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So it's occurred to me that for some reason, these houses have garages. Does anyone even drive here much less own a car to actually use these other then for storage? Not that I'm complaining. It just means I get to turn the garage into a dark room. Here I was worrying how I was going to have to eventually explain why one of the bathtubs smells strongly of chemicals and why using it might cause a peculiar feeling close to chemical burns. Now both the bathrooms are user friendly and safe while I potentially make the garage the most dangerous place in this entire house. If you aren't counting Game versus the kitchen.

[Dave's sitting in his room. There's a bunch of wires hanging all over the ceiling with photos hanging from them with clothespins.

Actually, Dave's room looks like a complete mess.] By the way, if I took your photo without your consent, I'm probably not sorry or I probably did it by accident. But mostly, I just wanted to throw that out there for future reference that I am heavily armed with a pretty bitchin' camera and enough film to sleep in, and I'm still not sorry. Should feel pretty special anyways. It's not very often you accidentally get your photo taken by Dave fucking Strider.

Anyways, I'm outtie. Film to waste and develop. Too much time to kill. You know the drill.

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[SHE IS SO NOT SURE IF HE'S JOKING OR NOT RIGHT NOW he cannot possibly be serious...]

Okay, okay, I'll explain and try to help you understand it!

Auspistice? Errr, yes, it's the only one with three people in it but it's not like that at all! An auspistice mediates between two other trolls who are either kismesises or who might be, and stops them from cheating on each other or else from ending up too black and killing each other, or else tries and helps them to come to an understanding if only one of the two is in hate with the other.

[It's so sad how serious he is.]

God, this is a little more bearable to learn when it isn't Karkat screaming at you, but this is still up there on my list of shit I don't think I'll ever care to understand.

It sounds like the mediator is just the shitty third wheel who gets stuck with all the luggage and gets nothing in return. That and the whole, how can you even be too black?

[Well if he really wants to learn then he's come to the right troll!]

Karkitty feels very very strongly about quadrants and romance. He yells at me too if he thinks I'm explaining it wrong to someone.

It looks like that from the outside but being an auspistice can be very rewarding! It's challenging to keep two other trolls balanced that way. And most of the time you can't help yourself either if you feel drawn to mediate for someone. It's like how you can't help getting a flushcrush sometimes!

And you can definitely get too black, very very easily too if you're a troll. A kismesis is supposed to be fiercely competitive, always wanting to one-up the other. If it gets taken to extremes it's very easy for people to wind up dead! Trolls are very volatile - push one a little bit too much or take retaliation too far and instead of a good caliginous pairing you'll have a massacre on your hands.

Karkat can go suck some eggs because not everyone is as anal attentive as he is about his shitty troll romcoms.

Holy shit. I don't care how 'inferior' our romance bullshit is compared to yours. This sounds like a trainwreck waiting to happen. I'm not even surprised, considering you guys seem to be fond with the whole killing each other shtick.

[None of this is probably going to stick. Other than the basics. He'll never get your alien words though.] I guess I'm just curious since apparently some previous me used to be black for someone else here. Yeah, I'm glad that got fixed. [Because the prospect of getting killed by Karkat of all people...] Nevermind that I know jackshit about how being black works. It just sounds like some bitter rivalry with really good rough sex thrown in.

I don't think it's inferior! It's just different. It seems weird to concentrate all your romantic urges on just one partner to us. Being a troll at all is a bit of a trainwreck, quadrants are there to stop it from being too much of one. Sort of.

[Blinking at him and suddenly looking far too curious.] You were?? With who? I didn't think humans could feel not-platonic hatred! And...it is sort of like that. Having an arch-nemesis who you can't keep your hands off of. And not wanting to let anyone hurt your kismesis except fur you.

Well, we technically only have red. The other ones are kind of different. We don't exactly think that being black is exactly romantic. [He's glad to not be a troll. That, and he'd probably be on the bottom of your screwed up system.]

I'm not gonna say, on the chance he finds out and tries to kill me for saying anything in the first place. [He doubts the other would kill him or be able too, but it's not something he wants to get stuck with anyways.] Hey, I didn't know we could either. but that was previous me. I don't remember anything my previous selves have done. [Ugh, that always annoys him though. Not knowing what his previous incarnation had done and having to deal with it.]

Yes, yes, I know that! Humans think hate isn't a good thing so they can't associate it with romance, isn't that it? [As far as she understands it, at least. Not that Nepeta is all that good at hating people herself.]

Heehee, okaaaay. I won't even pry, even if I'm a furry curious kitty about it now! Sometimes the things one of our past selves did just...need to be left alone. [Nepeta on the other hand wishes she didn't know what her other self had gotten up to. Then she wouldn't have to be so pissed off that she screwed things up so badly with her moirail.]

I guess that's one thing. But trolls don't get married either, right? [Which makes having quadrants kind of hard to have.]

Yeah. Shit kind of sucks, but we gotta deal with it, I guess. Glad to know that it hopefully won't come up again though. [Karkat and him basically got over it after the whole random confessions curse or whatever.]

Nuh uh! That's one of those things were your purromise to be someone's matesprit furever and ever, isn't it?

Yes yes, that's right! And there's so much to do here and so many friends to visit and play with that it's kind of silly wasting time ofur things that are over and done with, right right?

Yeah. That's usually the case, but it's really all bullshit since you can get divorced. [Feelings are fickle.]

Yeah. Although I think I spent more time finding this place a piece of shit than any fun. These curses are kind of ridiculous at best.

Divorced?

I know they are, but...well, at least it's not like being in the game! And if you're not having fun you should come over and play with me more often.

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I'm trying to not lose my shit. I'm sorry I made our thread horrible LOL

ME TOO and are you kidding this is beautiful stuff

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