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[usedshooshpap]

Vanitas, would you fucking like to stop your constant need to squirm around?

Shut up, I need a minute to prepare

[ snort. ] If you tense up, you'll only make this fucking worse for yourself.

[ so, so dry. ] Oh, ha ha, you say that like it's not going to hurt. Give me something to bite. [ a beat. ] Your arm is preferred.

It will only hurt like the human conception of Hell for a few seconds, you big wiggler. If you need something to bite, then use your Vanillish. C'mon, Will. Get over here.

[ there's the thudding of footsteps followed by a low 'Axorrrr' from Will, Karkat's Haxorus. ]

I'm not biting that, it tastes like crap! And it's going to hurt long after you shove it back into place, idiot! Get me something to bite or I'm calling this off.

[ another groan. ] Oh my god. Fine! [ the sound that hits the Gear is Karkat digging through his bag. ] Take my extra shirt, shit for brains.

[ there's a grunt and Karkat starts again: ] On the count of three. One... Two - [ insert pop sound and a roar. ] Three.

FFUCK! [ that's a scream, not a yell. ]

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[shadowdive]

[Speaking around food in his mouth, yup.]

What a way to leave an impression.

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[usedshooshpap]

[ turns and just GLARES. ]

Shut your fucking mouth. Jack was the best thing to happen to me in that shitty game.

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[shadowdive]

For slicing you open? [Frowning at the glare.]

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[usedshooshpap]

I don't even care about that. He didn't do it again. Well, might have slapped me around a bit, but I needed it. Jack was a really great ally and friend, okay?

[ quiets a little and bites his lip. ]

He also was the first moron ever to see me bleed.

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[shadowdive]

Whatever, if you say you needed it. [That makes him curious though, raising an eyebrow and sitting up a bit more.]

Yeah? What's that about?

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[usedshooshpap]

What's what about?

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[shadowdive]

Seeing you bleed? What's the big deal with that?

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[usedshooshpap]

Trolls have different blood colors? I never bothered to tell anyone what mine was. Terezi figured it out and I have no idea who else knows.

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[shadowdive]

So? Blood is blood.

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[usedshooshpap]

Certain shades get you culled more often than others. Then toss in the fact that shades define caste. Caste is your fucking social standing. Sea dwellers like Eridan are at the top and lowbloods like Sollx are towards the bottom.

Blood matters.

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[shadowdive]

What's the color range? [Simple, curious question, but he's messing with a big ice shard that's fallen off his frosted shoulder.]

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[usedshooshpap]

Rust red to tyrian.

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[shadowdive]

... That's definitely a range. [He's giving Karkat a curious look, almost expecting but not asking.] You don't like sharing what yours is then, huh.

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[usedshooshpap]

It's only twelve shades though. Between them is brown, mustard, lime, olive, jade, turquoise, cerulean, blue, indigo, violet.

And mine? It's none of anyone's business what it is.

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[shadowdive]

It's still more than anything I've heard of. People bleed red, animals bleed red and plants bleed green goop if you crush them hard enough. That's all I've known.

You're ashamed of it.

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[usedshooshpap]

I am not ashamed of anything! It just shouldn't fucking matter.

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[shadowdive]

It shouldn't, but it does to you. Refusing to tell anyone makes it easy to tell it's a lower ranked color.

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[usedshooshpap]

There are no colors on the hemospectrum that are a lower rank than the low bloods I mentioned. It's just really private!

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[shadowdive]

That's what I meant. With being defensive, you're making it more obvious. They just can't be sure of which it is. [He's trying to help you out bro. Finishing his sandwich though.]

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[usedshooshpap]

Oh please. They've been guessing for sweeps and they never figured it out.

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[shadowdive]

At least until someone cuts your cheek or something easy like that. You wouldn't be killed anymore for the shade though, right?

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[usedshooshpap]

[ Karkat pauses, blinking slowly. ]

I... I don't know.

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[shadowdive]

[Picking up a few pieces of crust left on his plate, he flicks one at Karkat.]

I guess if you're still not sure, that's one thing. I'd rather you weren't killed over something as stupid as blood color.

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[usedshooshpap]

[ he brushes it off with a snort. ]

Oh please. They wouldn't here. Everyone has the same shitty color.

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[shadowdive]

Red. [Looking down at his arm in the sling, Vanitas thinks nothing of it to use that ice shard in his hand to nick the top of his limp arm. Just enough to draw a few dots of blood.]

Not that shitty. I like the color red. Means I'm still alive if I bleed.