my heart's not fluttering or anything

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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

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[It's difficult not to notice all of what's been going on with Karkat and Dave. While Jade isn't intent on interfering, she's very aware and observing everything as much as she can, in case one of them (or both of them, let's be real) need an assist.

She's also very certain that they both think they're being sneaky and keeping a lid on it enough to where she wouldn't notice. They'd be wrong or in denial, but it's not the time to call anyone out yet.

When Dave goes down for the count against Karkat's lap, it's expected, though him taking a hold of her arm is not and her surprised look down at her friend says this much. But immediately Jade settles into the same relaxed contentment as before, now humming a song as though to further soothe the sleeping Strider. It's Once Upon a Dream, Dave would know that, Karkat wouldn't, seems appropriate for sleepy times anyway.

Her arm twists slightly so she can reach up and cover his hand with hers.]

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[He is the sneakiest, what are you talking about? Or, at least, if Dave hasn't noticed how unbelievably fucking pale Karkat has been behaving around him lately, there's probably no hope for him at all.

More to the point, Jade humming is near enough to opening her mouth that he freezes, caught red-pronged in the dedicated transparent confection disk containment cylinder. How the fuck had he forgotten she was there, how—

He settles back as neutrally as he possibly can and okay no he can't manage to look at her at all. Fuck. Fuck. Maybe she hadn't noticed? Uh what can he talk about uh—]

What are you humming?

[Nailed. It?]

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[Sorry to say for Karkat, she noticed. Jade is merely choosing not to say anything as she looks over at him with a smile.]

Dave and I used to stay up late streaming Disney movies. This song is from one of them--I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream. That's how it starts.

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[Dis-what. It takes him a second, but evetually it clicks.]

Those movies about princesses, true love, and finding your inner furry?

[... okay, so Dave might have given him slightly the wrong impression about Beauty and the Beast.]

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[Hey, Beast was a pretty cute horrible monster, okay?]

[Jade can only imagine what sort of summary Dave might have given their friend about Disney movies. She just laughs and shakes her head.]

Nooo--sort of? A lot of them do indeed have princesses and true love, but others have stories about familial love and making it through against the odds! There are tons that have animals in it, but the one I'm thinking of is a princess and true love one--it's called Sleeping Beauty.

I am not sure where furries and princesses would cross--unless you mean Beauty and the Beast. But that was a curse, not legitimate "this guy is an animal."

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[The "familial love" part might just get a snort, but Karkat seems receptive enough to the rest of it. If there's romance involved, he's interested. Basically. He'd been under the impression that most Disney movies were for wigglers, but maybe that isn't true? Goddammit, why couldn't they at least be on Earth so he could satisfy his curiosity about this shit. More relevantly... uh.]

Sleeping Beauty?

[He does not look at Dave. Haha, what, that would be stupid.]

Uh, I'm not sure I know that one, but yeah, I think the furries were from Beauty and the Beast. Or, wait, wasn't there some other one? Rose had a lot of shit to say about it, that's for fucking sure. Something about "phallic imagery" and "oral fixations" or whatever.

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[Yeah.

She saw that.

Not that Karkat would be able to tell if she's smiling at him because Jade is generally a smiling kind of girl or...because he's still totally obvious.]

Aw, Rose is always talking about phallic imagery and oral fixations, though! Ummm...maybe The Little Mermaid? Mermaids are usually depicted as creatures with a human top half and a fish lower half, and Ariel exchanged her voice for getting human legs and coming out of the sea. In all truth she should have been totally crushed by oceanic pressure the second she became human while at the bottom of the sea, but what do I know?

Disney films are usually musicals, so yep--you can guess that movie has a lot of songs as well.

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[No, Karkat can't tell. If he could, he'd be glaring death at her right about now; instead, he's frowning and shaking his head.]

No, I think this one had archeradicators in it. The Little Mermaid sounds interesting, though. Except for the singing.

[Assuming this "Ariell" did it for love, that is. The narrative wouldn't have worked on Alternia regardless; no seadweller would give up their place on the hemospectrum for love. Or... if they did, it would only end tragically.]

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Archera...hmmm...maybe Robin Hood? That was the legend of Robin Hood completely retold with anthropomorphic forest creatures. I'm not sure where the oral fixation and phallic imagery comes in, though. There's also Peter Pan, but that didn't involve a romance and the Lost Boys were just dressed in animal pajamas.

[Who knew, Karkat's actually stretching her Disney knowledge.]

[She will also not mention to him that in the book it ended horribly.]

I think Dave and I need to do a whole Disney night just to catch you up on everything, Karkat!

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[Robin Hood just gets a shrug.]

Maybe that was it? Not Peter Pan, though, I'd know that one. We had Pupa Pan on Alternia. Fucking stupid story for wigglers.

[And Tavros. Wow, let's not think about that. Karkat glances back to Dave instead, because apparently hearing his name is excuse enough.]

I guess we could do that. This asshole'll probably want us to watch the Sharp-whatever shit, too, though. So we'll trade off.

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There will be noooo shark-tornadoes allowed on Disney night! And since this lazy bum has decided to clock out right now, we have most likely been reprieved from watching it tonight.

[Though actually Jade wouldn't have minded watching that, crappy movies have a certain charm to them.]

But it's fun, isn't it? That we all get to hang out like this and watch movies together, chat about stuff, play games. It's like we're getting to be actual teenagers or something.

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[He'd meant have a Disney night and then a Sharpeshit night, but vetoing Dave entirely is also something Karkat is down with. He nods.]

Yeah, sounds good. [He snorts.] And I guess it's pretty fun. We did some shit like this on the meteor, but it wasn't as...

[He trails off, then gestures to the room at large. Does he need to point out how many people are here because there are a fuckload of people here.]

Busy. Was it like that for you?

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Ummm...not really? Davesprite became really distant after a while, John got bored a lot and threw shitbaby fits, the sprites all did their best but weren't very much for fun stuff outside of their very specific habits. It was relatively quiet on the ship...I didn't mind, though, it's better than having nobody. [And she gestures to the room too.] It just wasn't like this is what I am trying to say.

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[Shitbaby fits. From John. Sorry, Karkat's face might be spasming a bit in what may very well be a smile—not that Jade's situation was all that funny, but since he can relate anyway...]

Yeah, I... Dave probably told you, but it was mostly just the two of us, later on. We all sort of drifted apart after the first year or two.

[Or something like that. He doesn't want to think much about the exact number of days, much less how each member of the group had gone off on their own. Time to talk about something else.]

Shitbaby fits? Really?

[... HE'S CURIOUS.]

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--Oh my god, that's right, you didn't hear the full story.

[Because he was being a pedantic shitbaby, of course.]

The long and short of it is John realized that the movies he lauded in the past were really crappy. That was the shitbaby implosion. He got really mad and screamed a lot, kicking and screaming on his driveway, until he tired himself out and fell asleep.

He was a grumpy fucker, it got really tiring.

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[Oh my god. It's even better than he'd thought.]

He. [snrk] He did what? He—he threw a fit until he fucking passed out?

[Karkat's shoulders are shaking, and yes, that smile is very distinct now. He might laugh, how is this happening.]

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[Oh my god, he's happy. This is incredible, this is a miracle of epic proportions.]

Yes, he threw a fit that was so incredible he passed out! He was asleep for quite a while after that.

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[NOPE, that does it. The laughter may not be very loud, mostly because he's hyper-conscious of the fact that Dave is right there trying to sleep, but the mental image of John throwing a big enough tantrum to wear himself out like that is ahahahsajhsdflhghg fuck, why is that so funny and why wasn't he there to see it?]

Th-that fucking moron, all over a bunch of movies? [Like Karkat's not done worse? Right.] Please tell me you gave him shit for it, Jade, I don't even care if you have to lie.