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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]

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.

[nitidus]

Hmm.

[She's smiling. ]

And now you glow. It is a very fortunate thing to come out of it. I like it very much.

[glowsferatu]

My life wasn't the worst thing I lost that day. You know that.

[nitidus]

I know it hurt. But ... death isn't really death, back home. Not for us. I'm sorry.

[glowsferatu]

Death I can handle. Undeath is now par for the source. If that was all he'd done I wouldn't care about it anymore.

[nitidus]

Don't forget dream bubbles, Kanaya.

[glowsferatu]

I know, I know. I can be free if I set my mind to it. [ keep saying it and eventually she'll believe it, her own personal mantra. ]

But that doesn't erase his actions, or the nature they betray.

[nitidus]

You already sawed Eridan in half, Kanaya.

[glowsferatu]

But it didn't really achieve much, did it? I arrived here directly after, and there he was waiting already.

[nitidus]

One might argue that the Eridan that matters to you isn't, in actuality, here. But then, I wouldn't argue with you on the authenticity of Eridan Ampora's. Did you saw him in half here?

[glowsferatu]

Not...exactly. [ but she's certainly killed him once. the only time she and gamzee ever worked together on something. ] But it is him, he is the one from my timeline. I've seen the scar.

[nitidus]

Is he the same as you remember him being?

[glowsferatu]

Worse, if anything. I'd killed him before he'd gotten the chance to reach the point he has here.

[nitidus]

Really? You know, I never thought I'd say this but ... he has actually been quite amiable?

He hasn't hit on me once.

[glowsferatu]

Count yourself lucky on that count. We haven't all been so spared.

[ between the two of them, kanaya's the only one remembers what happened last valentine's day. black advances all around. ]

[nitidus]

[oh gurl. ain't no one got time for that. ]

He hit on you?

[glowsferatu]

He gave me flowers [ totally stole her idea of black bouquets after deriding it to jade. jade got a red one. ] and then put the life of someone I loved in danger. In fact, he killed her, even if it hadn't lasted but a few minutes.

[ she gives rose a meaningful look. fill in the blanks. ]

I didn't waste any time whatsoever soliciting an auspistice.