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[wrigurun]

What wedding? I didn't know there was a wedding...

Are you listening? Hey!

[Wriggle bashes the terminal a few times and leans in closer as if that would help her see them again. She looks slightly uneasy but still curious]

Where'd you guys go? What else were you talking about?

Hey!

[She can barely recall the memories of using the terminal as an adult and she'd been fiddling with one when the video feed had suddenly turned on. It doesn't seem like she has any idea of what she's doing]

Comments

[Text.]

[hystericull]

settle all the motherfuck down, there, slugger.

[video]

[wrigurun]

[She leans in closer to the screen, squinting a little at the text]

su- se... sell... bow... uh...

...

What about slugs?

[Living in a forest doesn't give you the best reading comprehension]

[Text.]

[hystericull]

the fuck, girl.
I AIN'T FUCKIN EVEN GETTING MY USE ON OF THE FUNNY QUIRK.
and you all still can't motherfuckin get your read on of my noise.
THE FUCK'S A BROTHER ALL UP AND TO MOTHER FUCKING DO? :o(

[video]

[wrigurun]

The foo... fa...

[Wriggle sat back with a grumble of frustration]

I can't read all that! Can't you put the pictures back up like before?

[Text>Video.]

[hystericull]

pictures?
:o?
OH.

[Give him a second. The video switches on abruptly, revealing a Gamzee - now back in adolescent form! He is much smaller than he was the last time they'd spoken over video. His hair was only a small mountain of roadkill, his horns the length of a forearm instead of two full limbs. Same old stupid clown paint, though. Can't win 'em all.]

That better?

[video]

[wrigurun]

Ah! It's you!

[It wasn't a fearful sound, more like one of surprise]

What are you doing there? What happened to the other guys?

[hystericull]

Tch!

[He clicked his tongue in annoyance, lifting his arms up defensively.]

Fuckin' shit, fine! A brother can up and see when all he ain't being motherfuckin' wanted!

[video]

[wrigurun]

I didn't say you had to leave, I was just surprised it was you...

So do you know what happened to the others or not?

[hystericull]

[Headtilt.]

Who, now?

[wrigurun]

You know, the other people who were talking just now. The other moving pictures.

[hystericull]

Oh.

[He shrugs.]

Guess I was all seein' them fuckin' what's before. But, uh... guess they were up and not wantin' other bitches to be gettin' their peeps on at their private shit.

Turned the motherfuckin' feed off like shakin' the last of the stardust up out your motherfuckin' faithpouch.

[wrigurun]

[She nods, very slowly, trying her best to translate what Gamzee just said]

So... It really is like a moving photograph? Stuff that happened in the past?

And it stopped because they didn't want people to see? ...Right?

[hystericull]

Well, uhhh... yeah?

[Gamzee shrugs, lifting his arms up a little and wiggling them around.]

Like what's we're all motherfuckin' yappin' over right the fuck now. Dunno if the shit was in, like, real fuckin' time or if they was to not be motherfucking knowing they was all up to be being recorded like what they all fuckin' were.

Sometimes you do shit you ain't fucking wanting people to be seein'.

[He laughed, letting his arms drop to his sides again.]

[wrigurun]

Haha, I guess you're right.

I hope nothing embarrassing I've done has shown up on these things.

[She scratches the back of her head slightly sheepishly and glances at the ground. If she had done anything embarrassing she sure couldn't remember it but that doesn't mean it didn't happen]

Do you use these things a lot? I sometimes see people sitting at them but I could never read what they were saying. I think some of them got mad at me for looking over their shoulder.

[hystericull]

[Gamzee leans back in his chair, propping his legs up on either side of the monitor and resting his hands on his stomach. He was getting comfy now, because he had nothing better to do, and because shooting the shit with this little bug always cracked him up.]

Sometimes...

[He said this in a scary voice, like one might use to tell a story to a child.]

Sometimes, the fuckin' camera gots a mind for it's motherfucking own. Turns itself the fuck on when ain't no one be all fuckin' wantin' it to.

[After leaning forward, eyes wide, for that moment of dramatic reveleation, Gamzee slumps back again.]

I use it sometimes. When all I ain't be much wanting to type the fronty noise up from my pan out my motherfucking digits. Maybe use it more fuckin' often so alls you're being able to fuckin' know what I'm on about.

[He tilts his head, smirking a bit as he shoves a finger in his nose.]

Ain't nothin' no peeps in the tower gonna get me cross at them for fuckin' filming of me. Ain't got a stitch of modesty in this fuckin' big-ass body mine, and to be fuckin' real witchu, peeps what get sassy at a girl for gettin' her curiosity on at them be fuckin' shitsticks needin' their ungrateful pump biscuits tore right from their mother FUCKING CHESTS.

[He leaned his head back, honking out a few laughs.]

[wrigurun]

[The voice certainly made her uneasy but she knew there was no immediate danger if he was behind a screen]

W-well it's not like you need to be that harsh. I wouldn't be mad if they just told me what they were doing.

Guess they must be pretty important, huh... We didn't have anything like this where I came from. Well, we did have something that would take pictures without you knowing, but they were a tengu and not...

[She gives a few hand motions to indicate the terminal]

This.

[hystericull]

[Gamzee leaned forward again, lifting his lip in a rather unattractive expression of confusion.]

What the fuck's a ten goo.

[wrigurun]

Tengu... they're uh... They're yokai, usually birds but I think I've seen wolf tengu too. They live on Youkai mountain and one of them runs a newspaper... I think.

I don't remember.

[hystericull]

[Wow. Those were a lot of words he didn't know. Gamzee just stared at the screen, mouth hanging open dumbly.]

Shit, I ain't even knowing what the motherfuck any of what it all was what you just motherfuckin' were saying.

[wrigurun]

Really? I guess that's kind of what it feels like talking to you then.

[What is tact?]

[hystericull]

Fuck, I make motherfuckin' perfect sense, yo.

[He throws his hands up in exasperation.]

Y'all just gotta fuckin' be up and cleaning the buggy gunk up out your motherfucking hear ducts.

[wrigurun]

That's exactly my point! What the hell are hear ducts- oh...

[She brings up her hands to pat the sides of her head]

You mean ears, right? Why not just say 'ears'? It's like twice as short.

[hystericull]

"Ears."

[He spat the word out in a snooty, disgusting voice.]

Stupid fuckin' human word.

[wrigurun]

It's not a human word! Even humans and youkai speak pretty much the same language, geez!

[hystericull]

Stop with the fuckin' gibberish! That's my mother fucking shtick!!!

[He furrowed his brows.]

The fuck's a yolk eye!? You makin' fun of me!? Shit be fuckin' racist, motherfucker!