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WHO: karkat and you!
WHERE: various locations, two prompts are at the high school though.
WHEN: forward dated to monday (4/10)
WHAT: guess who has two thumbs and just regained his troll horns? THIS GUY.
WARNINGS: none at the moment except for explicit language from karkat!

a; morning at recollé high

[ if you share a first period 12th grade english class with karkat, you will notice that at one point he gets up to go to the bathroom, leaving his backpack at his desk. you will also, eventually, notice that he just never comes back. it's almost like he just suddenly decided to skip altogether, which is a little weird considering all of his stuff is still at the classroom? he misses the rest of the class. if you have his phone number maybe you text him to see what's up?

likewise, if you enter one of the boys bathroom, you might spot karkat fussing over himself in front of the mirror. when he sees you come in, he will immediately stop what he's doing to rush into one of the bathroom stalls. you might catch what looks like two, small orange shapes on his head?? weird. anyway, karkat has made this bathroom stall his home and he is just camping out in here for whatever reason. ]

b; afternoon at recollé high

[ or it's his home until security kicks him out of the bathroom.

so now you might run into karkat frantically speed walking through the halls. he seems to have acquired a hat, which is fine, except for whenever a teacher makes him take it off in which case karkat goes back to covering his the top of his head with his hands.

whether you spot him while he's wearing the stylish hat or while he is trying to cover his new nubs on his head, he is not going to look very happy. ]

The "what the hell are you looking at?" line is really goddamn cliche, but I swear to god I will unironically use it if you don't stop staring.

c; late afternoon, all around the city

[ while karkat would love to just run home the second school ends, he unfortunately has shit to do today. you might spot him returning books to the library, or maybe at the freshens, buying pet food for his army of cats. maybe you run into him in the streets! no matter where you see him, though, he is going to be nervously tugging down his very fashionable hat and glaring at anyone who looks at him for longer than two seconds.

at one point you can even spot him inside the retrospec building! if you're on the outside, it'll just look like he's talking to himself. if you pop inside, you will discover that he is, in fact, talking to himself! well. he's yelling. at the nonexistent staff. ]

-- and hey, maybe next time you can turn my fucking dick into candy corn too, so that way when you're choking on it it'll be more pleasant, you shady, poor excuse of--

[ maybe you should just shut the door and walk away tbh. ]

d; evening, grub mart

[ finally, late at night, you can find karkat at his job at grub mart, a convenience store in tisse. unfortunately, due to dress code, karkat is not allowed to wear his hat, so his horns are just out there. he keeps trying to hide them like he had been earlier, but at this point he more or less has completely given up on life and is ready for death.

seriously just end him. ]

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Are you implying that there is something wrong with my hat?

[ karkat is fully aware there is something wrong with the hat. he hates this hat, but he hates his horns more, and for some reason it did not not hit him to go and just buy a new one.

anyway, even if he hates this hat, he will not tolerate someone who isn't him to shit talk it. ]

[What the fuck, someone as abrasive as she is??

Challenge accepted.]

No, but since you're bringing it up, fucking guess.

[Lucy actually had no real opinions on it besides a superficial "what am I looking at," but now she's involved.]

[ unfortunately, karkat has been having a really bad day, so his fight instinct is even more active than usual. and since it's pretty damn active in the first place, well....

bring it. ]

Too bad I only listen to the opinions of people who are in any way relevant, and you definitely are far from that mark!

[Lucy doesn't roll her eyes, but she does give him a look. That kind of shoulders-down, staring-over-imaginary-glasses look of the unimpressed.

It was different from Lucy's usual expression, honest.]

Oh fucking no, you sure told me.

[children please don't start a brawl in petsmart]

[ they are going to get banned and karkat will hold a grudge forever. ]

What? Is that all you have to say? No other clever response? You don't have to stop at the hat, rip apart the rest of my outfit! Since you are obviously goddamn Tyra Banks and have the authority for this.

[place your bets on how long it takes someone to call the cops]

Like hell I'm listening to you! I was talking about the fucking hat!

Yes, and I am pretty attached to this hat, and it's obvious that you are so oblivious to things that are fashionable that Victoria herself could shit her secret on your bedspread and you wouldn't even notice.

[ KARKAT YOU DON'T EVEN LIKE THIS HAT ]

[Lucy's abandoned her nonchalant posture entirely, shifting the bag to the side, half stepping forwards, and leaning to get up in his face. The speed in which she went from irritable ambivalence to rage was whiplash inducing.

Some of the other customers were starting to look a bit nervous.]

So what, is that your security blanket too?

[A+ deescalation]

[ it's okay, other customers. what is the worst that can happen? ]

If it's my security blanket then it's doing a really piss poor job because I am being violently attacked by your breath right now. At first I thought that cat litter was meant for your cats, but now I'm starting to think that you purposely shove it into your mouth because the usual bullshit that spews out of it wasn't putrid enough.

[ you know what, nevermind, the other customers have every right to be worried. ]

[Nope. That was it. There goes her patience. With an almost-audible snapping noise, even.

Lucy's left arm was busy holding onto the bag, but her right was just fine for punching. Her fist flicked out for Karkat's face without further warning—and an employee grabbed her shoulder, pulling her back.

Lucy's anger immediately switched targets, from him to the rather beleaguered looking cashier.]

What?!

[ it's a good thing that cashier intervened because karkat has not regained any of his combat skills so he would have been fifty shades of fucked. but with how things turned out, he just looks rather smug, as if he wasn't just about to get knocked out. ]

Wow, calm down! [ he looks at the nearest other customer, who is still looking rather nervous. ] People these days are just always so hostile, aren't they? Such a goddamn shame!

[ yeah he's still baiting her. ]

[The cashier said something to the tune of "please calm down" or "you can't do that" or something similar, Lucy wasn't really paying attention. She was busy seething, not listening, and it was hard to focus on anything else but the smug look on his face.

But while Lucy couldn't punch Karkat from here, she could still kick his ass—potentially literally. Her foot lashed up and out at him before she wrenched her shoulder away from the cashier.]

[ holy shit!!!

karkat is not fast enough at all, even when he moves out of the way. so he doesn't get hit as badly as he would have if he stayed still, but she still manages to kick him in the leg pretty hard. ]

What's the matter? Skipped leg day? I barely felt that! [ karkat says mockingly, while trying very hard not to cry because jesus fuck that hurt what the hell he is going to be limping slightly ]

[Days since last incident: 32 0]

I'll kill you you little shit—

[And from the look in her eyes she was quite serious.

But before Lucy can get anywhere with that, several more employees yank her backwards and out of imminent murder range. Someone said more forcefully that she needed to leave. Surprisingly, she didn't tear herself out of their grasp. She wasn't so far gone that she didn't realize how much more of a mess assaulting an employee would make things.

Another cashier wiggled through the nervously milling and partially dispersed line until he was close enough to ask Karkat something similar. He was not getting paid enough for this, man.]

[ typically, karkat would make a much bigger deal about getting thrown out of a store, but today has been weird from start to finish and he would actually not prefer too much attention on himself because of the whole horn situation... which this argument did the opposite of? he had to defend his ugly hat okay. ]

Okay but can you guys kick me out after she's like, away, because I am pretty sure she was actually serious about killing me and I enjoy being alive?

[ HE JUST. WATCHES THEM DRAG HER AWAY... and sticks his tongue out at lucy, i'm sorry. ]

[Lucy eventually just drops the bag of litter in disgust, and shakes off the employees. It was very, very, very hard not to immediately run back at him, especially when Karkat made that stupid fucking face.

But she was supposed to be better than this. And, just—ugh.

Lucy stalked out of the doors, knees and shoulders stiff. Other customers practically dived out of the way, so she didn't hit anyone else on the way out. She'd...probably have some explaining to do to her roommates.

In the meantime, the queen has left the building.]

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