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[alienates]

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. ]

Comments

c;

[notbunaga]

[She's not sure why she decided to go to the retrospec building after work; if anyone had any luck making progress already she's sure they'd have announced it, but...still, maybe it just never hurts to try. Maybe she'll be the one who stumbles onto something important by pure chance...

Yeah, fat chance. But here she is anyway.

The sound of someone on the inside is fairly promising though. Maybe there's something going on? Nobu opens the front door and--!]

You've got to be kidding me.

[Are they ever going to stop running into each other?]

[alienates]

[ never, they are destined to never rest.

at the sound of the familiar voice, karkat immediately turns around and just... makes a face. he does stop ranting though, so there's that. ]

You are definitely stalking me. There is literally no other explanation for this level of fuckery.

[notbunaga]

Like I'd believe that. You were probably waiting for me here.

[She steps into the building and lets the door close behind her.

For real though, that aside-]

What're you doing here?

[alienates]

Uh. Just... looking around.

[ his hands immediately shoot to cover the horns, but then he remembers that he's still wearing the hat so his arms just. awkwardly fall back to his side. he is very smooth. ]

Maybe seeing if there are any clues.

[notbunaga]

[...Hm.

She definitely wants to take that hat off now.]

Find anything useful?

[alienates]

[ he just gestures at the empty reception room. ]

Huh! What do you think?

[ no he has not found anything useful. then again, he hasn't really looked anywhere. ]

[notbunaga]

I think you probably overlooked something.

[She takes a look around the room, but everything does look the same, doesn't it?]

But maybe if we each take one side of the room, we'll have more luck.

[alienates]

Yeah, sure.

[ he will step away from the receptionist desk. since he's here already then he might as well try to do something useful aside from yelling at nothing.

before he moves too far though, he pauses. ]

What are you doing here?

[notbunaga]

Hoping one day I'll come into this building and find something useful.

[She points to the left.

Well.

Her left.]

You check over there, okay?

[alienates]

[ he gives her a look that kind of reads as suspicious, but he will walk in the direction that she pointed at. ]

If that happens then maybe the world is actually ending. I mean, who has ever found a corporation that was ever useful?

[notbunaga]

[He should be suspicious, because as he walks over she follows up behind him to try and take his hat off.

IT WAS ALL A RUSE.]

[alienates]

Motherfucker!

[ he immediately goes to cover his horns ]

[notbunaga]

[That's about what she expected...so there is something going on.]

Alright Vantas, let's see.

Take your hands down.

[alienates]

What hands?

[ the ones on top of your head. ]

I'm just stretching.

[notbunaga]

[Yeah, well.

She smacks him in the face with his hat tbh]

[alienates]

Every single time I think you cannot become any more irritating, you somersault through the obnoxious olympics and win the fucking gold again and again.

[ he is going to grab the hat??? he is

no longer attempting to cover the horns though ]

[notbunaga]

[...well.

Not to make anything awkward, but he'll get the hat back with ease, simply because...she's staring. She's very noticeably staring.

Because those are horns, Karkat. What the fuck.]

[alienates]

Holy shit, can you go back to insulting me because the creepy staring is like ten times worse.

[ karkat has decided that he prefers when people just flat out comment on the horns at this point because at least then he knows what they're thinking. ]

[notbunaga]

Did you glue candy corn to your head?

[She knows in her heart it ain't what happened, but...]

[alienates]

I am going to pretend like you didn't just say that because my opinion of you is already low enough that we don't need to add "stupid" to the list of your offenses.

[ no, he did not glue candy corn to his head. ]

[notbunaga]

Me? I'm not the one with stupid looking candy horns stuck to his head.

[HOPE YOU'RE NOT INSECURE OR ANYTHING

But she isn't the soft friend.

Still, she walks closer and stares at them again curiously.]

This is so weird. I've heard of eye colour changing but this is something else, man.

[alienates]

[ karkat? insecure? never. he is the most confident person of all time. ]

Ha ha, you think it's weird? Imagine being the one with horns stuck to your damn head.

[notbunaga]

...I wonder. Do they qualify as horns?

[Yeah she just

Pokes one]

They look like...bumps.

[alienates]

[ slaps her hand away!! ]

Of course they qualify as horns. What are you, a horn expert?

[ for someone who really hates them he is suddenly very defensive about his horns. ]

1/3

[notbunaga]

[Don't say it.]