crusthatecean | ♋ PCG 10; backdated to Thursday

♋ PCG 10; backdated to Thursday

[Action; Outside 1338 Benny Road!]

[Early Thursday morning, there's a strange sight out on Benny Road. A terrifying crab monster appears to be menacing a young troll lad! Karkat is trying to fend off the crab monster with a garden tool and appears to mostly be managing it, but the monster won't stop trying to grab him with its claws.]

[Action; 1338 Benny Road; Later]

[Later that day, in a house that smells horribly of fish but is much cleaner than usual, Karkat is sitting on the couch watching TV. The crab monster is lurking behind the house, occasionally growling until Karkat feeds him some fish from a can.]

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Hehe. What if she starts screaming to come out of her prison?

They don't they're game constructs, they don't really care.

Mine sometimes just goes into a loop going up and down the stairs.

Did you warn her about those stairs!

No, because I'm not the kind of asshole who thinks stairs are inherently funny.

You could be that asshole if you wanted to.

[guiding him up the stairs...]

I don't think it's possible. Maybe it's just me, but I've always found that some things, such as douchebaggery, aren't learned. They're just innate from birth.

[Following! Holding her arm because she is the one who is blind here...he can navigate stairs just fine.]

[a sigh of something like maybe longing.] It's great, isn't it! So cool. How cool do you even have to be to be a douchebag from birth.

[she does not need your help!!! but she lets him do it anyway.]

[This conversation is not putting him in the mood for makeouts, Terezi...can you sense him slowly getting more irritated?]

It's definitely an accomplishment.

[HEH]

Ehehe, sorry, sorry... Here it is!

[pushing open the door to her room.

Terezi has no idea what her own room looks like. Karkat might note that it is a horrible mess. there is cereal and candy everywhere but a sad lack of chalk drawings. so sad.]

[Awkwardly coming in and trying not to step on anything. Ugh, how does she stand living somewhere so messy.]

Doesn't your human lusus ever clean shit?

She is not allowed in here!

[sits on the bed

after moving a bunch of clothes away]

[s...sits on the far end of the bed.]

Oh, I forgot. You probably like it like this.

Hehehe. Well, it's not like my hive back home. I really wish I could read.

You'll get that back soon.

Think they'll give me my books too?

Probably eventually. So far I've gotten being a troll again, my husktop and movies, and my lusus. There's not really a system, but a lot of us become trolls again pretty quickly.

Not everyone, though, which is sometimes a good thing.

[she doesn't quite catch onto that.] ...Why?

...Oh god, I just realized I never told you about Gamzee. Fuck.

This is really not the time and place for this discussion.

...what about Gamzee?

[what would you rather make out with her than explain things

COME ON KARKAT]

[yes, especially this. It's depressing and he tries not to think about it most of the time, since Gamzee is normal here.]

...Okay. Yeah. We have to talk about this. I explained it to you when you were here last, so I guess I just forgot I never did this time. Fuck.

I don't really know if we're from the same point on the timeline, even. We got separated so it's hard to see if it syncs up. How many bodies have you found?

[all of this time shit and her forgetting her last stay bugs her, too, and she's a little annoyed that he's brought it up, but she doesn't mind answering his other questions.]

Tavros's, Feferi's, Nepeta's and Equius's... A lot of Kanaya's blood. And... [she narrows her eyes.] A note written in Gamzee's blood.

I kept trying to get a hold of you, but I lost my glasses, and when I got back to the lab, you were gone. But then Sollux said you were fine, and... then I got knocked out. And when I woke up, Vrisk-- [it takes some patience and a bit of pride not to immediately accuse Vriska, but] --something had bitten my neck. That's when I began wandering around. Vriska wrote that note. I know it. It was a page from that stupid journal she loves so much- the one her ancestor wrote. I fell through this trap door into this stupid room-

[a pause.] There's a secret room in the lab, did you know that? Hehehe, a bunch of my scalemates were in there and the staircase was all blocked with horns. And my cosplay outfit was there! [then she grows serious again.] I found this record when I was looking for music and I ruined it, I guess. It didn't play. So I changed and took Pyralspite... and then I went up to meet Vriska.

[her shoulders drop.] Then I woke up here.

Okay.

[He sighs and rubs his face; going over all of this is frustrating and he just wants to forget about it, but they should have had this talk already.]

After you left the lab, Eridan came in. He saw Feferi and Sollux together on the horn pile and challenged Sollux to another shitty duel, but this time he actually beat him. He hurt Sollux pretty badly, actually.

Then everything got really fucked up. Feferi tried to stop him from killing Sollux, and he fucking killed her. Kanaya tried to step in, and he destroyed the Matriorb and then he goddamn killed Kanaya, too, and fucked off. I was there the whole time, of course, but you know me, I'm a useless asshole in any situation where anything important is at stake, so I managed fuck all.

I started checking the computer because some shithead who types in white was sending me some pointless gibberish, but then Gamzee started messaging me. Only he was...really really not the Gamzee we know. It's kind of hard to explain but I could tell right away something was horribly wrong with him. He wasn't even typing the same way, and he started going on about how his blood made him better than everyone and how he'd finally woken up to what he was supposed to be and threatening to fucking kill everyone beneath him. I mean, shit, Terezi, I know it sounds crazy, but if you read what he was saying, you would have known he meant all of it.

So I got the fuck out of there with Sollux. I got your message about Tavros, but when I tried to respond, it was Gamzee again. So I got in touch with Equius to go talk some fucking sense into him, highblood douche to highblood douche, and that's the last I heard from anyone. Sollux woke up, but we got separated because I'm a miserable coward, and I wasn't able to find anyone else anywhere. That's pretty much all there is to say on the matter.

Except I can hazard a guess as to who took out Equius and Nepeta, and who wrote that note, and it probably wasn't Vriska.

...Eridan? [her expression is rather blank as Karkat explains away Feferi's and Kanaya's deaths. she doesn't know what to make of it. she'd just been talking to him on the phone the other day. the news isn't surprising, but... well, maybe she'd thought that the rest of them weren't as bad as Vriska, that they'd at least be able to keep their shit together because they were all fucked anyway.

as for what he says about Gamzee, she goes very still. she trusts Karkat- she really does; trusts him more than anyone else- but what he's saying just doesn't seem right. it seems so utterly abstract that it launches itself right into the realm of absurdity. Gamzee? no, it couldn't have been Gamzee. she remembers how sick she had felt when she'd seen the note was written in his blood. how she had a hard time believing Vriska could have harmed Gamzee of all people. Gamzee, who was the gentlest of them all.]

...About Nepeta... [she doesn't bother with Equius; Nepeta was a better friend to them both.] I thought you knew. I should've said it in a better way.

[but she couldn't have known, and her words drop off. she doesn't even want to acknowledge the part about Gamzee. doesn't want to acknowledge that it couldn't have been Vriska. Terezi's expression has taken on a very lost look.]

It's okay. I did know; you told me last time.

[He puts his hand on hers and squeezes. It's all so fucked up, and he wouldn't blame her for not believing it. He doesn't want to believe it himself, but he just knew.]

One of the doomed Aradias warned me about him. Gamzee, I mean. She said she came from a timeline where he'd killed all of us. I didn't take it seriously, because I mean...it's fucking Gamzee. But I think I was supposed to do something to stop it from happening. I don't know.

[her unseeing eyes widen at that. her voice is soft.] But... why? What could have happened that would make him want to hurt us?

[she puts a hand against her mouth and murmurs behind it.] And so Vriska... she didn't lie to me...? She only claimed responsibility for Tavros...

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