♋ 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

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[misterwwizard.livejournal.com]

Well Kar she was just so convincin' an' really think about it if I hadn't existed the matriorb wouldn't have gotten destroyed an' I wouldn't be feelin' all isolated from everyone!

[Welcome to Eridan logic.]

[lamingtons]

... What, so some of us really vanished and some didn't?

[Phone]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

It's another bullcrap lie pulled by this place that we were dumb enough to walk into. Whoop-de-doo.

I think it's kind of early to discuss it more than that.

phone;

[demonmaid.livejournal.com]

After the fucking end of the world we had, I was not expectig to be told I'm a fake.

Did you have a fucked up dream too?

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[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Eridan, you're a fucking idiot. I know about that shit already.

[But his tone is surprisingly warm compared to all of their recent interactions. Eridan seems like a fake to him, but he knows what that probably means. Eridan erased himself for all of them.]

No one asked you to fall for this typical Mayfield bullshit. None of you should have gone along with this, not even you.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

I don't know what's going on. I've 'vanished' apparently, but look at me, I'm still here. Only no one seems to realize it's me.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

You don't think it's worth maybe talking this out and coming up with a plan?

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Aradia? Fuck, Aradia, tell me you believe it's really me.

[phone]

[doudemoe]

I believe you.

[Even after getting suckered into offing himself earlier to save the world, Minato's deadpanness never ceases.]

[demonmaid.livejournal.com]

Oh for gog's sake, once this is over I'll have to make a public introduction or some shit.

I'm not Aradia; have you ever heard of The Handmaid? That's me. Not that you would know or anything. But I look just like the other rustblood, and I guess we have the same voice fucking troublesome...

Did you have a dream or not?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Okay what are we planning for? Whatever is going on right now is so vague that we have no idea what to expect. Like what do you plan to do right now, exactly?

If you want to plan out some way to, say, counteract whatever's happened to make people think "we" aren't some type of weird friggin' clones, good luck with that buddy. I don't think we're convincing these morons.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

...Okay, I don't have time to worry about this ancestor bullshit right now.

I had a dream, yeah. I am one of the chumps.

[misterwwizard.livejournal.com]

Kar, I wanted to be a hero...The entire world looked so happy without me. Even Fef...I was the only one holdin' her back from achievin' her dreams... As much as I've never really believed in it, I wanted it to happen. An' Jade too... she looked like she could fuckin' soar with how much weight was lifted off a' her shoulders.


An' she's gone too...an' sol... replaced by fuckin' fakes. I'll never fuckin' see any a' them again. I'll never even fuckin' see the real you again! Replaced by some fuckin' fakey fake magic bullshit. Fuck... I bet Fef's fuckin' fake self hates me for what I fuckin' did.

Nep told me... An' she did her whole sad kitty cat thing an' well that's really fuckin' hard to say no to Kar! Especially when she's strokin' my ego.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Good, then you're not an idiot. Remind me who this is again, because all of you just seem like creepy fakes to me.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

Okay, let's all throw our hands in the air and just let our friends think we've vanished forever. I am fine with accepting a life where everyone views me as the equivalent of a door stop. Sure.

[demonmaid.livejournal.com]

...ancestor? I'm Aradia's age, that's nowhere near the age to be an ancestor...whatever that means. But right, no time for that.

Ch-like hell I care about chums. Apparently your dream and my dream wasn't the same, but I bet the message was: your life for the sake of he others right? And here I though I was the only idiot enough to believe that.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

God, you're pathetic even in your dreams. Hey, asshole, did you ever think that if you're not really gone and a fake, no one else is either?

You already died once for what you did. That's more than I ever really wanted you to. I can admit to that because you can't be sure this is the real me.

[wantasammich.livejournal.com]

So this is what it's like to disappear? I was thinking something more... oh, I don't know, non-existent.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

No, welcome to this miserable rock of self-sacrificing, self-important douches. And I'm including both of us in that estimate.

[crusthatecean.livejournal.com]

It's a real let down, honestly.

[doudemoe]

We never met, but I'm on the list too. Minato Arisato, that's me.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Fine with me. I'd think it was fine with you too.

.....

How would you prove it to them, then? The town's done something so their immediate reaction is to view us as some type of stupid clone. We'd have to find some way to actually change whatever kind of weird brainwashing the town is doing. Which, as far as I can tell? No one can do. So unless you have a better idea to break through their programming with nothing to go on, I'm not sure what you're expecting.

[phone; filtered]

[nosigntospeakof.livejournal.com]

Yes?

[demonmaid.livejournal.com]

This is beyond moronic.

I haven't even really tried to screw cueball yet! What sink do now? What do we do now? The only thing worst than being trapped here is being trapped here without even being treated like yourself.

[wantasammich.livejournal.com]

It's just like existing, except everyone thinks I'm crazy, not the other way around.

That's what I get for listening to my mother, I suppose.