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 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.]

[yanginthere]

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

[callbacks]

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

[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.

[yanginthere]

[ A grunt. Ugh. Dave had a point. ]

All right, all right. Gimme a minute to minute to finish writing the rules up.