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[video] - Always a Colorful Birdie

[So. For a second, there's nothing and suddenly, there's a peacock staring right at the SFC. A huge one. The bird tilts its head first to the left, then to the right, the finally opens its beak to speak.

...in a Jamaican accent.]

This is one of those "curses," ja? So...I think this called a bird?

[Cielo is just more amazed and bewildered than anything else.]

What kind of bird do you call this?

[He's just going to. Admire his own feathers for a bit. Look how colorful they are!]

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[Despite the original post, Karkat's sticking to voice for his part.]

Cielo? I haven't seen you around in half a year.

This is a curse, yes - shittier than any other one I've seen - though I haven't got a clue what kind of bird you're supposed to be.

[Oh...it's someone else he doesn't recognize. But Cielo knows that memory is a very fickle thing.]

I was here half a year ago?

[He sighs to hear that, not surprised, but still a little disappointed.]

Figures that you wouldn't remember, as long as you were gone. Yes, you were. I'm guessing you got the explanation on other stuff if you know what curses are, but the scientists in charge have a habit of nabbing people, sending them back, then bringing them here again at will like we're some kind of fucking playthings for them. And the longer you're absent, the less likely you are to remember anything from your time here before.

[Cielo understands what scientists are (and the word makes him frown for reasons he can't place) and he can accept that the reason he doesn't remember anything is because he's been gone for a long time.]

Ja, I heard about curses. Who are you?

[Since he obviously doesn't remember.]

Karkat Vantas, a troll from a planet you've never heard of in your own memory - Alternia - in a universe you never have nor ever will enter. Which means, in turn, that I have a set of horns on my head, skin grey as smoke, and outside my irises my eyes are proper yellow, unlike the pale shit you've got housed in your sight sockets. Or would have if you weren't that crayon explosion of a flapbeast this week.

[Crayon? From the context, Cielo figures it has something to do with color. So this is Karkat? Cielo's heard his name before here in his current stay in Vatheon. Fortunately, he doesn't need an explanation on what a troll or Alternia are since he's got one not too long ago.]

Oh, so you're Karkat. I heard about you from Nepeta.

[He heard you were like Heat, specifically.]

Did you know me well when I was here?

[AKA, "were we comrades?"]

I'm not surprised she would tell you about me.

We weren't real close, but we wound up friends. You said I reminded you of some guy you knew where you were from, hell if I remember his name, if you mentioned it.

[YEAH THAT...sounds like something Cielo would say. Nepeta was right. Karkat is definitely giving him Heat vibes.]

Just one more thing, was anyone from my world here?

Not as far as I know of.

[Alone? Yes, of course it sounds like he made friends here, but there just isn't replacing the Embryon.

At least he has Serph with him now.]

Thanks.

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[video] - Always a Colorful Birdie

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