♋ PCG 13

[crusthatecean]

[Action, 1338 Benny Road; Thursday afternoon]

[Well, Karkat intended to go to the Post Office as soon as the zombie threat was finished. But early the next morning, he was forced to go to school instead, so it's not until afterward that he's able to make it.

Finally, he manages to make it back to his hive with an unwieldy recuperacoon, only to be greeted by Jade's drone, even though she was fine just earlier that day. Between being stuck as a human again and finding out about that, he's in a bad mood, so he'll just be sitting on the couch channel flipping next to the recuperacoon and judging everything on TV.]

[Phone]

Guess what? I'm human again. Karkat, really? You're human? Wow, I didn't recognize you at all! How'd that happen? When are you going back to normal? What do you look like now? Wait, we've never met, but you're were a species other than human in the first place?

There, that's all out of the way. We can now returned to your regularly scheduled not giving a shit about this. Anyone who does decide to bother me about this subject will be ignored in the iciest fashion possible.

In much more important but equally beyond our ability to do anything about news, Harley is apparently panscrubbed. No, I don't know why or how long she'll be gone for.

((OOC: Karkat is human again, and will be until I say otherwise even if I use his troll icons. He looks pretty much the same only not grey with horns and with browner hair and brown eyes. Not red like in the icons, yeah.))

Comments

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[she reaches for his hand and awkwardly misses, so she just lets hers dangle at her side, trying to look like she totally meant to miss. she heads towards the door.]

The human diner is pretty good! We can go get something to eat.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[He's not really hungry, but he is also sort of wondering if she's asking him on a human date. Which, if she is, she's doing it all wrong, but he's not going to comment.]

Okay, sure. Human diner is fine by me.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[sh...shut up oh maaan she should have known Karkat could see right through it what with all of his shitty teen romance films.

o-oh well...]

Yeah! [claps her hands together] Everything in there smells especially good! And they have these things called milkshakes which are actually not disgusting for being made with milk.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I think I'll pass, I'm finished with milk for a long time.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[o-oh she shouldn't have said that] ...I meant hamburgers! Hamburgers are good.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Okay, I will try a human hamburger.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[long pause.] You're still pretty handsome, you know!

...As a human, I mean.

[why does every attempt she makes to stop making things be awkward backfire...........]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[O-oh delicious cherry blushing here.]

Really?

I mean, thanks for the fucking compliment, I look basically the same.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[turns

slowly

don't think she doesn't smell that]

Hehehe. You're blushing...! Cute.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I am not. Let's just fucking go.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

You are too! I can smell it.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Your sniffnode must be broken.

[Getting his coat and opening the door.]

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[I am going to say there is a vaguely awkward walk and then skip ahead to the diner. she finds seating by the window.]

Wanna read the menu, or can I lick it?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[...Taking the menu]

It's all hamburgers and grilled cheeses and shaken milk and human carbonated beverages.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[tries to lick it anyway...]

We can get one of everything!

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you had a job and money. Congratulations on that, I'm still fucking broke.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

What job?

[sets down drone-mom's wallet. a lusus is supposed to provide for its charge, and this is providing!!! right?

not that the woman knows Terezi is just making off with her money.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[siiiiigh

He has been known to borrow from his drone lusii too, but he makes responsible purchases with the money. He can't just think of himself; he has a family to provide for, damn it!]

Okay, well, if you're paying, then order whatever you want.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[WHAT IS BEING RESPONSIBLE

ok she's blind she's got all the excuses]

So if I'm paying that makes it a date!

[what is this line of logic

just go with it]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[No.]

On a human date, the man pays. Also, ordering a shitton of grilled cheeses is not a good human date.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

[why do you hold everything up to your dumb romcom movie standards Karkat WHY]

...

That is so fucking complicated! If you are such an expert, why don't you... [hnrrrrgh she puffs her cheeks out and looks away.] Why don't you take me on one someday?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Okay.

[He's a little awkward but not much; he's sort of surprised she would want to do that, but he would be happy to.]

We can go on one this weekend if you aren't busy.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

I'm not busy. [oh wait she said that too fast-] Not too busy. [yeah so cool. way cool. good job playing that one off, TZ. so smooth. the fact that Karkat has agreed is a little exciting; she's usually failed at getting her intentions across clearly to him before, and often got frustrated when her plans fell through.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't want to compete with your date to lick every shampoo bottle in the grossery.

Fine, then. We can go on an actual human date on Saturday.

[foretastes.livejournal.com]

I did that last weekend. [she is probably not joking, but she seems pretty thrilled that they have a real date arranged. she is the one going on a date. it is her. also him.]

Anything else I should know about human date rituals?