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Finally finished this oneLess than 2 months, before April, that's good XD
So about the story, I still need to work on it, but I have a beginning of plot.
During the Prohibition era, in a world where trolls and humans live together, alcohol or any intoxicating beverages are prohibited, so it applies to humans AND troll beverage. In this dark area, a lot people and especially gangsters try to survive by starting illegal bars (speakeasies). One bar knows a huge succes, and welcomes humans as well as trolls. The bar is called Skaia and is managed by the human "gangsters", Strider-Lalonde family and their friends Harley-Egbert-English-Crocker family (why they must have different family names XP) Their group is neither a big nor a powerful one, but they are well protected by the Mayor, the Chief of police of the city and the head of a Newspaper company.
However, one gangster, called Calliborn English, wants their downfall. A long time ago, when it was the kids' parents who were controlling the bar, an important event led them to their death, but also to the "downfall" of Lord English, Calliborn's father. Calliborn wants then to avenge his father. He needs to kill the boss, Dave Strider, and the underboss Rose Lalonde. To do so, he forced a beautiful troll, Kanaya Maryam (by kidnapping her friends) to seduce Rose Lalonde, because he knows that she has particular tastes....she likes to watch and more if affinity (XD)
Calliborn thinks that by seducing Rose, the one who is the most suitable to see the threat, and making her falling in love with Kanaya, the latter will be able to kill her and Dave, Rose's brother. Forced to obey, Kanaya starts her mission. But neither Calliborn nor Kanaya predict that she, the troll forced to seduce Rose and to kill her, will be the troll who will fall in love with her.
Not so original for a plot, but I don't care, I love good old dramas and stuffs.
Concerning the characters, they don't change a lot from Homestuck, but some background related to the story
Dave Strider-Lalonde: Boss of the "family", ironic as ever, he doesn't talk much, except when singing. But he is really attentive and don't miss any details behind his shades. He is the one who gives final words concerning projects.
Rose Strider-Lalonde: Underboss of the "family", she is the one who plan everything concerning the Skaia and the other "relative stuff outside" As it was told in the plot, she surprisingly likes to play a little, and has a preference for female trolls, after all "she has particular tastes" (quoted from the movie "True Lies" XD) She tends to dress like a man, so the male employees would treat her like an equal and not like a woman who happens to be lucky to have power in the system. Because, even if women have a lot of more power than before, it was not yet perfect.
Roxy Strider-Lalonde: Dave and Rose's big sister. Behind the bar, she prepares the beverage. Since she used to drink a lot when she was younger she knows how to prepare all types of beverage, then she is the best suited for the job, especially since with Rose's help they were able to manufacture their own alcohols for the bar. Thanks to Calliope, her "matesprit" she learned to control herself and to stop drinking like there is no tomorrow. Normally, when her parents (also Dirk, Dave and Rose's) died, she was destined with Dirk to control the bar, but she refused as she considered herself responsible for their death, even if the others say the contrary.
Calliope English: yes, she is Calliborn's sister, and is the reason whey her matesprit's parents fought against Lord English. Her father had an obvious preference for her brother. So she used to be beaten and other dirty stuff during all her childhood. She met Roxy one day, when she left her house after hours of beating. Roxy helped her and eventually after years of friendship, they fell in love. But Lord English was totally against it, and did everything to have her back. A war started between the Skaia and the Lord English's gang. At the end, Lord English was killed, Roxy's parents died by protecting their children. To cut all her ties with her family, Calliope feigned her death, and lives with the Strider-Lalonde family since then, by disguising herself like a troll.
Dirk Stider-Lalonde: The big brother of the family, he decided to let the control of the Skaia to his younger siblings, because of his identity problem (not sure what exactly, but let say it's the same problem with Lil Hal). He is the big brother who will always protect his siblings and take care of them. He takes also care with Rowy to eliminate eventual enemies if needs be. He is a sort of bodyguard.
Jake English: He happens to have the same name as Calliborn and Calliope, but he is not a relative. In fact he is Jade, John and Jane's borther. He lived with Jade in California for adventures. But after the event with Lord English, they decided to come back to help the others. Because he goes along with everyone, he is the person who knows everything or at least know how to get information in the city.
Jade Harley: The smiling-type, Jade is like the engineer of the family an repairs everything that is broken. She is also with Roxy the rifle user to eliminate people when discretion is needed XP She is in general the person who helps everyone no matter what, and the keystone concerning the sanity of the group, in other words, when someone feels sad, Jade is her to save the day and lighten the mood. She loves to play guitar at night when the bar is opened.
John Egbert: The joker of the group XD And also the one who is managing the stocks all the days. With Jade, he lightens the mood by playing piano.
Jane Crocker:The cooker and the doctor of the story. During the day, she takes care of the pastry, which is the undercover for the bar. It makes a side revenue, since her cake is well known around the city to be delicious. But behind this sweet appearance, she is also the one who takes care of the bodies to make them disappear by chopping them for example... (oh thanks recent upd8te for tron! Jane XD)
Kanaya Maryam: Forced to obey to Calliborn, she is taking away from her simple life, and will discover the mob life. She used to be a seamstress/taylor with a little shop in the city.
Sorry if descriptions are not long for certain, I didn't develop the characters yet....
Anyway, I may write it, but I'm not sure when...since I'm not the writer type, and English is not my first language, we'll see...if someone is interested to write it with me...
Concerning the drawing....at the end it was a challenge, since my computer is quite old, each time that I saved the file, I had to wait for 5 minutes...I need a new computer QoQ
When I started coloring Kanaya...It dawned on me that in the drawing she was not a rainbow drinker...I had to remove her fangs XP
Also Roxy, Calliope, Jake and Jane are waiters here.
Oh I drew this because I saw a picture of Rose and Kanaya wearing suits and waistcoats...and I love waistcoats ha ha ha
Also, for people who are interested in my doing commission, review there to give me an idea of prices for commissions, so I cant start it soon
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Comments: 48
BlackZodiacQx [2015-11-10 05:50:48 +0000 UTC]
You could say...
They're getting served like dudes on butler island. ...
ZING
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SparrowOfTheDawn [2014-08-16 04:52:08 +0000 UTC]
Soooo preeeety. Β I love their expressions, and their clothes, and how well they seem to fit in the setting, and you ship Rosemary and CalRox, and this is awesome, and I love it, and you can tell I'm very tired in this comment. Β XD Β Thank you so much and great job!
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Tripower In reply to SparrowOfTheDawn [2014-10-11 01:39:40 +0000 UTC]
Ah ah thank you )
Yeah Rosemary and CalRox are my fav ship in Homestuck X3
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SomebodySuperCoolio [2013-06-22 12:09:41 +0000 UTC]
I love this picture, I love it. You draws the best HS things.
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Tripower In reply to SomebodySuperCoolio [2013-06-23 13:25:29 +0000 UTC]
Thanks a lot really >W<
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AsheraTheDarkMage [2013-05-27 02:13:44 +0000 UTC]
OMG I love your art so much, I enjoy the way you draw every character from Homestuck catching there attitude in a simple drawing. I want to ask you if you are willing to draw a fan made troll I have. And I hope that way of asking was terrible.
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Tripower In reply to AsheraTheDarkMage [2013-05-27 17:52:29 +0000 UTC]
Thanks a lot ^^
Well it depends on what do you want exactly. If it's black/white I can do it for free, but if it's in color, I may ask for a payment, since it take more time to do it... now concerning the price, it depends on the subject. Tell me and I let you know ^^
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AsheraTheDarkMage In reply to Tripower [2013-05-27 18:39:37 +0000 UTC]
But I don't has moneyz.. And I'll post a picture on my deviant of My fan made troll.
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Tripower In reply to AsheraTheDarkMage [2013-05-27 19:54:33 +0000 UTC]
Let me see and I'll tell you.
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AsheraTheDarkMage In reply to Tripower [2013-05-27 19:59:04 +0000 UTC]
Here she is~ [link]
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Tripower In reply to AsheraTheDarkMage [2013-05-27 20:09:50 +0000 UTC]
So do you want in color and only the bust?? Not the whole body??
Really, if it's in color, it will be like a commission, sorry for that. Only requests are free, because it's fast to draw for me (The last one I did in color was a kiriban, so a spcial occasion).
Let me know your decision. Be assure that no matter what, if you decide to wait for any reason, even if it is months later, I will still accept your request/commission. I usually don't forget people who are asking for drawings ^^ (it's just that I can't do it for free all the time)
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AsheraTheDarkMage In reply to Tripower [2013-05-27 20:14:02 +0000 UTC]
Really I don't care if its full body or not, as for it being in color, I sadly don't have money and I don't thi I will be able to pay for it, so no color is alright.
(And thank you so much for actually accepting this I am happy I could just hug you.)
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Tripower In reply to AsheraTheDarkMage [2013-05-27 20:24:18 +0000 UTC]
Ok ok, I'll try to have it for you as soon as possible then...maybe I'll do another kiriban in a few days/months (not sure yet and it will be a high PV number) and usually the price is colored picture, you can try to win it XD
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AsheraTheDarkMage In reply to Tripower [2013-05-27 20:28:44 +0000 UTC]
Yay thank you so much, I shall to hug you now.
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CianaTheRabbit [2013-05-23 20:33:16 +0000 UTC]
Oh god, that's awesome. Love this setting, and to see it with Homestuck, and my OTP, and AAAAHHH IT'S FRIGGIN' PERFECT!
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Tripower In reply to CianaTheRabbit [2013-05-25 16:11:30 +0000 UTC]
Thanks a lot 8D
I'll try my best to do more Prohibitionstuck picture ^^
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CianaTheRabbit In reply to Tripower [2013-05-25 16:12:18 +0000 UTC]
I'll be looking forward to them!
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lemin6 [2013-03-15 00:44:45 +0000 UTC]
If I was a better writer, I would try to write this. But I'm not, so I want to read this!
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Tripower In reply to lemin6 [2013-03-15 17:47:30 +0000 UTC]
Well I may have someone who is willing to write it, she is just quite busy and can't do it right now...so we must wait.
But I'll draw more of prohibitionstuck don't worry
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TheDarkbreaker [2013-03-10 20:44:03 +0000 UTC]
GENIUS.
...seriously, how is it that you can take the most normal of settings, and then work in the Homestuck verse so flawlessly? And more importantly, in a way that fits SO WELL ASDFGHJKLKJHGFDSA
...also, epic art style just makes it even better. XD
Sorry for the few months of silence from my end, been a hell of a year so far. X'D
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Tripower In reply to TheDarkbreaker [2013-03-10 20:56:10 +0000 UTC]
Let's say that I'm good at creating AU in general XD (and enjoy creating them in general)
Yeah for me the year was quite busy and really hard recently!
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TheDarkbreaker In reply to Tripower [2013-03-15 12:55:17 +0000 UTC]
Well, I can certainly believe that! All of your verses are excellently designed in their summaries, and it'd be very easy to extrapolate them out into full stories!
Yeah, I know the feeling. SO MUCH WORK TO DO AUGH
Good to get back in touch, though! XD
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ToxicSquirrel13 [2013-02-27 22:01:27 +0000 UTC]
OK, how did i JUST notice dirk strider in the corner?
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Tripower In reply to ToxicSquirrel13 [2013-02-27 22:18:30 +0000 UTC]
Because of his Strider ninja skills XD
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Tripower In reply to Blue-Ninja-Hyena [2013-02-27 22:18:05 +0000 UTC]
Soon maybe 8D (not sure yet)
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crazygenius1 [2013-02-24 01:42:09 +0000 UTC]
Crazygenius1: Perform the Slow Clap of Awe!
Clap. Clap. Clap.
Crazygenius1: Declare your love for this piece!
Wow, I was mildly interested when all I there was was a name and an outline. Now, this is one of the best color-jobs EVER! The story also goes way beyond whatever I was expecting, and (when taken with Frontierstuck, Militarystuck, and Monsterstuck) solidifies you as some kind of fanfic genius! The idea of Jade (who'd never hurt a defenseless animal) bringing a sawed-off shotgun or a tommy-gun against the families' enemies is paradoxically disturbing and awesome (to the point where I worry about my sanity for liking it so much)! I also can't help but imagine Caliborn or Lord English acting like Mickey Cohen from Gangster Squad (I didn't actually watch the movie, but in the trailers, he's so over-the-top that I just like the character, and one film critic compared him to "some kind of Batman villain"). The backstory gets me thinking about what the gang war must have been like if it ended with all five leaders dead. Question: Is Calliope wearing a wig like in the comic, or has dyed her hair?
If I had any negative criticism of this piece, it would be that I wonder where all the other trolls are. But, since they're probably the "friends" Caliborn is holding captive, I expect they'll show up eventually. Heck, I'm hoping there'll be some big fight to rescue them. So, yeah. Nothing bad to say here.
What interests me about this the most, however, is the implications this story and drawing raises about the results of humans and trolls sharing a planet. Sure, the '20's were wild in the urban centers, but how did the previous generation of Americans respond to the fact that trolls are more or less naturally polygimous and totally accepting of same-sex relationships? And, how does this generation react to Roxy and Calliope's same-sex, aparantly interracial relationship? For that matter, how do whites deal with a different species when they felt intitled to walk all over other people with different skin colors?
Overall, not as mind-grabbing as Monsterstuck (though, that's probably just me), but this is definately one of the best fanart pieces I've ever seen and one of the most evocative ideas I've ever read for Homestuck.
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Tripower In reply to crazygenius1 [2013-02-24 12:48:58 +0000 UTC]
Thanks Thanks 8D
He he this idea of Prohibitionstuck came to me after watching Captan America, the Untouchables, the Godfather and recently Gangester Squad and the comics Lackadaisy.
I don't know why but I'm really fascinated by the Prohibition era and the mob life XP
For Calliope I'm still thinking about it, but I'm pretty decided that she dyes her hair in the story.
About the trolls, he he yes they are the "friends" who Kanaya need to save, but they are not all the troll, in fact, I'm still thinking about the part in which they will appear :/
Ha ha the problem of human and troll...it was of the main problem I need to solve for this story.
In fact the actual world in Prohibitionstuck is like an AU from our own world. Since trolls and humans live in the same world, it has been like this since the beginning of time. So humans learned to live with the trolls and accept their culture (now maybe it's naive to think that both culutres which were "raised" together will get along, but if both culture start at the same time and evolve with each other, both culture will accept the other because they'll think it is normal)
Now it doesn't mean that neither human nor troll were all tolerant, but human will accept the fact that trolls are polygamous with their quadrants and the problem of same-sex relationships doesn't apply for them. Now with humans, while they accepted trolls culture, are still intolerant concerning skin color (normally they have the problem because the skin is not white, now let's add it's neither white nor skin, so you are neither a white man, nor a troll). They have the same problems, the same fights: slavery (in fact even trolls had the same problem so they were really implied during the recession war), black people,....
About same-sex relationship, thanks to the trolls, humans tend to believe that when they see this kind of couple, they think they're only playing to be like trolls, which is good, since they won't be discriminated. However, it is not perfect, and when people realize it is serious they start to act differently (well at least for people who are against homosexuality, but let's say that in this world it is not as important as it is in our world.)
Concerning trollxhuman relations, most of the time it was concerning prostitution, and when it is serious, well you have 2 type of reactions:
- great, we don't care, be happy even if you can't have children (not sure about this fact, after years of evolution I tend to think that one day trollxhuman would produce offspring...but now how, need to develop that)
- wrong, we don't want you to see this troll/human
It all depends of the view of the family.
For Calliope and Roxy, theur relationship is in fact one of the reason why Lord English wanted to have Calliope back. He didn't approve of their relation (even if he doesn't like Calliope, his pride can't accept that his daughter is a lesbian, and think it is a was for her a way to be free from his grasp, especially with Roxy in the equation and he can't accept it) Roxy's parents were totally okay with it, since well in the family they were not totally straight XD Now outside, people knew to not deal too much with them, since Roxy is daughter of gangsters.
Piouff hope it answers your questions
Thanks agains, it is such a pleasure to read comments like yours!
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KaputheWolf [2013-02-22 14:27:55 +0000 UTC]
This is so awesome!! I'M GOING TO READ IT!!!
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earthian101 [2013-02-22 01:38:07 +0000 UTC]
I'd so read that. And tap it (the bar anyways)
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Tripower In reply to earthian101 [2013-02-23 12:37:14 +0000 UTC]
Tap it?? XD
Maybe soon you'll be able to read it, but don't know when exactly
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Tripower In reply to CalumTraveler [2013-02-23 12:36:38 +0000 UTC]
I'll try my best to give you more XD
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EchoGhost [2013-02-21 20:05:06 +0000 UTC]
I say for just starting with this idea you did a very good job. It would be really cool to see more.
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Tripower In reply to EchoGhost [2013-02-23 12:36:15 +0000 UTC]
Thanks 8D !!
I have more ideas, I just need to finish things first and maybe I keep with this AU
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Flamefriends [2013-02-21 03:19:29 +0000 UTC]
I'm a pretty skilled writer, even for someone of my age. if you need help, I'll happily lend it :::: )
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Tripower In reply to Flamefriends [2013-02-23 12:35:43 +0000 UTC]
Thanks for the help. I may find someone for this story though (not sure yet), however I have another one picture, from which people would like a story, for this one [link]
I have an idea of a plot, but not so consistent for the moment, but if you are willing to help I can try to develop it ^^
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Flamefriends In reply to Tripower [2013-04-10 21:51:32 +0000 UTC]
sure! I'd like to help
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Tripower In reply to ariahdawn [2013-02-23 12:33:43 +0000 UTC]
Soon maybe Or I hope at least ^^"
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ariahdawn In reply to Tripower [2013-02-23 20:21:25 +0000 UTC]
awesome! and haha when i first read that i thought it said "son maybe"
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Roseblossom9029 [2013-02-21 00:23:10 +0000 UTC]
I say the picture is amazing, and the story concept is really creative an interesting!
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