001 ♒ Text [March 12th]

[nauticalnightmare]

wwhale its pretty fuckin obvvious wwhats goin on around here
breww clearly understands wworth when it seas it
evven if its made a feww fuckin mistakes along the wway its at least done somethin right finally
an ill havve you all fuckin knoww you should be grateful that im wwillin to help if any a you wweapons are powwerful enough an fuckin wworthy enough to be wwielded by me
for the sake a bein generous im wwillin to evven ovverlook all a your inferiority and subject myself to minglin wwith humans to get this shit done
lookin for a powwerful long ranged wweapon wwho wwants to be paired wwith the soon to be best fuckin meister in this entire fuckin city
an speakin a this fuckin place
noww im not usually one to complain but wwhy the FUCK are wwe in a desert
wwhat kind a masochistic douchebags actually build a city in a cod forsaken place like this
i can almost already feel my fuckin gills dryin out as wwe speak
if i die like some pathetic beached wwhale theres gonna be fuckin hell to pay
an wwhat the fuck is wwith these cheap livvin arrangements
youd think a city beggin for help wwould at least givve some fuckin decent accommodations to its fuckin savviors
but i suppose i can ovverlook that for noww
after all when dealin wwith so many loww class ingrates its not alwways easy to pinpoint the more wworthy ones
an speakin a loww class
...
evveryone wwho gets dragged here has their wweapons taken awway from them right
say if someone had a fuckin chainsaww disguised as somethin totally innocent
it wwould still be taken awway from them wwouldnt it
cause otherwwise fuck you shibusen for not doin your fuckin job a keepin the peace
an wwhat about freaky fuckin psychic powwers
does anyone get to keep those for wwhatevver reason
...
...
an those a you from my timeline
im not apologizin so dont fuckin ask me to
it wwasnt my fault

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[malandragem]

You all do have a very specific way of speaking- it is fun, in a way, trying to figure it out.

Well, I do try my best to help when it is needed, so if you really want me to give it a try, I will.

[nauticalnightmare]

thanks
if i got a couple a people helpin me along it might not be so bad
evven if its harder wwithout a moirail
ill make a effort

[malandragem]

I certainly hope I can be of enough help to make a difference.


I have heard that word before, 'moirail'... What does that mean?

[nauticalnightmare]

its one a the four quadrants wwe havve for romance
just on the platonic side a things
its a balance wwith two trolls wwhere they keep each other in check
feelins jams an evverythin like that
like a loww blood wwould make sure the high blood stays sane an stable by takin care a them
an the high blood wwould protect the loww blood wwhen needed an listen to all a their problems an do wwhat they can to help
its somethin thats usually based on strong mutual pity an trust
wwhich is fuckin rare for trolls to havve in the first place

[malandragem]

Four?

[She has a hard enough time grasping just one. Aliens sure are weird.]

So it is natural, then, for you to have relationships based on keeping the other out of trouble, so to speak?

[nauticalnightmare]

yeah basically
thats the main one that does
theres one thats similar to the human vversion a romance
an then the other twwo are based on mutual hate an rivvalry
one that you humans wwould chalk up to hatesex an the other bein one wwhere one troll mediates betwween two that hate each other but dont hate enough to wwant to get into full black

[malandragem]

Hatese--

[Cue some sputtering and you can bet she's turning several shades of red on her end.]

Ah- r-right... I... see. Both of those sound far more complicated than any relationship I have ever heard of...

[nauticalnightmare]

guessin i should refrain from sayin that again around you
or evven makin any comments regardin things a that nature

an troll romance is fuckin hard
especially wwhen youre a kid tryin to get your quadrants set up
i mean sure its normal for younger trolls to swwap around a lot but that doesnt mean its any fuckin fun

[malandragem]

It would be much appreciated, although please do not feel you have to do too much for my sake.

It does seem like it would take someone an awful lot of time and effort to get so many things set up and handled properly... Not to mention making sure they do not interfere with each other...

[nauticalnightmare]

yeah sometimes evven adult trolls still havve issues keepin all a it balanced
but kar wwould knoww a lot more about that than me
hes got this obsession wwith romance that goes into the ocd territory
reason wwhy he used to be the one i wwent to wwith all a my problems
evven if i may havve had selectivve readin at times

[malandragem]

Karkat? I would not have expected romance to be among his greater interests...

Does he not help you with things anymore?

[nauticalnightmare]

wwoww hes been keepin it under wwraps here
romance an romantic comedy movvies are like his fuckin favvorite things in the wworld

an hes still mad at me ovver the wwhole murder thing an said wwere not friends anymore

[malandragem]

Karkat is not the most sociable of trolls- and honestly I cannot say we have had much occasion to converse about anything like that, really.

[A pause, and then hesitantly-]

...the whole 'murder thing'?

[nauticalnightmare]

i did say i wwas on a fuckin probation thing
thats wwhat i wwas talkin about
an that i made a lot a bad decisions
i lost my temper an killed fef an kan
kan came back as a rainboww drinker an sawwed me in half wwith her chainsaww
an here i am noww
the scar still feels a little sore if i think about it

[malandragem]

Oh.

[There's another long pause, contemplating.]

So you killed Feferi, and almost killed someone else... and then you got sawed in half?

[nauticalnightmare]

if wwere doin almost then put my count at three
im the reason sol wwent blind
didnt mean to though
wwe got in a fight an i knocked him out an apparently burned out his eyes wwithout meanin to
then fef attacked me an i lost it from there
so yeah
that wwas a thing that happened an wwhy evveryone pretty much fuckin hates me
wwhich is not fuckin fair considerin that gam
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[malandragem]

Sol...? Oh- the snappish one, yes.

[A quiet sigh- she's a little disappointed, but-]

Sometimes things happen in the heat of things- people do things they would not, otherwise.

[Though mind you, she's not at all pleased by it.]

Did Gamzee do something like that too, back in your world? He did here, you know- there were a lot of people angry with him, and a lot of people got hurt.

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[nauticalnightmare]

guess if there wwere more a him like there wwere a me it wwas only a matter a time
yeah
gam killed twwo a the others i dont knoww if youvve heard about
nep an equ
an then apparently just found out he decapitated me an probably some a the others to use heads in a jury for another death
he fuckin snapped harder than i did but didnt havve a hard a time gettin back in apparently since him an kar are moirails noww
wwhich wwould explain him not bein like that anymore
an theres just somethin about him thats hard to be mad at
i dont evven blame him for the wwhole jury idea

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[malandragem]

I have never met either of them- but...

[God, it sounded like Gamzee went off the deep end in the same way Roberta had. Though using decapitated heads as a jury...]

The person who died, where they important to him?

[If they were, it would explain a lot.]

Though this does explain why Karkat insisted it was his responsibility to take care of him, when that happened here.

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[nauticalnightmare]

maybe it wwould be better if i explained a bit about our blood castes to you
then youd be able to understand wwhat all the fuckery wwas about if you wwant to hear it
cause to us it makes perfect sense that gam wwent fuckin shithivve maggots

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[malandragem]

Karkat did mention something about his blood, before, after the whole thing. Something about the color of his blood making him more liable to be violent?

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[nauticalnightmare]

exactly
high bloods are more prone to vviolence than any a the others
an me an gam happen to be in the top three
fef wwas at the vvery top
but theres more to gam than that
indigos are mainly the subjugglators
the ones wwho havve the powwer to control the entire fuckin race through sheer fuckin terror alone
an they havve the powwer to do it through dreams an literal mindfucks
gam wwas high for the longest time cause a shit he wwasnt supposed to be eatin that wwas rottin his thinkpan an makin him wway too docile
an wwhen he sobered up he fuckin snapped
assumin his blood instincts to kill anythin in his wway took ovver from there

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[malandragem]

Actually... a lot of that makes a lot of sense. Gamzee was going on about how it was his right to do what he was doing- if what you are saying is correct, it would seem like a lot of that was instinctive- just a repeat of what happened with all of you in your world.

And afterward... Karkat had been having him eat those strange pies again before and frankly, I did not think that was the best idea- now I can see that I might have been right. Especially since it did not seem too healthy for him.

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[nauticalnightmare]

its not
that shit fries his thinkpan an kar should fuckin knoww that
just glad he stopped that shit cause i wwould havve been pissed if he wwas like that here
him doin it to himself is one fuckin thing but someone makin him do it just cause they cant handle wwhat he is is fucked up

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[malandragem]

Perhaps I should have been more insistent about it when it came up, then. It never really sat quite right with me, even if Gamzee seemed to be alright with it.

Are those sorts of things really all that common? Trolls going into fits of violence like that, suddenly?