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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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[Anya does not in fact share this class with Karkat - but she knows some people who do. She might've been passing by just to see someone else, but an NPC alerts her on their way out of the classroom that Karkat left all his stuff behind. That's... That's definitely a cause for concern.

So that's why she's wandering back into the classroom to gather his stuff and put it in his backpack so she can put it on top of her own. She shoots him a text:]

class is over
i have your things
where are you ?
everything ok ?

[ karkat does not reply right away for many reasons. the first is that he is still too busy internally screaming about the horns to really do much else properly. the other reasons are more or less is that he has no idea what to even... say? about this??

so, yes. there is a longer delay than usual. eventually he will pull his phone out to tap out a quick reply. ]

Bathroom near my class.
Something uhh
Happened

[ anya is at least already aware of the weirdness of his memory shit, so. there's that. ]

[that's concerning.

and so is his response and that's why sure, it's probably a boys bathroom but anya is shameless about stepping right through the door because she doesn't have time for useless gender markers when HER FRIEND NEEDS HER.

so surprise there is an anya within like a minute of that text being received and read]

What happened?

[ karkat had ventured out of his stall to look at his horns in the mirror again. you know, just in case the five hundredth time they would suddenly vanish. no, they did not.

when the door opens, he immediately goes to dart back in, but then he sees who it actually is... there is a small moment where it looks like karkat is still going to make a break for it, but he eventually just sighs and slumps against a closed bathroom stall. ]

Look, Anya. The freak show is in town and I'm the prima donna.

[ he just points at his head. ]

[Immediately:] Do not talk about yourself that way.

[before it even... registers what he's talking about... when Anya actually sees the horns, she surprise is clear. Her eyebrows raise and she opens her mouth - but ends up shutting it again, pursing her lips. In truth, she's not sure how to articulate what she's feeling....

So instead she's just going to open her arms out to him for a hug and admit sadly:]

I am... still finding words.

[So... take a hug for a quick second instead?]

[ he could make another joke about it. or just be angry and rant about how this is bullshit, how comes he gets whatever the hell this is? at least with a change in eye color it's a lot easier to hide them or you won't notice it from farther away, but this

there's a slight moment of hesitation but he does wrap his arms around her for a hug. ]

What the fuck is wrong with me?

[When he eases into the hug, she responses by holding onto him tightly, as if that'll manage to get her feelings across. Even though she's gotten used to the language barrier, she can't help but hate the fact that everything she wants to tell him right now is... in Russian.

"You never know, this might just be a temporary thing. Eventually people won't even notice. This doesn't change anything about who you are."

What she gives him is less eloquent:]

Nothing. Nothing is wrong with you. Nothing will ever be wrong with you.

[ . . . ah, but "everything is right with you" isn't correct either.]

We will find answers. Promise.

[ there is a possible answer, staring him in the face, and even though he brought it up to anya in the past he doesn't want to mention it now. alien alien alien.

it's one thing to get weird visions where you're calling yourself one, you can brush that aside. but to suddenly have a feature that is... very inhuman appear on you? it makes things seem a lot more factual than it did before and less like wild theories. ]

People are going to stare at me so much oh my god.

They could be hair clips. Anya will get a pair. We will share.

[That'll honestly be her first order of business - she'll skip dance practice today to go to the craft store just to make little hair clips that match the ones on his head. They're not even gross-looking? If anything they're cute. She thinks she can start a new fashion trend if she works hard enough.]

Hеобыкновенный. Then Anya will be the more odd one. Silver hair and horns. I will be even more anime than Davechka.

[So she looks up and lifts one hand to brush his hair aside so she can face more clearly.]

Okay? Do not worry about them.

[ sometimes karkat can pretend that he does not adore anya more than he likes his other friends, but then stuff like this happens and he cannot in good faith lie about how much he loves his best bro. friend.

he snorts at what she says. it's ridiculous but he completely believes that she would do it, which is... coming from someone else he might think they're mocking him, somehow, or that they're just saying anything to make him feel better. not her though. ]

When I start sprouting tentacles it'll be harder for you to match.

[ that's a joke at least. ]

I will still try.

[Anya is unstoppable, remember? Still she can't help but look fond even as she gives him a smile. Then a gesture for him to bend down a little bit - they're the same height and she does have about an inch on him because of her heels at the moment but it's still not quite enough for her to feel comfortable.]

Be понизить? Lower?

If this is your way of making a short joke, I swear to god--

[ and yet he still does as he is told, because even if the words sound gruff, his tone really isn't. if anything he just sounds tired. this has been a very long day already, and it's barely even started. ]

[Don't worry, it's not.

Anya just smiles at that, choosing not to answer as she proceeds with her plan of action, Which is to take one of Karkat's hands in hers even as she lets herself rise to a practiced dancer's relevé for a moment, up on her tip toes. Then it's quick as she uses her other hand to brush aside his bangs so that she can press her lips to his forehead in a gesture that she hopes is reassuring. That's what her mama always did when she was fussed.]

Horns. Tentacles. Fangs. Alien or human. It will not matter. It is душа... Your heart is the same.

And I will always love you. So you will not be alone. Вместе... We will make it better together.

[ the boys bathroom is not a place karkat ever though he would be feeling very strong friendship emotions and yet, here he is. it's happening. he's glad that there's no one else to see this since it's a little embarrassing, but even that gets overshadowed by relief.

he can't be sure about forever, but at least he has someone with him for now. that's more than he would have thought was possible before. ]

What if my heart grows tentacles?

[Oh... She offers a little smile, amused as she leans back and presses one finger to her lips.]

Секрет. We will keep a secret.

[Sort of like... how they need to keep this one? She glances over to the bathroom door that she entered in, then back to Karkat and tilting her head.]

I will ask to borrow a hat? Until I can make hairclips.

[who can say no to anya when she wants something

also yeah she was serious]

[ of course she was serious. he takes a moment to press his hand to his face because it's pretty funny when you think about it. he drops his hand, and his expression just says he has accepted this. ]

If you can? Because otherwise I am living in this bathroom for the rest of my life. Find drapes for my stall.

No, that is not cute at all.

[Karkat's going to have a nice house with a nice spouse that he meets in a romcom situation - not some stinky bathroom in a high school. So that's why Anya is going to take a moment, leaving their items behind and... she probably stops literally the first person she sees.

Are they friends? Well they're apparently friends now as she comes back with the ridiculous hat for Karkat.

Yaaaaaay.]

Here!

[listen you gotta make compromises for swiftness]

[ karkat stares at the hat

then stares some more.

it is a testament to how much he does not want people to see the horns that he takes the hat out of anya's hands. he doesn't put it on right away though, and just looks at it some more, trying to figure out which of his life decisions put him on the path that lead him down this road of destruction.

after another moment, the hat goes on his head. ]

[Despite everything, Anya claps.]

Xорошо! It works.

[ . . . that was the whole point, right.

No fashion statements being made today.]

[ he has to look at himself in the mirror and karkat has to do some mental gymnastics to convince himself that it is worth it to go out like this. ]

Where did you get this anyway?

[ he... wouldn't be surprised if she just had it for some reason? but he has never seen a hat like this in anya's possession before, so ]

Um... I asked?

[like some rando walking by in the hall. to her credit, she did ask if they had lice first. did she just ask for the hat off their head??? did they just give it to her????

it's Anya, so like

probably]

[ thank you for asking about lice, anya. because normally karkat would probably bitch about that, but at the moment he is too caught up in other thoughts to think about what may come out of sharing headwear with another person.

later on, though, he will probably text anya all "LICE???" or something, when he is more calm. ]

... Thanks. How did you know something happened anyway?

[calm is left for another time - for right now, Anya's offering a smile at that even as she's picking up her backpack, moving to let it settle on her back. then she's picking up his backpack and offering it out to him too]

Someone told Anya that you had left your things.

[easy! amazing what you can discover when you've got a decent social network]

That seemed странный.... odd!

[ he accepts his bag, quickly looking through it to make sure none of his classmates raided his shit. he trusts anya but he does not trust them. ]

I wasn't expecting to be gone this long.

[ he just wanted to use the bathroom.... ] When I got in here, the horns were just. There suddenly?

Ah... A bad surprise.

[Though she shakes her head. It's less of a problem now and will hopefully be less of a problem over time. At some point, she started getting less stares over her odd hair. Hopefully it'll be the same in this case.]

Do you want to see a doctor?

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