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route_10652016-03-06 03:08 pm
quadrangle) wrote in route_10652016-03-06 03:08 pm
my heart's not fluttering or anything
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.]
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.]
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[Which admittedly doesn't take much, but... quieter in a different way than the usual 'someone threatened him if he swore around Ruby' quiet.]
[But parties are supposed to be about interaction, right? Especially since there aren't any bodyguards or escorts keeping her in check.]
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—bodyguards or escorts, Penny, what is your life.Karkat's head jerks up at the question, but unlike Yang and Weiss, he actually sort of maybe tolerates Penny. That doesn't mean he'll smile, but he'll at least nod a little before answering.]I'm, uh. I'm fine.
[... in a stilted, unnatural sort of way, great fucking work, Past Karkat, way to make him look like a goddamn social awareness guru or whatever the fuck humans called it, who even cares. He frowns again.]
It's just weird having everyone in one place. [A single, enclosed space with only one exist. Fuck.] What about you? Doing okay?
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[Military secrets is what her life is. Or military SECRET, at least.]Trolls don't gather in groups like this?
[Is that a culture thing, or did Karkat just have the same kind of friendless existence she had? Either way - sort of sad.]
I'm doing sensational!
[Yeah, she probably cried more than a little when it looked like Westley was dead, assurances from Poppop Narrator or not.]
I mean, it is still weird having so many people together like this! But I think it's a good kind of weird.
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Not so much, at our age. We're used to having whole hives to ourselves.
[Hives with troll, lusus, and that's it, which he should have fucking put together sooner on the meteor. Probably? But the computer room had been big enough, and then everyone had had their own respiteblocks... fuck. That probably wasn't it, then.]
But yeah, it's... a good kind of weird, I guess.
[From like, a zoological standpoint. Haha. Ha. Goddammit. And he'd noticed the crying during the movie, but he's not enough of a stranger to that kind of thing to worry now... mostly. Well, if she says she's okay, he'll believe her, at least.]
So it's new for you, too?
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mostlybetter, therefore it obviously wasn't sad anymore.]A little new, yes.
[A lot less so since arriving in Johto, but pretty new.]
My father didn't -he's a really nice man, I mean!- but he didn't like me talking to people much.
[Or at all, but details.]
He just wanted to keep me safe, but- ...yes, this is a good weird.
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I guess we'll both have to get used to it, then. Not much else we can do.
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[She brightens up at that last part, though.]
I'm having fun, at least!
[She has multiple friends now. More than one.]
Though- I guess it must be weird being around this many humans. That at least isn't different for me, even if I didn't get to talk to many people at home! I'm not sure I can imagine being surrounded by an entirely new species.
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I'm getting used to it. I mean, sort of. [F u c k, why did he say anything.] At least you don't all look too much different from trolls. If you were all many-tentacled monstrosities with gaping maws full of endless rows of teeth, that'd be a different fucking story.
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...No, no. That would definitely be different- I'm glad they're- WE'RE- not like that. That would be bad.
[Congratulations Karkat, you came up with something that sounds worse than a Grimm.]
...Were there things like that, where you came from? Alternia?
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Horrorterrors, and no.
[S l i g h t pause.]
Just one. It was my friend Feferi's lusus.
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[Yup, definitely worse than any Grimm she'd heard of.]
And your friend was- raised by one of these things? ...What was she like?
[She's almost afraid to ask.]
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She kept cuttlefish as pets and made fish puns out of everything. She was really...
[Don't say bubbly, don't say bubbly, don't say bubbly, don't—]
Cheerful. And easily excited.