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[ Well, if you didn't want to see a close-up of Prince Gumball's ~~pink~~ orchid face for the opening of this video then today is not your lucky day. After exploring the extent of his little ~~pink~~ amaranth iStarfish, figuring out its purpose, trying to get it to play techno music and dying in the first level of a game he found on it, he decided to use it to communicate.

However, he pressed record too quickly and started the video prematurely. After a moment, he pulled it away so the network can be greeted with a more normal shot.

Generally, when Gumball finds himself kidnapped or in another dimension or possessed, Fionna is efficient and heroic enough to save him within a reasonable timeframe. This time, it's been a while so he decides to take matters into his own hands to see what the hold-up is.

He is also feeling a little extra impatient given how...wet the current location is and how his ~~pink~~ salmon rainboots are nowhere in sight. ]

Greetings, citizens of Vatheon! My name is Prince Gumball of the Candy Kingdom. Though my stay thus far has been nice-- [ and he thinks that's being kind ]-- I worry about my subjects back home and their low tolerance for stress. If you could be so kind as to direct me to your nearest ship port or best place to create a wormhole back home, I would be delightfully grateful. Ideally, I'd like to return on the morrow but if one is not available, my previous requests are sufficient.

[ He holds up a wet and sandy towel between his pinched fingers. ]

Also, is there a towel butler around? I'd like to receive a new towel at your soonest convenience, I dropped mine.

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Whatever, dude.

It's not an excuse. It's a learning disability.

[Ruuude.]

What do you mean you made Earth?

My projects have been put on a forced hold until the flooding situation is sorted out, which is really what I would need the lab for in the first place.

I have been here for slightly less than a year, actually. But in that time I have tried to compile a comprehensive record of information collected or speculated by others who have been here longer. You might have heard of the city database? My idea, and execution.

[OH WOW THAT FACE uuhhh...]

Uuhh... okay, sure. Mine's green, and gold.

[Y'know. Since we're sharing.]

What "other things" precisely?

[So far he's not impressed.]

Hmm. But how-- [ Annabeth's interest lies more in architecture and civil engineering, so she doesn't feel like she can say anything for or against that statement. And she has known some pretty large giants. ] Nevermind.

[ Well. Prince explains the towel butler thing.] I am the demigod Annabeth, daughter of the goddess Athena. [ She wouldn't usually show off her heritage like that but things are so weird here. People are from so many different places. She feels like she needs to announce some kind of name and title, like in a medieval novel. ] Nice to meet you, Prince Gumball.

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[Karkat still doesn't care. Rude, yes.]

I mean I had a part in it coming into existence. Not your Earth, technically, but the earth from the collective of linked universes from which the scientists have drawn me, my team, and other related individuals into this place.

I will give you the stupid version that explains almost nothing: A team of twelve trolls with me as leader played a game called Sgrub. Part of the game involved frog breeding. I helped our frog breeder for the ultimate goal of breeding the Genesis Frog, which is literally a universe, and furthermore shaped in outcome by the actions of the twelve of us within the game. That universe contained Earth, with humans and everything.

Well...that's really cool. Kind of makes everything I've done seem sort of trivial.

It's still pretty impressive, I can't do anything like that. The most I've done is make some necklaces though...

[Uh...]

Not that I know of but you can always try to look around if you want! I'm sure there might be a spot or two open for a prince!

[Now don't mind Shirley joking right back]

[ IT'S ALL THEORY ANYWAY. But things in Prince Gumball's world tend to be really stupid so his theories are not completely ridiculous to him. ]

The pleasure is all mine, Annabeth the Demigod. I have met quite a bit of you demigods! Are you new as well?

[ A village of demigods wouldn't be too farfetched. ]

[ Sharing is caring! Prince Gumball was unaware that it was show and tell at circle time! ]

Noble colors, Sola!

[ He definitely has the feeling he's being judged. ]

What kind of princes have you met that exclusively fight dragons? I may not do that I'm definitely kept busy!

[ WITH SCIENCE!!! ]

What sorts of necklaces?

[ Even though she is joking, it still sounds like a pretty good idea. ]

It's worth a shot! It's not like I'm not qualified for the position!

Noble? Really?

[Mostly he just likes trees and Johnny's eyes and they happen to be those colors.]

What makes a color noble?

Oh um...any type of necklaces? As long as it isn't difficult, I can make it!

[There was that one time she made a necklace for Walter but...]

Then I'll let you know the moment I do or if there's any position related to it!

[Does directing other people count?]

Only ones in stories, most in my world are lazy or stuck up.

[Yeah, he's pretty much being blunt.]

And that's why all your swooshy water tricks don't send me down bowing before you in awe. Not that I even do that for the gods I do believe in. And yes, I know you said you're only half, but that's beside the point.

[ He finds this completely interesting and somewhere on the island, there are extensive notes scrawled in the sand and bulletpointed with seashells and rocks about troll romance. ]

[Talk to him about it someday, Gumball, and he will tell you all you wish to know.]

Is that your official job in your world? Making necklaces? Are they laced with any sort of magic or does that qualify as "too difficult"?

Thank you very much for your helpfulness! Excuse my manners but what is your name?

[ He wants to learn it ALL. But he is ~~gunshy/scared of Karkat~~ still offended about being hung up on so for now he's lurking in the shadows of this video, blending in like a big, stupid looking, pink chameleon. ]

[ Truth be told, Gumball just likes those colors but he's a PRINCE so he needs to use flowery adjectives and that was just the first one to pop up. ]

How well it compliments another color, its position on the color wheel and its aesthetic properties.

[ He's being blunt but..... ]

Well, I am neither of those things so you better get started on finding a new definition for PRINCE.

[Big, stupid-looking, pink chameleons are pretty hard to miss even in the background of a video, especially when this planet isn't as colorful as Alternia was. Really, how do humans live with so much green?]

[Long story short, Karkat winds up curious enough to send Prince Gumball another message.]

What the heck are you doing?

[ He can't answer that question because he lives in a kingdom that vomits bright colors and sugar so all the green is outside of his proximal zone of comfort as well.

He turns his attention toward the video screen, slightly surprised. ]

Oh, I don't have a pen or paper yet for notes yet. I didn't want to miss anything though. [ for science ]

[ CITY DATABASE?????

He must see it. ]

Take me to this city database.

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