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[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.]

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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.

[MAKING A FACE. ]

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

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.

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

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.

[SHE CAN'T HOLD IN THE LAUGHTER. ]

Kanaya, please

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. ]

Eridan has problems. Too many problems for even I to fix, I think.

At this point, it's really far past being worth the attempt.

He is a lost cause.

That's a conclusion I'd already drawn a very long time ago.

If he were a cat, I would have had him fixed.

Maybe he should be. I doubt we'd hear many complaints.

It seems cruel given how tall he is.

What does height have to do with anything? He's shorter than I am!

Edited 2013-03-14 23:52 (UTC)

I was trying to politely say that it wouldn't be very humane.

Both he and I are trolls. There's nothing "humane" about it.

Morally acceptable?

There would certainly be complaints.

[ how she evaded prosecution for killing him alongside gamzee that one time we'll never know. ]

Exactly.

[kanaya pls. ]

That seems weird to me. You'd be quick to sterilize a dear companion, but the moment the same thought is directed toward an enemy it becomes inappropriate.