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Oh my god... How can anyone want to stick around one place for longer than a few weeks when there's so much shit to get done? I've been settled in Vermillion for only about three weeks and I am already going absolutely shithive maggots. Maybe the best idea is to just blaze through those last few badges, I don't know. What I do know is that one way or another, I am getting the merry fuck on my way. Screw waiting for the weather warm up.

I think my Pichu is feeling it too because he's kind of sparking here and there. Is that normal? Like, my Ampharos when she was a Mareep had this problem, but what the shit do I do to avoid getting shocked this time around? It's not like I can just take care when brushing him! That and he thinks every damn thing is funny at the moment and it just sets him off! Right now it's a never ending spiral of shocking, what I think is giggling, and more shocking. Just make it stop, oh my god.

[ as if on cue, a little Pichu can be heard chiming in and an aggravated huff from a Zangoose. Karkat... he just groans. sighs... ]

Unrelated to all of the globetickling bulgehumps out there and my own trainer problems - which is to say that this message is only for those of my particular joint universes - where the blithering fuck is everyone? I just met up with Eridan a few days ago, but what about everyone else?

[ private to Rose ]

So um. There's a little bit of a problem.

I could ask Kanaya, but I thought... Uh...

[ /private ]

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Their attitudes can change slightly change after. Del wasn't as nearly irritable when he was a Shinx.

Better, thank god. I was starting to think that the pain would never dissipate.

Human puberty is stupid.

[ very stupid. ]

I'm glad you're feeling better!! Hopefully it's only going to get better from here on out, too.

I really, really pity the females. Oh my god do I pity every single human female in existence.

It's not so bad most of the time! It's just not at all like troll puberty.

...Let's see if we even live to go through that in our timeline.

You're not going to die for a while yet, Karkat! Trust me on this.

That still implies I die.

Everyone dies! That's natural. But I think you're being a bit too fatalistic about it! You seem to be saying we're going to lose.

We don't know that we're going to win though.

Maybe, maybe not! Have a little faith.

That's not my shitty aspect.

It's not mine, either, but give it a little time! You'll see.

Or you won't, since we're here.

I did go back. Once.

A coma like John's?

How the fuck am I supposed to get anyone's help on this? [Fixing a hard, hard stare on the Gear camera.]

You just ask. Think about it. Kanaya's here. Rose is here. Hell... I'm here.

Like any one of us wouldn't do anything less than drop what we're doing to help a friend out. Shit.

Yeah, I mean how.

As in what the fuck do I do.

[And then, realizing that sounded way too much like asking for help (which, incidentally, is exactly what it was), Sollux promptly takes a completely different direction to the question after a stilted moment of silence.]

It's my problem, not anyone else's. Unless they can jump into my brain and fix the circuitry like so many badly-plotted science fiction movies, I don't see what can be accomplished here.

Oh come off it. At the very least you wouldn't be alone to wallow in your own self inflicted misery.

[ and Karkat knows all about that. also knows that it kind of feels nice to have people he can fall back on when he needs them. ]

No, we can't fix your brain. Talking through all of the stuff might actually help. Rose can probably do her weird science crap and be more useful. Kanaya... Well we both know that Kanaya is a grade A meddler.

And me? I don't know. I just seem to have a knack for worming my way in and forcing you to actually open that maw of yours and move those mandibles around.

What have you got to lose, Captor?

The scattered and destitute remains of my pride?

Your pride already lives in a cardboard box on the streets, holding up signs as people pass by in hopes of gathering a few measly coins to make it through the day.

Yeah, we already established that, you shit.

[Just 'you shit'. That's all. He's not up to insult creation today.]

And mine's already crawled under the bridge and given up the charade, so just try.

Who the fuck is there even left to impress?

Me.

[He. Doesn't seem to realize how futile an effort this is.]

So your goddamn pride, or lack thereof, is more important than being able to figure your shit out. Okay, great. Now I know why we're fucking doomed.

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