my heart's not fluttering or anything

[quadrangle]

Who: Hamsteaks,Team RWPY, & Dipper
Where: GOLDENROD INN, specifically Dave and Karkat's room but possibly others as well? It depends.
When: 3/5, afternoonish/evening/well into the wee hours of 3/6
Summary: A certain travel party largely consisting of traumatized teenagers initiates a team building exercise, AKA sleepover. This is clearly the best idea ever and will in no way backfire at all.
Rating: PG-13 for, uh. Homestuck vocabularies.
Log:

[Despite having been in their immediate vicinity for three weeks, Karkat had somehow managed to avoid talking to most of the people in their group for any significant length of time. A lot of it was personal preference because yes, he was still intermittently freaking out about being a human surrounded by humans, but the fact that he'd blown up at two of the other party members and probably guaranteed that Jade or Dave or both would be auspisticizing between them for the foreseeable future (oh god please no) didn't help matters. He'd rather stay in his damn room or hide in the local bookstore than deal with any of that bullshit.

Unfortunately, maintaining his busy schedule of staying the fuck away from other people as much as possible was untenable, especially when his best friends were also their friends and he literally had no excuse to keep putting it off—unless he could say he needed to take his Pokemon on a walk? Do people even take Pokemon on walks? Would Dave even buy that when neither Merope nor Sharru have shown the slightest amount of interest in going on walks? Well, okay, no, Dave might not even care, but Jade...

Either way, the moment his roommate decides on the impromptu movie night, sends out texts to inform the others, and begins putting together a Sweet Throh and Hella Sawk flyer for their door to mark the occasion (why is he friends with this moron again) is the moment Karkat's fate is sealed.

They're going to have a sleepover, and everyone is invited.]

Comments

[yanginthere]

[ She let out a quick, exasperated sigh. Yang stepped into view, arms crossed. ] Uh, the swearing??

Why do you think I've got Karkat in here anyway?

[ There is no way anyone could have known. ]

[callbacks]

...Swearing is bad?

[Uh-oh.]

[yanginthere]

[ She cannot believe that question just happened. ]

Dave. [ Yang just points at Ruby, and then gestures like "what do you THINK!?" ]

[callbacks]

[He looks at Ruby, then back to Yang. Karkat, Jade, Ruby, and then Yang again. His expression becomes no more enlightened.]

Swearing is bad because...Ruby...is young? [Oh, wait, does he have it?] And if she picks up too much shorthand, she won't learn when to use which swear word most effectively?

[Ah. No. He does not. He does not have it.]

[quadrangle]

[Karkat is just opening his mouth to either a) correct this ignorant human about her obviously flawed assumptions, b) launch intoaa lengthy explanation of quadrants, c) yell more about anything, or d) some combination of the above when Jade barges in and holy fuck he has never been happier to see her in his life.]

Oh thank god you're here, you—what the fuck do you mean, hypocrite?! YOU'RE the ones who keep tripping over quadrants like you're playing fucking tic-tac-toe!

[Well, that didn't last long.]

[yanginthere]

[ An attempt was made. It's not enough to stop Yang from facepalming. ] OH. My god.

[usedglaciate]

[Do you see this? This is what Weiss looks like when she's fed up and about to read people the riot act.]

What in the world are all of you doing, and why is everyone swearing so much that there will be a blue cloud in the air for years?!

[callbacks]

Swearing is bad because Ruby can't do it well yet and it makes her feel bad?

[usedglaciate]

[That might not be a bad idea.]

...now that sounds complicated. Four types?

[eclectictype]

Hold up--

[Yes, now she's grabbing Karkat by the ear and dragging him out of the bathroom.]

I don't know what a blue cloud in the air for years means, but Karkat here has a little problem called "I think everyone is flirting with me because my culture has a messed up romance system and I refuse to accept the concept of human romance."

[And she...pushes him down. Promptly sitting on him.]

He'll be quiet now, though.

[yanginthere]

Swearing is bad because Ruby — and Dipper, and Penny — don't need to pick up a bad habit like that!!

[ Dave doesn't know it, but if this were any normal situation, Yang's hair would probably be on literal fire right about now. The aura's there even if the Aura is not. C'mon, dude. She thought you were a polite young man. ]

[callbacks]

[Oh, Yang, we have grossly misled you.]

But. [????????????] It's just words...

[yanginthere]

Yeah? And words mean things. There are some that don't need to be said, and definitely not as casually as Karkat here— [ Pointing at the lump under Jade. ] —or, I guess, you, throw them around, okay!?

[ At this point she's honestly just upset. This shouldn't be such a foreign concept. Their culture can't be THAT different, when everything else worked out so far, could it? ]

[callbacks]

[Oops. I guess now isn't the time to admit how much casual cussing he's done around Penny and Dipper--and maaaaaybe Ruby?--already.]

So...I just have to not do it around the younger kids?

[Which is such a weird concept. He's been swearing since he could talk.]

[yanginthere]

Please.

[ Though now IS a good time to mention. ] —or you tip the Swear Jar. Which, I don't even know if I should take a vote on that since it feels even more necessary than before.

[ See, Karkat? It's not just ABOUT you. ]

[callbacks]

Now hold up. Governments are instituted among people and only derive their powers from the consent of the governed.

[Dave, what.]

Democracy or bust, Yang.

[quadrangle]

[... THIS WAS A MISTAKE.]

Jade—JADE, WHAT THE FUOW MY EAR, STOP GODDAMMIT YOU NIGHTMARE BITCH, GET YOUR FUCKING HANDS OFF ME.

[And so it goes until Jade pushes him down and holy shit, he's not sure how he feels about this. Jade. Jade, why.

Either way, have a few blissful seconds of silence while Karkat fondly regards the floor or something. Wow that sure is some carpet.]

... Get off.

[Or stay. He honestly can't decide.]

[in4apounding]

[Well, that sure all happened. Penny takes a second trying to absorb just... everything that happened in about a second or so, a piece of popcorn halfway to her mouth.]

...Wait, Karkat and Yang? When did that happen?

[She thought Yang had better taste than that, but okay.]

[usedglaciate]

It means the language is so bad it turns the air blue -

[...and then that happened. Yep.]</small. ...well, that's one way to deal with it.

[callbacks]

[Dave opens his mouth, then closes it.

There are things no one really needs to know, in this world.]

[eclectictype]

Oh! Well, okay, no worries there--we won't be having the air turn blue.

[And as an aside to Karkat:] No. I am very comfy now.

[quadrangle]

Types or categories? Quadrants. Theyre divided by the nature of the relationship, conciliatory or concupiscent, and the dominant emotion, pity or hate.

[quadrangle]

[... Still so conflicted. Okay yes, Jade has his permission to stay where she is while he tries to figure this out.]

Fine.

[He cranes his neck trying to get a better look at her.]

You're still a bitch.

[eclectictype]

Yes, I am in fact a female dog, thank you for reminding us of that fact, Karkat!

[She adds an affectionate hair ruffle to punctuate this.]

[eclectictype]

Oh my god no, no Penny, no.

[Jade holds up her hands in an X formation.]

Noooooo. It's just dumb troll romance stuff, it does not apply to humans at all. I am fairly certain, even if we did such things, Yang would have a better option for rivalmances than Karkat.