♋ 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

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

[squints at some more

give him a few moments here while he connects the dots and also forgets to breathe for a second]

Whoooooooooooa, best friend? That really you? How'd you all up and turn into a starmonkey?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

It's not important. I just am one now, so get over it.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

Sure, I ain't one to question a motherfuckin' miracle. Haha, maybe I'll turn back into a starmonkey too, that'd be real cool.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

You want to be human?

If you didn't notice, I'm not actually happy about this.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

[a shrug] Sure, why not? It don't really matter to me what kinda body I got, and we could be starmonkeys together.

Really? It ain't that different from being a troll. And you don't gotta watch out for bumping your horns or cutting your mastication muscle on your teeth. [no, Gamzee, this is...just you....]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Ugh.

Well, it doesn't fucking work that way, so you can continue being unable to function.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

It could happen, you never know. Nothing's impossible, bro. So where's this motherfuckin' slime at?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

It's in the recuperacoon, just out in the hall.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

[Good thing Gamzee'd been in the middle of baking pies anyway, as it's easy for him to just grab an empty shell, head out into the hall, fill it with sopor slime, and then put it in the oven.]

You sure I can be using your recuperacoon for this? I thought you weren't approving of the pies.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I changed my mind. You can stuff your facehole with as much disgusting slime as you want.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

Thanks, best friend! Maybe hivesis will all be wanting some too once she kicks her thinkpan back on over into her head. [no Gamzee bad topic bad topic]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Right.

Gamzee, do you remember how Terezi was gone for a really long time, and when she came back, she didn't remember anything about this place?

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

Uhhhh...[give him a few seconds here]

Yeah, I think so. Why, what's that got to do with anything?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

[Sighing. He actually doesn't sound angry right now; he's trying to at least break the news somewhat gently.]

I'm trying to tell you that she might not be kicking her thinkpan back over anytime soon. And when she does come back, there's a high chance she won't remember anything that happened here.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

Oh. [Looks momentarily disappointed before shrugging it off and smiling.]

That's okay, as long as she comes back. We can all be making new memories together, it don't matter none to me.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

It doesn't?

[He's somewhat skeptical. At least, assuming she returned from the same point on the timeline, Jade would probably still be his friend when she returned. But the likelihood is that she won't even know who Gamzee is.]

If you say so. Whatever, we can explain the shit that happened, anyway, but it would still be fucking weird.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

[Gamzee is just forever optimistic and hopeful okay] Haha, exactly. And you think so? Ain't like she's gonna be different. I all what struck up a wicked friendship with her before, I can be doing it again.

Anyway, it might not even turn out that way, so there ain't no point to be worrying about that kind of shit now.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

You're right. No point in worrying about anything ever.

Go make sure you don't burn the hive down cooking that abomination you call a pie, and then come back here.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

Now you're getting it, bro.

[Obediently goes to check on the oven, then plops down beside Karkat on the couch and drapes an arm over his shoulders.]

What's up?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Nothing in particular.

[Well, yes, there is. He wants to know if Gamzee is still worrying about what happened to him when Jade and Terezi attacked; if he's going to be okay with that and if he's going to be okay with Jade gone now.

But if Gamzee is just pushing it out of his mind, he doesn't want to bring it up.]

How are you feeling?

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

[This...is not a question Karkat asks him often, although he's been doing it a lot more in Mayfield for some unknown reason, so Gamzee actually takes the time to ponder it thoroughly instead of just automatically saying fine.]

...fine, honk! [Wow, that took a lot of effort.] Ain't any more of those dead motherfuckers walking around outside anymore, so that's good. And you and Terezi are all what motherfuckin' tight again, so that's good too. Not much around now that can be bringing a brother down.

[As for the whole going shithive thing, that has been firmly shoved into the Not Thinking About It Because It Ruins His Chill pile, which is getting pretty large by now.]

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Okay.

The shit about Terezi is not your business. What about Jade?

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

[He lifts a shoulder in a shrug, eyes a little sadder now but still smiling.]

She'll be back before we even know it, I got all my faith in her and a miracle. And hivesis would get all down knowing we were all down about her being panscrubbed.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

She would, but Jade doesn't own us, we don't have to do what she wants. It's actually okay to have feelings besides everything is swell about things.

[miraculls.livejournal.com]

But...I don't like those motherfuckin' nasty feelings. [WHY YOU GOTTA BRING HIM DOWN, BRO]