♋ PCG 7

[crusthatecean]

[Phone]

[It's probably been awhile since you're heard this particular grumpy voice over the phone lines. Ever since his truth babble, he's been avoiding this particular form of communication. Karkat's still been out and about in town, but this is the first time since then that he's made any sort of public phone contact.]

Morning, everyone! It's me, your old pal Karkat! Can everybody in the world hear me right now? I wouldn't want to leave anyone out! Gosh, this is such a natural, not at all uncomfortable, and, dare I say it, fun means of communication that I can't imagine why anyone would ever not use this system!

Well, if you're all paying super close attention to whatever clearly important thing I decided to talk about today, I have a question. It's about pan scrubbing. Or whatever you call it. Droning is a pretty fucking idiotic term if you ask me. It sounds like pretentious highblood drivel, but knock yourselves out.

Are there any noticeable cycles or signs whatsoever that a person is gone, that a person is coming back, or why a person would be droned again and again, or has anyone else come to the conclusion that it exists for the singular purpose of just plain hard turnways fucking us over? Here, have your dead best friend back, good as new! Oh, wait, no, just our little prank, ha. ha. ha. Here, have the person you...none of your business, assholes, but go ahead and sort out all your little problems between you two and get back on the right hoof. There, finished? Okay, now try again. And again, because we'll just keep on panscrubbing away every time you make any progress.

Wow, do I sound like a whiny little bitch, or what? Yeah, there it is. That was my question.

Comments

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

There's no pattern to droning that I've noticed. It can happen at any time. Sometimes it's "permanent", which is a bad name for it, since people can still come back at any time. They might not even remember being here. But to know if they're going to be gone for a good long while, if the shit they got back is gone, then you'll know.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a good thing to keep in mind.

Too bad all of the drones I'm watching are never here long enough to accumulate much shit.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Then the next best thing, if they're the male head of household, is watch the name on the mailbox. If they disappear, it'll switch to someone else in the house. Those are the the only things I've noticed, anyway. sometimes if you wait long enough, people'll come back. They don't usually remember being here though.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Not that I've ever understood why a mature male would be considered the head of a human household, but I don't give a fuck about anybody in that category.

I know they come back. My...someone I know is going to be on her twenty second time soon enough.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Cuz that's how it generally works. [Hello 1940s sensibilities.]

Twenty-second?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Okay, that might have been a slight exaggeration, but seeing as I don't remember my time before, how can I be sure it is? Maybe we've been arriving and leaving and forgetting in infinite cycles, it grows more probable every day.

This is the second time she's disappeared since I've been here, so maybe it sounds like I'm being a little overdramatic, but it's more complicated than that. It's complicated and nobody understands.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Hnn. It happens to people a lot, leaving and coming back. Sometimes it's only a few days or weeks, sometimes it's after several months. There's no pattern. You might as well not even spend the time worrying on something you can't change.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, asshole.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

Then don't get on the phone and ask questions, asshole.