[Homestuck][Fic] Two drabbles (Dirk + Roxy, SFW)

[wallwalker]

Two drabbles, related to each other. First posted on fan_flashworks

Title: Alone
Fandom: Homestuck
Characters: Dirk Strider
Rating: SFW
Length: 100

You've got what you need. Your bro left you enough supplies to see you through the apocalypse - good thing, too.

You try to make the place feel like home. You put posters and shit up on the walls and pretend you're a normal kid with weird hobbies. You build AIs because then you can pretend you're not always talking to yourself. You read about the old days and talk to your friends on a screen and act like this isn't a step up from old-school solitary confinement.

It's rough, but hey. At least you're going completely stir-crazy in style.

Title: Other Side of the Fence
Fandom: Homestuck
Characters: Roxy Lalonde, Dirk Strider
Rating: SFW
Length: 100

Roxy, between her nonsensical drunken ramblings, tells Dirk stories about the carapacians. They're unruly, she says, hunting her old experiments, then showing up at her door and begging for more pumpkins to eat - raw, she adds, with exaggerated disgust. They can't talk like humans, but their carapaces click when they move, and it apparently drives her up the wall!

("Iss sit ayn wonder," she typed one afternoon, "that ive turned to dronk?" She didn't bother to correct herself. That must've been a tough day.)

He tries to sympathize, but he really wants to tell her how lucky she is.