Fuck Yeah Rose♥Kanaya

urbananchorite:

emberkeelty:

GA: At First I Thought You Were Foolish And Incompetent
TT: My apologies for whatever misstep I may have taken to dispel that impression.
TT: It was an honest mistake, I swear.
GA: You See Thats What Im Talking About
GA: That Was A Very Snarky Remark That Happened Just Now
GA:…

“Where’s the fic?????”

I am going to treat this as a serious question, because there are actually a number of really excellent ongoing Kanaya/Rose stories right now, and I might as well rec them all at once.

The Conscience of Eurydice by urbanAnchorite.  Rose is abducted by horrorterrors and Kanaya has to save the day.  Suspenseful and disturbing, as any Lovecraft homage should be, but with plenty of dark and absurd humor to balance that out.  Sadly there isn’t a whole lot of actual interaction between the girls just yet, but what there is is excellent, and there promises to be more in the near future.

Promstuck, by urbanAnchorite and Cephied_Variable.  It’s mainly a John/Karkat story, but Act Two seems to be focusing on Kanaya/Rose.  Snark, fabulous dresses, self-aware comedic angst, and light-hearted high school shenanigans abound.  Also, Kanaya does the whole Buffy Summers normal-high-school-student-by-day, slayer-of-the-undead-by-night thing.  She is pretty much flawless.

Frontierstuck by ShinjiShazaki.  Rose Lalonde is an alchemist from early twentieth-century America transversing an alien planet to hunt down a demon inadvertently created by her meddling with forces beyond her ken.  Kanaya is the proprietor of an Old West-style hostelry which was just leveled by said demon.  Also, there are pirates.  An all-around solid bit of SF&F fiction with enthralling world-building, action sequences, characterization, and prose.

Show the Lights by partingxshot.  AU where Rose is dragged away before she can confront Bec Noir.  She slowly falls in love with Kanaya while going through Grimdark Rehab — and is not entirely 0kay with that.  Turns out the apocalypse is a terrible time for a sexual identity crisis.  Sweet, introspective, and occasionally really, really hot.  And given who’s writing it, it should go without saying that the prose is simply beautiful.

Chrysanthemum, also by partingxshot.  AU where Alternia and Earth exist in the same universe and the Guardians are government agents who made first contact.  For the sake of diplomacy, Dr. Lalonde promises to marry her first-born child to a Troll.  Much of the story is fairly twisted and filled with humor of the darkest sort (trigger warning for what could be considered emotional abuse of a child), but the actual interaction between Rose and Kanaya is pure lovely fluff.

Coming to Terms by alcoholism.  The Kids abscond to the Trolls’ session and are met with an unforeseen language barrier.  Slice-of-life style shenanigans — some of them adorable, some emotionally harrowing — ensue while they gear up to confront Jack Noir.  There’s an overarching plot in there somewhere, but for the most part it’s a cute and entertaining story about Kanaya and Rose getting to know each other better.

A few days ago Jenn and I were giving each other’s fanfics mock-titles based upon the content, and for Eurydice she thoughtfully came up with:

I Thought Kanaya Was In The Summary

thnx jenn

In any case, I am unbelievably flattered and pleased to have Eurydice on here, and I can indeed promise that from here on out it is all Kanaya all the time and I am personally thrilled to bits I just finally got up to her. In any case, nthing every single one of these recs (“Show The Lights” is something every Kanaya/Rose fan needs to read right now), and adding two myself off the top of my head:

Amidst General Happiness, A Recollection Of Pain — by Memlu. Post-game fic where Kanaya and Rose are still coming to terms with Rose’s experiences at the hands of the Horrorterrors, and it’s just this sincerely beautiful quiet domestic story about them and the ways in which they’re coping with their lives. I actually have a lot to say that nobody will be interested in about the prevalence of domesticity in f/f and Cabbages And Doing The Washing-Up syndrome but none of that has any relevance here because this fic is magnificent.

means you have a talented tongue — by nextian (WARNING: EXPLICIT). I think this is actually one of the first Rose/Kanaya snips written I ever read and in any case it’s part of the Trollish For The Easily Excited and is megahot and has linguistics. And not just “linguistics” said with a firmly arched eyebrow.

Freeze Out — by Ember Keelty, who was modest in not including this. Now Jossed, but Rose gets news of Kanaya’s death after “Return to the core,” and proves herself terrible at feelings. Really beautifully in-character Pesterlogs, with the added particular Homestuck mindscrew of talking with someone after you know they’ve died. I love Homestuck time shenanigans.

There always needs to be more fic. Always. I am having trouble keeping the faith these days, because although what fic we have is beautiful and gorgeous, I am having to answer those particular questions that well up deep in your heart: “But what do you do when you also really ship Jade/Kanaya and Rose/Feferi?”