[It isn't so much being open-minded as much as it is the acceptance of how weird his friends are. He's seen worse, too. At least Eridan doesn't think he's a horse. Or a human. Or wear footie pajamas.]
[He ignores the glare.]
Fine, fine. Give me pauses when I need them; some of this is fresher than other parts, but it's still jumbled up with everything else.
[He takes a breath, then thinks back. At least it's easy enough to recall where to start.]
Alright, you know how I'd just become moirails with Gamzee and everything that first time I went back, right? That's not long before John set off the Scratch. So basically this time we just had to wait for the beacon that would supposedly mark the explosion of the Green Sun, which is technically what happened in that the explosion was the moment of its creation. Not that we new that until we got there and met up with--
Shit, I'm jumping ahead. When we did see the green light, Sollux shot us off that way with his psionics. And, well, he burned himself out with it and... half-died? I still don't understand how that works, whatever, but when we got to the Green Sun we met up with his half-ghost along with Aradia, Dave, and Rose, the latter three all freshly minted god tiers. Cue absolutely everyone making idiots of themselves, an instant jump to the flirting like that was their one singular chance to get a shot at sloppy interspecies makeouts, Sollux deciding to stay behind in the dream bubbles like an ass, then him and Aradia giving the meteor a push to send us the way Rose's mystical mumbo jumbo seer powers said would get us to the new session.
--Oh, and the Mayor's corpse showed up at one point? It just kind of popped out of nowhere, I still don't know what's up with that. For the record the Mayor is a Dersite, and he's totally awesome, the end.
[He is not even kidding. He does fall silent a moment though, thinking as he walks.]
Okay. So in addition to the Mayor's body, that left Terezi, Gamzee, Kanaya, Rose, Dave, and me on the meteor. We kind of took our own spaces, that area with the computers got converted into a common area with a bunch of rugs and tables and shit, and we more or less got used to the idea that we'd be stuck together for the next three years. Dreams put us in the dream bubbles, and our meteor started physically passing through them eventually, meaning a lot of encounters with a lot of dead versions of everyone.
That's how the Mayor stopped being dead, by the way. You and Feferi showed up from some timeline where you hit god tier together, Feferi revived him, and he went on to set up Can Town.
Others--let's see... We didn't meet any dancestors until like a year in, but we gradually met more and learned how without question they were godawful douchebags locked into eons worth of unending teenage drama. Meenah was pretty alright, though.
But god, the fucking drama--there was absolutely no escape from that shit. I practically made a gargantuan, true-to-life ass sculpture of myself with how badly I fucked up with Terezi. Instead she and Dave wound up dating for a while, and then she hooked up black with Gamzee, which for some reason they thought they had to hide from me, which is really kind of insulting when it wasn't that hard to pick up on. Terezi... Terezi basically wound up a mess. I mean, today I found her passed out in her own sticky red pop drool, no pants on, learned she is quote-unquote "down with the clown" and her whole relationship with Gamzee is a mess. She actually had Vriska's windbag dancestor heal her eyes for her because of him! Can you believe that?
[He shakes his head, sighing.]
I already mentioned how Gamzee broke up with me. He just kept shoving his head further and further up his ass about his fake fucking clown religion, getting more self-righteous and secretive with whatever he was up to in the vents, and yeah. It wasn't really going anywhere, so I guess it was for the best, but... Whatever.
Oh, and Dave broke up with Terezi eventually, too. Humans, quadrants, they don't mix.
But with all that going on over the years, things just kind of deteriorated and people got so absorbed in their own shit that I basically only had Dave and the Mayor to rely on. I saw dead friends in the dream bubbles and everything, but with so many going around and no idea when I'd meet up with who, it wasn't really the same, you know? Dave's seriously been my best friend for a while.
Anyway, end of three years, Skaia's visible from the meteor, and almost no one's ready to actually arrive. Cue some talking, that thing with Terezi I mentioned, and eventually Kanaya and Rose haul themselves out of whatever corridor they were in. Before we can figure out how the hell we're going to stop, which I had no fucking clue about, Jade shows up possessed and teleports us to some green planet with a bunch of red rocks on it. And John was there? Then, I don't fucking know how and I'm not the only one who got hit with amnesia, we got scattered across the other planets. Kanaya and I wound up on Jade's land from her session, and she shows up again explaining how the Empress wants us to go talk to Jade's denizen and send the genesis frog on its trip to Skaia, which is a fat ass load of hoofbeast shit that reeked so bad I'm positive its stench could be smelled session-wide.
Jane was there too, also possessed, more stoic than Striders at their worse until Jade had her demonstrate her life powers by running me through with a giant fucking fork just so she can revive me. I mean--I don't know what to say, that was fucked up. And John was there suddenly? Don't ask, I don't know, but he and Jade disappear right after that, leaving Kanaya and me with psycho-Jane. But before we could figure out what to do about that or how--
Jegus, how did I forget? Okay, obviously Jack's still a threat, and we're going to have to fight him somehow eventually. But there's also Lord English, this other demon set on blowing up the dream bubbles and killing off dead selves in some weird, final double death. Meenah was trying to gather up people for her army to face him, and at one point I said I'd join up with her if our meteor physically intersected the right dream bubble and she still had no recruits, but nothing really came of that. So, Jack and him are problems, plus this bullshit Her Imperious Condescension is up to with wanting to start new life on the earth from the new session, which Jade stole with her space with powers, and it is a goddamn mess that I don't look forward to going back to too soon.
If there's anything else I forgot, too bad, it'll have to come up later.
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[He ignores the glare.]
Fine, fine. Give me pauses when I need them; some of this is fresher than other parts, but it's still jumbled up with everything else.
[He takes a breath, then thinks back. At least it's easy enough to recall where to start.]
Alright, you know how I'd just become moirails with Gamzee and everything that first time I went back, right? That's not long before John set off the Scratch. So basically this time we just had to wait for the beacon that would supposedly mark the explosion of the Green Sun, which is technically what happened in that the explosion was the moment of its creation. Not that we new that until we got there and met up with--
Shit, I'm jumping ahead. When we did see the green light, Sollux shot us off that way with his psionics. And, well, he burned himself out with it and... half-died? I still don't understand how that works, whatever, but when we got to the Green Sun we met up with his half-ghost along with Aradia, Dave, and Rose, the latter three all freshly minted god tiers. Cue absolutely everyone making idiots of themselves, an instant jump to the flirting like that was their one singular chance to get a shot at sloppy interspecies makeouts, Sollux deciding to stay behind in the dream bubbles like an ass, then him and Aradia giving the meteor a push to send us the way Rose's mystical mumbo jumbo seer powers said would get us to the new session.
--Oh, and the Mayor's corpse showed up at one point? It just kind of popped out of nowhere, I still don't know what's up with that. For the record the Mayor is a Dersite, and he's totally awesome, the end.
[He is not even kidding. He does fall silent a moment though, thinking as he walks.]
Okay. So in addition to the Mayor's body, that left Terezi, Gamzee, Kanaya, Rose, Dave, and me on the meteor. We kind of took our own spaces, that area with the computers got converted into a common area with a bunch of rugs and tables and shit, and we more or less got used to the idea that we'd be stuck together for the next three years. Dreams put us in the dream bubbles, and our meteor started physically passing through them eventually, meaning a lot of encounters with a lot of dead versions of everyone.
That's how the Mayor stopped being dead, by the way. You and Feferi showed up from some timeline where you hit god tier together, Feferi revived him, and he went on to set up Can Town.
Others--let's see... We didn't meet any dancestors until like a year in, but we gradually met more and learned how without question they were godawful douchebags locked into eons worth of unending teenage drama. Meenah was pretty alright, though.
But god, the fucking drama--there was absolutely no escape from that shit. I practically made a gargantuan, true-to-life ass sculpture of myself with how badly I fucked up with Terezi. Instead she and Dave wound up dating for a while, and then she hooked up black with Gamzee, which for some reason they thought they had to hide from me, which is really kind of insulting when it wasn't that hard to pick up on. Terezi... Terezi basically wound up a mess. I mean, today I found her passed out in her own sticky red pop drool, no pants on, learned she is quote-unquote "down with the clown" and her whole relationship with Gamzee is a mess. She actually had Vriska's windbag dancestor heal her eyes for her because of him! Can you believe that?
[He shakes his head, sighing.]
I already mentioned how Gamzee broke up with me. He just kept shoving his head further and further up his ass about his fake fucking clown religion, getting more self-righteous and secretive with whatever he was up to in the vents, and yeah. It wasn't really going anywhere, so I guess it was for the best, but... Whatever.
Oh, and Dave broke up with Terezi eventually, too. Humans, quadrants, they don't mix.
But with all that going on over the years, things just kind of deteriorated and people got so absorbed in their own shit that I basically only had Dave and the Mayor to rely on. I saw dead friends in the dream bubbles and everything, but with so many going around and no idea when I'd meet up with who, it wasn't really the same, you know? Dave's seriously been my best friend for a while.
Anyway, end of three years, Skaia's visible from the meteor, and almost no one's ready to actually arrive. Cue some talking, that thing with Terezi I mentioned, and eventually Kanaya and Rose haul themselves out of whatever corridor they were in. Before we can figure out how the hell we're going to stop, which I had no fucking clue about, Jade shows up possessed and teleports us to some green planet with a bunch of red rocks on it. And John was there? Then, I don't fucking know how and I'm not the only one who got hit with amnesia, we got scattered across the other planets. Kanaya and I wound up on Jade's land from her session, and she shows up again explaining how the Empress wants us to go talk to Jade's denizen and send the genesis frog on its trip to Skaia, which is a fat ass load of hoofbeast shit that reeked so bad I'm positive its stench could be smelled session-wide.
Jane was there too, also possessed, more stoic than Striders at their worse until Jade had her demonstrate her life powers by running me through with a giant fucking fork just so she can revive me. I mean--I don't know what to say, that was fucked up. And John was there suddenly? Don't ask, I don't know, but he and Jade disappear right after that, leaving Kanaya and me with psycho-Jane. But before we could figure out what to do about that or how--
Jegus, how did I forget? Okay, obviously Jack's still a threat, and we're going to have to fight him somehow eventually. But there's also Lord English, this other demon set on blowing up the dream bubbles and killing off dead selves in some weird, final double death. Meenah was trying to gather up people for her army to face him, and at one point I said I'd join up with her if our meteor physically intersected the right dream bubble and she still had no recruits, but nothing really came of that. So, Jack and him are problems, plus this bullshit Her Imperious Condescension is up to with wanting to start new life on the earth from the new session, which Jade stole with her space with powers, and it is a goddamn mess that I don't look forward to going back to too soon.
If there's anything else I forgot, too bad, it'll have to come up later.