♑ first honk • video/text • february 13th • noon

[thehonking]

[The feed clicks on to show the smiling, painted face of a troll. Gamzee's clown paint had been as messed up when he'd arrived as it had been in the Veil, but he's since repainted it. This doesn't hide the three scabbing over claw marks running diagonal from one side to the other.

He stares into the camera for a short while, saying nothing, before giving a wink and a short wave. It's a friendly hello, really. A greeting to those who don't know him and a way to let those that do see that he's back again.

And perhaps to let them know what shape he's in as well.

Then the video shuts off again, and the following message is left in familiar courier text.]

honk.

Comments

[Audio]

[thehonking]

Following the mirthful ain't a motherfuckin' profession. You dig?

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

I do agree, that is certainly no profession.

[Audio]

[thehonking]

So what all's next, my most curious of motherfuckers?

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

Recreation and religion, the way I see it.

[Neither of which the obsessive workaholic detective really has time for, admittedly. If they're present, they bleed into his work, rather than standing alone.]

[Audio]

[thehonking]

Hmmmm... don't all hear no curled up punctuation at the end of that shit.

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

It's because I believe it to be so.

[Audio]

[thehonking]

'Cept I was askin' all for another motherfuckin' question.

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

All right, let me rephrase.

Is the clown makeup something you do because it's fun for you, or is it something you do because some higher meaning compels you to?

[Audio]

[thehonking]

Might be all of the fuckin' above.

Might be.

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

That really sounds altogether too emphatic to be a "might".

[Audio]

[thehonking]

Don't got much I say that ain't.

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

Emphatic?

Passion isn't a bad thing. But it's best when it's supported by logic and reason, don't you think?

[Audio]

[thehonking]

[In response to that, Gamzee can only chuckle at first.]

Nope.

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

What are your thoughts concerning emotion?

[Audio]

[thehonking]

...Now that's a loaded question if ever I been hearin' one.

Shit, bro. Emotion is what all fuels a motherfucker's being. If you can't trust what all beats inside that cage of bone you got, then you can't trust nothin'.

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

It just seems like a very capricious, unreliable way to live life.

[And from what L remembers of his last days back home, his own heart isn't particularly reliable.]

[Audio]

[thehonking]

Heh.

Ain't it at that?

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

Reliability is not a bad quality, you know.

[Audio]

[thehonking]

What all makes you think I was sayin' it was?

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

Absolutely nothing. Consider it a non-sequitur, if you'd like.

[Audio]

[thehonking]

A what now?

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

It's a comment that makes no sense in its given context.

[Audio]

[thehonking]

Sounds like my kinda term, then.

[Audio]

[dead_black_eyes]

An engaged mind learns something new every day.

[Audio]

[thehonking]

Ain't that the motherfuckin' truth. I hear that so loud it's circled back to deafen me.