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[ the video clicks on to a very disgruntled looking Karkat. if anyone looks carefully behind him, they can probably see Vanitas looking absolutely horrified. ]

I wondered when this would happen again. Lo and fucking behold, karma bit me in the ass once more. Meaning I go out to practice some of this swimming shit and when I come back I find these:

[ he pans the camera to a bed full of eggs. ]

Some of them were surprises and some of them were just because I got to fed up with dealing with beasts that apparently need to get their pail on. So I remedied the solution and ended up with some more. Fuck selling them, since I noticed we got some more new suckers drawn into the place, so they're free. Help me get rid of them, for the love of fuck.

Given what we have, I'd say there's Shinx, Swablu, Growlithe, Poochyena, Zubat, Skarmory, Mareep, Eevee, Bulbasaur, Mudkip, Feebas, and Vanillite. Delivery can be by bird or bat if need be just take these fucking things off our hands!

(( ooc: some of them are still up for grabs! ))

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And to think, it'd been a while since you had an egg to hatch.

Hardy fucking har har. Like I said. Karma.

It's an interesting method of solving the problem, though, to force breeding upon them as a means of getting it out of their systems. Though some might call it animal cruelty.

There's really no force required. Open a door, release the hounds so to fucking speak, shut the door, and come back in an hour or two. They'll do it on their own if they're compatible enough, it seems.

Ah. You take a more primal view of them than some people would, I see.

That's probably because my home planet had beasts that roamed the land, sea, and air. While initially wild, these monsters can end up choosing one of us to care for like a fucking bodyguard. Like a custodian, since our young aren't raised by adults. I don't really see a difference between a Lusus and one of these pokebeasts.

...And you're comfortable with the thought of shutting your parents up in a room and leaving them to breed in your absence?

[ okay, so THAT gets him to color a little. ]

IT'S NOT THE EXACT SAME! My team over here didn't raise me!

Though if the fucking crab wanted to get his pail on with a female crab, then I guess I would have just went to the movies or some shit.

And you were raised by a crab.

[There are some conversations in Yagyuu's life where he honestly stops and takes a minute to wonder if this is actually happening to him right now.

This is one of them.]

My point was simply, the more sentient you consider your creatures to be, the less appropriate it tends to seem to impose such...activities upon them. Even as mere suggestion or facilitation.

[ doing exactly as the icon shows now. ]

You act like I didn't understand what my Lusus was saying to me as a grub and when I popped out of the pupa. Yeah, they're sentient. I get that. But they also have instincts that need to be considered too.

...Evidently the human experience differs considerably from yours, since I presume from what you've mentioned that you're, ah. Not, in fact, human.

[He'll just adjust his glasses here.]

We don't traditionally comprehend much of anything for some time after we're born.

Troll, but I have some vague knowledge about the human rearing process. It's no wonder why most humans are so... Soft.

[ and he'll leave it at that. ]

I chalk that up to human grubs - babies whatever - not having nearly as much life and death situations as we do.

So long as you don't intend to ask me to explain it.

[Good. Way to be a bro, Karkat.]

Life and death situations of what variety?

[Because let's be honest, the trolls would probably love the way he and some of his friends play tennis.]

Not happening.

[ and yes, they would enjoy it... but unless someone dies it's not that much of a "sport." ]

Put it this way, grubs spend their existence in the brooding caverns that are carved into the subterranean levels of our planet. A fuck ton of eggs are laid, man. Yet we don't exactly have a need for population control. A lot of grubs die, to be honest. A grub and their Lusus aren't the only things that inhabit those caves. Another, unattached Lusus could be there. Or some other nookbreath and his Lusus might feel threatened and attacked.

[ he shrugs. ]

As soon as we finish coming out of the pupa, being bipedal with with real arms, we're expected to complete a series of trials. No weak links are permitted, you know?

[...Yeah, uh, funny story about that. ~~They totally do.~~]

Survival of the fittest from the very start. I suppose that must make you a formidable fighter in your own right, that you've lived to tell of it at all.

[ awesome. ]

Yeah, more or less. Highbloods kill off lowbloods all the time too. Sea dwellers can be especially vicious if provoked. You even have nookbiters that go out and run FLARP campaigns. Those stupid games usually end up with a death or two.

Personally, I spent my time training to become one of the most vicious members of our Fleet - a Threshecutioner.

There's a caste system based on blood type? What makes someone a highblood?

Blood color. Highbloods are in the blue range. Violet and tyrian are sea dwellers and the highest you can get. Rust red is at the bottom end of the spectrum.

Then I suppose the natural question to follow is: and what color is yours?

It's the eloquent shade of none of your fucking business.

Which makes it rust red, I presume.

Still, I suppose there are worse fates.

[ HE WOULD BE HAPPY TO BE RUST RED. ]

Ever think that I might just be of the fucking happy opinion that caste means fuck all in light of our race's extinction!? A lot of good it does to follow a goddamn archaic system when there's only twelve of you left!

No, actually, I wouldn't, because I couldn't possibly have known that there were only twelve of you left before now.

And overreacting so defensively to an offhand comment doesn't do much to help conceal the fact that you are, in fact, one of the 'lowbloods', as you put it. Not that I'm suggesting being one is inherently a bad thing, as you seem to assume; I'm simply curious where you fall in the spectrum, as it were.

[ GODDAMN IT.

one sec. hitting his head on the desk. again. ]

[That's cool, bro, take all the time you need, he'll just be over here being utterly unimpressed.]

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