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capeandcowl2013-12-04 08:57 pm
amoray) wrote in capeandcowl2013-12-04 08:57 pm
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I'm in a good mood.
[ which should be enough of an indicator that he did something wrong. anyway, this is eridan in his penthouse, having set up the comm on the small table in front of his couch! a fatass persian cat lords from his obnoxiously large cat tree off to the left. eridan steps back from the comm, kicks an unlabeled cardboard box out of view (it rattles in a metallic fashion), and flops down on the couch at his back.
completely shamelessly, in rumblr coolkid fashion, he is wearing this sweater. except it has a persian on the front. HOW EMBARRASSING. ]
In fact, I'm in such a good fuckin' mood I'm actually gonna buy you filthy plebeian animals holiday presents this year. That's a general you, a course, I do kinda hate the fuck outta some of you. Not gonna commit to anythin' here, but you can try me. Drop some Congo wishlists on me, or just giwe me some kinda idea what you want; I'm probably headin' out for the holidays, so I ain't gonna be here, and if I'm gonna bother I need a horn's up in adwance. Maybe you'll get it, maybe you won't, but there ain't no harm in askin' me, right?
No islands, no guns, nothin' illegal. Since I know somebody's gonna ask. [ pffffft. he rolls his eyes. ] What do I look like, some kinda fuckin' psycho? Puh-leeze.
[ apparently done (why did he even bother setting up the comm, anyway?) he steps back in, killing the feed. ]
[ which should be enough of an indicator that he did something wrong. anyway, this is eridan in his penthouse, having set up the comm on the small table in front of his couch! a fatass persian cat lords from his obnoxiously large cat tree off to the left. eridan steps back from the comm, kicks an unlabeled cardboard box out of view (it rattles in a metallic fashion), and flops down on the couch at his back.
completely shamelessly, in rumblr coolkid fashion, he is wearing this sweater. except it has a persian on the front. HOW EMBARRASSING. ]
In fact, I'm in such a good fuckin' mood I'm actually gonna buy you filthy plebeian animals holiday presents this year. That's a general you, a course, I do kinda hate the fuck outta some of you. Not gonna commit to anythin' here, but you can try me. Drop some Congo wishlists on me, or just giwe me some kinda idea what you want; I'm probably headin' out for the holidays, so I ain't gonna be here, and if I'm gonna bother I need a horn's up in adwance. Maybe you'll get it, maybe you won't, but there ain't no harm in askin' me, right?
No islands, no guns, nothin' illegal. Since I know somebody's gonna ask. [ pffffft. he rolls his eyes. ] What do I look like, some kinda fuckin' psycho? Puh-leeze.
[ apparently done (why did he even bother setting up the comm, anyway?) he steps back in, killing the feed. ]
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[ KARKAT DOESN'T EVEN GET TO CHOOSE HIS PRESENT. ]
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I'm not seein' the problem with this.
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[ RUDE TBH. ]
Now what do you really want? I figure I kinda owe you for stuff and all.
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karkat's voice is low and dangerous. ]
How about you stop wreaking untold emotional havoc on your girlfriend? Do you even know what she was like when she got home last month? If she ever comes back from an encounter with you in that state again, I don't give a fuck what she thinks, you aren't going to get within fifty feet of her without getting a sickle up the chute.
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So, what'd you hear?
She tell you, I mean? About what I told her? I'm real curious, Kar.
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[ DIS POSTURING. still, his physical posture shifts, straight-backed and eyebrows raised, arms crossed. gradually, he shifts over the next bit into a slouch, arms draped casually across his knees as he gestures. ]
Now, like I was sayin' - did she tell you, Kar? Anythin' good? [ abruptly: ] Lost near all the blood in his body, you know that? I had to hook him up to a drip and ewerythin'. Went on for hours like that, just pickin' at him, cuttin' him up. You really ain't heard nothin' 'til you hear Eddie Nygma wailin' like a wiggler with its back legs off, Kar, it's fuckin' sublime.
I think you outta anybody else oughta appreciate what I done for us here.
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it's true, though, isn't it? no matter what karkat does, it can't reach her. no matter how hard he tries to help, no matter how much he struggles to keep her safe, it does nothing, means nothing. he is useless, pointless, irrelevant, unimportant. she'd refused to tell him anything with much detail, beyond that it had been her empathy -- refused to tell him what he hears from eridan now (he has surprisingly little sympathy for edward nygma's suffering), just as she refused to tell him about new vesuvius, just as she hadn't told him about habit until she'd wanted to make him look stupid. ]
Appreciate what you've done. [ he repeats, very softly. this is never a good sign from karkat vantas. ] Appreciate what you've done? Eridan, do you know how Ruka's powers work? I mean, I know it's an enormous effort for you to look even half a millimeter past your own misshapen sniffer, but if you've paid even the slightest amount of attention to your matesprit as her own person and not an extension of your over inflated ego in all the time you've known her, you should understand why I'm so toweringly pissed off.
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[ which does come out snappish, compared to the his relative cool from earlier. eridan throws his hands up, apparently not getting it. ]
Done to him. You know what this means for all three a us? You think he's ewer gonna fuck with us again? Not the way we're tied up in each other, not if he's gonna risk pissin' me off again. I did you a goddamn fawor, Wantas. I did all of us a fawor and nobody seems like they giwe a shit what I been through just to get the chance.
[ a beat. he rustles in his seat, discontented. ]
Ru didn't tell me she got her... whole empathy thing tripped off, or I would of done somethin'. I'll talk to her. Don't worry about it.
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[ the communicator objects with more static, and at least five birds outside just took off in abject terror. ]
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Not on purpose.
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[ karkat snarls, still too loudly. ]
Get this through your impenetrable skull -- everything Edward felt, every second of agony you put him through, every last cut and every last drop of blood you bled from his worthless hide, you put Ruka through that. She felt all of it, Eridan, and in her case, she's going to have to deal with that for the rest of her goddamn life, because the emotions that tip off her empathy never fucking go away! I hope you're proud of yourself!
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[ which is muttered as he stands, petulantly dropping the comm on his sofa. he heads out of sight, doing something or other in the kitchen; he only speaks just loud enough to be heard. ]
It was a goddamn accident, Kar, I don't know what you want me to fuckin' say here. She's like me, she'll deal with it and put it outta her mind. She ain't some pissin' grub all curled up and waitin' for somethin' to pick her off. You're not giwin' her the kinda credit she deserwes.
[ which all sound suspiciously like excuses, particularly when he returns to the comm with a glass of something and sits beside the comm, half out of frame, not looking at it. ]
I'll deal with it. Me and her will. You just gotta let us first.
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[ he says with an incredulous twang, turning to shoot a look at the comm. ]
'Cos she didn't want to tell me. Probably didn't want to make me feel bad, she's like that. Only reason you did any "pacifyin'" was 'cos you happened to be around.
What's with all the pale language and frettin' and shit you're pullin' here? You tryin' to mowe in on the diamonds with her?
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[ he could tell eridan that ruka puts up a front and is in fact one of the most fucked up people besides himself that karkat has ever met, but he is too loyal to his unspoken sworn secrecy on that matter to go through with it. ]
I am not trying to move in on the diamonds with her, as you put it, because get this, the diamonds are not a thing she has. You see I, unlike you, am not enough of a total dumbshit to go around conducting moirallegiances with aliens who can't even grasp alternative concupiscent quadrants for what they are, let alone the conciliatory ones. Furthermore, you're just trying to change the subject, and direct attention away from the fact that you put your supposed girlfriend through so much unadulterated agony that I was tempted to knock her unconscious just to spare her the misery.
Stop making excuses and own up to the fact that you fucked up.
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[ and he sounds concrete on that, turning away again - it's not wrong that he had to brag about what he'd done to her, and ruka accidentally experiencing hours of brutal torture isn't a result of that need to brag, not ever, not to him. ]
And I don't buy this not pale business. Just 'cos she obwiously don't reciprocate don't mean you couldn't feel it all on your own, all fussin' and worryin' and threatenin' me 'cos you think it'll help. Naggin' and possessiwe and shit. I don't know what the fuck else could be up with you.
[ eridan is having problems understanding the feelings of others today. ]
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[ karkat is 200% done with both of them, he's decided what he wants for christmas: an entire case of booze to drown himself in. not even drink. just drown in. ]