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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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...and if it's not a joke?

[ Gumball is not quite sure he wants to initiate an Apology Ceremony with this guy. He'll just take the loss. ]

[Karkat's lower right eyelid twitches.]

[A noise wrenches its way out of his throat and past teeth, a horrible conglomeration of snort and snarl, strained as if pulled with force from deep within his chest. It is as if something inside has died, and this is the sound it makes: enraged and indignant, but ultimately helpless in the face of its fate.]

How is it not a joke?! Why would anyone adopt the name of Prince goddamn Gumball, from a so-called Candy Kingdom. Let me guess, you live in an actual castle built out of rock candy and taffy? Are the streets paved with cobbles of gumdrop and hard candy? Are there licorice ropes? Are clothes woven from cotton candy?

I can feel my think pan threatening to make good on that exit just now. Describe for me the tooth-rotting splendor of your land and soon I will be an empty-skulled husk, because I can take magical talking ponies, I can take a howlerbeast that's a god, I can take people turning into actual weapons, but my bloodpusher and sponge alike will give up in ritualistic dual suicide if I have to accept something as globes-out ridiculous as someone literally being Prince Gumball from the Candy Kingdom!

[Wheeze, breathe, he's done now.]

[ Oh.

My.

Glob.

Overloaded, he just puts the Starfone down for a moment of silence in honor of all that perished during Karkat's loving rant. ]

[ Prince Gumball is used to having loyal subjects bow to him and serve him. He's used to creepy old ladies chasing after his glorious bubblegum manbody. He's used to being respected and revered and awesome!

He can't. This certainly is plop-dumps and waggle-sags.

Gumball can't help but be a little offended but he decides to continue anyway and thinks he might try to defer the situation. He picks the starfish back up. ]

Edited 2013-05-05 01:19 (UTC)

Well, actually all of that was correct except my clothing is constructed from the finest silk. Cotton candy would just be impractical.

Though, we can change the subject if the subject of my kingdom will cause you to go into cardiac arrest.

[Karkat tightly shuts his eyes, and from the trembling in his shoulders, it might look as if he's preparing himself for the promised egress of his brain.]

[Instead, after a moment, he simply sets his SFC down on a table in front of him and slinks down to sit on the floor. Prince Gumball will get a nice view of the ceiling like this, plain though it is.]

No, you know what, I do not even have it in me to do that. Just allow me to sit here and mourn the death of the last dregs of sense and rationality I held to be true in the fabric of reality.

Prince Gumball, I am Karkat Vantas, and I hate everything.

[ The ceiling could use a paintjob but Karkat has already had enough stress for one day so Prince Gumball decides against using this as a new topic. ]

Very well, a short moment of silence. Alas poor sense and rationality, we knew you well. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, we send sense and rationality into earth's crust.

[ And after said moment, he lightens up. Slightly. Hesitantly. ]

It's...a pleasure-- [ once again, being kind ] --to meet you, Karkat. You may address me as Prince so as to avoid the untimely death of any part of your sanity again in the future.

[Good thing it's only a temporary residence he's in right now.]

[He peeks back into the camera's view, eyes narrowed again.]

Did I tell you to mourn for me? I'm not even from earth, or the same universe as it, and what do ash and dust have to do with any of it? They will rot out in the open like corpses are meant to.

I'll call you Gumball, thanks. Prince is pointlessly formal and if I haven't died from the rest, I'm not going to die from it now.

[ Too late, he's already being judged silently. ]

I think they'd appreciate a proper burial more than rotting in the open. Plus, the living would not have to deal with the unpleasant smell of decomposition and decay.

You'd be excused from addressing me as anything if it would cause me to be guilty of manslaughter.

[ His kingdom for a puppy or a baby or something equally sweet. ]

Have some cultural sensitivity, douchebag. I don't care what weird ceremonies you observe; what I described is the norm for trolls.

[Karkat's more like a grumpy stray cat.]

I said I'm not going to die at this point. But why would you even make a kingdom out of candy in the first place?

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