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[caprihorn]

[Water slides down in to a bathtub, swirls around as a grey hand messes with the flow, and two gators plop in while some bath salt gets very pointedly and slowly poured in.]

Wouldn't all be using that shit for my ownself _any-

Shit!

[The same moment he swears there's a very distinct horn squeak underneath his own feet. Only Feferi and Karkat will recognize it.

The crashing sound and the views tumbling communicator catch aren't so unique. The pink dress the camera settles on that's sitting on top of the sink might be though.

It takes Gamzee a few seconds but when he gets back up he sounds funny, might have something to do with the clown nose that has currently jammed itself partially up his nostril.]

_{Motherfucker.}

[His fingers curl as they start wrenching around in there.]

Do any of you motherfuckers got any understanding on

[God the mucus doesn't even look like a human's does. Is that natural? Is that just Gamzee's health showing itself?]

_{of biopumping combining with electronic shit?} Need to finally

[Pop! The once red clown nose is now just kind of half black looking and being charmingly shook around with three now sticky looking fingers.]

up and replace this wicked shit.

[And "charmingly" he points with the nose to the stump that was his right arm well over a year ago.]

Comments

[glowsferatu]

It was for Sollux, not Eridan. I took the arm for Sollux.

[nitidus]

They dated?

[glowsferatu]

Knowing the activities he tends to practice with severed heads, perhaps he may have seen it that way.

[nitidus]

I thought .. well. Eridan would date someone who ... bathes?

[glowsferatu]

Rose, you give him too much credit. Eridan would date literally anyone that displayed even the faintest interest.

...And most people that don't.

[nitidus]

I thought he would at least have hygiene standards.

[glowsferatu]

Is there anyone with any sense of hygiene that would waste their time with him?

[nitidus]

He has a girlfriend, Kanaya.

[glowsferatu]

I know. [ they've never talked, but there is probably a lot of distant judgement on both ends there. ] What could have possibly possessed her, I can't even imagine.

[nitidus]

Perhaps he isn't all that bad.

[glowsferatu]

[ kanaya turns on the video just so that rose can see the look she's giving her. ]

I want you to stop for a second and genuinely examine the words you just said, and then think about how the hell they could ever apply to the individual being discussed.

[nitidus]

[LAUGHING. NOT EVEN HIDING IT. ]

M-maybe he has a side we haven't seen. A side which isn't abhorrent. You liked him once, didn't you?

[glowsferatu]

[ the more rose laughs, the more kanaya's nose wrinkles. this is one thing she will always be way too serious about. ]

I tolerated him. I maybe even considered him a friend, mostly because I thought he was simply amusingly full of hot air.

Right until the moment he showed me that he wasn't.

[caprihorn]

_{I all lost the arm for Eridan} and you fucking know it, sister. _{Wouldn't have gotten to showing up if you didn't have himself.}

[glowsferatu]

Which is why I took him, but you're ignoring the reason I was attempting to lure you out to begin with.

[caprihorn]

You're all fucking ignoring that I wouldn't have gotten around there without Eridan in the picture _{and you got that knowledge sitting in your pan for sure.}

[glowsferatu]

This from the coward who spent the entirety of two years in hiding to avoid the risk of facing me directly.

No, I somehow don't see myself owning any kind of knowledge like that.

[caprihorn]

[He is genuinely confused here, nobody's told him shit.]

Up and did fucking what, sister? _{I ain't been hiding from yourself around here.}

[glowsferatu]

You heard me. Two years. The meteor's ventilation shafts are far too complicated a network for me to have determined your specific coordinates, but I know you're hiding in there.

[caprihorn]

[Just pausing here.]

The motherfuck _{are you} even all making noise about?

[glowsferatu]

You haven't yet heard what you have to look forward to, have you?

[caprihorn]

_No.

[glowsferatu]

Well, you'd better get used to crawling through constricted spaces.

[caprihorn]

You fucking with my pan, sister?

[Look at this he isn't entirely confident here.]

[glowsferatu]

You can ask Rose if you really need confirmation.