route_1065 | oppurration ch33r up karkitty

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oppurration ch33r up karkitty

Who:

threshecutioner
Where: Karkat's hotel room, Violet City
When: I guess Saturday evening since that's what time it is
Summary: Karkat is depressed about Dave not hating him right. Nepeta makes it her mission to cheer him up!
Rating: PG-13 just for Karkat's mouth.
Log:
It wasn't often that Karkat was actually sad. A little bummed, sure! Mad, constantly. But sad? Not quite so much. And that is why Nepeta was worrying! She gave Equius the slip- obviously her moirail probably wouldn't be too happy with her going to hug a lowblood- and made her way to where Karkat had said he was, her cats tucked into their Balls for the first time since she'd gotten them. This was important! There was no time for catplaying right now.

Unfortunately she had no idea which room was Karkat's. So she did the obvious thing- she knocked on each and every single door, calling for Karkat all the while. Will she make it to the right door in time?! Probably.

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It was later that Karkat realized he should have told Nepeta his room number.

Not that it was hard to find her by then, with the string of knocking and the calling of his name. Soon he'd wandered out into the hallway to find her, glaring at the fact these shenanigans even had to occur.

"I'm over here, Nepeta, now quit yelling out for me like a moron," he called out in turn.

He didn't look particularly good. The former troll was both tired and stressed, practically sick of this whole mess in a way that showed in his health. Normally his shouting at Nepeta would be sharper, more biting, but now he didn't quite have the energy for it.

"Oh!" Nepeta immediately stopped her knocking adventure to run over to Karkat!! But then she remembered this was a very serious endeavor and obviously required a lot of serious right now, so she slowed down to a walk as she neared. She'd come with a tiny bit of motivation towards using this for her own ulterior motives- if she cheered Karkat up maybe he'd like her back!!- but he looked so sad that that was entirely forgotten and replaced with worry. And so she immediately wrapped him in a super-friendly and worried hug, most of the usual exuberance and pounciness replaced with just a nice hug.

"I'm really supurr sorry about human Dave."

To put it simply, whatever feelings Nepeta may have held for Karkat were not on his mind. This whole mess had spiraled out of control into some crazy, weird metaphor the likes of which only he could come up with.

While normally the catgirl's overly clingy mode of expression would have irritated him - and indeed, the hug made him tense at first - he soon relaxed. The situation made it different. A little comfort, even from a source he would have normally rejected, was better than nothing.

"Yeah, you don't have to tell me. Come inside." He pulled away from Nepeta to lead back into his hotel room.

Nepeta followed! She took just a moment to look around Karkat's hotel room before turning her attention back to him himself- rooms are boring when you've lived in a cave for sweeps on end. Plus there were more important matters!

"Um, I know I said this was just fur hugs, but there's something else fur you too!"

She set down her bag and rummaged through it, eventually pulling out... a tiny little bundle of red flowers! About five. She offered them to the Cancer, smiling a little. "It's your Twelfth Perigee's Eve purresent! It's not much but they were very purretty and growing even though the snow was there and they reminded me of you because they were purrobably just really pissed at the snow and growing to annoy it."

Karkat's eyebrows rose. She had mentioned a present before, hadn't she? So for once, he waited patiently, and not without some curiosity as she fetched the gift from her bag. But flowers? Those he didn't expect.

Blinking, he held out his hand to accept the small bundle. "Erm, thanks. I think." Lacking a proper vase, he set them with perhaps surprising gentleness on a side table.

He shuffled back over to Nepeta next, and with awkwardness suggesting the rarity of him doing so, gave her a short hug. "I don't really have anything for you," he mumbled, "so that's about the best I can do."

Nepeta hugged back! The best part of purresents was the happy feelings from them and obviously hugging Karkat would make him happy. So she hugged him tight, maaaaaybe crying a little bepaws he was still sad.

"It's hard being a kid and growing up, huh...?"

"Jegus, are you crying?"

It was hard not to notice with her continuing to hug him. It served to prompt more frowning - as if he wasn't already - and he carefully extracted himself from her embrace.

"Look, it didn't even happen to you, so don't. Look at me." He stared her in the eye as he continued, "This whole thing has gone about as absolutely shitty as it possibly could, and that is fucking saying something. I hate it. Every last bit of it. Dave especially for turning it into such a clusterfuck. But I'm not crying over it, so why should you?"

"Bepaws you won't."

Nepeta sniffled a little and rubbed her eyes. "So I'm doing it fur you."

Karkat quirked an eyebrow at that. "O-... kay? I'm not really sure why you'd do that, but just, don't cry on me."

Now he took a seat, settling on the edge of the bed. "The whole thing's just been... really confusing and weird and frustrating. I've only ever cried like, once, and still I'm not going to over this."

"Well... maybe I won't cry either."

Nepeta sniffled a little more and sat down next to Karkat. "But it is very sad. I think. Blackrom is confusing to me."

The former troll sighed. As he spoke, his gaze drifted up to the ceiling. "It's weird to think of you even getting involved with blackrom, so I don't expect you to really get it."

He scratched at the back of his head. How to explain it?

"I've got really high standards for this shit because of all the hate I can dish out, and it's made actually finding a kismesis pretty frustrating. I'm--not even going to tell you about the first time I thought I found one because that whole thing was embarrassing and stupid." Even the memory was enough to make him scowl. It's kind of hard to get good blackrom going when the target doesn't even hate you.

"But this time--" Karkat glanced to her. "Dave actually hated me, and he'd been trolling me since I met him, and saying the most hateful shit I've ever heard. And then--well, I'm not saying what happened because it's stupid and embarrassing, but things went to shit, and you saw the results."

"Red is so so so much better!! I am more interested in my purrospects for matespurrits than kismesises."

Nepeta just cocked her head and listened, maaaaaybe hugging Karkat a little. "This is all very compawlicated and I don't understand it but I guess it's kind of the same as when you are red fur someone who doesn't love you back. And I understand that! So I think I get it."

Okay total huggage now. "But I think things will get better?? I mean you hate lots of people! Maybe another purrson will be right fur you."

More hugs were unsurprising at this juncture. Karkat still wasn't quite used to the, and so settled for an arm placed around Nepeta's shoulders, yet they still provided some comfort. Rare though it was. "Something like that, I guess, but more complicated. God, why does this shit always have to be so complex? For all I know about this stuff, I've got the absolute crappiest luck with it."

The latter part of what Nepeta said, though, simply produced another pointed frown.

"It's not that easy," he said, looking at her. "I may hate like, just about everyone ever, but kismesissitude just doesn't happen that easily. I have high standards for this, ridiculously so, and it's made it a fucking headache just to try to find any targets for it. It's a special kind of hate - one really intense, you know? You need someone who can inspire that as easily as breathing, who can hate you back in equal measure."

"But of course--" His hand strikes the bed. This whole damn thing was frustrating. "--of all people I just had to go for a god damn human who doesn't even get this quadrant. I'm such a fucking moron."

"I wish I could help more, Karkitty!!!" The hugs magnified to superhugs. "I can only do hugs though."

And that was about all Karkat could take.

"Okay, okay, that's enough hugs for now. Don't break my fucking ribs, jegus." He squirmed in her grip, pushing gently at her shoulders.

"But... thanks for trying to cheer me up, I guess. This whole thing isn't going to stop sucking easily, but this does help a little. Just. Don't expect me to get all mushy and open about my feelings like this again; once is embarrassing enough."

Nepeta quickly released Karkat from her clutches!! She liked hugging him and all but if he was going to get mad it wasn't worth it. She smiled rather happily at him!

"I am glad I helped!! You should maybe sleep or something, that helps a little too."

All that hugging would certainly last him a while. At least Nepeta was smart enough to back off early.

"Yeah, it might. These human dreams are pretty weird and non-violent, so it's better than just sitting around brooding over it," he mused.

Karkat now stood, going over to the door to open it for her. "If you need whatever, I'm on the Pokégear and whatnot. Leave a message."

"Kay!" Nepeta bounced up from Karkat's bed, grabbing her bag and smiling even more. "You can do the same fur me! I am going to go hunting fur fishes to eat later so I might get arrested though."

She stared at Karkat for a second before giving him a little kiss on the cheek! And then she was gone.

Of course that prompted a palm to find a familiar spot against his face. "Don't get yourself arrested, damnit. You should know better than that. I shouldn't even have to be saying this; I'm not your moirail."

A kiss to the cheek, on the other hand - hugs and all aside - was not quite what he expected. A small blush rose in response, but before he could even gather himself to say something properly irritated, Nepeta was gone.

A sigh would have to do. He closed the door, mumbling about overfriendly cave girls and their clingy antics.

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oppurration ch33r up karkitty

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Why is Nepeta so adorable?

the fountain of cute was inside her all along-!

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whoops just now got the notif for this

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