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"Homestucks"
 
   So I've been reading Homestuck recently, and-

No no, don't go yet, please, hear me out!

I've been reading Homestuck recently, and thinking about it in relation to UF and-

No, please, it's not what you think!

Obviously UF has plenty of would-be-conqueror-races and aliens with Bizzare Alien Biology, so there's no need to import the trolls or Alternia. And you've got the "computer program that alters reality itself" part covered with CLUELESS so you don't need SBURB.

But a long-running theme of Homestuck is "unlikely friendships made through online chats", which dovetails very nicely with UF's galactic Internet. With that in mind, I had the thought of recasting the twelve Trolls (themed after Zodiac signs) as various young people living in the UF galaxy, whose only common characteristic is a preference for online interaction. Somewhere in a private chatroom in the depths of the GalNet, they are like tiny gods.

Here's what I have so far, canon names and a list of traits I'd like to retain, and my UF-flavoured interpretation.

Aries - Aradia Meidigo
(relentlessly cheerful girl, with an interest in archeology, morbid fascination with corpses and death. Spends large parts of the story as a ghost or a ghost-inhabited robot. Lowest social position.)

Based on the robot body and the low position in society, I'm thinking Aradia R. Meidigo is an android, perhaps ownerless and not Turing certified? She aspires to one day live up to such greats as Indiana Jones and Lara Croft.

Taurus - Tavros Nitram
(crippled boy, requires a wheelchair, and subsequently robot legs. Quiet and a bit shy, but unapolegetic gamer geek.)

I'm thinking Centauri just because he has a mowhawk and reminds me a bit of Londo's long-suffering assistant Vir.

Gemini - Sollux Captor
(scrawny hacker boy, bipolar, obsession with duality, likes bees. Has powerful psionic ability which in adults is typically harnessed to power Alternian starships.)

Translated fairly easily to human psionic on the run from the Psi Cops, although that departs the furthest from the "stuck at home" theme. He's the chatroom's main admin, the others know very little about him for their own safety.

Cancer - Karkat Vantas
(boy with ambitions of being an elite warrior. is a mutant with human-red blood, which is considered a horrible deformity in his species. highly versed in movies, especially rom-coms. capable of stringing together impressive amounts of verbose profanity.)

Definitely a Klingon. Although his red blood won't get him killed in this Empire, it does invalidate him from the Navy and fuel his bitterness.

Leo - Nepeta Leijon
(cheerful and friendly girl with deadly claws. enjoys role-playing and pretending to be a catgirl, and drawing shipping charts of her friends)

The very picture of a Dantrovian, what else can I say?

Virgo - Kanaya Maryam
(stoic and eloquent lady, has an interest in fashion and clothing which is otherwise uncommon in her species)

Vulcan, although beats me how you could render that name.

Libra - Terezi Pyrope
(overly cheerful justice-obsessed girl. blind, but can perceive smell/taste of colors. somehow. likes dragons.)

Not sure on this one. Is there a saurian-type race in UF that could develop smell-vision?

Scorpius - Vriska Serket
(self-centered, greedy and ruthless girl, has a bit of an obsession with fate and luck. enjoys tales of piracy.)

Corellian is a definite possibility. Considering Ferengi, although I can't imagine her coming out of a highly patriarchal society.

Saggitarius - Equius Zahhak
(unnaturally STRONG young man, highly skilled with robotics. unfortunate fixation on caste ideology. sweats profusely when excited. in a very close but platonic relationship with Nepeta.)

So very much a Kryptonian kid, and one who's read far too much General Zod. Everyone just rolls their eyes when he starts going on about Kryptonian supremacy. Nepeta assures everyone he's a good guy under it all.

Capicorn - Gamzee Makara
(Juggalo, basically. Refers to Insane Clown Posse as the Mirthful Messiahs. Frequently imbibes soporific substances. Talks about "motherfuckin' miracles" a lot.)

A native of Funkotron, maybe? I dunno.

Aquarius - Eridan Ampora
(amphibious seadweller? spoiled royalty? would-be-supervillain? terminal Nice Guy? hipster douchebag?)

Yeah, I have no idea what to do with this guy. Selkath? Mon Calmari? Possibly pretending to be some "prettier" race online?

Pisces - Feferi Peixes
(cheerful and friendly girl, highly privileged, something of a sheltered princess. loves cuttlefish. also amphibious seadweller?)

I'm kind of thinking Hanar.

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