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[cullscuttlefish]

[GUESS WHO'S BACK. BACK AGAIN. And is on the network to say hello. If you guessed a fish troll, you would be correct.]

...huh. Didn't think I'd ever sea this plaice again. It feels like everything and nothing have changed at the same time. New room, new people, same glubbing oatmeal.

[She laughs.]

How long has it been, anemoneway? Last thing I remember was getting a box of tentacles in my mailbox and a bunch of weird shadow kids following people around.

Right, right. I'm Feferi Peixes.

[She waves at the camera.]

I was here for - glubbing shell, I don't remember. You start to get somefin like aquadementia - ocean madness - after spending too much time on a dead world. Things get fuzzy.

I'm guessing, though, based on this timer and what people are saying, that we don't have a whole lot of time left. Figures that I'd be coming back at the end. It seems to be a thing!

[She doesn't look upset; more amused than anything.]

So. What did I miss? I want to hear everyfin.

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[cullscuttlefish]

[She nods.]

I'll get my fins under me soon enough.

[Fair enough, fair enough.]

Sorry, sorry. Just looks like you had a rough morning, though I probably don't look much betta. It feels like - I don't even glubbing know. Like I've been out entirely too long.

Yeah, I noticed. Can't tell how much time it is in sweeps or anyfin, but it's a shell of a lot less than I remember there being before I got swept out to sea. And nobody's going to be a ghost if I can kelp it.

[hystericull]

[Gamzee felt an incredulous smile tugging at his mouth after that last sentence.]

Well, ain't you all settling the fuck back into that Supergill role right quick as motherfuckin' ever?

[It was very obvious that Feferi and Gamzee had had different modes of operation when it came to this place. She was the take-charge heiress rallying the troops for the greater good, and Gamzee was... not. He couldn't say he was completely without admiration for her, though. It was just easier to make fun of her for it while simultaneously pretending like he wasn't an irrational, unorthodox oaf.]

Want a brother to all be, like, dragging out the royal suit of pink motherfuckin' fish-scale armors? Think you motherfuckin' left that bitchin' thing around here somewhere.

[Like, up his ass.]

[cullscuttlefish]

Supergill.

[She laughs. It's not like she doesn't know she's being made fun of, but she'll roll with it.]

I like it.

[But that really is how she operates; it's a product of having been groomed for a certain role pretty much since she'd been hatched combined with exactly how fucked-up the Tower was. Looking out for others was just part of it.

Even if they don't know they need looking after, or know but find it easier to do at arms' length.]

But I don't need any kind of armor or anyfin, even if I did have one. I've got my head on straight again - well, straight as it ever was - and if there's gonna be a fight? You bet your ass I want in.

[And she pauses.]

And, uh, Gamzee? I just found out somefin big. They killed that son of a beach Jason while we were gone.

[hystericull]

[Gamzee's waxing smile was brought to a sudden halt at the mention of one of the (now-former) administrators. He'd had an... interesting relationship with Jason, as pretty much everyone else had had. Having heard nothing about the current state of the Tower thus far, Gamzee was pretty obviously taken aback by the news. The scrap of playful attitude he'd had flitted away, and he was left with a more serious expression.]

That motherfuckin' so. Shame the fucking honors on what go to such a wicked task as what's that is wasn't one what's was motherfuckin' ours to have.

[Though, it did explain why he wasn't waking up with a fresh Frankenstein gash across his forehead. Who had put their bodies back together, then? It left a lot of questions that he wasn't sure he wanted answered. What would be the point of knowing?]

Who's "they", anyway?

[cullscuttlefish]

[Feferi's sorry to see that little bit of playfulness go, but the news had to come out. It didn't feel right to leave Gamzee in the dark about that.]

...yeah. It should've been - hell, I can't think of anyone who didn't want to kill him. I'm not gonna lie and say I wouldn't have been right there in the fight, and I'm pretty damn sure you wouldn't have stayed out of it, either.

[After that month in the pod? It almost feels like one of them should have been there just to watch the son of a bitch die.]

I don't know all the details. What I do know is that Ruana threw a bunch of people into a maze and told them to start killing each other. Then she threw Jason in there and everyone went after him.

...then she did her whole eating people thing, like she did before.