( video; action for anyone wandering by in Spero )

[yourgoddamnit]

[ SPERO. NIGHT TIME. TWO TROLLS WANDER THE FORSAKEN STREETS IN SEARCH OF shit to throw into Eridan's sylladex. Yeah there's just cards basically hovering next to Eridan. This is totally normal. You could also care to notice that they're also quite stylish thanks to Japan's neurotic sewing and trolls' inability to give a shit about fashion. ]

FUCK, I THOUGHT THIS ONE WAS YOURS-- ANYWAY, WE'RE ALIVE. NOT THAT ANYONE ESPECIALLY CARES. I WOULD'VE CHECKED IN THE SECOND I GOT OFF THAT GODFORSAKEN PILE OF MOLDY LUMBER, BUT I WAS SET BACK BY STUPID EMOTIONS. FOR THE RECORD, BENFROMLOST DID NOT MAKE THE JOURNEY IN ONE PIECE THANKS TO A CERTAIN SHERIFF OF SHITTOWN.

[ He points the camera to Eridan. ]

sheriff from shittowwn here wwith deputy fuckass to report to you on shittowwn progress but since i no longer havve my FUCKIN COMMUNICATOR i wwill have to use deputy fuckasss communicator to report in on all the happenin shitty things in shittowwn

[ There's some crude sign language resmbling a bird as Eridan picks up a box of cereal. ]

i wwant to say in my defense i tried to savve benfromlost you stupid asshole

AFTER YOU FUCKING THREW ME OVERBOARD!

wwell youre the one wwho said i wwouldnt dare do it and you wwere bein fuckin unbearable
plus you didnt fuckin believve me wwhen i said there wwere monsters dowwn there BUT NOWW YOU DO and benfromlost is evvidence of that

I WONDER IF I CAN JUST THROW YOU INTO YOUR OWN SYLLADEX. WHO CARES IF IT CREATES AN INFINITE PARADOX THAT LIKELY RESULTS IN A FRACTURE IN REALITY. YOU'D PROBABLY CAULK ANY CRACKS WITH THE HIDEOUS CONGLOMERATE OF ROTTEN FLAB THAT YOU CALL A HUSK.

wwah wwah wwah tell you wwhat since you wwere so attached to that stupid flipperbeast i wwill personally go find you a new minion beast to wwalloww on and cry about
maybe this one wwont fly us to the land of stupid trolls and rock coconuts in his cardboard airplane and crash us dowwn into stupidityvville because fuck deputy fuckass
wwere not the sheriff in stupidityvvile

THAT'S NOT EVEN THE FUCKING POINT. ME TELLING YOU NOT TO THROW MY GODDAMN RETARDED MINION INTO A LAKE OF ACID ISN'T A DARE. YOU CAN'T CLEAN THE SALT WATER OUT OF YOUR EARS TO LISTEN FOR JUST TWO FUCKING SECONDS--

[ Karkat stops mid sentence as a low growling is heard off screen. Multiple growling. All the growling. ]

...wwhat wwas that?

IT WAS AN EDWARDICORN. WHAT DO YOU THINK, DUMPASS? SORRY, NEVER MIND. YOUR SYLLADEX ISN'T FULL, RIGHT?

oh great wwe can just turn you into a unicorn and then you wwill forget the empty feelin of benfromlost not existin anymore
no my sylladex isnt full dumpass

LET'S SAVE YOUR MAGICAL FATTY FANTASIES FOR ANOTHER DAY. HAVE IT READY TO CAPATULOGUE SOMETHING.

[ Karkat draws his sickle and tenses. Something shuffles to the left. He takes a step back anddddddd...

RAPTOR. SUDDENLY. This should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone. What is surprising is what happens when, in a rather impressive acrobatic feat, Karkat dodges its jaws and kicks it towards Eridan.

And in an even more stunning effort of teamwork, Eridan catches it and shouts- ] G FOUR [ and quickly captulogues the raptor into his BLOCKADE TYPE SYLLADEX. Dear viewers, he basically just caught a raptor in his wee little troll hands and made the fucking raptor disappear into the cards hovering near him. However, as he was able to captulogue the raptor, the other item (Eridan's cape) laying in battleship section G-4 flies out. ]

oh thats wwhere i put it...

AND NOW YOU HAVE A MINIATURE SHARPTOOTH. YOU'RE WELCOME. THERE'S ANOTHER HANGING AROUND-- WAIT. [ looking at his communicator ] IS THIS THING STILL ON? JEGUS.

[ Annnnnnddd promptly shutting it off so that they can go back to raptor capatuloguing. ]

Comments

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

[lolishiki.livejournal.com]

I've gotten used to it. If you only have half of the time to do things as regular people, one tends to be quite diligent with their time and actions.

That certainly would be a dilemma, wouldn't it?

[yourgoddamnit.livejournal.com]

[ belatedly in this thread, Karkat is wallowing on the ground from a crack to the skull and/or dick. who knows which. BUT HE'S GETTING BACK UP NOW and wow passive aggressive smile. like he doesn't see enough of that from Vriska.

and he responds to Eridan's violence by shoving him as hard as he can towards the nearest solid object. like a wall or a table or something.

AND FROWNING EVEN MORE AT SUNAKO. ]



[ some days he forgets he should actually be helping Eridan on dates. or maybe this is helping. somehow. ]

[lolishiki.livejournal.com]

[ this is hilarious. someone get her some popcorn. watching two boys act like idiots is a pastime of her's. ]

I don't see it as a waste of time, to be honest. Both of you are very interesting to be around.

[ it's a ~learning experience~. not to mention your blood smells absolutely exotic. but that's not a concern. ]

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

[ Eridan falls into the wall, connecting his skull into it's solid cemented goodness with a rather sickening crack. He's still for a moment, and then he just jumps right back to his feet. Purple skittles trickling down his face. Sorry Sunako, he flashes you a small smile before glaring at Karkat. ]

[lolishiki.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome.

[ pur... ple. that's new. she's never seen that before, that's something to inquire later.

but now? time to fake a look of general concern. ]

[yourgoddamnit.livejournal.com]

[ He's expecting Eridan to retaliate, but for the moment he goes back to looking through debris. Ohhhh box of matches. ]

[lolishiki.livejournal.com]

So I've been told. But I don't mind.

[ if Tatsumi can manipulate people into thinking that he's a good guy, there's no reason she can't do the same. ]

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

[He kind of just wipes away at the purple blood, he'll get you later Karkat.]

[He turns to Sunako.]

[lolishiki.livejournal.com]

Not really, no. Is that a problem with that?

[ because they're different. just like her. when you're different, you tend to sympathize. or at least, she does. ]

"Annoying" isn't the word I would use... "quirky", maybe? And that goes for all of you; not just Karkat.

[yourgoddamnit.livejournal.com]

[ Actually he just frowns more at the word, both due to vague tsundere-ness and because the word "quirky" annoying him. Also being a good guy is clearly overrated. ]

[lolishiki.livejournal.com]

I won't correct you; you're probably right. [ was that a smirk? nah. ]

Well, he probably has been through a lot. I lived in the physical country of Japan before coming here... it has a violent history.

[ she sighs. ] Do you two always fight like this?

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

[he flips Karkat the bird. How polite.]

[lolishiki.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's quite littered with wars and political unrest... but he is a powerful nation, nonetheless.

[ u h. ] Is it now? It must not be healthy.

How would you tell one social status from the other? [ TIME FOR SCHOOLING ON TROLLS 1O1 ]

[yourgoddamnit.livejournal.com]

[ SHOOTING ERIDAN A GLARE. NO MORE DETAILS THAN NECESSARY, ERI. ]



[ Which, though extremely bizarre for trolls, at least Karkat can attribute to Kanaya. And everyone knows that she's the only sane one. ]

[lolishiki.livejournal.com]

Some people are more than what they seem. I've heard that he and America have recently gotten into a pretty big scuffle.

Then I won't pry too much. [ at least, not yet. ]

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

[That's a new one. Well, Eridan has experienced Japan's temper so he feels some pity for America. LOL BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. SO.]

[lolishiki.livejournal.com]

That's what Tatsumi told me. But I think it would be best to leave it to the two of them.

[ she likes Japan, from what she's seen from him. but that doesn't mean she'll let her guard down. ]

So it's like a colour spectrum. I understand.

[yourgoddamnit.livejournal.com]

[lolishiki.livejournal.com]

You'll have to take it up with him if it does, i'm afraid. [ smiles! ]

I'm sorry to hear that. It must not have been easy...

[lonelyglub.livejournal.com]

[lolishiki.livejournal.com]

[ her mind says "I know how that feels", but she doesn't say it out loud. she can't. ]

Really? It must have been quite dangerous in that case.

[yourgoddamnit.livejournal.com]

[lolishiki.livejournal.com]

Well. When compared to something like that, these conditions really aren't so bad after all, are they? [ she giggles. ]