Got you stuck on my body, on my body like a tattoo

[knightime]

Who: Dave Strider and you
Where: The villa where he lives or around town
When: Throughougt the week
Status: Open
Style: Starting Prose but I'll follow.

Despite being acutely aware about everyone getting stuck to each other and even getting in GHB's hair, Dave didn't really bother to take any precautions. And it definitely didn't stop Dave from doing stupid shit or getting in peoples' business.

Perhaps if he'd actually gave a shit to try and make an effort, he wouldn't be getting himself stuck to people in relatively compromising and awkward situations. It would have made this week infinitely less awkward, but Dave wasn't exactly the beacon of intelligence all the time. Didn't help that Dave had the ability to forget things fairly easily, so accidentally making physical contact with people ended up being a thing. He'd just forget that he shouldn't touch people and only remember after he got stuck. First world problems.

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[shippingmath]

Yeah, that is definitely who he thought it was. This is just wonderful. Dirk is never going to flashstep without being 100% certain of what the people around him are doing ever again. Just as soon as he's not being crushed under the alternate universe version of his bro.

When it feels like he can breathe again, Dirk tries to shift back, or at least get his face away from Dave's... but apparently that isn't going to happen.

[knightime]

This is one of the most embarrassing moments of his life. This is partially true and not since Dave is capable of being more embarrassing if given the challenge.

But if Dirk tries to move, Dave's face, and the rest of him for that matter, follows. "Oh hell no, this isn't happening." It is. "Are we seriously stuck like this?"

[shippingmath]

"Looks like it." It is difficult to maintain a straight face when your face has become attached to someone else's, Dirk is learning at the moment. He does his best anyway. "The curse right now is causing people to stick together. It shouldn't last too long, but that's what's happening."

Dirk twitches the slightest bit and takes a careful breath. "Now, let's just get up off the ground first. This is slightly more difficult to deal with when we're lying on the ground."

[knightime]

"That depends if you think hours isn't that long. You don't want to know how long Terezi had her tongue attached to my face for." Long enough was basically the consensus. And having Dirk stuck to him like this for even this short amount of time was enough. Dave is already failing at keeping any resemblance to what a poker face should look like.

"This is going to end fucking terribly." But he rather not be lying on the floor forever like this.

[shippingmath]

"It already started terribly, it can't get much worse than this." The only way it can get worse is if someone sees them, in Dirk's opinion, and that chance only becomes more likely the longer they stay lying here.

With that in mind, Dirk carefully starts to lever himself up, moving slowly so that Dave has a chance to move and the two of them won't be unbalanced in the process.

[knightime]

This is probably the most awkward and painstaking process they've ever done and probably will ever have to do. But at least they kind of successfully got to their feet. But... "What are we supposed to do?" Other than avoid the general populace for the next while they're stuck to each other via face. "Sorry. Cause I'm pretty sure you don't want to be in this situation as much as I don't want to be in this situation."

[shippingmath]

Shrugging is kind of useless, at the moment, since Dave can't exactly see it, so Dirk doesn't bother. "Find somewhere to hang out until the curse decides it's had its fun. This one doesn't seem to be lasting the whole week." At least he can say that. Roxy's already gotten stuck to him this week, because she can't stop touching people, but at least that one happened in their own house.

Speaking of which... "You got anywhere in mind to go?"

[knightime]

"That's the only good thing about it," Dave said flatly. He didn't really want to be stuck in GHB's hair or had Terezi's tongue on his face for that long. "Your place or mine." Wait...his place is filled with people. "I take that back. We definitely don't want to end up at my place." This is hard. "Just...I don't know. Anywhere that won't cause prankster's gambit to skyrocket."

[shippingmath]

"I don't think Roxy's home. As long as we can avoid her, we're fine." He doesn't mind Roxy knowing that he and Dave interact- it's not like they can avoid it being known, after the way she shoved them into talking the first time- but she would get so much blackmail out of this that he's afraid to even contemplate it.

[knightime]

"Let's do your place. There's way too many people at my place who'd take advantage of never letting us live this down." IE: Everyone who lives there. Why is he friends with a bunch of butts? "Fuck, this is so awkward. Why couldn't we accidentally get stuck holding hands? At least we could pass that off as something else. This is just fucking stupid."

[shippingmath]

Because friends are always a bunch of butts. Dirk should know, his are too. But he has less of them living in the same place. "The universe doesn't like us, is why. C'mon, it's this way."

It'll be difficult to walk around like this, but no more difficult than getting up in the first place was.

[knightime]

Walking is a lot easier than trying to get back at least. He just has to be careful. Heck, he can probably...just float. That's something he forgot he could do. Welp.

"Typical Vatheon then. I'm not surprised."

[shippingmath]

Wow, the floating makes this about 50% easier. Dirk picks up the pace, heading toward the coral corral with all due haste. "You shouldn't be. At least this one is only embarrassing, not traumatic."

[knightime]

"I haven't really gotten involved in traumatic." Kind of. He kind of doesn't really want to talk about it otherwise. It's basically been muddled with all the other stuff that happened in the two years he's been on the meteor.

"Although I guess being turned into a part bird part boy thing once can be kind of traumatic in retrospect."

[shippingmath]

"Part bird? Sounds like one we've had. I got turned part cat, it was anime as hell." He actually hadn't minded that much, except for the part where Roxy had taken it upon herself to start grooming his hair.

[knightime]

"It would have been nice if I had gotten to keep my fingers though. Eating chit with talon feet is kind of a pain in the ass. Also getting up makes you look kind of stupid when human bodies don't really work the same as birds do." He couldn't even properly get dressed on his own. It was sad.