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Attention citizens.

You havve made the stupendous mistake of kidnappin one Commander Orphaner Dualscar, destroyer a wworlds an' scourge a the stars.

In light a your obvvious ignorance, and the admittedly pleasant surroundins, I'll be generous. You havve half an hour to explain wwhere I am, howw I got here, and wwhy, and to showw me the exit. It's the ocean, I can make my owwn wway from there.

I'm wwaiting. Don't fuckin disappoint me.

One last wwarnin: I'm not a vvery patient troll.

[OOC: I'm happy to do action tags/prose in the comments, too. Anyone who wants to run into him in person can find him wandering the main thoroughfare around the Lamufao, using his starfish phone thingy to monitor the network]

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[There's a long pause as he stares at those very purple words. It's hard and he's definitely conflicted. Here is his ancestor, his idol, the troll he crafted himself after offering him the chance to MEAN something to him--but if he did that, if he went along... He'd be betraying Karkat, betraying what they have. Karkat would leave him. Had this been months ago? The answer would have been easy, but now? When he's this far along, when Karkat means the goddamn universe to him? When they've been through so much?]

that depends on wwhat you consider wworthy a garnerin your respect
i havve my loyalties an im sure you of all trolls can understand the importance a somethin like that

I do understand the meanin a loyalty, as wwell as respect, an duty.
I wwonder if, in this den a rebels an traitors an upstart lowwbloods an blood mutants, wwhether you havve forgotten your owwn blood.
Your owwn loyalty to your sea dwwellin people.
I'd understand if you havve, Eridan, if it's slipped a bit.
You'vve been all alone, havven't you?
You're the only sea dwweller wwho's come forwward to talk to me. Are you the only one here besides me?

youre right yeah my loyalties do lie wwith the dirtscrappers
an i AM the only seadwweller here besides you but you havve also got to realize
alternia is gone its since been destroyed
wwhere im from im the last seadwweller

[BECAUSE HE KILLED THE OTHER ONE HAHAHAHA...ha...ha.]

an as much as the purities a the blood lines an status is dowwnright fuckin important
or wwas i guess
it doesnt servve much of a purpose noww
the lot a us wwere the last fuckin trolls alivve

[It... feels wrong to type the words, to talk about the hemospectrum like that after he's hardwired himself to speak on prejudice and bigotry and so forth. To meet society's standards, to meet the expectations that would follow his ancestor's legacy, to be a fine goddamn seadweller. But months of a moirallegiance with Karakt and now his matespritship? He knows he has to change, has to work on this shit, and even if this is locked, he can't allow himself to be sneaky. But god is it ever fucking difficult to live up to those standards, when he feels and knows this is the exact fucking opposite of what he "should" be doing. Fuck.]

Edited 2012-01-24 07:35 (UTC)

[Dualscar can barely believe what he's reading. Eridan is only a child, and he gave the impression of being a relatively weak one at the outset, but children are children, and he was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, give him a chance to prove himself and mould him into an effective tool.

But this throws him completely for a loop. He stares at the words for several minutes before typing a reply]

Destroyed.
No one has bothered to mention this to me until noww.

[Not the response he was exacting.]

yeah
evveryone is dead an before you ancestors started to showw up the feww a us that remained wwere the last ones alivve
the vvast glub took out evveryone else an the meteoric apocalypse handled the rest a the planet

But
Howw long ago wwas I killed, then?
I thought I wwas murdered, or nearly died, and then wwas brought here and healed.
Howw many swweeps has it been since then?

hundreds a swweeps
ivve learned most a wwhat i knoww about you from fuckin history books an books on troll wwars if that tells you anythin

It tells me somethin.
Explains a lot, actually.
So hundreds a swweeps in the future my descendent wwill be spawwned an our race wwill be destroyed.
I can't abide that. The second part, I mean.
Wwhat are you doin' about it?

wwhat am i doin about it
wwell its a long fuckin story that invvolvves the reason our planet wwas destroyed an shit but to put it simply the group i wwas wwith and myself wwere tryin to make a neww univverse through this game wwe played
it wworked
but a lot fucked up an noww wwere basically wwaitin to die in paradox space
so basically not jack shit but fortunately wwere here an the threat a impendin doom isnt exactly upon us
that is till the scientists here send us back

I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU NOT TO SPEAK TO HIM, ERIDAN.
IT'S YOUR RIGHT TO GET TO KNOW YOUR ANCESTOR.
BUT REMEMBER WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, AND THE PATHS DUALSCAR HAS CHOSEN TO WALK.

i remember
dont wworry

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