vatheon | we all glub down here

[With Feferi off of him and familiar voices filling his ears, there's a slight bit of comfort on the situation at hand. However, it doesn't ease the pain any. With a fish princess removed, he's allowed the room to curl in on himself a bit, his free hand holding where it hurts most in a shitty attempt to null the pain. It really doesn't. However, his other hand still holds onto the culling fork that Feferi has since released. His trophy from this all, but it's hardly one considering what he had to go through to get it from her and even then it was only with Gamzee's help...]

[Gamzee! Gamzee's here? And who he heard earlier... With a quickly peek up at the others, it's confirmed. Karkat and Gamzee are here and helping--not that he'd think they wouldn't, but it's certainly a relief to get some help. Who knew what would happen if Fef had continued to get the upper hand in this.]

Whatewer you... do, don't fuckin' let her go. She's tryin' to cull me.

[It's said with strain, and he's trying to shift himself up to sit, but god he doesn't want to. But being a writhing ball of pain right now would not help, and he has his dignity to consider... Whatever dignity he has left, that is.]

Can't say I blame her but... Dyin' ain't part of my fuckin' agenda today.

[Finally, he looks to Feferi, who is thrashing, bloodied mouthed, and terrifying. And as much as what she did hurt, nothing hurts more than this, honestly. Even though she disappeared, that doesn't mean his feelings had, not one bit. Here he is, pale as can be, and his, now twice, ex-moirail wants nothing more than to kill him. Shit sucks bro.]

[Karkat arrives shortly after Gamzee, cursing his short legs for holding him back. At least Gamzee takes care of Feferi, pulling her forcefully back and up. But that in turn causes him to flinch; he didn't expect to see blood on her mouth. That and the culling fork both show how serious this way before Eridan even opens his mouth.]

How hurt are you?

[He crouches down at his side, and goes to wrap an arm about his shoulders to help him sit. He's ginger with it, not wanting to agitate the wound on his arm. Then he looks to Feferi.]

I think we all need to promptly calm the fuck down. Feferi - I know he killed you, I know you're more than a little upset, and I frankly can't even blame you being pissed to all hell about what he did. But killing him yourself is not going to solve anything. Feel what you want, sure, but just listen a minute.

You're in Vatheon, more of us are here, and we've all been around longer than you. Eridan's been here over half a sweep, and Gamzee and I even longer than that. I was Eridan's moirail for a good chunk of that time, and during that? I taught him better. I have punched this murderous tool in the face for the stupid shit he's pulled. I have yelled at him until my vocal cords should have given out. And he's learned. I swear to you on me life as someone who was actually there to see what he did. You know I was there.

And I know - I do, I swear it - that it's not even within the same universe as fair that he killed you, but you killing him back isn't going to make it any better. Revenge doesn't make things better; it just makes everyone dead, and I am sick up to my fucking ganderbulbs of people killing people for killing people first!

[Yeah, he mad.]

[He so mad.

Gamzee shifts Feferi slightly in his arms. She isn't really too heavy for him to hold, but her constant squirming does make her as slippery as an eel. That and all those flailing, mowing arms and legs put him in some danger of a similar fate to Eridan.

He manages, for a moment at least, to lock one of his arms around her torso, patting her hair. Nothing pale here. Just friendship.]

Listen to my motherfucker, aight, sister? He knows whats the haps here, I swear to you.

[ Okay, that was kind of a huge info drop right there.

She probably looks a little bit like a lunatic right then, trying to wriggle her way out of Gamzee's hold all smeared in blood with murder in her eyes, but that didn't really process to her. Not that a lot did when Karkat started ranting or babbling or whatever he did, she had the hardest time listening to him.

That was pretty normal, though the whole Eridan had changed spiel sounded pretty crazy.

Either way, she's just dangling now that Gamzee has her pinned to him and is patting her extremely mussed hair. ]

Dead sounds like the best place for him.

[ Her eyes are locked on Eridan, unnervingly not looking away and hardly blinking. Which is entirely why there's a little wateriness to her eyes right then, because she wasn't blinking. Yes, exactly. ]

That's better enough for me.

[ She kicks backwards, her heel thumping against Gamzee's leg, just out of frustration, why was he backing all this, too! Wait, well, no, she shouldn't be surprised Gamzee was being, well, Gamzee. She guiltily stops kicking once more. ]

[It's honestly a relief to have Karkat there besides him, helping him sit up, the gentleness is appreciated as well.]

I'm not horrifically... wounded.

[His globes took the brunt of it all, really. His bleeding arm be damned, he much rather that then that swift kick. He also doesn't want to bring much attention to the fact he was kicked either, it'll probably be apparent enough when he has to stand and walk... Which he's choosing not to do right now.]

[Hearing Karkat go on about his time here with Eridan always is a bitter-sweet experience, because while Karkat IS telling Feferi about how he's changed, it still bears with it his mistakes and stubbornness that he's hardly proud of, but he knows it's necessary to mention, especially in this situation. His fins droop as he looks on to Feferi. But when she speaks... He honestly looks defeated, maybe even physically stricken by her words. He may as well have been. It'd be one thing if he heard this soon after he had done the deed, but here he is, almost a sweep later, having had patched things with her previously, have since developed strong pale feelings for her, and she says that... Not to mention, the watery look to her eyes just makes his chest tighten.]

Fef, it might mean fuckin' nothin' to you, actually I'm positiwe it does, but I'm sorry. I'm so fuckin' sorry for what I did to you, and I'll hawe you know I got what's comin' to me. Maybe not here, but back there.

[Honestly, he hasn't talked about the fact he's dead back there since the first time Karkat told him... and his slight mention of it to Psii privately. It's still a hard thing to swallow, to know he's got nothing to go back to, but if it'll give her some comfort, he supposes it's worth it, despite the lump in his throat that seemingly appeared at it's mention, or his own watery eyes and the sting that accompanies. He swallows thickly before shakily adding:]

I'm f-fuckin' dead back in the weil, so killin' me here won't help a bloody thing.

Did you even listen to me?

[Not much could stop Karkat from snapping that at Feferi. She's mad, sure, but to have all his points not even acknowledged is all the more frustrating. It's not that he doesn't get it, because honestly he does; it's just tiring to go through it repeatedly, and it hurts knowing how much worse it must be for Eridan. At least, as he confirms, he's not terribly harmed. Karkat keeps his arm around him as he tells of his future fate.]

You heard him, and I saw it myself, too. But you know what? Even if you did kill him here, it wouldn't last. You know what happens when people die here? They come back, five days later, good as new save for the trauma of having died.

You see this?

[For all he keeps it hidden normally, Karkat uses his free hand to tug his collar out of the way, exposing the scar that crosses his neck.]

Slit throat, over a quarter-sweep ago. But you know what would have happened if I killed the psychopath who did it to me? She would have come back too. Maybe someone who cares about her would have been pissed off and killed me, too. Because you know what? That's what fucking happens until someone decides to stop being a shitwit and stop the revenge chain! I've seen it happen too many times here already without you adding to it.

Edited 2012-10-28 23:42 (UTC)

[Gamzee hisses for a moment when Feferi kicks at his thigh. Wow, please don't aim those any higher, okay? He still has need of that. Besides, there is no need for two guys here clutching their tenders.

His eyes go from Eridan --giving him a sympathetic look, seriously, man, he gets it-- and then to Karkat. So much shouting and grouching and talk of death. Not groovy.]

Hey, bro, maybe we should just all like... fuckin' step back a lil' and chill, aight? Get shit thought out when we ain't all as so fuckin' salty ass shit to be fighting here.

Edited 2012-10-29 01:15 (UTC)

[ Maybe it should have sank in that things were different here, but what's been perigees for them hasn't been anything at all for her. Her time in the dreambubbles, though particularly enjoyable, had been short-- and the fact that she could accept her death had absolutely nothing to do with the incandescent rage she felt burning in her chest.

Eridan acting the way he did wasn't helping, it only made her madder because she'd tried so hard to be a good moirail (though she hadn't been) and a good friend (also a spectacular failure, not that she saw it as such) but here he was acting like he was someone else entirely.

Like he'd paid for what he did!

Karkat defending him wasn't helping either. It was more like a betrayal, and she just didn't know what to do. ]

Do you know how crazy you sound? You've glubbed clear off the deepest end!

[ She kicks towards them-- not because she thinks she could somehow actually hit one of them, but just for something to do. She's back to dangling when she inevitably fails. ]

And you! You're a liar and a fakey-fake, Eridan! I'm not about to forget that just because people tell me to!

[Having Karkat here really is helping him. Out of everyone, Karkat's always been there for him. Since day fucking one of being here he's been like a pillar of strength for Eridan and even now, with his arm around him, he's really just resuming that role. Eridan winces as Karkat goes on about the whole revenge thing, showing his scar and everything. Hoping it will make a different to Feferi.]

[Eridan adverts his gaze from Feferi when she calls him a liar, he can feel his teeth gritting together as his hurt starts to swell into anger. Why the hell does this have to happen? Why does everything have to fuck up like this? Why does everything he works so hard for have to be snatched away so effortlessly? It's not fair, it's never been fair for him, he's made his mistakes, but damnit he's worked his ass off and SUFFERED to try and right his wrongs... Even if they can't exactly be fully righted.]

Kar hasn't glubbed off the deepest end, Feferi.

[But then he looks back to her, expression full of hurt and anger... just, raw emotion really. What was that about getting shit thought out when they weren't all salty with each other? Yeah, Eridan wasn't listening!]

And I'm not a fuckin' liar, I'm not lyin' about this and I didn't lie about anythin' before! I'm bein' honest here! So fuckin' honest! And so is Kar! You and I--You were here before, Fef, you obwiously don't remember but we--we were fuckin' moirails again, we worked things out! I... You--

[forgawe me and ewerything was right again, is what he wants to finish with, but he stops. The shakiness in his voice making it hard for him to speak coherently, or maybe that's just his EMOTIONS and FEELINGS, who knows. This is Eridan. Whatever it is, he can't even force that last bit out, though it could be that he's afraid of what she'd even say about that, how she'd react when she's already trampling on his heart like this.]

Why the fuck does this hawe to be happenin'...

[He mumbles that bit, because he's basically accepted that nothing he says will help, and it just serves to add to his own frustrations and hurt and he feels like he could just curl up in a ball and cry or something. Though, he's holding that back as much as he can, however, it's not stopping a few pesky purple formations of wateriness to accumulate at the rim of his eyes. Threatening to roll down his cheeks like the jackass purple accumulations they are .]

[Gamzee means well, and out of anyone Karkat is most inclined to listen to him - if not quite yet. Feferi's reaction isn't helping at all! Crazy? Glubbed off the deepest end? Him, when he's the one who's been here longest, and who bore witness to the killing in the first place? If anyone, he should know full well what he's talking about, and serve reasonable corroboration with Eridan's claims - but Feferi just doesn't want to listen to any of it. He goes to open his mouth again--]

[But Eridan speaks first. If anyone was to bring up the moirallegiance, it's his place to; that's why he never mentioned it himself. At the same time it just serves reminder of how much Eridan must be hurting. Karkat squeezes his shoulder, watching him as he speaks; and with his spot, it's him who has the best position to hear that last mumble. In a way, it cools his emotions. His frustration hasn't gone anywhere, by any means, but shouting about it seems less important when here his matesprit is so upset. Gamzee's words come back to him now, too, and he finally takes the advice to heart.]

[He looks back to Feferi. His voice is calmer as he speaks.]

I'm not crazy, I haven't glubbed off of anything, and he's not lying. I could try to look up conversations I've had with you and him to prove what he's saying now, but it would take a while and I doubt you want to hear it right now.

What do you intend to do if Gamzee lets you go?

[And he shoots him a look then, stern and by all implications indicating for him not to release her yet.]

[please not let the answer be kick him in the balls, please not let the answer be kick him in the balls.

He meets Karkat's eyes and gives a little nod to indicate he won't be letting her go just yet. But still, he feels sorry for Feferi. He feels sorry for Eridan too, gotta be rough to be be hurt by someone he loved so much, but he's definitely got a sore heart for his sister here, who he managed to befriend closely the last time she was here. It should be a happy thing for her! To be here again, with or without her memories, and yet now everything was a mess, and all cause shit had gone down what she wasn't aware of. And that while Feferi should be getting up to way more cooler shit. Like seeing the wicked-ass ocean they had here --he knows she gotta have missed the water as much as he had while in the veill-- and get a taste on for all the delicious stuff they got here, and probably glub it the fuck up with Sollux, he was gonna be happy to se-- oh.

Now there was something.]

Hey, what if we got her to Sollux?

[It was genius! If she was busy macking on Sollux, she couldn't be laying into Eridan, and everybody would have a chance to calm down until they all figured out they were really all buddies in this entire thing.]

Edited 2012-10-29 09:16 (UTC)

[ Everyone had gone and turned on her, and she just hasn't figured out what to do with herself now. It hurts, it just plain hurts to feel like she'd suddenly been pushed into being the bad guy here. So what if he'd worked things out with some other timeline's Feferi? It shouldn't have mattered at all.

She didn't have any friends here, not really. Even if Gamzee is behind her trying to be helpful, he's still holding her back. ]

I don't want--

[ She cuts herself short because her voice comes more like a wail. She takes a breath before just spitting venom instead. ]

It's just not fair!

[ Where Karkat might be getting calmer, Feferi sounds on the verge of hysteria. ]

Why don't you just carve off my fins and be done with it? Sollux is his friend now, too, right? [ She thwacks Gamzee in the thigh again for punctuation. She really would need to apologize for that later. ] Everyone loves Eridan!

[He knows this must suck for Feferi, he might be self centered, but he IS pale for the girl and having everyone against her, especially since she JUST experienced him killing her, must be horrible. He knows he's not the only one hurting, even if his own emotional turmoil is a bit distracting from her own distress--or maybe her distress is making his own hurting worse. He isn't sure. All he knows is he agrees with her, this isn't fair, not for either of them. But he's sure the chucklefuck scientists are getting a good laugh out of his misery, the bastards.]

[He stares at Feferi with pain filled eyes, his brows furrowed together out of sorrow, his lip trembling as he watches her in silence. What does he even have to say? He can't really say anything, even if she's wrong. Not everyone loves him, Sollux and him are hardly friends, though they are kismesisses. But trying to say anything right now feels like it'd open him up to wailing himself and he just can't afford to do that, he's making himself too vulnerable as is and he hates it. Doesn't help he also feels kinda bad for Gamzee having to deal with that abuse for his sake.]

[At this point, though he hates to admit it to himself, Sollux would probably be the best troll for her to go to right now. Though he doesn't say so verbally, if anything, he just leans against Karkat more, lowering his head and tearing his eyes from Feferi to just cowardly lean against his matesprit to try and claim what comfort he can for himself.]

Edited 2012-10-29 17:57 (UTC)

[Karkat's eyebrows lift at Gamzee's suggestion. Sometimes the big clown does have good ideas. It's clear enough that the three of them aren't helping much of anything like this, and when Feferi just flat out doesn't want to listen, that can't be rectified with more yelling at her. Of course, when she's upset as she is, that surely hasn't helped from the start... but that's a realization to be made later on.]

[For now he mostly wants her in the care of someone she does trust, so that he can trust she won't try to run his matesprit through or bite him any further. Besides, the emotional wounds of this are deep enough, as Eridan's silence and demeanor make clear.]

Feferi, we're not trying to do anything like that. There's a point to this, and a good one, but that obviously means jack shit to you right now when you are a frothing ball of rage. I'll try to explain this to you again later, alright? Sometime when you're hopefully calmer and more used to this place, and not trying to stab people.

[He pauses, breathing a bit to calm himself. Then he pulls out his SFC. It's a little awkward with his arm still around Eridan, but he thumbs through to Sollux on the list, turns on video, and points it at Feferi: held back by Gamzee and bloody-mouthed as she is.]

Get your ass to the Plaza, Sollux. Your matesprit's trying to kill your kismesis, and there's only so long Gamzee can hold onto her before she winds up biting someone else again, and I am not going to be pleased if that happens. Get her away from here and talk to her so she stops trying to play Princess Murderfins because I am not in the fucking mood.

[Sollux wasn't expecting to suddenly get a call from Karkat, but when his SFC lights up and he looks at the screen, all he sees is Feferi being physically restrained by Gamzee, flailing and her mouth covered in violet blood]

Oh fuck. I'll be right there.

[He can see where they are based on the background, and he immediately races out the window, flying towards the neighbourhood where the confrontation is taking place]

[Good, and then it was time to just stand there more or less slightly awkwardly waiting for Sollux to arrive. Yes. Splendid.]

Relax, aight? Ain't none us maotherfucker what would be in the fuckin' mood all for tearing your fins off. I mean, shit, what you we even all do with them, man.

I- I don't know...!

[ She puffs up, but deflates rather quickly thereafter. Don't take that for giving up, however, she just doesn't know what else there is for her to do now.

They were just going to treat her like she was wrong and Eridan couldn't possibly be the one with the real problem, and Sollux was going to show up and do the same thing probably.

Suddenly, she's starting to just feel really defeated. It definitely isn't calm that comes with that realization, however, but rather just a very different kind of hysteria. She turns her head away from Karkat, looking to the side. ]

You could wear them on your own dumb finless face, or something!

[Eridan's silent as Karkat makes the call to Sollux, which is honestly the best option they have at the moment. He hardly wants to see Sollux in this condition, vulnerable as he is, but he knows the necessity of it all. He remains silent for the most part--till Feferi speaks up about wearing her fins? Feferi pls.]

Fef, no one is goin' to wear you fuckin' fins, or do you any goddamn harm.

[It's almost a snap in contrast to all his earlier quietness, but honestly Feferi. If they were going to do something as ridiculous as that, wouldn't they have done that by now? All they've done is stop her from biting through Eridan's arm, and doing possibly more damage to his globes. But whatever, he knows it's kinda pointless to even talk to her at the moment, so waiting for Sollux honestly is the best option they have right now.]

[He just wants Sollux to show up and take Fef so he can get the hell outta here and sulk at home or something.]

[At least Sollux listens to the important things. Karkat thumbs his SFC off again and captchalogues it. Now to wait.]

[And y'know, argue about fins.]

Gamzee and I have had fins before, Feferi. Which I'm sure sounds crazy to you as anything, but you'll see whenever the next curse inevitably rolls around. Weird shit happens, you have to deal with it for a week, good luck.

[He looks to Gamzee again.]

I know we were hanging out and everything, but I'm going to head back to the hive once Sollux has Feferi dealt with. You understand, yeah?

[He knows well enough that Eridan probably won't want to sulk by himself.]

[And thankfully, Sollux doesn't take long! He lands nearby in a kalaidoscope of red and blue sparks, and focuses immediately on Feferi.]

Hey Gamzee, buddy, can you let her the fuck go, please? [He's standing sort of off to the side, and he casts a glance at Eridan. At first it's curious, but then he grins] Did she kick you in the shame globes?

[Hey, it is not like he is holding her for his joy and fun! She's getting perilously close to keeping him from ever filling pails forever.

He lets her go easily enough, letting her slide to the ground carefully.]

There you fuckin' go, sister.

[And automatically, in response to Sollux's questions, he answers a--]

Sister hit him good, poor motherfucker.

[Utterly thoughtlessly, not even bothering to think about the fact that A, the question was not aimed at him, B, Eridan probably wouldn't want that answered. Whatever, whatever.]

Thank you.

[ When her feet reach the ground, there's an entirely tense moment where it looks like all of her muscles are tightening in preparation to spring at Eridan once again. Instead, she gives Eridan and Karkat a terribly offended look and wipes at her mouth with the back of her hand. ]

Better believe I did.

That's--

[But he doesn't even get to finish it, cuz GAMZEE opens his big clown mouth and spills it, but only for Feferi to soon follow. Doesn't help that he's still kinda... holding his poor, sore jewels anyways. Though with how he's sitting he was hoping his legs could kinda obscure it, but no such luck. Augh, fuck all three of them. Though, he's glad Feferi opted to confirm it in that totally unnecessary bitchy way, than going after him again like he thought she was going to for a moment. He sends Sollux a glare, however. Even if he's helping, he hardly wants him here while he's like this.]

Like it ewen matters ANYWAYS. Sol, just take Fef and get the fuck outta here, you worthless fuckin' tool.

[Augh, even that sucks to say. He wants to work shit out, wants shit to be right again... And yet this is what he's been given. Honestly he hates everything right about now. Okay maybe not Karkat, and despite Gamzee's dumb mouth, he's okay with him BUT EVERYTHING ELSE.]

[Try to tell Feferi and Gamzee stuff - even ask a question - and he gets ignored completely in favor of talking about bulge-kicking. Karkat rubs his hand over his face. It's frustrating enough to have Feferi ignore his point on the big things without getting passed over entirely for this too.]

[At least Sollux is here now and Feferi is acting more calmly. Karkat nudges Eridan's shoulder.]

Can you stand or do you want to lean on me? I doubt you want to stick around here much longer.

[God, right now Sollux would stand back and watch Feferi cull Eridan with her fork and cheer. He sneers at Eridan, a promise of pain to come, but turns away from him and walks over to Feferi, offering her his hand]

Come on, Princess. Let's leave these lame nookstains to their fucking pity party and have a chat, okay?

Nothing sounds betta than that.

[ She takes his hand, huffing and glubbing and generally still out of sorts. She's flouncing off with her boyfriend and that's the only saving grace of this all.

Oh, wait, of course. One last thing-- she gives her former captor a lopsided attempt at a smile because Gamzee is Gamzee and he's not really at fault for any of this. ]

Bye, Gamzee, I'll see you later.

[He gives her a smile. Whatever happened, he bears no ill will to anyone. Not even Feferi despite all the kicks very near to his clown-jewels. He is kind and generous like that.

(he also can't really blame her for freaking out at Eridan and he means that in the nicest way possible)]

Be seein' ya when I be seein' ya, girl. Got loads of shit to all be catching up on at.

we all glub down here

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