Fanwork Type: Animation
Title: PCG: SORRY
Fandom: Homestuck
Rating: pg
Content notes: slight discussion of death
Artist notes: My first attempt at animation. :p Inspiration/style owes a lot to the beautiful lyric art vids I found on YouTube. *.*

Summary: The destruction of someone's universe is probably something worth apologizing for.






For those who haven't read Homestuck, Karkat is partially responsible for the creation of Jade's universe. Karkat rushed the job, though, and unknowingly gave the new universe cancer. Both Jade's and Karkat's universes seem to be coming to an end, and Karkat takes time out to send a message, apologizing for his part in bringing about the end. Very fond of his own 'voice', Karkat is normally wordy and offensive, making his subdued goodbye and apology unusual and more affecting for it.

"SORRY."

PAST carcinoGeneticist [PCG] 01:34 HOURS AGO responded to memo.

PCG: I'VE OBVIOUSLY BECOME JUST ANOTHER GUY IN A DOOMED TIMELINE WATCHING EVERYONE AROUND HIM DIE.
PCG: I WAS JUST SITTING HERE WONDERING WHAT I COULD HAVE DONE WRONG THIS TIME
PCG: TO MAKE THE TIMELINE TAKE A WRONG TURN
PCG: AND PINPOINTING IT SEEMED OVERWHELMING SINCE I'VE MADE MORE TERRIBLE DECISIONS THAN I CAN EVEN COUNT.
PCG: BUT
PCG: I THINK LOOKING BACK
PCG: I KNOW WHAT IT IS NOW.
...
PCG: AND I THINK I FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON.
PCG: I THINK I KNOW WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN AT THE END OF OUR TIMELINES.
PCG: I THINK I KNOW WHAT THE CRITICAL MOMENT IS.
PCG: AND IT'S COMPLETELY MY FAULT.
PCG: ECTOBIOLOGY IS A TOUCHY THING.
PCG: ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE BUILDING THE GENETIC CODE FOR AN ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
PCG: OUR GENESIS FROG NEEDED THE GENES FROM THAT FINAL FROG.
PCG: BUT BECAUSE I WAS IN TOO MUCH OF A HURRY TO DO THE JOB RIGHT
PCG: HE'S MISSING A CRITICAL SEQUENCE IN HIS DNA.
PCG: SO WHEN WE MADE HIM, AND WATCHED HIM GROW IN THE MIDDLE OF SKAIA
PCG: AND AFTER ALL THE FIREWORKS AND FANFARE FROM THE VAST CROAK HAD SUBSIDED
PCG: I KIND OF FELT LIKE HE DIDN'T LOOK SO GOOD.
PCG: LIKE HE WAS SICK.
PCG: I THINK I GAVE HIM CANCER.
PCG: I GAVE YOUR WHOLE UNIVERSE CANCER, JADE.
PCG: SORRY.





The Tumor, Bec Noir, the Red Miles and Bilious Slick (as well as Karkat and Jade) belong to Andrew Hussie, who animates them much better than I do.

Uh, if I've gotten anything wrong, plot-wise, consider me unsurprised and sorry. ;)



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Vector frog from:
~enon013 on dA

Deep Space Background from:
http://www.psxextreme.com