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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]

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.

[nitidus]

[she looks vaguely grossed out. ]

Yes, I can absolutely see his romantic qualities.

[glowsferatu]

It isn't as though I wanted to be ashen with him! But when he's going to such measures there are only two ways to settle it without becoming his kismesis, and we've already seen that the first doesn't last as long as it should.

I only hope he's gotten the whole thing out of his system now that Susan is gone.

[nitidus]

[this is a lot of info that she is not really absorbing. ]

Wait, he had a kismesis?

[glowsferatu]

What? No! Not since Gamzee, at least. That's what I was avoiding, I wouldn't touch that if he cut off my hand!

[ she grimaces and looks away as the full implications of what she just said sink in. ]

[nitidus]

[How is Eridan's love life this messy, she wonders. ]

Ah, I see. It's alright Kanaya, I believe in your taste.

[glowsferatu]

You should be aware that he was just as after you at the time. I suppose the idea was that if one of us was not successfully seduced, the other might be.

...You were resistant to the idea of an auspistice.

[nitidus]

[MAKING A FACE. ]

Saying I need one implies that I would want to be locked in a torrid hate embrace with him.

[glowsferatu]

Mm. You never understood it then, either.

But think about what you just implied about me, given that I had taken that option. I never wanted that at all, which is why I took an auspistice.

You see, the problem was him, he was the one who needed to be auspisticized. I simply resigned myself to be also in order to cool his feelings into something more ashen, more manageable. This is what the purpose of auspisticism is, Rose. Without dealing with his issue, I'd have to continually endure his advances.

It was all I could do while he insists on remaining alive.

[nitidus]

You could have just told him no and kicked him in the crotch.

[glowsferatu]

The message that would send is far more mixed than you realize. He would just keep coming back if I did that. Especially considering that it is the closest he would ever come to the contact of another on that portion of his anatomy.

[nitidus]

[SHE CAN'T HOLD IN THE LAUGHTER. ]

Kanaya, please

[glowsferatu]

It's true! I sliced him clean open once and he took it as a romantic gesture!

[ she was kind of out of her mind at the time, but he wears the scars way too proudly for a dude who had been beat the fuck up. ]