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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.
So Nepeta posts a memo she calls "The Shipping Wall". [[Alpha Bitch|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 [[
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.
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*** Silence in the courtroom block!
** [[Artistic License Law]]:
*** [[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]]:
*** [[Accuse the Witness]]: Nepeta accuses Eridan of faking her bloodstains on his coat.
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* [[The Matchmaker]]: Nepeta's task.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Chapter 12 is largely a memo celebration of the matespritship of Eridan/Terezi. Everyone (except [[The Eeyore|Sollux]]) seems to be having a great time...and then a heartbroken Karkat shows up with his outburst.
* [[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.
* [[OT 3]]: Vriska ships Mindfang/Dolorosa/Summoner. In the context of her FLARP session's post-[[Heel Face Turn]] Mindfang, anyway.
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* [[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.
* [[Shipper On Deck]]: Nepeta, of course. Terezi becomes a black shipper of Nepeta/Eridan after reading Nepeta's [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]].
* [[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 End or Is It]]: Vriska insists that despite appearances, Spinnaret and Dolorosa were not killed when they walked the plank.
* [["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.
** More recently, Tavros gave one to Sollux for the way he's been treating Vriska.
** 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
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Nepeta, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|pawbviously.]] Also Tavros.
** Future!Karkat (all three of them) at Nepeta's mock trial.
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