♋ 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!))

Comments

[misterwwizard.livejournal.com]

So... Fef's alright too? An' Sol? We're all here an' well? Even though they said we're all gone, good as dead? I mean that's all good an' well to say but Kar I'm a man a' science. I need some fuckin' proof. that you're all the real you an' not some bullshit.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

As far as I can determine, that's the case.

But no, I can't prove it.

[misterwwizard.livejournal.com]

If Fef an' I kiss I'm sure I'll be able to tell a faker from a real one!

Wonderin' if that applies to everyone else...

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I can't even tell you what a load of squirming maggot meat that is. They can't we're fake or real on such a stupid basis.

[Someone's upset his matesprit and moirail don't recognize him.]

Just use your pan. Either, magically, you're the only one who is real and everyone else was replaced with fakes that people are responding to just like they respond to you, or none of us disappeared.

[misterwwizard.livejournal.com]

[Eridan, for a change... actually listens. That explanation seems like a shot in the dark... but to keep himself from feeling that pit of despair that caused him to go into his murderous rage... it's worth it.]

Well, Kar, when you're puttin' it that way I can sort a' see it...I really want to be believin' it's really you... an' if that logic is the only thing keepin' me from fallin' into a lonely despair devoid a' all hope...

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

If I'm the only thing keeping you from hopeless despair, good luck.

[misterwwizard.livejournal.com]

You're not the only thing... I hope you're not.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I was being facetious, I know I'm not. God. Go talk to Feferi and stop being hideous in my direction, I'm in too bad a mood for this.

[pausing]

But okay, I will grudgingly say, thanks for being willing to disappear forever for us, asshole. Don't ever pull this kind of shit again.