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

[eclectictype]

KARKAT HOLY FUCK!

[Yep, it's Jade, completely bypassing what Yang is holding or doing to scold Karkat.]

Nobody is hateflirting with you, for fuck's sake! Humans don't do hatemance! Why don't you, for once, stop being a hypocritical shitbaby and respect human culture?!

[She is about five seconds away from taking him by the ear and pulling him out of there, don't test her.]

[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.]

[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?!

[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.

[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.]

[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.

[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]

[... 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.]

[usedglaciate]

Thanks, Jade.

[...give her a second, she's trying not to laugh.]

You don't have to sit on him forever...

[callbacks]

No, it's cool, she can do that if she wants. You can do that if you want, Jade, you've got professional approval.

[Thumbs up.]

[quadrangle]

[ET TU, BROTE?]

Strider!

[eclectictype]

That's okay, Weiss! I will sit on him for as long as necessary, he doesn't seem to mind anyway.

[Yes, he does mind, he minds very much.]

Besides, I can't refuse when I've got the Strider approval.

[usedglaciate]

...I think he might mind, but I'm also not going to contradict Strider approval.

[She's trying really, really hard not to laugh.]