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[caliginous]

SURPRISE, ITS YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSHOLE WITH A SHINY PIECE OF INFORM8TION.
STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME.
THAT MEANS YOU.
YES YOU.
ALL OF YOU.

I AM TIRED OF DYING.
SO TIRED I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO SIT HERE AND COME UP WITH A SUPER CONVOLUTED METAPHOR TO LET YOU KNOW HOW FUCKING TIRED I AM OF IT.
BUT SINCE I'M FORCED TO ENDURE IT TIME AND TIME AGAIN, I'M GONNA DO YOU ALL A BIG FUCKING FAVOR.
NO NEED TO THANK ME OR ANYTHING.
YOU CAN THANK ME BY FUCKING OFF TO THE ENCHANTED LAND THAT EXISTS IN CLOTHING STORAGE.
AND LEAVING ME ALONE.

I DON'T KNOW IF IT HAS TO DO WITH THAT HUGE BREECHBEAST THAT TORE THIS PLACE DOWN OR WHATEVER.
BUT I USUALLY GET AN HOUR OF THIS PARALYSIS SHIT WHENEVER SOMEONE GETS IT IN THEIR HEADS TO OFF ME.
WELL I GOT THE HOUR OF LAYING ON MY ASS DOING NOTHING.
BUT I WOKE UP A LITTLE BEFORE THAT?
DON'T ASK ME HOW, BECAUSE I DON'T FUCKING KNOW.
SINCE I WAS DEAD AND EVERYTHING.
I DON'T REMEMBER A LOT, IT WASN'T FOR LONG, AND IT PROBABLY ISN'T EVEN RELEVANT, BUT I KNOW A FEW OF YOU LOSERS GET YOUR JOLLIES OUT OF TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF SHIT THAT HAPPENS AROUND HERE.
SO THERE YOU GO.
YOU'RE WELCOME.
ALLOW ME TO REMIND YOU OF THE "FUCKING OFF" CLAUSE THAT COMES WITH THIS INFORM8TION.

Comments

[chronomancer]

you wwoke up
wwhile you wwere dead
...nevvermind
if yer tired a dyin vvantas
you might wwant to stop givvin people reason to cull your ass?

[caliginous]

YES AMPORA.
I WOKE UP WHILE I WAS DEAD.
GLAD TO KNOW WE HAVE THE READING COMPREHENSION THING DOWN PAT.

MAN, I MUST HAVE REACHED A NEW LOW.
GETTING ADVICE ON STAYING ALIVE FROM THE HERO OF DYING.
OR WAS IT TIME?
SOMETIMES I CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE.

[chronomancer]

see
this is exactly wwhat i mean
oh
an by the wway

Suck My Bulge Asswwipe

[caliginous]

CHECK OUT THE HOT POURING DEVICE CALLING THE HEATED HOLD CELL BLACK.
DON'T TALK THE TALK IF YOU 8N'T GONNA WALK THE WALK, ERIDAN.

I AM AND WILL FOREVER ALWAYS BE KARKAT VANTAS.
I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT YOU OF ALL PEOPLE WOULD'VE GOTTEN THE MEMO.

[chronomancer]

except unlike you shithead
wwhen i got tired a dyin? I Stopped Dyin
so wwhy dont you stop makin your ass extra cullable
instead a talkin about walkin

oh yes
you definitely are karkat please-come-an-jam-a-shovvel-up-my-ass vvantas
howw could i havve forgotten that

[caliginous]

I'M TALKING ABOUT YOUR CALIGINOUS ADVANCES YOU STUPID BULGELICKER.
JESUS CHRIST.

AS FAR AS YOU NOT DYING.
WELL YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE A FUCKING CHOICE ANYMORE, DO YOU?
AND FOR YOUR INFORM8TION, PINHEAD, MOST OF MY CULLINGS WERE AT THE HANDS OF THE MANAGEMENT.

[chronomancer]

WWhat caliginous advvances
are you Delusional on top a evverythin else

sure do
its called not goin out a limb for ungrateful assholes

good job vvantas
here
havve a gold pin
noww shovve it up your nook an Stop Provvin My Point

[cullscuttlefish]

W)(at t)(e s)(ell, Karkat?! )(ow many mot)(erglubbing times )(ave you died?

Once )(ere was more t)(an enoug)( for me.

[caliginous]

YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO FORGET WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO AT A CONVENIENT POINT IN TIME, AMPORA.

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?
GO OUT ON A LIMB FOR WHO?
ME????????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
THAT'S RICH.
CALM YOUR RUMBLE SPHERES FOR TWO SECONDS AND GET A GRIP.
NAME ONE TIME HERE WHERE I'VE KICKED IT THAT YOU COULD'VE DONE A DAMN THING TO FIX.
I CAN GO AHEAD AND LIST EACH TIME FOR YOU IF THAT MAKES IT EASIER.
I'LL EVEN BE A CHUM AND THROW IN THE DEATHS THAT YOU WEREN'T HERE FOR.

[caliginous]

SEVEN.
I'VE BEEN HERE A YEAR.
YOU GET USED TO IT.

[chronomancer]

you havve a one track mind
or you are a one trick pony
i cant decide wwhich

you forgot the part wwhere i dont givve a fuck anymore
if the univverse is so fuckin hellbent on cullin yer ass vvantas
wwhos to say you aint deservvin a it

[caliginous]

DON'T FUCKING PLAY DUMB WITH ME.
THAT SHIT PISSES ME OFF.
YOU WOULDN'T HAVE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT STICKING YOUR NECK OUT IF YOU DIDN'T CARE.
SO DROP THE MELODRAMA.
YOU'RE STILL DEALING WITH THE KING OF IT.

[chronomancer]

i dont havve to play dumb wwhen do more than enough for both a us
evverythin pisses you off really
its called perspectivve you ought to get some it really helps
havvent evven picked it up yet
the only royal thing about you vvantas is howw much a royal pain ye are

[caliginous]

DODGING THE POINT DOESN'T RENDER IT INVALID, ERIDAN.
NOR DOES IT MAKE IT DISAPPEAR.
DON'T MAKE ME COME FIND YOU.
TO BE BLUNT, I'M FUCKING EXHAUSTED.
BUT I'M NOT GOING TO SIT AROUND AND LET YOU TIPTOE AROUND THE ISSUE LIKE A PRINCESS EITHER.

[chronomancer]

mmmm, so you want me to be blunt?
alright
you come an find me
an youre gonna die again
that good enough a point fer you?

[caliginous]

FINE.
IF YOU'RE SO HELL BENT ON RIDING OUT YOUR RAGE BONER, THEN BE MY GUEST.
YOU CAN EXPLAIN TO KANAYA WHAT HAPPENED AFTER YOU TAKE CARE OF ME.

[And then he disappears from the terminal. Time to find a jadeblood.]

[text]

[fractus_animus]

... How many times have you died, exactly?

I'm not asking to be rude, there may actually be a breakdown in their machines or something, and if that's the case, we... might want to try not to die anymore. You should maybe be more careful. We don't know what that whale broke, either.

Are you going to be okay?

[ Yeah you made him murder people and he just asked if you're okay ]

[chronomancer]

How fucking dare you use your moirail like that?
Come and fucking find me, Vantas, I'll teach you how to treat your moirail right, asshole.

[text]

[caliginous]

I HAD TO GO BACK AND COUNT.
BUT WE'RE UP TO A GRAND TOTAL OF SEVEN.
I DIED BEFORE THAT THING ATTACKED THE TOWER.







DID YOU MEAN TO SEND THAT MESSAGE TO SOMEONE ELSE?

[fucking awkward. he's also kind of terrified, because well. chidori kind of burned him alive. slowly. and he knows what's in your head, dude.]

[caliginous]

FUCK YOU.
I'M NOT USING HER FOR ANYTHING, YOU SHITHEAD.
ITS CALLED NATURAL PROGRESSION OF CONFLICT.
LEARN IT.
LIVE BY IT.
I HAVE A FEELING YOU'RE GOING TO BE SEEING A LOT OF IT.

[NOW he's leaving.]

[chronomancer]

If you think I won't pop your fucking head like a goddamn ripe grape the moment I see you, just because you brought up Kan, you don't fucking know me.
Which shouldn't surprise me, really, that's just how you are.
You were warned, you are being warned, right now, and let's hope you're as good following logical consequence as you are following logical progression of conflict.

So let me put it bluntly again, come any fucking near me again, Karkat Vantas, and I will shoot you.

Funny how you're good at asking to be left alone, but you fail so fucking utterly at understanding it when others do.

[caliginous]

[Karkat doesn't answer again, and he spends a long time following the faint feeling of fury until it grows too strong for him to follow without giving him a headache. Lo and behold, he will turn the corner to find Eridan, but he doesn't approach.

He also takes a deep breath, preparing himself to be shot as best he can. As he rounds the corner, he focuses to take a quick sweep of his intentions, where he's aiming and as he predicted, this asshole isn't looking to outright murder him. He had figured that was the case, else Eridan would have already tried to hunt him down, probably with a few cronies in tow.

He's not getting out of this unscathed, but he can make it with his life, he thinks. So he waits, very obviously stiff with both determination...and a rigidness that suggests he knows what's coming.

Psychics, man.]

[chronomancer]

[The rifle rolls into his hand the moment he sees Karkat. It takes him half a quarter of a second longer than his usual, to snap the gun up and shoot, aiming almost without looking. But he did look, because Karkat was right, he didn't want to shoot him. He doesn't want to hurt anyone, but he's reached the point where he can't take being hurt anymore. And Karkat never listens, so Eridan will have to make him listen.

The shot whistles past Karkat's head, close enough the heat of the laser could be felt, but clearly not enough to actually hurt. Eridan doesn't lower the gun, just stares at Karkat pointedly, wordlessly waiting for him to leave.

Please go away, he thinks, but unlike other times, it's not fear twisted savagely around the thought. He's tired and wary and still trying to keep a lid on the rolling unpleasantness napping at the bottom of his pan. He knows, he knows it's going to come out screeching if Karkat doesn't go away. The hurt and the pain and the urge to lash out and give back a measure of what he's got. Even out the score.]

[caliginous]

[He jumps -- how can he not? That thing was inches from his face. But he missed. On purpose.]

Didn't think so.

[Karkat approaches, still prepared to be shot, but he's a little more focused in Eridan's head now -- not on controling him just trying to predict what he's going to decide, whether to land a hit, fire another warning or not fire at all. All the while, he feels the stirring beast that's lurking in Eridan's head, but he pointedly ignores it. That's not a place he's going again.

Unless Eridan disables him before he gets there, he will stop a good distance away -- close enough that he doesn't have to shout to be heard.]

I did the whole killing people thing, Eridan. Its not as much of a stress reliever as they want you to believe.

[chronomancer]

[Eridan growled, lips pulling back into a snarl without much conscious thought. He didn't want to hurt anyone, much less kill someone else. He's never killed anyone, and he knows, instinctively, that he's not going to like the way it'll change him, if he does. But he's tired and angry, and so pointedly tired of and angry at Karkat, that he can't help but entertain the thought a little.]

Only someone as monumentally stupid as you, would think of killing as a stress reliever, Vantas.

[And of course he would, why wouldn't he? He's Karkat fucking Vantas. He's always had everything he wants, he's always been in control of everything. Of course the lives of others would be nothing more than tools to someone like him. Eridan felt a pang of disgust at the thought, which slowly rouses the thing in his head. In his lucid moments, he desperately tries to separate himself from it. To put a distance and remind himself that's not him, even though he knows that's a lie and that every bit of nasty, bloodthirsty, violent yearning is his.]

For the love of fuck, just go away.