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> Nepeta and Gamzee: Ship all the things

[When the recording starts the picture is moving along in a rather strange, jerky motion, up to a door that gets headbutted open by the feathery head that's holding the starfish in its mouth, revealing...

...what seems to be the low-lit interior of something more akin to a cave than a room, littered with messy piles of soft scraps and plushies and yarn and even the occasional teapot.

A monstrous shadow looms on the wall, a fearsome looking four-horned creature.]

You're the best, Gamzee! I'd nefur have been able to reach to use all that extra wall if you weren't here, nope nope nope!

[And with a squawk the chocobo drops the SFC, sending it cartwheeling until it points at the origins of that shadow, a messier-than-usual kitty troll perched on a clown troll's shoulders, various hues of paint staining her hands and clothes and even her cheeks, still dripping a bright red from an outstretched paintbrush that had been adding the finishing touches to a heart high up on:]

Oh, Pounce! Hi Pounce! I'm really glad that Gamzee brought you to visi...POUNCE WHERE DID YOU GET THAT?! OH NOOOOO...

[She attempts to leap at the wall to block it from view; this doesn't go well when instead it just makes both trolls topple over in a tangle of limbs.]

My wallllllll! [click!]

((ooc: image by our amazing Gamzee-mun!))

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[Let him think for a moment, just to try and remember all the details and get the facts in the right order.]

Uh, it were back when we were stuck on the fuckin' island. I was like all fuckin' chillin' on the beach, skipping rocks, and bro, I swear I all got this one motherfucker to go out five times before...

[Trailing off. Wait, this is not what he is supposed to focus on.]

Eridan was there as well. He kinda all fuckin' just got to venting shit at me for a bit. Real harsh, you get? And then the motherfucker all told me to come here and he fuckin' laid on one me just all like that.

Edited 2012-03-11 07:23 (UTC)

[Karkat listens carefully, frowning a little as Gamzee nearly gets lost on a tangent, but he gets back to the point quickly enough. Nothing really surprising, and it shows in his face.]

Hmmm. I can understand why he'd try to go after that kind of thing with you, after what happened before. You attacking him, Sollux being basically gone for so long. But you're obviously not looking to return things, right?

You even gotta fuckin' ask, bro? Told him no. Told him I couldn't all fuckin' fall into spades with him on account being of actually liking him.

Excuse me for wanting to confirm things directly; I'll go ahead and make assumptions about your feelings from here on out. But no, I wasn't expecting different. Especially after you went to the effort of apologizing and trying to make amends for what happened that week.

I just wanna try and be his bro again. Not... not fuckin' bump hate bulges or whatever spades shit is motherfuckers get all up to.

There is more to it than bumping hate bulges, Gamzee. It's about rivalry, and making each other miserable, picking at faults and weaknesses and flaws, building up the hate you share, making them know they can't just ignore you or brush you off. That kind of thing.

I imagine he just got wrapped up in his feelings and didn't stop long enough to actually think. He's like that. I'll talk to him about it, but if stuff continues and you still feel like you need an auspistice, talk to Demyx. I imagine he'd still be willing to help you two.

[Just look at this face. He doesn't want a rival. He doesn't want to make anyone miserable or pick at their fault and weaknesses. That is just unkind. And he is pretty chill with being ignored or brushed off if that is how life goes.]

Aight. He already fuckin' got his offer on for it, I think. Just ain't wanna bother the motherfucker if we can all hack this shit just two of us.

Yeah, I get you. I'd be the same if I didn't actually hate the other guy I was being auspisticized for.

[Really, he expects no different of Gamzee.]

But uh--been meaning to ask. In a few days... you know. [Cough.] I was thinking, maybe we could spend some time together then.

... been a year, yeah?

[Even if this human calendar is all sorts of silly, you get used to it if you used it for long enough. Used to it enough that even Gamzee knows there is an anniversary coming up. Though not one he looks forward to.]

On the fourteenth, yeah. I figured... figured we should, you know, talk about it then. And more recent things too with all the stress that's gone down. Between one thing and another we've barely had time for a proper feelings jam at all.

[He doesn't want to be alone that night. And as much comfort Equius and Darkleer usually give, they don't get this. They weren't there. They don't remember it as he and Karkat do.]

Just... just wanna be with you that night. Don't up and fuckin' care what we do.

[a pause.]

But I'd like to fuckin' jam if you are all being chill with it.

[Not just about last year. More about last month. He hopes Karkat has had the time to sort stuff out for himself by now. Then again, there was so much stressful stuff going down, he might not.]

Gamzee, after what I just said, do you really think I would not be chill with it? I'm the one who asked.

Just tell Equius and Darkleer to clear out then, and I'll be over.

Just checking!

[Despite the subject of the day, he sounds a bit more cheerful. Hey, it is still a date with Karkat. That's a good thing.]

Fuck, we're all like gonna need a fuckin' pile for this shit.

Not your dumb horns. Too noisy, too uncomfortable, and altogether too stupid.

[Plus, with the anniversary being what it is? Honks aren't the most relaxing noise.]

Normally I would say screw the whole weird pile business you morons do, but I will make special concession for the day if it's made out of something not terminally retarded.

My horns ain't been out for a long while now, brother.

[He shrugs a little. Can't say he doesn't miss the sound; to him it is just the kind of honking sound his lusus used to make to him when he was little, but watch Equius flinch at each errand honk was more upsetting than the honks were comforting.

Now just let him think on this.]

Towels? Those motherfuckers are like real fuckin' sweet to all catch you some resting on.

[Sometimes laundry day turns into nap day and that is a-okay!]

Right, because I want to have a pale as starlight feelings jam right on top of a pile of the object I most associate with the troll I absolutely detest with a hate so black it makes black holes jealous. That is exactly how I want things to go, Gamzee, good job with that.

So, that's a no?

Right. Don't you have...

[He gestures vaguely.]

Pillows? Blankets? Something comfortable and innocuous.

I could get pillows.

[He doesn't have that many pillows, actually. At least not once Equius hasn't sweated all over either, but he still has a few days. He can do this. He can collect all the pillows. Make a fuckin' pillow miracle happen here.]

Should I bring some? Or any other vaguely comfortable stuff that would be good for a pile?

[If it makes it easier. That and making a pile of stuff they both brought has some symbolic worth.]

Yeah, you up and go ahead and do that, bro.

Hey, what time will you all fuckin' get here? Want me to make you some fuckin' grub too?

Time?

[He thinks back to the day in question. Not a happy subject, but...]

Right around midnight? It... seems fitting.

But yeah, if you want to cook, I won't turn it down.

[well, it is not like either of them are going to sleep that night anyway.]

Sure.

Anything you want? I can all fuckin' make shit other than pies.

[Yeeep.]

So long as it's edible and tastes good I really could not give a fuck. Just as long as there's no slime on or in it, anyhow; I'm not repeating that incident even for this.

Haha, no worries. Only thang what's gonna be full of slime is this motherfucker.

> Nepeta and Gamzee: Ship all the things

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