019 ♋ Voice

[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]

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.

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[usedshooshpap]

Shitty bright red, yeah I know. It doesn't change the fact that it's a disgusting hue for blood.

[ and yet... it's Karkat's hue. in his eyes and in his blood. ]

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[shadowdive]

It's not disgusting to me. [Lifting the shard to look at the blood on it now, he's half watching Karkat on the other side of it.] I don't know about Ventus, but I've always liked the color red.

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[usedshooshpap]

[ Karkat isn't looking. just busying himself with looking elsewhere. ]

It freaked all of us out, seeing what color humans bleed. Hell, Eridan had a bitchfit upon finding his royal color was now mutated into something it's not meant to be.

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[shadowdive]

Did you? [Watching very carefully now.]

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[usedshooshpap]

[ snorts. ]

Of course I flipped shits over the changes.

[ all of the changes. not the blood color. ]

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[shadowdive]

Over the blood, I meant. [Narrowing his eyes just slightly, though there's a brief thought and -- well, his imagination is just taking a guess at what Karkat usually looks like. thanks fourth wall] Yours.

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[usedshooshpap]

It would have qualified as a "change" right? Who WOULDN'T freak out seeing their blood as a mutated red? Not me, that's who. Of course there's room to fucking panic.

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[shadowdive]

I'm taking a guess from the strong opinion against red. [Hinting.]

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[usedshooshpap]

Step the fuck off, Vanitas.

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[shadowdive]

It's not like I'm going to tell anyone. [Tossing the ice shard aside, Vanitas lifts his limp arm out of the sling and dips his head down enough to clamp his mouth over the cut he gave himself. He might not be feeling a thing cause of the ice, but making it quit bleeding is something to do.]