollux/Feferi, and Karkat/Kanaya for the remaining couples.

* [[Loving a Shadow]]: Eridan for Feferi.

* [[The Matchmaker]]: Nepeta's task.

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Both Nepeta and Eridan feel this way when they realize how much Karkat was flushed for Terezi.

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

** Vriska would also like to have this with Kanaya and Tavros.

* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: When Nepeta drops the cat puns (and in the pesterlogs/memoes, her :33< emoticons), it means she's REALLY upset.

* [[Porn Without Plot]]: Not this fic, but Nepeta once wrote one of Feferi/Vriska.

* [[Show Within a Show]]: "The Death of Spinnaret Mindfang" FLARPing session.

** The Trial of Nepeta Leijohn for the attempted murder of Eridan Ampora is a partial version of this. Everyone's roleplaying, but except for Feferi as the judge and Equius as the bailif, everyone's playing themselves based on an incident (Nepeta's attack of Eridan) that has actually happened.

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: As Eridan is waiting for Nepeta to get back to him while she chats with Feferi, he complains they could be writing a fanfiction in the time that it's taking them. The first thing Nepeta says when she gets back is, "There was no fiction involved!"

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Nepeta gives an EPIC one to Eridan on why he and Feferi were such lousey moirails and why they'd be even worse matesprits. This not only inspires Eridan to become Nepeta's kismesis, but even to start [[Evil Counterpart|black shipping everyone else.]]

** Karkat delivers one to Vriska at the start.

** 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.

* [[Take That]]: Vriska's deconstrucion of the [[Death Is Dramatic]] trope could be seen as a [[Take That]] at the [[Cerebus Syndrome|darker]] [[Kill'Em All|tone]] that ''[[Homestuck]]'' has taken.

** Future!Karkat (all three of them) at Nepeta's mock trial.

* [[The Watson]]: Terezi is this to Aradia's investigation as to why this doomed timeline isn't being destroyed.

 

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