♋ PCG 20

[crusthatecean]

[Action, 1338 Benny Road]

[Karkat wakes up unable to shake the memory of his dream. He has nightmares regularly, a combination of sleeping without a recuperacoon and everything he's been through since he began playing Sgrub. But something about this one felt more real and vivid and awful, and he remembers it more clearly.

But he wakes ordinarily, only to watch the news and hear his own name, among others, listed. He remembers. She told him she would erase his existence, and he said yes. That memory combined with the news spooks him; Mayfield is clearly doing something, and he doesn't know what to think. So when the television shuts off, he'll go looking for his housemates to try to calm his nerves.]

[Phone, later]

All right, this is Karkat. No, guess what, this is actually Karkat. I'm here. You can choose to believe me or not.

Is anyone else who supposedly disappeared still here? Let's discuss this latest Mayfield fuckstorm like the rational conversationalists I know we all aren't.

[Filtered to Feferi, Tavros, Eridan, and Sollux]

And I especially need to talk to all of you. Now. Don't give me any shit about whether or not I'm the real Karkat. If you are here, answer me now.

I can't believe a single one of you complete drooling panrotted fucking assholes.

[Filtered to Signless.]

You.

((OOC: Karkat has been erased, so he will seem like a fakey fake doppleganger!))

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[cullscuttlefish]

Cod, Karkat.

It's not like I can't listen to my lusus when she's whispering in my ear like she did all the coddamn time back home. I can't go "Gee, Bolly, that's great, but it's all bullshit!"

Besides, without me, the Condesce wouldn't have gone off, the Vast Glub wouldn't have happened, and there would still be a fucking Alternia to come back to. You know that and I know that.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Alternia would have been destroyed whatever happened.

Don't give me any of this, I'm too busy pissing my pants with hot steaming ragefluid. How can any of you possibly think this is okay? How could you possibly believe that you could just be erased and we would all be all right with it?

[cullscuttlefish]

But the Glub wouldn't have fucking gone off. The Imperial Bitch would have found a way to get her to the horrorterrors like I couldn't.

Some prophecies are meant to come true. I saw you happy in the world without me. You all won your session and got your reward and when you were here...you were smiling. I've never seen you smile once in your entire coddamn life. But there you were.

There was everyone else, too. From home, from here.

It was the prophecy and it was meant to come true and I've known that since I was hatched.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Feferi, whatever the source of my constant hatred for everything, I promise you it has nothing to do with your continued existence.

...Except that I don't want any of you to die or stop existing or whatever.

Anyway, I had the same dream. With you happy and me a non-existent sadsack, I mean.

[cullscuttlefish]

How do you know that for sure? And if anything, letting me die might have been the best choice overall. Let the Heiress die, the Empress has a lot more to lose and is less of a threat.

...what the shell?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

It was all a fake pile of hoofbeast dung meant specifically to manipulate us.

And I know it wouldn't be for the best because guess what? You would be dead.