♋ 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

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

[this

face

yeah, that's going to be a 'no' there]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[punches him in the human stomach]

Pay attention, assface, this is important!

For all you know, you'll wake up tomorrow and I'll be a drone, and then who the fuck is going to explain this shit to you? No one! Enjoy trying to survive by yourself when you couldn't even find your own bulge if I didn't draw you a map.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

[bro what was that for :o(]

Hahaha, that hurt, motherfucker!

But making people more happy and shit don't sound too bad to me, bro. Ain't nothing wrong with being cheerful and appreciating all the fine motherfuckin' miracles in life.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

It's not making them happy. It's making them gone. It's taking away their entire fucking personality, so their body is here, but it's someone else in their sponge. It's not a good thing, and it happens all the fucking time. Sooner or later, it's going to happen to someone you like. And you never know how long it'll last. Maybe a day, maybe a perigee, maybe forever. If they do come back, chances are they've forgotten everything that happened in this place. Every conversation you ever had with them, everything that ever happened between you two, completely gone.

How's that sound to you, fuckass? Like a fucking fine miracle in life?

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

...no, that don't sound like one of the messiahs' better miracles. Ain't there be a way to stop all this panscrubbing going on?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

No. There's not. As far as I know? This is at least my second time here, but I don't remember the first, and last time I was gone for a pretty long time. Terezi and Vriska are both scrubbed for the second time since I've been here, only this time for a really long time, too, and Kanaya's scrubbed again, and who knows who's next.

And until we figure out why it happens, which no one here seems to know, we'll just have to deal with it.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh, that's why Kanaya and Terezi be acting so off the weirdness charts lately? Anyway, if we can't be doing shit, there ain't no reason to blow a stress load over it. You said they come back, yeah? And I don't mind making new chats if all the old ones fell out their thinkpans, I forget shit all the time too.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Okay. Great, good for you. Glad to see you're too much of an idiot to notice if we drop off the face of the planet.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

Aww, bro, I'd notice. I'd get all my wicked prayers on to the mirthful messiahs for everyone to come back. They'll motherfuckin' send back Kanaya and Terezi if I ask them to. Vriska too, even if she's kinda scary.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

...Sure. I guess that's about the extent of what we can do, so knock yourself out with that.