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001 ♋ Closed to ♒ & ♊

[ okay, so quite frankly they have been here for a few days and Karkat is no less irritated than what he had been before the start of this shit. the pile that he and Sollux had made in their room helps take the edge off of everything, but this is stupid. it's pretty apparent to Karkat that they are not stuck in the goddamn City anymore and that pisses him off as well. they are not some wigglers that can be -fied around by whatever fucking wants them next. they have things to do, missions to complete! Karkat has a responsibility back on the fucking meteor and goddamn it all if he's stuck trying to figure out some new place. this isn't fair. why do all of the universes have to shit on him? PICK SOMEONE ELSE.

another day of exploring and he has shit to offer. so Karkat comes back, still trying to figure out the biggest problem: fixing Eridan. he has been avoiding contact with any of the others in the castle until this problem can be resolved. Karkat doesn't want to run the risk of someone following him back and seeing Eridan. not like this. Eridan probably isn't doing too well either, being cooped up for long doses of time. but Karkat has an idea. he happens to have noticed something that would potentially make the sea dweller feel a little better. maybe. hopefully. ]

Hey, Captor. The shitty sea dweller needs a goddamn bath. He's starting to reek.

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[He lets his teeth drag veeery slightly before he opens his mouth and lets himself be pushed away.]

Come on, you're just--

[No, wait. Waaait.

Oh god, now he's embarrassed. He totally did do that stuff.]

Wwell I didn't do that on PURPOSE. Anywway, it-- I mean, it didn't bother you that much, did it? It couldn't a' really... If you twwo don't wwant me hangin' around you just SAY so.

Not as much as you two being unable to keep it in your fucking pants at the moment!

[ jealous? maybe just a little. but mostly mortified. ]

[Sollux can't keep in a little chirp at the drag of teeth, but he's blushing yellow as Eridan finally moves away. He trots forward and slings his arm around Karkat's shoulder, giving him an apologetic nuzzle]

No one'th thaying that we don't want you around, ed. Thtop being fucking ridiculouth for a thecond. I'm jutht thaying it'th good to have you back to normal, ekthept thuddenly you don't thound that different after all.

[Was the towel not enough? HE THOUGHT THE TOWEL WAS ENOUGH. HOW YOU DO QUADRANTS?! As soon as Sollux moves up, so does he, to nudge himself in to Karkat's other side, and kiss the side of his head. DO YOU FEEL LEFT OUT NOW? He has this all totally worked out, he is so fucking clever.]

Excuse me if I'm not too fuckin' certain wwhere wwe stand after you two started callin' me a disgustin' shadow thing.

[ actually, yeah. yeah that is better. not that Karkat would have ever verbally said anything anyway. he gives Sollux a nuzzle and a quick, pretty doggone shy peck to Eridan's cheek in return. yeap. this is much better than the shadow junk. ]

Pfft. If anything, I was wondering if my quadrants were in fucking question with how helpful Sollux has been.

[Oh that actually stings just a tiny bit. Sollux stiffens a little. Karkat's always thought he and Eridan were too red, and he hopes Karkat doesn't really believe that Eridan and Sollux would go flushed and leave him out in the cold]

I'd never thteal him from you!

[And simultaneously, Eridan looks at Karkat in horror.]

Wwell it wwasn't my fault I wwasn't helpful if I was impaired! They're not in question, are they?

[ sighs and ends up giving both of them paps on the cheek. ]

Guys. It's a motherfucking joke.

[Sollux huffs and breaks away as they reach the door]

I knew it wath a joke!

[He opens it and immediately pulls a spare pair of pants, socks and shoes out of his sylladex. He eyes Karkat, then turns to face a corner of the room before starting to strip. Eridan's seen it before, but Karkat hasn't]

[Eridan pointedly closes the door, while glancing in a way he's trying to not make look nervous at Karkat. Maybe it was a joke but HOW MUCH OF IT WAS ONE? He takes another two towels out of his sylladex anyway, rolls one up, and flings it across the room at Sollux. He rests the other one on a bedframe and removes his cape and scarf, hanging them carefully around on other frames to dry out.]

So are wwe gonna keep sleepin' in the pile or...wwhat?

[ Karkat is still standing there, pointedly not looking at Sollux. he'll just have to figure out how to change clothes later. so he'll be staying in those wet clothes for a bit. ]

If no one objects to it, I don't see why the fuck not.

I have no objectionth. It'th more comfortable all together.

[Sollux grunts as the towel hits him in the back of the head, and grabs it up, then rubs his legs down to dry them off before pulling on a new pair of pants]

A' course, wwell, I wwas just makin' certain.

[If Sollux is going to act like a blushing flower, Eridan doesn't care, obviously, he just doesn't care at all what either of them think of him, OBVIOUSLY. So once he's taken out another set of clothes, and put his shoes and socks out to dry, he just removes his shirt altogether without bothering about turning around, or moving somewhere more appropriate, and the others will just have to deal with it. Yeah.

He's forgotten he has the scar of his body being completely bisected, as well as Sollux's sign carved into him from that one time with the stuff and the thing...... But he's committed to not caring, so on he goes. At least he has a towel.]

[ let the record show the Karkat doesn't really approve of carving into each others' flesh - even if it's for blackrom purposes. it's a stupid idea and if anyone asks him, he will say as much. so sorry, Eridan. Karkat will glare at that with all his might.

then go sit down on the floor with his back facing both of them. ]

There's really no point for us not to, is there?

Well we all thleep in the thame room now, tho I really think it'd be thilly to be thqueamish about thleeping arrangementth. You and I have thlept in pileth before, kk. And tho have ed and I.

[Fly zipped, Sollux turns around and moves to the pile, sitting down and pulling on his socks. He looks at Eridan and his scars, and then at Karkat sitting alone facing the corner, and snickers]

Well, aren't we a bunch of wigglerth. We're in a mating fondnethh triad and can't even change together properly.

[Eridan gets really self-conscious after Karkat glares at him and then turns around to not face him, which means he has to make an even bigger deal about taking his clothes off and putting on a new set in the middle of the room.]

YOU'RE the one who started it--

[......oh. Oh, no, no, he can't make blood cracks with Karkat right there. Can he? Pissblood might work, that is specifically yellow but he's let it drag on too long, now. He scrubs the towel through his hair to dry it after he's pulled a new shirt on, making it poof up, all wavy, and then strides over to Karkat, putting his only very slightly damp towel around the first towel. And then he takes out a fourth towel and shoves it into Karkat's lap.]

[ oh he knows what Eridan is about to say and Karkat gives no fucks. ]

You started it, shit head. If you didn't start out being such a fussy grub about being seen with your dual bulges or whatever the fuck it is you see fit to hide, then I wouldn't have had to fucking respect that.

[ he is half joking here. he doesn't know if Sollux really does have two of everything or not, but it is something that he'd joke about. but he stops from continuing on down that path when oh.. more towels. he scrunches his nose and looks up. ]

Do I look that much like a drowned squeakbeast?

[Sollux blushes and curls up into a ball automatically, horrified. Okay, maybe he shouldn't have been a hypocritical dick just then]

How did you know about that!?

You're not changin' your outfit an' it's wwet, and you're a lowwblood. You're gonna freeze to death or somethin'.

[He piles on another towel for good measure.

Wait, wow, is Sollux still hung up on that? GOD, it's not even like it's an obvious mutation or anything. It's not like he even knows anybody who will cull him for it.]

Ampora... My blood runs hotter than yours ever will.

[ snorts then turns his head to look at Sollux during that outburst. ]

Wait. Are you for fucking real?

[Oh shit, everyone's looking at him. Sollux buries his blushing face in his knees and growls. Oops, he hates himself. Completely. He should have realized Karkat was just joking and being an idiot.]

That's wwhat I MEANT, obvviously. You're probably cold.

[He looks between Karkat and Sollux. This is SO STUPID. Walking over, he sort of half kicks Sollux in the side.]

No-one fuckin' cares, especially not Kar cos he's not your matesprit ANYWAY, an' I've got plenty a' other valid reasons to hate you. Like howw you keep actin' like SUCH A FUCKIN' WWRIGGLER about it!

[He goes to kick him again, harder this time.]

Howw many trolls do you evven knoww WWITHOUT a mutation? I'VVE got a fuckin' mutation. Stop wwhinin' about your stupid problems that aren't evven real problems.

[ stupid indeed. look, just for Sollux. because moirails... Karkat hurriedly yanks his shirt and pants off before crawling over as fast as he can to Sollux. then he bats Eridan's foot away. so he can throw some arms around Captor. ]

For once, listen to the fish face. He's right about it not being a big fucking deal. [ paps ] If anything, we should be jealous!

[ wait a moment... ]

Since when the fuck do you have a mutation, Eridan?

[ just ignore the fact that these moirail cuddles are with Karkat only being in boxers, yeap. ]

Ow!

[Sollux looks up and snarls, eyes crackling, as Eridan starts kicking him and berating him for something that's really a big deal, no matter what he thinks, okay!!!!

But then he's got an almost-naked Karkat cuddling him and papping him and he gives Eridan one last snarl before burying his blushing face in Karkat's chest]

You don't think it'th dithguthting? I get it from ed, becauthe he'th dethperate...

Fuck you! [He would kick him again if Karkat wasn't in the way, being a moirail or whatever. In his boxers. Mmmm... Right, his point. He was angry.] I'm not that fuckin' desperate. If it wwas somethin' disgustin' I wwouldn't be forcin' myself. I wwouldn't a'--

[Put. His. Mouth on it. Let's forget that part happened ever and move on to Karkat's question, shall we.]

A' course I've got a mutation. You a' all people should know that I'vve had this [he gestures to the purple streak in his hair] since I wwas a wwiggler. I knoww it might not be on par wwith Sol's host a' mutations or your blood, but it still means I'm mutated.

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